Tom Stine – Spiritual Awakening – Consciousness
March 17, 2010
Tom, from TomStine.com and I discuss everything from what is enlightenment, spiritual awakening and consciousness – and how to really go with the flow!
Duration : 31 min 46 sec
Conversations With God
March 16, 2010
Words define our reality.
We use words to translate the split-second images in our minds into describing our experiences for others.
William Shakespeare invented 25,000 words, which are now part of our regular vocabulary, thus broadening our abilities to perceive our world in a unique and much broader way.
For the most part, language has been used as a means of communication between people.
However, it has also been used as a way to converse with God, or the great mystery of causation and origination, the pervasive pure consciousness that informs all experiences.
In some cultures, certain words, like those Sanskrit words used in the Ancient India, were used to connect a person with ultimate reality. This unique language appears in the earliest Upanishads (7th-8th century b.c.e.). But exactly how and when it evolved by the seers of that time remains a mystery.
These sacred words were called mantras and sutras.
A mantra is a sound that does not mean anything but which helps you transcend the limitations of thought and move to a state of ascending awareness. An example is “Om” which is used to represent the sound of creation, the primeval vibration that is believed
to have created all the other vibratory phenomena we call a universe. By sitting still and repeating this word with full attention, you transcend the limitations of the senses, the limitations of your identifications, and the limitations of your sequential thought processes. You attain stillness, poise, and equanimity over time because the word comes to inform your awareness.
A sutra is a sound as well, but it is also a word; it is something that has meaning. The word “sutra” itself means a stitch; it stitches the finite being with its infinite capacity.
The word “suture” that is used in English to describe a stitch by a surgeon comes from this word.
Sutras abound in Sanskrit, and in fact the entire language of Sanskrit can be said to have been invented as a way for a person to communicate with the divine. It is even believed that saying the word has an impact on the chakras, energy vortexes in the each of the subtle bodies, and the nadis, the subtle nerves. Their purpose is to conduct prana or vital force through the subtle bodies.
Many cryptic traditions refer to a number of discrete planes of existence, each with its own parallel “vehicle” of consciousness. Instead of a single physical body housing the soul, we have a series of “bodies” or “vehicles of consciousness”. All these planes and bodies are connected by a pervasive consciousness.
Thus by using a sacred language, we not only connect with divinity, but with our own subtle powers that exist in an invisible way.
Here are a few examples of sutras.
Tat Tvam Asi (that tvam AH-see) which means “I am that.” That, of course, refers to our spiritual essence.
Aham Brahmasmi (a-HUM-brah-MAHS-mee) which means “the core of my being is the ultimate reality and the source of all that exists.”
Namaste (nah-mah-STAY) which means “my divine nature acknowledges the divine in you.”
Sutras, however, are not merely brief statements. They can also be woven into complete dialogues that invoke the potentiality of the non-local mind.
The most famous is the Gayatri Mantra:
Om Bhoor Bhuwah Swaha, Tat Savitur Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi, Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat.
A rough translation might be: “Oh God! Thou art the giver of life, remover of pain and sorrow. The bestower of happiness. Oh! Creator of the universe, may we receive they supreme light. May thou guide our intellect in the right direction.”
The purpose of this invocation is to make the devotee more intelligent, more capable of insight, ingenuity and inspiration. This wisdom will then create a life of balance and harmony, truth and meaning, purpose and fulfillment, and ultimately a life of transcendental joy.
This mantra is said to be so potent that some people consider it their only form of devotion. There are numerous anecdotal reports of people who have miraculously resolved complex situation by using this mantra. They range from resolution of court cases, relief from debt, and escape from life-threatening circumstances, ranging from potential violence to a critical illness.
Over eons, the concept of God has changed to represent the idea of a physical being of sorts, but in the time the language of Sanskrit was evolving to connect with God, divinity was considered more along the lines of Baruch Spinoza, as an intelligence that informed all of creation, an abstract, energetic, and effortless organizing principle.
Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), a Dutch philosopher, was considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. He created a sharp separation from the medieval approach, especially scholasticism, which considered God as a being that was separate and distinct from its creation, an authoratative figure, not unlike the Grecian God, Zeus, or the Nordic God, Odin, that demanded a survile obedience that reflected the relationship between a Medeval lord and his serf.
Today Quantum Mechanics finds that the entire universe is intimately inter-related at a subatomic level. This leads to the speculation that the idea of separation itself may be the ultimate illusion.
Everything may, in fact, be stitched together by consciousness, what has been referred to as “the nonlocal mind.” Thus, through the use of the sacred language, the spiritual aspirant hoped to suture the relationship between individual, conditioned consciousness with universal, pure consciousness, to suture the linear with the synchronistic, and to suture the time-bound and limited with the timeless and infinite. He sought to find the rhythm in the universe that would bless his life with a stream of well-being, and that would heal the schism of separation and seal the wound of fear with the balm of love.
The ultimate purpose of sentience appears to be to embrace the mystery, and for this it has evolved beings capable of creating sounds to penetrate the veils of existence in an attempt to suture the visible and the invisible worlds, the realm of effort with the effortless experience, the algorithmic with the non-algorithmic, and the conscious with the supra-conscious.
Language has been used to connect us with each other, to share our experience with one another, but once upon a time, in a world now almost completely forgotten, language was used to try to connect all the worlds together and to experience the bliss of transcendental harmony.
Saleem Rana
http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/conversations-with-god-82209.html
DAVID BOWIE – First TV appearance 1970 – SPACE ODDITY
March 16, 2010
Although he released an album and numerous singles earlier, David Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama “Space Oddity” reached the top five of the UK singles chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam-rock era as a flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single “Starman” and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona epitomised a career often marked by musical innovation, reinvention and striking visual presentation.
In 1975 Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single “Fame” and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer identified as “plastic soul”. The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees.[citation needed]
He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low — the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno. His most experimental works to date, the so-called “Berlin Trilogy” nevertheless produced three UK top-five albums. The anthem-like, towering title track of the second work “Heroes” (1977) is widely regarded as a milestone in rock and pop.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes” and its parent album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). He paired with Queen for the 1981 UK chart-topper “Under Pressure”, but consolidated his commercial — and, until then, most profitable — sound in 1983 with the album Let’s Dance, which yielded the hit singles “China Girl”, “Modern Love” and, most famously, the title track.
Since the mid-80s only a handful of Bowie’s recordings have entered public consciousness. In the British Broadcasting Corporation’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie ranked 29. Throughout his career he has sold an estimated 136 million albums, and ranks among the ten best-selling acts in UK pop history.
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #39 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[2].
Duration : 0:4:20
The Maharic Seal – Opening The Doorway Within
March 14, 2010
Our body-mind-spirit is a series of interwoven systems, each with an inherent and implicit order, that function within, and as part of, the whole. Taking this understanding further, the body, mind and spirit are themselves part of a larger series of interdependent systems. Each human being is both the unified whole of its own systems, and an integral part of its species, planet, galaxy, universe, and the cosmos, and all of the systems of which they are composed.
The reason this understanding is important, is because it is within these cosmic structures that our existence takes place. Because we are energetically interconnected in this way, our health and wellbeing is both related to, and affected by, the functioning of these wider systems. Thus, in developing an understanding of the nature of these wider systems, we can learn how to interact with the energies with which they are composed, in a manner that can bring about true healing and consciousness expansion.
We, the planet, the cosmos, and all living things in it, are composed of sentient, structured units of consciousness. These units of consciousness, from the smallest (as an atom is the smallest element of our body), to the largest, aggregated structures of consciousness (as organs within our body are aggregations of individual cells), are sentient. They, and we, are fundamentally expressions of energy, ordered according to specific mathematical relationships. These energetic building blocks are the Primal Substance from which the cosmos, and everything in it, are made.
These units of Primal Substance continually ‘cycle’, and it is through this cycling, that the divine energy of Source perpetually circulates within living systems. The units of Primal Substance (called partiki), flash on, and off, in a specific process of fission and fusion. Partiki units have within them the potential for all polarities, or none. This means that they can express as both electrical, or expansive units, and magnetic, or contractive units. In the process of fission and fusion, they do both.
When partiki units enter our 15-Dimensional Time Matrix from Source, they replicate. The original partiki unit breaks apart to form two sub-vibrations, as well as a replica that contains the original pattern, the core vibration. The base electrical, and base magnetic sub-vibrational units (particum and partika respectively), flash on in our universe (base magnetic) and our parallel universe (base electrical) simultaneously. Because of the nature of the partika base electrical units, they start to tow the base magnetic particum units. The particum unit then flashes off in our universe, and expands the morphogenetic field within which it all exists. In this way, energy is added to the morphogenetic field.
Because of this, (remove comma) and the interconnection between the three units (partiki, partika, and particum), the replicated partiki and the particum (in the morhpogenetic field) pull the electrical partika (in parallel), back into themselves. All three fuse, flash off, and disappear. They create a backflow current that goes back to Source, and it is this backflow current that, on a larger level, allows us to return, consciously, back to Source. When we, and the partiki, flash off, we return to our Original Identity.
It is in this process of expansion and contraction that energy from the Stillpoint of Source (expressing as a particular partiki unit in its latent state), moves into, and out of, the manifest arena. These processes take place continually within our bodies, within the earth, and within all things connected to Source.
Partiki units create and maintain the electromagnetic frequency fields upon which the universe is built and maintained. Partiki units group together to form more complex structures that in turn create morphogenetic fields. Morphogenetic fields “govern the matter manifestation and the evolution of biology and consciousness.” (Kathara 1 Manual) Morphogenetic fields are the “Blueprints” upon which our consciousness enters the experience of dimensionalization from those arenas closest to Source.
By entering dimensionalization and being expressed in a physical form, we as sentient, joyous, radiant and eternal Beings made of pure frequency (energy) have the opportunity to embark on a journey through which we can know the nature of God Source more fully. And though that journey may test us at times, and though we may make choices that lead to experiences we regret (or might do differently again), we still have within us that undistorted, healed, “Divine Blueprint” aspect. And even if we don’t fully understand the parameters of ‘why’ our lives are some way, we still have within ourselves the potential for healing. It is through techniques such as the Maharic Seal (see below) that we can begin the process of realigning our current state with our Divine Self-as-Source, and heal that which we need to.
The Maharic Seal technique activates the pale silver dimension 11 and 12 frequencies (energy currents) within us by first releasing the seals within our dormant 10th, 11th, and 12th chakras. We exist within a 15-Dimensional Time Matrix and possess a 15-Dimensional anatomy but in our current 3-Dimensional physical bodies, most of the dimensional frequencies between Dimensions 4 and 15 are inactive or dormant.
Techniques like the Maharic Seal use a precise sequence of color, sound and methodology to release the ’seals’ that keep the dimensional compartments separate, and thus allow us to bring increasing levels of these higher frequencies into our bodies. It is in this way that we can begin to integrate our own God-Source consciousness by bringing it into our conscious awareness. We are in effect, opening dormant energy conduits in a safe manner that leads us to our latent “Divine Self”. This is the natural process of “evolution”. We all have the ability to undertake this journey within ourselves. It is a path of unfolding Self recognition where the limitations and ideas we may have about ourselves expand to hold an essence of who we truly are, an essence we may have long forgotten.
Rebecca Prescott
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/the-maharic-seal-opening-the-doorway-within-50598.html
Eckhart Tolle, not reacting to content, www.soundstrue.com
March 14, 2010
Also see www.namastepublishing.com.
Author of a world best seller book “The Power of Now” 1999 Eckhart Tolle points toward the “spaciousness” that surounds every object and every eventin our lives. It must be obvious, but maybe to many of us unnoticed.
Get this DVD from Namaste Publishing, it’s:
The Flowering of Consciousness, March 5th 2001, filmed at La Jolla CA
Duration : 0:9:57