Michael Beckwith
Michael Bernard Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Beverly Hills, California, a New Thought church with a congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 members.[1][2][3] Beckwith was ordained in Religious Science in 1985.
Career[]
Beckwith is founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, co-founder of the Association for Global New Thought, and co-chair of the Season for Nonviolence, along with Arun Gandhi.[4][5]
In 1986, he founded the Agape International Spiritual Center, a transdenominational community. Agape's outreach programs feed the homeless, serve incarcerated individuals and their families, advocate the preservation of the planet's environmental resources, and globally build and support orphanages whose children have survived the ravages of war and AIDS.[4]
Books[]
Beckwith teaches meditation, affirmative prayer, and speaks at conferences and seminars.[citation needed] He is author of Spiritual Liberation, which won the Gold Medal Nautilus Book Award,[6] 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.[4] In 2011, Beckwith released TranscenDance, a collection of remixed lectures set to electronic dance music by Stephen Bray and John Potoker. Beckwith was named to Oprah's SuperSoul100 list of visionaries and influential leaders in 2016.[7]
Popular culture[]
Beckwith briefly appears in episode 4 of the UK Channel 4 television series How to Rob a Bank with a segment of his stage show and interview, describing how his inspirational talk led former US Marine Cain Dyer to hand himself in after committing 100 bank robberies.[citation needed]
Beckwith was one of the featured teachers in the 2006 movie The Secret and the bestselling book by the same name that followed the film.[citation needed]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Cathy Lynn Grossman (November 5, 2001). "Agape gives them 'new thought' religion". USA Today. Retrieved October 27, 2007.
- ^ Association for Global New Thought (2007). "AGNT Leadership Council Bios". Association for Global New Thought. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2007.
- ^ Holmes Institute (2007). "Agape International Spiritual Center". Holmes Institute. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved October 27, 2007.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Michael Beckwith" Archived 2013-04-14 at archive.today, EnlightenNext: The magazine for Evolutionaries. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ^ House, J.M. (2008) Peak Vitality: Raising the Threshold of Abundance in Our Material, Spiritual and Emotional Lives. Elite Books. p 471.
- ^ http://www.nautilusbookawards.com/2009_GOLD_AWARD_WINNERS.html
- ^ "Meet the SuperSoul100: The World's Biggest Trailblazers in One Room". O Magazine. 1 Aug 2016. Retrieved 5 Jul 2018.
External links[]
- Michael Beckwith's Personal Website
- Video of Michael Beckwith with the Dalai Lama during filming of the documentary "Dalai Lama Renaissance"
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