Enlightenment: The Ego, what is it? How to transcend it. [Archive] - Page 10

greybeard

2nd July 2013, 10:22

Anita Moorjani in Sedona

On Saturday, March 23, 2013, near-death experiencer and New York Times bestselling author Anita Moorjani spoke at the Creative Life Center in Sedona, Arizona. This special event was co-sponsored by NewHeavenNewEarth (NHNE) and The Mustard Seed Venture (see below for links). Special thanks to Bruce Fraser of Sedona Videos for filming this event for us:

http://www.sedonavideos.com/

Anita Moorjani was born in Singapore of Indian parents. At the age of two, Anita moved to Hong Kong where she grew up speaking English, Cantonese and Sindhi, an Indian dialect. In April of 2002, Anita was diagnosed with cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma). After four years of struggling with cancer, Anita's body, riddled with tumors the size of lemons, began to fail. In February of 2006, she slipped into a coma. Doctors gave her hours to live. As her body lay dying, Anita entered another dimension. In this otherworldly place, Anita experienced profound peace and love. She also learned many things about life, and the laws of life, including how she had caused her own cancer. Then she was given a choice: stay on the other side, or return to Earth. After being reassured that her body would heal itself if she returned, Anita chose to return and share with others what she learned. To the amazement of her doctors, Anita woke up from her coma and within weeks her body was fully healed. Anita's life is now filled with the depths and insights she gained while in the other realm.

World renowned author Dr. Wayne Dyer discovered Anita's story and encouraged her to write a book. Anita's book, "Dying to be Me," hit the New York Times Bestsellers List only two weeks after its release in March, 2012. Because of the power of her story, Anita regularly addresses sell-out crowds all over the world.

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RELATED LINKS & RESOURCES:

Anita's Moorjani's bestselling book:
Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
http://astore.amazon.com/newheavennew...

Anita Moorjani's Website
http://anitamoorjani.com/

Anita Moorjani on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/Anita.Moorjani

NDE Stories on Anita Moorjani
http://ndestories.org/anita-moorjani/

How Near-Death Experiences Are Changing The World - Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvI_Ct...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvmABrII35c

Eram

2nd July 2013, 12:34

Thank you Gareth, Chris and Chester,

for your reply to my question.

I will search for that book Gareth.

Today I found the answer by following a link that Chris provided in a message on the profile page of a member here on Avalon, where I was snooping around :)

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

so true!

Wind

4th July 2013, 02:14

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Delight

4th July 2013, 20:14

This is interesting in terms of living in a body....but a different version in a Unity Universe

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Kooqwena LittleOwl

10th July 2013, 14:27

I'm an en-Lightened Native American spiritual teacher & in my experience I can say that the ego is the voice of fear within the lower or bodily level of mind. Fear is like clouds that block the sun's Light & it must be heald before En-Lightenment can be restored.It is the self made identity of separation from the 1 whole Self that is What we really are. It is the belief that we are a body apart from other body's. The ego is the idea of limitation of littleness its the voice of insanity. Listening 2 the ego results in self doubt feelings of guilt & insecurity or grandiosity. Because the ego is not real it speaks constantly questioning & judging every thing & every 1 it thinks it see's externally---it is the opposite of truth. Ego is like a servant that that has taken over the Masters estate while the master is asleep causing chaos where there should be peace. The real SELF is LIGHT & knows it is ONE,Limitless All Powerful Magnificent & Eternal B-ing. & we are all a perfect whole part of the One SELF that is GOD : )

It wonderful 2 see so many seeking understanding about such important matters such as the ego---it witnesses 2 the awakening that's taking place world-wide.

greybeard

10th July 2013, 14:53

Thanks for your valued contribution Kooqwena LittleOwl
Agree with what you say
Regards Chris

Kooqwena LittleOwl

10th July 2013, 23:44

That statement is from the book A Course In Miracles!

greybeard

11th July 2013, 04:56

That statement is from the book A Course In Miracles!

By coincidence I was at a ACIM study group on Tuesday night.
and we read similar from the text part.
Its the first time I have gone in years.
The major influence on me has been the books of the late Dr David Hawkins.

Regards Chris

greybeard

11th July 2013, 22:37

David Sereda on Giza Plateau & Quantum Entanglement

"Science and spirituality on this video.
Covers changes to DNA and Chakras briefly"

David Sereda is back to tell us of his latest findings about the Giza Plateau and quantum entanglement. Two objects that are quantum-entangled communicate with one another in an unknown, instantaneous mannr that Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance.' It has recently been discovered that this doesn't just apply to subatomic particles. Two diamonds have been entangled, and not only that, they weren't brought together at all, but rather encoded with identical vibrations.

This implies the possible existence of a powerful new tool, and here David Sereda makes the leap that the structures on the Giza Plateau might actually BE such a tool, capable of connecting us to distant parts of the universe in a whole new way.

Quantum entanglement occurs when particles such as photons, electrons, molecules as large as buckyballs, and even small diamonds interact physically and then become separated; the type of interaction is such that each resulting member of a pair is properly described by the same quantum mechanical description (state), which is indefinite in terms of important factors such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc.

Quantum entanglement is a form of quantum superposition. When a measurement is made and it causes one member of such a pair to take on a definite value (e.g., clockwise spin), the other member of this entangled pair will at any subsequent time be found to have taken the appropriately correlated value (e.g., counterclockwise spin). Thus, there is a correlation between the results of measurements performed on entangled pairs, and this correlation is observed even though the entangled pair may have been separated by arbitrarily large distances. In quantum entanglement, part of the transfer happens instantaneously. Repeated experiments have verified that this works even when the measurements are performed more quickly than light could travel between the sites of measurement: there is no slower-than-light influence that can pass between the entangled particles. Recent experiments have shown that this transfer occurs at least 10,000 times faster than the speed of light, which does not remove the possibility of it being an instantaneous phenomenon, but only sets a lower limit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Jf2Z9-XXY

greybeard

11th July 2013, 22:42

Gregg Braden Ancient Wisdom & Modern Science

Lisa Garr welcomed author Gregg Braden, who discussed the relationship between ancient wisdom and modern science, and how people are connected to one another and to the world around them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaFRrQ73EVM

Chester

13th July 2013, 19:26

a good one

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greybeard

14th July 2013, 21:07

Awakenings - Faisal Muqaddam - 'Enlightenment Happens In The Heart' - Interview by Iain McNay
Faisal talks about his life; his enlightenment, and how awakening happens in the mind, and enlightenment happens in the heart. He also talks about how he formed the Ridhwan school with AH Almaas and helped develop the 'theory of holes' and work with the Latiaf and essential qualities and enquiry. He later left to form his own teaching, 'The Diamond Logos.' 'The more that understanding comes through, the more the personality begins to resolve and we can retrieve the original state that is lost.' 'In our world today two major topics need to be emphasized; humanity needs to be spiritualized and spirituality needs to be humanized'

On Conscious TV
http://www.conscious.tv/

Also

Awakenings - 'What is Enlightenment?' with Paul Smit, Tim Freke and Gary Weber. Moderated by Iain and Renate McNay
This panel explores what the terms people use actually mean; Enlightenment. Awakening; self-realisation, Non-dual. Absolute Reality etc.. how does it all fit together? Does it fit together? People say they have experienced or live in these different states; is there some kind of map or understanding that brings them together.

greybeard

18th July 2013, 17:02

WARNING consciousness is lowered seriously by wireless appliances.
Dial up connection--connected telephones much safer.

The deterioration in health is immense through repeated use of mobiles-- wireless laptops-- cable free telephones.
Even carrying a mobile in your pocket is counter productive to your level of spiritual consciousness.
The ability to use mindfulness--to meditate is seriously impaired.
The chakra system to a degree shut down.
Brain function is affected.
Nervousness, disturbed sleep, inability to concentrate for any length of time.
Difficulty in healing.
All down to wireless technology

http://www.conscious.tv/

Please go to Burgs Energy Fields and Modern Technology" part one and part two on Conscious TV menu.

There have been other videos of a scientific nature regarding this on Avalon.

Chris

greybeard

1st August 2013, 17:34

The Illusions of Reality: Life, Death & Time with Anthony Peake

EBTV on http://evolvingbeings.com presents host Evita Ochel with special guest Anthony Peake - author of several books, including "The Out-of-Body" Experience and the newly published "The Labyrinth of Time".

Anthony is a researcher in the areas of metaphysics and quantum physics, a public speaker and author of 5 books with his most recent titles including The Out Of Body Experience: The History & Science of Astral Travel and The Labyrinth of Time: The Illusion of Past, Present & Future. He is a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Scientific & Medical Network and the Society for Psychic Research. He and his work have been featured on numerous British and International media outlets.

In the show entitled "The Illusions of Reality: Life, Death & Time", Anthony shares some of his research and hypotheses about these themes, including major topics like:

- The illusion of solidity and "seeing is believing"
- The role the brain and eyes play in creating reality
- Is the external world created internally
- Where is the consciousness located
- The Zero Point Field
- The role of perception, belief and expectation in creating our reality
- The role of the observer in creating the reality
- Singular versus collective consciousness
- The connection to a virtual reality and the work of Thomas Campbell
- The nature of reality as holographic
- Common misconceptions about Out of Body Experiences
- Understanding dreams/precognitive dreams/lucid dreams
- Understanding the out of body experience as an intrasomatic experience
- Mention of neurotransmitters like Melatonin, Metatonin (DMT)
- The connection of the hypnagogic state to the OBE
- Characteristics of a NDE (near death experience)
- "Cheating the Ferryman" hypothesis and reincarnation
- "Bohmian IMAX" hypothesis
- The impact of the Golden Rule and Karma
- An overview of Anthony's new book "The Labyrinth of Time"
- Time as a construct of the mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrFiAfl_bl8

BrandoComando

3rd August 2013, 07:05

There are two apparent forms of ego. The Medical/ Psychiatric ego and the mind. Most spiritual teachers agree that the ego = thinking mind. Ego isn't pride, it's the sense of self. But underneath it all there is in fact no such thing as ego at all. There is however the illusion of ego or illusion of self. One can say 'transcending the ego will lead to enlightenment' or one can say that 'seeing that the ego was never there to begin with will lead to enlightenment'. Both are saying the same thing. But doing anything to rid yourself of yourself (ego) will only re-enfoce and strengthen the illusion of self. It's a self-perpetuating cycle but the good news is that it only exists as a thought. Thoughts can be silenced, seen through or transcended, however you like to say it, but not by any effort of the self. It can happen spontaneously but it cannot come about by will or by doing things to make it happen.

greybeard

3rd August 2013, 08:09

Thanks BrandoComando and welcome to the thread.

Work happens to remove obstacles to enlightenment but who/what exactly is doing the work?
Ramana said "Use the thorn to remove the thorn then throw both away."

Ramesh Balsekar spoke of "working mind"
he also said "At birth God begins removing the ego of some--God gave you an ego let Him remove it."

"Things happen, deeds are done but there is no doer there off"

Tell that to the "apparent" ego---smiling.

Chris

Eram

3rd August 2013, 09:57

T

Ramesh Balsekar spoke of "working mind"
he also said "At birth God begins removing the ego of some--God gave you an ego let Him remove it."

I really like that one Chris.

I see a parallel in something that Adyashanti said:
"If you want to find enlightenment, you have to fall in love with the truth."

basically the same thing isn't it?

toad

4th August 2013, 04:58

Sometimes you need to lose grip on reality to gain a more diverse understanding.

greybeard

4th August 2013, 18:51

10 ways to raise your vibrations
An interesting list from Mind Openerz.

Via mindopenerz.com, 26 June 2013 - All your thoughts and feelings are energy, and energy is vibration. Learn to Raise those Vibrations and watch your life change dramatically.

1. Find something beautiful and appreciate it.
Beauty is all around us, from the morning dew to the evening stars and everything in between. Most go through life not noticing all the beautiful things that are around them, and yes it’s every where, so take the time to notice them, and appreciate them when you see it. Whether it’s the scent of a flower or the way rain ripples in puddles of water, appreciate the beauty life has to offer.

2. Make a list of all that you are grateful for.
Making a gratitude list shifts your vibrations from focusing on what you do not have to what is already abundant in your life. There is more to be grateful for than you could possibly imagine. You can start with “I’m Alive!” and expand from there. Gratitude is the Attitude.

3. Meditate.
Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and breath in and out. Too often we rush through our days with a scattered brain leaving us in a state of anxiety and stress, Meditation helps to calm your spirit down and put you in a peaceful state of mind. 10 Minuets of meditation a day can change your life forever.

4. Do something for someone else.
Giving to someone else shifts your thinking from “I don’t have enough, to I have more than enough to give to others.” Abundance is a high vibration.

5. Stop complaining and gossiping.
Complaining and Gossip puts you in a very low vibration. Ask yourself “Are the things you are talking about bringing you more of what you want?” if not then, Stop complaining, and start finding ways to rejoice.

6. Move. Exercise. Get active.
Vibration requires movement, the more you move the better your vibrations move. So Get Active! Dance! The happier you feel, the more you will draw happy experiences to yourself because you are operating at a different frequency.

7. Realize that you have more control over your life than you thought.
You are not a victim to circumstance, past, family upbringing, trauma, or anything else. You can change your life in an instant. Just realize this. In many wisdom traditions this is called “total responsibility.” No one is responsible for how you feel right now but you. It isn’t a curse. It’s a blessing because it gives you your power back.

8. Breathe.
Just sit and try to make your breath longer, fuller, and more relaxed. It has a direct affect on your nervous system and helps to calm you down. A calm vibration is a high vibration.

9. Do Something You’re Afraid Of
Fear holds us back from being in a state of love and happiness, and facing those fears opens you up to a greater world of possibilities. Fear of Heights? Go skydiving. Scared of public speaking, say a poem at an open mic. You’ll begin to realize your fear was worse then the actual problem, and a sense of relief will wash over you.

10. Have a Meaningful Conversation with a Friend
Rather than gossip or complaining, talk about you ideas. What do you have planned for yourself? what do you think is the nature of reality? Are we spiritual beings having a human experience? Talking about these things with someone helps to raise both your vibrations by thinking big. If you don’t have someone to talk to about these kinds of things with, there’s a community of higher minded individuals right here. Leave a comment down below and let’s chat!

Originally found here http://www.transients.info/

Many good articles of interest to be found on that site.

Chris

Wind

4th August 2013, 18:53

Chris, I just posted the same list to this threat at the same time! Smiling. :)
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3596-Up-At-The-Ranch-And-Beyond/page301

greybeard

4th August 2013, 18:58

Well there you go--- tempted to say great minds but I dont want to stroke our egos--laughing.

Gives people twice the chance to benefit from this.

Best wishes
Chris

BrandoComando

4th August 2013, 19:14

"Things happen, deeds are done but there is no doer there off"

Tell that to the "apparent" ego---smiling.

Chris

Ah ha! The real dilemma. For me to tell anything to the ego would simply be the ego talking to the ego. There is no me separate from the ego in order to say anything to it. That's why one can never get rid of his own ego. The best description would be that there is ego and then the awareness that knows the ego but which are one in the same process. That's why you cannot use thought to look at thought. You cannot use ego to destroy ego. Alan Watts used to say that's like fire trying to burn fire. In reality there is just awareness with apparent objects such as thought appearing within' the awareness. In other words thought is made out of awareness and thus cannot be separated from the totality of things. The more one tries to rid himself of the ego the stronger the ego becomes. The best approach in my opinion in to not assume that the ego exists in the first place. The belief in ego is the birth of ego. The dis-belief in ego is the death of ego. Don't feed the ego and it will starve to death on it's own.

greybeard

7th August 2013, 20:44

Nassim Haramein ; New Era of Space & Time Travel

Published on 1 May 2013

Nassim Haramein has spent years researching the geometry of hyperspace, theoretical physics, cosmology, chemistry, as well as anthropology and ancient civilizations. He presented his concept about the structure of space & time, and suggested that if it was fully utilized, it could usher in a new era of space and time travel. The vacuum between atoms is not empty, but is a fluctuating energy that is the source of everything, and has discrete, quantifiable elements that could be thought of as very tiny pixels, he explained. These fluctuations are all around us, permeating everything, and organized into vortices of different sizes, he continued.

Fusing macro and micro-systems, Haramein studied fundamental aspects of these pixels, and found them to be part of a holographic universe, in which each point represents the entire system. Further, the tiny pixels in one proton represent the mass of the universe, and the relationship of the pixels inside the proton to those outside the proton yield a solution to gravity, which can be applied to an object of any size, he said. Such findings in quantum gravity "would give us the information necessary to start being able to engineer very advanced drive propulsion systems that could bring us to the stars literally," he declared.

The pixels could be considered little capsules of information, and you could think of time "as the memory of the structure of the vacuum," as things move through the vacuum, he noted. "In fact, this model may actually predict that memory is not a function of the brain directly but is a function of the brain accessing the information in the vacuum-- so the brain is like a radio," and if this held true, a person might be able to displace themselves anywhere in the universe, or access any time period, he suggested. "It opens doors that we can't even fathom today," Haramein commented, adding that he believes we're extremely close to a complete transformation in our energy production, transportation, and control of gravity.

Biography:

Nassim Haramein has spent most of his life researching the geometry of hyperspace, theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, chemistry as wells as anthropology and ancient civilizations. Combining this knowledge with a keen observation of the behavior of nature, he discovered a specific geometric array that he found to be fundamental to creation, and the foundation for his Unified Field Theory emerged. Mr. Haramein founded a non-profit organization, the Resonance Project Foundation, where, as the Director of Research, he continues exploring unification principles and their implications in our world today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0F1V3U54Mc

Jake

8th August 2013, 14:01

Please allow me to post this here. Gave me a smile!! :)

https://sphotos-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1150206_10151718971834333_1953793906_n.jpg

greybeard

8th August 2013, 16:23

Hi Jake
Keep the smiles coming.
Good to see you here.

Chris

greybeard

9th August 2013, 10:58

Tim Freke & Lisa Cairns & Boris Jansch - Buddha at the Gas Pump
Who's Driving the Dreambus? LIVE, on 31st August and 1st September 2013. Explore the mystery of identity and the notion of 'non-duality' with a brilliant line-up of speakers. www.dreambuslive.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acPaDVLEGuw

greybeard

9th August 2013, 11:06

☮ Be Still , I Am ☮ Satsang with Ramana Maharshi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYaJqRRBRVs

BrandoComando

9th August 2013, 20:32

I want to see Who's Driving the Dream Bus but I can't find it anywhere online. I recently watched this Buddha at the Gas Pump interview. Lisa is my favorite.

Veiled Rain

9th August 2013, 21:38

Ego Superego Id--all psychological terms developed to describe the human desire to attain in some forms

Day to day existence and to an extent every decision we make pertain to either the good or the detriment of the Ego--whether we know it or not.
Humans believe they are doing good for their own benefit--but watch out---the ego is crafty
We seek praise in some form for everything we do ie-a thought, an action, etc.

If ego did not control every human emotion we would be content to accept ourselves as fallible--and have others view us that way.:nono:
Or allow others to see that we are not as learned, ingenious and creative as the masters---we wouldn't keep trying to show testaments to our knowledge---that it is not necessarily superior but it deserves validation to some degree.
The human condition and or psyche has a drive to attain the unattainable
Everyone loves to hear a thankyou for a job well done---just another way to fuel that sneaky and duplicitous ego

Does the soul need credit in some fashion for choosing to manifest into this physical form?
Perhaps, to a slight degree--if this is all experiential there must be some sort of yard stick that measures---to this we attribute Ego.

The ego can be harmful as well as helpful depending on the circumstance or our state of mind---sometimes it doesn't leave us a choice on how to behave until we become aware of it's deception.
The Ego tries to convince others to follow h/her beliefs.

ENLIGHTENMENT and WISDOM bring new ideas and challenge the Ego--which allows us to see HARMONY and LOVE and not what is necessary to what we feel is survival in the intellectual or physical genre(ego)

Just by responding to this thread---in one sense isn't this a bit egoic on my part :rolleyes: ---it is very hard to circumvent-- a fine line to be walked.

greybeard

10th August 2013, 14:43

Bumped for the benefit of all interested in up coming Dream bus talks

Whos driving the Dream bus? trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AVQFWkfSls

I looked every where for the full documentary but not found.
It was posted in this thread some years back.

Chris

Tony Parsons----The open Secret.
He is one of the first Non-duality teachers in UK and on the film Who's driving the dream Bus
He has a great sense of humour a really inspiring teacher --who seems to get results.

The full film (Dream Bus) is in this thread some where----an index of videos would be a great thing but I dont have the ability.
Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3aIolKCmA

greybeard

15th August 2013, 20:46

Freedom from the delusional Ego

Via peaceandloveism.com, November 2011 (Thanks Connie) - “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Although Rousseau was mainly referring to human society as a whole, even 250 years ago he understood that humanity can upgrade itself and live in a golden age by returning to nature and living a balanced life at peace with ourselves and each other. It’s almost hard to believe that, as a result of the ego (something that isn’t even fundamentally real), we can come to a point in our timeline where there is a probable possibility of species self-annihilation, whether by accident or by focused intention by the the most megalomaniacal of minds within our human collective.

http://www.transients.info/2013/08/freedom-from-delusional-ego.html#more

The rest to be found on the link.
A lot of good material to be found on that site
http://www.transients.info/

Chris

johnf

15th August 2013, 21:08

I watched the panel discussion for this film, and enjoyed most of it.
Lisa Cairns linked it on facebook, the only comment on it at the time was
why is Tim Freke part of this, I don't get it.
Though I have a hard time following him, and can follow Lisa far easier, I get agitated trying to follow him.
I very much enjoy Lisa's stillness and simplicity, and I wonder why Tim feels the need to talk so much.

That was a while ago, and I have been pondering my reaction to the whole thing.
And then Karen Richards posted this, on facebook:

"Remembering the unified nature of all things is only half way home. Then, what is really essential is embracing your apparent separateness, embracing your humanity. You are a unique expression of life - and its so important to celebrate that! "

I sense that once one reaches unity, there is more to follow, and that is why I can't reject Tim on the face of it, however I have a long way to go before I am at the unity place, so perhaps that is why I feel so agitated when listening to Tim Freke.

I was going to link that panel interveiw earlier, but in waiting I received more pieces to the puzzle ... maybe. lol

jf

greybeard

16th August 2013, 07:48

Hi johnf
Tim Freke may have what Adyashanti calls non-abiding awakening. Ramesh called this flip flop.
Ramana and Nasargadatta are to be completely trusted in my opinion.
Dr David Hawkins too who said its according to the level of spiritual vibration.
Ramana Creation and dissolution never happened.
True for him.

Standard saying You are form and formless--both and neither.
Tim Freke has both but I dont think he is permanently in neither which is beyond form and formless.
It would seem that the state of enlightenment is non-locational.
As the song says--"Every where and no where baby, that's where its at."
Its all the evolution of one consciousness coming to know it Self.
Anyway its the Cosmic Dance, enjoy the music.

The Mandy Solke video is interesting.
Tony Parsons is very, there is no individual self---so is Adyashanti.
As to free will Ramana said "First find out who is asking the question"
It would seem that in order to have free will there would have to be other individuals and there isnt.
The standard description of God is "One without a second"--- You are That.
The mind cant get it.
Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYTx8SOChZc

greybeard

24th August 2013, 09:01

Global Coherence Initiative

You may have heard them on radio shows, teleseminars, conferences or seen them in movies like "I Am, The Living Matrix and Solar Revolution".

Now experience them in person, at the October 16-20 2013, event, Activating the Intuitive Heart: Creating a Heart-Centered Global Community in the Riviera Maya on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. At the event experience a unique training program and mediation retreat. You will also have lots of personal time to spend with Rollin, Howard and other like-minded people.

Meet Your Facilitators - Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., and Howard Martin,.

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/email/e-broadcast/news_updates/2013/mexico4/news-updates-online.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rleW4oiXEZM

Wind

24th August 2013, 17:13

I really like the message in this video, because I tend to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders from time to time. I hope that it hasn't been posted here before.

XoCfiObS8A4

greybeard

25th August 2013, 10:12

Nassim Haramein Define Reality

The vacuum defines your reality. If we created our reality separate from each other we would never meet. So that means that we create a common reality because we are all connected to the same point. The center of the earth ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXUyQy2RWr8

greybeard

25th August 2013, 10:21

David Sereda The Voice The Cosmos and Quantum Universe Documentary (1)

Interesting documentary about the universe and how everything communicates on a quantum level. Everything is connected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwb08jKRQ9Y

greybeard

25th August 2013, 21:10

Reality check on the New World Order - Foster Gamble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syq4IkHugSg

Reality Check is a quick and fun way for you to find out more about the facts
that inform the THRIVE perspective. Facts in the movie can also be verified http://www.thrivemovement.com/reality...

At age 14, Foster Gamble had a vision where he glimpsed what he perceived to be the Universe's fundamental energy pattern. He spent the next 35 years trying to figure out the details and implications of what he had seen. That quest took two paths: a scientific journey and an exploration of the human potential to navigate successfully through the challenges threatening our survival. THRIVE represents the convergence of these two paths.

While at Princeton University, Foster helped to create their first film-making department. At the time, the emergence of a global media delivery system seemed likely, and Foster's love of film combined with his concern for the planet inspired him to focus on what would be the most critical content to one day deliver through that system.

In his search for a way out of our violence and demise, Foster discovered Aikido -- the non-violent martial art -- which proved for him the possibility of being simultaneously powerful and gentle. He earned a third degree black belt and trained in and taught Aikido for 15 years.

Applying Aikido principles to daily life informed Foster's professional career: He created a training and technology company, MindCenter, that employed brainwave biofeedback to help people learn how to manage stress and to tune their consciousness. He also created Interaction Dynamics, a training program for mastering skills in communication, team-building and conflict resolution for couples, business teams, schools and families across the United States. He combined Aikido energy principles and mind fitness techniques in Zonesport Training, which tapped his passion for sports in helping high level athletes to enhance their performance. Addressing the demands of balancing his own personal, family and professional lives led Foster to create a program called LifeBalance.

Furthering his exploration of what was keeping humanity from thriving, Foster spent nearly a decade "following the money" in every sector of human endeavor. The process revealed an understanding of our predicament that led him to create the strategic solutions offered in THRIVE. Foster's exploration of "living geometry" -- how nature builds the "material" world, came to fruition in 1997 when he co-convened the Sequoia Symposium, a multi-disciplinary scientific think tank exploring perspectives on "Unification Theory."

There, the primary patterning that the universe uses to sustain healthy systems was clarified and cohered, as was its use as a blueprint for us to design sustainable, all-inclusive technologies and social systems. This discovery represents the convergence of science and the evolution of consciousness that Foster set out to explore after his initial vision, and is the "code" that is featured in the documentary film, THRIVE, and on this website. Foster lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife Kimberly Carter Gamble.
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mindreeder

26th August 2013, 07:03

Enlightenment, as we have come to accept it, is the moment one realizes he or she is a part of a system that is much greater than the ego. The feeling is only experienced by very few as a percentage of the human population. Some come to terms with it at a young age. We tend to call them geniuses. Some reach for it after a traumatic life event, loss of of a loved one, or for the egotistical reasons they seek to escape.

Nevertheless, enlightenment as I have experienced has come from being one with the earth. Some of you may have heard of some beings having the ability to channel the planet. As silly as it sounds, don't undermine the message that may come from the communication.

As a philosophy, enlightenment can be seen as the pursuit for knowledge. We are a species blessed with a brain that is pre-wired to understand dozens of languages, experience hundreds of environments, and adapt to many climates. We are essentially born enlightened, but vulnerable. All children are innately loving, gregarious, curious, unabashed, and accepting. They hold these virtues and are programmed to adapt to our current way of life, mostly due to our current socio-economic system.

greybeard

29th August 2013, 07:26

Global Coherence Initiative

Special Care Focus: Syria

The U.S. and other nations are reacting to a growing consensus that the Syrian regime was responsible for an August 21 chemical attack that killed more than 1,300 people -- including many children. They are preparing for military intervention in Syria to prevent further use of chemical weapons on the Syrian people and to prevent chemical weapons from falling into the hands of Al Qaeda. There is deep concern that this could provoke a broader conflict in the Middle East and ensnare the US in another long war similar to Iraq and Afghanistan. Sending heart doesn’t promise to make all this go away, but it can facilitate outcomes to be better than they could have been.

Special Care Focus – Syria

Let's create a heart-field environment around the leaders and decision-makers for choosing the best outcome for all concerned…
Now, let's radiate coherent love and compassion to all who lost their lives and those who are suffering, mentally, emotionally and physically at this time…
Now let’s radiate coherent love to people suffering from acts of hatred, prejudice and separation.
Let's close by radiating compassion to ourselves and to all who are following the news while dealing with the challenges of their own emotional discomforts regarding this situation. Let our heart's prayer be for the highest, least suffering outcome for all.
(It’s prudent to monitor our mental and emotional balance in our reactions to the news or outcomes. Absorption is seductive and can have negative effects on our health and well-being and our ability to generate effective care.)

Thank you for your participation in this Care Focus.

GCI Steering Committee and Staff

P. S. You can also participate in collective Heart-Focused Care in the Global Care Room App for Facebook.
For those of you who are new participants in the Care Focus, you can see your green marker and the gold light points of others around the world in the Care Room at the same time. Realize that one gold light can represent a family, a group or an entire audience viewing the Care Room and doing the Care Focus together.

* To join the GCI Care Focus in the Global Care Room, you can enter the room directly from www.globalcarerooms.org. First time users will need to sign up for access. You can use the e-mail and password that you use for the Global Coherence Initiative website. Then, simply log-in with your e-mail and GCI password.

greybeard

29th August 2013, 16:58

Gateways LIVE interviews The Mystery Experience author, Tim Freke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuRb3pDQvzE

Zampano

29th August 2013, 20:57

So going back to watching some "ConsciousTV" interviews, thanks to some half deaf guy with a grey beard :-)
I stumbled onto this gentleman named Faisal Muqaddam.

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For me, at about 40.00 it becomes very interesting. From now on, I will give some keywords for you interested people.
Some keywords: Hug your ego-ego thrives for the higher individuated self-the uniqueness and miracle of the soul journey

I have to stop here because...some thoughts and conclusions...ego self wants to make us thrive for lots of things,
material and not material, but at the end it is looking for unfication with the individual self. Which is the awareness of the self, from a higher self perspective.
Just playing the cards.

47:30 humanity needs to become more spiritual and spiritual needs to become more human.
nuff said

at the end it reminds me of...before enlightenment peel potatoes and wash cloth, after enlightenment peel potatoes and wash cloth.

Izheheruvim

1st September 2013, 14:10

Greetings :)

This discussion is so long that to read the entire thread would be extremely tiring for the ego )) Could the most active and knowledgeable participants summarize the most essential points, or refer to the most seminal and insightful posts? Who was helped by reading the comments and in which way? It seems that with so much negativity out there enlightenment is becoming a critical task, and i personally consider this thread to be one of the most important ones at the forum. Also, the major challenge i see is that there are different opinions on enlightenment whereas it's supposed to be something uniform.

Peace

greybeard

1st September 2013, 16:59

Hello Izheheruvim

This link actually would be a good place to go.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?43027-Enlightenment-A-direct-succinct-account-of-what-occurs...&p=456904&viewfull=1#post456904

You can open this thread on virtually any page and you will find something helpful-- good videos abound.
If you go back one page the Tony Parson video is educating.

For myself, every thought that comes up I surrender the juice I get from it to God (most are judge mental)
I do my best to stay in the moment without comment on what I observe.
As a result my mind is virtual silent.

Basically the ego would starve to death without the "story of me"---its a separation device.
It depends on self identification--I am this, I am that, I am the labels that I and others put on me --Im that kind of person.
In non-duality there is no individual person only SELF.

Chris

greybeard

1st September 2013, 20:35

The collected works of Ramana Maharshi

Page 42 (Who am I)

16.What is the nature of the Self?

What exists in truth is the Self alone.
The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it.
Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time.

The Self is that where there is absolutely no "I" thought.
That is called "Silence".
The Self itself is the world; the Self it self is "I"; the Self itself is God; all is Shiva, the Self.
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The late Ramana Maharshi is the most respected enlightened sage and quoted by virtually every enlightened soul.
Ramesh Balsakar called him "The guru's guru" and kept his photo in prominence at his lectures.

Chris

johnf

2nd September 2013, 00:46

Greybeard, thank you for your answer about Tim Freke, I finally looked up non abiding enlightenment
now I have a way to understand my agitation when listening to him.

jf

greybeard

2nd September 2013, 13:33

A Great Change is on the Horizon - Gregg Braden
Red Ice Radio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Vab_xBV7I

Izheheruvim

2nd September 2013, 20:23

Thanks to everyone for your feedback and recommendations! :)

I'd like to throw a few thoughts regarding my understanding of ego since what i mostly find are descriptions of the the end result, that is enlightenment, rather than technicalities. Probably the virtue of brevity and clarity will be missing in my case. But the definite advantage should be in-depth exploration showing, among other things, how different perspective on enlightenment may emerge. I'd also apologize in advance for my a bit pedantic tone. I feel much more at ease when speaking in Russian. In English i often lack abilities to "round up" my language, that's why my thought process might seem very structured whereas there's always an element of creative chaos to it ))

Apparently one of the most common ways to understand ego is in terms of its limitations, what Greybeard refers to as "a story of me". Tim is also talking along the same lines describing his experience. My personal take on those limitations is what essentially brings excitement, irritation, depression, fear, sense of dissolution and urge for self-defense pinpointing to a sort of equilibrium where ego finds itself comfortable and the hierarchy of its needs. Like as long as everything is fine and nothing really disturbs or excites you, you can't really feel your separation from anything. It can be only felt when ego is confronted or pushed away from it equilibrium. For instance, only when the temperature around is either more or less than 36.6 C, one can feel warmth or cold. Otherwise the external environment feels like continuation of the body as far as temperature is concerned.

Turning to the quality of experiences. One thing would make one excited and leave indifferent or sad another, and vice versa. For someone emotional states will come and go rather easily but somebody would be stuck in them. Someone would aggressively search for some external sensations to find an equilibrium, and another would be content and grateful for what he or she has got. To understand all variety of things that ego might be up to one should first understand two basic qualities built into it: tendency to make sense of things and impose one's own will along with having a corresponding emotional sustenance. On the top of that, there's even a deeper pattern what ideally should make sense along with its matching emotional component. This deeper pattern is often reflected in religious teachings as moral laws, but it has psychological reality in the first place and is often referred to as 'conscience'. These tendencies can be also presented as an interplay of gunas:

"According to this theory, there are three gunas: tamas, rajas, and sattva. Tamas, so to speak, is the feminine principle. It is characterized by inertia, cold, darkness, chaos, density and introversion. Its Chinese equivalent would be ‘yin’. As far as human psyche is concerned it corresponds to desires and feelings. Rajas is the masculine principle characterized with dynamism, warmth, light, order, lightness and extroversion. It underlies all goal- oriented activities, i.e. physical and mental work. Its Chinese equivalent is ‘yan’. Sattva is the principle that balances tamas and rajas and fosters their development. For example, in a harmonious individual who is both emotionally sensitive (tamas) and intelligent (rajas) the principle of sattva is prevalent. As a rule, this principle is also associated with morality which is the foundation for spiritual ascent.

In such a view, spiritual ascent is nothing but establishing a progressively higher harmony between tamas and rajas so that at some point they merge. One may envision an isosceles triangle in which equal sides would represent tamas and rajas, its height – sattva that balances and pushes them higher, and the top of the triangle would be their junction point:

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I am going to make a few illustrations.

The grossest (by “grossness” I mainly refer to physicality) and basest kind of interaction between tamas and rajas in psychological terms would be violence (rajas). In this case, a victim experiences suffering (tamas) which, in turn, becomes an emotional feeding for the violator. Daniil Andreev, the author of “The Rose of the World” (Roza Mira), has a special term for the radiation of human suffering – “gavvah” which is basically of tamasic nature. Violence and suffering it produces can be considered a specific example of a more general pattern of relationships: domination (rajas) versus submission (tamas). Sexual intercourse would be another rather gross interaction of tamas and rajas when a masculine partner compensates for tamas and the feminine for rajas. A subtler form would be feeling of gratitude (tamas) for something done (rajas) or experiencing joy (tamas) when being appreciated (rajas). An example of union between tamas and rajas, the highest form of their interaction would be spiritual love that simultaneously loves (tamas) and understands (rajas). Such love is detached. Therefore, in this context tamas would always contain an emotional element while rajas would involve an action and/or appreciation of it. In reality these two principles are not easy to separate since feelings and desires tend to turn into actions and any action has an emotional underpinning. Probably, this principle is also reflected in the Chinese symbol “Yin-Yan”:

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Interaction between tamas (‘yin’) and rajas (‘yan’) has certain inner logic: the grosser it is, the more it requires some outward manifestation and vice versa – the subtler it is, the less dramatic. For example, one may long for a sexual relationship to compensate for tamas or rajas which is something rather outward. But a higher level of harmony would enable to enjoy more subtle things such as emotional closeness or spiritual realizations. In turn, this would result in the lesser dependence on the gross. This is not to say that the higher and the lower inherently conflict with each other. Often interaction between tamas and rajas happens simultaneously on multiple levels. The point is that the subtle is less dependent on the gross, and while the gross is supposed to be the means of expression, the essence should come from the subtle.

One may envision human attention as a flow of particles which, bouncing from the sides of the triangle, are approaching its top. The closer the top, the higher their velocity is. When they reach the top it maximizes:

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This diagram also shows that the flow of particles takes place within ‘inner triangle’ – the area of the maximum possible deviation towards tamas and rajas. If attention goes beyond this area, it loses its upward momentum and moves to the side. The more attention goes to one side, the more it loses connection with the other and the more it starts gravitating towards its opposite on the grosser level. For example, one who deviates too much towards tamas, i.e. emotionality and/or inertia, becomes a potential target for domination and aggression from those deviated towards rajas. Besides, those deviated towards tamas might develop a grosser rajas to compensate for it. An example would be an individual fanatically defending his or her beliefs. Or, those trying to achieve subtler rajas (righteous conduct) without corresponding subtle tamas (love for purity) are likely to gravitate towards grosser tamas (sexuality). This imbalance can be resolved if sattva rises to the level of rajas that would raise tamas along."

If the above presentation more or less accurately describes what and why makes up the ego, then everyone should be able to map himself or herself into this scheme. If spiritual progress takes place then all signs of limitations of ego, i.e. fear, irritation, depression, etc., turn into a more detached, sublime, pure and beautiful pattern. One can still feel depressed or afraid of something but the focus of attention in this case is more on others than oneself, feeling others' pain rather than own suffering. At the same time, one doesn't get stuck in those emotions and retains joy and dynamism. Dependence on external stimulation and moodiness gives way to self-sufficiency and equanimity. Enjoying grossness and dirt becomes replaced with ability to appreciate subtlety and beauty, etc.

Also it becomes clear that enlightenment is neither just about feeling connected to everyone and even feeling blissful nor about only having deep insights but it's a combination of both. If either tamas or rajas components are missing then it's no longer the central path leading to the genuine enlightenment where both should unite and smoothly cooperate. For example, what Jill Taylor describes as her enlightening experience in this video is actually missing the subtle rajas component in my view:

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Regarding the ultimate enlightenment. Shri Ramana Maharshi described Kundalini shakti as "natural energy of Self". In the light of all the said about one may infer that Kundalini is the subtlest form of tamas whereas Self or Atma is the subtlest form of rajas, and they actually meet and become inseparable in "Love that understands". Gnostics would refer to it as "sacred marriage". Therefore, the unity of Kundalini and Atma seem to be the highest destiny of ego and the most genuine case of its enlightenment. Whenever this unity is not set as a goal, if not theoretically then practically, or whenever certain conditions are not met, that is sublimation of ego according to moral standards, there must be something wrong with the process, a kind of deviation.

I personally have my Kundalini shakti awakened, so for me it's not just a theory but reality, of course, to a certain point. And i do hope that many other people will get their Kundalinis awakened far beyond this point and become much more enlightened and empowered. Peace

greybeard

4th September 2013, 12:40

Can We Choose To Exist Separate From Source?

YouTube viewer Jennifer asks: Suppose an LB is about to merge with Source but then decides it wants to stay permanently separate from Source because it prefers to carry on experiencing life as a separate and independent entity. Would Source be cool with this?

One of the many gifts of my afterlife experience was the ability to understand complex concepts from the different perspectives of a human, a spiritual being, and Source itself. Jennifer's question can be viewed differently depending upon which perspective we take.

Human Perspective: We believe we are mortal human beings with immortal souls. We experience life as separate beings from our parents, siblings, children, and all other Earthly creatures. So it makes sense to believe we are separate from Source/God as well. Our religions also tell us we can suffer permanent separation from Source and we believe it and fear it. So, from the human perspective, it does seem possible to stay permanently separate from Source. In fact, that fear is the basis for the concept of hell.

Light Being Perspective: We believe we are spiritual beings that live eternally without physical matter bodies. We experience the afterlife as discrete consciousnesses and think of ourselves as individuals. So we believe we are separate beings from Source. Our experiences have taught us that we can enter into physical matter over and over again to know what it is like to be various things and creatures in the universe. We know we only put part of our energy into physical matter, giving us the sensation that part of our consciousness is separate from us. From the spiritual perspective, it seems possible to stay permanently separate from Source in much the same way as parts of our own consciousness temporarily seem separate from us while inside physical forms.

Source's Perspective: Source knows that it has imagined a physical universe that it has populated with all kinds of imaginary creatures and things. Source knows that it interacts with itself through all of it by putting small parts of its own consciousness into what I call Light Beings, who then incarnate into physical matter. Source has intentionally given its Light Being parts amnesia about who and what they really are in order to make the physical experience feel absolutely real. Source knows that when they are ready, its Light Being parts will awaken to the knowledge that they are actually Source's consciousness and have never been separate at all. They will realize that they are literally Source pretending to be separate individuals from itself through the power of amnesia. So, from Source's perspective it is impossible for one of its characters to permanently separate from Source. Source's thoughts cannot leave its mind any more than a human's dream characters can leave the human mind and live on their own in the world.

Thank you for being open to the messages I have returned from the afterlife to share.

Nanci

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MariaDine

7th September 2013, 03:28

Love the thread Greybeard !!! :happy:

...and I add a little something about a man who had a near death experience...amazing revelations about the EGO and the power of though ...

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Interview took place on Sunday July 8th, 2007 Mellen-Thomas Benedict shared details of his incredible Near Death Experience (NDE) that took place in 1982,

He was without vital signs for at least an hour and a half before he returned to his body. Here are some of highlights of what he learned while on the "Other Side:" The Other Side is not all it's cracked up to be--being in a human body is actually a more optimal way to experience the universe.

Black holes at the center of galaxies function as great processors of universal matter-- a total recycling machine.

It's humanity's manifest destiny to leave Earth and colonize other planets.

Within the next 400 years such "star seeding" will begin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FBdLFUQc0

greybeard

7th September 2013, 13:17

Thanks MariaDine for your post and kind comments
Yes a lot to learn from NDE.
Eben Alexander and Dannion Brinkley are also worth a look---I have posted the videos but that was many months ago.
Regards Chris

minkton

8th September 2013, 10:17

The Self is where there is absolutely no I thought...

Ahhhhhhh. Chris! Thanks for posting that. Isnt it funny how suddenly a penny will drop! Relief of some comprehension of process for me, thankyou for your presence and input, brother along the way.
X

minkton

8th September 2013, 10:28

Being in flip flop is kind of weird. Anyone has anything to share about the experience and process..what I feel like is
" flickering" or..like some parts of me are lagging behind quite radically...as if there is no uniformity of realisation across the continuum of whatever collection of stuff equals the I thought, here.

Idk if this makes sense to anyone..hopes so.

greybeard

8th September 2013, 18:15

Nassim Haramein We Are All One 2011 -
Introduced by Bill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za2Xzh9vvFA

greybeard

9th September 2013, 12:58

Removing fear---as much as anything this thread is about that.
As long as there is identification with the me thought---(my body) there are various desires to gain and fears of loss.
Thats where the ego thrives---It compares---Keeping up with the Kardashians is the modern equivalent of keeping up with the Joneses.
If your not happy as you are then all the money in the world is not going to make a jot of difference.
That is not to say you cant improve your life situation but in improving ones attitude through gratitude and humility, life gets better on all levels.

The Buddha saw the enlightened as freedom from misery.
Dr David Hawkins likened this world to purgatory--- a chance to grow spiritually.
If we do not learn positively from the vicissitudes of life, then we reincarnate here.
There is only Love or fear and it seems we have a valid choice here.

There is a wealth of uplifting videos and posts by many here---the thread is a resource for me and others.
Just clicking on any page will bring up something of interest--- its always current no matter which page.

Happy exploring.

Chris

Rich

9th September 2013, 18:20

As long as there is identification with the me thought---(my body) there are various desires to gain and fears of loss.

Good point, imo fear itself is not the problem (none of our feelings are) but a pointer of what we are trying to protect, we, more or less think fear protects our attachments like the attachment to body.

Or maybe it could be said that our negative feelings are the consequential response to our attachments.

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Letting go of fear is definitely a fast track.
After processing some fear recently I saw that this person (me) is just a tiny piece in 'my' (the one) mind,
but we zoom into this little part forgetting that we are the whole.

I have used the process Bashar describes in the video (but learned it from Lester Levenson) to turn negative feelings to love,
you can also turn it to whatever other feeling you want like peace.

1. bring up the feeling by remembering the event as strongly as you can in the moment
2. then use your imagination or memory of a situation where you had a preferred feeling
3. and apply it to the situation where you had a negative feeling and replace it with your preferred feeling,
until you feel good or at least better about the situation.

It will allow us to see that it is not the situation but our attitude about it that
is the determining factor of our experience.

greybeard

9th September 2013, 18:32

Thanks EmEx.
Yes I agree with you.
It seems the enlightened have no startle reflex.
For us fear is necessary but there are two kinds---emotional and valid.
Valid can be life threatening--hence fight or flight natural response.
However with a cool head the best way can be found out of life threatening rather than knee jerk.
Emotional fear is just a drainer on life force which affects you to the point you may be unable to extract yourself from a situation.
Its a balance--- we have a body which deserves looking after but we are the indweller and when body expires off we go home.
Regards Chris

MariaDine

9th September 2013, 19:24

Dr. Antonio Damasio - field of research - EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBHBt26g28

MORE

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Rich

9th September 2013, 19:32

Valid can be life threatening--hence fight or flight natural response.

yes, fear can protect us if we are ignorant for example if we
think we are seperate and we get really angry we might
want to hurt someone but the fear is even stronger than the
anger and stops us because we are afraid that if we kill
or hurt we will ourselves get killed, but the more clear we get
the more we see that fear does not protect us but creates
dangerous situations that reflect our inner fear.

adrenaline release of the body in danger is natural imo enlightened or not.

greybeard

9th September 2013, 20:34

On Topic speaks with David Sereda, a well-known UFO researcher and filmmaker who has studied world religion, science, physics and paranormal psychology for over 25 years. He talks about his personal journey and his revelation into the secret technology he extracted from the math in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. He also shares his numerous experiences with alien contact. You can subscribe to On Topic: Culture, Spirituality & the Esoteric on iTunes, or hear the whole episode at our website: http://ontopicshow.com/show-8-ufology .

Help support David Sereda's new film project The Quantum Pyramid:
This film will mathematically prove the Great Pyramid builder intended it to be a giant crystal oscillator capable of faster than light speed communication.
You can be a part of it here: http://igg.me/at/David-Sereda.
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In the video David also speaks on the Schumann resonance being drowned out by mobile masts and other interesting things.
Not saying I believe in all of it but worth a listen
Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwTfbHkfiNE

Mark

9th September 2013, 22:31

A thought:

Enlightened Sages are often silent.

This is for a reason. The silence is a cultivation of that space of Being beyond egoic externalization. By remaining so, they are able to exist within that space with little interruption from the egoic mind. It is also a side-effect of having few thoughts, as such, to verbalize. Just Being. Existing.

Sages, Gurus, those who make the choice to externalize and verbalize in the attempt to help others find their own experience of enlightenment, has always been, is, and will always be problematic. Words are by nature limiting. Funneling thought and experience into predetermined forms. How can words approach the perfection of the limitless? Express the ineffable experience of totality? They cannot.

And yet, we are entities predisposed to communication. And, in a space such as that we co-habitate currently, the Internet, words are the primary mode of expression and, therefore, subject to misunderstanding, misinterpretation, purposeful or not-so, and sheer incomprehension. Depending upon the speaking and/or writing skills of those attempting to share information, or experience, all of these interpretations manifest, often, within the space of a single conversation.

Buddha's first impulse was not to teach. Jesus stayed out of the public for 20 years before he did and was promptly executed upon speaking and acting. Many of those who speak up now do so within the safe space of devotees who surround and protect them. Others do so from the space of video creation or the written word, on blogs and websites devoted to spirituality. These videos, satsangs, essays, all serve the purpose of cultivating an actual physical space between those who have experienced enlightenment and those who have not. Those who believe what the enlightened say, and those who do not.

Enlightenment remains a dangerous business.

People do still kill the messengers. If not necessarily physically these days, due to the many methods by which they and those who follow them act to protect them, then by social censure, argumentation, character assassination, derision, minimalization.

There are, not many - in comparison to world population - but a substantial number of people who are enlightened who do not advertise it. They have known all of the fancy words, phrases, descriptions, prayers, mantras and koans not as symbols or mental constructions but as experience, as actual, lived life. They walk around every day interacting with people on their jobs, on the streets, even online. They talk, they laugh, they play with others, listening, advising, experiencing, sharing consciousness deliberately and with the highest intention in mind, to help other people to realize what lies beyond the petty dramas and events that circumscribe awareness and limit possibility. Their peace and inner stability is palpable to others as both a physical field and also a mental force that imbues their written words with added meaning, their connection to something beyond, noticeable. They may not claim the word enlightenment, but they live the experience every single day.

The proof of it is sometimes visible in their actions, sometimes not, from an outside vantage point. Because they have free will and choice, their actions are determined by the necessity of the moment and the realization of the experience as lessons, as co-creation between them and those they interact with. Beyond good and evil. In service of Source, the highest Love, of which human morality and virtue are but one side of a dichotomized expression, both of which are necessary for the full materialization of higher purpose.

It is often thought that self realization is something that can be actualized by seeking. By meditating, by praying. And perhaps that is so, if, after the course of many lifetimes, a soul reaches a point where it has experienced all it has needed to, and, in the current lifetime, engages in these practices. But then, for some others, very suddenly and perhaps seemingly out of the blue and with no previous experience or interest in these areas, something happens to wake them also from the dream. To present them with incontrovertible evidence that they are much more than they might have consciously admitted to themselves prior to that event. Often, the "consciously admitted" part of that is only the ghost of societal indoctrination, or Mara, fencing in the herd whispering softly yet insistently in the attempt to keep the psychological constraints in place.

Because they really did know it all along.

Enlightenment from this perspective can be considered a birthright, and also a form of grace. Something bestowed upon an individuated consciousness field in recognition of a certain state of clarity that has been arrived at, not always by conscious effort, but also by what may seem to be synchronistic happenstance. A near-death experience, a shock to the system resulting in an extreme case of cognitive dissonance, an astral encounter of such force that it tips one into the furthest reaches of conscious experience. But in the greater scheme of the infinite and the eternal, the journey has been long and the desire of many aeons of individuated spiritual evolution has culminated in the Now moment, which is all there ever really was in the first place.

So the journey ended, before it began. The search resulting in finding what was sought in the very place one entertained the thought to begin searching. Like Dorothy and her ruby slippers, lost in the Land of Oz, home was available all along.

And this might seem paradoxical. Magical. It may seem to invalidate effort, to inculcate a sense of futility in Seekers. Another koan, or story, meant to obscure rather than reveal. Available and able to be interpreted only by those in the space of being to comprehend its meaning and exercise their divine right of free will in making the choice to Be. And for that to be the full expression of their connection to the All.

The comforting realization at this point must be that, even in order to bear witness to these ideas, to be able to watch the videos, to read the books, to be able to mentally craft the synaptic network necessary to comprehend, one has reached a stage where one's development - as laid out by the remorseless dream of Source in its manifestation of materiality - has reached the next stage of its own realization. And even if one serves as the warrior to put the spear into the side of Jesus, or the questioner who prompted Buddha in derisive disbelief, or the one to dismiss the advice of that weird, quiet bum on the corner who accosted you with unsolicited but relevant advice on things he could have known nothing about, the time has come for you to move forward, and deeper, to settle into spiritual space already inhabited, already known at some level, deep within.

And none of this, really, requires the Sage to speak. The world requires movement, change, material beingness. Different levels of awareness are the condition of incarnation. Identification is not necessary. Labels, titles, are not important. Only the experience is. The realization. It is pre-destined.

The only question is, at what point do we each make the choice?

greybeard

10th September 2013, 13:08

Dr David Hawkins - Discusses the Reframing process, the importance of Forgiveness in the Raising of Consciousness. Also some insight into the spiritual causes of the 'Dark Night of the Soul'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzk1Eruz2TU

Dr David Hawkins has been my main spiritual input and many of the posts on this thread have come from this.
The title of the thread is a reflection of this.

Chris

greybeard

11th September 2013, 13:40

Secrets of an NDE Survivor w/ Dannion Brinkley

Dannion Brinkley Returns to The West Coast Truth.

Russell Scott puts Dannion Brinkley on the spot with direct questions regarding the legitimacy of his (Dannion's) claims.

Dannion responds to:

The 2008 British TV documentary "Reverend Death" that claims he was only 'dead' for 5 minutes...not 28 minutes
Why his doctor saw him shortly after the incident and claimed he was totally lucid making no mention of his NDE

Dannion also sets the record straight on:

His first near death experience
Dr. Raymond Moody
His military service
The 'morgue' story

Dannion Brinkley also discusses his visions of the future for The United States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8QSmykhh8U

greybeard

12th September 2013, 09:35

Dr Eben Alexander in the Faith Forum with Chip Edens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2CLlisyHJE

greybeard

12th September 2013, 16:54

"I don’t mind what happens" - Krishnamurti
Via awakeninthenow.com, 5 September 2013 - Once during a regular question and answer session with his students, spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti paused and leaned forward and asked the audience, “Do you want to know what my secret is?”.

Everyone sat up and became immensely alert because here was one of the great spiritual teachers of the 20th century and he was about to tell them his secret. Krishnamurti in a soft spoken voice said “You see, I don’t mind what happens”. Who could believe that the secret or really the core teaching of such a great master could be something so simple? But it is just this simple statement and way of being that contains the key to incredible freedom and joy.

It is a state of complete equanimity with life. A state of utter non-resistance to what is. From this perspective our suffering comes from our resistance to the present moment just as it is. When we say NO to what is we immediately create separation and cut ourselves off from life and from our true power. Wanting the present moment to be different than it is could be considered an insane way of life because the one undeniable thing about the present moment is that it is how it is. If we are experiencing an unpleasant situation or pain of some kind denying it and wishing it to be different isn’t going to help because we are denying what is already happening. Rather than making it better it adds the pain of resistance and conflict on top of the already unpleasant situation. It also blocks us from creating something new because we get stuck in fighting whats happening.

When we first accept what is even if its painful or unpleasant we allow ourselves to acknowledge it and fully feel and experience it which clears the way to truly create change. It also gives us clarity to see what can be done so we see what we can do to change a situation or if there is nothing we can do to change it we see that too and at least we can accept it with peace and clarity.

Can you imagine what life would be like if you were ok with whatever was happening? Your state of being would no longer be controlled by external events which you really have no control over anyway. Instead you could derive your happiness and security from within which is where it comes from in my opinion. You would then be free to more fully engage and enjoy life and whats happening because you wouldn’t have an agenda or a need for it to be a certain way. You might still prefer certain things and outcomes and even actively work toward them but you wouldn’t need them to be happy or ok. If we can see the Divine in everything around us, in everyone and in every situation we can appreciate it even if its unpleasant. We can begin to see whats happening as Divine will and get into harmony with it and this is where miracles happen and we can step into a role of Divine co-creator.
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http://www.transients.info/

Lots of good info regularly to be found there.

Chris

greybeard

12th September 2013, 18:27

The theme of GCI’s Global Care Focus for World Peace Day 2013 is Love First – Peace Follows. This focus is about creating peace by individuals and communities taking responsibility for shaping a new world through increasing love, care and compassion for all humanity.

The Global Coherence Initiative is calling on its members to participate in a World Peace Day Care Focus and to invite others to join in the peace wave.

Imagine what it would be like if thousands of people around the world came together online and focused on world peace.

Join us for a special Peace Day Care Focus on September 19th, 20th and 21st in the Global Care Room on your Mobile devices, Facebook or GCI’s Web Site.

Global Coherence Initiative The Global Care Room (GCR) allows people to come together with their meditations, prayers and positive thoughts directed towards a specific cause. It is a way to connect with each other in heart-focused intention, in real time.

The Global Care Room previously existed as a web only application for computers but its newest iteration, that officially launched today, is now optimized and redesigned for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets and computers) and now you can even access it through your Facebook
account.

We’re coming together in the heart to co-create a greater wholeness. It is heartwarming to see so many people regardless of their background, nationality or religion, collectively focusing love and compassion for our global family and planet. By honoring our differences, we multiply the strength of connection and its effectiveness in caring for the whole.

Participants are invited to join any of three scheduled sessions occurring on September 19th, 20th and 21st at 4 am, noon or 8 pm PDT. For those who cannot make these synchronized session times, the Care Room is open 24/7 so supporters can come together at a time that is convenient for them and join others from around the world.

More Ways You Can Participate:

Hashtag: Use hashtag "#MyPeace" on social media to post your images and updates depicting what brings peace to you or someone you know.
Social Media: You can join us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to help us create a wave of peace with this hashtag. We’ll look for your posts and pictures!
Facebook Badges: Like and Share the Peace Day Badges with your friends.

Take a few moments and become the peace we are radiating into the world.

Thank you for participating in World Peace,

GCI Steering Committee and Staff

http://www.glcoherence.org/peace-day-2013.html

skippy

12th September 2013, 19:46

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Zampano

12th September 2013, 21:38

May I drop something here?
Today I had some great conversations with like minded and something got stuck in my head!

We are moving from being seperate, to being unified!

In my current state of developement, I never heard anything precise like that.

greybeard

14th September 2013, 10:59

Preview of interview with NDE expert Dannion Brinkley & Family

Published on 12 Jul 2013

Conscious Inquiry with Alexis Brooks sits down with near death experiencer and author Dannion Brinkly, his wife Kathryn and daughter Alixandra to discuss spiritual purpose, reflections on the afterlife and more!

To listen to the interview in its entirety, visit: http://radio.consciouslifenews.com/co...

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This is a very interesting and partly scientific clip.
Dannion says science is now proving we are One and that we never left heaven.

Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHktAVkWGcQ&list=UUKbdjvSIO2JbESQePfvTFXg

greybeard

14th September 2013, 11:08

Science and spirituality---- The black Whole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVCGPdP2HC4

greybeard

14th September 2013, 13:54

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Realisation is already there. The state free from thoughts is the
only real state. There is no such action as Realisation. Is there
anyone who is not realising the Self? Does anyone deny his own
existence? Speaking of realisation, it implies two selves - the one
to realise, the other to be realised. What is not already realised, is
sought to be realised. Once we admit our existence, how is it that
we do not know our Self?
D.: Because of the thoughts - the mind.
M.: Quite so. It is the mind that stands between and veils our
happiness. How do we know that we exist? If you say because
of the world around us, then how do you know that you existed
in deep sleep?
D.: How to get rid of the mind?
M.: Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself.
So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you
will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is
nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
D.: How to get rid of fear?
M.: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides
the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees the second (anything
external)? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the
ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second
(nothing external). For anything external to oneself implies the
seer within. Seeking it there will arise no doubt, no fear - not
only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear
along with it.

D.: This method seems to be quicker than the usual one of cultivating
qualities alleged necessary for salvation (sadhana chatushtaya)?
M.: Yes. All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone
Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities
in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to
the mind only. It is beyond quality. If there is unity, there will also
be duality. The numeral one gives rise to other numbers. The truth
is neither one nor two. IT is as it is.

greybeard

14th September 2013, 14:06

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Leave the thought-free state to itself. Do not think of it as pertaining to
you. Just as when you walk, you involuntarily take steps, so too in your
actions; but the thought-free state is not affected by your actions.
D.: What is it that is discriminative in action?
M.: Discrimination will be automatic, intuitive.
D.: So Intuition alone matters; Intuition develops also.
M.: Those who have discovered great Truths have done so in the still
depths of the Self.
The ego is like one’s shadow thrown on the ground. If one attempts
to bury it, it will be foolish. The Self is only one. If limited it is the
ego. If unlimited it is Infinite and is the Reality.
The bubbles are different from one another and numerous, but the
ocean is only one. Similarly the egos are many, whereas the Self
is one and only one.
When told that you are not the ego, realise the Reality. Why do you
still identify yourself with the ego? It is like saying, “Don’t think
of the monkey while taking medicine” - it is impossible. Similarly
it happens with common folk. When the Reality is mentioned why
do you continue to meditate Sivoham or Aham Brahmasmi? The
significance must be traced and understood. It is not enough to
repeat the bare words or think of them.
Reality is simply the loss of the ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its
identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish
and Reality will shine forth by itself. This is the direct method.
Whereas all other methods are done, only retaining the ego. In those
paths there arise so many doubts and the eternal question remains
to be tackled finally. But in this method the final question is the
only one and it is raised from the very beginning. No sadhanas are
necessary for engaging in this quest.
There is no greater mystery than this - viz., ourselves being the
Reality we seek to gain Reality. We think that there is something
hiding our Reality and that it must be destroyed before the Reality
is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself
laugh at your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh
is also here and now

D.: So it is a great game of pretending?
M.: Yes.
In Yoga Vasishtha it is said, “What is Real is hidden from us, but what
is false, is revealed as true.” We are actually experiencing the Reality
only; still, we do not know it. Is it not a wonder of wonders?

The quest “Who am I?” is the axe with which to cut off the ego.

Delight

14th September 2013, 17:44

Thinking about "What is the Ego?" is a recurrent question for me.

In a Unity state, whatever we do is what the One is doing for itself. No matter what direction, everything that is happening is ultimately for the One. "I" will participate as an appearance of separation for the sake of that experience. Simultaneously experiencing being separate and part of the whole is tricky.

We need an appearance but the appearance can then take over? I think this is what I understand: Where the Ego is involved, it will shift everything to "I am separate" and this may have many faces but always feels very empty as it is not connected to the ground of being in Unity.

Teal Scott is a young woman who seems to have a strong observation that makes sense of using the experience of 'reality" with an ego....

http://www.thespiritualcatalyst.com/articles/how-ego-comes-in-the-back-door

One of the most important spiritual steps we can take is to move out of the role of the victim by recognizing our personal power and making changes in our life that are in accordance with that power.

We must recognize that it is our minds which create our reality.

We must recognize that as an extension of source energy, we are ultimately god incarnated physically.

We must recognize how we have given our power away so that we can begin taking our power back.

And we must realize that our dependency is killing us; but that there is where ego traps us. Ego comes in the back door and tells us that we must rely only on ourselves. It isolates us completely by telling us that we are the only ones who can do it right. It tells us that everyone else will fail us. It tells us that we have to suck it up, accept the reality that we are alone in our creation of our reality and that we must do everything ourselves. In other words, it swings the pendulum from the desperate, invaded powerlessness of dependence to the desperate, lonely powerlessness of independence.

To understand this concept further, let’s look at the difference between the message that the ego gives you and the message that the spirit gives you about the exact same subject.

The ego says, “suck it up, you are the only one that can love you and that has to be enough because no one is going to do it for you.”

The spirit says, “begin to love yourself and your vibration will change enough that your reality will begin to reflect that new state of being and others will suddenly demonstrate the love you’ve always been wanting from them.”

It seems contradictory that so many spiritual teachers promote individualism (individual empowerment) simultaneously with interdependence and oneness.
But it is not a contradiction.

We live in an interdependent universe where everything in existence is one.

But we have projected forth into the physical dimension, where our individual perspectives are creating our little subjective realities.

Separation is something we are trying out so we can understand oneness for what it is.

For most of us to come into alignment with our higher selves, we must become self-focused. We must follow our happiness and take back our personal power.

But once we do this, we will inevitably discover the fact that the next step in our happiness is to see that everything in existence is an extension of the self. It is all one.

It is as impossible to be independent in a universe that is “all one” as it is impossible to be dependent in a universe that is “all one”.

We are all completely dependent on other things. We are in no way self-sufficient. We depend on the food we eat. We are dependent on the cars we drive. We are dependent on the air we breathe. So how can it be true that we have personal power if we are this dependent?

The answer is, because we create that which we are dependent on; so ultimately we are not dependent on what we seem to be dependent on. We are no more dependent on our manifestations than a painter is dependent on his paintings. He can always create more.

So where does this leave us? It leaves us with the truth that your power is all about knowing the power that you have.

The victim forgets the creative power of his own being. He forgets he is creating everything, including the things he thinks he is dependent on. In other words, the victim forgets that if he manifests help from others, it is not they that are helping him; it is him that is helping himself.

If I am this stuck in victim mentality, I will wait for others to create what I want and this waiting game is powerlessness.

The one, who is trapped by the ego in personal power, is the one who forgets that we live in an interdependent universe; where our creations will always come through the venue of other beings.

If we are trapped in ego, we will see getting help from others as powerlessness. We will live lonely, tiring lives due to the fear of dependence.

The ego will bate us with the promise of feeling good about ourselves (we can feel strong and feel powerful because we’re the only capable ones).

We will live in a world that is full of people who seem to be incapable. We will trust no one and nothing.

We are isolated and cannot feel the oneness inherent in symbiosis. Oneness is reflected in symbiosis. We are not dependent on what we live symbiotically with because we know if the other party is not a willing participant, it is perfectly fine because we can create another who is. And we know that because we create them, we are never powerless.

Rich

14th September 2013, 19:23

... we never left heaven.
that statement struck me,
reminds me of coming out of a meditation and looking at the trees and buildings
and saying ''it's all love, it's all made of love''.
to live from the awareness that we never left heaven is definitely something,
like Jesus said; the Kingdom of Heaven is within.

Zampano

16th September 2013, 19:22

yeah...soo true! The most powerful creation tool is love. No thing can be without love :-)

And it is there the whole time and ever was. It is just that we forgot...how to look.
Unfortunately :-( this glimpses come and go, but they show us a direction.
And then, you get thrown back into the "real world", where a tree is just a tree and a building is just a building.
I see them as wayshowers and a little introduction into the reality of love.

greybeard

16th September 2013, 21:53

Eckhart Tolle What is meditation?

In this video Eckhart is in very good humour---- very enjoyable entertaining but full of "truth"
One of my favourites.
Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5wRecYb6uo

greybeard

17th September 2013, 08:27

The Most Powerful Video on Spirituality and Happiness - Rare Eckhart Tolle teaching.

Eckhart is a spiritual teacher and author who was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of 29, a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada. Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time.

Eckhart's profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violence on our planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KopmSpe33Eg

greybeard

17th September 2013, 20:30

GCI September 2013 Full Moon Synchronized Care Focus

Welcome to the Global Coherence Initiative’s September 19th, 2013 Full Moon (1:13 p.m. GMT/UTC) synchronized Care Focus. In order for GCI members around the world to participate at a convenient time, we have chosen 4 a.m., 12:00 p.m. (noon), and 8 p.m. Pacific Time (GMT/UTC minus 7 hours ) when GCI members in the Global Care Room can do the Care Focus together.* (The following website – www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html – is a time conversion site for determining the exact time the Care Focus will take place in your Local Time Zone. Select time: 8 p.m. (date optional). Convert from: Location: U.S.A. – California – San Francisco. Convert to: Location: Select your Country/City.)

Let’s start by connecting in the heart with everyone participating in the Global Care Room and radiating love and appreciation to each other.

The International Day of Peace is September 21st. The world is contemplating peace versus war more than ever. People are deeply concerned about the civil war in Syria, the use of chemical weapons, and whether countries can work together to prevent such atrocities. Millions of people across the globe are searching their hearts for answers, praying for peace and that global leaders choose wisely for the greater whole.

Creating and expanding peace is an inside job. We can help co-create an energetic field of peace as we choose peace within our own hearts. Inner-peace oils our resistances to change and increases the natural flow of our heart’s inner-guidance and support through personal and collective changes. Personal peace creates the baseline for global heart expansion into a higher vibration. Increasing our love and connection in day-to-day interactions can be the missing piece in the peace equation. As we release more of the love that we truly are, then peace will seek out that environment.

For this full moon, we will do a special World Peace Day Care Focus with the intention of facilitating personal and planetary peace. We can co-create a peace wave as individuals and communities take responsibility for shaping a new world through increasing love, care and compassion for all humanity.

Care Focus: Love First – Peace Follows

Let’s start by breathing in universal love and appreciation to open our hearts more to the peace that is within us.
Now let’s connect in the heart with all who are participating in World Peace Day and all who are working toward establishing more peace within themselves and on the planet.
Now radiate love, care and compassion to the people of Syria and others around the world experiencing hardships and suffering. Radiate the feeling of peace into the global field environment and hold the vision of leaders cooperating to achieve a more peaceful resolution to this challenging situation. Then radiate love, care, compassion and peace to other local or global stressors as your heart directs you.
Let’s close by envisioning a wave of global peace as individuals and communities take responsibility for shaping a new world through increasing their love, care and compassion for all humanity, wildlife and nature.

After 15 minutes

You can continue to do the Care Focus in the Global Care Room, if convenient, after the full moon period and World Peace Day events, as this will help raise the vibratory rate of the personal and collective field environment.

In honor of the International Day of Peace, please join us for the Love First – Peace Follows Event and Care Focus on September 19th, 20th and 21st in the Global Care Room on GCI’s Web Site or Facebook Global Care Room, both now optimized for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets). You can join us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to help us create a global wave of peace with the hashtag "#MyPeace".

Thank you for your participation in this Care Focus.

GCI Steering Committee and Staff
For those of you who are new participants in the synchronized Care Focus, you can see your green marker and the gold light points of others around the world in the Care Room at the same time. Realize that one gold light can represent a family, a group or an entire audience viewing the Care Room and doing the Care Focus together.

* To join the GCI Care Focus in the Global Care Room, you can enter the room directly from www.globalcarerooms.org. First time users will need to sign up for access. You can use the e-mail and password that you use for the Global Coherence Initiative website. Then, simply log-in with your e-mail and GCI password.

Global Coherence Initiative 14700 West Park Ave., Boulder Creek, CA 95006 tel (831) 706-2981 | fax (831) 338-8504 | info@glcoherence.org

greybeard

22nd September 2013, 09:34

Bright Garlick has a Conversation with Anita Moorjani

Bright discusses his battle with cancer with Anita---Near Death Experiencer.

He says
Please consider supporting my Cancer Fundraiser here : http://www.youcaring.com/other/a-tumo...

I first learned about Anita's story through my friend Meeradas and felt compelled to learn more about her story. I bought her book and read it in a couple of days and felt like I was reading my own story - because the same theme behind Anita's cancer, had also played out in my own life. What is unique about Anita's story is that she had a very dramatic near death experience, came back and healed completely from the cancer that filled her body. Anita came back completely transformed - with some profound insights into the nature of reality, time, space, life and death.

In the early part of the interview, Anita and I discuss my own journey with cancer and our views of wellness, before talking at length about Anita's experience of The Source and how to bring about genuine lasting healing and create the ideal life.

I used Supertintin to record the interview and despite doing some seemless test recordings - there seems to be some audio/visual glitches throughout the recording. My apologies for that.

Please enjoy and I encourage you to read Anita's book and take note of the lessons that she has brought back for all of us : http://www.amazon.com/Dying-To-Be-Me-... .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izny7mO8HxY

greybeard

22nd September 2013, 20:47

Dannion Brinkley with Lisa Harrison.
If you have listened to a video of Dannion Near Death Experience before I would suggest starting 18 minutes in.
Science now proving all are One.
Its a good talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmrvZI7C-r8

greybeard

23rd September 2013, 08:45

Conscious tv ---the latest.

Non Duality - Awakenings (loaded 17 September 2013)
Igor Kufayev - Flowing Wakefulness - Interview by Renate McNay (watch this programme)
Igor, artist and Advaita Tantric Teacher was born in Uzbekistan and his book, Flowing Wakefulness - Essays on the Nature of Consciousness and Reality will be released soon. In this interview he tells us his view on Enlightenment and that true Awakening has to take place in the body on a cellular level. It is the Nervous System that supports the individual Consciousness to mature into full Enlightenment; it's an alchemical process. He states, "The Enlightened is one who's Nervous System can no longer be swept away by chemical storms inside. In this interview Igor talks about the importance of meditation and of the need for utter dedication to the truth.

http://www.conscious.tv/

dianna

23rd September 2013, 12:45

greybeard

23rd September 2013, 15:51

Hi Dianna
thanks for your comments.
Its finding a balance which you feel comfortable with.
We live in this world and whilst the mystic can truthfully say its an illusion that is not our truth or even supposed to be until we evolve to the enlightened state of non-duality.
I like the statement "Whatever gets you though the day!!!"

Best wishes
Chris

greybeard

23rd September 2013, 17:55

Rosaline's blog

Life and Relationships
Sunday, 22 September 2013

My Evolving True Self

Some of us live our lives trying so hard to manage the thoughts we think others have about us. Our lives become guided and directed by what we believe others think, would or might think of us! We neglect being our True Self because we are so focused on acting according to societal and family demands. Eventually, we forget what it means to BE ourselves. This Adapted Self is our Ideal Self, the Self that we project to the rest of the world. Our Ideal Self is constricted and contracted in awareness and is often in conflict with our Real Self, the individual that we are. Who we are, our Real Self, is relaxed, comfortable no matter the circumstances or situation we find ourselves in. Our Real Self is expanded in awareness!

I am often torn between giving myself the satisfaction of expressing my deepest feelings and thoughts and holding back these feelings and thoughts in order to please the other. More often than not I give into the latter and that often leaves me with a feeling of dissatisfaction and awkwardness. I do not feel comfortable when I compromise who I am just for the sake of amicability. Yet, I do compromise most of the time! But, is it ever proper to simply be one’s self, act and speak your truth the way you think and perceive it and damn the consequences? Can we act whichever way we feel like with little or no regard to the others around us? What makes us conform to society’s and other people’s norms and values or others’ way of thinking, perceived or otherwise?

Our upbringing and environment conditions us to think, feel and behave in certain ways. It provides us with the techniques for survival in life which we eventually mistake for the real, authentic way of being. These techniques for survival, these ways of being are our ego, our false self. The online Oxford Dictionary defines the Ego as: “a person’s sense of self esteem or self-importance”. In Psychoanalysis, “it is that part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity”. Thus, the type of person that I am, my ego can be observed in my personality. This thought alone (that my ego can be perceived in personality) provokes an examination of my conscience, not in the light of my True Self but in the light of how well I have been presenting my Ideal Self! How sad!

There really shouldn’t be any conflict between our Ideal selves and our Real selves if we act out of integrity, integrity being the key word. Integrity here is defined as the state of being whole and undivided! Integrity also gives us a feeling of oneness with ourselves. I would think this feeling of oneness with ourselves, a feeling that also comes with being our real selves would be something to work towards; something to cherish and cultivate. Yet, it appears it is easier to cultivate our Ideal projected self!

My ego oftentimes, limits and even over-shadows and suppresses the expression of my Authentic Real Self. Possibly because the ego is the only knowledgeable form of psychological protection I’ve got to regulate my interactions and at the same time feel safe and protected. I have also in the past, based my choice of jobs and career on what my Ideal Projected Self (my ego) needed and wanted! I felt ashamed and did not feel comfortable engaging in conversation relating to my work if I perceived it job title and position as not the “it” position by the standards of society or a job for someone of my calibre! Yet, I never felt happier or more satisfied when I moved to another job perceived by society as a high status job! Going after certain jobs, behaving and interacting with others in a certain way, was the trusted way I knew how to live my live without provoking conflict or stepping into unknown territory.

Continued on the link.

http://www.spiritualityta.blogspot.co.uk/

Chester

26th September 2013, 11:55

I just came upon this video -

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and then I wrote some thoughts, wrote up some quotes... etc. Apologies this isn't exactly organized - sort of a word painting in the raw but I felt compelled to post this in greybeard's most excellent thread which now has become my favorite thread on Avalon -

Brilliant from Charlie Hayes about "no thing" - nothing

prior to consciousness is awareness

heart just like mind is a “concept”

“the closest word to point to the 'isness' of what you are is love.”

(Chester) I recall when I was told God is love. I also recall when I realized I (as all of us – all life) is of God and is therefore an expression of God therefore is God. So God is Love, I am (we are all, individually) God, Love is God thus we are all Love.

... and then the "I" disappears and all there is is love and God.

and then the two words (love and God) melt into one - a word ineffable.

Love is “no thing” – just space where there is absolute silence, absolute stillness within which everything is allowed to be exactly as it is and exactly as it isn’t.
No limitation, no lack – where nothing is wrong...

Love is giving everything the space to be what it is and be what it isn’t.

if all there is is now, eternity is and can only be... and eternity, from the view within the context of time, is forever with no beginning nor end.

The mind is just “I” and “time”

The mind only exists in time and space – in form – for comparing opposites
“dividing and distinguishing”

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The website of Charlie Hayes

http://www.theeternalstate.org/

The Eternal State
“Nothing is Eternal. ONLY No Thing is Eternal.”

“Love is Real. The Rest is Dusty Dreams.”

The mind sees something “wrong” and “it’s my fault or someone else’s fault, etc.”

This (non-duality) cannot be grasped by the mind as the mind sees things from the POV of an “I” apart from “another” or “others.” The mind is “I” and “time.”

The only thing to know is to know what is always so – and this is what some call “gnosis” though once we throw a label on it, it loses it’s “so-ness.”

The mind is space and time and you being aware but with a context of that point of view. Strangely the thought “trapped” into that point of view crossed my mind. Thus I now know this... I now own this and yet, knowing this, owning that I have bought into this, knowing how insane it is to have done so and to continue to do so... why am I still trapped?

The mind answered – "Perhaps one day, Chester, you will notice you are no longer trapped." Then your mind will say – “Ahhh... the only way for it to be gone is if I allow it to slip away! Effort was getting in the way!”

dianna

26th September 2013, 14:01

Is It Funny by Aalif

Is it funny

that completion is watching

incompletion right now?

Is it funny

that silence is watching

noise trying to shush itself?

Is it funny

that the finishing line

is watching the race unfolding

of a runner that never existed?

It would be

if there was someone

to laugh.

greybeard

28th September 2013, 11:05

The big challenge is that the me want to be an authority and gives opinions as though " I know"
A Course in Miracles says "Know that the moment you take up a position you are identifying with an illusion"

If it was easy then everyone would be enlightened then we would "all" be in a celestial realm.
The present chapter of evolution would come to an end.
However as we are in duality, so for the moment, its helpful to Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar and give the rest unto God"
Jesus also said "Wear the world like a loose garment"

So becoming aware of ones conditioning, belief systems, etc and surrendering them to The Divine is very helpful.

All surrender is really to your own SELF.

An AA expression "Let go, let God" sums it up nicely.

I read one book on Hypnosis which stated "Its about getting people out of their trance, that is the challenge and that is not easy"
Out of adversity comes the opportunity for spiritual growth.

One person who influenced me greatly and is a forever friend (Uffe) suggested at one time writing "Om Sri Sai Ram" regularly in note book.
I asked what for? He patiently explained it was like putting energy into a spiritual bank.
I filled quite a few note books.
There have been quite a few with drawls from the bank--smiling.
Ramana also said "Repetition of the name of God is all you need." that is done with devotion and humility.

So that's the thought for today.

Chris

Chester

28th September 2013, 14:36

greybeard

28th September 2013, 15:39

The big challenge is that the me want to be an authority and gives opinions as though " I know"
A Course in Miracles says "Know that the moment you take up a position you are identifying with an illusion"

I came to this thread just now because I had a question which concerned me a bit that it might not be "on topic" when I read the beginning your last post, Chris.

The setup to the question is this: We hear the word "materiality" and "the material realms." In my studies I have come upon what i perceive to be the last contrast... "emptiness and form."

The question is this: Isn't materiality simply a sub division of from? And isn't all form illusion?

For me it has become so... all illusion.

Interesting illusion, fun illusion, tragic illusion, attractive illusion, repulsive illusion and on and on with the adjectives... YET, all still illusion where the material realms are simply denser versions of the same, grand illusion.

I hope folks will comment.

Hi Chester
the thread covers a multitude of sins, laughing.
What you are in your true state is "Form, formless, both and neither."
You are beyond description--the mind cant get that.
Its all levels--what is true for one is not true for another.
Here we can jump of a cliff shouting I am not the body--gravity does not affect me and then the ground rushes up to meet you.
Then as you see your body lying lifeless there you can truly say I am not the body.
As a foot note, suicide is a very bad idea, you would reincarnate immediately to face whatever you tried to escape from--in a different form.
So Quantum says the brain perceives energy as form -- you create everything you experience in that respect.

Always good to see you here Chester.

With love Chris

Ps the short answer to your question is, yes you are right,

Rich

28th September 2013, 19:00

As a foot note, suicide is a very bad idea,

Depends very much on the attitude behind it, of course you probably mean as an escape.

Lester said all death is suicide and Bashar says the same thing in a different way.
Here a highly interesting talk about death and what comes after it:
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Rich

28th September 2013, 19:17

For me it has become so... all illusion.

Bashar said while it is illusory, the effects of them, the experience of it is real.

So whatever your consciousness is about the world now is real for you because it is your experience.

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Chester

29th September 2013, 02:12

greybeard

30th September 2013, 09:40

Great responses -

and, Yes (Chris)... I finally get it - the mind cannot grasp this because it seems the mind can only arise when it derives a contrast.

Yet experience (EmEx) simply is.

I know of a likely justified suicide (justified from a point of view... uh oh, do I smell the mind? haha)...

It was a man who worked for some serious folk. One day he said he wouldn't take any more jobs. Soon after, threats came to his wife and there were threats made about his children. He still refused to take new jobs. He believed they killed his wife. He knew his children, one by one, would likely be next. So he committed suicide. And the children were allowed to live.

That's Sad Chester.
Dying for the sake of others is seemingly good.
Cant help but think there was another way, however having been close to that act myself I can not judge.
So many factors have to be taken into account.

I like Power vs Force/ The hidden determinants of human behaviour.

"David R. Hawkins details how anyone may resolve the most crucial of all human dilemmas: how to instantly determine the truth or falsehood of any statement or supposed fact. Dr. Hawkins, who worked as a "healing psychiatrist" during his long and distinguished career, uses theoretical concepts from particle physics, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos theory to support his study of human behavior. This is a fascinating work that will intrigue readers from all walks of life!."

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The book opened up my way of looking at things.
"If people knew better they would do better" is one quote from Dr H.

We are often driven by energies we are not fully aware of.

I have to cast out the mote in my own eye before even considering/judging the actions of others.
No easy task.
Surrender, surrender, surrender.

The path of Enlightenment I have found to be the most challenging by far"project" I have ever undertaken.
Yet it has brought so much peace into "my" life.

Chris

greybeard

30th September 2013, 21:18

The Harvesting of Souls & the Sanskrit Texts

The Harvesting of Souls & the Sanskrit Texts
Posted by CLNCassandra September 26, 2013 in Reality Shift, Reality's Edge, Reincarnation, Spirits with 0 Comments

V. Susan Ferguson | September 26, 2013

Are we indeed living in the end of a Cycle of Time, facing a day of reckoning in the Twilight of the Kali Yuga, a PRALAYA meaning ‘Dissolution’ in Sanskrit. The acceptance of this possibility leads to the fear-loaded question of the Harvesting of Souls. The archaic phrase ‘harvesting of souls’ is in fact specious, wrong and misleading. There is only the One. There is only one Soul. We all share the same Soul, the Oneness.

“I am the same in all beings.” [Bhagavad Gita IX.29]

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The rest of the text is to be found on the link.

http://consciouslifenews.com/harvesting-souls-sanskrit-texts/1165937/

Rich

30th September 2013, 21:43

“I am the same in all beings.”

What self does not want the best for itself?
The fact that God is Love is indisputable when we see that he is the Self.

giovonni

2nd October 2013, 13:14

speaking of self ...

Let Go Of Me, Ego (http://wanderlustcr.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/let-go-of-me-ego/) :)

greybeard

2nd October 2013, 13:20

Hi Gio-- thanks for the link.

Chris

greybeard

2nd October 2013, 13:53

Byron Katie - 'The Story Of The ONE' -

Byron Katie 'The Story Of The ONE' Interview by Iain McNay
Author of many books including, 'A Thousand Names For Joy', 'Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life ' and 'Who Would You Be Without Your Thinking.' Creator of 'The Work,' Katie talks about her life and how she sees reality. 'Stay in the place you are not creating the illusion. Stay in the I AM.' 'I am the awareness of Consciousness observing itself,'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-QpYtCW0Q

greybeard

3rd October 2013, 06:25

There is a new paradigm, a shift happening.

You may have observed the changes in the global environment in recent years along with the transformation of old attitudes about how we view ourselves and our relationship with each other and the earth.

A new level of human consciousness is unfolding as individuals connect in their heart with who they truly are. Each of us has a valuable part to play in activating the heart of humanity. The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) assumed its role when it was established in 2008 by the Institute of HeartMath.

Our mission of uniting in heart-focused care and intention to help facilitate a positive shift in global consciousness has spread worldwide to people from diverse backgrounds, nationalities and beliefs.

Our focus is to connect people in a way that facilitates individual and collective coherence. This, in turn, assists in restoring planetary balance.

GCI’s part in ushering in the new era is about providing resources for expanding heart intelligence, which strengthens our vision of facilitating a shift in global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and increased peace.

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/email/e-broadcast/2013/monthly-giving/monthly-giving-online.php

greybeard

3rd October 2013, 10:43

Your soul belongs to I am that I am (God)
In your essence you are That.
I heard One enlightened teacher say "There is only one soul, and I am That"
The same teacher when questioned Are you God? said "Yes and so are you, the only difference is I know what I am"

I am That is YOU--- You are all that is-- the totality all of it.
Scientists are beginning to understand that we live in a holographic universe-- all (without exception) is contained within a single atom of your body, and every atom everywhere.

Chris

greybeard

3rd October 2013, 21:53

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greybeard

4th October 2013, 13:01

Dannion Brinkley and family interview.
http://radio.consciouslifenews.com/?s=dannion+brinkley&x=7&y=12

Chris

greybeard

5th October 2013, 21:27

Anitia Moorjani on her Spiritual Realizations

Alan Steinfeld of http://www.NewRealities.com radio broadcast talks with Anita Moorjani opens up to Alan about topics she rarely discusses including education, religion and the other aspects of her NDE and others aspexts of her best selling book,
Dying to Be Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYiFHxa_wK0

greybeard

8th October 2013, 08:12

Spiritual Author Nanci Danison's
BACKWARDS Glimpse
© 2013
October 7, 2013

Do We Disappear When We Merge Into Source?

Readers Jennifer and Crystal ask: "[Y]ou said that when we are done evolving we merge or dissolve back into the light forever and take all of our memories & experiences with us. When we do this, are we still us? Like do we continue to exist as us or are we no more? . . . Like I guess what I am asking is do our individual consciousnesses survive merging back into source or do they no longer exist once we dissolve back into source?"

These questions are answered differently depending upon which perspective we take.

Human Perspective: We believe we are separate individuals/consciousnesses from our Creator. Our religions have taught us that when we die, we go to heaven and live blissfully forever and ever amen. We are given the impression that we remain humans in heaven and continue to live human-like lives only better. Therefore, we believe we would retain all of our memories and experiences in our own individual minds. From human perspective, it would seem like we disappear when we merge back into Source.

Light Being Perspective: We believe we are spiritual beings that live the afterlife as discrete consciousnesses separate from Source. We know that the afterlife is not a forever and ever heaven, but rather more like a blissful temporary state of being between incarnations into physical matter. Once we complete the transition back into thinking and understanding like a Light Being, instead of a human, we retain and can remember every moment of every experience from every physical matter incarnation, as well as life in the afterlife between physical lives. We retain these memories in our individual expanded consciousnesses/minds. Light Beings eventually realize intellectually that they will "merge" back into Source, and that Source is a "collective being" with many, many personalities. But they have little concept of what that means for them individually until they are go through the merger process.

Source's Perspective: Humans do not have individual consciousnesses. The only consciousness inhabiting a human is Source--through the phenomenon I call "Light Beings" and most of us call "souls." Light Beings do not have individual consciousnesses. The only consciousness within a Light Being is that of Source. All of the characters, creatures, and beings in the physical universe and afterlife that believe they are separate consciousnesses believe that only because Source has chosen to have amnesia about those parts of its own mind. When we are ready, all of "us" who believe we are separate from Source will awaken to the knowledge that we are actually part of Source's consciousness and have never been separate individuals at all. We will expand our consciousness to know that we are Source itself. We will not lose anything; we gain almightyness. We will realize that we are literally characters within Source's mind pretending to be separate individuals. (This is the process I call "merger.") Therefore, there was never an "us" to "still be us" after merger into Source. There were never "individual consciousnesses to survive merging back into source." We have never existed other than in Source's mind. All of our memories and experiences are Source's memories and experiences

Note: "Merger" is probably a misnomer because it does create the impression that two separate beings are combining, rather than one consciousness awakening to a deeper understanding of itself. There is no word that adequately describes the process I experienced of mentally moving deeper and deeper into Source's understanding about itself, the universe it created, and its purpose for creating characters with amnesia within its own mind. So "merger" it is until I find a better term.

Next Month: I will answer Jennifer's question about why Light Beings do not know they are parts of Source.

Thank you for being open to the messages I have returned from the afterlife to share.

Nanci

Nanci L. Danison, JD, afterlife experiencer and author of BACKWARDS: Returning to Our Source for Answers, BACKWARDS Guidebook, BACKWARDS Beliefs: Revealing Eternal Truths Hidden in Religions, and the Light Answers to Tough Questions series of CDs and DVDs (A.P. Lee & Co., Ltd., Publishers). Visit me at www.BackwardsBooks.com or watch me on YouTube.

Subscribe to this newsletter at www.BackwardsBooks.com.

greybeard

9th October 2013, 21:15

johnf

10th October 2013, 00:26

So that's my current understanding--- Im not saying Im right.

Chris

The only way I can make sense of this is with Bohm's ideas of enfolded and unfolded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_Order

All times, all consciousness is/are infinite, and undifferentiated.
The apparency of matter, universes, individual consciousness, etc arises with this focus of intention you mention above Chris.
I'm pretty sure I am not enlightened, but have had experiences that fit the sages descriptions of that state.
I think as long as there is a body, and other humans visible, the whole individual thing happens.
The body seems to be a lens for this experience, there may be finer bodies, finer worlds in the background of this one.

One is left to wonder, is there an infinite pause between all thoughts , all creations?

What is left?

The canned answer is consciousness, but with a silent awareness, what arises for us?

(Even though I like what I have written, I feel silly pretending to know anything about it. If it were not for Karen Richards asking stuff like this on her fb page, I may never have thought that.)

jf

Wind

10th October 2013, 05:27

Another amazing video from Alan Watts.

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And a new video from Mooji.

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You can read updates from Mooji on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/moojiji).

Awakening is not possible without duality, for the Self is ever perfect and therefore beyond the concept of awakening. It is the mind that awakens to its own true nature as pure awareness, and the awakening of the Self does not always happen in one whack. It is meant to be like that. There is a gradual merging of the ego-mind with the heart-mind or pure Self through the yoga of knowledge, and this expresses as the harmony of being. The mind has to slowly adjust to the atmosphere of the Self.

~ Mooji

onawah

10th October 2013, 05:45

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greybeard

10th October 2013, 19:49

The Sacred Science Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTVI8eI8eOU

greybeard

10th October 2013, 20:00

Let's talk TO each other not ABOUT each other
Rosaline's blog "Life and Relationships"

We spend so much time talking about each other instead of talking to each other! I read this somewhere recently and it got me thinking of all the times I have bitched about others or listened to others bitch about someone else without calling them out on it! I’ll say we spend so much time talking about each other there is little or no time to talk to each other. We talk around each other and expect that there will be some changes in the other's behaviour!

Assuming that when we talk about others behind their backs it is usually to criticise or say something negative about them, why is it so easy or easier to do so with others instead of speaking directly to the one concerned? Why do we find it easier to complain about each other’s behaviour and actions to others except to the person(s) actually involved in the action? I believe we would solve a lot more problems, and create better relationships if we could cultivate the habit of confronting one another with our perceived unacceptable behaviour and actions. If we learned to speak to the person(s) concerned about issues that concern them, we will be able to resolve the issue(s) there and then. Well, assuming that, there will be no sparks, accusations and counter accusations flying all over the place! At least the other person will be aware of what they are supposedly doing that annoys the other and will get the chance to give his/her own side of the story while the complainant will be able express his/her grievance directly to the accused.

Open and honest conversation is also quite therapeutic if we face it with an open mind. I find that my feelings towards the other person changes only temporarily when I don’t speak directly to them about an issue that involves them. If I am angry or unhappy with someone and speak to some other person about my discontent, I end up feeling guilty for talking behind their back and at the same time hope that they don’t get to know about it. At the same time I’ll be hoping that they change their behaviour towards me! But how is that going to happen when they are not even aware that I have a problem with them.

At work, colleagues sometimes expect new-comers to do their jobs perfectly yet would not directly tell them when they go wrong or fail to pick up the culture of the organisation straight away.
Yes, we don’t really expect that a person changes their ways of thinking and behaving by talking behind their back do we? Maybe we do! At least if we are honest, we expect the other person we are talking to about some other person to agree with and confirm our view of the other and possibly contribute some other evidence that corroborates our perception.

On the one hand, we are afraid to hurt the other person by telling them the truth as we see it. We are also scared of a full blown confrontation. So we decide to gauge the views of others neutral to the situation. If they agree with us that the person we are talking about is exactly the way we perceive them to be, we are happy and feel good about ourselves. That also convinces us that we were right all along and reinforces our belief that there is something wrong with the other person and they need to change.

On the other hand, assuming that we can make others change for us, the person being talked about cannot change if they do not even know what we are thinking and saying about them. Secondly, the people we are talking to will also be influenced in their perception of the one being discussed. It is quite difficult to listen to all the stories, good or bad, about someone and remain neutral in our behaviour towards them. One way or another our interaction with them will be influenced by what we have heard. We will end up using the frame of reference of others in our interactions with the person spoken about thereby ultimately limiting our experience to theirs.

Talking about each other is quite common in work situations where relationships are not so intimate. In the hope that their views would be accepted as the best option to take, managers and colleagues constantly talk past each other without listening to or allowing the other person to express their own thoughts and feelings.

It will be refreshing, if we could all make an effort to have a conversation with each other; a conversation where both parties are fully contributing to the discussion. A conversation where we allow each other to express their thoughts and feelings. This is the best way we can show respect for each other; the only way we can accept that we are different and therefore can think and feel differently about stuff.

Most of all, let's talk TO each other instead of ABOUT each other!

http://www.spiritualityta.blogspot.co.uk/

greybeard

10th October 2013, 20:36

I got a touch of nostalgia
This is one of my first posts on the original Avalon 14.12.2009.

"The ego is not the enemy and was necessary to our survival.
It was born out of the need to see this and that as seperate fom our true self. ie what is edible what is not, what leads to pleasure what leads to pain. What is dangerous to us.
Unforunately the useful servant became a bad master.

In short it is a seperation device.
It grows stronger by percieving an enemy.
It would die for its point of view.
All wars come out of a difference of opinion.
I am right therfore you must be wrong is typical of the egoic thought.

In symplicity the ego is just self buying into and believing in the me story in the head.

Ego is all belief systems all programing all positionality.

The moment a position is held its an identification with an illusion.

its ok to have a point of view but its a mistake to believe that it is more valid than other possible points of view.

What is left when the ego is transcended?
Enlightenment is what is left.
An egoless state."

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Anchor was one of the first to post on the thread he wrote.

"Here is my starter for you - one way of many of looking at it. The ego is from the part of my mind that thinks "I", typically it only exists while the clock is ticking.

Transcending it requires the removal of the clock ticking - no past, no future, no ego, just the moment.
Last edited by Anchor; 12-14-2009 at 11:13 AM."
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Carmen wrote

Im interested in your thread greybeard. I understand the ego to be the same as the personality cut off from the spiritual Self. In 'cut off' I mean unaware.

Cheers

Carmen"

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So there you go not much changes.

Chris

minkton

10th October 2013, 21:22

This may or may not be helpful.

From a deep spiritual teaching point of view there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that in the enlightened state there is to time, no space, no linear time, therefore no sequence, everything (past present future) happened at the same eternal moment. The human mind, in order to experience, puts a seeming cause and affect and therefore sequence to everything.
The unenlightened cant get this, the mind cant, there is no reference point for it.

The enlightened state is testified to be non-locational-- where ever intention is focused that where the "experience" is.
In essence everything is of the same One. The I am That is everywhere.
The "I am That" is the space in which everything including the human experience occurs.
in the I am That is contained everything and I am contained in everything--there is only One self and that Self is within every stone, blade of grass, the sparrow the Sun the Cosmos all One entity expressing It Self in billions of ways, each way unique.

The Mystic can truthfully say--I am the Totality all of it.

So Chris is the Ocean and the wave and so is everything else--the smallest atom within me which is 99.5% empty space (Dark Matter= God) contains absolutely everything---what is separate from One without a second?

So that's my current understanding--- Im not saying Im right.

Chris

I have experienced this reality. Just for a while. Then back to linear duality.

What I wonder about, is the living in this reality. Actually how it is, what it is like.
Do you know anecdotal evidence, Chris, about this juxtaposition of the mundane and the supra reality?

minkton

10th October 2013, 21:25

PS! The sacred science film looks to be really interesting stuff.

greybeard

11th October 2013, 08:31

greybeard

11th October 2013, 09:40

Welcome to the 2013 Sacred Science Free Screening!
This email contains important information about how to view the film during the 10 days it will be available -- as well as the special additional events that we have planned for you!
1. How to Watch the Film:
From October 7th to October 17th, you will have unlimited access to view The Sacred Science film, as well as a bunch of bonus videos.
Between the dates above, click on either of the links below to watch the movie:
http://www.thesacredscience.com/screening_watchnow
http://www.thesacredscience2.com/screening_watchnow
If you click on this link BEFORE the free screening starts, you will see a countdown timer that will tick down until the start of the screening.
2. How to Enjoy Our Event Special Interviews:
In addition to the online screening, we have a special lineup of experts who will be speaking in depth about the ancient healing techniques used in the film.
Throughout the 10 day event, these award winning authors, nutritionists, and healers will be giving you tips on how to bring these powerful practices into your life.
Reminders for these interviews will be sent to you by email on the day they air.
3. Below is The Entire Event Schedule:
October 7th: Free Screening Begins!
October 9th: Dr. Gabor Mate, Bestselling Author of "When The Body Says No"
October 11th: Daniel Vitalis, Wild Food Nutritionist
October 13th: Dr. Lissa Rankin, Bestselling Author of "Mind Over Medicine"
October 15th: Tahnahga Yako, Ojibwe Medicine Woman
October 16th: Tristan Truscott, QiGong Master
October 17th: Live Q and A + Last Day of Free Screening!
4. Recap!
- The links to view the film screening page are:
http://www.thesacredscience.com/screening_watchnow
http://www.thesacredscience2.com/screening_watchnow
- This screening will be available between October 7th-17th.
- We'll be sending you reminders about the other special event interviews as they come closer.
A warm thank you from The Sacred Science team!
Enjoy,
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Thanks to Heart2hearth for this.

Chis

greybeard

13th October 2013, 14:31

Anita Moorjani--- one of the clearest detailed account of NDE.
AND miraculously her cancer, which manifest lemon sized growth on her body, cleared without any trace or remnant of the severe illness which included imminent organ failure.

Her videos and audio’s to be found on her web site, well worth a visit.

http://anitamoorjani.com/

greybeard

13th October 2013, 18:17

The Law of the Mind
By Beverly Blanchard via beverlyblanchard.blogspot.ca, 19 September 2013 (Thanks Connie)

"Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar and you'll live as you've never lived before." – Erich Fromm

The Law of the Mind identifies the need to bring harmony to all aspects of the mind and to learn to operate through the part of the mind which is influenced by the Universal Consciousness. As the mystics down through the ages have said, man and the Cosmic Intelligence or God’s mind are one; and it is this mind that is influenced by your thoughts and speech. The problem is man spends his time in words and thoughts which provide a negative return on its investment.

Your mind is not a single entity, and in reality it is comprised of quite a few minds. It is these fragmentary parts of the mind that keep you locked into a false sense of reality. Through the use of your own mind, you tend to operate schizophrenically on the outer edge of your life believing that the facts presented to you throughout the day are reality. It is why in the morning you awaken full of love and by the evening you are filled with unloving thoughts if not downright anger.

You have allowed the influences of the day to direct your thinking and stimulate your imagination. In other words, you are using your imagination toward the negative. For some people, the constant dialoguing within their mind keeps them either locked into a pattern of spending time worrying about the future that is not, or rehashing the past that is gone.

If you do not learn to control your mind, you become a slave to it and where you place your focus becomes your reality. Since your reality is created through your thoughts and speech, it is important to identify what mind you are feeding throughout your day. Is it the ego mind? The one that keeps you addicted to your emotional programming.

The mind which is busily trying to protect you by automatically triggering your security fears, sensation longings or power grabs. Is it the rational mind? The one that attempts to support the ego by furnishing all the reasons why you are right and another is wrong. Why things cannot be done? Why you need to lower your standards? Why logic is the only way to look at things? Neither of these minds takes a break, and when left to their own devices they lead you down the road of unhappiness because you relinquish the responsibility for your own thinking.Our ego and rational minds process, manipulate, suppress, change and distort our reality by giving us false judgments about how we should or should not operate in this world.

Often these judgments are based on other people’s rules and opinions, or things we read or hear in the media. Throughout the day we never take the time to determine if these events or beliefs are actually relevant to our lives. Instead we allow them to circulate through our minds on a continuous loop never realizing it is those thoughts that are creating our world.It is important to understand the role of the ego and the rational mind. It is equally important to not allow them to be in the driver’s seat since both influences our imagination. You must become conscious of your thoughts on a moment to moment basis and prune those thoughts that are not in your highest interest. Speech is the image of the mind and mind is the image of Cosmic Consciousness. Your imagination is like the projection screen and the thoughts you are thinking are continually creating your movie. Are your thoughts conscious or are you allowing your inner dialogues to run amuck?

Continue to the full article here,
http://www.beverlyblanchard.blogspot.ca/2013/09/the-law-of-mind.html

Thanks to Transient info

http://www.transients.info/2013/10/the-law-of-mind.html#more

Wind

13th October 2013, 18:22

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Zmar Silent Retreat, Portugal, 12th September 2013, Session 2

Because of the relationship with the mind and the identity
you came to accept identity like it's a fact;
but, it is fiction.

greybeard

14th October 2013, 10:40

Ramana Maharshi talk 198
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

D.: What is Guru’s Grace? How does it work?
M.: Guru is the Self.
D.: How does it lead to realisation?
M.: Isvaro gururatmeti ... (God is the same as Guru and Self ...). A
person begins with dissatisfaction. Not content with the world he
seeks satisfaction of desires by prayers to God; his mind is purified;
he longs to know God more than to satisfy his carnal desires. Then
God’s Grace begins to manifest. God takes the form of a Guru and
appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; purifies the mind by his
teachings and contact; the mind gains strength, is able to turn inward;
with meditation it is purified yet further, and eventually remains still
without the least ripple. That stillness is the Self. The Guru is both
exterior and interior. From the exterior he gives a push to the mind
to turn inward; from the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self
and helps the mind to achieve quietness. That is Grace.
Hence there is no difference between God, Guru and Self.

---------------------------------------------------

Maharshi said: There is only one consciousness. But we speak of
several kinds of consciousness, as body-consciousness, Self-
consciousness. They are only relative states of the same Absolute
consciousness. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist.
They appear in consciousness. It is like a screen on which these
are cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show. The Absolute
consciousness is our real nature.

truthseekerdan

15th October 2013, 18:27

I'm honored to post this "spiritual" documentary on this great tread for my friends, (Chris and they know who they are :-) -- and all other truth seekers that visit here regularly.

The documentary is split in 4 parts. Parts 3 & 4, are recommended by me for many to start with first however, everybody is encouraged to see parts 1 & 2 also. Hope this will awaken more souls… :-)

Much Love & Namaste

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds

http://www.awakentheworld.com/

Part 3: The Serpent and the Lotus
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Part 4: Beyond Thinking
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Here is the playlist for all parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXuTt7c3Jkg&list=PLD8E5F0D70B62BEFE

greybeard

15th October 2013, 19:06

Hi Dan
good to see you posting here.
Im downloading these two.
Thanks
Your friend
Chris

greybeard

15th October 2013, 20:01

Howard Martin, a worldwide spokesperson for the Institute of HeartMath and a member of the Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee, is coming to your area.

Join Howard Martin for an inspiring seminar and workshop entitled: Heart Mind Event in Göteborg, Sweden on November 15 -16, Friday-Saturday. The Friday event is from 1:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

In this 2 day seminar and workshop, Martin will guide us through the latest research about the heart’s intuitive intelligence and how we can use this power. Topics covered are: heart-brain communication, how we affect each other electromagnetically, heart coherence, global coherence and more.

Discover the power in your heart.

Click here to learn more.

Click here to register. If you need to see the event details and registration materials in English, or if you need help getting tickets, please e-mail, anders@heartmath.se.

• Also, Howard Martin will be in London, England on November 19, Tuesday Evening, 7-9 p.m. delivering a unique message entitled: Emergence 2013: Creating a Heart-Based World.

• Howard will be sharing the latest research relating to Heart Consciousness! Come along and be part of the shift in consciousness as we recognize truly that each of us is a powerful transmitter of Love into the world. This event is by a gratitude donation. To learn more or register, click here.

With care,

Sara Childre,

President, Institute of HeartMath

Howard Martin is executive vice president for strategic development at HeartMath LLC and delivers programs and keynote presentations. He conducts interviews about HeartMath and the HeartMath System with television and other major media outlets and news publications, and he co-authored The HeartMath Solution with HeartMath founder Doc Childre.

greybeard

16th October 2013, 21:48

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Maharshi said: There is only one consciousness. But we speak of
several kinds of consciousness, as body-consciousness, Self-
consciousness. They are only relative states of the same Absolute
consciousness. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist.
They appear in consciousness. It is like a screen on which these
are cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show. The Absolute
consciousness is our real nature.

greybeard

17th October 2013, 07:18

Global Coherence Initiative’s October 18th, 2013 Full Moon (23:38 GMT/UTC) synchronized Care Focus. In order for GCI members around the world to participate at a convenient time, we have chosen 4 a.m., 12:00 p.m. (noon), and 8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (GMT/UTC minus 7 hours) when GCI members in the Global Care Room can do the Care Focus together.* Thank you for being with us.

Let’s start by connecting in the heart with everyone participating in the Global Care Room and radiating love and appreciation to each other.

It’s obvious that separation and polarization between people identified with opposing political parties, religious sects or economic interests are being amplified during these times. We see this polarization between the U.S. Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-led White House that has stymied resolution and partially shut down the government. We see it in the civil wars in the Middle East and Africa that are causing untold suffering and displacing millions of people. At the same time, care for the greater good is being amplified and we see this in new co-creative cooperation between leaders and nations regarding chemical weapons in Syria and other global threats. Radiating compassion from a coherent heart space into the global field environment has a cumulative effect that facilitates families, communities and nations to open their hearts more and listen respectfully to each other’s views. From there, co-creative solutions have a chance to emerge.

For this Care Focus, let’s send our collective heart and care to facilitate co-creative cooperation for the highest best outcomes.
Care Focus – Co-creative Cooperation

Let’s start by breathing in universal love and bring our vibration to a place of inner-stillness. This will increase our heart coherence.
Now let’s connect deeply in the heart with all those who are facilitating heart-based dialogue and cooperation between people, political parties, religious sects and nations.
Radiate love and care into the global field environment and hold a vision of increasing co-creative cooperation among leaders and decision-makers to serve the greater whole.
Now send love, care and compassion as your heart guides you to those still suffering in the aftermath of cyclones, earthquakes, fires, floods, wars and economic hardship, realizing that although TV news and media may have moved onto covering the next current event, there are people still suffering from past crises who need our love and care.

After 15 minutes

You can continue to do the Care Focus in the Global Care Room, if convenient, after the full moon period, as this will help raise the vibratory rate of the personal and collective field environment.

Thank you for your participation in this Care Focus.

GCI Steering Committee and Staff
* (The following website – www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html – is a time conversion site for determining the exact time the Care Focus will take place in your Local Time Zone. Select time: 8 p.m. (date optional). Convert from: Location: U.S.A. – California – San Francisco. Convert to: Location: Select your Country/City.)

To join the GCI Care Focus in the Global Care Room, you can enter the room directly from www.globalcarerooms.org. First time users will need to sign up for access. You can use the e-mail and password that you use for the Global Coherence Initiative website. Then, simply log-in with your e-mail and GCI password.

If you prefer, you can also participate in collective Heart-Focused Care in the Global Care Room App for Facebook.

For those of you who are new participants in the synchronized Care Focus, you can see your green marker and the gold light points of others around the world in the Care Room at the same time. Realize that one gold light can represent a family, a group or an entire audience viewing the Care Room and doing the Care Focus together.

greybeard

18th October 2013, 10:15

A shift of perception Adyahanti speaks about being bitten by the spiritual bug and other things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRpD3-RXfoQ

Wind

18th October 2013, 21:26

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"You are in pure harmony
but it is not to say you will not experience
moments of frustration, some resistance...."

Chester

18th October 2013, 22:16

an interesting article on integralworld.net -

True Mysticism and the Real Postrational Worldview (http://www.integralworld.net/powers13.html)

by Barclay Powers

too much in this to just pull out one or two quotes... but here's a few anyways -

The essence of true mysticism is the divine spark of light, the starting point of the kundalini within the body, which is a dormant enlightened point of origin.

and

The activation of this primordial enlightened super subtle body is the goal of Tai Chi Chuan, which describes the complete union of yin and yang structures of consciousness within the body as immortality/enlightenment.

and I might add, I am nowhere near this... but in a way, I wish I were.

minkton

18th October 2013, 23:35

Chester

19th October 2013, 03:46

greybeard

19th October 2013, 11:17

BIG LOVE
Tim Freke

The Experience of Awakening

November 7th, 2013, Swansea, Wales, UK

An evening talk for Swansea Spiritual Connections

GATEWAYS OF THE MIND CONFERENCE

November 9th - 10th, 2013, London, UK

Tim is speaking at this conference on out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming and lucid living

WAKE UP AND LOVE

MIranda Macpherson and Tim Freke in Dialogue
November 14th, 2013, London, 7 - 9.30 pm

THE MYSTERY EXPERIENCE

Mumbles, Swansea, Wales Non-residential Retreat

November 16th - 17th, 2013, Our first ever Mystery Experience in Wales!

THE MYSTERY EXPERIENCE
Glastonbury UK New Year Residential Retreat

December 30th, 2013 - January 1st, 2014

Bring in the New Year with energy, optimism, deep love and big laughs.

http://www.themysteryexperience.com/events/

minkton

20th October 2013, 14:27

Do you have a Tai Chi practise, justonestoneman? You can activate your subtle body via Tai Chi, but it is easier to activate it with Qigong and meditation.

My friend, the author Peter Moon has offered to instruct me regarding Qigong. I have not been ready to accept his offer yet. Just after checking out this article and because Paula (an Avalon member) does Tai Chi, I searched for a local group that practices and teaches Tai Chi here in Dallas.

I found a group and am planning to go meet with them, next week.

Thanks for the encouragement.
I do hope you enjoy it.

With regard to tai chi, it is ideal to have a teacher who will clue you in to the internal aspects of practise.

If you study qigong, you will find the internal aspects of practise on your own!

You know, there is a lot of qigong teaching free on youtube, if you ever feel ready to take a look. I would highly and strongly recommend that you take a look at ken cohen on youtube. You cant do better than him. You can actually start a very respectable and effective practise alongside what is on youtube. Honestly.

greybeard

20th October 2013, 14:40

Hi Minkton
I found Ken Cohen on u tube,thanks for the tip.
I have done this as part of a Bio-energy healing diploma course.
It was very basic but effective.

Chris

minkton

20th October 2013, 15:37

Chris, yes. Good! You have to start with the basics.

........ and if you do them long enough they become the advanceds, as all is contained within them and the resultant level is dependant on the doing and intent.

If you tune into Ken Cohen's energy you will see what I mean. he is a taoist priest and also works with american indian healers.. he is one of the most effective healers as designated by the meninger copper wall experiments. Oneof the things I love about him, apart from his deep integrity and sense of humour, is his humility and complete lack of interest in bells and whistles.

He has some taoist meditations recorded which are quite literally cosmic, in the most clear and effective way possible... in the style of the original taoists, accessing cosmic force.

greybeard

21st October 2013, 14:04

Teachings from Higher Consciousness

Dr Arthur J Keenen

Welcome
I am honored to share these Teachings From Higher Consciousness with you. They are not new, for they are ancient and eternal lessons about life. They are restated here, in another way, to make them easier for you to understand and apply them to your daily lives.

These teachings are not about religion, for religion has brought great suffering to this planet. They are about love, kindness, compassion, acceptance, and allowance, first for oneself, then for all others.

Use these teachings as a guide to help you transcend the distortion in consciousness that has led you to believe that you are less than one with the Source of All That Is. Namaste.

http://www.teachingsfromhigherconsciousness-k.blogspot.co.uk/

Well worth a read

Thanks to

http://www.transients.info/2013/10/infinite-wisdom-on-life-health-love.html#more

Chris

greybeard

24th October 2013, 07:23

Thich Nhat Hahn

Eckhart Teachings and Eckhart Tolle TV would love to let you know of an upcoming free broadcast with a powerful transmitter of peace and presence: Zen Master, poet, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Thich Nhat Hanh.
A Free Live Online Event with Thich Nhat Hanh

Register

http://live.soundstrue.com/refreshinghearts/?dispop=0&utm_source=Sounds_True&utm_medium=partner-email&utm_content=register-btn&utm_campaign=TNH-Free-Event
On October 26, 2013, at just around 2:30 pm Pacific Time, Thich Nhat Hanh will be speaking at a sold-out event at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California on "Refreshing Our Hearts: Touching the Wonders of Life." The event will be broadcast for free by Sounds True. To watch the broadcast or to share it with your friends, just click here. (And if you'd like to view the program more than once, a recording will be available to view at your convenience for the duration of 2013.)

Thich Nhat Hanh is now 86 years old and has published more than 100 books. In my experience, he communicates love and awakening in a powerful way through his gentle and intense presence, helping us touch more deeply the freshness and preciousness of this moment. I invite you to join us for this free broadcast and to tell your friends about this wonderful opportunity.

In presence,
Your friends at Eckhart Teachings and Eckhart Tolle TV

PS—If you’d like to let your friends know about this FREE event, forward this email so they can register too.

greybeard

24th October 2013, 11:19

science of TIME in hinduism by sadhguru jaggi vasudev & nassim haramein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqb_UxLrwUI

greybeard

24th October 2013, 18:46

The Sun, Earth, Moon and People Its all connected.
Scientific fact
From Global Coherence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBaEpmyqQQI

Wind

25th October 2013, 00:12

Who am I? I'm sure I'm not the only one who asks that question often.

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carriellbee

25th October 2013, 19:22

Who am I? I'm sure I'm not the only one who asks that question often.

Thank you for sharing this video. I absolutely adore Alan Watts and have spent hours listening to him. And listening as a kind of meditation helps me to integrate the ideas presented.

greybeard

27th October 2013, 13:48

Published on 5 Sep 2013

http://www.AfterlifeTV.com PAST LIFE MEMORIES LEAD WOMAN TO REUNITE WITH HER CHILDREN FROM PREVIOUS LIFETIME

JENNY COCKELL: "Jenny Cockell had past-life memories as early as age 3. Although she grew up and lives in England, Jenny recalled her life as Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died 21 years before Jenny was born. Because Mary left 8 young children behind when she passed, her emotional concern about the children transferred to Jenny. As an adult, using maps she drew as a child from her past-life memories, Jenny Cockell traced her memories to the exact location where she lived in her past life, Malahide, Ireland. Thereafter, due to her diligent research, Jenny also located Mary's children and personally reunited with 5 of them. This is an episode like no other I've done before. And I believe it's one you'll be telling your friends and family about for years. Enjoy!" ~ Bob Olson, Afterlife TV http://www.afterlifetv.com/?p=1582

Note: So as not to confuse, I mention at the beginning of this interview that my wife, Melissa, told me so much about Jenny's book that I did not read it. I meant to add that this happened years ago and I did, in fact, read the book before this interview and loved it. ~ Bob

JENNY COCKELL'S BOOK: Across Time And Death: A Mother's Search For Her Past Life Children (Amazon affiliate): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASI....

Book Description: For as long as she could remember, Jenny Cockell had known that she had lived before as Mary Sutton, a young Irishwoman who had died 21 years before Jenny was born. Her constant dream-memory was of Mary dying, alone and desperately worried about what would happen to the 8 young children she was leaving behind. When at last Jenny's own children were born, she finally acknowledged that she needed to find out what had happened to her lost family from her previous lifetime. Across Time And Death is the compelling story of a mother's love that reached from one life to another to reunite with her children.

JENNY COCKELL'S SECOND BOOK - Past Lives, Future Lives (Amazon affiliate) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASI....

Second Book Description: Past Lives, Future Lives tells the continuing story of the psychic experiences that spurred Jenny Cockell to investigate not only other past lives but the future -- as far ahead as the twenty-third century. Her amazingly detailed glimpses of the future are more than merely personal images; they allow her to formulate an overall view of what the future holds for us all -- including a planet much lower in population, but also safer and more pleasant than the world of today. In her honest, warm, and plain-speaking voice, Jenny Cockell writes of the past and the future in a way that is both practical and visionary; she offers inspiration and hope for the world to come.

JENNY COCKELL'S BIOGRAPHY: Jenny Cockell, a member of Mensa (the high IQ society), is the author of the bestselling book on past-life memory titled, Across Time And Death: A Mother's Search For Her Past Life Children. She is also a chiropodist in Northamptonshire, England. She has two children, a son and daughter, and is married to her husband, Steve, a garden designer.

FACEBOOK PAGE: Jenny Cockell can only be contacted through her Facebook page, which she said she created in order to communicate with fans (so feel free to Friend her and let her know how much you enjoyed this interview): https://www.facebook.com/jenny.cockell

................................................. .......

Afterlife TV is hosted by Afterlife Investigator & Psychic Medium Researcher Bob Olson http://www.afterlifetv.com. Check out Bob Olson's other sites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PieZfAdIa8

greybeard

28th October 2013, 08:55

Using meditation to overcome ego
and
Same soul many bodies.

To be found on the link.

http://www.transients.info/

Wind

28th October 2013, 09:01

I was just reading that meditation article. :)

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To be an instrument of God you have to become completely empty of you.
Then, where help can be offered you will know, 'It's my time to act'...

greybeard

28th October 2013, 18:09

Eckhart Tolle - This video is raising your awareness
Published on 21 Mar 2013

Eckhart Tolle talking about what we are.
We are one consciousness.
About 'this moment' or 'presence'.

This video is raising your awareness, it makes you shift to a higher consciousness.
It brings 'Enlightening' as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic9rr2Gasrw

greybeard

28th October 2013, 19:33

Everything happening in your life is a reflection of what is going on within you!

This is so hard to believe. I know because I battle with this idea all the time. I blame the other person or persons for every obstacle I have to face. I blame my circumstances and the environment and make all kinds of excuses and reasons why I cannot and could not have contributed to my present and past situation(s). On the other hand, I readily take credit for the good things that come my way. I claim a 100% credit for all the successful outcomes in my life and scarcely ever think of all the people that could have contributed to my success story! That is simply being human and yet, I have recently learned that everything happening in my life is a reflection of what is going on within me. My thoughts about myself, conscious and subconscious all contribute to both the way I experience life as well as my experiences in life.

I attended a workshop about a week ago organised and ran by a well-known TA Trainer and Psychotherapist, Ken Mellor on “Expanding in Spirit”. The last part of the workshop emphasized the importance of using every situation and experience in life to get to know ourselves better; a way to discover who we are and most of all as an indicator that we still need to dig deeper to learn what the situation is teaching us about ourselves as a person. This is crucial for people who really want to know who they are and since I am one of those people, I decided to put it to the test. His advice was that we see past the situation/problem/circumstance and look within to find out how we attracted and became part of the experience.

I followed his advise and did just that! In fact, I took the advice literally and decided to explore what I could learn about myself. My first test was to find out the ways in which I was contributing to some complaints made re my person and my work. It was a difficult choice considering that the same complaint had been made more than once by my colleagues to my supervisor. It was definitely difficult getting past the thought that my co-workers disliked me because I was “different” and did things differently and that because of this supposed dislike for me they would make up all kinds of negative stories about me! I am that important right? There was my ego completely inflated to the max that I could barely see past this idea that they had it in for me; and would do or say anything to bring me down; that I was right and they were completely wrong in their judgement of me. I spent so much energy figuring out how I could convince them to see and do things my way. I tried minimally to change my attitude and way of thinking but still found myself thinking, there must be something wrong with them if they cannot see things the way I see them!

The complaints about how I did my job within the team simply would not go away and when for the third time my supervisor brought it up I boldly and fearlessly said, “well, as long as my conscience is clear and those complaining are unable to come up with concrete examples of the unacceptable actions they are complaining about, I am going to continue doing what I am doing”. Yet, I could not stop myself from thinking about the complaints and how I could resolve them by resolving the conflict it was causing between me and my colleagues.

I am not saying that some of my colleagues are not really nasty and would sometimes tell little fibs and even big lies just to make themselves look good while painting me and others black! No, that’s not what I am saying. You will always have people like that not only at work but in most places; people who think it is by putting others down that they can become successful and respected. What I am saying is that, there was and still is something about me, something going on in my thoughts about myself that attracts people, situations and experiences like these. That part of me was what I was determined to find out.

After long and endless, unsuccessful “thought-full” days, attempting to decipher my contribution to the conflict, I decided the only way forward was to make an official request through my supervisor that my team sat together and openly discuss why some team members felt so strongly opposed to my way of doing things. None of them had complained to me directly and I felt an open platform with a facilitator will ease the process and also allow me to express my point of view. I was going to do this by sending an email to my supervisor requesting her to set up such a meeting so we could all clear the air once and for all. As soon as I got to the point in the email where I was explaining that I felt I had done no wrong and that my way of doing things was right until it was proven otherwise, something clicked in me. I remembered a childhood experience where I’d been in a similar position.

I remembered and felt the feelings that came with that experience and the decision I’d made at that time as to how I would behave from then on. At that instant, my behaviour and resistance to change at work all made sense. I cringed at the thought that all this had been playing out in my life all this while, yet, I was so happy that I finally understood how I could have been attracting some people and situations in my life and most of all that the persistent complaints from my colleagues had pushed me into looking into myself to resolve the conflict. Needless to say I never sent the email! Even if I do ask for a team discussion, I will be fully present to negotiate my corner having understood myself better! I am however, not going to run to my colleagues and declare to them that I finally realised they were somehow right all along!! Far from it! I am still keeping some of my ego, thank you very much!! However, I am confident that as my thoughts and beliefs about myself change, the situation, conflict and relationship with my colleagues will regulate itself positively.

On my part, I am going to do something even harder – re-live those feelings and thoughts and clear them from my system once and for all! Yes, the hardest part for me is to face the truth about myself and how my false self has been influencing my behaviour and then replace the beliefs and thoughts that created and attracted the situation in the first place with positive thoughts and beliefs. Painful memories are usually blocked and locked away in our subconscious mind. Little do we know that they still influence a big chunk of how we live our lives. The memory that I recalled was an emotionally painful incident which I locked away and hoped that I would never re-live and/or re-experience it. Unfortunately, I have been subconsciously re-living it with others who replaced the actual people with whom I had the first experience. I guess I just have to consciously do that now in order to make peace with myself and those who became substitute actors and also unconsciously got involved in the game! After all I am an adult now with updated data to help me understand and see things differently.

Yes, I will continue to use my experiences, especially those that come in the form of obstacles, as an indicator that there is a blockage of some sort within me (especially in my subconscious mind), that needs to be removed so I can live a fuller life!

We all have our own obstacles in life! Remember that obstacles, whatever form they take, are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you! Everything happening in your life is a reflection of what is going on within you! Rise to the occasion and change your life for the better!

Rosaline's blog
http://www.spiritualityta.blogspot.co.uk/

greybeard

28th October 2013, 22:02

Yes it is a blessing to be "forced" into the spiritual search.
Mine started with AA.

As a child I was different---many can say the same thing.
I did not get violence--- pulling legs of spiders--throwing stones or shooting airguns at birds.
I cried when a tree was cut down.
Some how I felt if these things happened to birds animals trees insects, they could happen to me.
In a way I thought they were the same as me.

I was a natural vegetarian but for a while I ate meat to conform to the norm.
My mother said "If you cant personally kill it, don't eat it"
I got that.

In AA you have to thoroughly investigate why the addiction to drink---to look at ones character defects.

I realised I wanted to love and be loved. (not defects)
That changed to being a people pleaser during recovery.
Not the case now.
There were of course real "defects" that had to be addressed or I would have drank again.

The twelve steps of AA were recommended by the psychiatrist Carl Jung as one of the most effective therapies and of course they are now used for all manner of human conditions.
He said that all his knowledge and art could not cure Alcoholism but the spiritual program of AA could.

Dr Hawkins said that for a potential alcoholic, the very first drink gives a high that is similar to the bliss experienced in enlightenment ---there is a complete change of character--beyond what non alcoholics experience.
The bliss is not caused by the alcohol but by the removal of inhibitions--the Self shines through.
In later drinking however that is not the case--the ego grabs the free state and can create havoc with the notion "I can do what I want."

So the search goes on, through drink, for the first high which can not be found.
More and more alcohol is consumed until addiction has taken hold.

In some monasteries the monks were given cannabis or similar once to give them an idea of what they were looking for in meditation--ie the bliss state.
In true meditation one does not look for anything.

Chris

greybeard

30th October 2013, 14:02

Free will
Ramana Maharshi---expounds on this.

Talk 209.
Mr. B. C. Das, the Physics Lecturer, asked about free-will and destiny.
M.: Whose will is it? ‘It is mine’, you may say. You are beyond will
and fate. Abide as that and you transcend them both. That is the
meaning of conquering destiny by will. Fate can be conquered.
Fate is the result of past actions. By association with the wise the
bad tendencies are conquered. One’s experiences are then viewed
to their proper perspective.
I exist now. I am the enjoyer. I enjoy fruits of action. I was in the
past and shall be in the future. Who is this ‘I’? Finding this ‘I’ to
be pure Consciousness beyond action and enjoyment, freedom and
happiness are gained. There is then no effort, for the Self is perfect
and there remains nothing more to gain.
So long as there is individuality, one is the enjoyer and doer. But if
it is lost, the divine Will prevails and guides the course of events.
The individual is perceptible to others who cannot perceive divine
force. Restrictions and discipline are for other individuals and not
for the liberated.

Free-will is implied in the scriptural injunctions to be good. It
implies overcoming fate. It is done by wisdom. The fire of wisdom
consumes all actions. Wisdom is acquired by association with the
wise, or rather, its mental atmosphere.

Talk 210.
Man owes his movements to another Power, whereas he thinks that
he does everything himself - just like a lame man bluffing that, were
he helped to stand up, he would fight and chase away the enemy.
Action is impelled by desire; desire arises only after the rise of the
ego; and this ego owes its origin to a Higher Power on which its
existence depends. It cannot remain apart. Why then prattle, “I do,
I act, or I function”?
A Self-realised being cannot help benefiting the world. His very
existence is the highest good.

Wind

30th October 2013, 17:11

Meditate Chronic Inflammation Symptoms Away (http://in5d.com/meditate-chronic-inflammation-symptoms-away.html)

Numerous chronic conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma, involve painful symptoms related to chronic inflammation. A study just released by University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientists with the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center found that mindfulness meditation reduces stress, which can exacerbate symptoms in these types of conditions. But here's the big news: the research also revealed that meditation can reduce inflammation itself. And this is clearly important information for the countless people who can't take, or don't want to rely on, Big Pharma's side-effect laden anti-inflammatory drugs.

Centered around focusing attention on the breath, physical sensations and mental content while seated, walking or practicing yoga, mindfulness meditation has been long recognized as a stress reliever. The new study aimed to see if meditation truly is what causes the stress busting benefits or whether the social interaction of meditating with a group or learning a new skill or engaging in a regular physical activity like yoga produced the benefit. So researchers set out to compare a mindfulness meditation program to another program (which consisted of nutritional education, physical activity such as walking, balance and core strengthening exercises and music therapy) designed to enhance health but not related to mindfulness.

"We wanted to develop an intervention that was meant to produce positive change and compare the mindfulness approach to an intervention that was structurally equivalent," scientist Melissa Rosenkranz, lead author of the paper, which was published recently in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, said in a media statement.

Both groups had the same amount of training and they also had instructors with the same expertise. The research subjects in both groups were also required to do the same amount of home practice. The results? There were beneficial changes that were specific to the group that was meditating. Incredibly, those changes included a physiological lessening of inflammation.

Here's how the scientists reached that conclusion. They used a tool called the Trier Social Stress Test to induce psychological stress and a capsaicin cream to produce inflammation on the skin of the research volunteers. Immune and endocrine measures were collected before and after the research subjects went through training in meditation or in the other health enhancing activities. While both groups found their stress was reduced, the mindfulness-based meditation approach was also effective at reducing inflammation.

"This is not a cure-all, but our study does show that there are specific ways that mindfulness can be beneficial, and that there are specific people who may be more likely to benefit from this approach than other interventions," Rosenkranz explained in the media statement.

The researchers noted that the fact mindfulness meditation reduces inflammation could be especially important because "significant portions of the population do not benefit from available pharmaceutical treatment options, for example. Some of these patients suffer from negative side effects of the drugs, or simply do not respond to the standard-of-care for treatment of the disorder... The mindfulness-based approach to stress reduction may offer a lower-cost alternative or complement to standard treatment, and it can be practiced easily by patients in their own homes, whenever they need."

About the author:
Sherry Baker is a widely published writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Yoga Journal, Optometry, Atlanta, Arthritis Today, Natural Healing Newsletter, OMNI, UCLA''''s "Healthy Years" newsletter, Mount Sinai School of Medicine''''s "Focus on Health Aging" newsletter, the Cleveland Clinic''''s "Men''''s Health Advisor" newsletter and many others.

Chester

30th October 2013, 21:18

Everything happening in your life is a reflection of what is going on within you!

And its been a few months now that I started looking at "the Archons" as within me.

and that by shedding all desires... I experience peace for all (including myself) to manifest and...

peace consistently has and...

the Archons have left me alone.

Strange how this is all working out, hey?

Chester

31st October 2013, 01:19

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Filmmaker - David Lynch

(transcribed most of this - a few tiny adjustments and a tiny added commentary)

Consciousness, creativity and the brain

If you have a golf ball sized consciousness, when you read a book, you will have a golf ball sized understanding.

When you look out, a golf ball sized awareness.

And when you wake up in the morning, a golf ball sized wakefulness.

But if you could expand that consciousness, then you read the book... more understanding – you look out... more awareness and when you wake up... more wakefulness.

Its consciousness.

And there’s an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

And its right at the base and source of mind...

Right at the source of thought.

And its also at the source of all matter.

And Maharishi Mahesh Yogi teaches a technique called transcendental meditation that is a simple, easy, effortless technique, yet supremely profound that allows any human being to dive within, experiencing subtler levels of mind, intellect and (that he may) transcend such that he can experience this ocean of consciousness .

This pure consciousness is called by modern physics the unified field.

Its at the base of all mind and all matter.

And they now say... modern science says, “all of matter, everything that is a thing emerges from this field and this field has qualities like Bliss, Intelligence, Creativity, Universal Love, Energy, Peace.

And its not the intellectual understanding of this field but the experiencing of it that does everything.

You dive within and transcending and experiencing this field of consciousness you enliven it, you unfold it, it grows.

And the final outcome of this growth of consciousness is called enlightenment. And enlightenment is the full potential of all of us human beings.

And a side effect of enlivening this consciousness is negativity starts to recede.

When I started meditating, I was filled with anxieties, filled with fears, kind of a depression and anger. And I took this anger out on my first wife. And after two weeks of meditation she comes to me and she says, “what’s going on?” And I was quiet for a moment because it could have been any number of things she might have been referring to. But I finally said, what do you mean? And she said, this anger... where did it go? And I didn’t even realize it had lifted.

Now these negative things like anger and depression and sorrow – they’re beautiful things in a story, but they are like a poison to the filmmaker. They are a poison to the painter (the artist... all of us in fact), they’re a poison to creativity. They are like a vice grip. If you are super depressed, you can’t hardly get out of bed, let alone think ideas.

Have that creativity flowing.

So, its money in the bank to get that beautiful consciousness growing which is flowing creativity. The ability to catch ideas at a deeper level. Intuition grows. This field is a field of pure knowingness. You dive in there... you sorta just knowwww how to go, you know how to solve solutions (problems is what he meant). It’s like an ocean of solutions. And you can just feel this thing growing but the ultimate thing for me is the enjoyment of the doing, the enjoyment of life grows – huge.

I love making films now more than ever before. Ideas flow more. Everybody has more fun on the set. Creativity flows. There’s no... People look like friends and not like enemies. Its a beautiful, beautiful thing. And its us.

In Vedic science this field of pure consciousness is called atma – the self. The self of us all. At that level as Dr. John Hagelin would tell you, at that level if life – we are all one.

We’re one.

Diversity up here...

...unity down below.

Its a great thing for the filmmaker (the artist... us all).

greybeard

31st October 2013, 13:08

David Lynch
Consciousness --one of four videos on utube

Thanks to justoneman for pointing in this direction.

Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NDwFRxzbHQ

Wind

31st October 2013, 15:48

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Keep on knowing nothing and examine the environment of your own Self.

greybeard

31st October 2013, 19:43

The experience of no self.

What is this thing called "self"? Does it actually exist? In this deeply penetrating satsang on the central teaching of the Buddha, Adyashanti invites a direct investigation and experience of who we are. By recognizing our impersonal nature, we can discover the one reality that is beyond the imaginary self.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQT6FWOmkOU

greybeard

31st October 2013, 19:48

Adyashanti-shift of perception.

Beautiful satsang about shift in perception-from mind to heart...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRpD3-RXfoQ

greybeard

31st October 2013, 20:15

Does God have an EGO?
If not, and there is such a thing as God-Realisation, then in order to realise That which you are the ego has to be transcended.
Eckhart Tolle in his simplicity and humour said "The ego thinks its going to be an enlightened ego, no its not"
The ego being a separation device ---duality creator-- can not survive the process of enlightenment.
Can the caterpillar remain when the butterfly emerges?

One is already enlightened but not aware of this. There are obstacles to be worked through, to be removed.
Mainly a desire---I want or don't want--the list is never ending.

These are removed by using techniques such as self enquiry.
Who is having this thought---which leads to another though--to another thought.
Thoughts appearing and disappearing can not be what you are---you are eternal.

Another way is surrender to God.
Beloved God I surrender to you the juice I get from this feeling.

To what are you surrendering?
ONE own Self.

That which brings you pleasure brings you pain.
Anything that is external to you and there is some expectation of, sooner or later will not please you.

The happiness joy and love that one seeks is within and found through meditation.

Knowing that "I AM" does not require external validation, its Self evident, yet we identify with so many things mainly via a preposition---MY.

In order to reveal Self, identification with objects are released.

I am a musician--no playing music is a function, not what I am.

Its a question of becoming very aware of these kind of thoughts and then releasing them.

Chris

Delight

31st October 2013, 20:49

Does God have an EGO?

I am feeling the solar energy and it feels very much like the light wants to put things in perspective for me. God shoots Egos.

The Ego seems like a recording of the experience of registering the flow of life. If Ego is a snapshot, then I Am a camera that may aim in any direction. God as I have come to understand her is the photographer.

The great innovation is the digital photograph. One may still print a single shot but mostly we are content to glance through and delete most. One need not store a bunch of shots either because we can send it to the cloud. The sharing of the photos is easy and we get to see others photos so we see how many different pictures there are from cameras of all kinds.

The camera has some new features and not only is more compact and portable but can take pictures underwater and the zoom is very fabulously detailed. Lots of pixels available.

And the photographer is doing great things with the cameras today.

http://www.cutedecision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/NikonD3_Halloween_costume_4.jpg
http://photos.costume-works.com/full/real_working_camera.jpg

greybeard

1st November 2013, 21:24

Howard Martin, a worldwide spokesperson for the Institute of HeartMath and a member of the Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee, is coming to your area.

Martin will be in London, England on November 19, Tuesday Evening, 7-9 p.m. delivering a unique message entitled: Emergence 2013: Creating a Heart-Based World.

He will be sharing the latest research relating to Heart Consciousness! Come along and be part of the shift in consciousness as we recognize truly that each of us is a powerful transmitter of Love into the world. To learn more or register, click here.
With care,

Sara Childre,
President, Institute of HeartMath

Howard Martin is executive vice president for strategic development at HeartMath LLC and delivers programs and keynote presentations. He conducts interviews about HeartMath and the HeartMath System with television and other major media outlets and news publications, and he co-authored The HeartMath Solution with HeartMath founder Doc Childre.

http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/events/127730002/

greybeard

1st November 2013, 21:45

sounds true worth a visit

http://enews.soundstrue.com/public/?q=preview_message&fn=Link&t=1&ssid=17613&id=es7oyei91xny2d0crpno3mif1e4bq&id2=g6uoi3fstg94ekx8fj8zeno0ll0se&subscriber_id=atbewkvhnpshkzaptbnigmdmswribnl&messageversion_id=bxrgvkjhxqcrxuesadpqxjczeqhablm&delivery_id=bqdxqiuvpueszamdhnapowfxwbcgbip&tid=3.RM0.AkqoyA.A11H.Kz95..eQra.b..s.V-4.a.UnRVmA.UnRVmA.TYzWjA

Chester

4th November 2013, 20:38

Paralogical Perception - Tim Freke

Enjoy

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greybeard

6th November 2013, 21:36

☮ Be Still , I Am ☮ Satsang with Ramana Maharshi

Seek for the source of the doubter and you will find that he is really non-existent." "Doubter ceasing, Doubts will Cease."
~ Peace&Love ~ Subscribe ~ Share a smile ~

All video was edited from "Ramana Maharshi - Abide as the Self" . If you would like to watch the full documentary, which contains rich descriptions of Ramana's life and teaching please follow the link bellow
~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSNEib... ~

Ramana Maharshi's official facebook can be found here. .
https://www.facebook.com/RamanaMaharshi
~Constant updates of photos and timeless quotes~

Let there be peace among all beings of the universe. Let there be peace. Let there be peace.
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Table of Content

~ 3:00 ~ Self-enquiry directly leads to Self-realization ~

~ 4:16 ~ Solitude is in the mind ~

~ 5:45 ~ Self-surrender is the same as Self-Knowledge ~

~ 7:21 ~ That which rises in this body as 'I" is the mind ~

~ 9:45 ~ Steady determination is what is required ~

~ 12:00 ~ Give up regarding the unreal as real

~ 13:20 ~ Realization is simply being one's Self

~ 15:45 ~ Final Words
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Gate , Gate, Paragate, Parasongate, Bodhi, Svaha!!

Gone , Gone , Completly Gone , Completly Gone Beyond , Enlightened , Hail !
~ The Mantra of Prajnaparmita contained in the Heart Sutra ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYaJqRRBRVs

greybeard

6th November 2013, 22:48

Nisargadatta Maharaj ◦ Awaken to the Eternal ◦ Almost Full Movie

The "Author" of the famous spiritual book "I am That"

India is recognised as the spiritual centre of the world.

Many Western Enlightened teachers like Eckhart Tolle pay tribute to Nasargadatta and most certainly to Ramana who was also known as the Guru's Guru.
In linage from Ramana is Papaji, Moogi, Gangaji.
Ramesh Balsekar was the translator for Maharaj and also became enlightened.

Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TJxTFoB8ps

greybeard

7th November 2013, 08:36

Commentary: Heart Coherence Increases Order of Crystallization Patterns in Dried Saliva

Thank you to all of you who have participated in the GCI care focuses to send care to people in need. September was an intense month for Pakistan, with the M 7.7 earthquake that killed hundreds and politically, the month ended with the government shutdown in the US.

Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath recently conducted a study to investigate how heart coherence affects saliva.

Why saliva? HeartMath has hypothesized that states of high coherence can affect the structure and order of saliva and thus influence the information encoded in it.

This study showed conclusively that heart coherence could affect saliva and increase crystal structure and order. We know from 20 years of research at HeartMath that heart coherence has many positive health benefits, including helping to reduce stress and improve cognitive function.

Here’s the link for the abstract and complete text of IHM’s saliva study, so you can explore the findings of the fascinating study: Heart Coherence Increases Order of Crystallization Patterns in Dried Saliva.

Let’s take a quick look at some current astrophysical events.

Even though we are currently in the weakest Solar Maximum in 100 years, sunspot AR 1877 erupted on October 24th, producing a powerful M9-class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast, see image below:

Image from NASA Solar dynamics observatory, M9 class solar flare.
Image from NASA Solar dynamics observatory, M9 class solar flare.

The sun’s magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years, and according to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s magnetic field will flip in the next few months. At the peak of each solar cycle, the sun’s inner magnetic field flips. The upcoming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24, and the other half is still to come.

(Read more at: http://www2.heartmath.org/e/17232/n-magnetic-field-flip-html-jCp/cy4q6/108514901).

Although we are near the end of the current solar maximum and anticipate the gradual winding down of Solar Cycle 24, it would be helpful for everyone to continue practicing heart coherence, meditation, prayer and other practices of your choosing to maintain our physical, mental and emotional balance.

With care and gratitude,

Annette Deyhle, Ph.D., and the GCI research team

Wind

8th November 2013, 19:30

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"You have to find a Space now, in which even the idea you have of yourself is housed. Beyond the person is the Immeasurable. This one thing, the most beautiful thing a human being can do, is to accept your own Divinity, your own Divine Nature."

Frederick Jackson

9th November 2013, 20:09

Without the "duality" consciousness as we know it is impossible. Without reference to an externality, we lapse into unconsciousness (experiments with isolation chambers have shown this). The beauty of the spiritual path is this awareness of both separateness and oneness. I believe the "source" is unconscious because of this, that IT has nothing external by which it can sense itself. Hence it creates multiplicity in the cosmos, THAT It MIGHT COME TO KNOW ITSELF. That is, God knows himself through His creatures. Anyway, some of my thinking (and feeling) to date. Thanks for your sharing on this very important topic.

Wind

11th November 2013, 16:59

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Delight

12th November 2013, 18:34

I really enjoy listening to Mooji

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greybeard

12th November 2013, 20:09

Consciousness - Transformations (loaded 11 November 2013)
Amoda Maa Jeevan - 'Radical Awakening' - Interview by Renate McNay (watch this programme)
Amoda Maa Jeevan is a spiritual teacher and the author of: Finding God in Everything and Change your Life, Change your World and of the forthcoming book Radical Awakening - The Birth of a New World and a New You. In this interview Amoda Maa talks about the need of a truly holistic spirituality and of the need to reframe our understanding of what it means to be an awakened human being. Awakening is just the beginning... the real journey is the Embodiment of this Awakening. It appears as if the outer world of form is breaking down, but it is the inner World of Consciousness that has reached a Crisis Point and we are called to turn around and join forces with Evolution itself.

http://conscious.tv/consciousness.html?bcpid=2439355001&bclid=18673093001&bctid=2826877270001

carriellbee

12th November 2013, 20:16

Thanks so much, justoneman for giving me an introduction to Tim Freke! It's such a great message and was exactly what I needed to hear. But it's always like that, isn't it? :biggrin:

greybeard

13th November 2013, 19:58

GCI November 2013 Full Moon Synchronized Care Focus

Welcome to the Global Coherence Initiative’s November 17th, 2013 Full Moon (15:16 GMT/UTC) synchronized Care Focus. In order for GCI members around the world to participate at a convenient time, we have chosen 4 a.m., 12:00 p.m. (noon), and 8 p.m. Pacific Time (GMT/UTC minus 8 hours) when GCI members in the Global Care Room can do the Care Focus together.* Thank you for being with us.

Let’s start by connecting in the heart with everyone participating in the Global Care Room and radiating love and appreciation to each other…

One of the most powerful storms in recorded history has devastated the Philippines and left hundreds of thousands homeless, without food, clean water, sanitation, or medical supplies. There is real concern this could lead to a major public health crisis. Many governments are sending aid, but the scale of destruction is threatening to engulf the resources being deployed. Let’s send our most heartfelt care and compassion to the people of the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan and to the recovery efforts.

MORE ON THE LINK

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/e-mail/e-broadcast/care-focus/2013/typhoon/gci-synchronized-full-moon-2013-11-online.php

Wind

16th November 2013, 13:33

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Mystics in all ages and cultures describe the self as infinite, stable and ever-present phenomena. Modern physics describe the world as a self-moving, self-designing pattern, an undivided wholeness, a dance. We, as a society, relate to the self mostly as an individual, unique, time bound form. Our common sense, as individuals and society, hasn't caught up with this picture and it still based on long-held biases and stories. The Earth is clearly round but we still act as if it was flat...

We live at the dawn of a scientific revolution, every day brings new findings from a wide range of scientific disciplines about what it means to be human. Modern science now gives us the detailed descriptions of the mechanisms our brain needs to construct what we call the self.

Could it be this illusionary image of ourselves as separate beings that is keeping us in this perpetual state of anxiety, scarcity, fear, dissatisfaction and leading us, as a society, at this very delicate point in evolution?

greybeard

16th November 2013, 13:48

Science and nonduality SAND
The video that Wind kindly posted comes from their website

http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/

ABOUT > NONDUALITY
WELCOME TO SCIENCE AND NONDUALITY (SAND)

Nonduality is the philosophical, spiritual, and scientific understanding of non-separation and fundamental intrinsic oneness.

For thousand of years, through deep inner inquiry, philosophers and sages have came to the realization that there is only one substance and we are therefore all part of it. This substance can be called Awareness, Consciousness, Spirit, Advaita, Brahman, Tao, Nirvana or even God. It is constant, ever present, unchangeable and is the essence of all existence.

In the last century Western scientists are arriving at the same conclusion: The universe does indeed comprise of a single substance, presumably created during the Big Bang, and all sense of being - consciousness - subsequently arises from it. This realization has ontological implications for humanity: fundamentally we are individual expressions of a single entity, inextricably connected to one another, we are all drops of the same ocean.

Science and Nonduality is a journey, an exploration of the nature of awareness, the essence of life from which all arises and subsides.

Welcome on board!

What is nonduality, anyway?

There are many shades of meaning to the word nonduality. As an introduction, we might say that nonduality is the philosophical, spiritual, and scientific understanding of non-separation and fundamental oneness.

Our starting point is the statement “we are all one,” and this is meant not in some abstract sense but at the deepest level of existence. Duality, or separation between the observer and the observed, is an illusion that the Eastern mystics have long recognized and Western science has more recently come to understand through quantum mechanics.

Dualities are usually seen in terms of opposites: Mind/Matter, Self/Other, Conscious/Unconscious, Illusion/Reality, Quantum/Classical, Wave/Particle, Spiritual/Material, Beginning/End, Male/Female, Living/Dead and Good/Evil. Nonduality is the understanding that identification with common dualisms avoids recognition of a deeper reality.
So how can we better understand nonduality?

There are two aspects to this question, and at first glance they appear to be mutually exclusive, although they may be considered two representations of a single underlying reality.

The first aspect is our understanding of external reality, and for this we turn to science. The word science comes from the Latin scientia, which means knowledge. The beauty and usefulness of science is that it seeks to measure and describe reality without personal, religious, or cultural bias. For something to be considered scientifically proven, it has to pass exhaustive scrutiny, and even then is always subject to future revision. Inevitably human biases creep in, but the pursuit of science itself is intrinsically an evolving quest for truth. But then quantum mechanics turned much of this lauded objectivity on its head, as the role of the observer became inseparable from the observed quantum effect. It is as if consciousness itself plays a role in creating reality. Indeed, the two may be the same thing. As quantum pioneer Niels Bohr once put it: “A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself!”

The second aspect is our inner, personal experience of consciousness, our “awareness of awareness.” We have our senses to perceive the world, but “behind” all perception, memory, identification and thought is simply pure awareness itself. Eastern mystics have described this undifferentiated consciousness for thousands of years as being the ultimate state of bliss, or nirvana. Seekers have attempted to experience it for themselves through countless rituals and practices, although the state itself can be quite simply described. As Indian advaita teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “The trinity: mind, self and spirit, when looked into, becomes unity.”

The central challenge to understanding nonduality may be that it exists beyond language, because once it has been named, by definition -- and paradoxically -- a duality has been created. Even the statement “all things are one” creates a distinction between “one” and “not-one”! Hardly any wonder that nonduality has been misunderstood, particularly in the West.

Chris

greybeard

16th November 2013, 17:20

Everyone who visits here and similar threads, is doing something positive for their spiritual growth, if they were not why would they even visit?
What they do for their own growth raises the collective consciousness.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
The level of collective consciousness is the governor of the actions of humans on this planet.

I read once.
If you are not receiving enough respect its because you are not giving enough.
If you are feeling unloved its because you are not giving enough love.
If you find the world unfair and unjust examine the way that you think of others and therefore treat them.
The person at the checkout serving you is also serving God and is God, though they know it not.
The first two "commandments" say it all.
They are for our benefit not God's
Any lack that is experienced is an opportunity to look at how giving we are in that area.

The statement of Gandhi "Be the change you want to see" is not a superficial throw away but has deep profound meaning and results if applied.
Its true that when you change the way you act in this world, everyone else changes.

Thanks to all visitors you are appreciated.

Chris

greybeard

17th November 2013, 15:25

Adyashanti - Allowing Everyone To Be As They Are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJmbvW0TYU

What is essential is to see that one is confused
What is essential is to see that one is confused, that all activity, all action which springs from confusion, must be confused also. It's like a confused person seeking a leader, his leader must also be confused. So, what is essential is to see that one is confused and not try to escape from it, not try to find explanations for it; be passively, choicelessly, aware. And then you will see that quite a different action springs from that passive awareness, because if you make an effort to clarify the state of confusion, what you create will still be confused. But, if you are aware of yourself, choicelessly, passively aware, then that confusion unfolds and fades away.
You will see, if you will experiment with this, and it will not take a long period of time, because time is not involved in it at all,that clarification comes into being. But you must give your whole attention, your whole interest, to it. And I am not at all sure that most of us do not like to be confused, because in the state of confusion you need not act. And so we are satisfied with the confusion, because to understand confusion demands action which is not the pursuit of an ideal or an ideation.

Jiddu Khrisnamurti

greybeard

17th November 2013, 19:08

David Icke on the Secret of the Universe & DMT

Luke Rudkowski sits down with David Icke to talk about his thoughts on the secrets of the universe and life. They also spoke about the similar messages during their DMT experiences

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u0Zh4ebus

Thanks to dear friend Caren for sending me the link

Chris

greybeard

19th November 2013, 13:56

Sri Ramana occasionally indicated that there were three classes of
spiritual aspirants. The most advanced realise the Self as soon as
they are told about its real nature. Those in the second class need
to reflect on it for some time before Self-awareness becomes firmly
established. Those in the third category are less fortunate since
they usually need many years of intensive spiritual practice to
achieve the goal of Self-realisation.
Sri Ramana sometimes used a
metaphor of combustion to describe the three levels: gunpowder
ignites with a single spark, charcoal needs the application of heat
for a short time, and wet coal needs to dry out and heat up over a
long period of time before it will begin to burn.
For the benefit of those in the top two categories Sri Ramana
taught that the Self alone exists and that it can be directly and
consciously experienced merely by ceasing to pay attention to the
wrong ideas we have about ourselves. These wrong ideas he
collectively called the 'not-Self' since they are an imaginary
accretion of wrong notions and misperceptions which effectively
veil the true experience of the real Self. The principal misperception
is the idea that the Self is limited to the body and the mind. As
soon as one ceases to imagine that one is an individual person,
inhabiting a particular body, the whole superstructure of wrong
ideas collapses and is replaced by a conscious and permanent
awareness of the real Self.
At this level of the teaching there is no question of effort or
practice. All that is required is an understanding that the Self is
not a goal to be attained, it is merely the awareness that prevails
when all the limiting ideas about the not-Self have been discarded.

greybeard

19th November 2013, 20:57

Tim Freke News Letter

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=7e03228e-f362-48c7-bf7c-10167bad2b4f&c=c1262000-4c76-11e3-a370-d4ae5275b1a5&ch=c24ffa00-4c76-11e3-a472-d4ae5275b1a5

Wind

20th November 2013, 10:21

DMjnYc--xvQ

Spontaneous Satsang at Monte Sahaja, 14th Aug. 2013

"Personality is just a costume worn temporally by Consciousness.
There is a space within you that cannot be touched or manipulated by the mind.
It does not believe in your mind. It is the place of Being."

greybeard

20th November 2013, 14:57

David Icke - Breaking The Spell & The Full Magnitude of Who We Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvPzsixYIH0

greybeard

20th November 2013, 21:18

“As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.
"I Am That" - pg 188”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. You think you know yourself when you know what you are. But you never know who you are. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot. See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of yourself in terms of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don’t be too lazy to think.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Chester

22nd November 2013, 05:29

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I am not sure if this video belongs here... lately, I seem to have allowed "the Universe" to pull me here and there. The Universe has an interesting sense of humor.

greybeard

22nd November 2013, 07:30

Chester--any thing remotely spiritual you post is welcome here.
The thread now encompass a lot of diverse topics covering spiritual and related science.
Thanks for your contribution.

Chris

S-L

23rd November 2013, 15:42

I can't believe it took me so long to notice this thread. I'm going to have fun going back and reading some of what's been posted.

In the mean time, here are some selected quotes about enlightenment (http://newmessage.org/wiki/index.php?title=Enlightenment)from the New Message from God (http://www.newmessage.org) religion. Good food for thought and discussion!

“Do not hold enlightenment as the goal of your life, for the person you are seeking to enlighten is the one who is standing in your way. It is your undoing that enlightens you.”

"You were not sent into the world to dream of Heaven. You were sent into the world to be of service to the world, to be of service of now a new world, a changing world, a challenging world, and yet a world that has the power to prompt greater human cooperation and to call forth a greater Knowledge that every person carries within them."

“All the books and all the lectures, all the ideas and all the processes—you leave them at the temple gate, the outer gate, to enter in. You simply enter in and your Teachers are there to take you in.”

"Ultimately, spirituality is about the ability to unite in purpose with others and to experience affinity and resonance with these people. It is necessary here to think of spirituality not so much as an individual pursuit towards perfection or enlightenment, but as developing the ability to unite with others, unite at a higher level—at the level of purpose, meaning and direction—a level beyond personal ambitions, fears and deceptions."

“For some people enlightenment is held out to be the ultimate goal—to become free of attachment; free of worldly restraint; free to immerse yourself in a greater consciousness, the consciousness of all life, perhaps the consciousness of God; to be unhindered, internally; to be free of anger and resentment and low self-esteem. For some people, enlightenment then becomes their new obsession. They think that that is why they are here in the world—to escape the world, to escape the endless cycle of existence, and all of the suffering and struggle and difficulty that that entails.”

“If it were your purpose to discover the deeper Knowledge that God has placed within you, and to follow that Knowledge and to be a vehicle for its expression in the world, if that were your definition of enlightenment, then enlightenment would be completely appropriate. But enlightenment, in the minds of many people, is something very different. It is a kind of personal exultation. It is an escape from life. It is a retreat from the world. It is a great ambition.”

"There are many spiritual teachers in the world who will promise you abundance and enlightenment, fulfillment or spiritual powers, but there are very few of them that will teach you to build the foundation for living a greater life engaged in a greater set of activities and responsibilities. They are selling you on an idea, on a dream, on a hope and a wish. But in the real preparation, people have to work hard and build a foundation."

"You cannot run away to God, for you were sent into the world to serve a world in need. That is why the Presence is not a form of intoxication. It is not a grand escape. It is not ascending far beyond, never to return. Why would God call you back to Heaven when great effort was made to bring you into the world?"

greybeard

23rd November 2013, 20:52

Glad you found us S-L and thanks for a great post.
I hope other people follow your lead and find us.
There is an amazing amount of videos here for all tastes the spiritual and scientific confirmation of ancient truth.
Varying perspectives on these matters very welcome.

Chris

greybeard

25th November 2013, 20:00

Adyashanti What do you really want?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wcqjFC13M

greybeard

25th November 2013, 20:03

Video removed Copyright problems.
Sorry
Chris

Arak

30th November 2013, 06:53

This quote from Mooji is really something to think about... I personally feel, that even if I quite often feel as "ready" I know I am far from it. Actually I have no idea where am I? :)

The ego always wants Truth when it is ready.
It says, 'I am ready now. I am pure, available.'
But Truth does not come when the ego is ready.
Truth comes when the Heart is ready, because Truth and Heart are One.
You have to turn away from the ego.
Jesus himself says, ‘Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.’
It means: Deny your personal self, deny your arrogance, deny your ego, your seemingly cozy little identity.
Drop it. Turn away from it. Don't give any energy to it.
And ‘take up your cross’ means what?
Whatever it is that life brings, attend to that, but don’t be asking for the fruits of it.
Don't be claiming any doer-ship of it.
Just move because life compels you to move.
And like this you find yourself in the presence of God.
You don’t know how. You cannot boast.
You cannot say, 'I meditated for 16 hours non-stop and I didn’t even breathe.'
You cannot say or do anything.
All happened by the Grace of God.

~ Mooji
30th of November, 2013

greybeard

30th November 2013, 07:23

A very honest post Arak.
If I could make anything happen it would have by now.
I am led and impelled to do whatever seems to be done.

Thanks Arak a great quote too.

Chris

greybeard

30th November 2013, 08:58

The essence of all/most religions would appear to be correct.
Surrender to the will of "God"
God being the SELF. Non- duality
God being One without a second --"I am That I am"

New age would seem to be actually about separation---duality.
Claim your sovereignty, own your power etc.

Im not against a good self image, that helps to see you through the trials an tribulations of the world.
However humility, appreciation and acceptance of what is, leads to serenity and a profound peace.
"The peace that passeth all understanding."

Jesus advised, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God that which is God's"

Do we concern ourselves mainly, with that which is temporary, or that which is permanent, always there, eternal. True?
If we look only to the temporary then for sure we will reincarnate.
If our main focus is on the answer to the question "What/who am I? " then the outcome of our existence here is quite different.
When the Self is revealed as what we truly are, then we have graduated from this school.
Good luck with That One.

Chris

loungelizard

30th November 2013, 09:56

Thank you very much for this fascinating thread, Greybeard. I haven't as yet waded through all the amazing information here (I'm very new to this forum :o)

I'd enjoy hearing what you thought about (and I apologise if this has already been talked about on this thread) the Buddhist approach to the ego: that it is not an independent entity that need to gain mastery over and then destroy. Rather, it is developed through the 5 skandha - there is a clear explanation of this process by Chogyam Trungpa here http://www.beezone.com/Trungpa/fiveskandas.html

So the idea of us having to "let go" of this "thing" is actually causing us suffering. We first have to take the time to identify exactly what this assumed I is before we can begin to negate it.

As humans, we need a healthy ego in order to function in this world - that is a prime requisite. But does that "me" truly exist?

I like what Robert Thurman (a teacher for whom I have much respect) wrote:

"The key, again, in the Buddhist sense, is not dissolving but developing the ego into a more flexible and permeable ego. This is considered a strong ego, capable of both surrender and function. The weak ego is the rigid, defensive one."

Thanks again!

greybeard

30th November 2013, 10:29

Thanks for your excellent post loungelizard.
It would seem that we have to act in accordance with our level of understanding--no level is better or superior to another.
Its all very subtle-- any explanation becomes a concept the moment it is written.

The famous herding of the oxen is appropriate but not the final non-action.

As the focus on awareness intensifies, the ego and the need for it drops away all by itself.
The ego can serve well up to a point then becomes redundant.
The higher the spiritual energy the more Self is in the driver seat.

Adyashanti says.
"There isn’t a me there never was a me"
Enlightened sages will tell you that when you are ready to hear.
They tend to meet you where you stand then respectfully point out that all belief systems, concepts, are to be let go of.
They are obstacles to enlightenment.
Its not kill them off time.
Bit by bit the identification with the story of me and all that underpins the false belief in a me, is no longer held to be true.
Its a change of focus--- energy is shifted from the untrue to the true.
All that can be said to be true without question is "I am"
That is awareness--non volitional --you cant turn it off, it is ever present--you have no choice in this, though it seems you can direct the attention of it.
Not really---you direct conscious awareness-- full awareness does not need subject or object. It is aware of where you place your attention.
It is unaffected, eternal, unchanged.

Even thoughts such as I am a Christian, a Buddhist, on a path, are divisive-- duality.
Non-duality sees Self in everything, physical,mental,emotional, subject, object, all One.
Yes all different frequencies/energies of the One but none the less One.

The question is "Who am I?" "Who is this that claims authorship of every though word and deed?"
They come they go.
In reality ---nowhere to be found, not permanent.
In the stillness --without a thought---awareness is.

Chris

Chester

30th November 2013, 23:15

When the Self is revealed as what we truly are, then we have graduated from this school.
Good luck with That One.
Chris

This said it all in my humble opinion.

dirmanam

1st December 2013, 18:41

Hello. Thank you for this opportunity for self-reflection on a important topic ; ego vs enlightenment.
Its a reminder for my self to bend something, look at things from a new angel. It has come to me as a useful metaphor - self-reflection, as it can be a technique to get a glimpse of the future ? ; one might use the reflection in a big window to see what we could not see otherwise..,whats coming around the corner ? If its true that we live in the Era of individuals and we will try to look into the big window.., what is coming ? Whats the results of (every) mans quest for self-realization ? Are we ready to discus the global consequences of our choise and actions in every-day life ?..down to Earth, you and me, personal matters ? Do we already owe the Earth something, do we listen to Her ? Are we moving away from the Earth both physically and mentally ? If yes, is that of interest ? ( what about the younger generation ?)
From a spiritual view some say its getting darker, and that darkness facilitates freedom of choise as we dont see clearly, we dont face the reactions of our actions wich tend to give us a wider range of actions. But is this freedom given mostly in the realms of our ego ? If it was more light available, more people would see and act in accordance with the new horizon ? What kind of light am I / do they talk about ? I will shortly give an example.
Is it a dilemma that many people strive for enlightenment and at the same time so many of them violate this energy, their course simply by living in a modern society, with a modern infrastructure ? For 30 years ago a norwegian writer wrote about the collapse that would occur if every Chines owned a refrigerator. World watch had a similar perspective, that the granary of the world soon would be empty if every Chines consumed a beer once a week.
Why do we want enlightenment today ? Isnt there already enough light and information available to navigate sustainable around existential fields ? Do we feel we need this extra light to enable us to act in accordance with our knowledge ? Do we want to live as France de Assisi ? Are there other sustainable possibilities ? Would an Initiated today redraw from the Earth or work within it ? Can we say that a normal initiation-path today is to participate and endure the challenges given in Family life ? That it is a Light producing event to work together emotionally, stay in crisis, face emotions, be humble but firm, ask for help, be self reflective..
Why do I want enlightenment ? How would I act then ? And what do I do with the present light available ? What is my hindrance to ask for Forgiveness ? How can I better be in a position to truly forgive others and myself ??
I do agree that there is a lot of light in joy! Especially in unconditional Joy as in unconditional Love. These feelings once created tend to resonance in chains of radiation through all living. A power so powerful, so sought after that it can release even the dead..(Talking about accumulation of light and release, we may have to realize that this are not unproblematic units/ feelings for a Huge number of people living on Earth today. Once you have been traumatized there might be a Very long way back to really experience Joy to be something more than just letters.) Im sorry to put this in () as these are the ultimate goals for the radiation of light, love and joy. It calls for tremendous work and patience and humanity to guide traumatized people back to the wonderful marriage body and soul can represent!! As tex in the act of love, traumatized individuals may release fear. For others unharmed individual, I will call to be awake for the esoteric radiations of sex, as a way to pave the path for increased light, a source to give and accumulate light. There we find that the magical and complex spirals of give and receive interchange. Try to be mindful and sincere, sensible and by all mean aroused, but try not to blow out the candlelight with thoughts, an inner dialog, bad self esteem or performance anxiety. We touch upon our godlike potential,( even if babies strange enough can be made in a cruel state of mind) and for now am focused on the light it may produce, and actually represent a channel of true enlightenment
All the best.

greybeard

1st December 2013, 19:33

Igor Kufayev - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Igor Anvar Kufayev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In his childhood he had many experiences associated with awakening. An artist by nature he studied philosophy, theology, aesthetics and sacred geometry. In his late twenties, faced with crisis brought by personal traumas, he was trampolined into the higher level of awareness. Initiated into meditation in a dream, Igor immersed himself into the practice of yoga. A year later he learned Transcendental Meditation and practiced it diligently for several years.

Biographical details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kuf...

At the age of thirty six Igor had undergone a radical transformation of consciousness which subsequently blossomed into spontaneous unfoldment of Grace. For the next five years he continued long hours of meditation, integrating expanded state of awareness throughout his daily activities. Around that time he began sharing his insights with those who were attracted by the energy emanating in his presence.

Igor points out that awakening takes place in the body on a cellular level and it is the body, with its nervous system, that acts as a support for individual consciousness to mature into full Enlightenment. It could be said that his methods are rooted in Tantra, having studied such diverse traditions as Vedanta, Tantra, Sufi and Zen for many years he remains elusive to categorization. Saying that: "Abiding in a state of spontaneous absorption transcends the boundaries of any given truth based on intellectual grasp of ultimate reality...".

He emphasizes the biological nature of self-realization and sees the process as progressive purification of Prana. For vital force directs and orchestrates all movements in the body, and all cognitive processes are linked to the electric current of which Prana is a conduit.

Igor's style of teaching is based on spontaneous and intuitive insight which allows him to empathize with uniqueness of each individual conditioning. He embraces life in its most terrifying contrasts through direct experiences of Love, Life and Death, if only to appreciate more fully the predicament of human condition.

He lives with his partner, Emma Devi and their two small children, Ramana and Keahnu. He looks after his mother who struggles with dementia, while the family is (currently) based in Costa Rica. Igor continues working with those who require guidance, sharing his time between family duties and editing his 10 year correspondence into a book under the title, 'Letter to a Siddha'.

Recently uploaded podcasts:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FlowingWa...

http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperBlis...

Igor's spiritual name is 'Vamadeva' (Sanskrit), meaning -- preserving aspect of Shiva in his peaceful, graceful and poetic form.

Interview recorded 3/10/2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvhc3Ej4Fwg

greybeard

1st December 2013, 19:56

Hi Dirmanam
Thank you for your interesting post.
All good food for thought.
Best wishes
Chris

greybeard

3rd December 2013, 19:26

Alan Watts - Transcended ego experience (Mysticism and Morals)

"What I think an awakening really involves is a re-examination of our common sense. We've got all sorts of ideas built into us which seem unquestioned, obvious. And our speech reflects them; its commonest phrases. 'Face the facts.' As if they were outside you. As if life were something they simply encountered as a foreigner. 'Face the facts.' Our common sense has been rigged, you see? So that we feel strangers and aliens in this world, and this is terribly plausible, simply because this is what we are used to. That's the only reason."
...
"As you question this basic assumption that underlies our culture, you find you get a new kind of common sense. It becomes absolutely obvious to you that you are continuous with the universe." -Alan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhOpuY8NO0A

greybeard

4th December 2013, 20:34

Disclaimer.
I cant say that I agree with all that Nanci says however she maybe right.
I prefer simple.
The focus of this intention is finding out the answer to the question "Who/what am I?"
On knowing That--everything else will be seen in its true light.

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Nanci Danison News letter

Who is more evolved?

Cammie asks: "you mention that you are an 'evolved' being in that you have already gone through all earth incarnations . . . which I believe, however this would suggest that humans are at differing levels of 'evolution' in the soul realm: i.e. a higher and lower. Would you agree with this?" I agree that Cammie has described the human perspective. But it is not accurate from either Light Being or Source's perspective.

It is human nature to think that humans enter into the afterlife. They do not. Humans are manifested animals that die and are gone forever. What some call the human "soul" does not belong to the human at all. I learned in the afterlife that "soul" is Source's own mental perspective, its consciousness, subdivided into small parcels I call mental characters or Light Beings. Humans do not evolve spiritually, only biologically.

It is human nature to assume that humans are terribly important to Source and that incarnating into humans is necessary for our spiritual evolution. It is not. Incarnation into humans is a very small part of the experiences we may choose throughout the universe. And whether or how many human incarnations one has experienced has nothing to do with spirituality. Some characters within Source never incarnate.

It is human nature to believe that spiritual evolution is necessary. It is not. Our religions teach us that we must perform certain tasks, live certain ways, or think certain thoughts in order to evolve enough spiritually to get into heaven or paradise. I learned in heaven/paradise that our religions are teaching us backwards beliefs. We do not have to evolve because we are already integral parts of God/Source's mind. We are mental characters created and existing within Source's own consciousness. Don't we consider God/Source to be the height of evolution? If so, we are already there. Nothing more is needed.

It is human nature to want to arrange everybody into a hierarchy, even in spiritual matters. Animals are organized into hierarchies. Source's mental characters/Light Beings are not. All thoughts, all mental characters, are by nature equal. And it is human nature to want to judge each other's degree of evolution by some standard that humans make up. There is no such judgment in the afterlife. There are no levels or degrees of spiritual evolution.

Incarnation is only the first phase of life. Between incarnations we continue to live in a non-physical state of mind that our religions call heaven or paradise. I learned while living in that state that it is merely a way-station where we can rest, heal, recharge our batteries (so to speak), digest all that we have experienced, and integrate it into our eternal personalities before the next incarnation.

After we complete our desired incarnation phase, we leave the afterlife and continue to experience life by merging into other Light Beings one-at-a time (although at this phase there is no "beingness" to us). We experience their physical lives vicariously, either as them or as ourselves. The next phase is to merge into several Light Beings at the same time and exist as a multi-personality entity. I describe how both these phases felt to me in my first book, Backwards: Returning to Our Source for Answers.

The final experience is awakening to the realization that we are in fact Source itself, simply imagining that we are a separate being out gallivanting around the universe and afterlife. I describe this merger into Source in detail in my third book, Backwards Beliefs: Revealing Eternal Truths Hidden in Religions.

Thank you for being open to the messages I have returned from the afterlife to share.

Nanci

Nanci L. Danison, JD, afterlife experiencer and author of BACKWARDS: Returning to Our Source for Answers, BACKWARDS Guidebook, BACKWARDS Beliefs: Revealing Eternal Truths Hidden in Religions, and the Light Answers to Tough Questions series of CDs and DVDs (A.P. Lee & Co., Ltd., Publishers). Visit me at www.BackwardsBooks.com or watch me on YouTube.

Subscribe to this newsletter at www.BackwardsBooks.com.

greybeard

6th December 2013, 11:41

Adyashanti Buddha at the Gas pump interview

I'm sorry about the technical quality of this video. We had problems which we weren't able to surmount.

Adyashanti dares all seekers of peace and freedom to take the possibility of liberation in this life seriously. He began teaching in 1996, at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for 14 years. Since then many spiritual seekers have awakened to their true nature while spending time with Adyashanti.

The author of The End of Your World, Emptiness Dancing, and True Meditation, Adyashanti offers spontaneous and direct nondual teachings that have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages. However, Adya says, "If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that."

A native of Northern California, Adyashanti lives with his wife, Mukti, and teaches extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area offering satsangs, weekend intensives, and silent retreats. He also travels to teach in other areas of the United States and Canada.

"Adyashanti" means primordial peace.
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There are enormous amount of interviews on this site http://batgap.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kokVqxR5UlU

greybeard

6th December 2013, 14:13

Mooji Budhha at the Gas Pump Interview.

Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. In 1969, he moved to the UK and he is presently living in Brixton, London. Anthony worked in London’s ‘West end’ as a street portrait artist for many years, then as a painter and a stained glass artist, and later as a teacher at Brixton College. For a long time, he was well known as Tony Moo, but is now affectionately known as Mooji* by the many seekers and friends who visit him.

Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji, as his followers call him. In 1987, a chance meeting with a Christian mystic was to be a life-changing encounter for Mooji. It brought him, through prayer, into the direct experience of the Divine within. Within a short period, he experienced a radical shift in consciousness so profound that outwardly, he seemed, to many who knew him, to be an entirely different person. As his spiritual consciousness awakened, a deep inner transformation began which unfolded in the form of many miraculous experiences and mystical insights. He felt a strong wind of change blowing through his life which brought with it a deep urge to surrender completely to divine will. Shortly after, he stopped teaching, left his home and began a life of quiet simplicity and surrender to the will of God as it manifested spontaneously within him. A great peace entered his being, and has remained ever since.

For the following six years, Mooji drifted in a state of spontaneous meditation oblivious to the outer world he formally knew. During these years, he lived almost penniless but was constantly absorbed in inner joy, contentment and natural meditation. Grace came in the form of his sister Julianne, who welcomed Mooji into her home with loving kindness, and afforded him the time and space he much needed to flower spiritually, without the usual pressures and demands of external life. Mooji refers to this period of his life as his “wilderness years” and speaks touchingly of a deep feeling of being “seated on the Lap of God”. In many respects, these were far from easy times for Mooji, yet there is no trace of regret or remorse in his tone as he recounts these years. On the contrary, he speaks of this phase of his life as being richly blessed and abundant in grace, trust and loving devotion.

In late 1993, Mooji travelled to India. He had a desire to visit Dakshineswar in Calcutta where Sri Ramakrishna, the great Bengali Saint, had lived and taught. The words and life of Ramakrishna were a source of inspiration and encouragement to Mooji in the early years of his spiritual development. He loved the Saint deeply but as fate would determine, he would not go to Calcutta. While in Rishikesh, a holy place at the foothills of the Himalayas, he was to have another propitious encounter; this time with three devotees of the great advaita Master Sri Harilal Poonja, known to his many devotees as Papaji. Their persistent invitation to Mooji to travel with them to meet the Master made a deep impression on him. Still he delayed the prospect of meeting Papaji for two whole weeks, choosing first to visit Varanasi, the holy city.

In late November 1993, Mooji travelled to Indira Nagar in Lucknow to meet Papaji. It was to be an auspicious and profoundly significant experience on his spiritual journey. He felt it to be his good fortune; he had met a living Buddha, a fully enlightened master. He gradually came to recognise that Papaji was his Guru. Mooji stayed with Papaji for several months. During one particular satsang meeting, Papaji told him: “If you desire to be one with truth, ‘you’ must completely disappear.” On hearing this, great anger arose within his mind, full of judgement and resistance towards Papaji. He decided to leave the master’s presence for good, but later that day a huge dark cloud of anger and rebelliousness suddenly lifted, leaving his mind in a state of such peace, emptiness and a love towards the master, so intense, that he knew he could not leave. Through ‘Papaji’s’ grace, his mind was pushed back into the emptiness of source.

In 1994, with his Master’s blessings he travelled down to Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai. This is the ashram at the foot of Arunachala, the ‘Hill of Fire’, where Sri Ramana Maharshi*, the Sage of Arunachala and Papaji’s Guru, had lived and taught. Mooji felt very happy and at home in Tiruvannamalai. He stayed there for almost three months before returning to sit at Papaji’s feet once again.

A week after returning to Lucknow, Mooji received news from London that his eldest son had died suddenly of pneumonia. He returned to England. The bliss of earlier years gave way to a profound emptiness and inner silence, imparted by the Grace and Presence of Papaji.

Mooji at the Gas Pump

Mooji visited Papaji again in 1997. It was to be his last meeting with his Beloved Master, who had by now become ill and frail in his movements, but whose inner light and presence remained undiminished. A month after returning to London, Mooji received news that the Master had passed away. Of this Mooji declares: “That Principle that manifests as the Master is ever HERE NOW. The True Master never dies, it is the mister that dies. The true Master, that Sat Guru* within, alone is the Real”.

Since 1999, Mooji has been sharing satsang in the form of spontaneous encounters, retreats, satsang intensives and one-to-one meetings with the many seekers who visit him, from all parts of the world, in search of the direct experience of truth. Few amongst the modern teachers of the advaita tradition expound the ‘knowledge of Self’, and the method of self-enquiry, with such dazzling clarity, love and authority. There is an energy that radiates from Mooji’s presence, a kind of impersonal intimacy, full of love, joy and a curious mix of playfulness and authority. His style is direct, clear, compassionate and often humorous. Once caught in the grip of his questions, there seems to be no place to hide. So unsparing is his scrutiny and uncompromising stance, that the ‘I’ concept is inescapably exposed as a mental construction, when viewed from the formless awareness we are.

Over the last 8 years Mooji has been travelling to Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, North America, Argentina, Brasil, India, where he conducts Satsang meetings, Intensives and Retreats. He is ever open to meeting sincere seekers of truth, whatever their background.

Interview recorded 11/19/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkIiAdZMVgI

greybeard

6th December 2013, 14:18

Tony Parsons Budhha at the Gas pump Interview

The Open Secret message is totally radical and uncompromising. It is a rare and singular expression of absolute non-dualism. It bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the very core of a wisdom that is imminent in all of us. When there is a readiness to hear, all seeking and need for personal endeavor falls away, leaving simply the wonder of what is.

There is no me or you, no seeker, no enlightenment, no disciple and no guru. There is no better or worse, no path, and nothing that has to be achieved. All appearance is source. All that apparently manifests – the world, the life story, the hypnotic dream of separation, the search for home – is the one appearing as two, the nothing appearing as everything, the absolute appearing as the particular.

There is no separate intelligence weaving a destiny, and no choice functioning at any level. Nothing is happening, but this, as it is, invites the apparent seeker to rediscover that which already is…the abiding, uncaused, unchanging, impersonal silence from which unconditional love overflows and celebrates. It is the wonderful mystery.

Tony Parsons has been sharing this “open secret” with people for over ten years. His talks and workshops are highly regarded in England and Western Europe.

Tony’s books:

As It Is: The Open Secret of Spiritual Awakening
The Open Secret
Nothing Being Everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUSGiWV0kqE

greybeard

6th December 2013, 21:48

Anita Moorjani Budhha at the Gas Pump Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmuOXgr5UZw

greybeard

7th December 2013, 11:18

The Global Coherence community unites to co-create a new world and rewrite the future for a more peaceful and heart-centered planet.

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/email/e-broadcast/2013/yea-blast2/yea-blast2-online.php

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Let’s dedicate our collective, heartfelt intentions toward uniting more people in heart coherence. As we progress in a shift of global consciousness toward planetary coherence and harmony our collective efforts will have an even greater impact.

We have exciting new projects planned for 2014, including:

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All of us at GCI deeply appreciate your care and support, which are essential for our shared mission. Together we are shaping a more resonant heart-connected planet.

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Chester

9th December 2013, 03:30

greybeard

9th December 2013, 17:50

"It cannot just be something you feel 'nice' about." (Mooji) http://www.mooji.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIpwq-GhVc

greybeard

9th December 2013, 19:53

The Alchemy Of Spirit - Boom festival 2012 film

"You can experience that you are not separate, but everybody around you is somehow the same being and that the planet is not separate from ourselves either. But everything happening in the world is happening inside of us too."

Description : "Set during Boom Festival 2012 the documentary THE ALCHEMY OF SPIRIT tells the story of thousands of people from across the world, that come together every 2 years in the August full moon. Together they share the dream of a reality within and beyond this reality, where we can live in harmony with our planet and with each other.

It is a movie about Boomers that learn together about a different way of living, they co-create and share "out of the box" revolutionary ideas for change, to be spread like seeds."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTrsenzgJCQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_IlHSSIvac

http://www.transients.info/2013/12/the-alchemy-of-spirit-boom-festival.html#more

Thanks to transients. info

Chris

greybeard

10th December 2013, 19:39

Dannion Brinkley
Published on 21 Nov 2013

Dannion Brinkley, a New York Times Best Selling Author, has died and come back from the other side several times. Susan and Dannion discuss the information he received during his experiences, including the knowledge that we are truly eternal, and that we are in a brand new time frame for humanity.

Living Your Inspired Life with Susan Burrell
air date: November 10, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2IQwVxC1g

greybeard

11th December 2013, 18:13

Ten Things to Know Before you Go with Dannion Brinkley on Soul Journeys Radio.

A good interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaYgIdpWgfk

greybeard

13th December 2013, 09:52

The great thing about the pathless path of enlightenment is that it is not a religeon
One can learn from various teachers including Krishna and of course the bhagavad gita.
Of course there may be one teaching that a person is drawn to.
Ramana translations from the Agamas I particularly like

Just one quote
"Siva is other than me, I am other than Siva
Uproot this attitude of differentiation.
I am indeed that Siva
This conviction that is non-dual, ever practise."

and another

"There is no greater blessing anywhere
Than the gaining of the Self
Meditate ever on the Self. He who is the Self
Is indeed the one all-pervasive Supreme self
Be aware of this."

Chris

Chester

14th December 2013, 00:16

To comment... involves the mind it seems.

That was a thought I just wrote - it had to come from the mind.

But there are times when the mind kicks in and says to me - "WoW... that place you just left was a place of no mind."

"While there you didn't know it was so peaceful until your mind kicked in to think about it... to weigh it against other moments where the mind is active, only once the contraction has occurred."

I am finding less and less the circumstance that this last thought comes up which suggests to me I am staying "home" more and more these days.

The mind has noted a clear and obvious difference as to the smoothness of my days these days. When the mind tells me that, it seems I drift back into no thought. Progress?

Lovely.

Is my delusion covered under Obummercare? ("Please, Mr. Mind... go back to sleep," the softest voice suggests).

greybeard

14th December 2013, 08:57

When the commentator has finally gone so has the me.
Great post Chester
Chris

greybeard

15th December 2013, 10:07

GCI December 2013 Full Moon Synchronized Care Focus
Dear Friend,

Welcome to the Global Coherence Initiative’s December 17th, 2013 Full Moon (9:29 GMT/UTC) synchronized Care Focus. In order for GCI members around the world to participate at a convenient time, we have chosen 4 a.m., 12:00 p.m. (noon), and 8 p.m. Pacific Time (GMT/UTC minus 8 hours) when GCI members in the Global Care Room can do the Care Focus together.* Thank you for being with us.

Let’s start by connecting in the heart with everyone participating in the Global Care Room and radiating love and appreciation to each other.

This is a time of the year when people of many countries, religions and traditions celebrate various holidays and festivals. It’s a time when people open their hearts more in love and kindness with family, friends and community. At the same time, remembering in our prayers those who are stressed and suffering, and giving to help those in need.

At the same time, as the intensity of the Shift energy continues, more people are experiencing an intuitive nudge to deepen the heart connection in their communications and relationships with others. Many relationship issues seem to be surfacing to be healed and renewed. This releases stuck heart energy, reduces much personal stress, and is a primary step in becoming our true self. The energy during this next month can facilitate our heartfelt intentions for clearing, forgiveness and creating fresh starts. Let’s envision more of humankind releasing separation, deepening heart connection and healing relationships, which will help raise the heart vibration of humanity and Earth into the New Year.
Care Focus – Deepening Heart Connections

Let’s start by breathing in the feeling of love and appreciation for two or three minutes, as this activates our heart energy.
Now, let’s envision humanity releasing separation, increasing heart connections and healing troubled relationships.
As always, let’s radiate love and compassion to those who are stressed or suffering hardships through the rapid changes we all are experiencing… Also radiate compassion to the stress that animal and marine-life are experiencing through these times. Appreciate the myriad seen and unseen benefits they bring to humanity.
Close by radiating care and compassion to other situations and issues that are close to your heart.

After 15 minutes

You can continue to do the Care Focus in the Global Care Room, if convenient, after the full moon period, as this will help raise the vibratory rate of the personal and collective field environment.

Thank you for your participation in this Care Focus.

http://www.glcoherence.org/templates/gcp/e-mail/e-broadcast/care-focus/2013/december/gci-synchronized-full-moon-2013-12-online.php

greybeard

15th December 2013, 13:27

The Secret To How The Universe Works Lies Within This Geometrical Pattern. What Is The Flower of Life?
The Flower of Life is most likely something that you have seen before. It is a common symbol of many spiritual and religious teachings around the world. The Flower of Life has been found all over the world in many different religions. It is one of the oldest sacred symbols known to man. It is a geometrical shape that is made up of multiple overlapping circles of the same size. There is a huge amount of information and knowledge that can be gained from understanding the Flower of Life. It is considered to be sacred geometry that contains ancient religious value and to sum it up it depicts the fundamental forms of space and time, but there is a lot more to know. Let this be an introduction to The Flower of Life. - See more at: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/12/10/the-secret-to-how-the-universe-works-lies-within-this-geometrical-pattern-what-is-the-flower-of-life/#sthash.c0h4GosC.dpuf

- See more at: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/12/10/the-secret-to-how-the-universe-works-lies-within-this-geometrical-pattern-what-is-the-flower-of-life/#sthash.c0h4GosC.dpuf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1ajWeY_wc

greybeard

16th December 2013, 12:39

Wishing all who contribute here and those who visit a Great Christmas and a wonderful 2014.
This thread would not exist without you all.
Also wishing all at Avalon Happy Days.

With Love
Chris

greybeard

18th December 2013, 22:59

"At the core of our hearts I feel that we all care for each other and
compassion is one of the highest ways to express our care. During
this holiday season and unpredictable times, let’s remember to have
compassion for those who are enduring hardships. Compassion is a
most powerful and intelligent frequency within the love spectrum.

As we unconditionally express compassion, it intuitively chooses its
own way to administer its care – based on a sensitive attunement to
the higher need of the whole. When pure compassion is not tethered
to our agendas it weaves its magic, sometimes visibly yet often
unseen, but never wasted as it nurtures all within its radiance.

True compassion allows for the highest-good to manifest, which in
many cases is not what our personality would project, understand
or try to control. Unconditional love, acceptance and

allowance are the underpinnings of compassion
in its higher vibration of effectiveness. As our
human intelligence spirals to the next station
of enlightenment, then collective compassion
will become the baseline for the new authentic
expression of ‘who we truly are.’ Compassion is love and care
manifesting in the most ripened state of effectiveness for the whole."
– Doc Childre, HeartMath Founder
On behalf of all of us at Institute of HeartMath,
HeartMath LLC, Global Coherence Initiative and Quantum Intech
we wish you a Holiday and New Year filled
with love, joy and compassion.

greybeard

19th December 2013, 08:50

The way---Osho
http://oshobardo.com/wordpress/?cat=11

Much on this will worth a read /audio.
Thanks to Tim

Chris

Wind

19th December 2013, 17:15

If all people were special then the concept of specialness would disappear, for there would be no comparisons to make. It is all a vanity.

Paradoxically, as one begins to recognise the truth of this and so keeps turning away from such tendencies, a fresh space is felt opening up inside.
This is a sign of awakening to the real Self.

There is an emerging sense: I am fine as I am in each moment and all is well. There are no judgements now, instead there is a calm and widening recognition and acceptance of life in all its infinite and varied expressions.

It is this recognition that we can say is special, for it brings our minds into alignment with the universal heart vibration; it communicates a sense of oneness and a natural love and affinity with the whole of existence.

When we are again in our original state of oneness, there is a harmony radiating inside our being and so the need to stand out as special loses its appeal.

Our natural state is one of peace, contentment, joy, wisdom and love. There is a great love, a capacity and flexibility that enables us to shift our perspective and in doing so, enter other points of consciousness which increase our capacity to communicate and understand through real harmony and compassion. We recognise and live effortlessly in our natural state of affinity and unity as one Being.

~ Mooji

December 2013
www.mooji.org

Live Satsang Broadcast from Monte Sahaja

Sunday 22nd December at 3pm Lisbon time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Satsangs+with+Mooji+from+Monte+Sahaja+in+Portugal&iso=20131222T15&p1=133&ah=2)

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Wind

20th December 2013, 23:50

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greybeard

24th December 2013, 12:47

Consciousness Expressing as Human Being (Complete Satsang Dialogue in Three Parts): Arunachala Satsang with Mooji
http://www.mooji.org (official website);

Youtube channels: http://www.youtube.com/moojiji,
http://www.youtube.com/AwakeningBridge and other associated channels.

Also see: http://www.nevernothere.com and http://mooji.satsangs.net (a source website of moojis video satsang)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGaSbP59ZJ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHJrSNlAiWk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prK7OSdDUkg

There is so much love comes through Mooji--- look into the eyes--listen to the voice.

Chris

Wind

26th December 2013, 05:51

A version of the Lord's prayer by Mooji

Beloved Father,
Who dwells within the soul of my Being
Whose name is
I Am

Veneration to your holy name
Thy kingdom is here

Thy will prevails throughout the earth
as it does in the heavenly realms of my soul

You open your hands
and satisfy the hunger of all living beings

You heal all hearts of sorrow
So that they in turn may show forgiveness
to those whose minds
are shrouded in ignorance of the Self

Beloved Mother

Who imparts to all the sense of choice
so we may finally come to choose
You
who are Truth
and thus find everlasting freedom

Glory to your name
Oh Truth

For yours is the kingdom of existence
of peace and love
All power and glory emanates from
You alone
Who imparts to all
the wisdom, the light, the love and courage
to refer to themselves as
I Am Amen Om

HF9yXAFAuos

JF2ybmlShro

greybeard

26th December 2013, 19:11

This could be the final question.
Mooji--- points to the answer.
Can the perceiver be perceived and if so by what?
It does not come more direct in your face or more powerful than this--the final question.

Chris
Ps Thanks to Wind im really enjoying the love and depth of Mooji.
There is no room for manoeuvre--no excuses.
Basically what is the most important thing?
What do you/we/I really, realy want?
Its a question of single mindedness.

Ch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF2ybmlShro

greybeard

26th December 2013, 22:26

SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-IGNORANCE
Be as you are
page 38 the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

If there is a goal to be reached it cannot be permanent. The
goal must already be there. We seek to reach the goal with the
ego, but the goal exists before the ego. What is in the goal is even
prior to our birth, that is, to the birth of the ego. Because we exist
the ego appears to exist too.
If we look on the Self as the ego then we become the ego, if as
the mind we become the mind, if as the body we become the body.

THE SELF
It is the thought which builds up sheaths in so many ways. The
shadow on the water is found to be shaking. Can anyone stop the
shaking of the shadow? If it would cease to shake you would not
notice the water but only the light. Similarly take no notice of the
ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. The ego is the
thought 'I'. The true 'I' is the Self.
Q: If it is just a question of giving up ideas then it is only one
step to realisation.
A: Realisation is already there. The state free from thoughts is
the only real state. There is no such action as realisation. Is there
anyone who is not realising the Self? Does anyone deny his own
existence? Speaking of realisation, it implies two selves - the one
to realise, the other to be realised. What is not already realised is
sought to be realised. Once we admit our existence, how is it that
we do not know our Self?
Q: Because of the thoughts, the mind.
A: Quite so. It is the mind that veils our happiness. How do
we know that we exist? If you say because of the world around us,
then how do you know that you existed in deep sleep?
Q: How to get rid of the mind?
A: Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill
itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then
you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the
mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about
the mind.

Wind

28th December 2013, 19:05

There is only the one Self.
An unchanging, unmoving Silence.
It is not waiting.
And it is not contemplating.
It is not reflecting.
It is not inquiring.
It is not resting.
All this could be perceived as modes of the mind itself.
What is that which is not in gear?
It is not a state.
It is not in between states.
It is not the gap between thoughts.
It is not a gap.
It cannot be done or undone.
For Itself, there is no such thing as practice.
No such thing as contemplators, meditators or
attainers of It.
Hidden, yet nothing can hide It.
Revealed, yet nothing can see It.
Self-knowing, yet It is without knowledge.
Self-realised, yet It is without mind.
Blessing itself, yet It is beyond duality.
Being, yet It is beyond being.
Unfathomable, unconquerable, ungraspable.
Who or what is there?
Beyond sin and beyond righteousness.
It announces itself as the sense 'I am' inside the body.
But It is even beyond 'I' and beyond body.
Ungraspable, yet attention and the pure intellect
may recognise and acknowledge It.
Being revealed but it is not revealing.
Recognising Its all-pervasiveness, joy fills the Heart.
Intelligence dances.
Peace is very happy.
The universes prostrate themselves,
yet their Lord they cannot see.

~ Mooji

December 2013
www.mooji.org

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loungelizard

28th December 2013, 20:20

Shadowman

29th December 2013, 03:26

Some of these words are so sublime that I can't help but feel there is danger of separation from the ordinary human existence. Talking only of wisdom and the absolute runs the risk of generating a feeling of elitism that can alienate people.

Conduct, ethics and morality are also important, and we can't assume that these will just happen. There are steps.

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Hello loungelizard,

Conduct, ethics and morality are relative and dependent upon circumstance. When they are motivated by intellectual training, education, tradition or indoctrination they are subject to influence, persuasion and change (or as TPTB prefer to call it, re-education).

That is not to say that ethical or moral education does not have it’s place. The root cause of unhelpful or harmful conduct, the ego, gives rise to selfishness and greed. This thread is an invaluable resource in understanding the nature of the ego and how it may be transcended. So from one perspective, it is perhaps one of the steps to raising ethical awareness.

Where one’s ethic’s are founded upon the direct understanding that you are everything and everything is you, compassion and respect for everything - from other humans, to animals, to the environment becomes natural and spontaneous, and cannot be corrupted by external influence, tradition or control of the mind.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you takes on a far deeper significance when it is your intimate and direct reality that those “others” are “you” every bit as much as your own physical body is “you”, but until that point is reached guidelines certainly can be helpful,

In Lak’ech
tim

Wind

29th December 2013, 11:56

Everything is coming and going just like clouds in the sky.
You cannot ask a cloud to stand still or to hold its position in a certain way while you attempt to paint it.
Every cloud is a movement. Some are fast, some are slow, but they are all a movement. Is there not something which is unmoving?
What perceives That which cannot move?
What perceives That which cannot be seen?
What perceives That which cannot be known?
It cannot be known or grasped as objective, phenomenal knowledge and yet its reality cannot be refuted, for the very attempt or act of refuting will itself be perceived in It — the one, immutable Being.

~ Mooji

Today 3 pm Lisbon Time: Satsang with Mooji, live broadcast from Portugal (http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Live-Broadcast--of-Sunday-Satsang-with-Mooji----29th-December-2013-at-3PM-Lisbon-time.html?soid=1102751453991&aid=tB6JHlrgP8E)

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loungelizard

29th December 2013, 12:08

@Tim

For some reason, there seems to be an overemphasis on the point that everything is primordially pure and perfect just as it is. Intellectually, we may understand this concept, but let's be honest here…we all live in the relative world and are working through dualistic minds.

I'm not sure that the idea of waiting until we are enlightened before concerning ourselves with ethics (if that is what is being implied here) is helpful.

As we are all aware, there is a high probability that any 'awakening' that we experience is an transient ego activity. Of course, being human, we claim these experiences and become exhilarated by them. We 'experience' awakening…and then immediately fall asleep again.

In this relative world, conduct has to go hand in hand with an understanding of our true nature. Ethics starts right now, regardless of our current, unenlightened state of duality. We are not resting in our natural state 24 hours a day, and therefore karma applies, and our thoughts and actions will have consequences.

Ethics is something that we practise consciously prior to enlightenment in order to change our patterns of thought and behaviour. Maybe it's not emphasised as much as the view of non-duality because it's not what we want to hear: it's boring, and entails effort and commitment...;)

greybeard

29th December 2013, 12:45

The one at the top of the mountain is no different from the one at the bottom.
The view/perspective is different.
The "believer" is no different in essence from the "disbeliever"
For me there is a preference to climb the mountain and to follow the guidance of a way shower who has made the journey.

There is no dispute with those who chose not to climb.
Chris

Ps once you get past the introduction the debate is in English and very interesting.

Basically Depak expresses belief in a conscious universe and indeed an intelligent, aware atom. Dawkins believes that Darwin got i totally right.
The brain and consciousness are products of evolution. In other words consciousness came "second"
Depak states that consciousness was prior to all else and drives evolution.

Chris

Dangerous Ideas
Depak Chopra & Richard Dawkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4c_CrQzUGw

Chester

29th December 2013, 17:51

but let's be honest here…we all live in the relative world and are working through dualistic minds.

I don't anymore.

I would think if one finds "things" interesting, entertaining... etc. One might put energy into them.

And then there's a peaceful place that only from the outside could be considered a state of mind.

Some call "knowing" this - gnosis.

greybeard

29th December 2013, 18:37

Very pleased Chester.

Im not there--however--im "not the full shilling" either--- an old English expression.
Im not one thing nor the other--in transit so to speak.

With a little practise anyone can do this.
Try it.
Sit and watch the birds--people, anything in a park.
You dont need the voice in the head commenting to know what is in front of you---there is a very deep awareness, just watching, enjoying being part of the scene.
A couple walking hand in hand and you feel the joy.
A couple at a distance from each other, sadness is perhaps felt.
All wordless.
This wordless can be expanded to almost any situation.
If speech or though is needed--its there.

Chris

greybeard

29th December 2013, 20:18

Many of the Sri Ramana's visitors appeared to have an insatiable
curiosity about the state of Self-realisation and they were
particularly interested to know how a jnani experienced himself
and the world around him. Some of the questions he was asked on
the subject reflected the bizarre notions that many people had
about this state, but most of them tended to be variations of one
of the four following questions:

1 How can a jnani function without any individual
awareness of consciousness?
2 How can he say that he 'does nothing' (a statement
which Sri Ramana often made) when others see him
active in the world?
3 How does he perceive the world? Does he perceive the
world at all?
4 How does the jnani's awareness of pure consciousness
relate to the alternating states of body and mind
consciousness experienced in waking, dreaming and
sleeping?

The hidden premise behind all such questions is the belief that
there is a person (the jnani) who experiences a state he calls the
Self. This assumption is not true. It is merely a mental construct
devised by those who have not realised the Self (ajnanis) to make
sense of the jnani's experience. Even the use of the word jnani is
indicative of this erroneous belief since it literally means a knower
of jnana, the reality. The ajnani uses this term because he imagines
that the world is made up of seekers of reality and knowers of
reality; the truth of the Self is that there are neither jnanis nor
ajnanis, there is only jnana.

Sri Ramana pointed this out both directly and indirectly on
many occasions, but few of his questioners were able to grasp,
even conceptually, the implications of such a statement. Because
of this he usually adapted his ideas in such a way that they
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conformed to the prejudices of his listeners. In most of the
conversations in this chapter he accepts that his questioners
perceive a distinction between the jnani and the ajnani, and,
without challenging the basis of that assumption, he assumes the
role of the jnani and attempts to explain the implications of being
in that state.

Q: Then what is the difference between the baddha and the
mukta, the bound man and the one liberated?
A: The ordinary man lives in the brain unaware of himself in
the Heart. The jnana siddha [jnani1 lives in the Heart. When he
moves about and deals with men and things, he knows that what
he sees is not separate from the one supreme reality, the Brahman
which he realised in the Heart as his own Self, the real.

Q: What about the ordinary man?
A: I have just said that he sees things outside himself. He is
separate from the world, from his own deeper truth, from the
truth that supports him and what he sees. The man who has
realised the supreme truth of his own existence realises that it is
the one supreme reality that is there behind him, behind the
world. In fact, he is aware of the one, as the real, the Self in all
!!elves, in all things, eternal and immutable, in all that is
impermanent and mutable. 1

Q: What is the relation between the pure consciousness
realised by the jnani and the 'I am'-ness which is accepted as the
primary datum of experience?
A: The undifferentiated consciousness of pure being is the
Heah or hridayam, which is what you really are. From the Heart
arises the 'I am'-ness as the primary datum of one's experience. By
itself it is completely pure [suddha-sattva] in character. It is in this
form of pristine purity [suddha-sattva-swarupa], uncontaminated
by rajas and tamas [activity and inertia], that the 'I' appears to
subsist in the jnani.

Q: In the jnani the ego subsists in the pure form and therefore
it appears as something real. Am I right?
A: The appearance of the ego in any form, either in the jnani or
ajnani, is itself an experience. But to the ajnani who is deluded
into thinking that the waking state and the world are real, the ego
also appears to be real. Since he sees the jnani act like other
individuals, he feels constrained to posit some notion of ndividuality with reference to the jnani also.

Q: How then does the aham-vritti ['I'-thought, the sense of
individuality] function in the jnani?
A: It does not function in him at all. The jnani's real nature is
the Heart itself, because he is one and identical with the
undifferentiated, pure consciousness referred to by the Upanishads
as the prajnana [full consciousness]. Prajnana is truly Brahman,
the absolute, and there is no Brahman other than prajnana. 2

MariaDine

29th December 2013, 21:48

Polarity - Birth and death - The journey, the purpose and the mission on Earth for each individual.

THE DEATH OF KRISHNA - from the MAHABHARATA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLPozy0qoqw

Wind

30th December 2013, 09:36

Having come so far as to discover all appearances to be unreal, the final obstacle is the identity of the seeker.
The seeker says: 'I just want to be free, I just want to be who I am. That is all I want now, nothing else.' He says, 'Please remove the last obstacle,' not knowing it is he himself.
But all of this has only been our dream-talking, dream-walking, dream-living.
Now, through the Master's guidance and Grace one must twist oneself loose from this conditioned identity as a seeker by recognising that it too is observable, and is therefore, phenomenal.
The seeker remains dissatisfied and says: 'You never answer my questions.' The question and the questioner have been answered but can the 'seeker' accept an answer or response that reveals its unreality?
He says, 'Wow, but without me, how can I be found?'
And I say: Without 'you' how can you be lost?

When this is grasped, one has found the Master key to Awakening.

~ Mooji

greybeard

1st January 2014, 12:49

Dont give up.
Mooji gives, as usual, powerful Satsang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNqt-x1zvU

greybeard

2nd January 2014, 14:29

From "Be as You Are" The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

(The Jnani is realised Self--ajani is not realised )

Q: If the jnani and the ajnani perceive the world in like
manner, where is the difference between them?
A: Seeing the world, the jnani sees the Self which is the
substratum of all that is seen; the ajnani, whether he sees the
world or not, is ignorant of his true being, the Self.
Take the instance of moving pictures on the screen in the
cinema-show. What is there in front of you before the play begins?
Merely the screen. On that screen you see the entire show, and for
all appearances the pictures are real. But go and try to take hold
of them. What do you take hold of? Merely the screen on which
the pictures appeared. After the play, when the pictures disappear,
what remains? The screen again.
So with the Self. That alone exists, the pictures come and go. If
you hold on to the Self, you will not be deceived by the
appearance of the pictures. Nor does it matter at all if the pictures
appear· or disappear. Ignoring the Self the ajnani thinks the world
is real, just as ignoring the screen he sees merely the pictures, as if
they existed apart from it. If one knows that without the seer there
is nothing to be seen, just as there are no pictures without the
screen, one is not deluded. The jnani knows that the screen and
the pictures are only the Self. With the pictures the Self is in its
manifest form; without the pictures it remains in the unmanifest
form. To the jnani it is quite immaterial if the Self is in the one
form or the other. He is always the Self. But the ajnani seeing the
jnani active gets confounded.
Q: Does Bhagavan see the world as part and parcel of himself?
How does he see the world?
A: The Self alone is and nothing else. However, it is
differentiated owing to ignorance. Differentiation is threefold:
(1) of the same kind;
(2) of a different kind; and
(3) as parts in itself.
The world is not another Self similar to the Self. It is not different
from the Self; nor is it part of the Self.
Q: Is not the world reflected on the Self?
A: For reflection there must be an object and an image. But the
Self does not admit of these differences. 5
Q: Does a jriani have dreams?
A: Yes, he does dream, but he knows it to be a dream, in the
same way as he knows the waking state to be a dream. You may
call them dream no.1 and dream no.2. The jnani being established
in the fourth state - turiya, the supreme reality - he detachedly
witnesses the three other states, waking, dreaming and dreamless
sleep, as pictures superimposed on it. 6
For those who experience waking, dream and sleep, the state of
wakeful sleep, which is beyond those three states, is named turiya
[the fourth]. But since that turiya alone exists and since the
seeming three states do not exist, know for certain that turiya is

Zampano

2nd January 2014, 21:32

Lol...I read that too today!
This book is sooo good

greybeard

3rd January 2014, 12:12

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Wind

3rd January 2014, 13:23

Enlightenment: Is It Really What We Think It Is?

It may seem like “enlightenment” is a place far far away – one that requires us to struggle and suffer to even get close. It may seem like in order to take this “path towards enlightenment” seriously, we need to have the right clothes, buy the right crystals, wear the right pendants, pay for the right courses and follow the right practices. According to these ideas, an enlightened person should look like this:

http://cdn3.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/12/Picture-15.png

Enlightenment has become the new “promised land” of spirituality, the state that guarantees peace, happiness, joy and the fulfillment of all desires. It is often portrayed as the “guru” life, one where people will look up to you and consider you as “better” and “wiser” than them. To put it simply, enlightenment can become quite the obstacle to enlightenment.

Why? Because enlightenment has nothing to do with adding anything to yourself so you can become something grander and better, it is actually a process of subtraction. Subtract all stories of what it means to be “spiritual,” “enlightened,” “better” or whatever sparkling identity you have in mind, and here you have it: an enlightened state.

“Discard this checklist for enlightenment. It is only the mind’s concoction to cheat you out of the peace you already are.” – Mooji

The word enlightenment itself can be misleading, because it is often interpreted and communicated as a “supreme” state of being that sounds so out of reach for the “average” person. But the truth is, enlightenment is nothing more and nothing less than a natural state. It is within all of us. It IS us. The question we should ask ourselves is not how we can become better, bigger, wiser and more than who we naturally are… but what identities, stories, baggage and ideas we hold on to that come in the way of us being who we naturally are.

Does it make sense to try and act naturally? “Trying,” “acting”… both are forms of pretence that actually contradict the true meaning of Natural. Are bunnies trying to “act” like bunnies? Are birds “trying” to be birds? No… they just are. They don’t have to “do” it or even think about it – it comes quite natural! So why should we? Why stress about “trying” to be who we already are?

“Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.” – Eckhart Tolle

If you want to know a “shortcut to enlightenment” (sarcasm), first things first: stop trying to be enlightened. Stop trying to “kill” the ego. And stop trying to be so “spiritual.” I don’t mean to be patronizing but we are spiritual beings already – the one “trying to be spiritual” is just the one who forgot. Instead of resisting the ego because you are “supposed to be spiritual,” be the space that observes both the ego and the idea of “being spiritual.” This space is who you are.

Doesn’t it feel more natural to simply be who we are each moment? Even if we are “not quite there yet,” it isn’t about setting up a big red X on a map and focusing on a destination. Having one eye on the goal is no different than having one eye on the path. Fighting, acting, trying, pushing, pulling, rushing… when you let all of that go for a moment and take a few deep breaths, you realize that this inner battle is the very mental noise covering two obvious truths:

You already are what you are seeking
We are in it for the journey – not the destination

The truth is, we are already getting everything that we need for our evolution. There is no need to try and control our path – the lessons we need will keep coming, our inner-compass will keep working. Our job is to simply notice, be in the moment and enjoy the ride. Oh and just one last reminder… you don’t need to try and do those things. It’s already happening. Just notice ;)

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/02/enlightenment-there-is-no-you-to-do-it/