Help for Today with Dr. Edward VIljoen

Help for Today
 is a four-week class based on Help for Today by Ernest Holmes and William D. Hornaday, offering clear, usable spiritual guidance for navigating personal and collective challenges in a complex world. The class explores how individual consciousness contributes to a better world, how spiritual self-reliance strengthens confidence and clarity, how fear spreads and how it can be consciously interrupted, and how the practice of blessing reshapes both inner life and outer relationships. Designed for a mixed audience, this course emphasizes real-life application, personal insight, and ethical engagement with the world around us. 

Registration here:  Help for Today

Week One – Creating a Better World
This chapter begins with a simple but demanding idea: the world we experience is shaped first in consciousness before it appears in conditions. Holmes and Hornaday are inviting us into a deeper question without ignoring social problems or retreating into positive thinking. How do our habitual thoughts, reactions, and emotional patterns quietly participate in the world we want to change? We will explore how creating a better world starts with becoming more conscious participants in the one we are already living in.

Week Two – Spiritual Self Reliance
Spiritual self-reliance is often misunderstood as going it alone. Holmes and Hornaday mean something subtler and far more relational. This chapter explores what it means to rely on an inner source of wisdom and strength that does not disappear when circumstances change. We will look at how spiritual self-reliance builds confidence, steadiness, and freedom, without cutting us off from support, community, or care.

Week Three – The Contagion of Fear
Fear spreads. Holmes and Hornaday name this directly, long before modern neuroscience or social media. This chapter explores fear as a shared atmosphere that moves through families, communities, and cultures. We will examine how fear is absorbed, amplified, and transmitted, and how presence, awareness, and emotional regulation create real immunity.

Week Four – Bless and Curse Not
This final week turns toward responsibility. Blessing is a creative stance toward life, much more than a passive kindness or polite optimism.  Holmes and Hornaday challenge us to notice how judgment, resentment, and habitual criticism quietly shape experience. We will explore blessing as a conscious choice that affects inner peace, relationships, and collective life.
 

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