Our Mission

We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.

Mission & Vision

Our Vision

The Center for Action and Contemplation supports a new reformation—from the inside—
~ In the spirit of a Cosmic Christ
~ Confirming people's deeper spiritual intuitions
~ Encouraging actions of justice rooted in prayer
~ With a new appreciation for, and cooperation with,
other denominations, religions, and cultures

Our Mission

“We are a center for experiential education, rooted in the Gospels, encouraging the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation, and equipping people to be instruments of peaceful change in the world.”


Our Core Principles

  • The teaching of Jesus is our central reference point. (criterion)
  • We need a contemplative mind in order to do compassionate action. (process)
  • The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same. (emphasis)
  • Practical truth is more likely found at the bottom and the edges than at the top or the center of most groups, institutions, and cultures. (perspective)
  • We will support true authority, the ability to "author" life in others, regardless of the group. (non tribal)
  • Life is about discovering the right questions more than having the right answers. (primacy of discernment)
  • True religion leads us to an experience of our True Self and undermines my false self. (ultimate direction)
  • We do not think ourselves into a new way of living, but we live ourselves into a new way of thinking. (praxis over theory)

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