Society for Humanistic Mormonism
The layout of Humanistic Mormon meetings will continue to develop as the philosophy is laid out and as meeting houses and Humanistic Mormon Temples are built physically you may experience our Virtual Humanistic Mormon Temple, Retreat Centers, and Virtual Hermitage and Monastery.
Virtual Temple, Virtual Temple Retreat Centers​, Virtual Hermitage and Monastery, Weddings, Temples
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Virtual Temple and Virtual Retreat Center (to be experienced viritually/online for those who are interested)
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Some of our Temple Retreats include our Virtual Temple in which we do Virtual Retreats. We will be offering various virtual/online retreats on Zoom. These virtual retreats will include presentations, times for personal prayers, and/or personal meditations, and reflections, and/or small group sharing if you sign up for a viritual group retreat. You also have the option to sign up for a Virtual Personal Retreat at our Virtual Temple Retreat Center via Zoom. You may also request Temple Rituals virtually for members or for those that would like to see our rituals and experience our Humanistic Mormon Mediation practices in which we engage with the Humanistic Mormon Mystical Tradition.
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You can also arrange for a personal virtual directed retreat as your schedule allows during the year. A Virtual Individually Directed Retreat (VIDR) is a silent retreat that provides quiet time for rest, meditation, prayer (if desired), Temple rituals (for members), and reflection. A spiritual director will meet with you daily to talk and guide your retreat temple experience. The VIDR is highly tailored to the individual experience of the retreats.
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We also will be taking applications for those who wish to join our Virtual Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery. While traditional forms of Mormonism have failed to provide monastic orders, the Society for Humanistic Mormonism has learned from the ancient Christian monastic tradition, including the Desert Fathers, and other Christian Saints and monastics, as well great teachers and Saints from the Eastern monastic tradition, and Humanistic traditions, to help provide for that which was lacking in traditional Mormonism: a monastic tradition.
It is one of the hallmarks of the Hermitage and an essential practice reflecting the ancient monastic tradition of welcoming guests, and especially from the point of view of our founder (Latter-day) Saint Venerable Ajahn Surak, The Prophet of Reason, The Seer of Science, to welcome all as our Master Jesus Christ did.
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Our Virtual Hermitage and Monastery, most of our retreat accommodations are for one person, meals are taken in one’s room at your home in an atmosphere of gentle but profound silence pervades the Virtual Hermitage grounds on Zoom. A key element of any retreat experience is spaciousness – whether it is the virtual retreat house rooms and/or the virtual private hermitages or the welcoming space of the virtual chapel (which is open 24 hours a day), and the spectacular vista of the virtual Pacific Ocean on our zoom background. Our virtual property is accessed via zoom. We offer people of all faiths or no faith at all the experience of engaging in something larger than oneself and in a Source in the universe who loves each of us infinitely that some might refer to as "God" or as we might call "love consciousness" that all humans can experience that exists in our universe.
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Whoever you are, if you choose to become a guest at our Virtual Hermitage and Monastery you will be more than welcome: simply by your presence here you will play a vitally important role in the daily life of the virtual monastic community, for whom receiving guests is deeply rooted in our journey into love consciousness through our meditations, our prayers and focused work.
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The monks of at our Virtual Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery would be delighted to welcome you here, where we trust you will experience peace.
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In the interest of maintaining a silent and contemplative atmosphere virtually, retreatants are asked to refrain from all distractions. Your spiritual director will also make a suggestion on what meals you should eat that day which you are free to follow.
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Please consider making a retreat part of your regular spiritual practice. We would love to share our Virtual Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery with you.
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Contact us at our email for more information on how to join with us at our Virtual Temple Retreat Center or for more information about our Virtual Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery: SocietyForHumanisticMormonism@gmail.com
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Wedding Ceremonies, The Project to Build Physical Temples, Retreat Centers, and the Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery
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"In Humanistic Mormonism we perform weddings for mixed Mormon couples whether between Mormons and Non-Mormons or between Mormons coming from different Mormon denominations as well as providing wedding services for LGBTQI couples because we believe that love knows no boundaries." (Statement of the First Presidency of the Society for Humanistic Mormonism on Marriage Services, March 9, 2013).

Baby-naming ceremonies, wedding services, and temple rituals and other Humanistic Mormon ceremonies and rituals follow this line of egalitarian thinking. All these services can be done viritually or in person.

We plan in the future to build physical Humanistic Mormon Temples "Temples of Reason" in which the Epic of Evolution story is told which is a mythic tale of how the evolution of all life on the planet evolved according to the theory of evolution. Here we will have Celestial Rooms for meditation with Mormon Transhumanist Endowment Services; where we can meditate on the wonderment of the Universe and of all nature of which we are a part.
​Humanistic Mormon Temples are places of quite meditation, where scientific, and philosophic learning can take place as we contemplate our place in the Universe. Humanistic Mormon Temples will be the fulfillment of the theoretical Temples of The Future in physical form.
In addition, Humanistic Mormon Temples will also be places of our Retreat Centers in which Humanistic Mormon meditations, prayers, and rituals, can take place. We also plan to build physical our Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery in the future.
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Anyone is welcome to attend including non-Humanistic Mormons. If you are interested in these project please donate on our donate page so we can build these buildings of worship, meditation, and retreat. We hope to also have a physical location soon for our Retreat Center, Humanistic Mormon Hermitage and Monastery, and Temple which will include our: Overnight and Weekend Retreats, Day Retreats, Directed Retreats, and Personal Retreats for those interested.
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For more information or if you would like to help us build these buildings you may email us at: SocietyForHumanisticMormonism@gmail.com
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Sunday School (Virtual/Online)
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Here we learn the philosophy of Humanistic Mormonism along with its ethical teachings.

If you would like to attend a local Humanistic Mormon ward one can look under "Humanistic Mormon Wards" on this website to see if one has been organized in your local area or you can email us your interest in starting one in your local area.

If there are no wards in your area, you can start one, or if it just you or a few people you can join the larger Humanistic Mormon community by attending services on online/virtually. Services are held on Zoom on Sundays from 9am-10am PST where the Prophet of Reason of the Society for Humanistic Mormonism conducts the meeting and those members who attend or interested members of the public may attend: If you are interested in joining us send us an email at: SocietyForHumanisticMormonism@gmail.com
Morning and Evening Meditations (Virtual/Online)
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Learn to Meditate
"To commune daily in deep meditation is to experience love consciousness, it can lead to the quantum realm of possibilities in which you will experience profound peace, healing, and happiness, as you have never felt it before. Indeed, group meditation, as science has shown, enhances a postive energy field in the quantum realm in the area of a group meditators and can even be experienced non-locally or remotely by humans who meditate together virtually/online or remotely. These meditations can lead members of the group to experience personal and collective self-actualization. Amazingly as science is showing the interconnected universal consciousness implied by the concept of one mind constitutes the nonlocal, singular implicit reality of a universal consciousness that has embedded within itself the local and explicit conscious mind of each individual. This non-local consciousness of the individual meditators in a group together can lead to profound spiritual healing and self-actualization of the individual members of the group in ways that are transcendent and miraculous."
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---Venerable Ajahn Surak, The Prophet of Reason, The Seer of Science of the Society for Humanistic Mormonism, Words of the Prophet of Reason, page 3.
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Venerable Ajahn Surak gives personal instructions on how to practice the science of meditation, taken from the classes he taught for more than ten years on Humanistic Mormon Meditation to select members of the General Authorities, and are presented in detail in the course called "The Meditations Course of Instruction." Monday-Saturday nights we hold Meditation Service sessions from 9:00 PM to 9:45 PM on Zoom if you would like to join us. Contact us at our email for more information on how to join with us: SocietyForHumanisticMormonism@gmail.com
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We practice Humanistic Mormon meditation that relaxes the mind and the body in the morning and evening.
We also follow science and reason in our daily lives in keeping our bodies healthy both physically and mentally.
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