Cinnamon Hopkins Lofton exemplified how to live Love and love life. As she herself would put it, she was an ordinary person living the extraordinary. A mother, grandmother, godmother, teacher, counselor and friend to many, she invested her whole heart in teaching classes and counseling with thousands of individuals and families around the world. There was no charge for her assistance. As she used to put it, with a big, happy smile on her face, “No one could afford what this is worth anyway. It’s the truth. It’s worth everything! And it belongs to everyone. Love is our birthright. I will never charge for what Love offers us freely.” She was a pro at assisting others in releasing the fear that separates them from themselves and each other.
Cinnamon trained directly with Ken Keyes Jr., famous for his Handbook to Higher Consciousness. While she did learn, implement fully, and then teach Ken’s Twelve Pathways to Higher Consciousness as effective tools for inner growth, her method for reprogramming the mind veered away from an intellectual approach and placed the focus and aim instead on living from one’s innate heart knowing. Cinnamon had one rule: Choose Love. Nothing about her guidance was formulaic. It emerged out of an inspired heart that knew we were all unique and yet all one. She had the capacity to connect soul to soul and to know what was needed from her by each individual moment to moment. The effect was that we felt fully seen. Many took deep comfort in this angelic otherworldliness and sought her guidance to help them navigate the hardest of times. Willingness to surrender one’s addictive patterns was the only requirement for being her student. There was no requirement for being loved by her. Cinn loved all who crossed her path.
She will be remembered most dearly for her consummate loving, her head-thrown-back-with-hands-clapping laugh, her earthy Italian wit, cookie power, Bieler’s green soup, and her disciplined devotion to embracing and enjoying life on its terms.
Contributed by Heidi Grant
