about us
an introduction
our purpose
Our organized purpose is "to hold and expand awareness of the Divine Presence on and in the earth; and to facilitate individual experience of deepening states of inner peace emanating from the personal, collective and universal sanctuary of the spirit heart, thereby manifesting Christ consciousness [unconditional love and compassion] more fully and completely in the universe, and peace on earth."
Spirit Heart Sanctuary is therefore conducting a "Ministry of Presence." Within this overall focus we wish to offer you a deepening sense of connection to Spirit. It is through a deepening connection with the inner sanctum we refer to as our "spirit heart" that we can come to experience the "peace that passeth all understanding," and thus contribute to a lasting world peace.
It is through deepening our individual experience of inner peace first and foremost, that we can contribute most constructively and powerfully to world peace. From a deepening connection to our spirit heart - the spiritual dimension of our heart - we find greater resonance with the one universal heart of God-Spirit-Source that abides within us all. To the degree that this state of peace exists within us, we contribute to world peace simply by BEING here. All other efforts towards world peace are most effectively performed from a platform of inner peace.
a brief overview
Spirit Heart Sanctuary is established to expand awareness of the metaphysics of love, acceptance, grace and compassion. All other metaphysics fall below the threshold of the speed of light and are consequently bound within the laws of cause and effect. The metaphysics of love and grace are not bound by the limited laws of cause and effect. The latter are "fulfilled" or brought into balance and harmony by unconditional love, grace, absolute acceptance, and true compassion. The inner sanctum of the spirit heart is our individual and collective vehicle of liberation from the limited laws of cause and effect which have unconsciously become the gods which control our lives.
The spirit heart is the subtle spiritual or etheric heart which each individual has as their own personal inner sanctuary. Each individual spirit heart is resonant with and at-one with the heart of God-Spirit-Source. Our spirit heart is eternal and all-abiding. It is within this sanctuary that we find the "peace that passeth all understanding." To bring about a lasting world peace, we will need a significant number of persons on earth who have learned to enter their spirit heart sanctuary [inner sanctum] at will and remain there. Spirit Heart Sanctuary provides a strengthening focus for individual human hearts to use as a means of furthering unification. Spirit Heart Sanctuary's unifying focus gathers and radiates spirit heart harmonics within the collective consciousness of the earth.
There is also a collective spirit heart domain for earth's humanity. Our many spirit heart's are in unity with each other, and for all intents and purposes reside in oneness. An apt analogy for the unity represented in the spiritual dimension of the heart would be the molecules of water in a great sea. Each molecule is a separate entity, and yet one molecule alone does not make a sea. The many molecules of water coalescing together in the sacred rhythm of unity form the great sea. In a similar way God-Spirit-Source is the great sea and that which created it all at the same time, and all individuated spirit hearts embracing the dance of unity comprise its body of water.
The spirit heart has also been traditionally referred to as the "Sacred Heart." Our human heart is the physical manifestation of our spirit heart. It is the point of focus and access for our spirit heart, and in fact the two co-exist in an interpenetrating manner. However, many human hearts are not in harmony with each other, while simultaneously their spiritual heart's are. The human heart holds the record of your life and soul in its holographic recording crystals. Some of these holographic memories are resonant with the spirit heart and others are not. As we begin to access the spirit heart more frequently and completely, the holographic recording crystals of our human heart are transformed and become evermore resonant with the spirit heart, and thus the heart of God-Spirit-Source. We then begin to emit a new radiance, a rarified light that is the elixir of eternality. Unity then starts to manifest on the physical plane.
Spirit Heart Sanctuary, in its purpose of holding and expanding awareness of Divine Presence in and on the earth, is acting as a "unifying focal point" to facilitate and strengthen direct connections to the spirit heart domain in the collective consciousness of the earth. Those persons who join their being with this focus enter into a two-way exchange and spiritual energy flow with this unifying endeavor. They each receive from it and they each give to it. They receive Divine Grace in their efforts to connect more deeply with their own spirit heart. They in turn contribute the fruit of their efforts to the whole through our combined effort therein further developing the strength of our collective spirit heart relationship. Each of us on our own certainly adds the strength of all of our spiritual endeavors to the whole regardless of external form. However, when we set a specific conscious intention and join our efforts to those of the Radiant Ones through a specific form created for this purpose the effect is magnified exponentially.
The spirit heart has also been called the Christos. Christ consciousness - or the consciousness of unconditional love, compassion and peace - flows from the font of spirit heart or the Christos. Spirit Heart Sanctuary serves as an interface between the Universal Christos and the human experience. The Master of Love, Isho'a [the Aramaic name for Jesus, pronounced as "ee-SHOO-ah"], holds and anchors the collective spirit heart for earth at this time. Many other masters have worked to support the Christic mission for earth as well.
It was Isho'a, however, who was chosen to draw all these threads of endeavor together within his own being and to unify and amplify them. He left a powerful legacy in the earth which can be accessed through our spirit heart to transform our collective legacy of limitation. For individuals who find specific resonance with Isho'a, we suggest focusing on his being as an aid to accessing your spirit heart in whatever way suits you. For souls who do not find a specific resonance with Isho'a, we encourage you to simply focus on your spirit heart, the sanctuary of eternal peace within and/or any other being such as the Buddha that represents the spirit heart to you. Both Isho'a and your spirit heart register vibrationally at infinity, as well as all other Masters, Sages, Avatars and Saints that are in resonance with that greater field of awareness. We will occasionally provide suggestions and processes for working with spirit heart for those persons who are on our email list. Most of these suggestions and processes will appear on this website in the message archives section as well.
As you join your efforts to connect more deeply with your spirit heart with other's, and with Spirit Heart Sanctuary, you are offered the opportunity to better unify your efforts to establish world peace with the resonant efforts of others. World peace springs forth as a natural outflowing of our inner peace, like many small streams flowing together to form a large river, and many large rivers flowing together to eventually form the Great Sea of Peace. Through our efforts to strengthen our own experience of spirit heart we are transforming our world from the inside out. Please join us if you feel resonant.
the organization
We were originally established in 1995. The organizational structure is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization, established under the Church of Antioch, Malabar Rite by charter #1030. Our federal group exemption number is #4154, our FEIN is 84-1331383. The Church of Antioch is based on a philosophy of love-based spiritual values and principles as Isho'a taught. They respect all traditions and have an open-minded, liberal, metaphysical and mystical philosophy. They are dedicated to cultivation of individual gnosis and spirituality, while still holding a path for the true divinity expressed in Christian tradition to find its way to the Liberating Light of Higher Awareness.
Our registered legal name is now Spirit Heart Sanctuary. We are independently incorporated in the State of Colorado and registered as a foreign non-profit in the State of Hawaii, having relocated and re-organized here in March 2004. We have at this point expressed ministry in the world as an esoteric Mystery School, a New Consciousness Church, and now as a Spiritual Sanctuary.
We are a living organism rather than a rigid organization. We offer this fluid expression of the One Spirit of us all to you and everyone we meet and serve to the best of our ability.
a note on isho'a
We primarily utilize the Aramaic name, Isho'a, for Jesus of Nazareth the Master of Love. The phonetic rendering of this name is "ee-SHOO-ah" wherein the "ah" is a low guttural sound, almost silent. People are generally more familiar with "Yeshua" as the Aramaic rendering of his name. This translation generally leads to mis-pronunciation, however, as people pronounce the name "Yeshua" in English according to the way it appears [it is actually correctly pronounced the same as Isho'a]. Therefore, we have chosen to use Isho'a instead. The latter is also a more accurate rendering of the Master's Aramaic name letter for letter from Aramaic to English, each letter actually having a correlative in Aramaic. With the name "Yeshua" this is not true because a vowel marking has also been rendered as a letter [e].
The first Aramaic letter in the Master's name is "yodh" [Heb. - "yod"], which can be rendered as an "i" or a "y" depending upon the word but it is usually rendered as an "i" when it is the first letter in a word [although not always]. The second Aramaic letter in this name is "sheen" [Heb. "shin"] which is rendered as "sh" in English. The third Aramaic letter is "waw" [Heb. "vau"], which is rendered as either "w," "o" or "u" depending upon the word. The last letter in the name is "ai" [Heb. "ayin"] and actually has no equivalent in English but can written as an "a" that is a low guttural sound and nearly silent. According to Neil Douglas-Klotz, and Aramaic scholar, this letter has deep esoteric significance in this name and is worth the effort to pronounce it.
"Y'sho'a" or "Y'shu'a" could thus also be potentially used as a proper transliteration, but "Isho'a" lends itself to being more phonetically correct and this is why we have chosen this rendering of his name as our primary way of relating to the Master of Love.
Many people have found that properly pronouncing the Master's name in Aramaic seems to help them with feeling a deeper sense of brother/sisterhood and comradeship with him. We have found that this Aramaic name also attunes one to the vibratory rhythms of the Master's Being, consciousness and Spirit Heart, therein providing us with a more direct channel of the Divine Grace and Love he so fully embodied. It sometimes takes a little time to adjust from the Greek name "Jesus" to the Aramaic name Isho'a, but we have found it well worth the effort. You are, however, free to refer and relate to the Master in whatever way resonates best for you.
We feel that the entire body of wisdom and higher consciousness mandate contained in the Biblical scriptures can be summed up quite succinctly by this excerpt from Matthew 22:37-39, "Love the Lord your God [God-Spirit-Source] with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might and with all your mind. . . Love your neighbor as yourself." Paraphrased, I say that we are to love God-Spirit-Source and each other with all of our being, with everything we have to give it.
This is our objective for it leads to a permanent residency within the spiritual dimension of the heart and thus peace and unity.