Please Note:  The following Virtual Tour is an abbreviated and somewhat outdated summary of the tours offered at the Center.  People who visit the Center find it is much more than this summary conveys.  Visiting the Center can be quite an experience.

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Our Center starts with the premise that each person is a divine being, a child of God, and that every individual’s views of reality should be respected, nurtured, cherished, and supported in every way possible. We welcome people with unconditional love (to the best of our human abilities). Once people come to understand that this is real, many feel this is the safest place they’ve ever been, a sanctuary. People really care about each other here, and it’s a home for people, a family.

We’ve assembled rooms which have altar pieces, icons for all of the world’s spiritual traditions. Many of the people who come here find that there is at least one thing in the Center that connects them to sacred reality and that’s what this is about. We’ve tried to assemble here a cafeteria of spiritual experience. Everyone who comes here will hopefully experience something that will nourish their soul.

The world’s spiritual traditions have in common that they all have beings that we can’t see that are accessible to us. You can pray with St. Therese, or a form of god in the Hindu tradition, or a power animal in the native cultures anywhere you are. But it seems that universally people have the experience that they can connect with spirit more readily if they have something to visualize that experience through - such as a statue or a painting. We have a great number of things in the Center which have been prayed with so much that they have essentially become open conduits that you can plug into. They are radiating these presences. St. Therese is just one well-known example.

The Statue of St. Therese
One of the religious icons in this sanctuary is a statue of St. Therese - or St. Theresa, as she’s usually called in the West - of Lisieux. The Catholic Church has declared her the greatest saint of modern times. She died in 1897 at the age of 24, and was named a Saint after only 28 years. She was later named a Doctor of the Church - the highest rank of Sainthood, and only the second woman to be named to that rank. This acclaim isn’t on the strength of anything particularly special that she did during her lifetime. Rather, it’s because so many people found that they’ve received miracles from praying with her since her death. Before she died, she said she’d spend her heaven doing good upon earth and would shower the earth with roses; since then, many believe they have received miracles and roses. This is one of the places this happens. We’ve had hundreds of miracles here.
Read more about the statue of St. Therese.

Other Christian Icons
We have some other significant icons in addition to the statue of St. Therese. These include a cross, reportedly from a French monastery that closed, that’s said to hold a fragment of the original Cross. A relic of that caliber should have documentation from the Church to substantiate it, and we don’t have such documentation so we can’t prove that it’s real. In any case, it inspires people, which is what’s more important anyway.  We also have holy water from Lourdes and Fatima, three Padre Pio relics, and Russian Orthodox icons painted on a set of 29 nesting dolls.

Jewish Items
A Torah cover and a shofar are among the items displayed.

Muslim Items
We have a magnificent handwritten Koran from 1873.

Please read more interesting details of the tour of this section here.

The Buddha’s fundamental teaching is something everyone can benefit from. Buddhism 101 is that people suffer because they become attached to things. They feel everything needs to be their way, they have to control everything, and then once they do, it should never change. This, of course, is not the way the world works and so then people become dissatisfied.
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