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The Rodan Foundation's Publication for the Metaphysical Center of Enlightenment, July 2025
In 1981, Reverend Clarke Carraway founded The Rodan Foundation with the intention of creating a powerful, growing community of awakening beings who experience love, peace, prosperity, unity, healing, harmony, and revelation through learning and service. The Rodan Foundation, recognizing the Law of Cause and Effect, expresses gratitude for the many blessings it reaps from the community's experiences.
Welcome! Join with us in our dynamic weekly services where we discover our true purpose in an emerging world. Experience the revelation of our collective awakening to the power of love, the wonder of our multi-dimensional capacities, and the joy in reclaiming earth as our home. Sunday mornings provide the opportunity to celebrate life with like-minded beings and experience personal reassurance and empowerment through the spiritual messages of Reverend Carraway's mediumship. We look forward to your participation enhancing our community.
The Nature of Change
One constant that you can count on in life is change.
Change exists because life is in motion, and motion is one of the three aspects of the original consciousness that underlies all of Creation. Everything in the universe springs from two complementary aspects of consciousness – thought and feeling – set into motion.
The existence of motion as one of the fundamental components of Creation guarantees that change is continuous. The point of life is to experience infinite variations of expression of the one underlying consciousness, Infinite Being.
Changes in Your Life
Major changes in life are rarely easy, but our very reason for being is to work through changes and experiences in life.
Today, changes are being accelerated by our being in the global transformation called The Shift. Many would say that today’s changes are intense to the point of becoming chaotic. In physics, chaos is a temporary phase between one natural state of harmony and its transformation into a higher form. The transition phase between the two states becomes very choppy until the higher form is reached.
Today, we are moving through the storm before the calm.
We are so beset by change that it can become hard to discern what changes are important and what changes are just societal noise, which has little bearing on the real paths that we need to tread through life. It is here that a sense of inner direction becomes an exquisite asset.
Navigation Through Life
Sometimes your own purpose in life seems like an ever-unfolding saga. Like a journey across the seas by boat, your journey through life is made safe and direct by the use of a compass. In this journey, you have a built-in compass that helps you navigate in the most appropriate direction.
That compass is your sense of innermost joy. As an expression of your inner being, like a compass, your innermost joy points the way. When you think about the one action you could take right now which would move you towards the most long-term inner joy, you are seeing that course of action which is most connected to your inner being. Because destinations in life are reached in steps or stages, your inner compass can actually point in seemingly different directions on different days. The key is to realize that the one task you can best address at any given moment is the one which is most aligned with your innermost joy.
Each step on a journey is different; yet, all steps lead to the final destination. If you are inspired to do one thing today and to do something different tomorrow, it is because those tasks are both steps along the pathway to the desired destination. Trust in the timing of your inner guidance. It’s wisdom comes from the part of you which is your connection to the universe and to Infinite Being.
Be attentive to your inspiration and the ideas that it brings. Make a note of these ideas as they occur and, in retrospect, you will be amazed as to how insightful they were.
By Owen Waters, infinitebeing.com
Calendar of Events and Special Offerings
JULY 6TH: PIANO SOLO BY JASPER WANG! Jasper Wang is an incoming 5th grader at Sacred Heart Schools in Menlo Park and studies piano with Ms. Sumi Nagasawa. He regularly performs in the studio's piano recitals and participates in the Music Teachers Association of California Annual State Piano Exam. Jasper has received many awards in piano competitions, including the Junior Bach Festival, International Music Competition, Etude Piano Competition, Bay Area Music Competition, San Mateo County Fair Piano Competition, The MTAC's Certificate of Merit Award, and others. In addition to his love for music, Jasper is a dedicated soccer star player and enjoys performing the musical theater works. Jasper is joining Gallerio Academic, soccer training, and theatrical camp this summer, in addition to intense piano music studies.
Today, we will show a previously recorded video of Rev. Carraway lecturing on:
‘Opened by Mistake. Return to Sender.’
JULY 13TH: LEESA DILALLO WAGNER VOCAL CELEBRATION! Long time friend of The Foundation, vocalist Leesa has a varied background in the entertainment field from MTV, Comedy Central to Max's Opera Café. Leesa, first and foremost, has dedicated her life to her children, working for over twenty years several part time jobs to support her family. In addition to also being a volunteer teacher, Leesa is currently working with adults with cerebral palsy and brightening their days. Today she will be accompanied by Dj Purple on the saxophone.
GUEST LECTURER: MS. NADA ROTHBART. At 13 years old Nada stood 6’3” tall and she was already destined to play basketball for the Yugoslavia national team. But life had bigger plans. She graduated law school got married, and became a proud mom of two sons. Then the war in Bosnia changed everything. Her family fled beginning a journey through Israel, France before finding a new home in US. Along the way, she turned healing into a passion, practicing and teaching Bikram Yoga to stay grounded. But she never let go of her legal fruit. Today she is a global Real Estate Advisor when she gets to use both her mind and her style because nothing says let’s make a deal like a sharp suit and 2 inch heels. From court both basketball and legal, to classrooms, studios, and skyscrapers, her life has been anything but ordinary. And she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Today Nada will speak on: ‘Don’t Fight Darkness with Darkness.’
TESTIMONIAL CIRCLE: After the service, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they are living positivity and love in their daily lives. Bring miracles, large & small. Or just come and be present in the sharing.
JULY 20TH: PIANO SOLO BY RENEE KWAN! Renee is in her fifth-grade at Khan Lab School's Lower School in Palo Alto. Renee has always had a deep love for music and from her young age, she would instinctively dance to the music. She started her piano journey with Ms. Sumi Nagasawa's guidance and has been participating in numerous recitals and delights the audience. Renee enjoys watching various cooking shows and loves to play soccer!
Today, Rev. Carraway will lecture on: ‘Awakening Your Authentic Self.’
JULY 27TH: LIGHTHOUSE STRING BAND! Back by popular request! Join us for an uplifting musical experience with The Lighthouse String Band, a group of talented musicians from all over the Bay Area, playing mostly Scottish and Irish music through a wide range number of exciting instruments, from violin to mandolin, fiddle, guitar to accordion.
TRANCE LECTURE : Today Rev. Carraway will channel his primary teacher, Dr. Robert Foster who will give the address.
NO SERVICES AUG 3RD – SEPT 7TH – ANNUAL SUMMER SABBATICAL – SERVICES RESUME SEPT 14TH
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COMMUNITY OFFERINGS:
Healing Community: Beginning at 9:45 during our meditation, please tune into your realm of perfection and release your concerns and receive the benefit perfection has to offer you. The Rodan Foundation holds prayer for our List of Divine Fulfillment, a list of recognition. It is so named because our community praises and recognizes the outpicturing of love and perfection in the lives of those on the list. If you wish to participate with our List, we invite you to place the names & situations for which you desire help in our healing basket on our greeter’s table.
Testimonial Circle: On the second Sunday of the month, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they are living positivity and love in their daily lives. Bring miracles, large & small. Or just come and be present in the sharing.
The Haven: The Spiritual Evolution Class: Channeled through the mediumship of Reverend Carraway, the Tuesday evening class provides an in-depth opportunity to experience expanding awareness of self and life. It is an ongoing flow of revelation designed to promote personal awakening and responsibility, transformation and empowerment. For more information, please speak with Reverend Carraway after the service.
The I Love Me Meditation Series: is now available on Insight Timer – a meditation website and app with millions of meditations available to listen to for free! Every time one of our meditations is played, a donation is sent to The Foundation. You can give financially to The Rodan Foundation, just by listen-ing to the meditations. Sounds like a win-win for sure! You can also greatly support us by giving us stars, and commenting, and sharing the meditations on social media. Please Spread the word and share with others.** https://insig.ht/MMX7e6KBtub
Our Community Love Offertory for the Month of July
Supports CALL PRIMROSE
CALL PRIMROSE, a non profit agency located in Burlingame. a non-profit agency, located in Burlingame. It is a drop-in site to assist those in need
with emergency direct aid: food, rental and utility assistance, emergency
financial assistance and a medical loan closet.
All services are free and confidential.
One of the many ways you can support us...
As you help the economy with your Amazon purchase, you may also help The Rodan Foundation by shopping from smile.amazon.com. Under the 'search' area, you'll see the word 'supporting' and a description of a chosen charity. Hover over the name and you'll see a 'change' option listed next to it. Click 'change,' search for The Rodan Foundation, and choose us as your charity. We will receive 0.5% of the price of all your eligible smile.amazon purchases!
You can also visit our support page to make a tax-deductable donation directly to The Rodan Foundation.
Reverend Carraway is available for spiritual counseling, Jin Shin Do sessions, as well as for ceremonies marking mile stones in life. For more information, please see him after the Sunday service at The Metaphysical Church of Enlightenment or contact us.
