Wow, I just googled, Unity Temple on the Plaza. I want to come see this as 'field' study of communal groups. Is it a cult? There was a Unity Church here in Fairfield for a while but it seemed that it fell in to a parting of ways between spiritual meditators here and ideological stick in the mud orthodox kind of Unity people from Kansas. There is some story there. -Buck in the Dome
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote: I live in the City of Unity. I did a number of residence courses at Unity Village - back in the old days. Unity Village is a fabulous facility but now there are a number of other Unity facilities - such as Unity Temple on the Plaza and Unity Church of Overland Park. Unity Temple on the Plaza is full of meditation groups and classes - Vipassana, Mahayana, Zen, Vajrayana, Dzogchen ... all because they have a Buddhist Center there. This also is where Khachab Rinpoche teaches Dzogchen twice a year when he comes into town.. Unity Church of Overland Park is a few blocks away from my residence. I even live next to a Unity minister. So they are pretty much everywhere. Each Unity facility has specialized in a particular part of the spiritual marketplace so their appeal has been well thought out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote: There are a few splinter Christian churches that do not follow the idea that we are inherently sinful, but are instead, inherently good. One such church is the Unity Church of Practical Christianity. On the other hand the majority of Christian flavours do indeed seem to regard our species as base and vile in some way. Should a creator that makes such defective merchandise really be revered for attempting to patch its mistakes? It really does not make much sense. OK, y'all are bad, doomed, so I'll send my son and kill him for your benefit. After all this time it is hard to tell what Jesus actually taught; it may have had a more esoteric meaning in the beginning, but it is that more abstract way of interpretation that tends to get lost as time marches on.
