First.
We have to make clear to ourselves - what we think we are going to do with
ourselves while we are here on this planet.

Two main choices:
To attempt to be as safe, secure, predictable, approved, successful, happy,
and with as little hassle as possible,
or to discover/realise our maximum potential as the unique being we are.

(Of course it does appear also that there are in-between choices,
and there is the impression that one can go back and forth. Not so.)

99.999+ percent of people are in the first category.
In this this category no one is ever 'fulfilled.' Impossible.
The system is designed to keep us unfulfilled - to keep us moving -
towards evolving into our maximum potential.
So even though it seems we have a choice - we do not. All roads lead to
evolving. Just some are longer, and more uncomfortable than others.

In this first category we attempt to make everything 'work.'
It is good or bad, or right or wrong - never just is - as a possible
opportunity. No sense of overall perspective.
We live in the past - projected into the future.
We 'look forward to...' and are never in the actual moment, just as it is.
Apart from fleeting moments, we never feel 'safe and secure'

In the second category we are unconditionally present to each moment - just
as it is. At one and the same time, each event is complete in itself, and
part of a much bigger interconnected event. Nothing is ever more important
than this very moment. Nothing is more, or less important than anything.
"Take no thought of the morrow, let the morrow take care of itself."
Isn't that a neat saying?

In the first category life is full of 'ups and downs.'
In the second, every moment is 'perfect.'

So let us look at the situation you are describing in the terms of these two
approaches to life.
In the first approach the situation has 'to work out.'
You think you will not be happy (ever) if this situation is missed.
Not so. Remember? Look back at your life and see the situations that were
'life or death.' All gone. Insignificant. And, hopefully, you learnt
something from each one.

Look at the possibility that each event in our life is an opportunity - to
learn/evolve. The outcome is not important. We draw to ourselves situations
that will show us a part of ourselves we are not seeing clearly. Then once
we have got it, time to stop holding it, and let moving on happen.

As always, listen to the heart aspect of yourself.
The head will always lead you around in circles.
Somewhere, you 'know' exactly what is appropriate. You know that.
Let yourself live - not knowing, in ach moment. Its fun.
For sure -you will never be bored.

Madamn Blavastsky was the god mother of the consciusness movement and links all efforts of the spiritualist of the 1800s with the New Age of the 1980s.

The tidal wave of deeper souls,
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares,
Out of all meaner cares.  -H.W. LONGFELLOW

THE great psychic and spiritual change now taking place in the realm of the human Soul, is quite remarkable. It began towards the very commencement of the now slowly vanishing last quarter of our century, and will end--so says a mystic prophecy--either for the weal or the woe of civilized humanity with the present cycle which will close in 1897. But the great change is not effected in solemn silence, nor is it perceived only by the few. On the contrary, it asserts itself amid a loud din of busy, boisterous tongues, a clash of public opinion, in comparison to which the incessant, ever increasing roar even of the noisiest political agitation seems like the rustling of the young forest foliage, on a warm spring day.

Verily the Spirit in man, so long hidden out of public sight, so carefully concealed and so far exiled from the arena of modern learning, has at last awakened. It now asserts itself and is loudly re-demanding its unrecognized yet ever legitimate rights. It refuses to be any longer trampled under the brutal foot of Materialism, speculated upon by the Churches, and made a fathomless source of income by those who have self-constituted themselves its universal custodians. The former would deny the Divine Presence any right to existence; the latter would accentuate and prove it through their Sidesmen and Church Wardens armed with money-bags and collection-boxes. But the Spirit in man--the direct, though now but broken ray and emanation of the Universal Spirit--has at last awakened. Hitherto, while so often reviled, persecuted and abased through ignorance, ambition and greed; while so frequently turned by insane Pride "into a blind wanderer, like unto a buffoon mocked by a host of buffoons," in the realm of Delusion, it remained unheard and unheeded. Today, the Spirit in man has returned like King Lear, from seeming insanity to its senses; and, raising its voice, it now speaks in those authoritative tones to which the men of old have listened in reverential silence through incalculable ages, until deafened by the din and roar of civilization and culture, they could hear it no longer. . . .

Look around you and behold! Think of what you see and hear, and draw therefrom your conclusions. The age of crass materialism, of Soul insanity and blindness, is swiftly passing away. A death struggle between Mysticism and Materialism is no longer at hand, but is already raging. And the party which will win the day at this supreme hour will become the master of the situation and of the future; i.e., it will become the autocrat and sole disposer of the millions of men already born and to be born, up to the latter end of the XXth century. If the signs of the times can be trusted it is not the Animalists who will remain conquerors. This is warranted us by the many brave and prolific authors and writers who have arisen of late to defend the rights of Spirit to reign over matter. Many are the honest, aspiring Souls now raising themselves like a dead wall against the torrent of the muddy waters of Materialism. And facing the hitherto domineering flood which is still steadily carrying off into unknown abysses the fragments from the wreck of the dethroned, cast down Human Spirit, they now command: "So far hast thou come; but thou shalt go no further!"

Amid all this external discord and disorganisation of social harmony; amid confusion and the weak and cowardly hesitations of the masses, tied down to the narrow frames of routine, propriety and cant; amid that late dead calm of public thought that had exiled from literature every reference to Soul and Spirit and their divine working during the whole of the middle period of our century--we hear a sound arising. Like a clear, definite, far-reaching note of promise, the voice of the great human Soul proclaims, in no longer timid tones, the rise and almost the resurrection of the human Spirit in the masses. It is now awakening in the foremost representatives of thought and learning; it speaks in the lowest as in the highest, and stimulates them all to action. The renovated, life-giving Spirit in man is boldly freeing itself from the dark fetters of the hitherto all-capturing animal life and matter. Behold it, saith the poet, as, ascending on its broad, white wings, it soars into the regions of real life and light; whence, calm and godlike, it contemplates with unfeigned pity those golden idols of the modern material cult with their feet of clay, which have hitherto screened from the purblind masses their true and living gods. . . .

Literature--once wrote a critic--is the confession of social life, reflecting all its sins, and all its acts of baseness as of heroism. In this sense a book is of a far greater importance than any man. Books do not represent one man, but they are the mirror of a host of men. Hence the great English poet-philosopher said of books, that he knew that they were as hard to kill and as prolific as the teeth of the fabulous dragon; sow them hither and thither and armed warriors will grow out of them. To kill a good book, is equal to killing a man.

The "poet-philosopher" is right.

A new era has begun in literature, this is certain. New thoughts and new interests have created new intellectual needs; hence a new race of authors is springing up. And this new species will gradually and imperceptibly shut out the old one, those fogies of yore who, though they still reign nominally, are allowed to do so rather by force of habit than predilection. It is not he who repeats obstinately and parrot-like the old literary formulae and holds desperately to publishers' traditions, who will find himself answering to the new needs; not the man who prefers his narrow party discipline to the search for the long-exiled Spirit of man and the now lost TRUTHS; not these, but verily he who, parting company with his beloved "authority," lifts boldly and carries on unflinchingly the standard of the Future Man. It is finally those who, amidst the present wholesale dominion of the worship of matter, material interests and SELFISHNESS, will have bravely fought for human rights and man's divine nature, who will become, if they only win, the teachers of the masses in the coming century, and so their benefactors.

But woe to the XXth century if the now reigning school of thought prevails, for Spirit would once more be made captive and silenced till the end of the now coming age. It is not the fanatics of the dead letter in general, nor the iconoclasts and Vandals who fight the new Spirit of thought, nor yet the modern Roundheads, supporters of the old Puritan religious and social traditions, who will ever become the protectors and Saviours of the now resurrecting human thought and Spirit. It is not these too willing supporters of the old cult, and the mediaeval heresies of those who guard like a relic every error of their sect or party, who jealously watch over their own thought lest it should, growing out of its teens, assimilate some fresher and more beneficent idea--not these who are the wise men of the future. It is not for them that the hour of the new historical era will have struck, but for those who will have learnt to express and put into practice the aspirations as well as the physical needs of the rising generations and of the now trampled-down masses. In order that one should fully comprehend individual life with its physiological, psychic and spiritual mysteries, he has to devote himself with all the fervour of unselfish philanthropy and love for his brother men, to studying and knowing collective life, or Mankind. Without preconceptions or prejudice, as also without the least fear of possible results in one or another direction, he has to decipher, understand and remember the deep and innermost feelings and the aspirations of the poor people's great and suffering heart. To do this he has first "to attune his soul with that of Humanity," as the old philosophy teaches; to thoroughly master the correct meaning of every line and word in the rapidly turning pages of the Book of Life of MANKIND and to be thoroughly saturated with the truism that the latter is a whole inseparable from his own SELF.

How many of such profound readers of life may be found in our boasted age of sciences and culture? Of course we do not mean authors alone, but rather the practical and still unrecognized, though well known, philanthropists and altruists of our age; the people's friends, the unselfish lovers of man, and the defenders of human right to the freedom of Spirit. Few indeed are such; for they are the rare blossoms of the age, and generally the martyrs to prejudiced mobs and time-servers. Like those wonderful "Snow flowers" of Northern Siberia, which, in order to shoot forth from the cold frozen soil, have to pierce through a thick layer of hard, icy snow, so these rare characters have to fight their battles all their life with cold indifference and human harshness, and with the selfish ever-mocking world of wealth. Yet, it is only they who can carry out the task of perseverance. To them alone is given the mission of turning the "Upper Ten" of social circles from the broad and easy highway of wealth, vanity and empty pleasures into the arduous and thorny path of higher moral problems, and the perception of loftier moral duties than they are now pursuing. It is also those who, already themselves awakened to a higher Soul activity, are being endowed at the same time with literary talent, whose duty it is to undertake the part of awakening the sleeping Beauty and the Beast, in their enchanted Castle of Frivolity, to real life and light. Let all those who can, proceed fearlessly with this idea uppermost in their mind, and they will succeed. It is the rich who have to be regenerated, if we would do good to the poor; for it is in the former that lies the root of evil of which the "disinherited" classes are but the too luxuriant growth. This may seem at first sight paradoxical, yet it is true, as may be shown.

In the face of the present degradation of every ideal, as also of the noblest aspirations of the human heart, becoming each day more prominent in the higher classes, what can be expected from the "great unwashed"? It is the head that has to guide the feet, and the latter are to be hardly held responsible for their actions. Work, therefore, to bring about the moral regeneration of the cultured but far more immoral classes before you attempt to do the same for our ignorant younger Brethren. The latter was undertaken years ago, and is carried on to this day, yet with no perceptible good results. Is it not evident that the reason for this lies in the fact that [except] for a few earnest, sincere and all-sacrificing workers in that field, the great majority of the volunteers consists of those same frivolous, ultra-selfish classes, who "play at charity" and whose ideas of the amelioration of the physical and moral status of the poor are confined to the hobby that money and the Bible alone can do it. We say that neither of these can accomplish any good; for dead-letter preaching and forced Bible-reading develop irritation and later atheism, and money as a temporary help finds its way into the tills of the public-houses rather than serves to buy bread with. The root of evil lies, therefore, in a moral not in a physical cause.

If asked, what is it then that will help, we answer boldly:--Theosophical literature; hastening to add that under this term, neither books concerning adepts and phenomena, nor the Theosophical Society publications are meant.

Take advantage of, and profit by, the "tidal wave" which is now happily overpowering half of Humanity. Speak to the awakening Spirit of Humanity, to the human Spirit and the Spirit in man, these three in One and the One in All. Dickens and Thackeray both born a century too late--or a century too early--came between two tidal waves of human spiritual thought, and though they have done yeoman service individually and induced certain partial reforms, yet they failed to touch Society and the masses at large. What the European world now needs is a dozen writers such as Dostoevsky, the Russian author, whose works, though terra incognita for most, are still well known on the Continent, as also in England and America among the cultured classes. And what the Russian novelist has done is this:--he spoke boldly and fearlessly the most unwelcome truths to the higher and even to the of official classes--the latter a far more dangerous proceeding than the former. And yet, behold, most of the administrative reforms during the last twenty years are due to the silent and unwelcome influence of his pen. As one of his critics remarks, the great truths uttered by him were felt by all classes so vividly and so strongly that people whose views were most diametrically opposed to his own could not but feel the warmest sympathy for this bold writer and even expressed it to him.

In the eyes of all, friends or foes, he became the mouthpiece of the irrepressible no longer to be delayed need felt by Society, to look with absolute sincerity into the innermost depths of its own soul, to become the impartial judge of its own actions and its own aspirations.
Every new current of thought, every new tendency of the age had and ever will have, its rivals, as its enemies, some counteracting it boldly but unsuccessfully, others with great ability. But such, are always made of the same paste, so to say, common to all. They are goaded to resistance and objections by the same external, selfish and worldly objects, the same material ends and calculations as those that guided their opponents. While pointing out other problems and advocating other methods, in truth, they cease not for one moment to live with their foes in a world of the same and common interests, as also to continue in the same fundamental identical views on life.
That which then became necessary was a man, who, standing outside of any partizanship or struggle for supremacy, would bring his past life as a guarantee of the sincerity and honesty of his views and purposes; one whose personal suffering would be an imprimatur to the firmness of his convictions, a writer finally, of undeniable literary genius:--for such a man alone, could pronounce words capable of awakening the true spirit in a Society which had drifted away in a wrong direction.
Just such a man was Dostoevsky--the patriot-convict, the galley-slave, returned from Siberia; that writer, far-famed in Europe and Russia, the pauper buried by voluntary subscription, the soul-stirring bard, of everything poor, insulted, injured, humiliated; he who unveiled with such merciless cruelty the plagues and sores of his age. . . .
It is writers of this kind that are needed in our day of reawakening; not authors writing for wealth or fame, but fearless apostles of the living Word of Truth; moral healers of the pustulous sores of our century. France has her Zola who points out, brutally enough, yet still true to life--the degradation and moral leprosy of his people. But Zola, while castigating the vices of the lower classes, has never dared to lash higher with his pen than the petite bourgeoisie, the immorality of the higher classes being ignored by him. Result: the peasants who do not read novels have not been in the least affected by his writings, and the bourgeoisie caring little for the plebs, took such notice of Pot bouille as to make the French realist lose all desire of burning his fingers again at their family pots. From the first then, Zola has pursued a path which though bringing him to fame and fortune has led him nowhere in so far as salutary effects are concerned.

Whether Theosophists, in the present or future, will ever work out a practical application of the suggestion is doubtful. To write novels with a moral sense in them deep enough to stir Society, requires a great literary talent and a born theosophist as was Dostoevsky--Zola standing outside of any comparison with him. But such talents are rare in all countries. Yet, even in the absence of such great gifts one may do good in a smaller and humbler way by taking note and exposing in impersonal narratives the crying vices and evils of the day, by word and deed, by publications and practical example. Let the force of that example impress others to follow it; and then instead of deriding our doctrines and aspirations the men of the XXth, if not the XIXth century will see clearer, and judge with knowledge and according to facts instead of prejudging agreeably to rooted misconceptions. Then and not till then will the world find itself forced to acknowledge that it was wrong, and that Theosophy alone can gradually create a mankind as harmonious and as simple-souled as Kosmos itself; but to effect this theosophists have to act as such. Having helped to awaken the spirit in many a man--we say this boldly, challenging contradiction-- shall we now stop instead of swimming with the TIDAL WAVE?

Lucifer, November, 1889

Paul Lowe writes:
A real-life experience of the Eastern classical story:
'Searching for Ones' Self'  Thank for sharing this Martinchen.

Those that wake up usually say there is nothing to do, it happens on its
own. Maybe, but most of them, like Martinchen, were total in their searching
- before it happened 'on its own.'

There is the classical story of a young man starting out to search for The
Tree of Life. On his way out of the village he saw a man sitting under a
tree. He asked the man if he knew the direction to go to look for the tree.
The pointed ahead.

Years later the now much older young man came back to his village -
unsuccessful in finding The Tree.
Just before he came to the village he saw the same man - sitting under The
Tree of Life! And he understood. Even if the man had told him he would not
have recognised it.

It is here. It is now. We just have to slow down and experience this very
moment - unconditionally. 

To see Paul's blog in NewRealities go to:  http://www.newrealities.com/index.

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Martinchen wrote:

I am a school teacher and I was travelling around for about twenty years
in order to search for myself. I tried all kinds of stuff. One day, I
realized that there is nothing to search for or to find. Just breathing
in and out and to laugh about the ridiculousness of life is enough. All
these years, I was looking for change, but the only thing I did was to
escape from myself by not wanting to feel the helplessness of each
single moment.

It was my own greed that wanted me to be different. Without the
advertisers who made me believe in a goal and in this way gave me a
goal, I would have never started the search. It was kind of tricky – but
it worked.

Each day, when I wake up views change. I do not do anything about them,
they just change all by themselves. Now, I am married. I am teaching
children to earn money and I live in Southern Germany. After such a long
time, I am starting to live the adventure of life. I am learning not to
run away from what life is giving me or to reject it, since I know that
it was all created by my words, thoughts, actions and feelings. It is my
responsibility.

The  Structure of GOD Bad Mergentheim,   1964   (audio  No. 5)

MAHARISHI:     ...GC we say, is something special, something different in
its  structure and quality than CC. In order to understand this, we`ll
understand the whole structure of GOD. Gross state of creation, your  gross
state of mantra, gross state of thinking and then subtle state,  subtle,
subtle and then transcend it - this field of subtlest creation  is the field
of celestial life. Transcending this is absolute  Being. In the relative
field there are  various planes, gross and subtle and then subtlest,
subtlest ( he is  using a board).

GOD we define as one presiding over the
relative and  the Absolute. Someone in the subtlest field  of creation here
(the relative field) will be almighty for the  entire creation  for sure,
because his status is in the  subtlest field of life. He is also almighty.
But this almighty is  in the relative field. Absolute Being is also almighty
in the sense that this is the basis of the entire creation, as the
nourishment is the basis of all ...

So the unmanifested Being is  also
almighty, but this is almighty  in the absolute status. GOD is that,
presiding over  this(relative) and this(absolute). GOD we exemplified as the
government, all powerful government. Government has to be represented  by
someone. Government is represented by parliament and again it  is
represented by a president. Parliament is one government, president  is one
government.   This here (subtlest relative)  is like the president, some God
here, someone in the relative field,  some God (Devata), angels and then
highest type of angels, some  almighty being in the relative field, who have
the existence in the  celestial field of life, in heaven, we could say. He
is like the  president who symbolizes the government. But there is another
power  which even goes higher than the president and that higher power would
be that which presides over this (relative) and this (absolute) which  we
have said GOD. Does it make sense?

Like the parliament (it) is all
powerful, it can throw and install even the president. The president belongs
to the  relative field, head of the state. That is the head of the entire
creation of manifested, relative order. Someone here, some God, who  may be
`he` or `she`, whomsoever the parliament appoints.  And  the real overlord
of creation, the GODhead of everything is like the  parliament. Whenever
some disorder takes  place, when the existing law of the  president is not
able to control the territory, something wrong  happens and becomes
difficult to be managed, then a commission is  appointed. for that
particular work. The commission goes there,  makes inquiries, brings the
report and settles the whole thing  there. Like the commission of the
government are the Incarnations (Avataras), all this we hear of
Incarnations.

They  don't belong to this field of celestial life, they can't
belong to the  Absolute, they belong to that field or  they belong to that
authority which overrules, which is the GODhead,  they represent GODhead. So
these Incarnations are the expressions of GOD.  And the purpose of these
Incarnations is to reestablish law  and order. And what for? In order that
the process of evolution may go  on unhindered. When in some area people
begin  to do mischief, go opposite the path of evolution, do something
wrong,  go against Dharma, then  some Incarnation comes, restores law and
order  by means of education and maybe sometimes punishment also, whatever
is  needed for that particular occasion. (They) establish the law and
order, establish the path of righteousness, establish this TM. It has  been
from time to time and (they) give a direct way to  liberation. This has been
from  times immemorial, ever since the creation was  created....

Bhairavi has a whole blog on this website of her Aghori practices at:
http://www.newrealities.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=9&id=170&Itemid=1181

Bhairavi originates from Sanskrit as Bha Ra Va. Maitreya wrote the Bhairava Tantra for Gurudev, and the ancient reference is from the Yogini Hrydaya: [mantra] “Visvashya bharanat vamanat shushti stithi samhārakāri parasivaha”  - the shiva almighty lord creates this universe, he nourishes  it and  again he dissolves it into himself, that is why Bhairava is the ultimate energy and his shakti, his energy, is Bhairavi. Bibhite klesho yasmādithi bhairavaha - all the sorrows, pains, agonies and accidents who creates, he is Bhairava because to come out of all that we have to worship his shakti, Bhairavi.

“Bhairavaha sarva shakti bharitaha” – all those energies, siddhis, are his family to the Bhairava, so we should worship Bhairavi, his energy, to attain all the energies.

This entire concept of time is Bhairava’s form. One who desires to grow above time has to worship his energy; that is Bhairavi. One sadhaka who gives up lust, greed, passion, everything becomes his Bhairavi, his energy. The union of a Bhairavi and Bhairava is the union of absolute reality. The path of Shiva and Shakti exists as the same, but the path of the Bhairava cult involves direct relationship through the human agonies and sufferings to grow out of them. We dive right into that which we want to evolve from. As you can imagine, the path of the Bhairavi is very intense. It is intense in enjoyment, where every desire is fulfilled to lead to dissolution from it. So a Bhairavi cannot be any female; only those who have reached a certain level of growth can handle this level of enjoyment. Only one with so many births can this level of enjoyment prevent personal enslavement to such human afflictions,  as those not able to evolve out of them can become addicted and further enslaved. The Bhairava worships his Bhairavi, and together they do their sadhana to uplift themselves to higher levels of consciousness. And a Bhairavi constantly thinks about her Guru, as she is dissolved into him.

 

Aghori – The Bhairavi path also belongs to the path of the Aghora, that which is not impure. Nothing is impure to the Bhairavi. Ghora is that which is impure. In our past lives, Maitreya was, and still is, Aghori Kharpara Bharati, and I was, and am, Bhajrani, his Bhairavi. While human nature allows us to forget the memories of our past lives, the samskāras, the impressions are still there when we take our next birth. So over and over we question, why do I keep doing the same mistakes? What is the reason behind it? Why me? These questions never resolve themselves, actually they make the burdens more difficult to overcome. Instead of thinking so, acceptance of who we are without knowing our past mistakes serves an ability to accept all. Then all facets of the human existence will be considered as not impure, or pure. Aghoris worship such items as human skulls, and use them in rituals as a way to face the hidden truth. Ordinary people will condemn such practices as disgusting or evil, but the skull is a beautiful part of the human body. Everyone has one, it is just that we don’t see a skull in living beings that reminds us of the future death to come. This is the death that we fear, and Aghori does not have the fear death, nor fear that which we cannot see with the naked eye. As blood is feared when it pours out of a wound, actually it is the living material within us, we just now have to look at the pain associated with it. And again, the Aghori cares not about pain, but openly acknowledges it and worships it.

I received my first human skull directly at a smashan, burial ground, when I visited the Samadhi, final resting place, of Amritānanda’s Guru. I prayed to him and continued on a short walk through the field to a small village. On the same pathway back, a local villager showed me a skull. Immediately, my eyes lit up like a child to a new toy, and I asked for it. He rinsed it in some water, packed it up and I took it back to the ashram. I never verbally told Amrita Guruji, only mentally I told him, because I did not want to bring it in temple for the public to see. Most people would never understand this path and it was not the time for such a relic to be released. The perfect time did come when I visited Maitreya in Hyderabad, and we were talking about skulls. I told my son, Varma, that I had one. He wanted to see it, and I unpacked it. He and Maitreya chanted Bhairava mantras as they placed their hands on it, imbibing the powerful energies into the skull. It now sits in the puja room as a living relic.  In fact, he is joked to be my first husband.

 

Naked – A Bhairavi is totally naked to the truth. We come out exposed and naked to the reality. When a person exposes themselves, there is nothing to hide that protects you from your incredibly strong ego. We live unshielded from anyone or any inhibitions. Truthfully speaking, I always want to be naked. The hot weather is suffocating in this country, and I prefer to lie around the peetham in the buff all day long. In modern Indian society, they cannot tolerate seeing the skin of a woman. So constantly we play this game of locking the door and closing the windows, when men can walk around shirtless with no problem. There are mosquitoes nightly and the hot sun daily, so coverage is necessary. But when in the public only the arms, face and feet are exposed, as well as the flash of belly and back when wearing a sari. Exposing yourself in India is considered a sin, because the woman’s body is considered sacred. So why do they want to cover up such a sacred temple that deserves to be worshipped? Because of Indian suppressions, even women themselves fall into this trap.

I want to be revealed all the time, and I encourage others to let everything out so that we are left with no identity to hide. People cannot tolerate this because a Bhairavi will call you out on all your shit. We want to bring all of your inhibitions up to the surface so they can be dissolved. There is no embarrassment to the Bhairavi because we accept any faults and let them turn over quickly. I have the innate timing to be at the right place at the right time to show people exactly what they have been hiding, whether they like it or not. This can bring enemies, temporary or permanent, but it is only done out of love for them to see them grow out of their inhibitions. So, people like Nirmala and Sobha cannot stomach my presence at all. Nirmala came over last night saying she wanted to do some seva for Maitreya, but also wanted some privacy to get laid. A Bhairavi has nothing to hide, everything to reveal, so she would never need any privacy. She asked him to ask me to hide in the puja room while they had sex all in a full sari. I am such a cooperative Bhairavi that I would gladly be of service to them, chant mantras, apply lubrication, anything to show love to a  fellow Bhairavi. But alas, the great Bhairavi tradition is lost in India, and the situation was what it was. Even Americans cannot digest my presence when I open my mouth, because they do not like their suppressions and mistakes blasted out to the universe. But a Bhairavi is fearless about themselves and their loved ones.

 

Not a wife – A Bhairavi is not a wife at all, although our love is purer than any married couple. While Maitreya is my ever-beloved from so many thousands of years, we are not subject to the social constraints that a typical marriage has. In fact we are not even legally married, nor really care to, even though we are expecting biological children. We did promise ourselves and declare our love privately, but without any witnesses and the pomp and circumstance dog show. Maitreya says that no spiritual cult can hold a couple together, only the love can keep them together. That’s why he says that if we have the love we can be together, if we don’t have the love then we cannot be together. So there is no need for us to be wed. There is a Sanskrit term that so describes this form of marriage of nymphs, gandharva vivaha,  celestial marriage, where  a boy and girl agree to marry in private without the presence of any witness or spiritual cult, and they are considered married. This doesn’t exist openly in modern society anywhere, so again we challenge the social norms.

 

Usually sexual monogamy is assumed in a love union, but a Bhairavi and a Bhairava do not uphold such ideas. Ananda Bhairavis and Ananda Bhairavas practice vama tantra, where sexual union is a central part of the ritual. In our case, Maitreya is also known as Aghori Kharpara Bharati, where he had many Bhairavis and partook in vama tantra and uplifted many Bhairavis to the celestial world. Those that surrendered completely to their Guru aren’t roaming the world any longer, while those that didn’t, like me, still exist today. In the past, I did practice vama tantra with him, but kept dodging and leaving him lifetimes over and over again. Some of us have been cursed by our Guru, that they are even living in a male body in this life but show huge potential as a Bhairavi. But we don’t just fall off the trees, so don’t expect to go out on a date with one expecting a great fuck. Bhairavis are very hard to find, and would only be revealed to those who have this kind of karmic connection.  If you find a Bhairavi and try to marry her like any mere mortal, good luck if you have any idea of what that kind relationship is, because it won’t be that.

 

A healer – Bhairavis are great natural healers. Daily Maitreya and I do pranic healing for ourselves and our children to clear negative energy. Our family is currently hit by some prayoga, tantric black magic, so we are constantly working to keep our family together. We also massage constantly for healing and to bring back the wonderful yoga of touch back to this Indian society that is so afraid of touching each other, especially the opposite sex. 

 

Works with the weather – Bhairavis have the ability to work with or affect their weather surroundings. During her evening of Navaratri, nine nights of worship for the Mahavidyas, the ten great wisdom goddesses, I started to experience it directly. The goddess Chinnamasta literally means “severed head.” We cut off our own head which means cutting off the thoughts to reach Absolute Reality. When doing the Chinnamasta sadhana, I was able to connect with the electrical field, and lightning storms followed me while driving through the entire state of New York to Pennsylvania. The Chinnamasta energy works with lightning, and also will disrupt any electrical equipment, so be careful when you use computers, cell phones, stereos and such items because they will go away, and again you have to surrender to that in your normal life. When I did a Bhairavi fire worship, a raging storm of heavy rain, lightning and thunder hit directly at midnight the moment I walked out the door.

Coincidence you may say, but the Bhairavi does have this power as she is totally in tune with Mother Nature.

Originally at http://www.religionandspirituality.com
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 1:01am

The recent Arizona sweat lodge deaths call attention to notions or philosophies with seductive grains of truth that leap to dangerous applications. In the sweat lodge tragedy, “pushing the limits of your comfort zone” crossed the line between life and death.

I’m frequently bewildered when otherwise sophisticated people (and that was certainly true of many sweat lodge victims) succumb to transparent unrealistic promises. THe popular book, The Secret is another example of propelling a basic truth into never never land.

Yes, there is something worthwhile in “pushing beyond your comfort zones” or embracing positive thinking. Surely, inertia or wallowing in negativity are not likely to get you far unless you are plain lucky. But luck is neither a reliable business plan or life plan. So you must act.

Thinking positively and having trust and faith are powerful first steps on a ladder of ascendency. That first step, though, must be followed by hard internal work and persistence in constructive external actions.

Because the promotion of false applications of fundamental spiritual principles are so damaging to spirituality and individual well being, I’m reissuing an article that I once wrote that expresses the dangerous and “cruel” sides of The Secret. The article resonates with Barbara Ehrenreich’s current book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.

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 Please, don’t get me wrong. Challenging some of the outrageous claims of positive thinking and other spiritual principles does not mean that I reject their basic truths and valuable strategies. But unsupportable claims and destructive applications only serve to undermine and turn people away from spirituality, while reinforcing the negative stereotypes.

The Cruel Side of The Secret

Circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum made a fortune with his philosophy: "There's a sucker born every minute." Journalist H.L. Mencken added another twist: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public." The troupe behind "The Secret" have mastered those strategies — and added a few twists of their own.

Who would have believed that you could convince people that they could have wealth, health and longevity by laying down 24 bucks for a book, or 29 dollars for a DVD? Who would have thought that a simple "secret" could show you how to realize all your dreams?

You don't have to bother going down to the beach in search of the bottle with the genie. Working for a living doesn't make much sense either, if you can just materialize whatever you want. And why spend money on lottery tickets with their slim probability of winning, when you can go for a sure thing without laying out a cent once you know "The Secret?"

Everyone has access to the great genie in the sky — the universe — says The Secret. Just close your eyes, think positively, vibrate in unison with the right frequencies, and whatever your heart — or rather your ego — desires, your friend the universe will miraculously deliver to you: "Like Aladdin's Genie, the Law of Attraction grants our every command."

Struggling with weight loss? Forget about the South Beach and Zone diets: "To lose weight, don't focus on 'losing weight.' Instead, focus on your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will summon it to you."

Do you have one of those sub-prime mortgages and are worrying how you will make the next payment? Why not just pay off the entire mortgage? "It is as easy to manifest $1 as it is to manifest $1 million."

Need a new car, but can't afford it? "You put yourself in the feeling place of really being in that car."

I can give more examples, but I think you get the point.

The Secret's formula is reminiscent of a story told by the leader of an African nation. He remarked that the colonialists came to his country and gave his people the Bible. Then the invaders taught the populace how to pray with their eyes closed. When they opened their eyes, he said, the people had the Bible and the colonialists had the land.

Don't be surprised when you open your eyes, after visualizing the stuff of your dreams, to see that you have The Secret book and DVD on your shelf and The Secret people have what you were dreaming about, from the sale of millions of copies of the book, video and promotional spin-offs.

All this would be amusing and harmless — even entertaining— if didn't have a more serious and potentially damaging, if not cruel, side. The secret of The Secret is that it makes the victim the perpetrator.

Around the time that The Secret was published, Larry King interviewed Joe Vitale, one of The Secret's handlers. When Joe flamboyantly stated the Law of Attraction, Larry asked him how that applied to a case all over the news that week: "Did 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, who was abducted and viciously raped and buried alive, attract this?" Joe hesitated a few seconds, realizing that any exception would open a hornet's nest of other exceptions. So he promptly repeated The Law: "You attract everything that happens to you."

It left me speechless.

Similarly, we are told that disease follows the Law of Attraction. If you have cancer, it's because of wrong or negative thinking that brings on stress. And stress "begins with one negative thought." But The Secret says you can reverse disease, "with one small positive thought and then another."

Huh? What about popes, sages or other enlightened beings throughout history who died of cancer, heart disease, plagues and a host of other diseases? If they weren't sufficiently positive in their thinking, or weren't in tune with the universe, then we're all in big trouble.

Since writing about The Secret, I have received a number of disturbing emails and calls that may be the tip of an iceberg. One woman who works with emotionally vulnerable cancer patients reported that after reading {ialic}The Secret, many patients feel guilt and shame for "attracting" their illnesses and bringing suffering and pain to themselves and loved ones.

Yes, we know that stress and other lifestyle factors may contribute to disease, but there are many glaring exceptions — people who violate all the popular wisdom about healthy living and yet live long and physically healthy lives. Perhaps they followed a more basic principle of the universe — to pick your parents very carefully so that you have health, longevity and resiliency genes. And yes, positive thinking is useful and even essential for maximizing the potential for improvement and possible recovery. Combined with other treatments, it can be a potent factor; still, there's mystery and no guarantees.

While science admits only incomplete knowledge of health and longevity, The Secret claims complete and absolute knowledge — and it's all very simple, narrowing that knowledge to a few infallible "laws of the universe." This would be exciting, even miraculously groundbreaking, if there were any credible evidence for these claims. Instead, we get tidbit droppings selected from broad scientific theories along with huge leaps to sweeping far-reaching conclusions in a fact-free field. In its casual free hand in using "supportive" quotes from quantum physics, The Secret conveniently ignores one of the most fundamental underpinnings of the new science: Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — that we can know some things but not everything.

Sure, energy is a pillar of the universe. On one level, the world is energy in motion. So far, so good. But next, The Secret insists we can control the universe's energy and turn it into anything we want — preferably new houses, new cars and other stuff that presumably will make us happy. But hold on, aren't we missing a few steps between points A and B?

Faith is a good starting point, but not blind faith. We need supportive evidence, or something resembling it, not just one-sided, hand-picked, too-good-to-be-true anecdotal reports that suspiciously shield us from annoying contradictory cases.

So here's my proposal to set the record straight. It will short-circuit the bickering about "Does "the Secret" work or doesn't it?

I noticed that Joe Vitale, one of the handlers of The Secret is totally bald on top. Now baldness is certainly not in the same league as cancer. But lots of men are disturbed by it. I read a poll a few years ago reporting that an impressive percentage of bald men would give five years of their lives for a full head of hair. I, personally, have always loved my widening bald spot. It reminds me of how much we don't know. No doubt there are much potential riches in the vast market for a cure. And indeed, huge sums of money are invested worldwide in the hunt for a baldness cure.

In the case of baldness, we can examine the follicles under a microscope, directly manipulate and experiment with them in every conceivable way. You can even hold the entire problem in your hand.

What I'm getting at is, if The Secret can prevent and cure cancer by manipulating its complex biochemistry, then growing a head of hair should be a cakewalk. So, Joe, please start thinking positively about hair. Just as The Secret tells dieters to "visualize your ideal weight," start visualizing those wonderful locks you had as a teenager. At the same time, get in touch with your close friend "the universe" to jump-start your new follicles.

I suspect you will try to squirm out of this challenge by saying, "Bald is beautiful," and you just don't want to go the hair growth route, even though The Secret can do it. And I respect that. I'm trying to cultivate that view myself for what I suspect lies in my near future. But since there's so much at stake, let's put that sweet thought aside and go for it. Be a sport and do this "one for the Gipper," so we can convince all the suffering cancer patients that they can think and visualize their way to health.

I'll be watching Larry King Live for your reappearance with a full, dazzling head of hair. And here's an additional perk: I'll pay for your first 10 haircuts. It's not that I'm generous, Joe. The fruits of this miracle will go for big bucks on eBay.

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Bernard Starr, Ph.D., formerly professor of developmental and educational psychology at the City University of New York, now teaches “Psychology and Spirituality in Film” at Marymount Manhattan College. In addition to his work in radio (“The Longevity Report”), he is a longtime contributor of commentary and opinion articles to numerous major newspapers and other publications. He is also the President of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy and is the main United Nations representative for the Institute of Global Education that founded the Mucherla Global School in Mucherla, India.

[A friend] was talking about Maharishi being fully
enlightened, and thus finished with Karma - thus not having to come back to
this plane. It does sound as though he was/is an exceptional and fun being.

We talked again about the three levels of Karma - instant, emerging later in
this lifetime, and the repercussions for a future life. And inevitable.
I get that, and, although I have no idea what, I feel there is yet another
level. There is something even 'bigger' than that.

While I was attempting to explain to him what I was experiencing, it was as
though 'something/somebody' took over. My eyes were streaming with tears.
I looked down, and it was as though 'they' were looking 'down' to us and
saying, very, very gently, and lovingly, that this time is over. We have to
start realising that everybody, every creature, and everything is equal, and
thus 'sacred.' We must wake up and start treating everybody, every creature,
and everything with respect. That was the overwhelming sensation - respect.

I am not saying I 'know' this, this is where I seem to have got to so far.

When a being is 'enlightened' they have woken up to a certain level of
realisation - and thus are no longer subject to the 'laws' of cause and
effect - karma. They do not accumulate further karma/consequences, and thus
do not have to return to this plane of consciousness.

But although they are now free of the circle of life and death, the body is
still subject to the results of past events.
This may be why when the body of a being who is accepted as enlightened gets
ill, the being does not cure it, but just lets the phenomenon play out -
often resulting in what we call death.

And at another level, there are reports of enlightened beings who's bodies
do not decompose after death. They have reached such a state of purity that
the usual cycle of such events do not effect the body.

At another level it is said that there are beings who reach such a state of
purity that the body does not die - but dissolves - what might be called
ascension. There is such total acceptance, that all the 'individual'
'life-trons' that come together to form the body also dissolve into 'where
they have come from.'

Then, other beings who dissolve into what we call formlessness, who, through
a subtle level of desire to assist other humans, retain the capability of
taking physical form.

I met a South African woman who was living in seclusion in South-West
Australia. She said when she read of such beings in the volumes of "Masters
of the Himalayas' she decided to go and meet them. It took nine years of
tests, frustrations, and eventually resolve to let things be as they are,
before she met them. The purity of her 'desire' formed the energy for them
to manifest into a form that we call human.

Then, a state totally beyond any desire in any form -
and dissolving back into the unformed.

Can you imagine? When even a glimpse of this process is experienced -
through a Satori, or near death experience, the importance given to 'worldly
events' - pride, jealousy, fame, possessions, revenge, resentments,
malicious gossip, being seen and accepted for 'who we are' - all that
becomes just amusing nonsense.

Those who 'attain' say the awakening is a gift, and, most often they have
devoted their lives to seeking what is beyond the mundane.

And, maybe, it is nothing like this at all! Maybe it is just the way we see
it, or, maybe, it is way, way beyond what even enlightened ones can imagine.
I suppose we will eventually find out - one way of another.

What I have come to is that awakening is more likely if life is lived,
unseriously, unconditionally, to the full.
Then, even if awakening does not happen -
it doesn't matter because you are having fun!

Happy funning...

Philip: What we’re in consideration of here is what is sometimes called the "Third Eye", or the one Eye. There is a rather obscure saying in the Bible where Christ says, “If thine eye be single then thy whole body be filled with light”. It’s very interesting that in the East the "single eye" is commonly referred to as the Third Eye. And really what the single or Third Eye symbolizes is the single "I" -- the one "I", the Greater "I" of our ultimate identity. The one “Eye” is not just a representation of a physical or psychic or spiritual eye or a vision or a scene of light, but also of the one “I” -- the “I am”. So what we're truly doing in satsang and in the whole non-dual approach to enlightenment involves a constant reminder of, not just that as Ramana said, "the great I-dentity is who you really are", but also that when we look into the eyes of another person, the “I” that is looking back at us through their two physical eyes is ulimately the exact same “I” that is looking through our eyes at that person. This intensifies in a moment of conscious relating, which is actually the essence of true Tantra. All the layers of so-called spiritual initiations or spiritual realizations working on the subtle levels of mind end up in the final realization that the “I” that is looking at you through the two eyes of the other, is the exact same “I” that is looking through your eyes at them. From the other to you and back to them. This is not just poetry, this is not just metaphor; this is literal, actual truth.

There is another phrase in the Bible that actually touches on that. It is “in the twinkling of an eye, it can happen.” Papaji (the great Indian Advaitin master) used to say that this can happen “in a quarter of a second.” Just devote a quarter of a second to the realization of who you actually are, what the self actually is, and in that moment there can be a realization that there is only one “I”, literally. That quarter of a second realization can happen with your partner, for example, or in any sort of relating with anyone in the moment; but this can be a particulary useful thing to remember to practice with your primary partner. Consider for just one second, one moment in time, really truly devote all your awareness to that, all your intention to realizing that the “I” that is looking through your eyes is ultimately the same “I” that is looking back at you through their eyes. This is the One “I”, the source of consciousness behind the thick layers of egoic personality and character. It's the same thing as the Third Eye, the One Eye of spiritual vision that sees directly into the non-dual nature of God and Ultimate Reality.

We first consider this on an intellectual level; and then we enter into the existential, the actual experience. We leap into the actual experience. It’s a jump from mind and time into the eternity of now where the One “I” exists, where the One “I” is the fundamental reality, the unqualified reality, the only reality.

Of course, the unspeakable miracle is that this One “I” has as its capacity the ability to express through endless forms of the bodymind; endless apparent personalities in space and time. I say “apparent” because the personality actually exists at the level of the dream that is generated by the mind when it is ignorant of Reality. As in any dream, the dream when you’re dreaming it is real; as you move out of it there is the realization that it's only a dream. So in tracing back who it is that we think we are in our dreaming state — the self image, or personality — it’s seen that it’s in the self image where all suffering occurs. The self image always defines itself (the ego) as something limited. “I’m not good enough.. there’s someone better than me… I’m not worthy of love.. I’m not worthy of enlightenment.. I’m not worthy of knowing God.. I’m better than you…I’m less than you…I have something you don’t have…you have something I don’t have…” and so on. The self image always functions and exists within comparison, and therein suffering lies. This is what the personality is.

Once we have played enough in the realm of personality, there gradually dawns this slow realization that we are becoming tired with it, even if at first we don’t understand this inner fatigue, and may even mistake it for depression. But at this point you’re literally losing your interest in false personality; losing your fascination with the games of personality, losing interest with defining yourself as a separate entity. And losing interest with endlessly validating that...with confirming the self image, with "proving" something about yourself. In relationship invariably there is this undercurrent of effort, this attempt to prove that we’re lovable to those whom we do the dance of relationship with; whether they’re primary partner, friends, family, etc. And it is within the limited self image that the conditions of suffering are generated. So the waking up process is nothing other than, as Ramana said, going back the way you came, returning back to that which is creating the self image in the first place. The original core thought or the original separation from the source, from the One “I”.

So if thine “eye-I” be single, thy whole body be filled with light: what that refers to is that if there is a one-pointed focus on the source from which the self image is generated and has found its birth, this in turn leads to freedom and light. Just on the other side of the core wound of the ego is the awareness of that which is observing the whole thing, which is the One “I”. At that point the whole body becomes full of light; what that means is that the body is understood to be nothing but a field of energy that is in itself consciousness. So the awakening doesn’t occur just in the head; it is actually throughout the whole body. At which point the individual self image, the ego-wave in the ocean of infinite Being realizes its inherent existence as the entire ocean, or as pure consciousness. And this is a wave that is infinitely still at the same time. This is awakening.

But in that realization, in that twinkling of an eye, even if it’s just a glimpse, there is a realization of fundamental sanity and safety and okayness, because all the insanity of the personality is a function of separation and isolation, loneliness at a very deep level. Not just a casual loneliness but a deep profound loneliness of being cut off from the source, adrift in the universe; an iceberg adrift in the ocean. It’s a mortally terrifying state of existence and it gives rise to all suffering. Trying to improve the iceberg, trying to work on the iceberg, trying to melt it a bit or maybe freeze it a little harder, change its texture, turning it into a popsicle, putting some flavor on it… all the things that we might do with the iceberg are ultimately fruitless. It’s like any effort on fixing the mind, changing the personality, polishing the personality, scrubbing it up, improving it, is essentially fruitless. It’s like dusting; dust always accumulates again...it goes up and falls down again.

So, we’re not involved actually in improving the personality, we’re not involved in changing the mind; this is a pointless task. What we’re involved in is seeing into the illusory nature of the iceberg and realizing that the iceberg is nothing but a modification of the entire ocean. The ego is a collection of thoughts; thoughts are nothing but a modification of consciousness. So we are deconstructing; going back to the source. We are seeing what is on the other side of the iceberg, seeing what is on the other side of the original thought: I am a somebody, I am a separate person. Just on the other side of that is the pure awareness that is the one I, the One Identity as Ramana called it; the one universal Self. A realization like this happens in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye when you actually “get it” profoundly, that the “I” that is looking into you is the same “I” that is looking back at you through the eyes of another person. To the ego this is absolutely abhorrent because there may be some people that you want to be joined with, intimate with, but not everyone. This is because the ego is always in comparison, it is always ranking, assessing. Who makes your list of favorite personalities and who’s on the black list. And where you rank yourself; what sort of a personality you think you have; your own self image. Who you think you really are is never who you really are. Because who you really are cannot be thought of; it can only be directly known.

Questioner: What is the Source? I find I have a hard time attuning to it.

Philip: The Source is nothing other than the present moment. It is not always easy to sense the internal Source, because it’s awfully intangible, and we’re used to focusing on things outside of us all of the time. Reality is a very physical, material thing, especially for Westerners. So to say, “find your true self inside”….most people when they close their eyes, they just see a big blankness. There is not a lot of sensitivity there, for most people. What you can do is simply externalize that a little bit and you’ll see that the external correlate of your true Self or the Source is just this present moment. It’s a wonderful benchmark because the one thing you know for sure about this moment is that it exists. Here it is. The only thing that happens is that in our identification with thinking and when we identify with the personality and when we get lost and entangled in the mind, is that it puts a film over reality, a film of dust and it makes it into something very mundane, very ordinary. So it becomes, “well, what are you talking about, what’s so special about this moment? It’s just this moment; what’s the big deal? What’s all the fuss about? Leave me alone, let me read a book about enlightenment.” But the actual truth is that this moment is absolutely sacred and is absolutely miraculous. This moment is stunningly, unbelievably, impossibly miraculous.

Sometimes we are aware of that when we take drugs; if you have ever taken mind altering drugs, psychotropics or what have you. Normally any kind of a peak experience in life is thought to be created by something outside of us. It’s the drug; it’s the romantic relationship; it’s the wine; it’s the sex; it’s the food; it’s going to another country where I change my reference points; but in truth, none of that is doing it. All that is happening is that the mind is being tricked into being quiet for a moment. So the mind falls silent for a moment and suddenly the immensity of this moment is revealed in all its grandeur, in its simplicity and purity. Now that moment is one and the same as the source supposedly “inside” of you because, you see, this inside/outside business is really an illusion, a convention of the mind. If you go inside yourself you’re just going to find your innards. Your physical innards all the way down to cells and atoms and molecules and sub-atomic particles.

Questioner: My sense of the present moment is not really a thing; even the things I’m seeing seem to persist because of memory.

Philip: The labeling is in the memory; that is correct. So when there is a mental categorization like “chair” for example, we call this a chair…but just to experience it with openly, without mental categorizing, with just open consciousness, it’s seen that it’s not really a chair. It’s just this something. Now it’s the same experience that you see when you look in the eyes of a very young infant, a young child in the pre-verbal stage, before they are conceptualizing. They always have that kind of open-eyed wonder. Well that’s the same thing as bare consciousness. The only difference is that you have a self sentient mind after the ego is developed and then transcended afterwards. The mind still functions; we don’t become an enlightened cauliflower; that’s not what we’re engaged in. So you maintain the faculties of the mind, but you also at the same time are able to recapture that primal innocence that we had in our preverbal stage as an infant, as a young child. The wonder, the vividness of reality.

Now what happens is that normally in these peak experiences the ego convinces you that the reason you’re having this peak experience is because of something outside of you. You met the right person, it’s your vacation, somebody did something nice to you, someone left you an inheritance, or smiled at you, and so forth. It could be the tiniest thing or the most spectacular thing. But it always ends up with the ego-self saying “now the reason you’re feeling this way is because of something that’s outside of you that happened to you”. In reality all that’s going on is that the mind is being tricked into being quiet. The mind is being stopped forcefully. And in that stopping the mind experiencess a moment of desirelessness. Whenever there is no desire, there is peace, happiness.

Questioner: I had an experience years ago, it was very very brief; it wouldn’t be right even to call it an experience. It was only an experience after the fact but when it was happening it was like there was nothing there…like I was not there. No body sensations, no mental activity; it was absolutely gone, and when I came out of it, it was very profound. I was crying, I was laughing, but it just didn’t seem to mesh with everyday experience.

Philip: Yes, you weren’t ready to integrate it or sustain it, at the time. And that’s absolutely okay, because it often happens that way. Awakening is often heralded by mini-awakenings. In Zen they call them satoris. They don’t last, they’re not meant to last, because your personality system is adjusting to the possibility that there is a greater reality. Eventually, if you persist in the sincerity of your seeking, your personality is going to relinquish its hold on you; it’s going to let go. It’s going to give up the game.

Questioner: Being here, with you, does that facilitate that happening?

Philip: If It is in accordance with your intention, but how and when it happens, is an absolute mystery. It’s a function of Grace. It’s not in the hands of the separate identity that you think you are or that you think I am. It’s not in the hands of Jeff. There actually isn’t any Jeff; Jeff is just an idea in space and time. There is this enormous reality, the One Will, God’s Will, that is just hovering in the background of Jeff. Very gently and patiently waiting to come, in soft steps, to make its entry. But it can happen in a moment, for example when you’re looking at me, when we’re right here. In satsang especially the vibration is a little higher because our intention for two hours is set on the highest truth. So when you’re looking at me, or any satsang teacher, you can use that as an opportunity to have a glimpse of your own true self. Your true self doesn’t lie in this body-personality sitting here that you know as me; it lies in the purity of this present moment, and this momentary communion between you and I, two apparently separate identities. In one glimpse there is the possibility of recognizing the essential greater “I” that we both reflect back to each other. Again, not poetically, not metaphorically, but literally, actually.

An analogy I often use that is very helpful to understand this is of white light passing through a prism. It refracts into a rainbow of colors. If you think of the prism as the body, the universe, and the white light as being consciousness, the one “I”, then the colours that come out on the other side of the prism are all the separate bodies of apparently disctinct entities. An infinite number of colors, in this case. So you and I are distinct, unique expressions of the one primal “I”. But here we are; we’re both white light at the core.

Questioner: How do you know that? Is that from experience?

Philip: Well, that’s a great question, that’s the perennial question. There’s two ways of knowing. There is knowing through mind, and then there is knowing through direct experience. How do you know when you love something, or someone?

Questioner: It is a feeling.

Philip: Yes, that’s the best way to describe it; a feeling of love. But you know it’s a purely subjective experience; it’s not intellectual, you just know it inwardly. Now as you’ve probably had at this point in your life experiences of joining intimately with someone, even for just one second in time. Where you are so close to that person and there is such a harmony between you and that person, even if you’ve only known it brief moments in your life, that there is no distinction at that point in time between you and them; there is just this. That is love. That is the One “I”. What the mystics have always said for thousands of years, the ones who represent these teachings, is that this experience is available every moment. And available within the entire field of reality.

Questioner: Can you talk about your awakening experiences?

Philip: I can tell you what happened to this bodymind about a year ago. I had been a very voracious seeker for over twenty-five years; I had been all the way around the planet, had studied with many teachers, had many intense experiences of processing my personality, or what I thought to be my personality. And had very many dramatic awakenings, satoris, glimpses, etc.; had sat with a great many teachers. Seven years prior to this event of last year I had lived in a very intense fashion where I had been running a community, a very big spiritual community with many people and plenty of responsibilities. I was working as a transpersonal therapist, in which I would at many times be very open to see my true condition and at other times be caught up in my mind. I had taken roughly a year off and was in retreat mode due to a number of circumstances. One day I was sitting on a park bench at a duck pond in a suburb of Vancouver. I had been reading a book on Ramana Maharshi on a nightly basis. I put the book aside for a while and went to do a meditation on this bench, and what happened was that while going within (as I had done the previous twenty-five years, using every possible technique there was), for the first time there was a complete cessation of doing. There was no doing, no efforting; it was pure non-doing and I found myself sitting there wondering, so to speak, what this non-doing was. I noticed that in the non-doing there was a deep, profound relaxation and merging with the moment. And then there was a sense of light on the inside; a sense of radiance on the inside. Not a scintillating , brilliant light, just a very vivid, clear light. And as I opened my eyes I realized that I had returned to a place that I had known in some ancient, timeless space. It felt like childhood again but it really wasn’t; it was much more than that. And it had to do with complete non-doing, complete cessation of effort. That was the key. And then there was the thought, “well, this is probably a peak experience”, as the mind later on, continued to generate thoughts and struggled to make sense of the experience.

You see, with entering into the realization of yourself as consciousness, the mind doesn’t stop. That’s one of the myths about awakening. The mind doesn’t suddenly stop; the personality isn’t suddenly obliterated; it actually has its own function in the world, because it has too look after the body. And it has its own kind of mechanical history. So, residues continue to be there. There are contractions in personality that happen from time to time. But what has happened since that day is that there is a constant ongoing recognition that I am not the personality, I am not the mind. And so there has been this sense of both emptiness and fullness at the same time, as well as a loss of attachment. What I would describe as a 99% loss of attachment. A 1% residue is sort of there at times, as a kind of a mind-static that appears from time to time, more related to the body. But overall there has been a real impersonal loss of attachment.

Now, from what I have been taught, from what I understand and from what I am experiencing within myself, there is a period after that initial glimpse into seeing your true nature when it stabilizes, there is a period of integration after that. Satyam Nadeen calls it “the deliverance”, which he said continues for seven years after that, Papaji said seven or eight years as well, and that is bearing out as being my experience as well. There is a period of disentanglement that happens, once you see that your iceberg, the iceberg of who you thought you were is fractured into pieces. You see it very clearly, you recognize it; you’re not a unified chunk; the ego is just a collection of thoughts. There is a period of time of those other iceberg chunks moving away and melting back into the ocean; and there is a recognition that you’re disentangling, and integrating your understanding at the same time.

Questioner: And being in the seeker mode…does that continue through that period?

Philip: That’s one thing that has disappeared. And that’s a good question; because that’s another essential part of the awakening process; is that there is a direct, absolute realization that there is no one who attains enlightenment. The whole idea is a fallacy. What it really is, is just shifting from that iceberg to the realization of yourself as the ocean. It’s the realization that your natural state, who you really are, is absolutely okay; has always been absolutely okay; and is absolutely at home, now. As A Course in Miracles says it, “You are at Home in God, dreaming of exile.” Dreaming of exile is the state of identification with the mind. The dreaming of exile is the part that gets broken. The at Home in God part, just stays there. Because it always was the case. So this is not an attainment; there is no attainment. It’s just rather a realization of that which has always been the case.

It’s the same thing like when you want to understand what was before the Big Bang, when astronomy talks about the Big Bang that occurred 15 billion years ago, or the Creation Event, as religions describe it. What happened before God created the world? What was going on before the Big Bang? It’s not something that can ever be known via thought. You can’t know it by thought; what you can know and recognize is that time is a creation of the mind. So within time there exists the ego and its apparent stages of initiation on the spiritual path. At a certain point in time there is a shifting away from this progressive awakening into the sudden realization, “Ah! It’s just this. This is just the case”. So at that point what you’re doing is that you’re shifting from time into eternity. You’re seeing time is the dream; eternity being the reality. So the answer to the question “What was God doing before creating the Universe? What was before the Big Bang?” is, there was no creation; there was no beginning to the universe. It’s just the dream world of time; progressive stages that occur only in the mind. Beginning, middle, end. The brain is conditioned to perceive reality that way.

So the shifting into awakening is the shifting into the immensity of eternity, of what Ekhart Tolle calls “the power of the now.” It’s just this; it’s not in time. What I’m talking about here is really nothing special; you’ve all known it in peak experiences before, in epiphanies. Moments of profound love and sharing with somebody, even if it’s just that split second in time; you’ve had that experience of the portal to eternity opening. Have you ever had that feeling when you’ve really been joined with someone and you think for a moment, how could I ever live without this person? You’ve all had that experience at least once in your life, right? We all have. To consider, how could I live without that person? It seems like an absolute impossibility. That’s the mind’s way of seeing — through the filters of the mind and the distortions of ego dependent-love — into the portal of eternity. It’s the ego’s version of enlightenment. Because the truth is, you can never live without your true nature; you can never live without God. It is an absolute impossibility. It’s only a trick of the mind; it’s the “dream of exile”. The mind can’t accept that; the ego (the part of the mind that believes you are a separate entity) can’t accept that because it tells you that you’re no good; you’re unworthy. That’s what the Christians called original sin. They’ve altered it a bit, but the original idea is valid. It’s the core wound; self-rejection, believing that you’re not worthy of knowing who you truly are.

That’s what the ego identity is based on. So the only way it can understand that opening of the veil, that seeing into the portal of eternity, is by turning it into a special relationship, a primary relationship. Which is why romantic love affairs get so glorified in society. And if it’s not the love affair with one person, it’s the love affair with vocation, with status, with having the “perfect life”, having “it all”. Even being “enlightened”. These are all the ego’s ways of reducing what can never be known with the mind into something objective and recognizable.

Questioner: How can you have that one relationship with yourself? How can you have that one relationship, without it being outside yourself?

Philip: The realization of your true nature is actually not a relationship. Because a relationship needs two entities. It would need some hypothetical “you” being in relationship with this other thing that is yourself.

Questioner: Why do all these relationships end up in dependency…why do they all do that?

Philip: There could be many answers for that, but on one level, one of the answers is going to be that it’s the mind’s way of interpreting the portal of eternity that I was talking about. The reality of eternity. God is an existential reality. You can call it God, you can call it anything you want; the Buddha-mind or the Life Force or whatever. This here is an absolute existential reality, whatever this is. But the mind can’t grasp it; the mind sees it in terms of separation because the mind is just a photocopy machine; it’s just taking photos all the time. It’s not Reality. So when you come back from vacation, you want to remember your vacation, you look at your photo album. It’s a substitute for what you experienced in that moment. An attempt to recapture it again; that’s what the mind is doing. So the mind generates many things, like religion, for example, as an attempt to capture that which it knows is there but it can’t directly experience. And so it does this by externalizing and putting it outside of you. “God” … it’s up there in the sky. And the mind can get crazy about this; which is what goes on in the Middle East; that’s the biggest example of that sort of insanity when the truth is externalized and reduced to a photocopy of Reality. It becomes that this is the only truth — an external object. We have the true external God, you do not. This pear over here is the truth; that apple is the anti-pear.

Questioner: So there’s nothing you can do?

Philip: A really good question, because it addresses the ultimate paradox of this whole thing. One of the misuses of the Wu-Wei, which means “doing nothing” in the teachings of Chinese Taoism — is to use it as a license for laziness. “I don’t need to meditate, I don’t need to do anything, I don’t need to read books, I don’t need to sit with other teachers, because I’m already the Truth and I’ll just forget about it and go back to sleep again.” So while it is true, as the ultimate principle, that there is nothing you can do to create your enlightenment, it is not true that you should do nothing. That’s the paradox. So you have to DO, as Buddha said, when he was on his deathbed and his disciples were around him and all upset. The great master was dying, and they asked him, “what should we do?” And he answered them in a very simple fashion: he said, “work at your salvation with diligence, and be a light unto yourself”. In other words, do your best. And then as Christ once said, “when the hour will come, nobody knows but the Father”. So you do your best and then you trust to Grace.

 

by Robert E. Wilkinson © T

“The goal is not to lose oneself in the Divine Consciousness. The goal is to let the Divine Consciousness penetrate into Matter and transform it.” Sri Aurobindo - The Mother 15: p.191

One of the most troubling developments of our modern age is the inverse relationship between Knowledge and Belief. The less people know about an issue, the more they are willing to believe without questioning. This has led to some tragic social and political consequences but nowhere is this lack of discrimination more problematic than in the conflicting religious beliefs that are presently driving our world to the brink of destruction. If we are ever to turn the tide of this mounting chaos, we must be willing to stop and take a long hard look at the beliefs and suppositions that underlie our collective religious life. Only then can we move forward together with a healing Knowledge.

In his series, “Buddha and the World”, Deepak Chopra has given us a splendid opportunity to do this, to ask the difficult questions rather than simply accept his propositions as undisputed fact. I am most grateful to him for his efforts and hope that he will join in this discussion and respond to the points that are raised.

At the beginning of his article Dr. Chopra writes of a world teetering between madness and catastrophe, a problem he blames in large part upon the burden of past beliefs, a fact plainly evident today in the widening Shia-Sunni conflict in the Middle East. The solution to these complex global problems, says Chopra, are the teachings of the Buddha.

I could not disagree more. Chopra raises the central issue of ‘the burden of past beliefs’ yet he is somehow unable to recognize that Buddhism itself falls into that very category. Does he not see that the most urgent problem of our time, underlying all the rest, is that our whole conception of Spirituality indeed Reality, is based upon teachings that are over 2,000 years old? We would not tolerate this kind of dogmatic intransigence in our scientific endeavors so why do we continue to cling to the notion that God spoke to man over 2,000 years ago through Buddha, Jesus and a few others and has remained silent on the question of spirituality and the human condition ever since? This makes absolutely no sense but each passing day bears witness to a world arrested by the atavistic beliefs of religions long past, with many still locked in some form of convert or kill mentality.
Our attachment to these old religions naturally begs the question: Are the teachings of Buddha and others who lived over 2000 year ago still relevant to our Twenty-first Century society? Chopra will certainly claim, as many have, that Buddha’s teachings are based upon eternal and unchanging truths. But let us carefully examine this claim.

It is a widely accepted but erroneous ‘myth’ that there is but One Eternal Truth realized by all sages at all times though it may vary in form from one culture to another. This ‘One Truth’ is static and unchanging and many believe it represents the most exalted heights that human consciousness can attain. There is however compelling testimony to the contrary, a more integral and enlightened view which holds that Spirituality is a progressive movement, same as the biological evolution, constantly revealing new and fuller aspects of the Divine Consciousness.

All of us today live in a self-evident evolving reality. Does it seem at all reasonable that the spiritual realizations gained over 2,000 years ago by sages limited to an earlier phase of human evolution could be applied without revision to our complex modern culture? Certainly not! The facts are clear. The limitations inherent in the Mental consciousness when Buddha and others of that period made their discoveries could not admit of anything higher than a dissolution of the nexus of consciousness which held them in the world. 1. Buddha called his experience of dissolution “Nirvana” - a state of pure Being, equanimity and peace. The Nirvanic realization, we are told, has the quality of an infinite Zero, or Emptiness without form that grants liberation from this so-called ‘illusory world of becoming’.

It is certainly no coincidence that Lao Tze, the Chinese sage who lived around the same time as Buddha expressed his ‘spiritual’ realization in much the same vein calling it, “The Nothing that is All.” We find this same language later on in the teachings of Shankara, founder of the Advaita Vedanta school, who described his realization as ‘Moksha’ or liberation, where one does not feel oneself any longer to be an individual with a name or form, but an infinite, eternal, space-less consciousness. Clearly these extraordinary beings had reached the heights of the mental consciousness available to them at the time but with the continuing evolution of our species for over 2,000 years, new and greater spiritual heights have opened to our view. The Mental has given way to what Sri Aurobindo 2. and his line have called the “Supra-mental”, as Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, 3. Third in that line, explains:
'Supermind is the faculty that is now changing the human being's capacity to observe and measure. What before in both science and spirituality could only be expressed in terms of paradoxes and irreconcilables, can now be perceived in a vastly truer light. Mind indeed deforms the experience when it is used as the highest instrument of perception. And in both approaches Mind has been the tool, with its resultant language, insufficient and inadequate to express the higher reality in anything better than paradoxes. With the advent of Supermind this limitation is no longer felt; and with it comes the perception of the true nature of creation, - in particular with respect to that which moves and hence to time and matter.'

The New Way, Vol . 3, 1983, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet
Let us continue for a moment with Buddha’s realization and go more deeply into what it means for the individual and the world. There are two poles of Universal Being, one is Spirit (Purusha) and the other is Matter (Prakriti). The Buddhist view of reality is based upon an irreconcilable split between these two poles and a strategy that that posits one pole, (the Material), as an illusion in order to reach the other. Following Buddha’s realization of "Dukkha" (suffering) as the first great truth, his solution to the dilemma of existence was to seek liberation by declaring the unreality of the world. And this is exactly what Dr. Chopra is advising us to do in his article, …to become detached from the self and realize that the Individual self and the World are an illusion. In a recent interview with Atlantis Rising (May/June 2007) he told the interviewer:
“ I enjoy the illusion of it all. I’m standing in an apartment in New York City on the 69th floor overlooking the city and I know it’s not “real”, but I can appreciate it.”

However much he may enjoy the illusion, this is plainly a life-negating view that has no power to heal the wounds of fragmentation inflicted on our modern world by the reductive linear mind and its nihilistic religious forms. It is simply a continuation of an old patriarchal consciousness that denies the Feminine Goddess principle, Matter and our collective Becoming in favor of a remote static peace that has negated the lives and creative possibilities of hundreds of millions of human beings.

If we take an unvarnished look at what Buddha taught, not the kind of humanism it has morphed into today, it can only be understood as a strategy of escapism based on a denial of the World, the Sacred Feminine and the Human Soul. Sadly this path has found a willing following in many of the world’s religions which teach the faithful that salvation, if it exists at all, may only be found in the transcendence of the world in some after-death Christian ‘Heaven’, Advaitan ‘Moksha’ or ‘Nirvanic’ Void. A contemporary example of this retrograde view may be found in the popular works of Eckhart Tolle who writes:
”…The ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world.”

Dr. Chopra simply does not understand that when our highest spiritual wisdom declares the world to be meaningless, purposeless, unreal, and irredeemable, these nihilistic perceptions invariably play themselves out in our individual and collective life. This fact is undeniable in the tragic symbolism of children blowing themselves up in the service of fundamentalism based upon the deceitful promise of a paradisiacal afterlife. Likewise, if our earthly existence is conceived as only a meaningless passage to some higher reality then a certain restraint is removed on the unconscionable exploitation of the environment not to mention each other. Surely he cannot deny the overwhelming evidence of a looming environmental and human catastrophe, but who would ever have imagined that it was a direct consequence of these old nihilistic religious beliefs that disenchanted the natural world.
There are numerous other contradictions and points in his article to which I take great exception, particularly his comments on the corrupting influence of Time and his remarks on the human Soul. This is understandable since he espouses a path that seeks the obliteration of Time rather than to know its Power of Integration. But do not be deceived by his comments that Buddha was any kind of ‘physician of the Soul’. His very teachings are the basis of the Soul’s extinction.

On this point I bow to Sri Aurobindo who has exposed the flaws of the Nirvanic experience for all time in his epic poem Savitri, Bk. 3; canto 2 – The Adoration of the Divine Mother:
“Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self,
Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;
But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power?
On what dead bank on the Eternal's road?
One was within thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?
Escape brings not the victory and the crown!
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,
…A huge extinction is not God’s last word.”

Having seen Dr. Chopra interviewed many times, one cannot doubt his heartfelt concern for the suffering of the world. He is indeed a Bodhisattva and an inspiration to millions of people. If Buddhism is Chopra’s chosen path, one can only respect his decision.

At the same time problems in the world are growing worse with each passing day. Solutions elude us because we continue to look to past traditions that negate and divide us instead of embracing a New Way that offers a knowledge that integrates and heals. This situation simply cannot continue.
Robert E. Wilkinson
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Notes:
1.) In the early centuries of the Piscean Age the consciousness of the race was founded on three rather than four pillars of being. The Physical and Emotional in the service of the Mental. The highest, (Spiritual) was lacking or dormant. The great sages of that era including the Buddha were limited in their higher perceptions by the veil of mind whose nature is to reduce and fragment what spirituality and quantum physics tells us is inherently whole and interdependent. The bicameral mind thinks and sees in terms of polarities and is insufficient and inadequate to express the higher reality in anything better than bi-polar oppositions, paradoxes and irreconcilables such as Time and Eternity, Spirit and Matter, Being and Becoming, Good and Evil and so on. When mind tries to move upward beyond its vibrational limits, it is obliterated in Nirvana which is mistaken as the Spiritual. As Sri Aurobindo explains:
“One does not rise up when one passes into Nirvana, one pierces a hole and goes out. It is not as many believe the ending of the path with nothing beyond to explore, it is the end of the lower path and the beginning of the higher evolution. Nirvana in my consciousness turned out to be the beginning of my realisation, a step toward the complete thing.” Sri Aurobindo - Letters on Yoga

2.&3.) Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) is regarded as having made a contribution to human thought the equivalent of which does not seem to have been attained by any other known thinker. Together with the Mother of Pondicherry, he laid down the lines of a new Supramental Yoga which reveals the limitations of the old spirituality and corrects the error of the Buddha. Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) (1938- ) Third in the Supramental line has brought synthesis and continuity to their yoga. Her work as director of the Aeon Centre of Cosmology has been to unveil a body of applied cosmological knowledge unequalled in it scope and specificity which, for the first time, offers us the tools to heal the schisms of the mental creation and integrate the Spiritual and Material planes. She has carried Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s work to completion, rebuilt the ‘Cosmological Bridge’ lost for millennia and has given us a New and Integral Way to embrace our collective becoming. For more on her evolutionary knowledge see: http://www.aeongroup.com

In a message dated 8/17/2009 7:47:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, writes:

Tom,
We are transcendent beings.  We are not just located in a body.  Your thinking is way too limited.  We are all connected to each other and to the cosmos.  (Some people are not connected to God.)  Even the Nazis were connected - to each other - to mass hypnosis.  Masses of Americans are also connected by evil impulses, capitalist greed.

The mind is not just located in the brain.  Mental connections exist between people, and between us and the cosmos.  It is up to us to choose to connect to the highest impulses and the greatest spirits - i.e. Martin Luther King, Jesus, Buddha, etc. - to effect change in this world which is so controlled by evil thoughts.
                  Ruthybird
                    DOEAA
http://www.STONEWALLvets.org/RuthybirdCampbell.htm
   
      

At a certain level of awakening neither 'I' 'Me' or
'We' seems to fit. Sounds silly. Not easy to explain. At a certain level of
awakening there does not seem to be a suitable word for 'the self' - because
it is realised that there isn't really a self. (That is a very big subject)
Krishnamurti used to say: "The speaker..." Others spoke/speak in the third
person. Neither are easy for the listener to follow.

That is where my inquiry started. I felt enslaved by my emotions. Anger came
up when 'I' did not want it to. So in effect, I was out of control, and
being controlled. So I embarked on an investigation to investigate everyone,
and every one of the different parts of myself. With being completely
devoted to the subject, something popped - and it all became so obvious - to
the point of: 'how come I did not see such an obvious thing before!'
Then I tried to share the new realisation. And, as they say: "That is where
the trouble began." (Said with an Indian accent.)

On the journey I felt sure 'I knew.' Then another phase when I thought that
what had thought was true was no longer so - and I again thought I knew.
Then I realised that thinking that I know was the barrier. When I thought I
knew, I was no longer open for anything beyond what I thought I knew was
possible.

After travelling around the world, a few times, and witnessing for myself
things that were thought impossible by my Western friends, I realised that I
did not know anything. Anything I thought I knew, was just that - a thought.
Once I let it all go 'something happened.' Please do not ask what, because I
do not know. All I seem to know, is, what is not. I seem to know what I have
come through, but not where I am. In fact, I do not think it is possible to
'know' this moment, only to live it. And it keeps changing - moment to
moment to moment to moment to moment. Until I realised - there is no such
things as the moment even - there is only is. Another very difficult thing
to explain.

Just met a friend in the market who had his martial arts teacher come over
from Taiwan to do a workshop. My friend stood, and watched, with his own
eyes, people attack the master. Without the master touching them, at all, in
any way, the attackers went flying across the room. I have also, in a less
dramatic way, witnessed such things. This master says it is all about love.
It is. That gets into the unexplainable again. All is love - whether we
realise it or not - all is one.

... feel open to hear, feel, and take as a hypothesis with which
to experiment, the things you read .... If you assume you know already, then
what is the point

Repeat. To have anger, for most people, is 'normal' and, even, healthy.
To think the anger is to do with what is out there is sick. Normal, but
sick. What is considered 'normal' on this planet is very sick - compared to
our potential..

 As we keep saying, we are very limited in our experience of reality.
Reality is nothing, nothing like we think it is – it is much, much bigger – and so are we - to say the very least.

Ever since our conception we have been investigating. It is our nature.
There are stages of brain-training, and, the process is continuous – if we will let it. Usually people close off after reaching a very elemental stage – which is very basic, and more to do with survival than actually living. Not only close off, but react negatively when something new and unexpected comes into their lives.
Sometimes, they can watch with their own eyes, and still not believe what they are seeing – because the mind has ‘made up its mind’ that it is not possible.

 There is much, much to life than we are realizing. We are much, much more than we are living. And our potential awaits us – all of us. Some are more ‘advanced’ - even at birth; some more than others find it easier to expand – and we all can.

When you listen, or read, do not disagree, or agree, just be there disconnecting from the mind that is attempting to tell you what you are hearing is true or untrue. The mind, although vast in its capabilities, is very limited – and does not and cannot know anything at all about anything that is beyond its capabilities.

Our brains are in constant motion. Most of the time what it is doing is just processing old experiences into information that can be adapted to what it perceives as the moment. So it usually limited to the past, and the information with which it has been programmed. But it is capable of much, much more.

Be in the moment, and let in what you are seeing, hearing, and thinking.
If we are not disagreeing or agreeing when we hear something new about our capabilities, our mind is being given the opportunity to expand. If we take it as a hypothesis, and experiment, we can expand into those attributes.

This gets very nebulous, and I am not going into it deeply here.
There is no reality as such. Individually and collectively, we make it up, and it manifests as reality to us. If you can think it, it can happen.
I do realise this is a stretch for most – but please, just let it in.

When iron boats started to float; when metal planes started flying; when electricity was discovered; when phones came into use – it was because someone thought that they were possible. So they did. And the required materials for the construction came into being. We created them.

And we can do anything. Anything.
There is an American TV program called: ‘The Dog Whisperer.’ - Cesar Millan.
http://www.cesarmillaninc.com/   He walks on to a property that is guarded by a vicious dog – that bites everyone who comes through the gate. Not only does the dog not attack – it often runs away. How so? He ‘knows’ it is possible, so it is. Same with snake charmers, and genuine psychics – and anyone who is exceptional at what they do. They have ‘got it.’

Our possibilities are endless.
It is just up to us to be open for endless possibilities.
If you are open, every time you read, watch, or hear of such a gifted person, your brain adapts, and you are that much closer to another level of your potential.

Have a wonderful day,

Love...