Weekly Events at Vishnu's Couch

Events for
June 19th - 21st, 2026

Quote of the Week

"Contacts (of the senses) with their objects, O'son of Kunti, gives rise to the experience of cold and heat, pleasure and pain. Transient they come and go, bear them patiently O'Bharata."

Bhagavad-Gita 2.13

Commentary: Here again Lord Krishna is reminding Arjuna that even though his physical experiences are constantly changing, he should not be adversely affected by this, but instead bear them patiently, for they are temporary as is everything in the ever changing field of physical reality. Recognizing this we begin to move through our experiences more lightly, addressing things calmly, doing the best we can without much fuss or worry. Thus our lives begin to flow more evenly, and peacefully.

Yogi Edmond

Movie Night

Movie: Bedazzled

Date: Friday, June 19th, 2026

Time: 7:30pm (optional: bring a dish or snack)

Bedazzled: Youtube Trailer

Starring: Brenden Frazier, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor

Directed by: Harold Ramis

Screenplay by: Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan, based on Bedazzled by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

Produced by: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis

Music by: David Newman

Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy

Released: 2000

Running Time: 93 minutes

The Devil runs a computer simulation to analyze souls to determine individual weaknesses to exploit. The program settles on Elliot Richards, a sweet, geeky, over-zealous man working a dead-end job in a San Francisco computer company. He has no friends, and his co-workers avoid him. He harbors a crush on colleague Alison Gardner, but lacks the courage to ask her out. After Elliot is ditched by his co-workers at a bar while trying to talk to Alison, he says he would give anything for Alison to be with him. The Devil, in the form of a seductive, gorgeous woman, overhears him and offers to give Elliot seven wishes in exchange for his soul.

Hope to see you there :)

Informal Piano Recital

for Cheryl's piano students

2:00 to 4:00pm

No Group Mediation

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30 Main St., Binghamton.

Sunday June 21st Service

begins at 11:30am in the Eden Room

Feel free to come early and join Unity folks and FCC congregants for

coffee, snacks and social time, which starts at 11:00am

The Speaker for this Sunday is DeeOna

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Next Speaker: June 28th--Julie; July 5th--DeeOna; July 12th--Andree; July 19th--Art; July 26--Yogi E

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New Children's Book, ages 4-12

teaching the Five Principles of Unity

Cost: $15 with shipping

Please let Merri know if you are interested in ordering it.

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June 22nd: Book/Conversation Group meeting is at 6:30pm in the Eden room.

We are continuing to read Awake by Angelo Dilullo.

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June 24th: ACIM Group meeting is at 6:30pm in the Eden room

This meeting is for anyone interested in living their Spirituality; it is a practice as opposed to a study group.

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June 28th is the last Sunday in June: Unity Member's Day to bring Snacks.

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June 28th is the first meeting of the new Unity Board, immediately following Service.

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Unity and FCC are collecting donations for CHOW in a bin at the FCC entrance.

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NoMa - North of Main

Accepting donations of any and all new and lightly used summer or fall clothing items.

Drop off times at FCC, 30 Main St. Binghamton

Tues - Wed. 11am - 2pm

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f you have anything Unity-related that you would like to have considered for posting in this weekly email, or if you no longer wish to receive this email, please contact Merri 607.723.9601 or myself. Joy and Blessings 🙏

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Mondays from 7:30 - 9:00pm

The Binghamton Buddhist Meditation Group (website)

at the FCC 2nd floor, 30 Main St, Binghamton

Third Wednesday of each month,

at the Bundy Museum Annex, 129 Main St, Binghamton.

If you are concerned about the state of the world and our country, come gather with us to share feelings, thoughts, ideas, art, poetry, song, articles, etc. with the intention of creating community and peace. For more information please contact Narani at 917.692.9340.

Events for
May 29th - 31st, 2026

Quote of the Week

As the dweller in this body passes into childhood, youth, and age, so also does he pass into another body. This does not bewilder the wise.

Bhagavad-Gita 2.13

Commentary: There is an aspect of Life (Existence) that is eternal and unchanging! This is our innate divine nature; our true and absolute identity; the field within which the experiences of our relative lives occur. We tend to think of this absolute identity as living within the physical body, but it is quite the opposite, the body and all of our physical experiences live within the field of our true identity. Just as all of our thoughts and dreams live within our minds, even though we can experience them as actual physical realities. The wise are they who know this true identity and are not bewildered by the temporal changes of our physical experiences. They understand that these relative changes are always occurring moment to moment; from birth to childhood, to youth, to old age, and eventually back into the non-physical where another body may be chosen. Even though the transition into the physical (birth,) and into spirit or non-physical (death,) are more dramatic events, they are essentially identical to the on-going changes that occur our physical lives from day to day. The wise therefore treat the transitions from spirit to physical and vice versa, from age five to six, and even the transitions into higher states of consciousness equally.

Yogi Edmond

Movie Night

Movie: Fearless

Date: Friday, May 29th, 2026

Time: 7:30pm (optional: bring a dish or snack)

Fearless: Youtube Trailer

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio Del Toro

Directed by: Peter Wiere

Screenplay by: Rafael Yglesias, based on his book Fearless

Produced by: Paula Weinstein, Mark Rosenberg

Music by: Maurice Jarre

Genre: Drama

Released: 1993

Running Time: 122 minutes

After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.

—Reid Gagle

Hope to see you there :)

Group Meditation

Sunday, May 31st, from

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Musical toning from Tom Kenyon's CD entitled:

The Sphere of All Possibilities

followed by:

Knowledge Cinema

The Silent Season (video)

Darryl Anka channeling Bashar

Bashar is a being of extraterrestrial origin, a friend from the future who has spoken for the past 30 years through the channel Darryl Anka, bringing through a wave of new information that clearly explains in detail how the universe works and how each person creates the reality they experience. Over the years, thousands of individuals have had the opportunity to apply these principles to manifest the reality they prefer.

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30 Main St., Binghamton.

Sunday, 31st Service

begins at 11:30am in the Eden Room

Feel free to come early and join Unity folks and FCC congregants for

coffee, snacks and social time, which starts at 11:00am

The Speaker for this Sunday is Jerry Neary

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Next Speaker: June 7th--DeeOna; June 14th--Rishi N; June 21st--Yogi E; June 28th--Julie

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May 31st is the last Sunday in May: Unity Member's Day to bring Snacks.

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May 31st: Annual Meeting of the Unity Community

short meeting following Service to approve new board members.

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June 1st: Book/Conversation Group meeting is at 6:30pm in the Eden room.

We are continuing to read Awake by Angelo Dilullo.

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June 3rd: ACIM Group meeting is at 6:30pm in the Eden room

This meeting is for anyone interested in living their Spirituality; it is a practice as opposed to a study group.

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Monday June 1st, 7:30pm

The Binghamton Buddhist Meditation Group (website) presents:

a sangha and talk by Buddhist scholar
Dr. Charles Goodman

at the FCC 2nd floor, 30 Main St, Binghamton

Wednesday June 17th, 5:00pm

Third Wednesday of each month,
at the Bundy Museum Annex, 129 Main St, Binghamton.

Events for
April 10 - 12th, 2026

Quote of the Week

There never was a time when I was not, nor you, nor these rulers of men. Nor will there ever be a time when all of us shall cease to be.

Bhagavad-Gita 2.12

Commentary: In the previous verse, Lord Krishna gave Arjuna the wisdom that would permanently eliminate grief from anyone's experience; and in this verse He proceeds to further expound on the reason why the wise grieve neither for the dead or the living; it is simply because they understand that all things are immortal. The Lord is the Source of all that exists so everything is but an aspect or expression His inherent immortality. This understanding removes any justification for grief for it establishes the inherent permanence of everything in creation. The fundamental principle is that even though things appear to change, they are in fact only individualized expressions of the Lord transforming from one superficial form to another. This is exactly what we experience in our dreams, where our dream characters are but individual expressions of our individual consciousness. This understanding does not exemplify the use of grief to transition from one state of being to another, but it does exemplify that it is unnecessary.

Yogi Edmond

Movie Night

Movie: Hamnet

Date: Friday, April 10th, 2026

Time: 7:30pm (optional: bring a dish or snack)

Hamnet: Youtube Trailer

Starring: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn

Directed by: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrel

Screenplay by: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrel, based on Hamnet by Maggie OFarrell

Produced by: Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes

Music by: Marc Shaiman, Harry Connic Jr.

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Released: 1925

Running Time: 126 minutes

Hope to see you there :)

Group Meditation

Sunday, April 12th, from

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Musical toning from Tom Kenyon's CD entitled:

The Sphere of All Possibilities

followed by:

Knowledge Cinema

The Silent Season (video)

Darryl Anka channeling Bashar

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30 Main St., Binghamton.

Sunday, April 12th

Continuing Prayers for:

Merri Warren, our fearless leader is recovering at home from her heart valve replacement surgery, and is now able to receive visitors.

Rose Husted who is also in recovery from her recent elbow injury.

Our heartfelt blessings to both.

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Sunday Service

begins at 11:30am in the Eden Room

Feel free to come early and join Unity folks and FCC congregants for

coffee, snacks and social time, which starts at 11:00am

The Speaker for this Sunday is our superstar speaker: Andree Myers

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Next Speakers: April 19th--Art; April 26th--DeeOna; May 3rd--Judy; May 10th--DeeOna.

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April 13th: Book/Conversation Group meeting is at 6:30pm in the Eden room.

We are reading Chapter 3 of Awake by Angelo Dilullo.

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April 22nd: ACIM Group: Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Eden room

This meeting is for learning to apply the principles and practices of ACIM.

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April 26th: Unity Member's Day to bring Snacks.

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April 26th: Steering Committee meeting

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Unity is collecting donations for CHOW in a bin at the FCC entrance.

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NoMa - North of Main

Accepting donations of any and all new and lightly used clothing items.

Drop off times at FCC, 30 Main St. Binghamton

Tues - Wed. 11am - 2pm

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If you have anything Unity-related that you would like to have considered for posting in this weekly email, or if you no longer wish to receive this email, please contact Merri 607.723.9601 or myself. Joy and Blessings 🙏

-----------Upcoming Events----------

Wednesday April 15th, 5:00pm

Third Wednesday of each month,
at the Bundy Museum Annex, 129 Main St, Binghamton.