Lightworks!
The Rodan Foundation's Publication for the Metaphysical Center of Enlightenment, October 2025
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.
You know how people will lament when they say, “Time to get back to reality,” or “…yeah, but that’s not how the real world works”? What is the real world? Who suggested that toil, despair, and various flavors of enslavement are what’s “real”?
That despair distills from a relationship with survival. Humanity has been feeding itself the message that survival is hard, survival is good, and survival of the fittest is best. There is also a saying that goes something like, “If you’re only ever given a hammer, then everything else will look like a nail.” When the focus of life is on survival, then everything looks like a competitive struggle. Life itself is not trying to survive. Life begets life. Life celebrates itself in every subtlety and every overwhelm. Every aspect of life remains open and flexible, available to what might be required for its perpetuation. Even in an environment that seems to be lacking the means, somehow, life finds its way.
As a human, with this super-fast processor we call a mind-brain (which I have affectionately nicknamed “Thinkytown” or “Thinky Town” if you prefer), you have an option in every moment to look around and see survival or look around and see life. You’ll be right either way. You will find both. For some, being right is everything! It’s their whole life. They don’t know who they are without a struggle to be right. So, let’s let them be right, and then ask, “Show me the truth.”
Truth is in the realm of the heart. You won’t find just one right Truth or wrong Truth that the heart sequesters away, teasing you with unsolvable puzzle after unsolvable puzzle, calling it “the real world.” Truth is a feeling. It sings to you with an absence of conflict, a lightness that requires no defense and offers no offense. To welcome a relationship with truth is to welcome an intimacy from which you cannot hide. Coming from a world built to prioritize survival, intimacy with anything can feel like being followed by a sniper.
The further you go, the less you want to hide. Truth offered through the heart has this way of turning survival inside out. The heart says, “I see you and offer no conflict.” In that light, survival very quickly reveals itself as a terribly inefficient approach to life. In the lightness of the heart, all of survival’s sticky needs and tangled “yeah-buts” trip over each other in a comedy on par with Larry, Moe and Curly.
This is the essence of life. Lightness of being. Survival doesn’t know where to look for lightness. Thinkytown couldn’t hold onto it if it tried. But the heart knows its music. In lightness of being there is space for everything. Nothing is excluded, not even the stickiest, crustiest need that drops on your head, dusty from sitting on the top shelf for a couple of decades, where someone stuffed it - an emotional trauma experienced before there were tools to navigate it. Survival keeps lots of trinkets on the shelf, and each and every one of them has a fantastic story that, when told by the heart, somehow always ends up being funny.
Enjoy the stories. Love the details. The essence of life finds you in the moments when you take a break from surviving. Once you open to intimacy with what’s true for you, the heart will guide you with unfailing love. By K. Lake, genereateharmony.com
Calendar of Events and Special Offerings
OCTOBER 5TH: PIANO SOLO BY AIDEN SHAN! Aiden is a sophomore at Aragon H.S. in San Mateo. Hailing from Texas, where he began his piano studies, he is now a student of Ms. Sumi Nagasawa. In 2024, he achieved Level 8 of the Certificate of Merit sponsored by the Music Association of California. Aiden also plays the flute in the Aragon High School Symphonic Band. Beyond music, Aiden has a strong aptitude for mathematics. He has qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) for two consecutive years and has received several awards in local mathematics competitions. Aiden also enjoys working out, baking, reading science fiction, and 3D designing and printing. Today, Reverend Carraway will speak on: 'This is our Destiny.'
OCTOBER 12TH: MYSTERY SOUND MEDITATION. Virtually everything on Earth vibrates. All matter consists of atomic material, which is in constant motion. This motion generates frequencies, which then generate sound. Designed by Arin Wiscomb, this meditation has the potential to break up emotional, physiological, and spiritual blockages. Join us as we activate our sound codes and explore the mystery within.
GUEST SPEAKER: MS. NADA ROTHBART. At 13 years old, Nada stood 6’3” tall and already destined to play basketball for the Yugoslavia national team. But life had bigger plans. She graduated from law school, got married, and became a proud mom of two sons. Then the war in Bosnia changed everything. Her family fled, beginning a journey through Israel, France before finding a new home in the US. Along the way, she turned healing into a passion, practicing and teaching Bikram Yoga to stay grounded. But she never let go of her legal fruit. Today, she is a global Real Estate Advisor. From the court, both basketball and legal, to classrooms, studios, and skyscrapers, her life has been anything but ordinary. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. Today, Nada will speak on: ‘A Journey in Resilience.’ 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.
OCTOBER 19TH: PIANO SOLO BY ALEX WANG! Alex Wang is in 7th grade at Ralston Middle School in Belmont. He studies the piano with Ms. Sumi Nagasawa, trumpet, and guitar under Mr. Eric Leong's guidance. Alex participates in the Music Teachers Association of California's Annual State Piano Exam, performs piano in the studio recitals frequently, and plays trumpet in the Ralston Middle School Band. As a member of the Robotic team, he designs and creates the robot for the competitions. Alex has also been tutoring his 6-year-old sister, Emily, with her piano practice. His hobbies are reading, skiing, and basketball. Today, Reverend Carraway will speak on: “The Power of Awareness.”
OCTOBER 26TH: GEOFF STICH GUITAR SOLO! Geoff, known as ‘THE ARTIST ON STRINGS,' is well known in the SF Bay Area music scene. Geoff plays the electric and acoustic guitar and the 4-string banjo. His music styles include Solo Jazz Artist, Standards, American Songbook, Showtune Arrangements, 1920s, '30s, '40s, and Pop. Geoff has been a professional musician for over 60 years and a music teacher since 1969.
GUEST SPEAKER: BY DR. LAURA ENFIELD: Dr. Laura Enfield has been studying personal growth for over 30 years. She has been a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist for over 17 years. The intersection between personal growth and naturopathic medicine is highly related, and one she brings forward in her practice and personal life. Outside of the clinic, she loves music, singing and performing, cooking, and being in nature and with friends. Today, Dr. Laura will speak on: ‘The Magic of Homeopathy.’
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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 benefits 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 in 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 listening to the meditations. Sounds like a win-win for sure! You can also greatly support us by giving us stars, 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 October
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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.
