Affiliation

Riverside Center for Spiritual Living is associated with Centers for Spiritual Living based in Golden, Colorado. Centers for Spiritual Living is an organization of nearly 400 spiritual communities around the globe that provide spiritual tools to transform personal lives and help make the world a better place. 

These spiritual communities teach a New Thought philosophy with powerful principles for personal growth and global transformation, honoring all paths to the Divine. Our teachings incorporate the ancient wisdom of spiritual traditions through the ages as well as philosophy and science. People of all spiritual paths — Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Earth-based traditions, and others — are welcome in our communities. We help people experience a personal relationship with the Divine of their understanding. We teach that each individual has influence over, and responsibility for, their own life. The philosophy taught by Centers for Spiritual Living challenges people to think for themselves and only believe what feels true to them. We support personal responsibility and strongly discourage the “following of” any one person, including founder Dr. Ernest Holmes. 

Dr. Ernest Holmes founded the spiritual movement that started Centers for Spiritual Living. Born in 1887 on a small Maine farm, Dr. Holmes spent his teenage years outdoors, asking himself “What is God? Who am I? Why am I here?” This questioning led to his study of the world’s great religions, philosophy, and science, finding the common thread of Truth through them and synthesizing it into the foundational viewpoints of modern New Thought which holds that all life is sacred—that each human being is an individualized expression of the Divine.