Honoring Our Origins

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore never set out to build a traditional church. Their mission wasn’t about creating institutions, rules, or rigid structures - but rather about empowering individuals through spiritual education, healing, and the metaphysical understanding of Truth.

Notice how we don’t say “Rev. Charles” or “Rev. Myrtle”? That’s because their legacy wasn’t built on religious titles or hierarchy, but on deep, lived spirituality that invited others into their own awakening.

Unity began with simple, yet powerful correspondence courses sent through the mail (Silent Unity came a while later). Today, the modern equivalent is online spiritual learning - accessible anytime, anywhere. They weren’t building a monument; they were igniting a movement.

Not a church with walls, but a consciousness without limits. Not a religion to follow, but a Truth to embody.

The Sunday “service” wasn’t part of a formal blueprint - it emerged organically. It was a natural response to the deep yearning people had to learn how to heal themselves, connect with the Divine, experience community, share spiritual practices, and receive soul nourishment.

As we continue this work, it’s vital to remember: we are not here to replicate traditional church models, structures or processes.

We are not building walls, hierarchies, or borders. What we are creating is a space for spiritual exploration, awakening, education and personal transformation.

When we gather on Sundays, it’s not for rigidity or religious routine. It’s for something deeper - something alive, exciting and dynamic.

A Unity-based movement or metaphysical gathering serves five vital purposes:

1. Spiritual Education and Empowerment

Each Sunday, we gather as a community to deepen and reinforce the spiritual principles we’re learning and living ourselves. Through affirmative prayer, metaphysical insight, and practical spirituality, we support one another in conscious, creative, and empowered living. This isn’t about teaching dogma - it’s about exploring together how to embody a presence that isn’t outside of us, but within us and all around us: an omnipresent Source moving through, in, and as us.

“It’s not what we believe in Unity that matters, but how we use what we believe.”

2. Consciousness and Community Building

These gatherings are about aligning our energy fields and amplifying a shared intention. When two or more come together in elevated consciousness, a powerful metaphysical forcefield is created. It anchors us, helping us remember and embody the teachings for the week - or the journey ahead as a shared collective.

“Where two or more are gathered…” is not just poetic—it’s energetic.

3. Spiritual Healing and Alignment

People may arrive feeling fragmented, anxious, or depleted. But through music, meditation, affirmative prayer, and metaphysical teachings - including metaphysical interpretations of the Bible - we help re-center, re-attune, and re-align each person with the Divine within. Each Sunday becomes a sacred recalibration.

“Healing is not changing who you are; it’s remembering who you are.”

4. Demonstrating the Christ Consciousness

This isn’t about worshiping an external savior (though you’re welcome to, if that speaks to you!). It’s about realizing and authentically living from - the Divine within. Sunday becomes a sacred space to embody and express the Christ idea, to live from Christ consciousness, and to honor this I AM presence in ourselves and in one another.

“Christ in you, your hope of glory” - not someday, but now - I am... the I AM.

5. Spiritual Activation and Action

This isn’t passive inspiration. It’s about activating and living through action. Attendees are called to be healers in their own lives, to embody abundance, to live Truth no matter what they do, and to bring transformation into the world for themselves and others. Be the Light Bearers.

“You are the light of the world. Live that light!”

So, while it may look like a "service" - this is not a church service in the traditional sense. It is:

•        A spiritual training ground
•        A healing vortex
•        A consciousness laboratory
•        A sacred reminder of who we really are

Charles and Myrtle’s movement was a call to spiritual freedom, personal empowerment, and direct connection with the Divine and it’s our responsibility now to keep that spirit alive: fluid, inclusive, evolving - radically and spiritually transformative. They were the original Spiritual Influencers, before hashtags were a thing.

Let us protect the essence of what Unity was always meant to be: a spiritual movement of awakening, not an institution of stagnation and limitation.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember our origins. To pause and recall that we didn’t come from structure, rules, or ritual - but from a spark of awakening.

A movement birthed from spiritual curiosity, divine love, empowered thinking, and the belief that each soul is divine and capable of transformation.

May we continue not by building walls, but by expanding consciousness.

Not by becoming a church, but by embodying a living movement of Light, Truth, Love, and Christ Consciousness.

Let us remember who we are - and why we began.

Blessings,

Rachel