Ministers
Reverend Doctor Andriette Earl, Founder and Spiritual Leader
Rev. Andriette Earl is a well-known leader, life coach, author, and teacher with decades of experience in both corporate and spiritual settings in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She has engaged thousands in conscious and intentional living through the adoption of proven spiritual practices.
In 2009, Rev. Andriette founded Heart and Soul Center of Light (HSCL), a Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL) affiliate. In just over 10 years she has grown HSCL into a vibrant, world-class teaching and empowerment ministry. She has been an exceedingly popular instructor at the Holmes Institute School of Spiritual Leadership for more than a decade.
As a teacher, Rev. Andriette embraces creative spiritual processes to support self-actualization and transformation. She has invented ingenious methods for inspiring others including the creation of a transformational board game entitled, Speak Your Word: The Freedom Game. Readers of her monthly column, From the Inside Out, in Science of Mind Magazine cite her as bringing “…a tremendous heart, a healing presence, and great enthusiasm for transforming one’s life.” She is the author of Embracing Wholeness: Living in Spiritual Congruence and is the creator/producer of HSCL’s weekly video blog and podcast, Point of Power.
As a CSL leader, Rev. Andriette has become a sought-after facilitator and team-builder. She is currently serving her second term and is co-chair of the CSL Minister’s Council. She has served as a pre-CSL visioning facilitator, on the Nominations Committee, the CSL Convention Committee, and the Spiritually Motivated/Socially Engaged team.
In 2021, Reverend Andriette received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Centers for Spiritual Living.
revandriette@heartsoulcenter.org
Heart and Soul Staff Ministers
Reverend Angelo Allen, Director of Video Ministry
Rev. Angelo Allen is affectionately known as “Revelo”. He currently serves as the director of Heart and Soul’s Video Ministry and is a faculty member at the Holmes Institute School of Consciousness Studies where he teaches Church Organization and Management. Revelo brings a steadfast belief that prayer, spiritual practice and continued spiritual education constitute an essential three-legged stool that supports an upward spiral of personal growth and spiritual liberation. revangelo@heartsoulcenter.org
Music Ministry
Valerie Joi Fiddmont, Minister of Music
A gifted and multifaceted musician, Valerie Joi is a recording artist, pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger, producer and choral director. She directed the UC Santa Cruz Gospel Choir for thirteen years, where she was named a Porter College Faculty Fellow in 2013. She also served as the founding Minister of Music for Inner Light Ministries in Santa Cruz, CA for 16 years. During her tenure, she featured, accompanied and sang alongside artists such as Rickie Byars-Beckwith, Tammy Hall, Charles Holt, Nadine Risha and many more. Another great honor for Valerie Joi was singing background vocals for living legend Quincy Jones at the 2016 Monterey Jazz Festival and the Hollywood Bowl in September 2017. Her greatest joy, however, is witnessing transformation and healing through song. She is currently a PhD student in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she is focusing on the interconnection between music, spirituality and social activism. You can find out more about her and her music on her website www.valeriejoi.com.
Our Leadership Model
Heart and Soul Center of Light enjoys a leadership model that actively promotes accountability and commitment through loving engagement. We lovingly enroll and inspire our members to embrace a shared sense of belonging and ownership. Informed by this dynamic, “leadership” becomes more than just a word that describes the people who make the rules. For us, Leadership is an enduring value that we consistently practice to conduct Love, Light and Intelligence through every aspect of our center. The result is that we are forever growing new leaders!
HSCL Leadership Circle
All Heart and Soul circles, teams and groups have a trained leader or co-leaders to guide their activities. These leaders work in collaboration to support our intention to be a loving and compassionate, world-class teaching, and empowerment ministry. They are organized under a leadership group we call The Ignite Leadership Circle. Our founding Spiritual Leader, Rev. Andriette champions the work of this dynamic group.
Centers for Spiritual Living
Heart and Soul Center of Light is an affiliate with Centers for Spiritual Living
Centers for Spiritual Living™ is a global community comprised of more than 400 spiritual communities, teaching chapters, study groups and other ministries in 30 countries. These communities teach a New Thought philosophy known as the Science of Mind, which brings religion and science together and offers spiritual tools to transform personal lives and help make the world a better place.
Our Purpose: To awaken humanity to it’s spiritual magnificence.
Our Vision: A world that works for everyone.
Our Mission: To provide spiritual tools for personal and global transformation.
A Message from CSL Leadership
Racism in the United States
Centers for Spiritual Living calls for it to end!
We are grieving lives that ought not to have been lost. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, are the most recent in a list of countless unarmed African-American and Black people who have been murdered for the color of their skin over the past 400 years in the US. Too many generations have suffered and it has never been, and is not now, acceptable.
We denounce racism in all its forms: the starkness of unapologetic, intentional racism; the racism of silence in the face of injustice; the systemic racism inherent in our education, justice, income and opportunity inequity; and the racism that lies hidden in our individual hearts and minds.
We envision a world where personal responsibility joins with social conscience in every area of the political, corporate, academic, and social sectors. We value a community-wide climate of safety that arises from compassion, justice, mutual respect, and kindness. Therefore, we join our founder, Dr. Ernest Holmes, who, echoing the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said “You and I should form the habit of taking definite time each day to contemplate and affirm peace with justice—for there is no peace possible without justice. But faith without works is dead. We should not only pray, we should act, each contributing the best [they have] to the common purpose, each willing to make any sacrifice necessary…[for] there can be no individual self-preservation without the preservation of all . . .”*
We call upon ourselves and the faith communities in the US to take action that shows we have heard the cry of suffering, and we own our responsibility for it. Whether that action is prayer, donations to organizations that promote racial justice, rigorous self-education, or active engagement, let not this moment in history pass unattended. May the actions we take be steeped in peace and respect for the sacredness of each life, knowing that whatever we do, individually and collectively, must be Divinely directed from a higher consciousness. When we apply our proven spiritual principles through rigorous practices and compassionate action, the desired results cannot fail to demonstrate.
* Quote From Ernest Holmes’ Spiritual Armament, found in The Essential Ernest Holmes edited by Jesse Jennings
Resource: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
Centers for Spiritual Living,
Spiritually Motivated Social Engagement Committee
Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen