Miracle Circles
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New Paradigms of Science, Religion and Power are all demonstrating
that life moves in a circle rather than a line.
What is a Miracle Circle?
It is a spiritual community working the circular curriculum
with a circle of people who want to be
- Living your Highest Good
- Achieving Mastery over your Quality of Life
- Living in Harmony with the Environment
- Making a Positive Contribution to the World
- Creating Spiritual Community
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Quantum Spirit Unlimited is an opportunity to join a spiritual community on-line,
participate in a transformative educational program, receive ordination, and create your own "Miracle Circle" group.
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At QSU we define "ministry" as a path of positive contribution. Everyone has such a path. Let us help you find and evolve yours. Classes start March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1. We accept students on a first come, first serve basis and recommend enrolling early to ensure your space. QSU is offered on a self-determined tuition basis because as an organization we practice the prosperity principles of unconditional giving. To learn more about the spiritual principles of prosperity see "Giving and Prosperity"
Create your own Miracle Circle
Using QSU's ready-made study group format.
QSU is designed to be widely shared and seed the formation of circles.
Please explore our web site and see if this ever-extending circle of spiritual community is right for you.
Also, see these other ministries created by QSU's founder, Lynn Woodland:
Distance Healing and Prayer Request line
Miracles of the Spirit Church
Free Oracles and Guidance Tools
Classes, Workshops and Events with Lynn Woodland
An Online Spiritual Study Course and Ordination Program
Course Description
This year-long program created by Lynn Woodland is a forward-looking approach to personal and spiritual growth that blends new science, modern psychology and the seasonal archetypes of nature into a highly unique and practical course for living an empowered and purposeful life.
Some Topics Addressed
- Mastering Manifestation
- Awakening Intuition
- Using the Power of Consciousness to Shape Reality
- Uncovering Unconscious Agendas that Keep us Stuck
- The Quantum Power of Group Energy
- Spiritual Healing
- Spiritual Principles of Prosperity
- Healing, Refining, and Attracting Relationships
- Living in Harmony with the Seasons
- And More
We live in an era where the very definition of reality is undergoing a fundamental shift. Science is proving the physical world, as we perceive it, to be an illusion: at the quantum realm, too small for the eye to see, what looks solid and separate melts into a fluid, quantum soup of light, motion and untapped energy that turns upside down our previously held understanding of the universe.
"Quantum spirituality" is neither science nor religion, but rather a way in to the invisible realms that religions have offered on faith and science has entered through technology. It's a spirituality of discovery and experimentation rather than teachings, with a mission to broaden possibilities rather than narrow them into dogma. It’s a way to extract personal meaning and practical application from abstract glimpses into the nature of reality. Ultimately, it offers new power to the individual, greater connection between individuals and, perhaps, new hope for humanity.
"Spiritual not Religious"...
The experiential nature of this course and its lack of religious dogma make it an appealing spiritual tool for people of many faiths, and ideal for the growing group identified as "spiritual, not religious."
Intensive self-development...
It's for those seeking an intensive course in self-improvement. Each lesson offers exercises and information for enhancing well-being and personal effectiveness. Over the year, many areas of life are addressed in a way that's both spiritual and practical.
Nonreligious ministry...
It's for anyone drawn to the service, outreach, and calling of ministry yet not to traditional religion.
A ready-made study group format for personal or professional use...
It's ideal for anyone wanting a ready-made study group curriculum as each lesson includes an adaptation of the material for use with groups.
A "next step" recovery tool...
Its emphasis on personal growth, accountability, and nonreligious spirituality also makes it an excellent "next step" recovery tool.
A forum for spiritual community...
The course provides an opportunity to connect with like-minded others online for discussion, networking and spiritual work. This "group work" online is built in to the curriculum to make use of the synergy and wisdom available in a group setting.
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"Leap" with greater ease and efficiency into your desired life goals
At the quantum realm there exists the possibility of leaping from one point to At the quantum realm there exists the possibility of leaping from one point to another without passing through all the points in between. As we see past the illusionary solidity of the physical world we, too, can learn to skip steps and actively create coincidence.
Identify and release blocks to your health and well-being
As you uncover the hidden purposes and unconscious agendas that hold dis-ease, scarcity, addiction, and all sorts of limiting patterns in place, you'll find that you have power and choices in areas where you previously felt helpless.
Discern your voice of inner guidance
Inner guidance is what puts us in touch with our intuitive sense of timing-our ability to be in the right place at the right time. From the outside, this capacity looks like luck, yet is what differentiates ordinary people from truly extraordinary ones. Inner guidance allows us to see the bigger picture of life; to find our true purpose and path of highest good; to avoid pitfalls, distractions, and danger. It naturally keeps us safe and on track.
Take courageous action in your life
Often we let opportunity pass by because it means releasing the familiar and taking a risk. True power includes the courage to act upon the quiet voice of inner guidance that urges us toward our greatness, passion, and joy-even when it involves taking a leap of faith, taking a stand, or making a commitment.
Become a catalyst for positive change
As we step into our highest power, we become increasingly aware of our connection to all life and recognize that, as one person is left behind, no one can truly move forward. As we walk our own personal path of highest good, we find that we quite naturally take others with us. Without even trying, our innate capacity to lead, to heal and to assist powerfully emerges.
Build spiritual community
We live in an era where our collective survival depends upon finding our power together rather than separately. Humanity's most important mission in today's world is to step into a new model of power where individuality can shine without egos competing, where we recognize our intrinsic Oneness, and where we create a synergy far greater than the sum total of our separate capabilities. Working together isn't just about survival or fellowship anymore. We literally access a new source of energy that gives rise to quantum leaps, healing and miracles of all kinds.
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Working with a unique circular format inspired by the seasons, students receive a lesson a week for a year. Entry dates for new students fall near the beginning of each season: March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1. There is no starting point to the course just as there is no beginning or end to a circle. The seasons offer a template for wholeness and the lessons aren’t meant to be a linear route to an end so much as catalysts for synchronicities, awakenings, manifestations and miracles that can happen anywhere along the way. Consequently, all students work with the same lesson material regardless of when they start and the exercises can be done again and again without losing their relevance.
The Archetypes of the Seasons
Every season lends itself to a certain kind of spiritual work and the more we attune our inner life to the cycles happening in the macrocosmic world of nature, the more we access a larger energy than our own. There’s a subtle shift in the quality of life. The ease that comes from letting a current carry us replaces the constant stress of overlaying our own agenda on an unavoidable flow.
The spring and fall equinoxes are seasonal turning points where the hours of daylight and darkness are equal. The summer and winter solstices are the lightest and darkest days of the year, respectively. Thus, each season offers a rich interplay of the archetypes of light and dark.
Spring, as the season when light is on the rise, is the phase of growth most about birth, fresh new perspectives, planting seeds, bringing potential to life, and so on. There’s a feeling of excitement and anticipation that comes with the spring, a sense that anything is possible.
At the summer solstice, light reaches its peak, making it a time of rapid growth in the natural world. As a metaphor for personal development, this time of greatest light and activity lends itself to the achievement tangible, external goals. But even though light and warmth are still strong in the summer months, light is decreasing every day. Late summer is less a time for planting seeds than of receiving the rewards and consequences of what we’ve sown. For many, it’s a time for vacationing and kicking back so themes of “being,” “receiving,” and “appreciating” are relevant.
At the fall equinox, we enter a three-month descent into darkness, culminating with the darkest point of the year at the Winter solstice. This season of ruling darkness gives rise to themes of death, endings, fear, letting go, loss of control and all the shadowy parts of our being.
With every winter solstice, light quietly triumphs over dark, as marked by the many religious holidays celebrated around December. As with the fall season, the days are still shorter than nights but there’s a hopefulness present as light grows a little stronger each day. This makes winter the perfect time for inner transformation, spiritual rebirth, and for allowing new dreams to quietly percolate under the surface, so they can emerge more actively in the spring and summer.
The weekly lessons that make up this program are designed to echo both the changing seasons as well as the collective thought generated by popular holidays that are part of our culture. For example, it’s difficult not to notice the proliferation of romantic imagery in February or the emphasis on food and family traditions in November. Rather than ignore or go against what’s in the spot light at these times, the approach here is to use the energy of collective thought to refine and empower these areas of life experience.
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What is the content like?
QSU is not an academic course. It’s a transformational one. It is designed to change you, improve your quality of life, and help you manifest your highest purpose. It works on a number of levels simultaneously. The content includes:
- Information, methodologies and exercises for applying spiritual principles in a wide variety of practical life contexts ranging from the mundane (such as how to break an unproductive habit or handle money), to the interpersonal (such as how to attract the right people and relate effectively), to the metaphysical (such as spiritual healing, manifesting through intention, and claiming spiritual power).
- Questions and exercises to enhance personal insight and self-awareness.
- Spiritual work: the group energy established through the guided meditations creates a powerful virtual group for spiritual work that allows shifts and growth of all sorts to happen at a highly accelerated rate.
- An archetypal journey: the totality of the course touches upon many archetypal experiences of wholeness, evoking subconscious participation in a hero’s journey of transfiguration. So, even when you don’t give full attention to every exercise, your subconscious mind is drawn, nonetheless, into a growth process. You’re likely to see the events of your life reflecting this in significant changes, opportunities, and healing that evolve serendipitously and echo the themes of your course work.
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Though every student is doing the same lesson at the same time no matter how far into the program they are, each entry point—i.e. each season—represents an entirely different kind of psychological and spiritual “beginning.” Consequently, there are four different courses and four very different archetypal journeys. The appropriate starting date for you is when you feel the desire, as desire is often guidance from intuition. Consequently, I urge prospective students to listen to your passion rather than your schedule. This program isn’t like a typical class that takes energy away from whatever else you’re doing. Rather, it’s about making your “real life” more successful. If you have the desire but feel you don’t have the time, it could be that the course work would give a boost to the other things you’re doing and help you cut corners, find new opportunities, and amplify your success in ways you haven’t imagined. Plus, there is no time or financial pressure to complete the program in one year.
How much time does it take?
The course is packed with material and exercises. Ultimately, it will take whatever time you give it. Truly, it’s more of a course for life than a year-long program and the sooner you begin, even devoting a small amount of time, the sooner you’ll start to see its transformational benefits. Few students will be able to digest every bit of every lesson in one year and it’s not necessary to do so. What’s more, while every lesson is different, there are themes that repeat. A concept you rush through in one season due to a busy life, you’ll encounter again in a whole different way in another season.
You even may find that the transformational nature of the course speeds up changes in your life so the time you’d put aside for your lesson work disappears. For example, one student fell behind for a season because her course participation resulted in her manifesting the store she’d been dreaming of for years. As previously stated, this is not a linear, academic course and the point of it is to improve your life, not to complete your assignments. Consequently, as these things happen, we’ll support you in finding ways to adapt your lesson work to your life and catch up as you’re able.
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Ordination Requirements
To meet the requirement for ordination you need to give some attention to every lesson and submit a response to it. These are not graded or evaluated in any way. They simply let us know that you’ve given attention to the lessons. Students accomplished this in a variety of ways from postings on the forums, to private emails to a faculty member, to hand-written responses sent by mail; even through drawings of each lesson.
The second requirement for ordination is to create and lead four events where you bring people together in an intentional, guided, sacred way. Students receive as much help as they need with these and those who’ve had a lot of fear around this assignment have often found creative ways to accomplish it in a way that is comfortable and well-suited to their personal style. Again, there’s no time pressure around this course and you may complete these ordination requirements at your own pace, graduating in a year, in fifteen months, or in several years. These assignments are recommended for all students as they'll help you receive the most benefit from the lessons, but they're not required except to qualify for ordination.
Student Support
QSU faculty members and student coordinators are available to answer questions, help students meet their participation goals, stay motivated, and network with other enrolled students if desired. Ordination students may participate, if they wish, in the Mentor Program and have a QSU graduate assigned to them as a partner to discuss and work on lessons together. The multiple tiers of supervision create a heightened sense of community to help students get the most out of their lesson work.
Student Interaction
Spiritual community and interaction is encouraged through a variety of online forums for discussion of the lessons and a wide range of topics initiated by students. “Group” meditations create a synergistic virtual group out of the student body for healing, manifesting and other spiritual work.
Technical Support
We offer extensive technical support to help even the most techno-phobic students master the easy to use features of this online program. If you have access to a computer and the internet, you have all you need to participate.
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QSU as a Course for Teacher
Along with each lesson comes a revised version, adapted for group work. This additional material includes hand-outs, exercises not included in the regular lessons, guided meditations revised for group work, and facilitation tips. Expanding the traditional concept of "ministry," these group sessions encourage spiritual community and provide an easy vehicle for professional counselors, teachers and lay-people to present the material to groups. It's well-suited for a wide range of spiritual study, therapy, self-help and recovery groups that emphasize personal growth and/or nonreligious spirituality.
QSU as a Course for Life
Graduates of the program who want to stay enrolled after completing a full year may do so for a minimal processing fee. The nature of the curriculum makes it an excellent ongoing structure for personal growth and spiritual community. Ordination graduates are eligible to become volunteer mentors to newer students.
How freely may enrolled students share their lessons with others?
Each lesson has special content designed to be shared and we encourage students to do so. These adapted-for-group lessons even include hand-outs that can be mass produced to aid group discussion. We request that our students not share forum access or materials other than those designed specifically for group work. If you have questions about what’s an appropriate or inappropriate use of QSU materials, ask us.
Enroll Early
New semesters begin on the first Mondays of March, June, September and December. Students are encouraged not to wait until the week before a semester starts to enroll. You may enroll at any time for the upcoming semester and as soon as you do, you’ll gain access to a mid-semester website with a lesson posted from the current season, the introductory materials for the course, and a forum for posting comments and interacting with other new students and faculty. Give yourself plenty of time to read the introductory materials and become familiar with the technology by enrolling as far in advance of the next quarter as possible.
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Rev. Lynn Woodland has spent her entire professional life promoting spiritually empowering alternatives to traditional human services. While still a teenager, she spent four years working as an assistant teacher for a spiritually-based Waldorf-styled preschool. Then in 1975, she joined an innovative state-funded counseling program in Baltimore, Maryland that offered transpersonal alternatives to traditional psychotherapy and addictions treatment. In her twelve years with this program, she worked with groups, families, and individuals, specializing in both general mental health and chemical dependency issues.
In 1983 she helped found, and became the first Director of the Baltimore Center for Attitudinal Healing, modeled after the Center in Tiburon, California, founded by Gerald Jampolsky, M.D. It offered support services to children and adults dealing with life-challenging illnesses, and promoted an uplifting philosophy that quite simply defines healing as letting go of fear. During this time she specialized in helping people with illnesses understand the connection between consciousness and health. In particular, she developed expertise in understanding the secondary gains of illness and addressing the complex emotional dynamics that affect the will to heal.
In 1987 Lynn left this Center to lead classes and workshops based on her own work. She’s particularly known for her five-day long intensives that facilitate a deeply cathartic peak-life experience and help people access their innate power, wisdom and capacity to heal. Her weekly Tuesday Night Class has been meeting since 1987. All of her group events promote practical spirituality and experimentation around expanding the limits of reality as we know it.
She received her ordination in 1998 through Lively Stones Fellowship, a healing ministry created by the world-renown spiritual healer, Dr. Willard Fuller. Dr. Fuller is best known for the high incidence of dental healing miracles that happen in every one of his healing services. Lynn founded an online prayer ministry that’s been in operation since 1999 and was a Ministerial Guide for Lake Harriet Spiritual Community for six years before founding Miracles of the Spirit Church.
Lynn is a columnist for the Twin Cities based recovery paper, The Phoenix, her articles have appeared in dozens of papers around the country, and her book, Power, Effectiveness and Spirit, won two awards from the Midwestern Independent Publishers Association. To learn more about Lynn Woodland’s work, visit www.lynnwoodland.com.
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It's difficult to name the spiritual roots I drew upon in creating this program without saying a little about my own spiritual roots. As the descendent of two generations of agnostics or nonpracticing Christians on both sides of my family, I was raised with no spiritual traditions or teachings whatsoever. Not even a mention of God. As a child, what little I grasped of religion struck me as superstitious and unbelievable. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-teens and happened upon Carl Jung's writings on the collective unconscious, archetypes and synchronicity, that spirituality started making sense to me and I was able to embrace "God" in my own way.
While still a teenager I devoured spiritual studies with a metaphysical bent and spent 4 years living in an eclectic spiritual community that hosted an esoteric study center. Here I was exposed to a wide range of teachings and world-famous teachers from Eastern religions, Western mystical and metaphysical traditions, and the more modern voices of transpersonal psychology and new science. During these years of living in community, I worked for a Waldorf School which introduced me to the visionary, yet highly practical, spiritual teachings of Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy.
My next career consisted of twelve years working with a spiritually-based counseling center, which took me on a deep dive into the worlds of transpersonal psychology and the human potential movement. Later, a self-designed masters degree program that I never quite finished and my years directing a Center for Attitudinal Healing modeled after Gerald Jampolsky's organization, gave me a tremendous education in mind-body psychology as well as an exposure to A Course in Miracles, upon which the philosophy of Attitudinal Healing is based. More than thirty years of my own experimentation with psychology, motivation, metaphysics and group dynamics have helped me master some of the practical nuts and bolts of spiritual manifestation, spontaneous healing and miracle-making, which are my own personal areas of fascination.
My work and studies have led me in many directions, yet I have never joined or ascribed to a specific religion, spiritual path or tradition, nor have I ever been part of any spiritual group that wasn't highly eclectic. So, while you may find hints of many spiritual and metaphysical traditions in this ordination program, the approach here is less about pulling together a diversity of traditions than it is about discerning the spiritual laws that can be found by looking deeply enough into any sacred tradition, or into science, or nature, or even by simply looking deeply into oneself. The nature of the teachings put forth here doesn't ask students to "believe" in them so much as to simply experiment and see if they work.
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All QSU students enrolled will receive legally recognized ordination through Miracles of the Spirit. Miracles of the Spirit, founded by Rev. Lynn Woodland, is an independent church dedicated to inclusive, nonreligious spirituality and the experience of miracles. Its mission is to foster inclusive spiritual growth, healing and community in a wide range of online and in-person settings.
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