Welcome to Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground Community

The Sacred Ground online community brings together individuals who seek a new and direct experience of the Divine Presence that graces us as we focus together into the space between us, in which "two or more are gathered." It's an experience which informs and enriches every aspect of our daily lives rather than transcending it. As human beings, through our Divine Self we have access to the divine realm, interconnected everywhere and outside of space and time. And we also have access to our Human Self, apparently limited to this life, our embodiment and unique individual experience. We are the ocean, and at the same time we are the ocean experiencing itself in a single drop.

Using modern tools like Zoom, we come together across this planet in real time to explore the meeting point between these realms, and each other. Whether we have known one another for years, or are meeting for the first time, we discover than we can find our Self even more deeply when reflected in an other, or others, sharing our experiences of what is arising in each moment in this mutual space. “Love your neighbor as yourself” takes on new meaning at a place outside of space and time where the veils between self and other become permeable. This experience may at first be described as moving from “I” to “We” consciousness; but moving deeper through and beyond that a new and fuller experience of “I AM” arises, not centered in individuality, but as the space itself. And with that comes a sense of authority and responsibility for a greater whole.

Those familiar with tracking the subtle flow of energy in the body, or with tracking thoughts, feelings and more subtle senses will be excited to explore turning those same skills to explore what is emerging in fullness in the apparently empty space between us.

Membership of Sacred Ground is free to all who feel a resonance with what is described above. Practices are available several times a week. Sacred Ground is not a space for promotion of ideas, theories or your own work or that of others.

How to Join Us

If this resonates with you, please Request to Join. Membership of Sacred Ground is available at no cost.

If you are already a member of Sacred Ground and find yourself on this page, click on the Sign In button at the top right of this page.

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NOTE: If you are looking for the Episcopal Church "Sacred Ground - A Film-Based Dialogue Series on Race & Faith", please DO NOT Request to Join us here, please go to this site instead: www.episcopalchurch.org/sacred-ground

Events

Once you are signed in, a calendar gives an easy customized overview of all the events available to you in the main network and in the groups and programs you have joined.

“There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“When this home of mine is made thine, that very moment is it taken across, even while its old walls enclose it. … For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached – yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“You are all of us, as we are united in you. You are all of us as we live in one another.”

Beatrice Bruteau

"We are here together to show each other God. The portal is each other."

Jeff Brown

“The love of [Existence] creates in us such a oneing that when it is truly seen, no person can separate themselves from another person.”

Lady Julian of Norwich

"All things by immortal power, near or far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."

Francis Thompson

Out beyond belief and unbelief, 
there is a field.
We meet there.
When souls lie down in that grass, 
the world is too full 
to talk 
about.
Ideas, language, 
even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.

after Rumi (1207-1273)
and Coleman Barks (1937- )

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other
all along.”

Rumi