Reverend Diana Friedell, Pastor
Co-Director
Diana is the owner of the 20 year old Oneonta based Spiritual
Counseling Business, “Tuning In – Tuning Up”, where she offers private
confidential Psychic Intuitive Readings, and she teaches classes in
Meditation, and Intuitive Development. Diana, also known in the area as
a Theater Director and actress, is a graduate of & was ordained
through “Fellowships of the Spirit”, a two year school in Lily Dale, NY.
Diana graduated from SUNY Oneonta with an Education Degree, and taught at the Elementary School and College Level and served as Director of Religious Education at UUSO for 6 years. Diana was sanctioned into the ministry at the Institute for
Spiritual Development in W.D.C. with the plan to work with her sister
Sue Landon on the start up of this new chapter.
Rev. Story Lucile Ducey, Co-Director
Faculty, Adult Education
Classically trained Psychic Medium and long time teacher of interdisciplinary courses in Comparative Religion, Esoteric Judiasm & Christianity and ‘The Art & Science of Intuitive Development for Seers and Scientists.’ She lectures on the teachings of Edgar Cayce and Alice Bailey. Story has an Intuitive Counseling Practice and teaches in both Otsego County and the Metropolitan area. Story is a former faculty and board member of the Metaphysical Center of New Jersey; a Graduate of Columbia University and The New Seminary. Her teachers include Jean Munzer, Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, and Rev. Janet Nohaveck. She has worked as a Pastoral Counselor and Officiant in Christian and Interfaith ministry for 25 years.
Jo Ann Wormuth,
Director of the Healing Program
Jo Ann experienced a dream
visitation by Archangel Gabriel while recovering from a
life-threatening illness in 2014. She came to understand that this
visitation was her calling by God to use her gifts as a “Lightworker”
to help humanity on Earth. JoAnn began a path to become an Energy
Healer by completing Eden Energy Medicine Foundations. She is now a
Reiki Master Teacher and an Integrated Energy Therapy®
Master-Instructor. She is also the Healing Director with the Oneonta
Chapter of the Institute for Spiritual Development. In all her practices
and teachings, she strives to impart that true health is a balance of
physical, mental and spiritual bodies.
Our Mission:
We
are a Metaphysical Church that honors and celebrates each soul. Our
community provides an unconditionally loving and healing environment
that affirms and encourages all seekers on their spiritual journey.
Our Vision:
We
believe that all great religions and philosophies contain within them
the spark of truth and wisdom that can inspire within us a more complete
understanding of our place in the universe. Aided by this belief, we
seek to provide a supportive environment through Sunday services,
spiritual healing, fellowship and education.
About the Institute - From Founding Minister, Rev. James DeBiasio
The
Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the service of your
growing awareness, and to fostering an environment in which each
individual may be stimulated to pursue his or her own true spiritual
unfoldment uninhibited by dogmatic concerns. To arouse a process of
joyous living, creative genius, cooperation, health, prosperity, and
universal service is to arouse the spiritual heart of the organization.
Believing
that the search for your truth embodies a personal examination of all
philosophies and religions, the Institute Experience seeks to provide
the focal point for that search and a nurturing environment in which the
evolution of your spiritual progression may be realized.
Offering
a wide variety of growth experiences, the Institute and its well
trained professional staff provide the fulcrum where each may endeavor
to explore and express the Truth as he or she understands it. The
on-going and comprehensive series of study and development experiences
in esoteric, metaphysical, healing and personal growth are
augmented by the spiritual fellowship, guidance and shared experiences
which are available.
Needing
only an openness to Truth, the seeker is then encouraged to pursue the
expansion of awareness of his or her inner-self through service, and to
unfold in the arms of love the potential for perfection that lies
awaiting within.
A
Church and center for Metaphysical Living – the Institute seeks to
provide a common ground in which souls passionate to grow may resolve
the differences of mind and experience which appear to separate us. To
grow by sharing, in joy as well as in pain. A shelter to nurture the
best that is within us, a proving ground of our resolve, a place of
peace, and hope, and light, and comfort, of work, of rest, of spiritual
growth, of enlightenment.
Thus
with love do we greet you, and with hope do we grow with you...not by
the efforts of one or a few, but by the energy of all.
Reverend James E. De Biasio,
Spiritual Advisor.
Membership
Membership
is open to all who aspire to the path of Self Realization and wish to
share their spiritual progress with the company of supportive and
like-minded individuals. Please discuss your interest in becoming a part
of our vital spiritual community with one of the ministers.
Contact
The Institute for Spiritual Development.
Diana Friedell, Director
P.O. Box 1266, Oneonta, NY 13820
Phone: 607-433-2089 email: isdoneonta@gmail.com