At our Light Center: Find peace in prayer/meditation. Walk the labyrinth and wooded trails. Stay at our Lodge. Near Black Mountain, NC.
Our Mission: To increase awareness of the Oneness of all that is by expanding Light, Peace and unconditional Love. United Research provides a nondenominational supportive environment for encouraging personal and planetary transformation through prayer. We are dedicated to helping all people expand awareness of their inner Light and to pray more effectively.
04/16/2026
THE LIGHT CENTER WILL BE CLOSED TODAY, THURSDAY, APRIL 16th.
We will reopen Friday, April 17th at 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
As always our meditative hiking trails and labyrinth will be open dawn to dusk.
Feel free to come an enjoy a bit of forest bathing.
We appreciate you signing in at our outside kiosk to help us with collecting number of trail visitors.
04/16/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Thursday, 4.16.26
Centering within I release any internal conflict to Love and Light.
Expanding from a well of Love, I visualize all of us
changing personal struggles to Love and Light.
Working other Light workers, I help expand Love and Light for all humanity.
Our world is filled with the harmony of Divine Love.
Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.
04/15/2026
THE LIGHT CENTER WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY, APRIL 16th.
We will reopen Friday April 17th at 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
As always our meditative hiking trails and labyrinth will be open dawn to dusk.
Please come an enjoy a bit of forest bathing.
04/15/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Wednesday, 4.15.26
With Spring, a sense of renewal buds,
immersing myself in Spring I feel a response within.
Expanding, I fill our world’s people with Love and Light.
Today, I act locally to help my peers and our beautiful world.
Today, I pray globally for all.
Thank you, God, for this journey of Life.
04/14/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Tuesday, 4.14.26
Sitting with Source I find compassion leads to a sense of Oneness.
As I expand into compassion I am comforted.
Extending myself, I radiate Light and Love to everyone and everything.
Thank you, beloved Source, for your comfort and the Peace that passes all understanding.
Amen.
04/13/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Monday, 4.13.26
To stay in the Flow, to shut out the chatter,
to focus on the Quiet Voice, takes commitment, takes courage.
Thank you, beloved Flow, for guiding and aiding me in my commitment.
Thank you for the courage to listen to the transcendent song of my soul.
Thank you, Beloved, for the ease of this Joy.
04/12/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Sunday, 4.12.26
I am Divinely Guided.
Listening and trusting my Guidance, I expand into Oneness.
Thank you, sweet Source for your Guidance.
04/11/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Saturday, 4.11.26
Dearest beloved Creator within, thank you for my many blessings.
I draw ever closer to my divine Self during this holy time of year.
Thank you for your Oneness and for what I am learning.
Thank you for my personal growth.
Thank you for each being on this planet and for Your divine plan.
Thank you for the small part I play. Amen.
04/10/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Friday, 4.10.26
Beloved Source, thank you for my siblings,
both familial and spiritual siblings.
Other than my relationship with You, it is my longest connection in life.
My brothers and sisters are filled with Light and Love.
I am filled with Light and Love.
All families are filled with Light and Love.
Everyone is filled with Light and Love.
And so, it is. Amen.
04/09/2026
Dear Light Group,
Those of us involved with United Research and the Light Center have heard any number of times that Jesus said, “The things I do, you can do - and greater.” (That’s from the 14th chapter of the Book of John.)
What has been less frequently mentioned is that Jesus’s disciples in fact did do the things he did. Most notably, it was Peter who walked on water (at least for a while, then he got scared and started to sink), and it was Peter who raised Tabitha from the dead (and Paul who raised Eutychus from the dead). In the Book of Acts, Peter and other disciples are recorded as having healed the blind, the crippled, the paralyzed, and the demon-possessed. Some people were healed merely by Peter’s shadow as Peter passed by them.
What does it mean for the rest of us? Is it really true that “The things I do, you can do - and greater”? Or was that for another time or perhaps only for those who had been in Jesus’s presence while he had a physical body?
A friend of mine just returned from Lourdes in France, a pilgrimage site for Roman Catholics and for those seeking healing. Prior to arriving at Lourdes, this friend texted her acquaintances to see if any would like prayers said or candles lit for them. This friend was stunned at how many people responded that, yes, they would very much like prayers said for them. There were scores who did so. My friend returned from Lourdes exhausted from all the prayer requests she fulfilled and all the candles she lit in the name of individuals requesting prayers.
This indicated to me that there is a crying need for healing and a need for those of us in relatively good health to “do the things I did - and greater.”
A place to start is simply to recognize that the little acts of kindness that we perform can help heal. A kind smile can help heal pain and fear. An encouraging word can uplift someone burdened by suffering. A positive outlook can help steer others towards a more promising future.
Beyond that, prayer time and time and time again has proven to be a powerful tool for healing. Others may not be healed instantaneously, but all sincere prayers are answered,
If you know of someone who could benefit from a healing prayer, you might try this simple prayer: “The Creator in ___________ [name of person to be healed] fills him/her with Light, heals him/her, and directs their life to Light.”
If you would like a prayer to center yourself in a healing mode, you might try this: “The healing energies of the Christ are present here, now. The healing energies of the Christ fill every cell and atom of my being. The healing energies of the Christ radiate out from me, touching everyone and everything. I am filled and surrounded with healing energies. [At this juncture, if there are specific parts of your body in need of healing, say this:] The healing energies of the Christ fill and surround [the part of your body needing healing]. [Then expand this prayer for the good of others:] The healing energies of the Christ fill and surround ____________ [name the person or the people in need of healing]. The healing energies of the Christ enter the hearts, minds, and souls of all people on Earth, that all may be healed by the loving kindness of the Christ. Thanks you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
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04/09/2026
Prayer for Effective Living, Thursday, 4.9.26
If unsure of my Divine Purpose, I accept the work in front of me.
I start with doing one kind thing for myself and for others each day.
Slowly, through meditation and listening, I am Guided.
I take small steps thinking of Maya Angelou:
“Good done anywhere is Good done everywhere.”
Today, I contribute to Good.
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Imagine a special haven of love and light, of prayer and transformation, of rest and re-invigoration.
Imagine a place of prayer and meditation, leading to transformation.
Imagine restoring and healing your soul, and discovering your true nature, your Higher Self.
Imagine Meditation Trails through forests, by a pond, along a river.....and actually sitting on a boulder in the river.....and finding your very soul healed and restored by nature.
Imagine walking a Labyrinth, very very slowly..... surrounded by nature and beauty. Imagine going ever deeper into your heart as you traverse the Labyrinth moving slowly into the center .....as you move into your own personal Center..... your HEART.....where all is Love and Light.
Imagine sitting in a circular room beneath colored lights, listening to calming music, as your entire body relaxes and your mind finds rest and calmness.
Imagine sitting quietly in a geodesic Prayer Dome....a dome where people have prayed and meditated for 40 years....... and imagine that this Prayer Dome is open 24 hours a day for prayers for personal and planetary transformation.
Imagine visiting for a day..... or for longer; imagine spending a night or two in a 70 year old Lodge while on a personal spiritual retreat.
Such a place exists.
It exists on a mountain just south of Black Mountain North Carolina and only 45 minutes from Asheville North Carolina.
The Light Center was founded almost 50 years ago to provide a place for prayer, meditation, and connecting with the Divine. It continues to be a beacon of Light and Love to the world and to all who visit. It continues to be a place of personal and planetary transformation. It continues to welcome all who visit.....all who seek....all who celebrate...... all who with to deepen their spiritual existence and connect more deeply with nature, with their True Selves.....and with The Divine (or The Great Spirit, or The Source, or The Universe,or God , or Goddess....)
The central point of our center is a geodesic prayer dome which is open 24 hours a day , every day of the year for prayer and meditation. Occasionally we present programs and events in the dome. The Prayer Dome is on the 2nd floor of our Visitors Center. On the first floor you’ll find our bookstore and art gallery and a unique “Light Room” where visitors sit for a half hour under changing colored lights while relaxing to calm and peaceful music. (For many, the Light Room, is a place to enhance and align the “chakras” or energy centers of the body).
On our grounds are Meditation Trails, a Meditation Pond, and a Labyrinth.
Our Light Center Lodge, provides overnight accommodations for individuals and groups on spiritual retreats.
The Light Center depends on a group of volunteers who are dedicated to helping all people expand awareness of their inner Light and to pray more effectively.
The Light Center is operated by a non-profit called United Research whose sole purpose is to operate the Light Center and Lodge and thereby supportive environment for encouraging personal and planetary transformation through prayer.