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I am deeply concerned that Kathianne Lewis, Senior Minister at the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle, WA is our Mary Manin Morrissey. Her rise to fame is amazingly similar to Morrissey's. Kathianne first started holding Science of Mind services in a strip mall some 15 years ago. She is now expanding the CSL campus, to the tunes of millions of dollars, which has been in the same beautiful, woodsy location over ten years. For the past year, she's had a local television program. She records and sells hundreds of CDs; she, too, writes for the monthly SOM magazine, but outdoing Mary Manin Morrissey, Kathianne has been married five times. She drives a luxury car and lives in one of Seattle's most affluent neighborhoods. The services she conducts are actually the Kathianne Lewis Show. She shows off her footwear, her new skirts, her dyed hair. She professes her purpose is to have fun and help her congregation learn to have fun, all in the name of being God-like.

Currently, this minister is heading an incredible money drive including brochures, phamplets, CD's, letters, her weekly ministry and on her television show to raise more and more and more money for the 'campus expansion'. My family receives something in the mail weekly, and continuous pleas for not only our thithes, but more money for the project: projected cost for Phase 1-4 = 11.5 million. "Additional funds raised will be used to fund campus art and beautification and to assist with debt services" states the elegant tri-fold phamplet and CD being mailed and held in every seat in the sanctuary, week after week. CSL holds three Sunday services and one Wednesday night. In this community, Kathianne is never questioned, never doubted. In short, she is invulnerable.

Recently, Kathianne Lewis was a speaker at the first Sacred Activism Conference in Seattle. Among the speakers were Jean Houston, Bill Grace, Carolyn Myss, Cyndy Sheehan, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Marianne Williamson. These people had a common theme in their lectures: how to change the world a person at a time through loving action. They were devoted, committed speakers for individual and community commitment. Kathianne was again trowing her leg out from the podium to show off her blue and pick cowgirl boots, talking about how she attended a local peace demonstration so she could pray for peace and how a dog answered her call. Her performances are embarrassing and scary.

An interesting note: Mary Manin Morrissey is often a guest speaker at our downtown Unity Church. She has not been invited to CSL. There is probably no way she can be used.