Organization: HEART CONSCIOUSNESS CHURCH INC
Mission: To teach and promote spiritual awareness, psychological growth, and holistic healing. We do this by providing a variety of ceremonies, meetings, instruction, practice, celebrations, and conferences. We honor and teach all religions not attempting to harm others. We provide a large sanctuary and spiritual community that draws thousands of guest members each year for retreats, conferences, and programs. We promote wholeness, oneness, and ecology.
Activities: Retreat Program: Seminars and programs are held for about 20,000 nonresident members, usually on a day, overnight, weekend, or week-long basis. Rooms are provided and many people camp on our beautiful, natural grounds. The natural hot waters are very healthy, quiet, and while silence is the rule, they promote comradery. The silence honors the water and nature in general. The many classes, ceremonies, and conferences create a sense of serious purpose. We provide free yoga classes several times per day in our Temple. Our retreat center was closed in 2015, due to the Valley Fire. In 2019 we reopened with limited capacity.
Spiritual Community Program: The Spiritual Community Program covers our resident membership. The heavy majority of these are employees who run the facilities and other programs, including construction and repair as well as administrative functions and staffing other programs. There are many community activities directed towards resident members, though not nearly as many as those that are open both to resident and visiting members, as our main aim is to serve all our membership.
Sales to Members: The largest activity in this category is our organic, mostly vegetarian restaurant, this promotes a healthy lifestyle. In addition is the café which promotes sharing amongst members and teachers by providing a gathering area during the day. We try to blend all parts of life into a spiritually oriented, coherent whole based on our beliefs, so that being here is a total experience.
NTEE category: Religion-Related
Secondary category: Food, Agriculture & Nutrition