Esoteric Theological Seminary

We have many death doulas over the years, including a death doula and this month. Nurses also come to us for . It makes sense for and nurses to become since they help bridge the gap between life and death. Become a Minister and join the community of alternative and / workers

Michigan’s death doulas bring solace to those navigating the end of life Kimberly Wamba realized what she wanted to do with her life in watching members of her family die. She always had a desire to help people, a desire that started in childhood watching her grandmother work as an aide.

Our online ordains clergy of all faiths: ministers, priests, Buddhists, Rabbis. We are multi-faith and Become today, officiate a tomorrow. Choose your title here northernway.org

Ancient meditation practices find new life in modern religious communities across US Meditation has been a common feature for eons in religious traditions from Buddhism to yoga, which originated as an ancient spiritual practice in India rooted in Hindu philosophy

We received an excellent application today for ordination from a person who is already acting as by guiding others based on the inner voice of wisdom she gained after her traumatic brain injury and surgeries, which she regards as initiations. What a cool way to view her trauma as an ! Brain injury can certainly cause a shift in our consciousness-receiver, so that we receive more or different "frequencies" of the Cosmic Consciousness. In our spiritual study programs we talk about all the different names for that Overmind that pervades and makes up the universe: Universal Consciousness, Enlightenment, Christ Consciousness, God Consciousness, The Higher Self, Transcendental Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, , Mindfulness, Awakening, Experience, Moksha, and , often described as a state beyond the ego, feeling connected to all existence. This image came up during a google search.

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Welcome to our 2 new priesthood candidates! They will sit for Holy Orders and become ordained priests with full . Our multi-faith confers legal to both women & men with Apostolic Succession as part of the Independent Sacramental Movement. We take you from doorkeeper thru , to priest. "Sitting" for Holy Orders is the old term for studying to become a . It's also called "formation". Our long-distance online seminary has been ordaining priests for decades. We also have women bishops, a shock to the official church, but the New Testament mentions early female church leaders. In Romans 16 Paul praises Phoebe as an ordained deacon, Junia as an Apostle and Bishop, and Prisca as the leader of a local early church. https://northernway.org/seminary/holyorders/index.html

Spirituality has increased:
"large majorities of Americans have a spiritual or supernatural outlook on the world."
For example:
86% believe people have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical body.
83% believe in God or a universal spirit.
79% believe there is something spiritual beyond the natural world, even if we can’t see it.
70% believe in an afterlife (heaven, hell or both).

Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off After years of decline, the U.S. Christian share now shows signs of leveling off. The new Religious Landscape Study explores trends in identity, beliefs and practices. Pew Research Center.

Become a priest or woman priest with full Apostolic Succession. Female Bishop will ordain you to the priesthood passing all lines of Apostolic Succession to you.

Become an Ordained Minister. Have you been asked to officiate a wedding / perform a marriage? Ordination from us is legal in all 50 states. Start your own church or wedding chapel. Affordable and fast.

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Wow. Talk about oppressed people and religious persecution. If parents in China are caught passing down Christianity to anyone under 18, they are imprisoned.

Xi and Mao replace Jesus and Mary in Chinese churches The sudden order to remove the symbol of the cross from the roof and entrance of a village church in China’s Anhui province cited unspecified “safety” hazards. The notice, issued in March, was a shock to the church in Yongqing, eastern China, which had reportedly passed official safety inspect...

and are changing. Become a -leader , start your own church or work in an existing one. We just helped an minister start her own and church.

Navigating a Massive Shift to Part-Time Clergy - The Living Church Sixty-four percent of Episcopal congregations don’t have a paid, full-time priest.

Two chaplains we are part of the rescue effort in devastated and one is in . They help police and rescue,whose numbers are stretched thin, by going door to door in the destroyed neighborhoods. Become a , an , rabbi, or with succession and work on the front lines in your community, be they caused by mother nature (natural disasters) or mankind (war).
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Baby among 5 people killed as a swarm of tornadoes hits heartland: Officials At least five deaths, including one of a 4-month-old child in Oklahoma, were confirmed Sunday from a severe storm that swept through the heartland on Saturday.

Just posted this to our Succession students:

The minor orders on the path to the priesthood have gone thru some changes over the years, but we in the ISM (Independent Sacramental Movement) still take our priests-to-be thru all of them.

This 2021 article, with pictures, nicely describes each one explaining it's origins. Porters aka Doorkeepers literally guarded and opened doors. literally were tasked with keeping "unclean spirits" / entities and energies from the sacred workspace. The article also explains the changes to the Minor Orders made by the RCC (Roman Catholic Church) since 1972, changes we in the ISM have not embraced, although we do like to have laity play these roles, too.

Our Porters / Doorkeepers are also Bell-ringers. It's a cool job the original Porters had. And we have bells to ring in our services, so they are still literally ringing bells!

When a new seminarian comes to study with us, we call them a Porter for about a month, then into Lector. But altho we do take you thru the third minor order of , we basically combine that with , so that you're never called Exorcist(!). That would be a bit freaky, eh?

A look at Minor Orders: The Porter, Exorcist, Lector and Acolyte… As early as the third century, certain roles of service, including deacon, subdeacon, lector, and acolyte, were present in the church. These orders over time became linked to preparation for the pr…