Our final conversation transcends the boundary where the Ideals of the Mind give way to their origins and destination in Spirit. We believe that our innermost essence lies in the unseen world of first and final causes, of the Inner Light, of the still small voice we listen for in silence.

Our conversation connects a plurality of religious, spiritual, and ethical traditions with origins in Native America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, composing their many perspectives into one whole. In the American wisdom tradition of e pluribus unum, we seek the revelation of a Native unity we can all call Home.

“In the beginning was the Word.” As thought arises out of worship, so does it dissolve into worship again. At Innermost House, we seek a wisdom of in-sight among and beyond the enduring Ideals of the Mind. Through this starlit Landscape of Spirit we seek to explore and express a transcendental unity of original Reason. We invite traditional elders, ministers of all faiths, and worshipers everywhere to join with us in search of the shared and sacred Harmonies of the World. Our purpose is to regain to the individual an original and universal relation to Spirit.

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And finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be anything worthy of praise, think on these things.

Philippians 4:8

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I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth - the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a-night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

Emily Dickinson