Spiritual Director

The Life and Times of Raymont Anderson

 

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Who

Raymont Anderson is fondly referred to as a comic book/superhero and movie nerd, a Renaissance man, a Visionary New Thought Leader, and a Rebel (smile).

One look at his bio, life events, interests, and a synopsis of some accomplishments, and the reason for the names, labels, and titles becomes clear.

 

Rev. Ray has been and continues to be a lifelong learner with a passion for self-development, healing, personal transformation, transmutation, and transfiguration. He lives his bliss by giving people practical tools and practices that enable them to live a more fulfilled life and to recognize, realize, and materialize their Full Divine Potential! He does this as a teacher, minister, author, visual artist, ASL Performing Artist, mentor, facilitator of workshops and seminars, co-lead of his local Moms Demand Action, and as a survivor of gun violence. He loves being a father and grandfather and spending quality time with family and friends.

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His mission is: To live, move, and be an *A.C.T.I.V.E. member of society who serves to Educate, Elucidate, Emancipate, Awaken, and Empower people and communities.

*[Authentic, Compassionate, Transparent, Inspired, Vibrant, Empowered]

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Follow, Subscribe, and Connect via Social Media

His life journey has been anything but ordinary, and he has quite the library of life stories to tell, as you are soon to find out. Before we share more we invite you to follow some of his current adventures via www.raymontanderson.com , as well as other Social Media platforms.

Facebook  (as well as this Facebook page)

Instagram (as well as this Instagram page)

BlueSky

TikTok

And on his YouTube Channel

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And did you know that you can follow him on InsightTimer, where he has Guided Meditations?

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As of Jan 2023, he has been serving as the founding minister and the spiritual director of The Center for Spiritually Integrated Arts: A Center for Spiritual Living Teaching Center. 

The Center for Spiritually Integrated Arts on Facebook

The Center for Spiritually Integrated Arts on YouTube

The Center for Spiritually Integrated Arts on Instagram

 

From 2019 to Dec 2022 he served as the Spiritual Director of The Center for Spiritual Living Greater Baltimore.

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Education, Training, Affiliations, and Associations

He has two associate degrees, two bachelor's degrees, two master's degrees, and five doctorates, one of which is honorary.

 

He has been ordained several times. The most recent was in August 2025, when he was ordained as a Divine Science Minister by the Divine Science Federation International.

He was ordained by the Centers for Spiritual Living 2021

The Universal Order of Interfaith Ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual Cleric & Reverend 2011

American Interfaith Holistic Temple Ordained Reverend 2011

Many Paths Interfaith 2010

International Metaphysical Ministry Ordained Reverend 2009

United Christian Fellowship 2007

Ordained Jedi Master and Jedi Priest 2007 (yes, for real, not a joke), and at one time served in leadership and education with "The Jedi of the Noble Order."

 

He has had and continues to have partnerships, collaborations, and other forms of involvement with various organizations such as:

Centers for Spiritual Living

Faith Communities of Baltimore with PRIDE

A World Alliance of Interfaith Clergy (AWAIC)

Spiritual Directors International (SDI)

The Council of Interfaith Communities of the United States (CIC-USA) International Metaphysical Ministry (IMM)

Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI)

Community of Holistic Theology (CHTh)

Spencer Institute

American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA)

National Association of the Deaf (NAD)

Society of Fight Directors (SAFD)

Epsilon Sigma Delta Honors Society

Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society

American Gung Fu Association (formerly The Unified Kung Fu Association)

Everytown

Moms Demand Action

Survivor Fellowship

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Within The Centers for Spiritual Living Organization, he has served on the Sacred Activism Taskforce, CSL Marketing Taskforce, Strategic Planning, Charleston Convention Planning Committee, the Diversity and Inclusion Commission, and the Spiritually Motivated Social Engagement Committee (SMSE) as an appointed Commissioner, and for a brief time as the committee chair. The SMSE's function is to support CSL's Spiritual Leader. During Rev. Ray's tenure, the Spiritual Leader was Dr. Edward Viljoen (pronounced full-YOON). The committee supports the Leader in formulating and expressing official CSL statements addressing world events. The SMSE also creates webinars and training on how to approach social and global issues based on CSL's teachings and values.

 

Rev. Dr. Ray has been one of the members of the Cultural Integrity & Evolution Committee where he worked alongside several amazing individuals (Spiritual Mavericks), as we synergized with each committee and council represented within CSL to generate the themes to be used globally for 2020, 2021, and 2022. He has also been working with several people within the New Thought movement as a whole, on creating resources for members of the Deaf, the BIPOC, and the LGBTQIA2+ community. 

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He worked briefly on the steering committee for the CSL World Ministry of Prayer.

 

Through the CSL Professional Development department, he used to teach several American Sign Language (ASL) courses which were offered throughout the year and included Intro to ASL, ASL and Science of Mind, ASL level 1, ASL Skill Building, ASL level 2, ASL Music, and Affirmations.

 

He served as the series host for the 2022 CSL Summer Movie Series 11-Weeks/11-Movies to explore Metaphysically. And he closed out the series as a facilitator. His featured film was Doctor Strange.

 

In 2025, he received the Excellence in Education award.

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Ultimately he seeks to establish synergistic collaborations within the organization (Centers for Spiritual Living), within New Thought, and within various other Faith traditions, community organizations, and beyond so that everyone is seen, recognized, listened to, heard, valued, and given space to be themselves… so that everyone, however, the Divine expresses ItSelf as you: African American, Latine, Caucasian, Asian Pacific Islander, Deaf, hearing, Straight or LGBTQ2IA+, Differently Abled, Democrat, Republican, Independent, etc., understand their own Divinity.

 

In June 2020, during the Re-Imagine Summit, Rev. Dr. Ray had the distinct honor and pleasure of being on a global panel with several esteemed colleagues in the CSL movement.

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The Global CSL Panel - Facilitated by Rev. Mark Gilbert and Featuring:  

Rev. Beth Linguri – Europe  

Rev. Dr. Rebekah Pina – Latin America  

Rev. Raymont Anderson – USA  

Rev. John Scott – Jamaica

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He has provided the monthly Prayers, articles, and Daily Guides for the Science of Mind Magazine. He continues to be a favorite of many readers.

 

Prayers for Jan 2017/ May 2020/ May 2021/ February 2024

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He was interviewed for an article in the Science of Mind magazine in August 2020. 

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In June 2021 he coauthored an article with Rev. Andriette Earl

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In September 2021 he wrote the Daily Guides for the Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Feedback offered for the September Daily Guides

 

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​In February 2022 he wrote the article, "Radical Self Love: Love In Me, As me, Is Me"

 

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In January 2024 he wrote the article, "There Is Work To Be Done"

 

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In February 2023 he wrote the Daily Guides for the Magazine

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Feedback offered for the February Daily Guides

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​In March 2025 he wrote the article, "A Reimagining of he Flow of Consciousness"

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Speaking

He continues to be a highly sought-after guest minister, public speaker, keynote speaker, and more nationally and internationally, both in person and virtually.

He has been a guest speaker for many New Thought Centers and Churches all across the United States and abroad including the New Thought Group in the UK (via Zoom multiple times).​

 

In July 2018, he was invited to be a guest keynote speaker and workshop facilitator for the 37th Anniversary service at the  Temple of Light Centre for Spiritual Living.

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He was asked to be the keynote for the 2021 Holmes Institute ministerial graduates in Orlando Florida but was unable to do so due to scheduling conflicts.

 

​He was one of several keynote speakers during one of CSL's VISTA conferences in Atlanta. And during the 2024 Spiritual Living Convention “Soul to Soul to Soul,” in Charleston, South Carolina.

 

Teaching

In addition to his work as a minister and teacher of spiritual materials, he also teaches workshops and classes on various subject matters related to Empowered Living and Authentic Living, Loving One's Self, New Thought Spirituality and LGBTQI, Communication, Holistic health and wellness, American Sign Language, and Acting.

 

Writing

As an author, his first two books are available on Amazon:

Moving Mountains: The Journey of Transformation

Visual Music: Interpreting Songs in American Sign Language

 

Barnes and Noble:

Moving Mountains: The Journey of Transformation

Visual Music: Interpreting Songs in American Sign Language

 

and directly from the publisher:

Moving Mountains: The Journey of Transformation

Visual Music: Interpreting Songs in American Sign Language 

 

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​he recently completed his 3rd book, and is working on book 4. The only thing remaining for the 3rd book is the final draft of editing and then publishing!

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As a blog writer, he has written for Examiner.com as the DC New Thought Examiner and for the Good Men Project, and for Whosoever. You can subscribe, follow, and support what he offers on Substack https://metaphysicstoday.substack.com/ and the first episode of the podcast/show "Metaphysics, Mysticism, Movies, and More..." featured the film “Sinners.”

Stay tuned for more episodes in which Rev. Ray will review and discuss spiritual components from various movies, television shows, etc.

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Online Radio Host
In 2011, Rev. Dr. Anderson hosted a 13-week radio program on Voice America -7th Wave Network which was called “Living a Sacred Life.”
During those 13 weeks, he had the distinct pleasure of interviewing such luminaries as Howard Falco (Teacher and author of “I Am: The Power of Discovering Who You Really Are”), Salvatore Sapienza (Teacher and author of “Gay is a Gift,” “Seventy Times Seven,” and “Mychal's Prayer: Praying with Father Mychal Judge”), Dr. Sheri A. Rosenthal (Toltec Master, teacher, and author of “Banish Mind Spam! Four Steps For Deprogramming Self-Limiting And Self-Sabotaging Beliefs” and “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Toltec Wisdom” with forward by Don Miguel Ruiz), Laura Sheppard (Teacher and life coach), and Colette Baron-Reid (Intuitive, teacher, author of several books including “Weight Loss for People Who Feel Too Much: A 4-Step, 8-Week Plan to Finally Lose the Weight, Manage Emotional Eating, and Find Your Fabulous Self,” “The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life,” and “Remembering the Future: The Path to Recovering Intuition,” and creator of several Oracle decks such as “The Enchanted Map Oracle Cards” and “The Wisdom of Avalon Oracle Cards”)

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Some background history:

Educator

He began teaching in the public school system in Pittsburgh PA in 1992. He also began teaching at the community college in 1994.

He has taught at the college and university level in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.

As of June 2011, he resigned from his full-time positions as a High School Teacher in Maryland, as a professor at Bowie State University, and as a full-time interpreter, in order to begin his right and divine livelihood on the full-time path of Minister, Spiritual Leader, Sacred Activist, and more.

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Artist

Rev. Dr. Ray has always been an active and visually creative individual. His love of drawing and painting began in elementary school. His artistic passion led him to attend the Art Institute of Pittsburgh after graduating from high school, where he received an associate’s degree in Visual Arts, Advertising Design, and Graphic Illustration. Many years later, he created YUME art company as an outlet for his unique creative style.

 

Martial Artist

While pursuing his passion for visual arts and developing his skills as a visual artist, he also continued to work diligently on his martial arts practice, which began in the late 70s after seeing Bruce Lee in "Return of the Dragon" and "Game of Death." This passion was further emblazoned in his heart and mind when he began watching the TV series "Kung Fu," starring David Carradine. The philosophical lessons taught through the show appealed to Ray in a way he could not fully understand until many years later. His passion for martial arts eventually led him to become a martial arts teacher, and on September 24, 2002, he received the title Si-Gung (master) through the American Gung-Fu Association. In addition to Kung Fu, Ray has also studied Ninjutsu since the early 80s and Aikido since the early 90s. 

He began teaching martial arts to friends and other neighborhood kids while he was in high school, and this love of teaching inspired him to become an art teacher in the Public Schools.

 

To accomplish this, he attended Carlow College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Art Education K-12. While at Carlow College, he also began pursuing another of his long-held passions, studying American Sign Language.

 

American Sign Language

He is quite thankful to have had the privilege of learning from several highly skilled and qualified hearing and deaf teachers over the years. 

It was due to the encouragement of his first ASL teacher, Karen McGann, that Ray founded the performance company S.T.A.R.S. The company was very successful during its time; however, once he moved to Richmond, VA, the company members all went their separate ways. 

While working as an art teacher at a Pittsburgh public school, Ray attended the Community College of Allegheny County, where he earned an associate's degree in Interpreting under the tutelage of his mentor, Brian Cerney. It was also due to his mentor's encouragement that Ray became a certified ASL teacher through the American Sign Language Teachers Association. 

After several years of teaching in the public school system, it was time to grow -and GO- yet again. This next chapter led Ray to relocate to Richmond, VA. While living in Richmond, he attended Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where he earned his MFA in Theater Pedagogy. During his time as a graduate student at VCU, he was bitten by the acting bug! While he had performed with S.T.A.R.S. before large audiences, this was a different level and type of performance that inspired him in a new and exciting way. Rev. Dr. Ray is eternally grateful to Noreen Barnes McLain for casting him in a role in "Night Sky" and to Gary Hopper for casting him in a major role in "The Day the Bronx Died." It was also during his time in Richmond that Ray founded S.T.A.R.S. for a second time. This time, the company survived his 2003 departure and continued for a few years, but it also came to an end in the summer of 2008. 

After graduating from VCU, he was offered a job with The Wild Zappers (an all-Deaf, all-male dance company) and the National Deaf Dance Theatre (a mixed company of male and female performers, as well as hearing and Deaf performers). Ray took the role as their interpreter and guest performing artist. During that time, he traveled, learned, studied, and improved his craft as a performer and his skills as an interpreter. In 2005, Ray was blessed to be one of a select few interpreters to attend the Theatre Development Fund’s “Interpreting for the Theatre Institute” program at Julliard in New York. 

As a result, Ray has taken everything he knows about acting, storytelling, dance, martial arts, performing, motivational speaking, ASL, and life and created his own American Sign Language Theatrical Performance Company, B.E.L.I.E.V.E., which closed in 2015.

 

One of his interpreting jobs in the DC area created phenomenal opportunities to work with amazing actors, production staff, and directors at Open Circle Theatre. In 2006, he had a major role in Open Circle Theatre's production of EVITA.  (Reviews of EVITA) 
 

Spirituality and More
As a June 2007 graduate of The American Institute of Holistic Theology (AIHT) with a Doctor of Divinity degree in Christian Theology, Ray decided to once again take on the title of student. He re-enrolled at AIHT, where he began working on his Ph.D. in Metaphysics. He also enrolled in an additional doctoral program through The University of Sedona. He successfully obtained the University of Sedona Doctor of Metaphysical Science (Msc.D.) in January 2011 and, in March 2011, a Ph.D. in Life Coaching to further support the certification as a Holistic Life Coach he received in 2010 through Spencer Institute. 

He became an ordained Christian Reverend on February 12, 2007, and the other ordinations have already been mentioned.

What’s going on now??
Great question… as mentioned Rev. Dr. Ray is always working on several things simultaneously... projects, art, writing, speaking, etc … Right now he is actively retraining, working out, getting in better shape post-surgery on April 25, 2023. 

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He recently began creating and producing music and music videos focused on New Thought, Inspirational, Motivational, and Science of Mind themes.

 

He is still actively contemplating the creation of several TV shows, films, and stage plays, while continuing to create and present his artwork, publish additional books on spirituality, travel, lecture, and teach, and serve, perform, inspire, and empower people to be EXTRA-ordinary, to Excel, and to "Defy gravity!" He is also considering a U.S. speaking/performing tour and what it would entail. Stay tuned!

 

In honor of:
Charles and Lois Anderson, Ray's parents.

His father transitioned on Oct 14, 2002, after living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and died as a result of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other complications.

His mother, Lois Anderson, transitioned on Father's Day, June 21, 2020, after a rather rapid decline due to dementia.

Ray does his best to be of service, embodying the deepest lessons and values his parents gifted him.

 

Lastly:

He is always writing, creating, teaching, mentoring, and serving others while also pursuing his own spiritual path of authentic, transparent, and empowered living.

This bio is but a tiny glimpse into who he is and what he does.

Ever want to know more? All you need to do is ask (smile).

 

Ray continues to be ever vigilant, “walking the walk and talking the talk” by living as authentically and as transparently as possible, to honor those he loves: his father, his mother, his sons, his grandchildren, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, … the entire OHANA.

 

By being the change that Gandhi spoke of, Ray intends to live each day fully, using each breath to serve the Universal Whole in love and compassion in order to create a world that works for all.

 

"But if you guide them, ... if you give them hope, that's what this symbol means. The symbol of the House of El means hope. Embodied within that hope is the fundamental belief the potential of every person to be a force for good. That's what you can bring them."

"What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?  What if a child aspired to something greater?"

~ Jor-EL

 

 

We encourage you to contact him to schedule him to teach a class or workshop, and to book him for any speaking engagements or one-on-one coaching, mentoring, or Practitioner sessions.

 

 

Contact him directly at raymontanderson@raymontanderson.com  / anderson.raymont@gmail.com 

and cc his administrative assistant Ms. Tracy Rhymes via tracyrhymes@raymontanderson.com and tracyrhymes@gmail.com 

 

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