Native American story: Which wolf will win?

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.

He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one."

The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?"

The grandfather answered: "The one I feed."

On being humble

“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness”
- Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom happiness and being grateful

‎"Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful."

- Roger Walsh

Maturation - Transformation

"The outcome of my life is no more than these three lines:I was a raw material;I was cooked and became mature;I was burned in love." Rumi

on Love World-Grief obligation - the talmud

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the worlds grief. Do justly,
now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to
complete the hard work, but neither are to free to abandon it. -The
Talmud

Never complain about anything

Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love — and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others — but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth & Happiness"

Always in the Bardo

I will always live as if I am in the bardo, since I may not recognize the moment of passage. I will never treat the familiar as if it is what it seems to be, unless I get a really good point spread. I will in every way endeavor to use my paranoic tendencies without submitting to compulsion and obsession. I know that ultimately it is all my trip and there is no other, but that still doesn't mean that I'm going to take guff from some petty bureaucrat that is misusing his or her power. I will grant beingness to others and will tolerate unwanted realities even if they are stupid or dumb. I know that if I can only be convinced that something is absolutely totally inevitable, and unchangeable, I will learn to like it... or at least tolerate it. Oh yes, and I will try to do something to help alleviate the suffering of the Absolute, even if it makes me want to vomit. I submit this to myself in my presence on this the only day in this the only room. I've only got one question, "What would I like to do now?"


From: "The Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased" by Claude Needham, Ph. D.

Source of freedom and empowerment

Taking full responsibility for your personal experience and journey is a source of great freedom and empowerment.
~ Chameli Ardagh Awakening Women Institute

habit of concern for others' well-being

Dalai Lama
Making a habit of concern for others' well-being, and spending a few minutes on waking in the morning reflecting on the value of conducting our lives in an ethically disciplined manner, is a good way to start the day no matter what our beliefs or lack of them. The same is true of taking some time at the end of each day to review how successful in this we have been.

Cause of Unhappiness

‎"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it." ~Eckhart Tolle

practice - beauty and the now

Can't remember now where I saw this quote, I liked it though:

"You practice not to reach a goal, but to create beauty. You practice
not for the future, but for a more ecstatic now".

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche - basic goodness

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

‎"We possess what is known as basic goodness. Then we develop an overlay of unnecessary tricks and occupations. We develop little tricks to shield ourselves from being embarrassed or from feeling too painful or naked. Those are habitual tendencies, but they are not fundamental. They are simply temporary habitual tendencies. It's as though you had a building with nice, white, smooth plaster walls. If you can't stand the plain white walls, you might decide to put colorful wallpaper on top of them to cheer yourself up. The habitual tendencies we're talking about here are like the wallpaper that you put on but can be taken off. The paper doesn't go all the way through the wall; it's not that deeply ingrained. It's a veneer of some kind, called habitual tendencies- which have to be renounced, definitely. Seeing the basic goodness in oneself and seeing the sadness of the setting-sun possibilities, one is willing to make some kind of sacrifice. We can take off the wallpaper, take off the veneer." -CTR

Good experience - bad experience

"Good experience leads to repetition of that action that lead to that experience. Bad experience leads to avoidance of whatever action lead to the experience."

From the blog
SEO made easy, Monday, July 12, 2010

Transcendence and embodiment

The feminine is characterized by a natural movement towards down-and-in, in contrast to the masculine orientation of up-and-out. The masculine movement could be called transcendence; the feminine, embodiment.

Rita Marie Robinson, M.A. (best i could tell)

SPREADING THE RA-RA

Below is the article from Danielle LaPorte's blog whitehottruth.com
SPREADING THE RA-RA,


right now:
There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.
Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.
Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life.
Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God’s children.
A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, “nourish them.”
Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you. Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favourite food is, and treat you to a movie. Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you — for free.
Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on.
The next great song is being rehearsed.
Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth.
Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way.

Present moment and death

"Sooner or later, this present moment is going to be
your last."
from a post of the David Deida page
From "Blue Truth," a book by David Deida

Be who you are - is this quote true?

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

~Dr. Seuss

Facebook post by  Morganne Delain

 

Mind committed to compassion

Dali Lama: " a mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir--a constant source of energy, determination and kindness--it gives rise to qualities like forgiveness, inner strength and the confidence to overcome fear and insecurity." Wow! may it come quickly and stay a long time. love everyone, mu

Openess Love and Changes - a daring

Mukara Meredith tonight, in a class, i looked into a strangers eyes for slightly more than 11 seconds. It is true: my body was flooded with oxytocin. my being softened as openness.
enlivened, i know this is repeatable, simple and essential for the changes we are engaging. love everyone, mu

Conscious action - make a difference in your daily life

"May our prayers & intentions assist Humanities awakening to a new way of living in harmony with our precious Living Planet. What 'Conscious Action' can you take today to be part of the Solution? We can each make a difference in our daily lives!"

By: Nikita Gearing

 

This is from a Facebook post by Gregory Beale

 

 

The path to awakened life

Flee the many,
Find the One.
Embrace the Many
As the One

... -Ken Wilber

Truth in communication - Excuse me or Fuck off?

Missed my Thursday quote - and while it is true I was exhausted from not enough sleep in the last 3 days, and while that could even have contributed to being not resilient enough to stay with: "If you really what to be happy, no one can stop you",  those entities like to feed and found their way in and I was drained of all energy: even though it did NOT loose my temper for a sec!

So there, then I  make it back to my comp and find this quote, posted by my friend Don Anderson hehehe:

"How many times do I have to say "excuse me" before "get the fuck out of my way" becomes acceptable?"

It does not even apply, but I liked it anyway.

It comes down to what your truth is in the moment, how deeply you are aware of it and how much of it is beneficial to express and how - and what your communication skills are.

Skillful means can't hurt - if you have the chance to learn them, use the opportunity.

On becoming and human company

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Embrace as is - and grow towards the higher

Madhouse of the Universe

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Interesting this one

On Joy and Happiness

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ingrediences for Happiness

I remember this quote from  an old  refrigerator sticker:

"If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you"

I took it to mean all this: happiness is caused internally and has everything to do with your attitude, will, intention perseverance  and willingness and bottom line: it solely depends on YOU - and just like it says: if you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.
All action will come from that.

....hm - for some reason, if you consider this for a moment, we're back to attention and presence as essential requirements to actually do this.

Happiness Emotional Equation

Happiness = Wanting what you have/Having what you want

Bhutan GNH question: How do you feel how you spend your time each day?

GNH= gross national happiness

Love Fun Happiness - Nothing wrong with that

"If you are not having fun on your bardo run, you're doing it wrong"
E.J. Gold

Philosphers and the Good or Bad Wife

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
-- Socrates

Attention Presence is your own

"There are two things you can truly call your own: Attention and Presence" -- E.J. Gold

Love and chocolate

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
Charles M. Schulz

I knew that :)

Love in evolution?

"With Love we evolve" Jean Houston

"Love is the underlying movement and patterns in the universe" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin(might be paraphrased)

"Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love." Osho

"Relationship is actually the crucible for human evolution.....our love lists are too short and really, our love lists are confused with our egocentric needs lists..." Marc Gadfi

"Relationships are reforming in every which way" Jean Houston

Below quote concludes with a somewhat mind boggling concept if I understand it correctly: Love itself in evolution.
I wouldda thought that as we actually grow and understand - our understanding of love simply grows - on the other hand, in the state of radical oneness - is our evolution the same as Love's evolution....what if that were true - sit with that a moment if you can.

Here is from the intro to a tele-series about Love:
"
“I love you.”

Consider the impact that these words—spoken in the right place, at the right time, by the right person, in the right way—have had on your life. In our time, so many of the old words of the sacred have lost their capacity to move us, dethroned by the rigorous critiques of modernity and post modernity. But the authentic expression of love always holds a radical power to touch and even transform our lives.

We sometimes wait our whole lives to hear “I love you” spoken with total authenticity.

We may wait even longer to be able to say it. But to hear or speak these words sincerely is a complete affirmation of all that is sacred. For many of us today, the words ‘love’ and ‘meaning’ are virtually indistinguishable.

Yet, what do we mean by “love”? Is love simply the tender feeling you have for a friend or a relative, a lover or a spouse? Or is there something more profound about love’s meaning, something that accounts for its power to transform a life, in every way?

Love is more than just a feeling. Enlightened teachers through the ages have told us that love is the dynamic ground of all reality. If that’s true, then love can be seen as the actual force that drives evolution—the force the Greeks called Eros—as well as the enlivening joy that opens the heart.

So what is love, when we see it from both a personal and an evolutionary perspective? How do we find it, nurture it, and sustain it?

Modern science and philosophy point out that all levels of reality are evolving. The world of today is wildly different then the world of yesterday. Matter, body, mind and even spirit are in flux. When we understand the profound evolutionary context of life, we realize that love must be evolving as well.

Wow: The Evolution of Love—What a wild, important and profound idea!

Simply put: the meaning, purpose, and vision of love is changing.

In our time, the great truths about love—taught in different languages by teachers of every tradition are being re-shaped by modern and post-modern considerations."

Wherever you go, there you are - or is it?

You may have heard this: "Wherever you go - there you are"

It took me a long time to realize it is true - only lately I am wondering - is it really?

How much "are you" determined by your environment? What if the YOU of you is not different, but who you are manifesting is different?

What if .... you need to move into a a different environment to be different?

Sometimes your set of habits may need a better match - but then, just wondering.

Some times the best in you is brought out, sometimes the worst - and it all needs to happen at some point of another. It's not all just: there you are.

Maybe its time for the best?

c.

Folk wisdom

Langes Faedchen - faules Maedchen

German folk saying

Creativity and Fear to be wrong

"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original"

Sir Ken Robinson

"Healing God?" - The "Holing" of Self

Having just slightly changed the healing pages, a thought, or rather, a question arose: If healing is the process of making whole, and coincidentally healthy, by including and integrating more and greater parts of your self - then ultimately, who are we healing?

Is it not the unspeakable, the Nameless, the All of it, the Absolute, G*d? And would it not be our great duty to be fully engaged in that holy process, this process of "holing" - at whatever level we're at with it?

Granted, to some this may sound blasphemous: but then, even then - there is: what you do to the least of my breathen, you have done to me.

You can change your brain

Amazing is the research in neuroscience. The quote you see below is the result of measured responses and activities in scientific studies. I love it.

This is a photoshop crop from a printed screen of one of integraleric's youtube videos.

Live a life of Inquiry

Quoted from a post by Kathleen Dreier on Facebook

Some things I have learned:

Live a life of Inquiry.
There are living angels everywhere.
Never, ever, ever give up.
Observe yourself.
Mean what you say.
Don't make any decisions when you are exhausted.
Learn to take really solid breaks after working so hard.
Apologize when you are wrong.
Forgive.
Everyone, everyone has an intriguing story.
Help others.
Help make the world a better place even in the seemingly tiniest way.
Be present.
Practice tolerance.
Practice gratitude.
Embrace all cultures and traditions.
Learn something, anything new.
Practice patience.
When knowledge is absent, have faith.
When understanding is present, take action.
Know when to ask for, recognize AND accept help.
Don't hesitate.
Embrace your friends.
Trust that you are becoming a better version of your Self with each passing day.
Love, love, love, love.

Kathleen Dreier

Transmission of new universal spiritual energy?

This is a repost
It is amazing and good to see that science is catching up. May be too "new agey" for some :)

Crossposted from http://integrallife.com - KenWilber.com

Recently, I have been getting a lot of email asking me if I have, in fact, written several endorsements for the work of a spiritual teacher, Mr. Trivedi ("Guruji" to his friends and students), and if so, why?


The answer is yes (see the full essay below), and the reason is based entirely on direct, specific, scientific evidence. This evidence is so astonishing that I myself have never seen anything quite like it. Is Guruji "enlightened"? Well, you can meet him and decide that issue for yourself. What I am claiming—and supporting—is that Guruji's capacity to conduct and transmit universal spiritual energy (or "shakti") is utterly remarkable, as proven by scientific experiments themselves. It is these direct, specific, scientific experiments and their results that I am reporting, and on which I am basing my endorsement. This is a scientific conclusion, not a spiritual one (although, of course, you are free to make those as well—but I am reporting the direct science, which is indeed astonishing).


To put it briefly, Mr. Trivedi has an empirically demonstrated capacity to alter the atomic and molecular structure of phenomena simply through his conscious intentionality. The number of experiments done on this capacity (known in Sanskrit as shaktipat) that have been done in coordination with Mr. Trivedi is quite extraordinary—so far, over 5,000 empirical studies by universities and scientific research organizations all over the world (including the world renowned materials scientist Dr. Rustum Roy at the University of Pennsylvania). A very brief sampling of these experiments include:


Dr. Rustum Roy is a world renown scholar/researcher of impeccable credentials in materials science (at the University of Pennsylvania). Experiments in his laboratory showed, according to Dr. Roy, "Mr. Trivedi's capacity to alter the very structure of water molecules"—among other minerals and elemental molecules. Dr. Roy is now a very strong advocate of Guruji's shaktipat capacities—based, again, on direct experimental science—and has attended and helped coordinate several conferences showcasing Guruji's capacities.


* "Blessed" crops ("blessed" is the word Mr. Trivedi uses to indicate the action of his intentionality in consciousness to bring about the desired change in the blessed object) show yields up to an astonishing 500% higher than a field of the same (but unblessed) crops lying right next to it. Seeing photos of these fields is actually rather hard to believe. The blessed half of the field (in this case, a mango field) looks like the Amazon Rainforest, with lush green vegetation everywhere; the other half of the field (the unblessed half) looks straggly, thin, and pale.

* Likewise, blessed crops show almost 0% infection by harmful viruses and bacteria, compared to over 80% infection rates in the (unblessed) field next to them (just as astonishing, this is reversible: the "blessed" field can be "unblessed," resulting in major crop infections)

* in some cases, viral loads in mammals are reduced by up to 99.8% (including hepatitis b and c and cytomegalovirus)

* significantly altered bacterial sensitivity to antibiotics (including "superbugs")

* aspects of genus and species altered in bacteria

* in material sciences research, the mass and size of the atom, as well as the energy within and between atoms, was significantly altered by "blessing" activity

* Although the following results are only anecdotal, there have been over 50,000 reported cases of human healing. Although these are not scientifically determined, I mention them simply as an indication of possibilities. Scientific tests are now officially being conducted.


In any event, it is, as I said, simply and solely the results of these scientific experiments that have lead to my endorsement of Guruji's rather extraordinary capacity for shaktipat, or the transmission of a universal bioenergy with the capacity to alter material structure all the way to the atomic and molecular levels. Especially if you see photos of these results, you can't help but be struck by the rather intense capacity for this transmission demonstrated by Guruji. Most people receiving a blessing from Guruji can feel a direct and powerful jolt—if you get a chance, try it and see for yourself. But, to say it one last time, it is the direct results of scientific experiments upon which I base my endorsement, and I suggest you check out those results for yourself and see. They are truly quite remarkable.

A Narrative on Guruji
by Ken Wilber


This is a short account of what appears to be the emergence of a new form of Life Energy. This Energy is presently being transmitted by an individual affectionately known as Guruji, in a process he calls "blessing." The results of this transfer are rather remarkable, as demonstrated by empirical testing on items such as plant growth and human health.


My understanding of this Life Energy and the process of "blessing" is that, as many theorists have already noted, we seem to have entered a new evolutionary epoch on Earth and in humankind's history. There have been important major transformations in the past-including foraging (with an archaic worldview), horticultural (with a magic worldview), agrarian (with a mythic worldview), industrial (with a modern worldview), and informational (with a postmodern worldview).


Several of us have been predicting for some time that a significant new transformation is beginning on Earth at this time. Various psychological tests and sociological indications tend to show that there is the beginning emergence of a new type of consciousness. It's been referred to as integrative or integral or truly holistic. According to Integral Theory, every state or type of consciousness is accompanied by a specific type of energy (gross physical energy, subtle bioenergy, causal spiritual energy), and so the emergence of this new consciousness should be accompanied by a new degree of energy along that spectrum.


This is in accord with Guruji's own account. According to him, the Earth has entered a new Energy Field, which completely surrounds the earth and all its inhabitants, an Energy that is occurring at a significantly higher frequency than the previous Earth energy. All life forms on this planet are therefore, at this time, "out of sync" with this New Energy. Guruji's "blessing" transmission acts to recalibrate the individual (or plant or animal or whatever is blessed) with this New (and spiritual) Energy, and this results in numerous benefits, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. In other words, it might be that the Energy that Guruji is working with is the energetic support or correlate of this new Integral transformation. And that's really pretty extraordinary. It's pretty amazing that that might be happening.


With blessings, many people report that they can literally feel an increase in the restructuring of the cells, an increase in energy, a kind of transformation of all of the human bodies-gross, subtle, causal—and these feel like, to me, that they are very much a correlate of this overall integral consciousness that is starting to emerge around the globe.


It is indeed a global situation-a new consciousness with a new and corresponding Life Energy. Having somebody who can directly transmit the corresponding energy of this transformation is pretty amazing . This would account for the fairly dramatic reports of people all over the world who have experienced this "blessing." It's shaktipat raised to a new evolutionary level.


I mentioned how I thought that this energy was newly emerging with this new stage of evolution. That it was a new evolutionary emergent in the past ten, fifteen, twenty years. And also that we seem to be seeing, in other dimensions of human beings, the emergence of more integral levels of consciousness and awareness. There are psychological tests for this and sociological tests for this, and right now there's only about four percent of the population that's moving into these integral areas, but that's starting to increase.


The point is that various psychological and sociological tests have verified the emergence of a new level of consciousness-again, one generally referred to as " integrative" or " integral." In other words, this is not just some hair-brained academic theory, but a reality disclosed by specific testing. What hasn't been disclosed is the new Life Energy that would be expected to underlie this new level of consciousness (what Integral Theory calls the Upper-Right quadrant aspect that would correlate with the newly emergent Upper-Left quadrant reality). But it is this new Integral energy that seems to be what Guruji is transmitting.


The results of empirical tests of this blessing are quite remarkable, and have so far been done on everything from mineral structures to microbes to agriculture to human health. In agriculture, for example, a blessed field of fruit shows up to 300% increased yield compared to a field next to it that is unblessed, and more astonishingly, the blessed field-without the use of any pesticides-is entirely free of bacterial or viral infection (versus close to 100% infection in the unblessed field). Similar results have come in for everything from the structure of bacteria to human illnesses. Clearly, this is all in the initial stages of testing and development, but the results so far are literally staggering (especially if you see photos of this for yourself).


So how should we view this phenomenon? Evolution itself is a process of creating greater and greater and greater unity. Thus, it starts out with quarks, which are then joined together into atoms, which are then joined together into molecules, which are then joined together into cells, which are then joined together into organisms-so that each step of evolution is an increase in a capacity for unity. The same thing happens in human growth and development, where individuals grow from egocentric stages of awareness ("me") to ethnocentric stages ("us") to worldcentric stages ("all of us"). And, as I mentioned, in the past ten or fifteen years there's been a new type of consciousness that has begun to emerge around the world. It's generally referred to as an integral consciousness, and it represents a further increase in unity and in the number of things that it can unify, the number of perspectives that it can take into account (reaching, by some tests, into a 5th-person perspective).


What we haven't seen is the corresponding energy that's driving this. My opinion is that the Life Energy, that is, the new degree of Life Energy that Guruji is transmitting, might very well be that energy. Of course, more testing needs to be done (and is being done at this time), but the initial results are very promising. And if so, one of the main things it's going to be able to do is not only recalibrate human energy to match this new level of energy that's starting to emerge around the earth, but also see this energy be able to create greater unities.


One of the unifications that will be most interesting in human beings seems to be the ability to unify the sub-conscious rear brain with the self-conscious fore brain . As Guruji explains it, the rear brain operates particularly during the first six years of life, and then during the next six years, up to age twelve, the fore brain increasingly takes over. But these can, and often are, out of sync. And no amount of medication, and no amount of meditation, and no amount of faith-healing can unify these two, can get them in sync, according to Guruji. Except, according to Guruji, blessing-or a direct infusion of this New Life energy into the organism.


If so, I think that's a really important example of the increasing unity that might be coming our way with this new turn in evolution. Because having the subcomponents of the brain out of sync is directly or indirectly responsible for most of humanity's problems. From Plato to modern psychotherapy, the conclusion is the same: humanity on the whole suffers from an interior civil war, with its lower and higher natures constantly at battle. So we're not going to have a truly unified humanity until we have a unified brain system, and then until the human organism itself is in sync with this new evolutionary Earth Energy. Guruji constantly explains that what he's doing is recalibrating the individual organism to this new planet-wide Energy that has emerged, and that human beings so far are not in unity with.


Once the individual has become in touch with this new level of bioenergy, that Energy acts, according to Guruji, as a new blueprint for the entire body, and it begins the recalibration and re-organization of virtually every fragmentation and dysfunction found in the system. If so, then this new evolutionary Energy indeed brings a new unity and coherence to everything it touches, gross, subtle, or causal, thus bringing the organism into alignment for this new transformation and evolutionary unfolding.


So I think that's one way of viewing this phenomenon, and the results that are occurring in its wake. A new and higher level of consciousness (integrally and spiritually driven) is beginning to emerge, and it is driven and supported by a new and higher level of bioenergy (subtle/ causal). One of the main ways humans can contact this new Energy is through a transmission from someone who is already in touch with this Energy, and this is something that Guruji's "blessings" are an example of. Once in touch with this new evolutionary Energy, the structure of the organism itself is profoundly reorganized to be in harmony with this Energy, and thus in health and harmony with itself.


This doesn't mean that this new Energy is for everyone. Guruji constantly repeats that there is just a relatively small percentage of humans that are ready for and open to it. In developmental terms, individuals must grow and develop through the first 5 major levels of transformation before they are ready for the newly emergent 6th level, to speak generally. According to psychological testing, this is presently less than 10% of the world's population, but that percentage is increasing, and can be expected to increase even more when and if this new Energy is increasingly made available.


Guruji says that individuals have to be open for this, and I think that's exactly right. You can't force people to be free. It's a choice they have to make, if they have evolved enough. Not even God can force a human to be free. That would just defeat the whole purpose. So whatever percentage of people are actually open to this-ten percent, twenty percent, fifty percent, whatever-we'll find out. But if there is a really strong doubt and negativity, then it doesn't surprise me that this transmission doesn't have a chance. So right now we're waiting to see the percentage of people that can become open to this type of transmission.


One of the important things to increase acceptance of this transmission is the type of hard scientific research and experiments that Guruji is doing - on mineral structure, microbes, plants, human illness. Because he's quite right, the God of the modem West is science. And if we can prove the structural power of this new Energy using science then that's going to help erase a lot of the doubt and negativity that is just inherently there. Most people just don't believe this kind of thing can happen - most people are even unaware of the existence of bioenergy, even though the contemplative traditions have been pointing to it for millennia. So I think this is exactly the right course to take, in order to get this new evolutionary development available to as many people as are ready to receive it.


So, that's kind of a short summary of how I would see this New Energy, and how it fits with evolution, and its basic job of increasing unity and resonance on the planet-a new and higher blueprint. Whether or not it finds a welcome home, we shall certainly have to wait and see.


In short, it's possible that this blueprint is the blueprint of this new worldwide Divine life energy. So it's not just Guruji's ideas. He's just the conduit; he's just the connection between this literally Divine Life Force, in its new emergence, in its new evolutionary form. And like I said, several major human transformations have occurred four or five times in the past, going from foraging to horticulture to agrarian to industrial to informational. I believe there is a subtle energetic shift with each of those and I believe that this is possibly the next shift, and it's the next form of Spirit's own unfolding, of Spirit's own energy. And for whatever reason, that I don't think even Guruji understands, he got tapped on the shoulder to be a main conduit for this. In all ages past it's gotten transferred to human beings one way or another, and blessing appears to be one of the main ways that this new blueprint is being transmitted to those that are open for it. Again, much awaits more testing, but so far, this is incredibly promising. So stay tuned!


Ken Wilber
www.kenwilber.com

Truth about life and people

via Tamara Murray on Facebook:

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those
who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this
glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half
empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass
and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my
glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

It's funny....

Claudio Naranjo - enneagram - healing civilization

The other day Claudio Naranjo was visiting. It was another delightful event. Sometimes there's, how should I say - deep resonance with someone you meet? Maybe it's just this sense of a big, non-judgmental heart-consciousness and welcoming from a deep being place that radiates from him that is so attractive. One gets a sense of being allowed to be.
We had a lot of fun getting some advertisement clips for "Healing Civilization" filmed, which E.J. Gold masterfully directed. You can see them on YouTube - Workshops at IDHHB. It's worth it - especially since I can't decide on a quote :)
Cynthia Merchant turned out to be a natural born moderator/interviewer.


It seems to me that Claudio has been working tirelessly for the past few decades helping people awaken one way or another. His new book, "Healing Civilization" is about how he sees education needs to change to allow for harmonious development of a human being...and possibly heal our patriarchal oriented civilization, not by entirely getting rid of all it stands for and leads to, but through integration of the missing and balancing aspects of the whole. He is much more known in the Spanish speaking world as far as I can tell.

Transformation

Transformation (reposted from Zen with Fun)

Below are a few postings I transferred from Facebook. Mukara was my teacher in the Hakomi training a few years ago. She was amazing then.
Reading one of her entries from this Intensive retreat, it occurred to me to call her after the retreat, to ask her a question - but mostly, to just sit, open and have the transmission of all that enter my higher bodies - to unfold and manifest in my Being when the time comes. This IS possible. In a way, by the gift of her postings, she allowed me to participate, even though I know none of the detail. Yet, her posts were so true and deep - I felt very connected. And I trust her integrity completely. I bow to those who go through that fire.

Mukara Meredith - 2 wks of work post retreat and now am ready to go again into KNR's cosmic washing machine.
what if i am really ready to complete significant outer activity? i notice a small swell of presence ignites when i type these words: my chest expands from the inside and there is brightness close by. love everyone, mu

Mukara Meredith - KNR, quoting the text, says:"at a certain time, it will feel like an arrow has pierced your heart." i enter tomorrow, the last day, embracing the arrow, tasting the compassion of the great completion, and offering all i am to all that is. for all times, mu

Mukara Meredith 4 days remaining in the most significant retreat of my entire life. it has been a "no time to eat, no time to sleep" retreat. i have been up against the wall, been brought to my knees, been recipient of 'the goods', have grown more upright and just today, the inconceiveable taste of true freedom. this space of free...

Mukara Meredith - hearing KNR say again and again:"strike the key point of the practice" takes me into a vortex of power beyond his or mine. a prayer wheel turns slowly, a small light shines. wishing it were otherwise, i know i can not hide.
love everyone, mu

Help is there, one way or another

Not sure how much of this is an "other" quote, so let's just say, it's an inquiry question which came in:

When and where do you start looking for help when you can't find it where you are?

One thing is for sure - when you really need help, and you ask for it, it's gonna be there! Stay open to what comes and sometimes you just may have to move to another spot along the brick wall...and woah, surprise - there may be a path and an open gate...

Your mInd is not the boss

...do you know who IS?

Inquiry - on beauty - and a story

What is your own personal relationship with beauty?

Describe your relationship with beauty within these three broad perspectives:

* the beauty you see in yourself
* the beauty you see in other people you find yourself attracted to
* the beauty you see in the world around you

Do you find that you relate to beauty differently in each of these perspectives?

Finally, how much of your sense of beauty is shaped by your cultural embedment, and how much from your own personal tastes? Is it even possible to tease apart the two in any meaningful way?

from "Integral Life"

and a story:

Happy Friday All,
Back in the middle part of the last century, before i understood anything about passive aggressive behaviors, it was my practice to cut high-school class on a regular basis. I did it like tithing, 10% of the time or every other Wednesday, i often stayed on public transportation and went past the stop for school. Some part of me did so in the vain hope that the proper authorities would catch me and i would then have an opportunity to explain that i was doing so as a form of protest with what struck me as dehumanizing behavior on the part of the system. But as a practical matter this meant that a 16 or 17 year old, was now loose in a big city, almost penniless but armed with a student 1/2 fare bus pass.
So one day it happened, that i found myself in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, somehow innocent in spite of my truancy and standing next to where the large plains animals were kept. Nearby was a buffalo; a creature whose need to consume foodstuff was equal to its bulk. And things being what they are, what goes in an animal at one end tends to come out the other. Suddenly the buffalo shat! And while it's inelegant to speak about such things, the creature's stool was deposited on the ground in a very specific manner. A wide based conical form took shape before my motiveless eyes, gradually coming to a peak, in a shape similar to that of soft-serve ice cream.
What surprised me was the astounding perfection i saw in the fitness of the form. It was beautiful! Later i came to understand that these satori-like moments of insight arrive much faster than more common thought; but after the insight, thoughts did begin to enter my consciousness. Yes, that was beautiful! But it was also a pile of shit! Followed by another thought. If there's beauty to be found in the lowliest of the low, in a pile of shit, it must be everywhere!
Years later returning to the depth of that momentary insight i wondered; if it's true that beauty is everywhere why don't we commonly see it? The answer to that question i suggest has to do with the eyes of the beholder, and whether or not the vision is clouded by fears or desires, or will the innocence of childlike youth be allowed to pierce the warp and woof of their veil of distortion.
Warmly,
Charles Bowling

Inspirational Quote?

As I was thinking about this the other day, I wondered: what does "inspirational quote" mean for expectations on the part of the reader - if anything?

I get inspired by different things at different times, and can become inspired by different things at different times - and then there are some things which pretty much are inspiring all the time.

What are you inspired by today?

Origin: (this is the quote part, dictionary.com :)
1300–50; ME inspiren < L inspīrāre to breathe upon or into, equiv. to in- in-2 + spīrāre to breathe
Origin:
1275–1325; ME inspiracio ( u ) n < LL inspīrātiōn- (s. of inspīrātiō ). See inspire, -ation

...and have a great one.

Parellel Universe Time Travel Report

Having grown up in Europe, I remember some of this... As I mentioned elsewhere, when I read, it's like a movie, which can be really nice :), so pretend you:

"....discovered a great footpath today that cuts through a wheat field to the other side of the village near the fishery... we even have a milkman.. it's like we're living in a different
century over here.. or we're time traveling or something like that -
with our laptops, haha! :) I couldn't believe it when I found the
fishery. as if the milkman, stone dwellings, rolling hills and
fields, Roman forts, roaming sheep, and medieval churches weren't
enough. we also have a fishery!!"

comments from Leila Currah on Facebook

Quantum connection - Way of Communication

This is a quote from neuroscientist Dr. Michael Persinger:

"Well, what’s going on in the laboratory - and
I have some fantastic graduate students and we work together as a
team - and what we have found for example, is that if you place two
different brains, two different people at a distance, you put a
circular magnetic field around both. There’s a magnetic field going
around like a coil, around both brains even at a distance. You make
sure both coils are connected to the same computer which means
they’re generating the same configuration of two different spaces.

If you flash a light in one person’s eye, even though they’re in a
chamber that’s closed up, the person in the other room that’s
receiving just the magnetic field now, they’re not aware of the light
flashing or not, they will show similar changes in frequency in the
room. And we think that’s tremendous because that maybe the first
macro demonstration of a quantum connection or so-called quantum
entanglement. And if that’s true then there’s another way of
potential communication that may have physical application and
application, for example, in space travel because there’s no time
involved with it. That’s one thing we’re looking at. That’s one of
our more exotic hypotheses.

Other ones we’re looking at, for example, how various kinds of
patterns of electromagnetic fields generated from the brain may
influence cell cultures in terms of influencing their outcome in
terms of their molecular chemistry, which may someday add to the
understanding of how somebody being nearby can influence the
physiology and health of a person. We know about individuals with
green thumbs. We know that certain physicians are better than others
just by touching the patient. And it’s more than just a placebo
effect. What’s the mechanism? We’re trying to understand that."

Enlightenment is just the beginning

"Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills, ...patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention...." -E.J. Gold

posted by Tito on Facebook
Here is entire essay

Personal growth is a choice

"Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice"

Bob Proctor

True Nature of an Omelette

"What is an omelette, exactly?

Well, an omelette is several unborn chickens whipped into a single embryonic mass, brought slowly from liquid to solid state through the application of controlled heat." This is a quote from From: Psychic cook

Me: ^^... only if the eggs were "organic" with hens having access to a rooster -
otherwise, don't worry....:)

Practical Integrity and business savy

Quote: "Herein lies a major difference in attitude and headset. One headset is: 'I am doing my best to trick, hoodwink, and generally bamboozle readers into coming to my pages.' Another headset is: 'I have content that will be of interest to the right audience -- if only they can find it -- hence I need to do my best to quickly and efficiently let that audience know what I have so they can decide if they wish to visit my pages.'"

from SEO made easy

So folks, - getting the title right helps.
What that means for blogs, if you don't know any html, not sure, I would start by filling out the title field properly. For my quotes blog...I should have called it that...
This can be useful - I glad you found it.

On Anger

Something to remember, if you ever even glimpsed or felt the truth of these Buddhist quotes:

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Sophie's Prayer

Sophie's Prayer

Thank you God for my life.
Thank you Mother and Father for my birthing.
Thank you Mr. Gurdjieff for teaching me what to do with my life.

posted by Yanesh Griffith on Facebook

Giving Life to Light

"...and was it not my reason for being in this life...only to learn to defeat the darkness of my own mind, and to give life, never-ending life, to the golden light within it." Geshe Michael Roach

This quote was posted by Mu on Faceboook

Being Wish

"May I be generous and helpful!
May I be well-disciplined and refined in manners!
May I be pure and clean in all my dealings!
May my thoughts, words and deeds be pure!
May I not be selfish and self-possessive but selfless and disinterested!
May I be able to sacrifice my pleasures for the sake of others!
May I be wise and be able to see things as they truly are!"

A quote from Michelle Marie, posted on facebook.

Your Uniqueness

...and why you are needed.
I wish I could write like this, instead, this is copied from "Integral Life", I think Ken Wilber wrote it.

"Your awakening or enlightenment has a unique perspective that is held only by you. True Self plus Perspective = Unique Self. Your gifts flow from that perspective, gifts that are desired and needed by the rest of creation. You have innate contributions to make and a unique potential to realize. You have gifts to give. From the perspective of the Unique Self Teaching we might say that the obligation which wells up from your evolutionary realization is to give the gifts that are yours alone to give.

Your Unique Gift creates in its wake your Unique Obligation. You are inextricable from the larger whole and at the same time, you are here to serve it. You not only have something to get from the world, you have something to give the world. Something that no one else can give the world but you. The experience of Unique Self
changes your relationship to everything. Love, joy, sexuality, parenting, relationships, pleasure, meaning, purpose, challenge, and even loss are held in the trust that you are exactly who you need to be.

And beautifully enough, you are able to allow others to be fully who they are as unique, as complete, as whole and specific. This is one of the litmus tests of whether you are in Unique Self or ego. If you are in Unique Self you are able to joyously recognize and affirm the Unique Self of others without feeling like they are taking something that is yours."