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The Less Known Side of Sally Kirkland

By Laren Bright

rev1_tn.jpg (2568 bytes)Anyone who knows Sally Kirkland’s work as an actress will understand that she is a master of her craft in large part because of her profound and genuine compassion for people. But what may be surprising to those who only know the actress side of Sally is that she also has a deep and dynamic experience of her spiritual nature, and has spent the majority of her life in serious spiritual study.

Sally’s compassion grew out of a difficult and challenging childhood. That led, indirectly, to her spiritual studies, which began in earnest after a near-death experience in 1966 when she was found with no pulse, no breathing, and last rites were administered. This was not the result of a physical illness or accident; the pain of life had just become more than she could bear. In many ways, although she did not die then, it was the end of Sally’s life, at least her life as she had known it.

What followed this episode was a new life of in-depth spiritual exploration and devotion to the Spirit in all people. It began with her discovery of a  book called Autobiography of a Yogi, the life story of Paramahansaswami_n.gif (11333 bytes) Yogananda, a great soul. This led Sally to the study of yoga through the Swami Satchidananda's Integral Yoga Institute, where she became a staff member and teacher. As she studied, she also began dedicated meditation, self-imposed dietary restrictions including fasting, extended periods of silence (mouna) and of celibacy (bramacharya), and voracious reading of a broad range of spiritual/ metaphysical/ religious teachings. She flirted with Buddhism and became a practicing Hindu.

Ultimately she found an organization that integrated her Episcopalian/ Catholic/Christian upbringing with her Eastern spiritual/mystical practices. It presented an unusual approach to spirituality, synthesizing the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of living, and it brought the experience of Spirit alive in a practical way that Sally could apply to her everyday life.

The organization, called The Church of the jrbw_n.gif (4670 bytes)Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), also ordains people as ministers. Ordination in MSIA is a call to apply the techniques of touching into the person’s own inner wisdom to find the acts of service that Spirit would present to them. For Sally, with her intense caring and compassion, this was a natural. So, on December 4, 1975, Sally was ordained as a minister by MSIA’s founder, John-Roger.
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Sally Kirkland invites you:eness.

MSIA Seminars are held weekly in Santa Monica, CA. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.

The location:

2101 Wilshire Blvd. Second Floor
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Doors Open: 7 PM
Seminar: 7:30-9 PM

 


Reverend Sally Kirkland will personally do introductory MSIA seminars. Please call: (323) 737 4055, for more information.

For information on up coming workshops call (323) 650-4900

 


jmbw_n.gif (7121 bytes)Ordination in MSIA connected Sally with a special spiritual energy that she was charged to use in ongoing service. This is a commission Sally has taken seriously from the moment she received it. She is an ardent proponent of her church and its spiritual leaders, John-Roger and John Morton, and a champion of all paths that lead people to the awareness of their natural state as spiritual beings exploring their own divinity. Along with  Hatha Yoga and Pranayama (deep breathing) whichSally was already teaching, she has, over the years, added  speaking on nutrition, service to others and meditation and spiritual exercises as part of her ministerial activity.

wed_n.gif (10407 bytes)In her "official" capacity as minister, Sally performs weddings and baby blessings, officiates at memorial services and funerals, and is available to present MSIA seminars featuring the teachings of John-Roger and John Morton upon request in West Hollywood and Malibu. She isbabyb.gif (11968 bytes) actively involved in MSIA outreach activities with other MSIA ministers and she loves to introduce people to MSIA through introductory classes, the in-house publication the New Day Herald, MSIA’s home study course called Soul Awareness Discourses, and MSIA classes available on the internet.

Sally used the experiences of overcoming her former serious health challenges to expand her ministry into health activism. She has put her body on the line for many causes, particularly in the field of alternative medicine. In connection with that, she has started her own foundation, Kirkland Institute for Implant Syndrome Survivors (KIISS), and is spokesperson for Humantics Foundation for Women. Both are organizations which support women who have suffered the horrendous side effects of silicone implant related diseases – as she herself experienced them until her explantation surgery in August, 1998.

To expand her personal, hands-on ministry, Sally has taken hospice training through Project Night Light, and received instruction in care for the dying. She has selflessly applied these to assist and minister to the elderly, and people suffering from AIDS, cancer, heart disease, and all terminal illnesses. She has also been an advocate for prisoners, especially young people, who have been incarcerated unjustly.

While building her acting career, Sally has established relationships withcuba_n.gif (10597 bytes) many of today’s brightest stars and the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry. She has called upon her friends to lend their support to a variety of high profile charities including the Red Cross and the Los Angeles Mission, where Sally has gone often to feed the homeless.

She also teamed up with Edward James Olmos and Joan Van Ark to do a series of telethons in support of the Carl Bean Hospice and other hospices. Through that effort she and her friends raised in excess of a million dollars. And she joined with fellow MSIA minister, Beach Boy Carl Wilson, and at the invitation of President George Bush went to the White House to assist on behalf of Star Serve, one of the organizations in Bush’s Thousand Points of Light program.

In addition to these efforts, she has energetically supported her own favorite charities. Among these are:

  • The Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA)

  • Peace Theological Seminary

  • The Heartfelt Foundation, (for which she regularly presents herself to do fundraisers and hands-on volunteer work at such places as hospices, hospitals, nursing homes, shelters for women and many other places where compassion, caring and the human touch can make a difference).

  • Insight Transformational Seminars (Sally has been an Insight IV facilitator for 18 years, including 5 years in Santiago, Chile. She has presented her transformational acting workshop for Insight in cities across the United States, in London, England, and Sidney and Brisbane, Australia.)

  • The Educare Foundation, (where she teaches her acting workshop to At Risk Kids through Educare's ACE Program.)

  • The Institute for Individual and World Peace (IIWP), (for whom she is a spokesperson and fundraiser.)

  • And several other organizations working toward the enrichment of life and the upliftment of the human spirit.

On another front. Sally continually uses her publicity appearances on TV, radio and press junkets to promote Spirit and worthy causes that bring books2.gif (13315 bytes)awareness to the concept that service is the highest form of consciousness on the planet. She has started her own radio show – originally on KYPA in Los Angeles, and now on KBPA (currently called San Francisco Business Radio 1220 AM on the dial), which is transmitted live from LA to California’s Bay Area. The show features those in the forefront in the fields of spiritual awareness, alternative health, and entertainment. Her show is often sponsored by the Institute for Individual and World Peace, MSIA, and Mandeville Press, the publisher of the books of John-Roger, including Forgiveness, the Key to the Kingdom, Spiritual Warrior; the Art of Spiritual Living, Psychic Self- Protection, and Inner Worlds of Meditation. She is currently exploring ways of expanding her radio coverage to larger markets through syndication and broadcasting via the internet (and she is definitely open to assistance in this endeavor!).

All in all, Sally has made it her business to bring the spirit of ministry to everything she does, and a part of her life to find ways to minister every day. She does not go into a building wearing a clerical collar or other trappings of clergy. She does find every opportunity to follow the ministry of her heart and to support those who are seeking to be more of service. Those who know Sally will testify that in these pursuits she has been eminently successful.

Laren Bright is an Emmy nominated award winning writer. He has known Sally Kirkland since the early 1970’s and has had the opportunity to observe Sally’s ministry through his own participation working with Ministerial Services In Action, an advisory and review board for MSIA ministers.

Sally's Loving Thoughts for Today

"Focus on individual peace...Not one soul will be lost."

"Send healing thoughts to all the children and their families fighting violence in schools."

"Loving often comes from forgiveness. Here is a way to experience forgiveness a greater way, "If you are judging yourself for something take a moment and say to yourself, I forgive myself for ______________ (whatever your judgement is.)" You might just be surprised at the results."

"Call in the Light wherever you go: Father Mother God, I ask just for your Light to surround, protect and fill me and my loved ones and all reaching out for your Light for the highest good of all concerned."

"Out of God comes all creation!"

"If this was the last day of your life, how would you live it? Hopefully with unconditional loving and gratitude. Life is what you make it."

"What is Grace? Grace is God! What is God but the divinity in all of us, no matter the race, creed, color religion, circumstance or lifestyle."

"Breathe in Father, breathe out God!"

"Let go of yesterday’s baggage. Enjoy rebirthing yourself in the moment with the innocence, enthusiasm, gentleness and trust of a newborn baby."

"Although it’s been said by many, in countless ways, this is still one of the most profound teachings: Be still, and know that I am God."

"It says in the Christian bible that God looked at what he created and declared that it was good. You and I are part of that creation."

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Copyright © 2002-2007 by Sally Kirkland. All rights reserved.

Career Biography

Sally's Art Work

Sally on the Radio KIISS - Health Activist
Photo Galleries Articles & Interviews Movie Credits Resource Links Reverend Kirkland Currently, Sally has no access to email. 
To contact her, please call: 323-650-2215