Consciousness Caravans

Living Life Consciously as Vehicles of Spirit.

Category: Consciousness Caravans

  • Is it wood or stone?

    Yesterday, Dave and I took off in Gracie heading for Tampa, Florida and our grandson, Wyatt’s, graduation from FSU. It’s been a few years since we’ve officially been “on the road again” and it is amazing how easily and happily we slipped into travel mode.

    One highlight from yesterday’s drive was seeing the petrified wood building in Lamar, Tx. It’s listed in Ripley’s Believe it or Not catalog. Fascinating how the builder used chunks of petrified wood like bricks. Beautiful !

    Stay tuned for more sights, reflections, and adventures now that Gracie and Consciousness Caravans are on the move again.

  • Reviewing 2022 and Looking Forward to 2023

    As this year, 2022, comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the joys and successes of this past year with love and peace in my heart. Dave and I enjoy rereading our travel logs (both online and in notebooks) from the past year as a means of gathering our gratitude list. It is good to revisit where we’ve been and dream of where we’ll go next. In this entry, I am sharing some of the highlights from Consciousness Caravans’ first year.

    First Trip to Isla Blanca – January 2022

    We closed out 2021 and opened 2022 returning from the East Coast in Gracie and taking a quick visit to Isla Blanca in south Texas. Our stay there solidified our desire to return and make this campground our first official one for Consciousness Caravans. Check out the Travel Log entry from January 3rd.

    On our way from California east to South Texas, we stopped at Death Valley National Park. We will definitely be back there in the future. Check out the Travel Log entry from February 25th.

    “Best campsite ever!” That’s what Dave said about our boon docking campsite on Magnolia Beach. I had to agree it was one fabulous site with many new friends and fellow campers to meet and visit with. Check out the Travel Log entry from March 2nd.

    Consciousness Caravans started its own YouTube Channel with the trip to Isla Blanca. Navigate yourself to our channel, LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to help us boost our viewers. Now our travel logs include movies as well as pictures…Beauty abounded and new friends were made during our first official group camp experience. Check out the video from Isla Blanca on our YouTube Channel.

    Returning to our home base in California in between traveling gave me, Rev Sally, opportunities to speak at the Oakland Center for Spiritual Living and reconnect with friends and colleagues there. Check out Rev Sally’s Talks posted in the Travel Logs: Reveal, Release, Rise; If You’re Happy and You Know It; and Failing Forward.

    Mid-way through the year, we started entertaining ideas of moving our home base out of California to be closer to our daughters in Colorado, Texas, and Florida. The good news is it gave us a chance to do some clearing and purging. The other good news is that (for now) we’ve decided to retain our California home base and continue visiting our daughters in Gracie. We love any opportunities to travel cross country in our RV. Check out the Travel Log entry from June 6th.

    We took an unplanned mini road trip over the summer to visit two of our three daughters and their families. We went on roads we’d never traveled before and found more great places to revisit, including Great Basin National Park and the Loneliest Road in America. Check out the Travel Log entry from July 11th.

    In September, our youngest daughter, April, got married to her best friend and love, Alex, at a wedding venue that definitely reflected their love of camping and the great out doors. I guess you could say that a love for the Beauty and Wonder of God’s creation lives within this family. Yes!

    As this year comes to a close, I am grateful for all that has come before and for all that continues into the new year. Our Movie Discussion Group (MDG) will be continuing. If you have not already watched seasons 1 & 2 of The Chosen, we invite you to join us as we progress through those seasons. The Chosen is releasing new episodes from season 3 each week into 2023.

    In addition to the MDG, Consciousness Caravans will be offering classes to explore and learn about the basic teachings of Science of Mind. More details will follow in a separate post.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023 Consciousness Caravans!!!

    Living Life Consciously, we are vehicles of Spirit and Consciousness. Blessed Be!

  • Diving Deep

    Season 3 of The Chosen

    Bible study has never been more fun than it is when coupling Science of Mind teachings with watching the movie series, The Chosen! The holiday season, the celebration of Christmas especially, is a great time to get started.

    Connecting to New Thought Understandings

    Quoting from a recent message from Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith of Agape International Spiritual Center:

    As many people begin to celebrate Christmas and place their attention on the birth of Jesus, we must always remember what this enlightened master teacher taught, and who he was and is. He is called the Great Way-Shower because he is an extraordinary example of the potential that lies within all of us. He did not set himself up as an exception, but as an example of activated potential. Thus, he is called Jesus the Christ, which refers to a state of consciousness, not his name.

    So, what are the ramifications of knowing this?

    One, we are to use Jesus’ teachings and practices to come into expanded consciousness as he demonstrated, and two, this Holy Day Season is not only about honoring the incarnation of this beloved being, but, most importantly, to wake up and assist others (via our raised vibration) in waking to their Christ nature so that the world may participate in the mass celebration of the Christ consciousness, our unity consciousness.

    Whether we call it the awakened Buddha, enlightenment, Nirvana, or however each culture defines this unitive consciousness, we are working toward the day when a significant amount of the global community has shifted from the low-energetic field of separation, fear, hate, and the like, to the high-energetic field of Oneness, Love, and dynamic Peace.

    Let us use this time of celebration as a kind of high-tide moment to truly practice an activated prayer, meditative, and generous way of life. And thus, become harbingers of great possibilities on this planet! And, “Merry Christmas” will have a more powerful meaning when we say it to one another.

    Agape At A GLANCE December e-newsletter, 12/04/22

    Consciousness Caravans Connections

    This month, December, the creators of the movie series, The Chosen, will be releasing episodes of its third season on their streaming app once a week, each Sunday. A couple of friends and I went to the theaters to see the first and second episodes of season three on the big screen. It promises to be just as rich and binge worthy as the first two seasons were.

    But before I go too far into season three, I wanted to let you know about our Movie Discussion Groups (MDG) where we start with season 1, episode 1 and progress through each episode, exploring the bible references and what they mean for our lives today. You’re invited to check out our Consciousness Caravans YouTube posting about the MDG or connect with Rev Sally to start your own MDG. The MDG dives deep into each episode, gets to know and imagine along with the creators of The Chosen the characters of the Bible stories in new and wonderful ways through our conversations that arise from these viewings. Both in person (in the San Francisco / Oakland – Bay Area) and virtual (via Zoom) meetings are possible.

    With each viewing, we bring in the metaphysical, Science of Mind, teaching relative to these stories. Check out the slides below as an example. There is so much to talk about from the movies, bible references, and you are welcome to join our conversations at any time.

    Movie-Discussion-Group-Pilot-Slides-100722Download

    Blessed Be! We are consciously living Life as vehicles of Spirit. Join the caravan!