Unity Spiritual Centre

Artist Lounge
2026-11-08 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-11-01 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-25 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-18 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-04 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-09-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-09-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) and 4 more dates | Unity Spiritual Centre, 289 Queenston Rd, Hamilton, ON, L8K 1H2, Canada
Artist Lounge at Unity
July- September 2026
Paul Wright – Dundas, Ontario

Applications are available through admin@unityspiritualcentre.com
Where Creativity, Community, and Spirit Meet
The Artist Lounge at Unity Spiritual Centre is a welcoming gathering space for artists, creatives, makers, writers, musicians, and anyone who feels called to express themselves through creativity.
Whether you are a professional artist, a passionate hobbyist, or simply curious about exploring your creative side, you are invited to join us in a supportive, inclusive, and inspiring environment.
Together we share ideas, encouragement, creative challenges, resources, and conversation. The Artist Lounge is not about competition or critique—it is about connection, inspiration, and honoring the creative impulse that lives within each of us.
We believe creativity is more than making art. It is a spiritual practice, a pathway to self-discovery, and a powerful way of bringing beauty, healing, and new possibilities into the world.
Bring a project you are working on, share your experiences, learn from others, or simply come to connect with fellow creatives. Through conversation, collaboration, and inspiration, we cultivate a community where creativity can flourish.
All creative expressions are welcome. No artistic experience is required.

Come as you are. Bring your imagination. Leave inspired.
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Cleaning Service - Tanya Everkleen
2026-10-26 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-10-12 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-28 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-14 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-31 09:30 - 12:00
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Board Meeting
2026-10-25 12:15 - 13:30, 2026-09-27 12:15 - 13:30, 2026-08-23 12:15 - 13:30

Pot Luck Lunch
2026-10-18 11:30 - 13:00, 2026-09-20 11:30 - 13:00
Bring your favorite dish to share after the presentation
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Be the Peace you wish to see in the world. A Meditation
2026-10-18 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-09-20 10:00 - 11:30
Doors open at 10am, with meditation beginning at 10:30
Be the peace you wish to see in the world. Stay for a potluck lunch- bring your favorite dish- following the meditation.
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The Audacity To Be This Comfortable
2026-09-27 10:00 - 11:30
September 27, 2026
Weekly Topic Title: The Audacity To Be This Comfortable
Affirmation: I embrace radical comfort and peace in my body.
Reading:
When you feel small, unworthy, or overwhelmed by the pain of the world, it can be tempting to escape into distant beauty—mountains, sunsets, poems, or architecture. Focusing there can feel safer than turning toward your own story. But when beauty becomes an escape, it turns into illusion. You aren’t moving toward what you seek; you’re running from yourself. This isn’t the path of wonder.
True wonder asks you to stay present with yourself—to feel your body, your story, and your experience so fully that your deep connection to all of life comes into view. In sacred awe, you remember that you are not outside the story; you belong within it.
Wonder can be a powerful antidote to despair. It gently pushes back harmful lies about who you are and what you’re worth. Like hope, it strengthens your capacity to believe in goodness and beauty, even when circumstances suggest otherwise. Practicing wonder helps you stay rooted in truth, dignity, and belonging, reminding you that beauty and meaning are still alive—within you and all around you.
Adapted from— Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh, pp. 36–37
Spiritual Point of View:
You are invited to remember that you live in, through, and as the Divine—while also knowing that the Divine is far more than you can ever fully grasp. You can never exhaust the Divine Nature, yet you are inseparable from It. This truth isn’t meant to diminish you; it’s meant to fill you with wonder at the majesty of your own being and the vastness of Life expressing through you.
Radically embodying spiritual principles asks more than understanding ideas—it asks you to experience awe, in and through you, right now.
You were born into radical self-love. Your body is not an obstacle to spirituality but one of its most sacred sites. When systems try to tell you otherwise—through racism, sexism, ableism, or body shame—you are invited to see those messages as lies, not truth. Reclaiming love and reverence for your body is a spiritual act of liberation, grounding you more fully in the Divine Life you already are.
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Inhabiting the Inner Habitat
2026-09-13 10:00 - 11:30
September 13, 2026 Week 2
Weekly Topic Title: Inhabiting the Inner Habitat
Affirmation: I love my body and respect the lessons it teaches me about my inner and outer worlds.
Reading: You are invited to notice how disconnection from your body has often been encouraged, especially through spiritual ideas that focus only on what is unseen or “heavenly.” When your attention is pulled away from your lived, physical experience, it becomes easier for real injustices to be ignored. A faith that dismisses the body can unintentionally support harm by asking you to look away from what is happening right now.
This does not mean you are asked to reject the spiritual realm. Instead, you are invited to remember that spirit and body are inseparable. Spirit is not distant or abstract—it lives in your breath, your bones, your history, and your daily life. The wisdom of those who came before you is not somewhere else; it is carried within you.
You were never meant to divide yourself. Spirit and flesh, belief and action, thought and expression belong together. You deserve a faith that loves the whole of you—your body, your story, your pain, and your joy—holding all of it as sacred and worthy of care.
Adapted from- Riley, Cole Arthur. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us. Convergent, 2022, p. 59-60. Kindle Edition.
Spiritual Point of View
You are invited to remember that you are not separate from the substance of the universe itself. As Ernest Holmes teaches, everything—from seeds and plants to people and planets—is formed from the same flowing Divine Substance. Your body is not an exception to this truth; it is the Universe expressing itself as you. AND
Yet many cultural systems—especially those shaped by white supremacy—have taught you to distrust or detach from your body. This isn’t about individual blame; it’s about recognizing a conditioning that asks you to ignore your intuition, your ancestral wisdom, and the living intelligence in your flesh. When you disconnect from your body, you don’t become more spiritual—you become less whole.
Your body is Spirit slowed into form. To reject it is to forget your Source. Your sensations, emotions, and instincts are not obstacles to awakening; they are pathways. Spirit speaks to you through feeling as much as through thought.
When you honour your body—listening to it, trusting it, caring for it—you remember your wholeness. Embodiment is not a distraction from Spirit; it is one of the clearest ways Spirit knows itself through you.
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Office Closed - vacation notice
2026-09-09 15:30 - 2026-09-21 09:30

Inhabiting Togetherness
2026-09-06 10:00 - 11:30
September 6, 2026
Week 1
Weekly Topic Title: Inhabiting Togetherness
Affirmation: I honor embodied creation through my physical self.
Reading:
The creator of the cosmos chose to work through a body. To be grown, fed, and born, God placed faith in flesh—in Mary’s muscles, hormones, and blood. Before Christ’s body was broken, a woman’s body was stretched, wounded, and opened to bring hope into the world. That truth invites you to hold the body as sacred, not incidental.
You are a deeply material being. Bearing the image of God is not only spiritual; it is physical too. You may have heard the phrase, “You are a soul who has a body,” and while it sounds comforting, it can quietly teach you to neglect the body in pursuit of something “higher.” Many spiritual traditions have focused so much on heaven that they’ve treated the physical world as something to escape.
But what if holiness lives right here? What if living a fully spiritual life isn’t about leaving the body behind, but about honouring it fully?
Affirmation:
I affirm that heaven can be made right here, through my embodied life, my breath, and my presence in this world.
Adapted from- Riley, Cole Arthur. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us. Convergent, 2022, p. 57-8. Kindle Edition.
Spiritual Point of View:
You are invited to honor embodied creation by remembering that your body is not separate from Spirit—it is one of Spirit’s most intimate expressions. As Cole Arthur Riley reminds you, the Divine chose embodiment. God trusted flesh, muscle, blood, and breath to bring love into the world. That tells you something sacred about your own physical form. Your body is not a problem to transcend; it is a place where holiness lives and moves.
You may have been taught, directly or indirectly, that spirituality means rising above the physical. Yet Science of Mind teaches something different. Ernest Holmes affirms that consciousness naturally takes form—that embodiment is not an accident, but a necessary expression of self-knowing Life. Your body is not less holy than your mind or spirit; it is an equal partner in the Triune Divine.
Your body is also a vibrational instrument. It responds to your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, offering constant feedback about your alignment with Source. When you listen to it with care, appreciation, and presence, you allow energy to flow more freely.
This week, you are invited to release the false divide between spiritual and physical. As you treat your body with reverence, compassion, and respect, you align more fully with the truth that all of you—mind, body, and spirit—is sacred, worthy, and divinely made.
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I open my heart to growth
2026-08-30 10:00 - 11:30
Affirmation: I open my heart to growth through connection.
Reading:
“People are opting out of vital conversations about diversity and inclusivity because they fear looking wrong, saying something wrong, or being wrong. Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change.”
Brown, Brené. “Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.” Random House, 2018.p,88

Spiritual Point of View:
You are invited to remember, as Ernest Holmes teaches, that there is one Life and one God expressing through all of us. When you hold that awareness, collaboration and openness begin with seeing the divine presence in one another—including in moments of discomfort. Fear isn’t something you need to avoid or deny. It’s an invitation to deepen your trust in the One Life and to choose connection anyway. When you name your fears honestly and keep your heart open, you step into a higher consciousness where differences become sources of creativity rather than division.
Anger often shows up along the way. Anger is rarely the first emotion—it’s a protector sitting on top of hurt, fear, or grief. When anger is ignored or suppressed, it creates inner chaos. When it’s fully felt and understood, it becomes wisdom. From a Unity perspective, this is about directing emotional energy, not repressing it.
Anger signals you’re out of alignment with your Inner Being. You don’t force it away—you pause, breathe, and reach for thoughts that feel a little better. As your vibration softens, clarity returns. From this aligned place, anger becomes a data point, not a destination—fuel for courage, compassion, and meaningful change
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Emotion is energy
2026-08-23 10:00 - 11:30
Affirmation: I channel my anger into meaningful, courageous action.
Reading
When an emotional experience feels inaccessible to you, it’s often a sign that you’re not fully at choice. Many of us learned early in life to limit our emotions—being told not to be too sad, too upset, or even too joyful. Over time, this conditioning narrows our emotional range. Anger is one of the emotions most often suppressed, leaving many people unsure how to express it in healthy ways or distinguish between anger that serves and anger that harms.
Anger that serves is like a flame: it moves energy forward, brings clarity, and dissipates once it is acknowledged. Toxic anger is different. It settles in the body, cycling without release, and no amount of expression seems to relieve it. In truth, toxic anger isn’t anger at all—it is unresolved grief, built from unexpressed feelings and unmet needs, both personal and inherited.
When individuals and communities are denied space to grieve, this grief accumulates. Healing requires creating space for sorrow, allowing what has been held to be felt, released, and transformed.
Adapted from: meenadchi. Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication. Co-Conspirator, 2023, pp. 56–57.
Spiritual Point of View:
You are not meant to ignore your emotions or push them aside. Emotion is energy—and when it goes unmanaged or unexpressed, it will find its own outlet, often in ways that create confusion or inner conflict. From a Unity, your anger isn’t a problem to be fixed; its information inviting your awareness. It’s a signal that something you value matters deeply to you.
When you pause and listen, rather than react or suppress, anger can become fuel for clarity, truth-telling, and healthy boundaries. Charles Fillmore would say that your emotions are spiritual energy meant to be directed through wisdom and love. When they’re denied, they settle into the subconscious and show up later as tension or imbalance. When they’re consciously aligned with Spirit, they become instruments of healing.
What you don’t feel doesn’t disappear—it gets stored. Healing comes when you allow yourself to feel honestly and gently.
Anger shows up when you’re out of alignment with your Inner Being. You don’t force it away; you soften it by reaching for better-feeling thoughts. As you allow emotion, align with love, and shift your focus, your vibration rises—and energy that once felt chaotic becomes creative, purposeful, and healing.
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