Shepherdstown chela

October 1, 2023
  • High Initiate Inner Chant

    October 1, 2023

    Not online or by phone

    For High Initiates only. Anytime throughout the day or night.

    For questions, contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org.

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  • "The ECK Satsang Discourses, Second Series," Lesson 10

    October 1, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

    Online Zoom Event

    For further information, contact your Arahata.

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    A few short years ago you put on the cloth of ECK in thought, feeling, and action. By degrees, Spirit has opened your outlook on issues in life until today you are a totally different person.

    Now you are ready to be stretched again by the hand of Divine Spirit, but doubts still linger about your relationship with God. The sure way to ECK is to consider the real things needed for spiritual progress: 1) the spiritual exercises, 2) complete faith in the ECK, and 3) doing all in the name of the Mahanta. This creates a strong aura that cannot easily be pricked by misfortune, sorrow, or betrayal, for Soul is then on the high road to God.

    In The ECK Satsang Discourses, Second Series you will learn that a rapport with the Holy Spirit nurtures but a single aim: a burning desire to experience God. That alone. This is the best motivation that anyone could ever hope to get for himself.

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  • ECK Light and Sound Service

    October 1, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event
     
    The ECK Light and Sound Service is a community event offered by Eckankar for spiritual seekers of all faiths and religious backgrounds. It is an uplifting event where you can reflect on and connect with the divine aspect within yourself.

    You will hear inspiring spiritual stories, experience the HU chant, and be able to speak with other like-hearted spiritual seekers.

    The ECK Light and Sound Service is to help people find out what they can do to improve their relationship with God. If we can help in any way, we are more than willing to be of service.

    So we may serve you better, we are recording this session for training purposes only.
     
    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link.

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October 2, 2023
  • "Letters of Light and Sound 1 Discourses", Lesson 1

    October 2, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    By now, you are well familiar with the basic doctrines of ECK. But what have you gained? If it is only a mental grasp of the Sugmad (God), the ECK, and the Mahanta, then the best is still to come. You are now ready to unfold your spiritual vision.

    The Letters of Light & Sound 1 Discourses are the next step in your spiritual training in ECK. In this series, we look at issues. You, even as Peddar Zaskq, are also getting ready to carry the message of Light and Sound to the people of the world. In your words and actions, they will see the Light of God. Some will ask about God and love and scores of other cares from their daily lives. And you need to know what to say.

    This year of spiritual training will help you do that, as you grow in love and wisdom.

    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link.

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October 4, 2023
  • "Letters of Light and Sound 1 Discourses", Lesson 10

    October 4, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am

    Phone Conference Call Event

    For further information, contact your Arahata.

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    By now, you are well familiar with the basic doctrines of ECK. But what have you gained? If it is only a mental grasp of the Sugmad (God), the ECK, and the Mahanta, then the best is still to come. You are now ready to unfold your spiritual vision.

    The Letters of Light & Sound 1 Discourses are the next step in your spiritual training in ECK. In this series, we look at issues. You, even as Peddar Zaskq, are also getting ready to carry the message of Light and Sound to the people of the world. In your words and actions, they will see the Light of God. Some will ask about God and love and scores of other cares from their daily lives. And you need to know what to say.

    This year of spiritual training will help you do that, as you grow in love and wisdom.

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October 6, 2023
October 7, 2023
  • Chela HU Chant (20 minute HU—fellowship to follow)

    October 7, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    This is an in-person event in Shepherdstown, WV.  RSVP to voicemail for the address, 800.883.8578 (KY) or 888.488.2339 (WV).

    Open to all KY and WV chelas (members).

    Questions? Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org.

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  • "Adventures in Spiritual Leadership" (Book discussion and HU chant))

    October 7, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    St. Matthews-Eline Branch Library, 3940 Grandview Ave, Louisville, KY 40207 (Corner of Warner & Meridian, behind City Hall)

    In-Person Event

    A 20 minute HU chant will follow the book discussion.

    Sri Harold invites you to explore the art and heart of spiritual leadership and take your next step upward as a Coworker with the Mahanta. Welcome!

    This volume of articles and Q&As is a treasure of wit, wisdom, wonder, and upliftment for all who enter the inner Satsang with the Master.

    Listen with care as he answers intriguing, pithy questions about ECK doctrine. Looking for fresh insights on how to resolve tangles in the ECK Community? Or maybe you’d like to try a new spiritual exercise to live in the center of now.

    More?  The Master will guide you in

    • managing storm, stress, and surprises;
    • leading with harmony and grace;
    • new ways to best reach the heart of a seeker.

    Each article includes a contemplation seed to let you try your spiritual wings in some greater way as a Coworker with the Mahanta.You can also record your inner and outer adventures on the Soul’s Notebook pages.

    Inner flight lessons included!

    This class meets monthly. This month we will cover chapter 3.

    Questions? Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org.

     

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October 8, 2023
October 9, 2023
  • "Adventures in Spiritual Leadership" (Book discussion)

    October 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    Sri Harold invites you to explore the art and heart of spiritual leadership and take your next step upward as a Coworker with the Mahanta. Welcome!

    This volume of articles and Q&As is a treasure of wit, wisdom, wonder, and upliftment for all who enter the inner Satsang with the Master.

    Listen with care as he answers intriguing, pithy questions about ECK doctrine. Looking for fresh insights on how to resolve tangles in the ECK Community? Or maybe you’d like to try a new spiritual exercise to live in the center of now.

    More?  The Master will guide you in

    • managing storm, stress, and surprises;
    • leading with harmony and grace;
    • new ways to best reach the heart of a seeker.

    Each article includes a contemplation seed to let you try your spiritual wings in some greater way as a Coworker with the Mahanta.You can also record your inner and outer adventures on the Soul’s Notebook pages.

    Inner flight lessons included!

    This class meets monthly. This month we will cover chapter 10.

    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link.

     

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October 13, 2023
  • Satsang Intensive: "Living with Spiritual Grace"

    October 13, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    The purpose of a Satsang Intensive is to deeply explore the ECK works, such as a passage, an article, a Q&A from the Master, a quote from the Shariyat—anything currently published from Sri Harold or Paul Twitchell, that invites true contemplation with the Inner Master.

    All chela events are open to KY and WV chelas (initiates).

    Follow this link to learn more. "What are Satsang Intensives?"

    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link and Satsang Intensive handout.

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October 14, 2023
  • "ECK Dream 1 Discourses," Lesson 12

    October 14, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    For further information, contact your Arahata.

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    You will find the study of dreams in ECK unique. It is to make you aware of all that you ever were, are, or could hope to be in this lifetime.

    The purpose of the ECK Dream 1 Discourses is to open you to your own inner guidance. The Dream Master will bring you to a different kind of dream than you have ever known and can help you to understand what before were only jumbled dreams of little value.

    In time, he will replace them with dreams of insight, wisdom, and knowledge. They are about the most important person in the world—you. 

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  • "The ECK Satsang Discourses, First Series," Lesson 12

    October 14, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    For further information, contact your Arahata.

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    The rhythmic meter of the Sound Current pulses through the pages of The ECK Satsang Discourses, First Series.

    A divine bond is between the Life Force and you. Put simply, you are developing a greater trust in the ECK, and It is able to manifest more surely in you.

    Emptied of borrowed thoughts, you find that the opinions of philosophers and wise men are no longer your own. Divine Spirit has opened you to the fount that overflows—to Soul, in Its full glory as a child of the Almighty.

    You are now ready to learn what it truly means to be an ECK chela.

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  • "The Master 3 Discourses," Lesson 4

    October 14, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    For further information, contact your Arahata.

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    Sometimes it is easy to forget what life was like before ECK. The problems of life are still with you, but at least now you have an idea what they mean spiritually.

    All too often we take for granted the unique way the Holy Spirit works the miracle of unfoldment within us. By now, you know and accept cause and effect, reincarnation, and divine love. You developed this sure grounding in ECK over a relatively few short years.

    For most, it takes lifetimes.

    Although the quilt of ECK is of many pieces of colored cloth, the quilt is a whole. The Master 3 Discourses will help you to look at the quilt of life in its entirety, instead of in so many pieces. This is a change from how you saw life earlier on the path of ECK.

    The single, main purpose of your spiritual quest is to become one with the Light and Sound of God.

    Always keep your goal in mind—spiritual mastership. Each step in ECK expands your state of consciousness in a certain, well-defined way. During your years of membership in Eckankar, you gain in wisdom, understanding, and love. All these qualities make you a better, clearer channel for ECK.

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October 15, 2023
  • "ECK Dream 1 Discourses," Lesson 8

    October 15, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    For further information, contact your Arahata.

    The ECK discourses are written with a secret, internal rhythm that gradually unfolds your consciousness in a very precise and orderly manner.

    When you become a member of Eckankar, you receive a discourse series for your personal study. You study one lesson a month at home. If you like, you can also join an ECK Satsang class to share experiences, insights, and questions.

    You will find the study of dreams in ECK unique. It is to make you aware of all that you ever were, are, or could hope to be in this lifetime.

    The purpose of the ECK Dream 1 Discourses is to open you to your own inner guidance. The Dream Master will bring you to a different kind of dream than you have ever known and can help you to understand what before were only jumbled dreams of little value.

    In time, he will replace them with dreams of insight, wisdom, and knowledge. They are about the most important person in the world—you.

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October 16, 2023
October 19, 2023
  • High Initiate Chant (30 minute chant—fellowship to follow)

    October 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    For High Initiates only.

    Open to all KY and WV High Initiates.
     
    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at DebJoyKSS@gmail.com, or (WV) Judy Pharr at WVSSJudy@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

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October 20, 2023
October 23, 2023
  • "Spiritual Exercises for The Shariyat, Book One" (Book discussion)

    October 23, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    Online Zoom Event

    "Only a small part of the whole Shariyat can be, or ever has been, put into printed word. Most of it comes straight into the individual during the Spiritual Exercises of ECK."

    —Spiritual Exercises of the Shariyat, Book One
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    Spiritual gold awaits your discovery in these luminous Spiritual Exercises of ECK for The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book One.

    The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad is a sacred guidebook like no other. It holds living truth for your past, present, and future. Use this key to unlock the secrets of its beauty and power in your daily life!

    The Master offers you a personal invitation to experience the Shariyat on the inner planes in his company. You can visit the famed city of Agam Des, try a new technique to resolve karmic debts, and find healing and joy where you might never think to look.

    Infinite opportunities for growth and wonder are at your fingertips.

    Your gain?

    Every exercise is a portal to greater self-mastery, higher consciousness, more clarity in your thoughts and life direction. More freedom. More love.

    Golden wisdom for you!

    This class meets monthly. This month we will cover Chapter 2.

    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link.

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October 25, 2023
  • Volunteers HU Chant (20 minute HU—fellowship to follow)

    October 25, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    Open to all ECK chelas (members) who volunteer for the Kentucky and West Virginia Satsang Societies. Fellowship to follow.
     
    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link.

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October 27, 2023
October 29, 2023
  • "The Holy Fire of ECK, Book 4" (High Initiate book discussion)

    October 29, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

    Online Zoom Event

    For High Initiates only.

    As ECK High Initiates, we have unprecedented opportunity to unfold toward ECK Mastership in this lifetime. The top of the spiritual mountain rises through the mists before us.

    Sometimes we wonder, What awaits around the next bend of this sacred climb?

    Of course the answer lies in the relentless love and guidance of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. Inwardly, we’re encouraged by his visage, voice, whispers, and even clear directives. Outwardly his talks and writings reveal key trail markers to the summit.

    Here is a collection of vibrant articles from the H.I. Letter and The Golden Leaf with the power to dispel mist and illuminate the path upward. The Holy Fire of ECK, Book 4, can help you

    • see how leading a seeker to the ECK teachings can be an initiation;
    • recognize the ECK Masters at work and the secrets of divine miracles;
    • understand how a destabilizing event can be a good thing, and above all;
    • serve as a golden-hearted instrument of divine love.


    In his introduction Sri Harold writes, “The future holds exciting and challenging prospects. Love the SUGMAD, the ECK, and the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master, and you will prosper spiritually in every possible way.

    “Read and enjoy this book. I’ve put my heart into it for you.”

    This class meets monthly. This month we will cover Chapter 10.

    All High Initiate (5th initiates and above) events are open to KY and WV High Initiates.

    Contact KSS or WVSS Spiritual Services Director, (KY) Deb Joy at SpiritualServices@Eckankar-KY.org, or (WV) Judy Pharr at SpiritualServices@EckankarWV.org for the Zoom link.

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