Brooks Center for Spirituality
Where Spiritual Traditions Meet
WE AIM AT BROOKS to meet your oldest questions about spirituality with answers, and to offer you, not experiences of reading and talking about the sacred, but experiences of the sacred, and of the full richness of being alive. Through Brooks classes, your understanding of yourself, of other people, and of what is deeply meaningful, gradually but steadily deepens and evolves, more and more bringing you into wise, creative and generous expression in the world.
All Brooks classes and workshops have the aim of putting you in touch with transformative insight and intuition, and with heightened experience of life, nearer to your heart’s desire. Rather than forcing the individual student into the mold of a rigid curriculum, we work to provide each individual with the learning experiences that will best develop or supplement that student’s existing spiritual strengths.
Brooks is a not-for-profit organization originally founded in Denver in 1898 under the name College of Divine Science, for the study and practice of the powers and principles of consciousness. (Divine Science itself was founded in Denver, one part of the mystic and philosophical stream of the original 19th and early 20th-century New Thought movement in America.
OUR HISTORY
More than a century has since passed. The Western world has been enriched by an influx of teachings and teachers from the Jewish, Buddhist, and Islamic contemplative traditions and from Yoga, as well as by a deepening understanding of the Christian mystics.
The intervening years have also seen a wealth of research and publication in transpersonal, depth, and spiritual psychology, as well as in parapsychology. Brooks classes today are continually refreshed and deepened by insights and practical methods from these wider sources.
Located in Denver on historic Capitol Hill, almost exactly one mile from the state capitol building and not far from the Civic Center, the new Justice Center, the United States Mint, several fine museums, the Colorado Convention Center, the Performing Arts Center, and the Denver Botanic Gardens, Brooks Center for Spirituality provides resources for developing a vital spiritual life even in the very heart of a bustling metropolitan population of nearly 2,600,000. In Brooks classes in spirituality, people of many different religious, and backgrounds come together to learn from and support one another and to deepen their practice.