The Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative has a new virtual home! Please visit us at https://helenkellercollaborative.org to learn more about the HKC and our current offering, an open to everyone Be Love, Be Honest, Be useful ZOOM group that meets on Thursday nights from 7-8:30 PM ET.
What exactly is the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative? The HKC has a vital purpose, to live out the simple truth that Swedenborg taught and Helen understood:
True worship is a life of kindness!
The Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative is a space where we humans gather together in our Oneness to be love, to honestly explore what false beliefs we hold that cause suffering and disconnection, and to find new creative ways to be of use together. The vision for the Helen Keller Collaborative has clarified into a simple way of living life: Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful.
During the keynote address at Convention this year by futurist Dylan Hendricks, I was repeatedly struck by how the vision and values of the Helen Keller Center address the evolving needs of humanity, the need for a new way of being church together.
Dylan forecasted that in the future:
Humans will yearn for human connection, spiritual healing, and answers to the mystery;
Our shared cultures will synthesize and transcend the classic divides of east and west;
The writings and truths of Swedenborg will be accessible to anyone at any time; and
The key skills for successfully navigating the world will be intention, discernment, and courage. The courage to connect with one another.
Rev. Sage Cole, Visionary Leader of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, Worship is Life Substack creator and Be Love podcaster, invites us all to try out a new form of spiritual community with her:
Reflecting on my recent experiences of church and life, it seems to me that something is missing. I see that we are not living out the call of love, truth and usefulness as fully and boldly as we might, in our individual and in our collective lives. Perhaps it’s just me, but in this sense of falling short of what is possible, I feel lonely, disconnected, tired of small talk, tired of old routines, tired of old stories of limitation and fear.
Helen Keller has been my guide on this journey. Having moved in her life from darkness and isolation to connection and light, she invites each of us to remember that “Life is a daring adventure or nothing.” Her invitation inspires me to keep trusting in the path of love, truth and usefulness, and to trust that obstacles are but doorways to opportunity, invitations to adventure.
Will you join me?
My invitation is simple. And it’s open to everyone.
It is an invitation to:
Honor our distinguishable oneness, the unity that makes possible our incredible diversity.
Recognize that God/the holy/love/truth is only discovered within actual people, all actual people and life throughout the universe, and so the path of love must be through our lived relationships, not our allegiance to theoretical ideals that pit us against one another.
Seek together to Be Love, Be Honest, and Be Useful.
That’s it. Are you willing to give it a try?
This effort cannot move forward without collaborative, active involvement. And so, to that end, we invite you to complete the Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful survey and be involved in this new endeavor over the next year.
Alex Gayheart, HKC Digital Media Coordinator
