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The Reception will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2025 starting 1:00PM – 2:00PM EDT at the Thareja Residence located at 21231 Georgia Ave, Brookeville, MD.
The Memorial Service will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2025 starting 2:00PM – 3:00PM EDT at the Thareja Residence located at 21231 Georgia Ave, Brookeville, MD. For those unable to attend the service in-person, you can participate remotely by viewing the live stream of the service (please scroll up to see the video).
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Obituary
Every soul begins in the wholeness of God’s divine essence and through divine grace, the soul incarnates into human form. And God does this in order to experience the infinite diversity within the physical world, where our soul’s journey is to awaken to God’s presence at every twist and turn in our journey.
Just as the ocean, the unmanifest, creates individual waves, manifest creation, where each person, like each wave, has their own unique expression, shape, time frame and impact, all before returning back to the ocean, back to God from which it came.
Enter George Edward James born August 4th, 1948, into a life journey that would test his every fiber to the core. Yet even as a boy he was graced with an inner awareness of his divine essence and his connection to God, as an expression of God on this earthly plane.
His family, highly dysfunctional, his absent father, his violent home left deep scars. He was left feeling unsafe and alone. He found a brief refuge with one grandmother, but her early passing returned him into the family chaos, only to end up in a foster home in Yonkers, New York, where he was raised.
Yet in spite of these unsettling early years, he did well in school and sports and had a thirst to learn and grow in the outside world, all while he continued to stay connected to his inside world of heart and God.
Drawn to the arts and sciences both, George studied and mastered classical Indian dance among other styles of dance, and he went to college and then onto postgraduate school on scholarships, in Portland Oregon, getting his masters in speech pathology.
After living in Portland he returned to the East Coast back to New York City and then down to Washington DC. Where he worked many years as an administrator at the National Restaurant Association offices, making the mid-Atlantic region his home for the remainder of his life.
But, as these past paragraphs covered the early parts of his journey, the core of his life was all about service to others. For as George’s inner light and connection to God grew stronger. His calling was to focus on his spiritual side and assisting others in waking up to their divine essence.
George has spent time with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the world of TM; with Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art of Living; with Connie Newton and her teachings of Integrated Awareness, IA and the Soma-Pi healing technique among other healing modalities.
George had also traveled solo several times to India to study with the saints found in the Himalayas and along the sacred waters of the Ganges River. And there were other chapters as well, including being a published author of two books, and other things too numerous to cover here, but all to say that his thirst was great to take in and experience as much as he could. And again, all to help others in their journey back to God.
But there is more to tell about George and it was his treasured world of friends whom he considered his family. And you all know who you are as he opened up his heart to you and your world as he shared and spread the vibrant colors of his heart wherever he went.
And still there is more. George had his passion, his fire, and his big heart. He loved to laugh, he loved to play, to dance, to sing, to cook, to be social with the friends he held dear in his heart. And if at the end of life all falls away and all we are left with is our relationship with God, George was one of the richest of us all. For he lived 200% of life, a full outer life in service to others and a full inner life in service to God, doing God’s will every day.
God bless you George James and we all celebrate your singular wave as it played among us, our waves, before your wave so gracefully returned back to the Ocean.