About Awakenings Institute

Awakenings was born with this dream:

Imagine a world where love is the guiding force, where the unique gifts
that each individual brings receive honor and respect, where all are nurtured in allowing their gifts to blossom, to manifest the joy of living in each moment...

Imagine a world where all of nature is also honored, so all may live in harmony and share an increasingly vibrant and beautiful environment...

What we imagine we can create, starting in this moment. This vibrant world will come into being as each of us empowers ourselves to live the dream now and share it with others. Playing a part in the creation of this dream is the mission of Awakenings.

In this dream, there is no poverty, because everyone is nurtured and loved. This love also eliminates the focus on fear and separation as we bridge the divisions created by race, creed, and national borders to co-exist together in harmony. The environment synchronously benefits everyone, as people all over the world shift their focus to a more holistic approach that creates balance rather than congesting our home planet with chemicals and toxic fumes.

Increasing our connections with our wholeness, which we may experience as God, the creator, the source or simply the oneness, brings us closer to making this dream a reality. We have an inherent connection with divine order. As we progress spiritually, we unite more with our inner wisdom, which, in turn, strengthens our connection with all-that-is. This evolutionary quest is an upward spiral, taking us to higher levels of consciousness and wholeness.

How You Can Participate

With the creation of a new path and a place of belonging, we can collectively make positive changes in the world. Awakenings invites you to join us. Each of us can participate in the invention of this new spiritual structure, develop a tangible presence within our society, and bring the dream into being.

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible,
then they seem improbable,
and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

                                                                                                      - CHRISTOPHER REEVE

Current and Future Directions

Awakenings is conducting and planning the following offerings:

Ordination Program: Awakenings is currently starting to ordain ministers who feel drawn to fulfilling a spiritual mission as part of Awakenings Institute. The goal is to create a strong foundation of ordained ministers involved in diverse forms of holistic healing and spiritual growth, upon which Awakenings' worldwide spiritual community can grow and evolve.

• For ordained members and those in the Ordination Program, we also plan to have an annual renewal retreat to join together and explore our possibilities.

University Degree Programs: Awakenings has started offering spiritual/religious doctorate, master's, and bachelor's degrees in subjects related to spirituality and holistic healing as part of Awakenings' commitment to lifelong learning as part of the evolutionary journey.

New Website at awakeningsinstitute.org: Awakenings Institute also has its own website. If you are interested in visiting the website, you can click on the link above. In time, the website will have:

• Information about the organization and its offerings

• A list of ministers, local gatherings, counseling and healing services, courses, and so on.

• A members only section with information for committed members

• A ministers only section with information related to developing a ministry

Master Spirit Community Membership: Awakenings is now offering membership at masterspirit.org to individuals who want to realize their dreams as part of its worldwide spiritual community. Click on this link to find out more about this enlightening community. 

Members Newsletter: Awakenings will be producing a newsletters for members, to provide updates on activities and articles of interest authored by its ordained ministers and members. This, too, should be starting around the beginning of 2006.

Supportive Local Spiritual Communities: We have started to have spiritual gatherings in the San Luis Obispo area and hope to have gatherings in other areas in 2006 to create more supportive local spiritual communities.

Spiritual Counseling and Holistic Healing Services: As ministers are ordained, Awakenings will offer a variety of counseling and healing services, to members and other interested individuals worldwide. 

Books, E-books, CDs, and DVDs: Awakenings currently shares its teachings through publications by Phillip and Jane Mountrose. We envision this expanding as more ordained ministers step forward and add to the publications currently available.

Supportive Worldwide Spiritual Community: Through conferences, webcasts, and teleconferences, we hope to have opportunities to bring members from around the globe together. We envision this occurring a ways down the road, when we have members to participate.

Presence in Society: As Awakenings grows and evolves, we hope to create tangible presence in Society and a path to a new, life-affirming way of being.

Current Offerings through Drs. Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose: The Mountroses, who founded and currently direct Awakenings, are Ministers of Holistic Healing. In this capacity, they have created this website. They currently conduct presentations, classes, and seminars. They also offer individual counseling, in person or by phone, with individuals throughout the United States and in some foreign countries. Holistic Communications, the publishing branch of Awakenings, extends its reach worldwide with books, audio tapes, and video tapes, along with the Getting Thru E-mail Newsletters. Awakenings Institute is non-denominational and welcomes participation from all interested individuals with joy, love, and blessings.

CLICK HERE to find out more about Drs. Phillip and Jane Mountrose.

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