Returning Light · Our shared life
A vision held.
A community sustained.
Rue, Selene and Edna founded the Returning Light Foundation. Their contributions brought spiritual teaching, practical stewardship and a home for community life together.
Rue · Co-founder
Institutional stewardship.
Rue’s background is in journalism. Her undercover reporting exposed the exploitation in an earlier spiritual order and led to three senior members being taken into custody.
In the Foundation, her attention serves the estate, city communities, finances, logistics and long-term planning. She holds together the practical responsibilities that allow a shared life to endure.
Selene · Co-founder
Spiritual teaching.
Selene carries the community’s spiritual and ritual life. Recognition has a physical presence in her teaching: attention offered directly, belief experienced in relationship and the body received as part of spiritual practice.
Her work gives voice to the Order’s teachings of restoration, compassion and Return. Women’s authority in embodied worship is part of the life she guides.
Edna · Co-founder & founding patron
A home for the community.
Edna brought the estate and her community connections to the founding of the Foundation. Her contribution gave a shared spiritual vision land on which to take root.
The working estate, its households and its relationship with the surrounding community remain part of that founding contribution.
Our beginning
A community built together.
Rue and Selene knew one another in the order Rue investigated. After its exposure, they met with Edna and decided to build again.
The Foundation and the Order are one community. Our public service, daily work, relationships and spiritual practices all belong to that shared life.