#159 My amazing guest this week is Reverend Michael Beckwith. Michael is a New Thought Minister, author, awakener, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Centre. By founding Agape in 1986, Michael was answering a call to start a spiritual community and to be a teacher of meditation and life visioning. His mission can be described as leaving breadcrumbs for people to start becoming interested in seeing that there is something beyond what their eyes can tell them.

During our conversation today, we discuss Michael’s journey and spiritual awakening and the courage it took to be able to pursue his calling. I believe we all have a calling and a mission in life. But sometimes it can be hard to pursue it. If you’ve been looking for the courage to do that, then this is the episode for you.

About Michael: Michael Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Centre in Beverly Hills, California. Beckwith was ordained in Religious Science in 1985. Since Agape’s doors opened in 1986, Agape’s active teaching and practice of the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality has expanded into a trans-denominational movement and community of 9,000 local members and 1,000,000 friends worldwide. Through Michael’s weekly services, Agape’s University of Transformational Studies and Leadership classes, ministries and other outreach programs, the heart of Agape reaches deep into local and global communities teaching individuals about the transforming, healing power of prayer, meditation, and selfless service.

Michael teaches meditation, affirmative prayer, and speaks at conferences and seminars. He is the originator of the Life Visioning Process, a technique purporting to offer its practitioners a method for putting a stop to being a passive tourist in one's life. He is author of Spiritual Liberation, which won the Gold Medal Nautilus Book Award, Inspirations of the Heart, which was a Nautilus Book Award finalist; Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast; A Manifesto of Peace; and Living from the Overflow. 

Michael's Website: 
michaelbeckwith.com

Michael’s Instagram:
www.instagram.com/michaelbbeckwith/?hl=en

The Agape Website:
agapelive.com

Michael’s Books:
agapelive.com/collections/michael-bernard-beckwith

Key points with time stamp:

• Michael’s work in his own words (0:13)
• The public reaction to Michael’s work (1:19)
• How did Michael find the courage to pursue his calling? (3:12)
• Why do we have to struggle in order to know the greater aspect of ourselves? (14:29)
• The overarching message of Michael (16:49)
• The practice of bringing your visions into reality (23:04)
• The fear that comes with journeying into the unknown and how to beat it (27:26)
• Are the majority of people ready to face their fears? (30:07)
• Michael’s vision for Agape (37:03)
• The Agape app (42:08)
• The Corona Bonus (44:11)
• Michael’s morning routine (44:43)
• Michel’s choice of a dinner guest, from any time frame (47:36)
• What Michael leaves us with (52:41)

Mentioned in this episode:

• Agape International Spiritual Centre
• University of Southern California
• Jesus
• Gautama Buddha
• Walter Russell
• Howard Thurman
• Emanuel Swedenborg
• The Old Testament
• The Holy Spirit
• Jared Powell
• Nelson Mandela
• The Dalai Lama
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Kuan Yin
• Harriet Tubman
• Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential, 2008. Michael’s book.
• The Life Visioning Process, 2008. Michael’s book.

About me:

My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en
My website:
www.guylawrence.com.au
www.liveinflow.co