ECKANKAR Westchester Spiritual Experiences Group

Your open door for new spiritual horizons

Fridays are your chance to mingle with our diverse spiritual community! Join us for our Sound of Soul event for chanting the sacred sound of HU and the ECK Light & Sound Service: “Making This Life Count.”

Please Note: This event is in a temporary location until we have move into our new ECK Center.

Don’t miss your opportunity to:
• Connect with other spiritually minded people
• Have a solid moment to focus your attention on spirituality no matter what background you come from
• Feel lighter, laugh, and surprise yourself!
• Unearth spiritual insights into what’s going on in your everyday life

What’s happening this Friday

6:15 pm - 6:50 pm Sound of Soul Event: Revitalize and Renew with the Sacred Sound of HU.
At a Sound of Soul event, join others in chanting this ancient mantra for about 12 minutes, continuing to allow this uplifting vibration to be experienced in a few moments of quiet contemplation. Afterwards, enjoy an open spiritual discussion on any questions, insights and experiences that you may have.

“Mantra chanting produces a whole series of spiritual effects, mainly that of love. By concentrating the mind on the mantra, a deep sense of peace and love arises just as often as the doer puts himself in any degree of concentration. It is a function which is used to focus the mind to a sharp point that is capable of penetrating through the ordinary thoughts to the deeper layers of Soul which lay beneath.”

The Shariat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two pp. 314–15

7:00 pm–8:15 pm: “Making This Life Count,” ECK Light and Sound Service

Discover a higher spiritual perspective for living with greater purpose, guidance, and fulfillment.
Experience the sacred sound of HU and open your heart to divine love, healing, and inner guidance. This ECK Light and Sound Service also offers an opportunity to share insights and experiences in a welcoming discussion while exploring how life’s challenges can reveal spiritual growth and a deeper trust in divine guidance.

“Odd as it may seem, you had a special reason for coming into this lifetime. It was to become a more godlike being, but most people do not realize this fact. They assume that birth is a fancy of destiny.”

—Harold Klemp, The Call of Soul, p. 95

8:15 pm–9:00 pm: Fellowship
Fellowship is your chance to meet with old friends, meet new ones, share stories, and laugh a lot. Sometimes these spontaneous moments are where the deepest connections and conversations happen. We might even have food too!

Discover a higher spiritual perspective for living with greater purpose, guidance, and fulfillment.

Experience the sacred sound of HU and open your heart to divine love, healing, and inner guidance. This ECK Light and Sound Service also offers an opportunity to share insights and experiences in a welcoming discussion while exploring how life’s challenges can reveal spiritual growth and a deeper trust in divine guidance.

On the subject of love and life, ECK Master Harold Klemp offers this insight:

“Odd as it may seem, you had a special reason for coming into this lifetime. It was to become a more godlike being, but most people do not realize this fact. They assume that birth is a fancy of destiny.”
—The Call of Soul, p. 95

You are invited to attend this in-person ECK Light and Sound Service, titled “Making This Life Count,” on Friday, May 29, 2026, from 7:00 pm–8:15 pm.

This Eckankar in NYC sponsored event will be held at The Quest Bookshop, 240 E 53rd St, NYC, NY 10022 (between second and third avenues). All are welcome!

We are living in rapidly changing times, facing new challenges, demands, and technologies that can leave the world feeling unsettled. Yet every change also carries an opportunity for spiritual growth. By opening ourselves to Divine Spirit, we can gain a higher perspective on life, discover creative solutions, and learn to flourish through life’s experiences.

Are you ready to learn spiritual techniques that bring enlightenment in a natural way—from the inside out?

Have you had spiritual experiences that have you seeking answers? Have you attended one of our spiritual online discussions based on a topic that intrigues you, and you want to continue the conversation? Are you ready to discover who you are as a spiritual being?

The Easy Way Discourses are a living road map to spiritual transformation! By becoming a student of ECK and exploring one discourse a month of this wonderful series, The Easy Way Discourses, you will find greater insight into life situations. This unique study series is called a Satsang which is a spiritual forum for ECK students to explore the wisdom of the ECK discourses and will meet monthly to focus on one lesson per month for the next 12 months.

“As you study the teachings of ECK, you will experience a series of changes in your heart and mind—changes that bring more love, joy, and purpose into your life.”

—ECKANKAR’s Spiritual Living Courses: The Easy Way Brochure

You are warmly invited to attend The Easy Way Discourses Satsang classes, via Zoom, beginning on Monday, June 1, 2026, 7:30–8:45 pm, and monthly thereafter on the first Monday of each month, for a total of 12 sessions.

This Satsang class is open to all students of Eckankar who live within New York State or Bermuda and have their own copy of The Easy Way Discourses. You may join the class up until the third discourse on Monday, August 3, 2026.

Classes open to new students include:
• Monday, June 1, 2026, 7:30–8:45 pm
• Monday, July 6, 2026, 7:30–8:45 pm
• Monday, August 3, 2026, 7:30–8:45 pm

The Easy Way Discourses can help you:
• Solve everyday problems.
• Tap into divine love within.
• Bring a new attitude to life.
• Meet challenges with joy!

Ted Allen will serve as Arahata and Peggy Youngs will serve as the Assistant Arahata

The Easy Way Discourses are available with a 1-year enrollment in Eckankar. At the end of a year, you have a choice to renew and continue studying other discourses, or not to renew. (Please see below for the enrollment link.)

Discover the Sacred Sound of HU, an ancient mantra that opens your heart and uplifts you spiritually.

Experience the transformative power of the HU chant at our Sound of Soul event. Join us for a 12-minute session of chanting this sacred sound to connect with the divine within yourself. Discover the peace, clarity, and spiritual growth that comes from immersing yourself in the uplifting vibrations of the HU. A facilitator-led spiritual conversation will follow the HU song.

“Occasionally we go to a far world which has a beauty beyond words. There is no true way to describe what is seen. The closest is to say it’s a world illuminated by two golden suns, and everything is seen through a golden veil. When Soul comes here and begins walking into the land of gold, It wants never to return; It wants to go on forever.

“There is a yearning to go even farther, farther than ever before, because the love of God always draws you on.

“But our responsibilities bring us back. And the only way we can ever go further into the heart of God is to face our responsibilities to serve God in this world. This is the paradox that both allows us to grow and gives us the yearning to want to grow.

“Sing HU, and you will find the way to the world of Golden Light that is exactly right for you.”

—Harold Klemp, The Sound of Soul, p. 79

Singing HU can bring healing for body, mind, and spirit, and align soul with higher states of love, wisdom, and awareness.

Monica Shelmandine, the facilitator for this Sound of Soul Event, is looking forward to sharing the HU with you and exploring the heart-opening power of this sacred mantra. All are welcome!

More Information:
This event will be hosted on Zoom. The Zoom link and phone-in access numbers will be sent on the day of the event to those who have registered.