Mariann Moery – President
An authentic Oklahoma farmer’s daughter, she spent her first 21 years working on the farm, attending catholic grade school, public high school and graduating from Oklahoma State University with a degree in English and a Teaching Certificate. She promptly moved to New York City with her first husband and began a career in direct response fundraising and eventually became a Senior Marketing Director for publications including The Wall St. Journal, Family Circle, and McCall’s. She concluded her 35 years as a marketer at Kids Discover Magazine. During those years in NYC, DC and NH, she sought a spiritual practice that would comfort her soul while not insulting her intelligence.
Retiring in 2015 she moved to Arizona to take pictures and to escape North East winters. Still looking for a spiritual home, she read an intriguing book which referenced Centers for Spiritual Living. Discovering that CSLT existed she began attending classes as a way to judge the Center’s culture and beliefs. Soon attending Sunday services as well, she has finally found that spiritual home she has sought for so long.
Chris Wheeler – Vice Chairman
My path to the Center for Spiritual Living Tucson started when my wife told me she had discovered an interesting group of people that gathered on Sundays. This automatically sent me into “This sounds like too much work” and… “People! I need to run and hide.” I was able to avoid gathering for many Sundays.
My first contact with CSL was taking Mary Morrissey’s Prosperity Plus program. Prosperity was a subject I could relate to. The approach to the subject was different than I expected. The hints of the metaphysical approach gave me a feeling of some sort of connection. Plus, I really liked the other participants. So, I said I would go to the Gregory School and attend a service.
I was responding to a question about dreams and goals during the prosperity class when I realized I wanted to become a working musician again and play drums professionally. (I think there is a connection here) It was suggested that I could be the backup drummer for Sunday service. Around the same time the drummer for CSLT decided he wanted other things. I auditioned and started playing drums for the CSLT Orchestra on Sundays. At this same time a musician friend pointed out a bulletin board ad at a music store for a drummer. I auditioned and started a gig, that was every second Saturday downtown and continued for several years.
I have been getting involved in more and more classes ever since. The CSLT experience has really helped me broaden my spiritual life, and my life all around.
Thanks to the all-inclusive aspects of the Science of Mind teaching and the loving support of this community, I get to expand my life. Even to the point of serving as a board member! That in and of itself would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Yet here I am, and I am looking forward to the next 3 years.
Linda Bullock – Treasurer
I was born and raised in the South and after college I moved to Southern California where I lived for 30 years. In 2001 my husband and I moved to the community of Sonoita, AZ, which is 50 to 60 miles from most of Tucson. I spent 31 years as a Government employee. After retirement, I was drawn to obtain a Master’s in Addiction Counseling and worked as a Substance Abuse Counselor in Tucson.
I don’t remember how I actually heard of Religious Science/Centers for Spiritual Living. I subscribed to the monthly Science of Mind for a couple of years before attending a CSL service. In 2012, craving community, I attended CSL Tucson and Foundations class. I was blessed to be able to stay at a friend’s home while taking the classes, which allowed me to not have to drive the long distance home late at night.
In 2014 I became a grandmother and for my grandson’s first five years I lived part-time in Lake Havasu City and became involved with CSL there. I always want to learn more and have taken classes and book studies in both Tucson and LHC.
With the advent of using Zoom for communications during the pandemic, I have participated in book studies, classes, Sunday services, and daily morning meditation. This convenience has allowed me to meet and become friends with fellow CSL Tucson members and attendees.
Sharon Whealy – Secretary
Sharon Whealy found CSL-Santa Rosa in the fall of 2012 while she was a minister with the Church of Divine Man and co-director of its seminary, The Berkeley Psychic Institute. After years of teaching spiritual tools in meditation and clairvoyance, she found herself seeking a deeper communion with Spirit/God. The first time she walked into CSL Santa Rosa she knew she was home! She soon began taking classes, beginning with the Beyond Limits class. In 2015 Sharon moved to Bakersfield, CA to complete her BA at CSU-Bakersfield. She graduated with highest honors in 2017 earning a BA in both Sociology and Religious Studies. With her eye on the Ernest Holmes Consciousness Studies master’s program and ministry, she began the online practitioner program in 2017. She became a licensed practitioner in 2019. After a year of COVID, Spirit conspired to move Sharon to Tucson, AZ in June of 2021 to be nearer her family. She is happy to join the CSL-Tucson community and looks forward to serving the Center. She is also a member of 12-Step recovery and loves working with others to help discover the unlimited potential that is our Spirit given gift!