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Michael Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, 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.
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Career
Michael Bernard Beckwith is founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, cofounder of the Association for Global New Thought, and the 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 which today counts a membership of 9,000 individuals who study and practice New Thought–Ancient Wisdom. 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]
Beckwith was one of the featured teachers in The Secret movie and the bestselling book by the same name that followed "The Secret" movie.
Beckwith teaches meditation, affirmative prayer, and speaks at conferences and seminars. He is the originator of the Life Visioning Process, a technique purporting to offer its practitioners a method for putting a stop to being a passive tourist in one's life. 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. Michael Beckwith is also a vegan.
Media appearances
Beckwith is a leader in the New Thought Movement, and was featured in the documentary The Secret.[2] Beckwith has been a frequent guest on Larry King Live on CNN, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.[7][8]
Beckwith has participated with the Dalai Lama and other New Thought ministers, such as Mary Manin Morrissey, in The Synthesis Dialogues.[9] Beckwith also appeared in Dalai Lama Renaissance,[10] a feature length documentary about the Dalai Lama, narrated by Harrison Ford.[11]
In January 2009, Beckwith appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King live and a live webinar with Oprah Winfrey presenting his book, "Spiritual Liberation" and DVD of the same name.
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