Lightworks!
The Rodan Foundation's Publication for the Metaphysical Church of Enlightenment, April 2024
In 1981, Reverend Clarke Carraway founded The Rodan Foundation with the intention of creating a powerful, growing community of awakening beings who experience love, peace, prosperity, unity, healing, harmony, and revelation through learning and service. The Rodan Foundation, recognizing the Law of Cause and Effect, expresses gratitude for the many blessings it reaps from the community's experiences.
Welcome! Join with us in our dynamic weekly services where we discover our true purpose in an emerging world. Experience the revelation of our collective awakening to the power of love, the wonder of our multi-dimensional capacities, and the joy in reclaiming earth as our home. Sunday mornings provide the opportunity to celebrate life with like-minded beings and experience personal reassurance and empowerment through the spiritual messages of Reverend Carraway's mediumship. We look forward to your participation enhancing our community.
Sooner or later everyone wakes up to the fact that they are divine beings. Despite the appearance that we are physical in nature and that reality is filtered through the perceptions of our physical brains, there is much more to each human being than their physical aspect. Separate from your physical brain is your mind, which is a field of consciousness. Within that field of consciousness, you exist as an aspect of the divine source from which you came.
Long ago, you inserted yourself into the human experience. In those days, nothing was yet physical and being human meant being a specialized personality with the freewill to explore consciousness in greater detail than previously. Later, physical experience was sought as it made the experience of being a rational, freewill-driven, unique personality all the more interesting. At that point, being physical meant living in a lighter density than today’s version of physical existence.
The experience of being physical was so fascinating that, like youngsters excited about a new thrill ride at a funfair, we said, “How about if we try it with the lights out?” And, so, the lights went out. Today, we are immersed deeper than ever in the human experience of being physical. This includes being apparently cut off from the normal information flow that comes with higher consciousness and we’re here to find the answer that lies somewhere out there in the gloom. Or, we might well ask, is it somewhere inside instead of somewhere out there?
Being mostly disconnected from the inner light means that we don’t have an inbuilt awareness of our oneness with the universe. We have to earn that realization through deliberate attunement. We don’t have always-on telepathic ability to exchange thoughts and feelings with other people. Conscious telepathy takes patience and practice. We aren’t attuned with conditions in nature like animals are. When an earthquake jolt is imminent or a tsunami is headed our way, wild animals suddenly head for the hills and we’re left wondering why our homebound pets are getting agitated.
As humans today, what we have is self-awareness, intellect, and freedom of choice. Within this mysterious maze of the thrill ride of being human with the inner lights turned off, there is a treasure to be found. That treasure is the realization that the light was there all the time, yet hidden from sight.
When you first find the spiritual light within, it begins to beckon you forward into the realms of more light. Then, you are firmly on the path of spiritual discovery. You are heading back along the pathway to the level of consciousness from which you came before the thrill ride began.
Remember, your brain is not your mind and your mind is not your real personality. Your immortal soul is your real personality and it is functioning through the filter of who you became in this particular lifetime. Attune yourself with your soul consciousness every day and you will always be able make the right choices in life. When you sense the essence of your true personality, you will also sense which of the options that lie before you resonate best with your inner guidance. This attunement with the right options and their real potential is the secret to gaining the most from your experience of life as a human being. By Owen Walter, Infinite-being.com
Calendar of Events and Special Offerings
APRIL 7TH: PIANO SOLO BY PAIGE LEUNG! Paige in her 8th grade at Bowditch Middle School in Foster City. She loves to play piano under Ms. Sumi Nagasawa's guidance, and trumpet under Mr. Eric Leong. Paige performs trumpet as the first chair of her school's jazz band. She also participates in her school's tennis and volleyball teams. Paige Leung will play the lovely "Marriage d'Amour by Paul de Senneville."
GUEST LECTURE BY BRIAN STUBBS. Brian Stubbs, an Estate Planning and Family Law attorney, is the very humorous and popular m.c. of our TLA Sing n’ Share events. When he’s not working on his jokes, Brian can be found at his family’s Napa Evergreen Ranch tending to his fruit tree orchard, chain-sawing, or feeding his chickens.
APRIL 14TH: NATIVE AMERICAN DRUMMING ENSEMBLE! Our drumming circle is a spiritual tool for unity where we empower each other in the act of celebrating community and life through rhythm and music. Bring an instrument and share your rhythmic spirit! The drum’s sound has the power to move our spiritual bodies, hearts and minds closer together to a sense of oneness with all that is.
LECTURE BY REV. CLARKE CARRAWAY: "Getting to know me."
TESTIMONIAL CIRCLE: After the service, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they are living positivity and love in their daily lives. Bring miracles, large & small. Or just come and be present in the sharing.
APRIL 21ST: PIANO SOLO BY PARKER REYES! Parker Reyes, a talented 7th grader at Ralston Middle School in Belmont. Parker is a versatile young musician who plays the piano, trumpet, and French horn. He has been playing the piano for six years under the guidance of his teacher, Sumi Nagasawa. Additionally, you can catch him in action as a trumpeter in the Ralston Honors Band. Beyond music, he’s also a dedicated martial artist, holding a green belt in kung fu. When not immersed in Chinese language studies or honing his kung fu skills, Parker enjoys engaging in friendly matches of chess and tennis. Today Parker will play "Polonaise in G Minor," Posthumous by Fredrick Chopin (1810 - 1849).
GUEST LECTURE BY VANESSA STUBBS. Vanessa has been a member of The Rodan Foundation since she was in her mother's womb. She loves the community which helped give her the confidence to become a Spanish teacher ten years ago. She enjoys traveling, reading, walks at the ocean, and painting. She is thrilled to be a new auntie, and has found that her smile is her superpower.
APRIL 22ND: EARTH DAY! No matter how you choose to honor nature, make it positive. We need a healthy Planet Earth to thrive, and Planet Earth needs us.
APRIL 28TH: LIGHTHOUSE STRING BAND! Back by popular request! Join us for an uplifting musical
experience with The Lighthouse String Band, a group of talented musicians from
all over the Bay Area, playing mostly Scottish and Irish music through a wide
range number of exciting instruments, from violin to mandolin, fiddle, guitar
to accordion.
LECTURE BY REV. CLARKE CARRAWAY: "Look for the silver lining."
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COMMUNITY OFFERINGS:
Healing Community: Beginning at 9:45 during our meditation, please tune into your realm of perfection and release your concerns and receive the benefit perfection has to offer you. The Rodan Foundation holds prayer for our List of Divine Fulfillment, a list of recognition. It is so named because our community praises and recognizes the outpicturing of love and perfection in the lives of those on the list. If you wish to participate with our List, we invite you to place the names & situations for which you desire help in our healing basket on our greeter’s table.
Testimonial Circle: On the second Sunday of the month, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they are living positivity and love in their daily lives. Bring miracles, large & small. Or just come and be present in the sharing.
The Haven: The Spiritual Evolution Class: Channeled through the mediumship of Reverend Carraway, the Tuesday evening class provides an in-depth opportunity to experience expanding awareness of self and life. It is an ongoing flow of revelation designed to promote personal awakening and responsibility, transformation and empowerment. For more information, please speak with Reverend Carraway after the service.
The I Love Me Meditation Series: is now available on Insight Timer – a meditation website and app with millions of meditations available to listen to for free! Every time one of our meditations is played, a donation is sent to The Foundation. You can give financially to The Rodan Foundation, just by listen-ing to the meditations. Sounds like a win-win for sure! You can also greatly support us by giving us stars, and commenting, and sharing the meditations on social media. Please Spread the word and share with others.** https://insig.ht/MMX7e6KBtub
Our Community Love Offertory for the Month of April
supports the 2ND Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley
Our Community Love Offertory for April supports SAMARITAN HOUSE, the primary provider of housing and services for homeless children and adults in San Mateo County, and opportunities for families and individuals to re-establish self-sufficiency and to return to permanent homes of their own.
One of the many ways you can support us...
As you help the economy with your Amazon purchase, you may also help The Rodan Foundation by shopping from smile.amazon.com. Under the 'search' area, you'll see the word 'supporting' and a description of a chosen charity. Hover over the name and you'll see a 'change' option listed next to it. Click 'change,' search for The Rodan Foundation, and choose us as your charity. We will receive 0.5% of the price of all your eligible smile.amazon purchases!
You can also visit our support page to make a tax-deductable donation directly to The Rodan Foundation.
Reverend Carraway is available for spiritual counseling, Jin Shin Do sessions, as well as for ceremonies marking mile stones in life. For more information, please see him after the Sunday service at The Metaphysical Church of Enlightenment or contact us.
