Hughes Community Centre, Wisdom St, Hughes
2nd and 4th Sunday evenings at 7pm.
Stay for tea afterwards and meet some like-minded folk!
Your donations help grow this Church, and your presence is always appreciated.


Church Themes and Speakers

July 27 - The Spirituality of James Baban Indigenous Artist and Spiritual Seeker

Aug 10 - The Spirituality of Past Life Healing with Lucy Baker, Pastor & Clinical Hypnotherapist

Aug 24 - Flower Readings

Sept 14 - The Spiritualiy of Islam with Ahmed Youssef, head of the Canberra Islamic Centre

Sept 28 - The Spirituality of Completion, Forgiveness and Karma with Lucy Baker, Pastor & Clinical Hypnotherapist

Oct 12 - The Spirituality of Healing with Robert King

Oct 26 - Finding Spirituality in the Public Service by Sandra Henderson

Events and Classes

Soul Nurturing by Writing Poems
Exercising your creativity is as vital to your wellbeing as exercising your body. Internationally published and acclaimed poet Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke will gently lead you through creative poetry writing exercises that will nourish your spirit and nurture your soul. Cost: $2 each evening

Healing Circle for experienced Healers
Development of Healing Class for beginners
both run by well-known local healer, Lesley Schneider, $8 a class

Mediumship training - dates coming soon!


Healing List - if you would like to add a loved one's name to our Sunday service healing list hat will be read out during our Healing Meditation, please contact Lucy

Prayer List - if you would like to send a prayer up to Spirit through our church, please contact Lucy with details of your prayer.


The Choir of earth Angels needs you!

We now have ten choir angels and always happy to have more - would you like to join?


Inclusive Heart-centred Spirituality

INCLUSIVE - All people welcome... all paths honoured
HEART-CENTRED - Choosing love and peace, and replacing ignorance and fear with awareness and courage
SPIRITUALITY - Supporting your connection with the One


Canberra Spirituality Church offers fortnightly Sunday Services, Classes, Special Events and Workshops to enhance personal and spiritual growth and foster wholeness in mind-body-spirit.

We honour the many names for God, the many paths to God, the many ways to worship God.

Universal love is within each of us guiding us to dynamically express our wholeness, wisdom and abundance. We acknowledge the universal wisdom in the teachings of many spiritual masters and on varied spiritual paths.

Our mission is to be a sanctuary where we support a diversity of spiritual ideas, and where all can know Universal energies.


What is a Spirituality Church? The word 'Church' is a bit off-putting...

A Spirituality church is similar to any church in that it offers a place for you to slip out of the rest of your busy life and find that place within you that knows how to connect with Spirit, how to trust the flow of your life and how to look at your life from a more loving, powerful and harmless perspective. What it is not similar to would be a traditional church in a religious sense of the word. It is believed that one often travels through religious lives to spiritual lives - the difference being that Spirituality is about the expansion of Light, learning how to trust the connection to one's own initiative and intuition and breaking free of the old religious man-made rules about duty, guilt, shame, segregation and authority.

We are all connected to God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Universal Light, Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus - whoever and whatever your belief system allows - and we also carry a spark of that divinity within us to develop and heal ourselves with, and the others. To take our Light beyond us is our life purpose and in essence, it not what we do during our time on this planet - it is about who we are, and what we choose to project, every day.

At our church, the mood is light, meditative, healing and the music is contemporary and uplifting, with an interesting talk each service about an aspect of life and how to get the best out of it. Then, at the end of a service is the medium, who, as someone connected to both the physical and the spiritual worlds (a bit like a telephone operator) can offer messages from either loved ones in Spirit or advice from your team of guides. Everyone has this ability, and these mediums are no different to you, except that they are using themselves as an instrument through which Light (and with it information, knowledge or healing) is passed - similar to a bridge between 'heaven' and 'earth'. By learning how to clear a space within oneself, we can all use this ability.

We also offer mediumship, healing, reiki, spiritual and personal growth courses and classes for those who would like to develop their own inner wisdom and abilities, and am always happy to offer volunteer positions at Church for those who would like to now take their work beyond themselves.

In time, we will also be offering childcare for those who can only attend with their children, in particular single parents and a library will be re-established for those eager to learn and study. My own background includes growing up as a child and teenager within a formal Spiritualist Church environment in South Africa, and I hope to bring to my experience of working with both contemporary and traditional themes within spiritualism and spirituality. We thus welcome back those veterans who attended this church over the past 30 years, and extend a warm welcome to those who are experiencing the church for the first time.

As head of this Church, I welcome your presence and look forward to establishing a strong and powerful source of Light with you. Please contact me directly should you have any suggestions, advice or concerns. Your honesty is a gift and always appreciated by me!

Lucy's revised Seven Principles
1. The Authority of Universal Energy, God, Goddess, Great Spirit
2. The Community of Humanity
3. The Communion of Spirit & Angelic Realm
4. Continuous Existence of the Human Soul
5. Personal Responsibility & Development
6. Karmic reaction for both acts of awareness, love and generosity, in addition to ignorance, fear and deliberate poverty.
7. Eternal Progress open to every Human Soul

The Traditional Seven Principles of Spiritualism

The Fatherhood of God

By the study of Nature - that is, by trying to understand the Laws of Cause & Effect which govern all that is happening around us - we recognise that there is a creative force in the universe. This force, or energy, not only created the whole universe, but also life itself in its many forms and is continuing to create today. The effects of this eternal creation can be seen around us and this leads us to the evidence that 'God' - 'The Creative Force' - manifests directly, or indirectly, in all things. We know this power as God and as we are part of the Life created by God, we acknowledge God as our Father.

The Brotherhood of Man

Because we all come from the same universal life source we are, in effect, one large family, small individual offshoot from the whole. This means that all mankind is part of a brotherhood. A brotherhood is a community for mutual support and comfort. We are all members of the same divine family. We need to share our joys as well as our burdens; we need to understand the needs of other individuals in order to assist them as part of our service to each other. As we learn to give so must we also learn to receive thereby achieving the necessary balance for our life. We must look not only to the material necessities of our fellow creatures but also to their spiritual needs and help those in need to become strong and worthy of their relationship in the Family of God.

Communion of Spirits and the Ministry of Angels

All religions believe in life after death but only Spiritualism shows that it is true by demonstrating that communication with departed spirits can and does take place. Spiritualist Churches provide one of the venues where communication, through mediumship, is possible and many loved relatives and friends take advantage of this opportunity to continue to take an interest in our welfare. There are also spirit people/teachers who are dedicated to the welfare and service of mankind. Some (e.g. Silver Birch) bring inspiration and teachings whilst others work within the healing ministry.

Continuous Existence of the Human Soul

It is scientifically proven that matter (being part of the creative force, or energy) cannot be destroyed; it merely changes its form. Spirit, as part of the Creative Force is, therefore, indestructible. On the death of the physical body, the spirit continues as an integral part of a world, which interpenetrates our world but in a different dimension. This world is referred to as the SpiritWorld. In spirit life we have a spirit body, which until we progress far enough, is a replica of our earthly body. We are the same individuals in every way with the same personalities and characteristics and we change only by progression, or otherwise, as a result of our own efforts. Our personal responsibilities do not stop at death.

Personal Responsibility

This principle is the one which places responsibility for wrongful thoughts and deeds where it belongs - with the individual. It is the acceptance of responsibility for every aspect of our lives and the use to which we place our lives depends entirely upon ourselves. It is not possible for any other person, or outside influence, to interfere with our spiritual development, unless we are willing to allow this. No one can put right the wrongdoing except the offender. As we are given freedom of choice (freewill) so also are we given the ability to recognise what is right from what is wrong. We are totally, as well as personally, responsible.

Compensation and Retribution hereafter for all Good and Evil Deeds done on Earth

As with all the other Principles, the natural laws apply and this one echoes the law of Cause and Effect (as you sow, so shall you reap). One cannot be cruel and vindictive towards others and expect love and popularity in return. It must be understood that the compensatory or retributive effects of this law operate now - on earth - they do not wait until we begin to live in the Spirit World.

Eternal Progress open to every Human Soul

In every heart there exists the desire for progress and to every human spirit belongs the power to progress in wisdom and love. All who desire to tread the path that leads to perfection are able to pursue it. The rate of progress is directly proportional to the desire for mental and spiritual understanding. If we do our best in earth life to follow our inward prompting or intuitions; we shall find progress very easy, on earth as in spirit; if not, every step in advancement will follow a struggle against imperfections, which we ourselves will have worked into our natures. Within the Family of God, with all the advantages that our realisation of that state can give us, we are all given the opportunity to be responsible for our own eternal progress.

As a final note to these principles, Spiritualism, through an intelligent and thorough investigation of its Seven Principles, reveals the understanding, the deepest significance of service to others and transforms life from selfishness to unselfishness, from individualism to social co-operation. Only on such a foundation can love and truth and all other spiritual values have any practical meaning or reality.


Links to other churches

ACT Spiritualists

Other Spiritualist Groups

Canberra Spirituality Church