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The Actor

The Sacred Traditions and the Ageless Wisdom of don Miguel Ruiz In his new Book, opens a New World for Spiritual students everywhere!,

don Miguel Ruiz (C) Aaron Landman )

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The Actor

How to Live an Authentic Life

don Miguel Ruiz is a renowned spiritual teacher and internationally bestselling author. He has spent the past three decades guiding people to personal freedom through his profound insights regarding the nature of human reality.

The youngest of thirteen children, don Miguel Ruiz was born in rural Mexico to parents who were healers and practitioners of ancient Toltec traditions. As a young adult, he graduated from medical school in Mexico City and practiced neurosurgery with his older brother in Tijuana. A nearfatal car crash forever changed the direction of his life, however, causing him to leave medicine and to examine the essential truth about life and humanity.

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With his mother’s help, and through her ancestral teachings, he discovered his own path to awareness, which evolved into a deep understanding of the physical universe and the virtual world of the mind.

Combining Toltec mythology and scientific perspectives, don Miguel has been able to merge ancient wisdom with modern physics and practical common sense, forging a new philosophy for seekers of truth and personal authenticity. His landmark bestselling book, The Four Agreements, contains practical steps for long-term, personal transformation and has been read by millions around the world.

"Your paint and clear coat are also defending your car against its most dangerous foe: rust"

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Sandra Sedgbeer sat down with don Miguel to talk about his new book, "The Actor" available now, everywhere.

Sandie Sedgbeer: Don Miguel, Oscar Wilde wrote that "most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives are mimicry, their passions a quotation." In your newest book, The Actor, you write that performance art is a way of life for all of us with the main character in every story we were told about our lives, and yet we are, in large part, a knock-off of the people who raised us.

Playing the roles people expect us to play and reciting a script learned from childhood. However, our loyalty to the character we're playing keeps us from realizing our authenticity as human beings.

So, why are "other people?" don Miguel Ruiz: We are all the same. The word "Toltec," which comes from the Nagual, means "artist." Toltec knowledge is the artist's knowledge, and in my view, every human is an artist and is going in all the different directions of art. The main one, which comes from our DNA, is "acting" because we act all the time— even if we have no awareness.

This is prepared for us before our birth. Our parents are prepared to receive us, care for us, worry for us, and share everything they know. They give all their knowledge to us and use that knowledge to create the most wonderful, powerful creation, which is our life story. And in that story, we are the main actor or actresses. And everybody else is a secondary actor.

The most important thing they teach us is the language that we speak.

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“YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE THE WORLD; YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOURSELF.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz

It's beautiful to see the evolution of the human.

We are all the same, but the characteristics are slightly different, number one, and the language we speak. We follow those rules and believe everything we learn, not just from our parents, but from our school and the society in which we live. it is true we are acting all the time, with every action and reaction we are performing, even if we do not know we are performing. And we continue to perform as we grow up, and little by little, we lose our authenticity.

And we begin to feel something is missing. We no longer know who we were. Many times we don't like the way we behave. We criticize ourselves for not doing something following what we believe. The script is shifting and changing all the time according to the many challenges we face. You know we are facing all the mysteries of life because everything is a mystery, really.

That's why I always say that the integrity of the word is so important because the kind of life we have depends on how we use the word and the type of story we create.

Then we write the screenplay with much help, of course, our life and the universe in which we live. The stage of our life is, of course, shifting and changing all the time.

Sandra Sedgbeer: You say that planet Earth is our mystery school, and the mystery we are looking to solve in life is ourselves; that more than anything, we want to know who we are. And yet, this is the very question we're most afraid to ask. Why are we so afraid to ask this question? don Miguel Ruiz: Because we're so afraid of the unknown. We know what we believe we are–and what we believe we are is the result of everybody's opinion, including our own opinion, because everybody pretends to know us.

Our father and mother say, "I know my son very well." Our brothers and sisters say the same thing. And we believe we know them well too. But it is not true; we only know what we believe they are and what we believe we are. Also, we only know how we wish to be, the way we want to perform in front of everybody to conform with the image they––and we––have created us. We have to behave in a certain way to be accepted by them, to please them.

We change our behavior according to what they want us to be, and we sacrifice ourselves and lose our authenticity by doing what they want us to do. And we don't even notice it. This is the big mystery that we are all searching to understand.

We call it searching for God or searching for "the truth."

Sandra Sedgbeer: So, how do we reclaim our authenticity? don Miguel Ruiz: Well, the first step is just to be aware...that I am an actor, and I've been acting all of my life even if I didn't fully know that... the way I behave with my family is different from the way I behave at school or work, or in other activities I perform.

We also have to realize that everybody around us is also acting all the time, and they don't know it.

When we understand this, the opinions and the beliefs they have about us start losing their power over us. The more we stop believing them, the more we stop sacrificing ourselves, and the more we recover our own authenticity. The less we need to satisfy other's expectations of us and start doing what we really love to do, the happier we become and the more we feel at peace.

Sandra Sedgbeer: If we've been conditioned since babyhood, do you think we can actually know when we are truly authentic? How will we know? You said we'd be happier…what else might we discover? don Miguel Ruiz: We all feel the results of what we do. For every action, there is a reaction.

When we force ourselves to do something that we don't like, that goes against something within us, we don't feel. When we do what we love to do, we enjoy every moment. We have fun.

When we were children, we played being somebody else¬ with other children–– pretending to be a doctor or a nurse.

Sometimes, when we're pretending, our faces change, our personalities change, we become serious. And when the game was over, we would smile and laugh. We never really stop being children. We are still playing one role or another. Sometimes we don't enjoy what we are playing, sometimes we do.

But we keep on acting and acting and acting.

And the scenery is shifting and changing all the time, and we adapt and change with it.

We are used to being a certain way, and for whatever reason, something traumatic happens, and everything shifts right away.

The pandemic came a year ago, and the entire planet changed, and everybody started adapting to whatever circumstances and whatever place they live in. We have seen many people die. We can see how we, in one way or another, adapt to survive. It is interesting to see how people immediately come together to face whatever challenge life brings to us when something tragic happens in nature.

Sandra Sedgbeer: Yes, it is. One of the other things about the pandemic is that many people have started to reevaluate what they're doing. They've learned a lot more about themselves and about others than they thought they knew. Have you found that people are responding to the pandemic by becoming more authentic? don Miguel Ruiz: Well, what they first see is that change can happen very fast. We cannot take for granted that life is the way it's always been, and we become more authentic because we have to set new priorities. If we take Covid, we see that survival is our first priority, and we adapt to that.

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Our second priority is the people that live with us, our beloveds, our children, brothers, and sisters.

The other priorities that follow are what we do for a living because that provides what is needed first for the body and for the people we care for and protect. And then, we see other kinds of priorities that shift individuals depending on the society they live in.

Sandra Sedgbeer: The actor is part of your new Mystery School series written with Barbara Emrys, which encompasses all your wisdom and knowledge and touches on different topics that teach us to rethink our ways of life.

What was the inspiration for this School of Mystery Series? don Miguel Ruiz: I have been sharing this exact message for all of my life and in all of my writing.

Before I was a writer, I was a medical doctor. I practiced surgery, but I wanted to understand how the human mind works, why we humans behave in specific ways, why all the injustices, violence, and war. Then, I started working with apprentices, teaching, and sharing what I learn from my parents because that philosophy gave me an easy way to understand the mind. I practiced with a lot of people for ten years, helping people shift and change their lives. Some of the things I taught included the Four Agreements. That book is tiny, but it is a compilation of all the great books that we humans have written about the study of humanity.

In that book, I outlined the challenge, human domestication, and the solution, which is The Four Agreements. That little book goes so deep into people's minds because we all come from the same DNA. It doesn't matter what language we speak, what religion we follow, or our political position. That book shakes people's belief systems and shifts what they believe. It's straightforward. This little magical book is a guide that is helping us with the evolution of our minds.

Then after that, I wrote so many other books going precisely in this same direction, discovering one by one the mysteries of life because everybody is a mystery. It stops being a mystery that we can change ourselves and the entire planet with only one teacher.

That teacher is life itself. We go to university, and life is speaking to all the teachers. We watch a movie, and life is teaching us through every actor. Whatever happens in life is always teaching us and we are always learning.

We learn and we teach, and we will keep doing this until the moment that the curtain is closed and we leave our physical body just to find out that the whole story of our life, was a masterpiece of art. It was not true, but it was beautiful and it was perfect.

Sandra Sedgbeer: The Mystery School Series is designed as a course for students. When one reads it, it's as if one is being welcomed into the classroom each day. It contains so many simple but profound truths––the wisdom that is your trademark. It offers theory and tasks and intellectual exercises that we can apply in our lives. And now you are presenting this course as a series of books published at six-monthly intervals. , which will be out in 6-month intervals so I would imagine the second one is due out any day now, is it? don Miguel Ruiz: Yes, the second one is ready and will be available very soon. The other two books are in the process of being written next. The next one is Eros, the third one is The Duel, and the last one will be The Myth.

Sandra Sedgbeer: Of course we have to end the story, don't we?

Because it's just a story. don Miguel Ruiz: Yes. And I want to thank everybody who is reading these books and participating, because it's like another exciting beginning, to see our own life as a mystery and to find the truth of ourselves. This is how we change the world – not humanity, but the world we each create and live in. The only world we can change is our own world. And we must do it, not for anybody else's benefit, but for our own. Because by doing this, our life becomes better and better.

Sandra Sedgbeer: don Miguel, I'd like to close with a beautiful quote from The Actor's conclusion, which is also a perfect conclusion to everything you're teaching.

"By recognizing the masters, we've become, we have a chance to act with awareness. We have a chance to modify our behavior and to use our talents consciously. More significantly, we can choose to set aside our pretenses and to nurture authenticity once again."

Don Miguel, thank you.

The Actor: How to Live an Authentic Life by Miguel Angel Ruiz and Barbara Emrys is part of The Mystery School Series and published

by Urano Publishing. https://www.miguelruiz.com

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M A G A Z I N E

Health & Wellness

Innovative new approaches to Healing as well as holistic methods for dealing with health issues and personal growth

Happiness, and the Theory of Positive Change A most natural way of Healing The Astral Travel Phenomenon

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By Jay K Ghosh

he universe is full of

in their active areas. These force fields

gigantic cosmic bodies of

have tremendous powers as well as

enormous energy. Their

directions of their own.

immense energies create

powerful force fields that exert their

Science says a force field urges its

unique influences on their subjects

subjects to get in sync with it through

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their acts, i.e. it wants them to align

in life activities; the process of

with it in the same direction or

evolution is taking place. Through

behave in ways approved by it. When

this vital project, life forms are

we pick up a magnetic compass

advancing their capabilities,

and set it on a tabletop, it feels the

improving their survival to face the

effect of the earth's magnetic force

constantly changing environment's

field, which urges it to align with it

challenges, and finding newer

in the north-south direction; and

territories for habitation. In the

the compass complies. Then if we

process, life is evolving higher.

forcibly displace the compass from

Thus, holistically, a gigantic project

this orientation, turbulence starts

of activities is taking place on our

with oscillations or vibrations until

planet. Science says there is a force

it gets back to its aligned state

behind every activity; therefore,

of north-south orientation. Thus,

it is a scientific fact that there is

the magnetic compass displays

a supreme force behind all the

its interaction with the earth's

activities of life here. Like many

magnetic force field and its two

other forces, this immense force

states of existence, the in sync and

has created a powerful force field

the out of sync states. When the

that is shrouding our planet. We

compass is in sync or aligns with

live inside it and constantly feel its

the magnetic force field, its status is

influence. We can call this force

stable and peaceful or happy. When

field the force field of life, as it is the

it is out of sync or out of alignment

source of all life on this planet.

with the force field, its status is turbulent or unhappy.

Like other force fields, life's force field is urging all life to get in sync

There is another compelling force

with it by promoting its agenda,

field on our planet which is mainly

which is expressed through the

created by the Sun, the most

birth, growth, and evolution of life

dominant body of energy in our

forms. It is the ultimate positive

planetary system. It is radiating a

plan for the growth of life on this

tremendous beam of cosmic energy

planet. Higher evolution of life

on our planet. Life is starting, then it

appears to be its main purpose.

is flourishing and getting engaged

Which is being confirmed by the

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fact that it is causing gradual physical

happiness when we increase our

changes to life forms through minute

sync with it, and we decrease our

mutations to promote evolution.

chances of happiness when we get

This is explained by the Science

out of sync with it. Therefore, it is

of evolution pioneered by Charles

important that we find out how to

Darwin. Our theory says this force

get in sync with the force field of life!

field is also influencing the states of our mind - the origins of happiness

Positivity for life is clearly the

and unhappiness are linked to the

virtue of the force field of life.

nature of our interaction with this

Its purpose seems to promote

force field. The states of happiness

evolution through an unending

and unhappiness are the results of

chain of minute positive changes

our degree of sync with life's force

to life forms, which has produced

field. We increase our chances of

today's humans, starting from the

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lowly amoeba over a long period. The

We stay in sync with the force field

element of positive change seems to

of life and thus improve our chances

be its core virtue. Thus, it is logical to

of finding happiness by creating or

assume that the best way to stay in

promoting positive changes, mostly

sync with the force field of life, and

in highly subtle ways through our

consequently to improve our chances

regular daily activities.

of finding happiness is by creating or promoting positive changes through

The most important requirement of

our regular daily activities, physical

a positive change is that it needs to

and mental - no matter how minute

benefit both the self and the species

the changes are.

to promote evolution. Thus, a positive change can be any kind of status

Thus, our theory of Positive Change

change that promotes the prosperity

says:

and well-being of the person and the OM TIMES | July 2021

greater world(species). And they can

and create positive changes of their

be generated through the simple

own. There are many other ways of

acts of everyday life. Generally, these

generating them. The mind's attitude

changes are extremely minute -

to lean towards the positive gradually

often hardly noticeable, but effective

changes the chemistry of the mind

in promoting well-being. We

improving its efficiency for finding

instinctively recognize these changes.

happiness from simple things of life.

Acts of love, nurture, compassion, etc., all are primary producers of

Let's take a look at the lower animals

positive changes as they create the

at the lower levels of evolution. We

right environment for life to prosper

can see that they instinctively stay

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in sync with the force field of life

Create positive changes in our life

with almost all their activities. Their

situations through our daily everyday

simple acts of eating, mating, and

activities - no matter how simple or

protecting their territories create

mundane they are!

positive changes by promoting their survival and keeping them

To carry out this, first, we need to

in sync with the force field of life.

have a positive attitude for making

In return, they are rewarded with

an effort to create a positive ending

happiness(primarily through physical

in whatever we are doing. Here

pleasures). With our advanced

the important ingredients are the

intelligence, we have expanded our

attitude and the effort, not so much

list of activities tremendously. We

the result, because many other

could stay in sync with the force field

elements may be involved which may

of life with more activities and find

be beyond our control. A person's

more happiness, but our track record

contribution to the overall project is

tells a different story. We are creating

important, and the person should

huge amounts of positive changes

always try to make it positive.

and significantly high amounts of negative changes with our unwise

Following this formula persistently

ways of chasing happiness! This

for a certain period, e.g., a month or

behavior pattern becomes a habit

so, can change the mind's chemistry

that changes the chemistry of the

and enable it to find happiness in

mind and makes us deviate from the

simple things of life that were missed

force field of life. This reduces our

before!

efficiency in the quest for happiness.

We can heal our minds by getting back in sync with the force field of life. We can achieve this by following a simple, yet perhaps the most natural and the soundest formula for improving the efficiency of the mind to find happiness in life, which says:

Jay K Ghosh is a Science professional and has a couple of master's to his credit. But though his profession has been in Technology, his real passion has been in Philosophy and Spirituality. He has written one book in philosophy and is working on another.

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Simply Spiritual To perceive reality from a different perspective is to open oneself to the wonders and unlimited wealth of creation. Simply Spiritual offers the opportunity to visit new places, new methods, and different ways to perceive the vast human knowledge of our Universe.

When Life Resets the Starting Line Of Your Life

by Melvin D. Nix

I

t's Time To Start Over

switched gears. Many things we have

Beginning…Again

relied upon for safety and security have become obsolete.

Starting over is the worst! As we

look at our world today, we can see

Have you ever had to start over

the remnants of things that have

in your life? Are you familiar

collapsed and need to be rebuilt.

with the feelings of shame and

Economies have bottomed out;

disappointment which come when

career paths have been altered, and

a part of your life falls apart? Have

the way we receive an education has

you experienced the emotions of loss

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and grief that occur when something

and stays in their own lane. Once the

you relied upon fails and leaves you

race has started, the runner takes

standing alone?

a burst of energy and tries to reach the finish line first. The problem with

In my life's journey, I've experienced

approaching life as a sprint is that

these emotions and many others.

important details get overlooked in

I've had to start over at the most

your planning as you try to hurry up

inconvenient times and under the

and win. You will have many false

worst possible circumstances. It's

starts, and life will throw obstacles

excruciating and unpleasant to

at you, which will invariably slow you

believe that you have made progress

down or take you out of the race.

in your life only to discover that you will need to start over. Take it

A relay race is a longer race that has

from someone who has lived to tell

various stages. A runner is designated

this story…. "Starting over can be a

to run their leg of the race to a certain

blessing in disguise."

point and then hand the baton off to the next runner in line. If you can

LIFE IS A RELAY, NOT A SPRINT

compare this type of race to live, you can see a few benefits. First, you will

Life is very similar to a track race. We

realize that life has different stages.

have been socialized to believe that

There are times and seasons of life

life is a sprint. We have to hurry to

where things work very well. Other

achieve our goals or start a particular

times you start strong, you get very

business before our competition

close to the finish line or your goals

does. We have been convinced that

and dreams but then…BAM... you trip

time is running out, so we stress

and fall on your face. Once you accept

ourselves to compete and remain

the fact that there are stages to your

relevant. Through observation and

life's journey, you can be assured that

experience, I've learned that life is

there is time to pick yourself up, dust

more of a relay race rather than a

off, and start again if you fall.

sprint.

NEW STARTING LINE = A NEW, A sprint is a very short race. The

MORE EFFICIENT OPPORTUNITY

runner approaches the starting block

TO WIN

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LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES

If your race has come to a screeching halt and you find yourself needing to re-access

Have you taken a moment to ask

things and start over, here are a few

yourself why you may have fallen

keys that will make your re-start a

down? Take a moment and discover

successful endeavor…

the contributing factors which led you to where you are. Once you

LET GO OF THE WEIGHT

have identified these culprits, you

What things may be slowing

are better equipped to harness your

you down? Unproductive habits,

strength and prepare to start over.

limiting mindsets, poor attitudes,

The past is a teacher…not a prison.

and situations that don't serve you may have bogged you down and

LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION

tripped you up. Identify areas in your life where you have weights and let

We've all had moments where our

them go.

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heart was sending us signals to avoid

trip you up and follow your heart,

the path we are pursuing. After a very

helping you navigate your way along

arduous and exhausting sprint, we

the path. Finish your race!

discover that we should have listened to our heart's warnings. Our intuition

Melvin D Nix is a spiritual teacher,

always knows best. Learn to never

author, and motivational speaker.

ignore it and to flow with it.

He currently hosts a weekly

LEAP TOWARDS THE STARTING LINE Starting over can be the best thing that happens to you. You will discover that there can be more happiness, wealth, health, and peace if you learn to embrace a new start as a friend.

You should let go of the things that

broadcast called "Putting On The Pneu You" (pronounced New You).

He teaches how to apply universal spiritual concepts and principles in an easy-to-understand format so that anyone can apply them see tangible results in their daily lives. pneuyou.com

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The Basic Commandments for Spiritual Work

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By Humanity Healing

ur spiritual life needs

spiritual Work. Below are some rules

attention and following

that need to be followed:

some rules for when we do Spiritual Work.

BALANCE

To have the right concentration and

Keeping up with your spiritual self

be ready to perform our prayers, we

is essential for doing spiritual Work,

need to follow some commandments

but balance is needed. We cannot

that should never be left aside to do

leave the material world to live only

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in the spiritual. Excess can create a

CONSTANCY

decompensation that can damage

It is necessary to respect the

a person's life. Spiritual and material

natural order of things. One

Work are two parts of the same unity.

cannot seek to do spiritual Work

Neither side can prevail. The rule is to

searching for powers without first

have balance.

being aware of what is taking place. Powers come naturally

Part of my spiritual Work is

at the right time, and you have

learning to live with the knowledge

to wait for them. "The powers"

that we can't protect our loved

developed in spiritual Work must

ones from pain and heartache.

be received and not generated

Dani Shapiro

only by our will.

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DISCERNMENT AND MODERATION

TOLERANCE AND RELAXATION

To do spiritual Work correctly, we

One should not act with rigidity.

cannot rely solely on the opinion

Upon receiving more information,

of others. We need to have our

the initiating person may believe that

discernment and moderation during

his mind is expanding and becoming

our development. During initiation, this

less tolerant. There is a particular

support is necessary, but it is essential

temptation to want to force others

to mature and gain knowledge.

to accept your ideas and ways of conduct. Entering this state limits

HUMILITY

the capacity you were gaining and

One of the fundamental rules for

even reduced the awareness you had

anyone who wants to do spiritual Work

already achieved.

is to be humble. We can never judge our Work to be superior to that of

The hardest spiritual work in the

others. Esotericism is opposite to the

world is to love the neighbor as

feeling of superiority.

the self - to encounter another human being not as someone

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means

you can use, change, fix, help,

the willingness to surrender

save, enroll, convince or control,

feelings that seem, while we're

but simply as someone who can

in them, like our defense against

spring you from the prison of

a greater pain. It means that we

yourself, if you will allow it.

surrender to God our perceptions of

Barbara Brown Taylor

all things.

CONCENTRATION

Marianne Williamson

One cannot lose concentration to SERENE RESPONSIBILITY

do spiritual Work. The study and

Never take inconsequential actions.

practices do not accept dispersions.

The impulse can break relationships

Carrying out these actions without

with family members and coworkers

deepening and concentrating

unnecessarily. Impulsivity in the

generates a false idea of knowing. ​​

esoteric world is also harmful. An

Real knowledge is in understanding

intense entry into spiritual Work can

what surrounds us and understanding

ruin your future in this world.

the reality we live in.

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Esoteric Christianity

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by William Bezanson

soteric Christianity refers

Christians who want to study beyond

to the study of occult or

conventional religious topics.

mystical, esoteric knowledge related to Christianity's

Are you like me, raised as a

inner teachings. It examines what

Christian but later questioning

Jesus the Christ really meant in his

the dogma of that religion and

teachings. It has similar teachings to

evolving into a skeptic, a seeker,

that of Rosicrucian orders. It can be

or a freethinker? If so, this article

especially interesting to disenchanted

might be of interest to you.

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Even though I had been aware of

references to spirituality, seeing

the term "Esoteric Christianity," I

auras, intuition, astral projection,

recently realized how relevant it was

remote healing, reincarnation,

for me. I had been a Rosicrucian

psychokinesis, archetypal astrology,

order member (The Confraternity

meditation, and numerous other

of the Rose Cross, www.crcsite.com)

topics. Those were all familiar

and a Christian (Anglican Church of

concepts.

Canada) for many years. Still, I had not even thought of exploring esoteric

It was a thrill and comfort to learn

Christianity in a Rosicrucian sense.

of the close relationship between

What I discovered was a delight!

esoteric Christianity and the mystical studies I had already done

A formal definition of esoteric

with a Rosicrucian order. It may be

Christianity, from the Wikipedia

that you also, dear reader, can find

article on that topic, is "Esoteric

a similar attunement among two or

Christianity refers to the study of

more of your interests.

the occult or [mystical] esoteric knowledge related to the inner

Continuing my association with

teachings of Christianity. The term is

the Christian religion provided

generally associated with the Essenes

the comfort of familiarity with an

and later the Rosicrucians. In esoteric

ancient religious tradition, beautiful

Christianity, the religion of the Christ

ideals, and a sense of societal

is taught as a mystery religion".

acceptance. Even though with esoteric Christianity, there were

Don't be alarmed by the word "occult"

no direct links to a congregation

in the above definition. It does not

of fellow worshipers. On the one

mean evil or devilish, as is commonly

hand, I was never really interested

thought. It means hidden, or secret,

in worshipping a deity. Still, on

or accessible only to the initiated.­

the other hand, I did miss the spiritual companionship. The

What jumped out to me from the

good news, though, is that the

above definition was the reference to

broad understanding of esoteric

Rosicrucianism. On reading further

Christianity has resulted in many

in that article, and others, I found

written articles (perhaps such as

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this current one) that are easily

with the parables of Jesus. Rather

accessible to the general public.

than stating his teaching points in

So discussion groups and related

plain, simple words, Jesus spoke in

interactions provide a form of

parables, much as modern poets and

companionship and support.

artistic folk use metaphors and myths in order to appeal to their listeners'

Everyone who is a spiritual "seeker"

inner mind and intuition so that a far

or is curious about the Really Big

more profound understanding would

Picture will likely benefit from

be achieved than otherwise.

researching and exploring the various teachings and information

A suggestion for how to proceed

about esoteric Christianity.

in your exploration of esoteric Christianity, if you are interested, is

For example, did you know that

that you should read and meditate on

Jesus the Christ understood the

any of the following materials:

validity of reincarnation? You won't find such a teaching in the Bible or hear it from the pulpit, but you will find it in esoteric Christianity.

• The Wikipedia article "Esoteric Christianity," at wikipedia.com.

• Esoteric Christianity or The Lesser

Another example is that the various

Mysteries, by Annie Besant,

"miracles" attributed to Jesus were

available at gutenberg.org/

not miraculous at all but were

files/26938/26938-h/26938-h.htm

natural phenomena that can be

• Inner Christianity, by Richard

performed by anyone who has

Smoley, available on Amazon.com

undergone the proper training and

and other booksellers.

development. (See, for example, in John 14:12, NRSV, where Jesus

• Any other relevant books or articles that you are attracted to.

is reported to have said that by believing in him, i.e., by studying his

I suggest starting with the first article

esoteric teachings and modeling

above. It is comprehensive and

his esoteric example, all of us can

thorough.

"do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than

You will likely find that any traditional

these.") A final example has to do

Christian parish will not be able to

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support you in finding out any

• Mystically oriented people who

additional information about

wish to stretch their abilities

esoteric Christianity. This situation

with spiritual techniques

is due, of course, to the fact that

• Those interested in initiatory,

the traditional churches do not

fraternal orders, wanting

want you to think for yourself but

to learn more about

to follow obediently the orthodox

Rosicrucianism and related

dogma that they teach. You will

topics

then have a choice to make, as I

• Orthodox Christians who are

did, of either dropping your interest

wondering about alternate

in both the church and esoteric

mythologies

Christianity or of choosing one or the other.

• Atheists who are looking for different views to consider • General folk interested in

Esoteric Christianity should be

spirituality, Christianity,

of great interest to many of the

mysticism, Rosicrucianism, and

following people:

related topics

• Seekers who want to explore metaphysical topics

Welcome to a world of spiritual exploration! You will never look

• Disenchanted Christians

back.

who want to study beyond conventional religious topics • Questioners who want to explore the occult, deep, and hidden truths underlying the teachings of Jesus the Christ

regular contributor to OMTimes.

He is a retired electrical engineer who now writes on spirituality and world stewardship. His

Curious people who are attracted to unusual topics

most recent book is I Believe: A Rosicrucian Looks at Christianity and Spirituality. He lives with his wife in Ottawa, Canada. His

• Spiritually oriented people who enjoy exploring alternate explanations of reality

William Bezanson has been a

website is www3.sympatico.ca/ bezanson1.

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Temporal Memory is a Window to the Eternal

M

by Arthur Telling

emory is key to our

senses streaming into an ever-present

conscious development.

moment before our eyes. After-death

Relationships between

memory works in precisely the same

people and objects

way, ensuring order in our living

form into living narratives from our

physical world narrative and the eternal

actions and imagination. The mind

realm beyond. A better understanding

rapidly compares memory with new

of the process will ensure direction and

experiences through the five physical

happiness.

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Memory Necessary for Mind to Function Memory is critical to the unfolding narrative of a life lived. Without it, we have nothing from which to build. It would be like a book where the first line is read and is forgotten upon moving to the next line. We would be living in an unrecognizable present with nowhere to go.

Memory gives retention of what just happened to build and further the living narrative, from first memories to the final moment.

what I ate at lunchtime but have no idea what I had for lunch three days ago. It is not time passing that fades memory. It is the usefulness of that memory to us now. I don't remember lunch from yesterday, but I remember bringing the car to the dealer for servicing. If I didn't, I wouldn't know whether the car needed to be serviced. Still, my memory of yesterday's lunch would be of no use to me today except if there was some additional element of worth, like having had lunch with an old friend.

Precisely, the mind remembers and can recall what is useful to it now in

With the understanding of the

some mental or emotional way.

necessity of memory for the development of order and progression, we can better understand the nature

Physical and Afterlife Memory

of our greater self that lives before our physical birth and lives on after death.

This same functioning of memory

This same memory operates in the

applies to the afterlife. When we "die,"

same way in play and provides us with

we will find that we are in a different

life not just during this present life but

place, possibly somewhere we will

also in the spirit worlds and beyond.

recall having been before incarnating in the physical world. It is because we

During this life, we gather and

shed memories that are not useful

retain information from the present

or are perhaps even detrimental for

moment and from dreams, beliefs,

the moment, and those long past

and imaginations, all retained

memories can again be reclaimed

whether lived or imagined. And we

when usefulness returns. Such

quickly forget what is not helpful

memories are not lost. They are put in

to our current needs. Today I know

the mind's "archives."

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An incarnational cycle is to the entity

more exists from earlier incarnational

as is a single physical life to a person.

rounds can be accessed but is not

The same memory applies. My inner

readily in memory of the entity. It is for

sources say seven incarnations in

the same reason as our birth to death

a single incarnational cycle, seven

framing, but the entity is aware of the

personalities, and many incarnational

illusion's beginning to end.

cycles through the mind's perpetuity.

The entity retains and processes each

We should strive to be aware that

of the incarnational personalities,

the mind's eternal nature includes

developing into a more complex being

our prior birth and to-be after-death

through the emotional and mental

experiences. Through a careful

experiences of the personalities. What

awakening by study and through

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meditation, these resources will

"A Different Jesus Message,"

awaken to us. The truth first seems

appeared in the Nov. 2011 AMORC

frightening, for whatever is not

Rosicrucian Digest. Telling is the

recognizable naturally brings anxiety.

author of nine books, including

A gradual awakening brings familiarity

Cleopatra and Jesus's untold

with our higher natures and opens us

stories, a newly released novel

to a glorious awaiting future.

based on actual events titled: "THE INCARNATION: Cleopatra's

Arthur Telling has written

Story of Jesus." His website: www.

numerous stories, articles

arthurtelling.com and Facebook

on religion, philosophy, and

page "Philosophy for a Modern Era:

metaphysics. His article,

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BY SHERI ECKERT

You are constantly changing, whether you or others see it or not. It would appear that life on earth has a singular goal, alchemy.

The art of converting one thing into another, like the seed into a tree, the cloud into the rain, and the infant into an adult. Like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, all of your effort in the short period you have here on earth should be invested in improving your innate beauty instead of trying to prove it.

Metamorphosing, a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one by natural or supernatural means seems to be the common and concerted spiritual objective of humanity.

It is that which allows your divine compassion, your sacred love energy, your miraculous consciousness, to swell, to extend up to the heavens and participate in the creation of collective enlightenment.

It's important to remember that Transformation is often full of torment and comes in spurts, painful growth processes. But, when you finish one round of change, you are far more in touch with your sacred essence.

So take those moments to breathe easy. They are your pause. Your sanctuary time to renew your strength. Take those moments to notice that you are something you were not before and marvel. Take those moments of new perspective and deeply and genuinely implement your new way of thinking, your new understanding of life, into your daily living.

But also know that without question, another challenge is on its way.

We all look for comfort, always.

Yet, growth does not usually come in moments of ease. It's more often in the agony of being stretched.

The newborns feel it and cry, but they must go through it to become adults. Growing spiritually and mentally is no different. Learning is often wrought with pain and accompanied by many tears.

Cry if you must. Like the babies who know not what to do but to scream out in despair, cry.

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Be so busy with your own improvement beloveds of the Beloved, that you don't have time to pay attention to anything or anyone that distracts you from your growth.

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Yet, when the stretching is done, remember too that you will be different. Your soul will be taller, more developed, better able to traverse the path of life.

This is the pattern of life as human beings. This is the evolution of the masterful articulations of consciousness. If we look, we will see more clearly with each new day that Life, God, Source, Universe, Soul, Spirit ... uses hardship and hurdles to help us grow fully into what we can be. Just as the stars of the heavens slowly release their energy and eventually explode, shooting their stardust out into the universe and facilitating your creation, you, too, are constantly changing. As the celestial bodies of eternity, you too are daily shedding, little by little, the cloaks that hide your inner and sacred beauty, assisting the evolution of humanity.

The Magical Process of Transformation

With the removal of the old fabric of lies, fear, and deception, you expose the glorious light being that you are.

Your essence will grow brighter and stronger if you radically accept that change is constantly happening. This knowledge can and should bring hope and healing to those who experience its' magnificent majesty.

So, while the stripping away of the thoughts you've learned to function feels scary and difficult, you must know with all your might that you must do it anyway, even if it hurts.

Remember that life's hardships are your spiritual cocoon's precious sentient being. Know that successfully navigating them is your transformational process.

Be aware that making meaning of them is your awakening to a new and enlightened self. When you unfold with the intention, you will unveil all that you have been designed to be.

The seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination is coded into your very essence. In your inexplicable design, you have powers that escape your own vision. Once, you were the essence of unconditional love in the form of pure awareness.

And when your magnificent and beautiful Spirit was combined with the power of your exceptional fleshly mind and memory, you were changed. You became what did not exist before.

The sacred intelligence of all that source has been created with a magic that is deeper than deep. YOU, the material and spiritual blend called human manifests. A meaningful, mystical way of existing. You are the alchemy of the universe. A combination of stardust and consciousness.

Alchemy for Personal Transformation

Has the understanding of your incredibleness been lost in the translation of living out your everyday earthly life? Have you forgotten that you are a product of creativity and love? Within the magnificence of you, in your very cosmic design, my beloveds, there also abides an alchemist. It is your heavenly inheritance.

If you think about it, you have been subconsciously practicing this ancient art all your life. Responding to hate with love and creating peace. Touching another with your hands and producing divine pleasure. Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary and manifesting joy.

Now bring this to the forefront of your consciousness and do it with intention. Finally, witness the actual outcomes of your personal alchemy.

You might feel stuck, and like you are drowning in your own miry muck. You might not feel like you can move through difficult emotions. You may not even believe that there is a solution to your predicament. This is when you must remember that you are never in any situation that you cannot rise above, crawl out of, or endure.

Others may definitely facilitate teachings or skills required to take your thoughts captive and identify triggers and be more in tune with the counselor inside of you. Many can aid you in genuinely comprehending those thoughts, leading to false perceptions, resulting in adverse life outcomes.

But you are and always will be your own best guru.

5 Tips to Guide Your Personal SelfDiscovery Process

Discovering how to tend to your own wounds and tune into your own infinite access to the wisdom of the collective consciousness and understanding your glorious, mysterious, and mystical identity is where it all starts. Learning to make meaning of, and letting go of the past, is crucial to your positive wellbeing and ability to move forward.

The capacity to see life as the supreme gift that it is, good, bad, and all the in-between, is genuinely critical. Self-awareness, selfobservation, Mindfulness, and meditation are crucial to learning more about you, and thus the cosmos you represent. Yet still, this is all about you and what you can absolutely do.

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1) Acceptance and Growth

The fortifications that you once upon a time built to protect you are now your prison, serving only to encourage the development of calloused or overactive emotions, allowing you to believe that there is only one right way to be safe. These barriers isolate your openness and reduce your sensitivity to the point that you or someone you love might even become cruel and unforgiving.

Yet, there is not one person on this earth who still possesses their original, pure, and holistic beauty; your essence of genuine kindness and real compassion entered this existence upon your birth. Worry not, though, because walls can be torn down. But you must do the work. It is imperative to know that one cannot heal or fix another man's mind.

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Accepting that intrinsically everyone wants to do good at the beginning of unconditional love for yourself and others. Being open to the reality that life happens, hurt happens, disappointment happens, and walls have been built to protect your mind and heart is paramount to alleviating your dis-ease. Most assuredly, at the time of construction, those walls were likely essential. But at some point, you have to tear them down so that you can move outside of the boundaries that once kept you safe but no longer serve you well.

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3) Gratitude Impacts our Happiness and Well-being

2) Recognize your Personal Power

Remembering that you are simply morphing into a deeper and more authentic self will allow you to start the process of unbecoming.

But, unfortunately, taking the time to unravel the yarn of the old sweater hiding the truth takes much patience. And like the caterpillar, who isn't really a caterpillar but is actually a breathtaking butterfly, the task of Transformation is often cocooned in pain.

You likely misunderstand hardship and heartbreak, thinking you have done something wrong. But could it be possible that you are simply expanding your true character, understanding more profoundly that life as a human is often messy, complicated, and yet so very exhilarating? Perhaps you are even wondering how best to make the most of what time you have been granted here on this resplendent planet in outer space.

Yes, indeed, going through the labor of growing pain is very normal. And maybe, if I might suggest, even a wonderful experience. Knowing that all of the discomfort and doubt that you wrestle with is a gift, not a curse, is a consequential element to embracing and experiencing the fullness of your life. Remembering that you and only you can respond correctly to the stretching of your consciousness. You and only you can begin to explore your innate longings and achings. You and only you can see any form of hardship as your most beloved teacher, given to you to instruct and explode your glorious and sacred presence, allowing you to unveil most spectacularly the original awareness that resides within you.

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Even remembering what it means to be alive, not just living. Every day you can discover that you already know; that you are truly magnificent, majestic, and miraculous. That you are born finished and complete. That you are and have always been enough. And that from this deep understanding of your identity and personal power, free and fabulous ideas can flow from your Spirit into your mind, leading you to the new and holy ground to stand upon. Both in your inner and outer space.

4) Embrace Your Core Values

You can know that life naturally unfolds, and there is nothing you can do but embrace it, remembering it is best to move with it instead of resisting it. You are designed to correctly make your own choices, to discern which way you should go when you encounter a fork in the road, remembering that your primary responsibility is to discover how to navigate your most successful way in existence.

And when you begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life, you will be aligned more intimately with your sacred purpose.

For you are indeed a rare and noble member of humanity, a bright and shining light of hope under all the pain that you have walled yourself within.

You are an ever-changing spiritual being having a human experience. You are so much bigger, grander, wiser, and capable than you realize. You are being led by the light of the natural and intelligent Spirit of this holy and supreme universe. You always have been. You need only stop and listen to the divinity that resides within.

A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES & THE MAGICAL PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION

5) Practice Mindfulness

It's important to remember that you heal yourself with simple things. By remembering the grass is green exactly where you water it and learning to bloom where you are planted. By believing in the magic that once captured your youth and allowing it to illuminate your life. By letting your beauty and the beauty of others naturally unfold. And finally, but so importantly, by believing in that which you currently cannot see, yet intuitively seeing the possibilities of what is yet to be.

Life is a Celebration:

Today, may you walk this beautiful earth that you have been so blessed to live upon, with love, kindness, compassion, and concern for your own imperfections and the imperfections of others. Life is a perpetual process of growth. Be kind to one another as you expand more fully into your whole and holy selves. Remember that when one is amid a spiritual leap into a new way of thinking, the Transformation itself is wrought with hardship. No one is perfect.

So do your best to be better today than yesterday and more genuine tomorrow than you are today.

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4 Secrets to Better Meditation

M

editation is a time-

sympathetic nervous system and

honored art of finding

lowers stress hormones, such as

stillness. Meditation

cortisol. “Peace is a practice.” The

helps us live a healthier,

more you continue a meditation

less stressful life. The physical

practice, the greater the benefits

and psychological benefits are

offered you. Prayer falls under this

tremendous. Meditation calms the

category. For what is prayer, but the

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asking, confirming, and receiving of

Now, forget everything you know

wishes we meditate upon.

about meditation.

MEDITATION BASICS

~ Sit in a comfortable position.

Whatever that position is. No

This is ALL you will ever need. This

right or wrong. The idea is to be at

is for the person who has NEVER

ease yet aware. It is important to

meditated before, AND it is for the

sense the space around you with

expert meditator. WHY? Because

an image of the top of your head

all meditation starts with the root of

pulling upwards while your sitting

intention.

bones feel grounded and pulling you downward.

“No matter what the tree, they all grow from one seed, which takes root and branches out.”

~Close your eyes.

1. THE SEED: YOUR INTENTION

Therefore, know this, meditation is like the lotus tree or flower. Rich with

~State your intention or purpose

many, many layers, leaves, or petals.

for meditating TODAY. You can

It blossoms to be a vibrant plant or

say it out loud if that connects

flower, but at its core, it is the same

you to your reason. Today, in this

basic principle, ~ the seed you plant.

moment, I am meditating for: __________________________

1. ​The Seed: Your intention: the reason you do this

(hint: keep it simple, yet focused) For example, instead

2. Air to grow: Your breath: to reach the roots

of meditating for world peace, meditate on something that

3. Food to grow: Your thoughts:

may be an easier challenge to

how you choose to nourish the

start with. Meditate on peace

seed

in your corner of the world or in

4. Water to grow: Your ability

your immediate location) such as

to flow and let go: how you

peace in your household or peace

magnetize your purpose to bring

in your mind. (We will get to world

it back

peace later.)

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2. AIR TO GROW: YOUR BREATH

(to sprout the intention) as breath reaches all the way out to the branches, as intention (the seed)

With your eyes remained closed,

grows.

breath.

You have this amazing ability to do Now, you are going to breathe with

this. As you focus on the inhale…draw

intention. You are going to take

your breath down to the root of your

breaths with purpose. Each breath is

lungs (seed-intention). As you focus

now offered to your intention (or the

on the exhale…expel the breath out to

reason you are meditating today.)

the branches of your fingers and toes.

Breath is considered the “air, which

Breathe in a manner that comes

circulates.” Breath reaches all the

naturally to you. Do not overthink this.

way down to the root of the seed

There are many forms and techniques

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for breathing. But, for the purpose of

soul, or you can choose food, which

this meditation, it is important not to

clogs your heart, congests your lungs,

become overly critical of details. This

and makes you ill.

should form as a natural, easy process of taking in and letting out. Taking in

Your thoughts are no different. Your

and letting out.

thoughts can empower your mind and soul, or they can destroy your

3. FOOD TO GROW: YOUR THOUGHTS

self-esteem, disempower your actions, and create doubt, pain, or panic.

Your thoughts are how you CHOOSE

Bring to mind 3 thoughts to

to nourish the seed

EMPOWER your intention

Like your body, you can choose to eat

Because we are human, doubt,

food that is good for your body and

insecurity, and uncontrolled thoughts

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will seep into your mind. Rather than

reply is, “this is why you are already

fighting them, let them in, but do not

resisting.” With a statement like this,

let them dwell there. This is where

you are already showing (not only to

the free will of meditation takes over.

me but to the Universe) that you have

(Remember, there will always be a

already (shown your weakest side,

struggle between the EGO self and

resisted, given up) let doubt take over.

the TRUE self) Your free will allows you to choose between good (true

Bring BACK to mind the 3 thoughts

self) or bad (ego-self).

to EMPOWER your intention.

Whenever I am teaching this

Nourish with the good food of

technique, this is what I hear next,

thought and blessings. With each

“well, it’s easier said than done.” My

inhale, feed your intention some good

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thought. With each exhale, release

one), you will find that their purpose

or expel anything, which does not

serves the greater good (yourself,

belong there.

others, and the valid reason.)

4. WATER TO GROW: YOUR ABILITY TO FLOW

Holding on shows how tight our grip is around something (someone). Letting go shows us our ability to share, honor,

Your ability to let flow and let go is

appreciate what we have/had.

how you magnetize your purpose and actually watch, as the Universe

This shows you harmony with

brings it back to you, 10 times

something larger than yourself. You

stronger. Water moves intention

will be better able to serve others if

(thoughts) to flow. This is the flow

you have a healthy mind to support

you need to release and let go of.

it. If you receive greater knowledge,

Your wish will boomerang back to

you are better able to understand the

you, with magnetic attraction, but

reasoning behind the action.

only if you are willing to indeed NOW, open your eyes.

release it.

At the end of your meditation, it is the last important step to release or let go of your intention. It is the “giving away,” which shows the Universe that you are not holding on, wanting, or trying to control the outcome. It reveals that you can show STRENGTH in your conviction, TRUST in another force, with a

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Yoga Nidra: The Sleep Kriya

S

by Nandhiji

leep is not only a moment

Sleep quality affects the quality of our

of rejuvenation. It is also

mind’s abilities to perceive, remember

the space of timelessness

and produce optimal thoughts. Sleep

to incubate our minds.

resets our minds. The quality of sleep

Yogic sleep empowers the mind to

matters and is directly proportional to

expand in Consciousness.

the wellbeing of our minds and body.

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For a Yogi, sleep is a sacred

inner journey so much. What

moment. The vaster Consciousness

inspired him to cut off entirely

is expanded, the deeper the sleep

from the external world and start a

and lesser the time required to

journey within?

sleep.

Yogic deep sleep has no dreams.

Once a day, early in the morning,

Time condenses, requiring

his devotees would remove thorn

shorter time of needed sleep.

bushes that blocked Ayya’s cave

Upon awakening from a yogic

entrance, and Ayya would start a

sleep, it should feel a brand new

fire to make herbal tea. All pilgrims

moment filled in optimism, mind

who came to see Ayya were served

supercharged, body healed, and

Ayya’s tea. He seldom spoke to

each thought from clarity.

anyone other than his helpers. After two hours, the helpers would again

Turiya is the attainment of yoga.

close up the cave entrance so Ayya

Superconscious states of mind.

to enter back into his solitude until the next day.

Yogis who master Consciousness can condense sleep to the extent of

I spent my time sitting outside

going beyond “sleep,” the state of

the cave through the night,

turiya, called the sleepless sleep.

wanting to absorb his meditative energies. Through the night, I

I had experiences of the states of

heard Ayya speaking to the Divine.

turiya with my Guru Ayya, who

Sometimes he would burst into

meditated atop near the peak of

ecstasy singing. He was in a vortex

Arunachala mountain. He drank a

of powerful energies- in states of

glass of milk a day, never moved,

perpetual overflowing joy. It was

and he never slept. I would climb

now easy to understand how Ayya

up the mountain to be near his

had transcended sleep- he was

cave enclosure through the night

in the realms of turiya, the super

to meditate. In the beginning, my

consciousness state of mind. It was

need to sit near Ayya was pure

this sublime ecstasy experience

curiosity. And to understand what

that inspired me to create my

made Ayya love his solitude and

music, Turiya Nada. To know the

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states of turiya is to know the three

my years, seeking my Light within

states of mind- sleep, dream, and

through solitude was another

awake- as an observer. Sleep and

of my Gurus, Siddha Maha Siva

mastery of sleep is the vital element

Swamy. Maha Siva Swamy lived in a

in the attainment of states of turiya.

forest shrine of Nambi Hills, a tiger sanctuary all by himself. I enjoyed

My quest to learn more about sleep

every moment with him as he was

made me eager to ask enlightened

alright taking my questions, and

Masters. In my pilgrimages during

he would answer me. I remember

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walking with him through the

days and nights, he must have

jungle to reach Nambi Hills. It felt

mastered the art of sleep.

eerie initially. It felt unsafe as I knew this was a tiger sanctuary, and only

We lay side by side near the ancient

a few would walk into this forest.

Temple entrance on the ground

I asked him if he ever felt afraid

with cloth underneath me. He did

walking in this forest all by himself,

not need anything underneath

mentioning how frightened he

him. I asked him what he was

should be of the tigers. He smiled

doing with his breath and how he

at me and mentioned, “Tigers walk

was preparing his mind for sleep.

away from humans sensing us. But

He said, ” Go into the mantra fires.

some tigers are too old. One old

Surrender your breath. Descend

tiger would sit over there and roar.

into your heart. Fall asleep there.” I

Its roar was so weak, unlike others.

spent the next few minutes trying

But they never will harm me.” I did

what he told me. A few minutes

not tell him how that old tiger could

later, I was ready to ask the next few

have become a maneater. I felt safe

questions. I said, “Swamy, now that

with him knowing he must have the

I am in my heart, now what?”… and

higher vibrations safeguarding him.

all I heard was his snoring. He was fast asleep in another world. Soon I fell asleep too.

When we reached this sacred shrine after a five-mile walk through the forest, we bathed in

What I learned from these ultimate

the sacred jungle stream and, in the

moments with Guru Ayya and Guru

evening, did our puja (worship). As

Maha Siva Swamy the mind in its

night time came, I told Maha Siva

journey. The mind, in its awakening

Swamy I needed to learn how to

state, sleeps, and realms beyond

sleep. I had watched him enter into

sleep are states of Consciousness.

samadhi many times, with ease.

These Yogis had mastered

Any time he entered into samadhi,

Consciousness itself by being

the whole area around him would

able to enter the sleepless sleep

buzz in Light. I was certain that if

realms of Turiya. Ever since, I have

he could enter into samadhi with so

delved deep to make sense of sleep

much ease and meditate through

to understand sleep as a tool of

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wellbeing, an instrument to intense

yoga, meditate & do pranayama

meditation, and a proponent to

or run, play basketball or walk.

enhance the mind’s clarity.

Doing physical activities does tune the mind into a long-lasting

PRACTICAL STEPS TO YOGIC

meditative experience.

SLEEP- YOGA NIDRA Doing puja (worship of the Divine) Through the day, attain, maintain

or prayers helps to set the mind in

and generate ease of mind. Do

a meditative state through the day.

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Prayers help us discard worries,

the reality experiences; thoughts,

anxieties & stress.

anxieties,; needs, wish, fear- and emotions; surrender into the

Every breath enters into our core

mantra fires. Let go of realities to

of harmony within retention- with

the Divine Source God. No realities

mindfulness & awareness. Being

belonged to us before birth. Now

in a continuous meditative state

in sleep, consider it the moment of

throughout the day nourishes

death when all of the realities are

the mind that requires less time

surrendered to Source God.

to revitalize. The meditative mind works for sleeping effectively.

THE PROCESS:

Set a daily time to shut down

Select Consciousness expanding

our work and prepare for

books. Set a habit to read before

bed. Scheduling and setting

sleeping every day. Reading

a daily time helps the mind

conscious books imprints the mind

subconsciously tune into the

with good thoughts.

sleep-ready mode.

Lay down on the bed, turning Just before getting to bed, shower,

over to the left side. Use pillows or

bathe, or wash our face & forehead.

elbows as props and start reading

Water as energy cleanses away

the book. Be aware of the right

unwanted thoughts.

breath that gains predominance as we rest our body on the left. We are

Do gentle stretches or yin yoga

tapping into the moon energies of

before bed if feeling unable to

breath that activates sleep.

cope with stress or worries. The best yoga always happens when

Sleep will come soon, especially if

our mind is low. Yoga helps us

the book is philosophical in nature.

come back into our bodies.

Chase sleep away by wanting to read more. Affirm for ourselves that

Meditate using mantra chants.

the night is young, and we have

Even if for just 5 minutes. Make

all night to read. Sleep will come

this moment a time of prayer. All

as a threatening lion or a cute

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puppy wanting to be held. Chase

recitation and connecting our

it away! Close eyes a minute when

mind to Source God. Our first

sleepiness gets heavy. And start

thoughts, “Please, God Source,

reading again.

give me the right thoughts.”

Our first prayers- rub both the

– Now we are ready to sleep. Put

palms thinking of our Mother as

away the book. Flip over to the

our left palm and our Father as

right side. Start reciting a mantra

our right palm in gratefulness.

that makes us feel connected to

Feel every cell in our body

Source God. Enter into the heart

grateful to our Mother & Father.

like allowing ourselves to float

Place it over our eyelids in

away into the womb of Light.

gratitude.

– Step into timelessness of sleep

Let gratefulness be our vibrancy

like meditation. The mind

gifted by the depth of our sleep.

flows into states of deep sleep

We are now the vibrancies that

where dream occurrence is rare.

align and manifest all that our

With practice, in this womb

heart intends.

state, we gradually activate more awareness of the mantra

Gratitude oh Beloved Sleep

vibration of our unconscious

Goddess,

mind connected to Source

To whom gifts our mind the

God. In this sleep, our mind

grandness of our Now.

is incubated like a caterpillar turning to be a butterfly. We

Interesting observations of yogic

transform our humans into

sleep:

Angelic. This yogic sleep reduces in time due to its depth and intensity and ability to serve the mind and body in rejuvenation.

• In-depth sleep, there are no dreams. Sleep is like death.

• Sleeping hours reduce.

• Wake up feeling like we slept ‘hundred years.

– Upon waking up, the first thoughts on arising out of sleep are reaching out to the mantra

• Wake up with a mind that is crystal clear.

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Inspiring Our Kids to Listen to Us

A

by Crystal Presence

bstract: PARENTING: We

There are different reasons with

want our kids to listen

different resolutions to why our

to us. We ask them

kids are not hearing to us. When

nicely to do something,

we take the time to get to the core

and nothing happens. The first

of their experience, we can create

thing we need to do is get to the

resolutions that are optimal for

core of why they are not listening.

their individual needs. Some things

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we can explore to inspire our kids to

might be simply tired, hungry, not

listen to us.

feeling well, having issues with family interactions or physical conditions

"The first thing you need to do

that could be affecting them. When

is figure out why they are not

we take the time to get to the core

listening. This lack of response is a

of their experience, we can create

symptom, not the actual problem"

resolutions that are optimal for their

Amy McCready

individual needs.

We want our kids to listen to us. We

As we explore and discover, we can…

ask them nicely to do something,

Ask the question, "What is the nature

and nothing happens. We wonder if

of experiencing our kids wanting to

they heard us, then repeat it with no

listen and respond to us in all the

response. As our frustration escalates,

most beneficial ways?"

and we say it one more time. We wonder why our kids are not inspired

Notice our state of being. Breathe,

to listen to us. Amy McCready,

move, and vibrate our energy with

parenting educator and founder of

the intent to connect and release any

Positive Parenting, says that kids

contraction in our bodies. Breathe and

not listening are among the most

notice the tone and energy behind

common frustrations she hears from

what we want to say. Do we want

parents. She brings a warm voice of

sound blaming, shaming, judging,

support to us when she supports us

or boring? All they hear is blah, blah,

to get the core of why they are not

blah? Or do you want to be alive,

listening. She urges us to address this.

present, and inspiring to listen to?

It often leads to other behavior issues such as tantrums, defiance, and

Let them feel we want to connect

talking back.

with them. Breathe, get down to their level, make eye contact, and talk to

There are different reasons with

them in a gentle caring way.

different resolutions to why our kids are not listening to us. As parents, we

Avoid saying, "I'm worried about

need to explore and discover what is

you." Being continuously worried can

really going on with each child. They

make kids wonder what is so wrong

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with them that we worry so much.

that," we can simply say "hands-

Perhaps say "I'm concerned about…"

off," Or instead of "don't stand in the

as a way to let them know we care.

road," we can say "stand over here."

Perhaps say, "I'm wondering what is

It is amazing how quickly our kids

really feeling right now? Be honest

respond to that!

with ourselves as we ask, "does Notice that too many "no's" make

worrying work?

our kids want to stop listening. A Ditch the "don't" word. The most

simple "no' is sometimes the easiest

common example is when we tell

and the best thing to do. When use

someone, "Don't think of a pink

"yes' we get to have a better chance

elephant in the room," the first thing

of inspiring them to tune into what

they think of is a pink elephant!

we have to say. Instead of just saying

So instead of saying "don't touch

"No, not now," we could say "Yes, you

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can do it later after we get home," or

to address homework, take the time

instead of saying "No, cookies now,"

to focus on their strengths and their

we can say, "Yes, we can have some

progress. Use opportunities to know

for dessert tonight.

that making mistakes is okay. Ask, "What did you learn from choosing

Remember that our kids want to

that answer?" As for family issues,

express their power. We can let

listen our best to see them from their

them exert their power (within our

perspective. Then set a time to turn

boundaries, of course) by allowing

on music, dance, and move energy!

them to pick out their clothes, decide

Clear the pathways for sharing each

which book they want us to read, and

other's experiences, perspectives,

other things such as letting them play

and time for coming up with

in puddles to their heart's content

resolutions.

Keep it short. To get our kid's attention, we have to keep it very

About the author: Crystal is a

short and to the point!

certified expansion guide, author, coach, and facilitator for the live

Thank them in advance for what

event called Freedom at the

you want them to do. For example,

Core. She is also the instructor

"thanks for putting your muddy

and coach for her online course,

boots on the doormat." Appreciating

Freedom f rom the Inside Out.

them in advance shows our trust

Crystal is known for the fun and

in them and Inspires them to do

empowering ways she supports

the right thing. It enhances our

people in bringing forth the

connection, increasing the chance

experiences they want in their

they will do it again.

lives. She now has a program for parents who wish to explore and

Talk in a loving assuming tone. For

experience new leading-edge

example, a simple comment could

ways to make parenting more

be, "I notice that the garbage hasn't

accessible and more fun. She is

gone out. What is your plan for taking

writing a series of children's books

it out?" This inspires our kids to listen

that embrace the principles of

and develop a quick plan if they did

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Relationships The interconnectiveness among all human beings and, consequently, the relationships among us are the focus of this section. The dynamics of the web of connections we make is one of the most prominent aspects of human existence: how we interlace with each other’s existence in a meaningful way.

What Is and What Isn't Love

by Johanna Kern

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D

o we choose to love? Or

mind is Romantic Love, the one that

is Love a 'predicament,'

fills us with passion, changes our

a 'situation,' a 'mental or

heartbeat, and makes us devoted

emotional disruption' that

to the "one and only" person in the

happens to us?

entire world.

There are as many views and theories

However, Love, as most of us have

of what Love is about as there are

already found out, has many faces.

people who have given thought to that intriguing and exciting subject.

There is motherly/fatherly Love, the biological bond most of us discovered

Is Love a feeling, an emotion, or a

as early as we were in our mother's

state of mind? Is it the best thing that

womb.

can ever happen to us, or a disaster Then there is family Love, known to

which can ruin our life?

us through our connections with Or is Love a "predicament," a

our siblings, grandparents, or other

"situation," a "mental or emotional

relatives.

disruption" that happens to us?

Some of us feel Love for our pets, Questions like these have been

nature, town, country, or the entire

perpetrated by numerous writers,

globe. Some people say that they love

poets, performers, other artists,

humankind.

psychologists, philosophers, and those who have ever been or have hoped to

Some describe "Love" as the feeling

be in Love.

they have when talking about their life, career, house, car, computer, iPod,

We are all Lovers by nature. And that's

iPhone, cellphone, or other things

because, whether we are aware of it or

they own or want to purchase.

not, we always have loved (one way or another), and we are filled with Love.

No matter with whom or what, we all have discovered ways of "falling in

When we are talking about Love,

Love" or "loving" whoever or whatever

usually the first thing that comes to

we found desirable and "worthy" of

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the investment of our time, energy,

Love as one of the basic human drives,

thought, and heart.

similar to hunger or thirst.

We all know Love, if not through our

The conventional view of Love in

own experience, then at least through

biology explains that sex drives,

observation or life wisdom which

partner preference, and attachment

taught us about the existence of such

are governed by the primary

enormous power.

neurochemicals: testosterone, estrogen, dopamine, oxytocin, and vasopressin.

Of course, there are emotions

It further concludes that the sex drive

associated with sharing Love in

in those who have multiple sexual

a romantic relationship, such as

encounters evolved because of the

passion, tenderness, longing, and

biological need for mating with a

simply the joy of being together. But

range of partners. At the same time,

those are emotions, not Love.

Romantic Love is a sign of focusing on mating with one partner only.

A biological scientist would argue

Attachment is a result of a biological

with us because they tend to view

need to pair to raise one's offspring.

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Perhaps that point of view agrees

are present when we embrace our

with you, and I fully respect that.

partner, touch them and hold their

However, many couples choose not

hand. When we kiss the beloved lips

to have children. Their relationships

and close our eyes with happiness –

are not about reproduction.

but those are not Love. Those are

They want to be together for the

chemical reactions in our body.

sake of being together, that's all.

That's what they are. Calling them

The number of such couples is

Love is a huge understatement and,

constantly growing opposite sex,

frankly, a scientific mistake. Some

same-sex – you name it. Would we

people similarly crave hamburgers

tell them that they are not in Love

(I'm not saying they want to have

because they don't populate the

sex with them. I'm saying they

planet? Of course not! Of course,

WANT them more than anything

they love each other, and there is no

else: right here, right now). And

doubt about that.

once they get their longed-for hamburger, they close their eyes

Yes, the neurochemicals and

with happiness when their lips

emotions associated with them

touch it for the first time.

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Yep. The chemical reactions and

feel Love, and that's how it comes to

emotions associated with them kick

life".

in when we experience something (or someone) with our senses, up close or

Interestingly enough, you might

from afar—no questions about that.

have a point there. And you might be

But – is this Love?

right and wrong at the same time.

You may shake your head at this

Before we come to any conclusions,

moment, shrug your shoulders and

let us explore Love's topic in more

add, "Science deals with intellect,

depth before establishing what we

while Love is a matter of the heart. We

want to, or need to, feel or think

don't think Love into existence. We

about Love.

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Some of us fear Love. Some of us

Love and happiness go hand in hand.

expect that finding someone to love

You never suffer because of Love. You

will resolve our problems. Some treat

only suffer when your expectations

Love as a step to personal growth.

are not being met – whatever they

Others don't believe in Love and only

might be.

settle for sex.

Love is a growing process. There is Let us not close our eyes and ears

nothing finite about Love and loving.

to anything new to us, unusual, or perhaps challenging our views in

The only thing that will never change

some way.

is that Love IS power. Lack of Love IS a lack of power.

Let's see. Let's hear.

Let us Love. Let us be loved. And let us Let us be open and loving when it

be Love.

comes to the topic of Love.

According to the Master Teachings of Hope's ancient wisdom, Love is a powerful energy that flows freely between us and through us. We share that energy not only with our loved ones but also with our environment.

Love is one of the energies affecting the world AND one of the internal processes that we all go through, sooner or later – at one point or another.

There are 7 aspects to the energy of Love: Joy, Acceptance, Lowliness (as in being humble), Equality, Surrender, Equilibrium and Reconciliation. These qualities of the Universal Love pamper our Romantic Love daily.

About the author: Johanna Kern is a transformational teacher and multiple award-winning authors of "365 (+1) Affirmations to Create A Great Life", "Secrets of Love for Everyone," "Master, and the GreenEyed Hope," etc. She practices and shares the Master Teachings of HOPE, helping people find their own power and progress in all life areas. Johanna's story received international attention, winning praise by readers in North America and Europe. She was endorsement by three world-renowned experts: Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Jerry Solfvin, Ph.D., and Brian Van der Horst. johannakern.com & www.facebook. com/JohannaKernAuthor

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Metaphysics

Signs You are Ready to Become a Professional Tarot Reader

S

By Humanity Healing

o, you want to be a

Have you pondered, played your

professional tarot reader. You

own cards, and the Magician

want to use your intuition to

tells you are you ready to

help people gain perspective

translate your hobby skills into

and understanding. You want to assist

employment? Here are eight

them with their most challenging

signs that you have made

concerns and helping them to find

the leap f rom beginner to a

guidance is your ultimate goal.

professional tarot reader.

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How to know you are prepared?

You Need to have Different Spreads to work with

YOU KNOW THE MEANINGS OF THE HEART

It is not enough to be familiar with the Celtic Cross - a single spread is

Reading each tarot card without

not suitable for all situations. You

hesitation or looking at a book

must have many spreads in your tarot

is essential to do a professional

portfolio, from layouts involved for

reading. Your knowledge base and

more extended readings and complex

your exclusive relationship with

questions to short three-card spread

the cards have flourished. You can

for 15-minute readings.

understand the nuances of meaning in each one on different channels

And you can quickly identify which

and concerning other topics.

spread makes sense for a particular customer.

Knowing the meanings allows you to quickly interpret - and gives you space to use your intuition.

YOU RARELY DRAW BLANK WHEN TAKING READING

YOU ARE COMFORTABLE TO PRACTICE WITH PEOPLE YOU DO NOT KNOW You don't just read to friends and family. Whether you are promoting

Sometimes even the best of us

yourself through social media or

are perplexed when making a

sitting on a park bench, your goal

connection between the Tarot

is to share your skill with the world

Arcanum cards, or we may use it the

at large. You understand people's

wrong way.

questions and reactions and trust your own intuition.

It will happen, but you must be beyond the point where it frequently occurs before you start reading

YOU CAN SYNTHESIZE CARDS

professionally. You have techniques and strategies that you can

The tarot's real magic occurs when

implement when these blanks occur.

the reader takes all the cards in

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all their respective positions and

the art of storytelling what your

interprets the complete layout in

intuition is giving to you.

relation to the question. After all, reciting separately the meaning

You know how to proceed with the

of each card is not a read - it is

reading from beginning to end.

a list of things - nothing but a It sounds obvious, right? But even

laundry list.

the most skilled tarot reader can The synthesis allows your intuition

forget that reading begins when your

and practice with the cards to come

prospective customer visits your site

together - and you have mastered

or contacts you.

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You are a professional and have your

have a personal philosophy around

own means of registering customers

the tarot, centered on fate, will, or

and engaging their initial questions.

some combination of the two. You

You have a process, and you treat your

can even specialize in specific topics.

practice like the business it is.

Self-awareness is the goal of readers and seekers - play with your personal

YOU KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT CUSTOMERS

strengths.

AVOID BEING A "RUNAWAY PSYCHIC"

No matter how skillful you are, if you practice tarot as a business, you will

It will be times that the tarot cards

have troubled people going through

will show up on your mind and give

your practice. This is a vulnerable

you some insight into other people's

arena for customers, attracting people

lives, even when they are not asking

in sensitive locations and skeptics

you for consultations or advice. Resist

who are closed to new information.

the urge to provide them with a" 'free "consultation because there is a

Likewise, some people seek validation

code of conduct to be respected and

and will not be satisfied with an

observed when working with People's

answer that differs from their wishes.

spiritual and emotional lives. Just say

You have your own methods to stay

something if you are asked.

calm and stop spreading volatile situations.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TYPE OF TAROT READER YOU ARE

LEARN HOW TO CLEAN AND CONSECRATE TAROT CARDS For people who use the tarot, it is essential to take care of the deck,

You have a fundamental

know how to clean the cards, energize

understanding of your relationship

them, and consecrate them.

with the cards. You know what kind

Besides, you should be careful in

of readings you are targeting, be it a

general, because, with time and

complex and in-depth undertaking

frequent use, the cards tend to

or a quick and dirty analysis. You

crumple at the ends or to become

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more curved. Therefore, it is also

safe and balanced, and it will fall

important to keep them clean and

sideways and wet your cards.

cared for.

Another way to clean tarot cards is Tarot Hygiene: Learn How to cleanse

to use crystals. Quartz is ideal for

your Tarot cards.

cleaning, and amethyst, in addition to cleaning, attracts positive

The most used form is salt. It is

energies. Place the stones on the

recommended to put salt in a glass

cards for a few hours, shuffling

of water. Place the cards on the table

occasionally.

(with a clean sheet) with the glass

One More method is to pass the

on top of them. Be sure the cup is

cards over a candle's flame, as the

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fire burns the negative energies.

Still, it is not highly recommended, as they can get dirty with soot or

ENERGIZING AND CONSECRATING TAROT CARDS

burn if you are not careful. We would not personally recommend this

The energy of the deck is personal

technique.

and can be done in many ways. A widely used method is to leave the

After a reading, and before you put

deck overnight in the moonlight.

your cards away, light an incense to

Another is to put the herbs on the

cleanse the atmosphere where the

cards, but you must protect them

cards will be stored (not the cards).

first with a cloth. The herbs can be

Sometimes a reading releases different

lavender or star anise.

sets of energies and frequencies that can attach themselves to the

Another way to energize them is

environment and the cards. A good

to surround them with the four

incense such as a Camphor one can

elements. The deck is placed

help avoid this problem.

in the middle, and around it, a lighted candle, a glass of water,

HYGIENE AND CARE TO USE TAROT CARDS

incense, and a stone.

To consecrate them is to give

It is recommended, before reading,

them a purpose and a very

to wash your hands, both those who

personal touch. You must

read and those who consult.

meditate and think about what you want the cards to do and

Store your Tarot cards in a wooden

their fate.

box or in a closed cabinet, wrapped in a cloth made of natural fibers.

Many Tarot readers say that your

Sunlight and even artificial light

tarot gains "knowledge with us

damage the color of the images.

and with time. It is also beneficial to have your tarot Deck cross

Use a weight to place the cards when

an ocean. The changing of

storing them, thus preventing the

frequencies and latitudes also

ends from bending or curving.

helps the clarity of the Cards.

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The Consciousness of Green

G

By Judi Lynch

reen sustains our human

Green is the color of the sixth ray.

lives with beauty, health,

Those who come in through this

healing, and inspiration.

ray are devoted, true believers

It brings harmony and

with unshakable faith. Loving and

peaceful feelings. It calms and

sweet when they are at peace

soothes us, reminds us of the beauty

but highly emotional when they

of Spring and Earth as a whole.

are challenged. A green-ray soul can be extremely single-minded,

Our souls incarnate through the

even passionate, leaving behind

seven rays of spiritual consciousness.

all reason to follow something

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they believe in. When they evolve

Green is a harmonious and peaceful

and grow through life, they can

color that brings in feelings of

learn to be more open-minded and

calm and wellness. It makes us feel

independent in their thinking.

safe and helps us to balance our emotions. Since there are countless

The heart chakra is a beautiful

shades of green, different hues can

green. It focuses on compassion,

have other effects on our brain. Dark

love for self and others, balance,

forest green can signify conservation.

harmony, hope and promotes self-

The biblical meaning of green is

esteem. Connection to your soul and

resurrection and immortality, a

sending love out to others around

symbol of Spring.

you is processed through the heart chakra. When suffering unbalanced

People who love green are known

energies, the heart chakra can be

as down-to-earth, generous, loving,

filled with grief, disconnection,

and loyal. Green is also known as a

hopelessness, and rejection. Sending

color of intelligence. Psychologists

green-light energy helps in healing a

have even suggested that painting

hurting heart.

a child's room green enhances their intellect and encourages learning. It

A green aura represents new

can also represent luck, hope, money,

changes, envy, growth, exploration,

and help concentration. This color

healing, unconditional love through

represents freshness and harmony.

earthly energies. It is also associated

It's also the signal to "go" at a traffic

with charity, prosperity, and peace.

light. The color green is restful for the

Natural-born healers, those with

eyes. It helps anyone who has to sit

green auras, radiate life force

at a computer screen for extended

through their hands and have a

periods.

healing effect on them. Gentle, caring, nurturing, and peace-

From grass and trees to the

filled, they make great gardeners,

nurturing food we eat, green

nurses, veterinarians just all-around

nourishes us and supplies us with

caregivers. Their healing forces are

the air we breathe. Foods such as

great with people, animals, and

avocados, broccoli, kale, grapes,

plants of all kinds.

spinach, and artichokes promote OM TIMES | July 2021

good health and healing. Green is a

Green is the color of the energy

beautiful combination of yellow and

surrounding those who want to

blue. The different Crystals such as

help heal the Earth. Sustainable

emerald, green amethyst, malachite,

living is a lifestyle that exists to

and aventurine have different healing

reduce the use of the Earth's

properties. Malachite is believed to

natural resources. Living an

heal the heart chakra, bringing in

eco-friendly existence involves

peace along with infusing energetic

empathy for those in the future,

transformation. Emerald is said to

rejecting luxuries, reducing our

promote kindness and compassion.

carbon footprint. Recycle, reuse,

Long in legend, Jade enhances

reduce and use less energy is

wisdom and brings good luck.

living green.

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Green has often been known as a

as we are alive on Earth, we need the

color of jealousy or greed, but it is

glorious color of green to survive.

more than this. Green sustains our human lives with beauty, health, healing, and inspiration. It brings harmony and peaceful feelings. It calms and soothes us, reminds us of the beauty of Spring and Earth as a whole. Living, breathing, working to replenishing resources that enrich us and help us evolve and grow spiritually, green is magical. As long

Judi Lynch is a psychic medium, intuitive counselor, healing channel, and author. She is president of the Crystal Healing Foundation, Inc., a 501(c) spiritual charity and writer for OM Times Magazine. She has authored two books, Friends with Lights and Conscious Ascension, and has read for clients worldwide.

To learn more or contact for a session, see judilynch.com.

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Personal Growth & Development

We grow as individuals as we face challenges and overcome life’s obstacles. This section is dedicated to helping you chart your course.

Can Money Buy Happiness?

By Darshan Goswami, M.S., P.E.

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M

oney can't buy

the happiness we expect in our

happiness… but it can

daily lives. These raised aspirations

buy a certain degree

can be toxic. While earning more

of life satisfaction,

money makes you happy in the short

depending on how much wealth you

term, you quickly adjust to your new

have and how you spend it.

wealth—and everything it buys you.

More money can also lead to more

Many people share a fairly common

stress and impairs our ability to enjoy

misconception. They believe that

those things.

having lots of money can make you happy. Some even say that the more

Depending on how it is used, money

money you have, the happier you can

can create powerful, positive changes

be. Others believe that having money

in the world. Having money allows us

is not spiritually or socially acceptable.

to function more easily in the world,

Money is the root cause of all evil. Are

provide comfort in our lives and in

any of these beliefs really true? To

the lives of others. However, because

answer this question, begin by asking

attachment to money is based on

yourself, what does money mean to

fear, it always creates insecurity. The

you, and how do you treat it when you

desire to have more money, and

have it? Here's what science has to say.

thereby feel more secure, never ends.

Security can never come from money

The new science of happiness starts

alone. Some of the people who have

with a simple insight: human beings

the most money are also the most

are never satisfied. In other words,

insecure. Does this mean you must

once a person's needs are met,

give up the desire to attain wealth?

additional income mostly goes to

Not necessarily.

satisfying wants which, beyond a very initial level, doesn't lead to additional

In and of itself, money is neither good

happiness in life. A study of more than

nor bad. We choose to do with the

12,000 people from various social and

money that determines if it will have

economic groups found no correlation

a positive effect on others, society, the

between income and happiness. The

world, and ourselves. Sure, money

single biggest culprit is that having

could make a difference in many

money raises our aspirations about

aspects of your life, but could it really

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improve your happiness? Numerous

ability or being sociable, marriage,

studies and surveys suggest that

family, and status make a person

money may help buy happiness

happy.

when used to meet basic needs.

The total happiness value money

Studies of happiness in several

may produce can only be increased

countries have found that while

when shared with others or spent on

money makes these achievements

causes those in need.

more attainable, it has little to do with joy. The exception is found

HAPPINESS GUIDE

among the very poor compared to an individual's characteristic sense

Like many people, you probably

of wellbeing. Some psychologists

think achievements such as

believe happiness is genetic. Other

education, intelligence, athletic

scientists say they may have located

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an important area of the brain

run, not some grand achievements

where happiness is generated.

that only give you a lift for a short while.

While these ideas are debated, CONCLUSION

we don't have to wait to begin discovering happiness within ourselves. Each of our lives is

Money alone will not make you happy.

sprinkled with ample opportunities

Decades of research show that while

for achieving happiness. Search

money doesn't buy happiness, it

for the small things that give you

may reduce unhappiness for some

a little laugh or a smile. Take time

people. After a minimum income

to be with your family and friends.

level that allows people to satisfy

These are the treasures that will

their basic needs, the relationship

enhance your happiness in the long

between financial and emotional

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wellbeing is weak. Just having

you by praying to God from your

money doesn't necessarily translate

heart. Through sincere prayer and

into greater happiness, but using

mindful meditation, you will attain

it well can. Besides, the evidence

the highest achievement in life - the

shows that valuing time over money

discovery of your eternal happiness

promotes social connections, which

with God.

leads to a host of benefits and happiness. According to spiritual

You can rarely have both Money and

wisdom, real happiness is the natural

Happiness. Which will you choose?

byproduct of unselfish service to God and humanity without any ulterior motives. Those who spent money on others or donated it to charity reported a greater sense of happiness than those who lavished it on themselves. This experience of unselfish sharing with others can make us truly happy. Spending money on experiences has been found to bring more profound

Darshan Goswami has more than 40 years of experience in the energy field. He worked as a Project Manager for Renewable Energy, Micro-grid, and Smart Grid projects at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in Pittsburgh. Earlier, he retired as Chief (Head) of Renewable Energy from the United States Department

happiness than spending it on

of Agriculture (USDA) in

possessions.

Washington, DC. Mr. Goswami is a registered Professional

On some level, I believe that happiness comes from the people you care about most and that true happiness results from sharing generously of yourself, your mind, knowledge, emotion, and spirit with all those who come in contact with you. Genuine relationships are where true happiness comes from. So, be an optimist, do kind deeds for others, explore the deeper resources within

Engineer (PE) with a passion and commitment to promote, develop and deploy Renewable Energy and the Hydrogen Economy. In dedication to his life serving humanity and poor people, the author supports the India Foundation for Children Education and Care, Inc. (www. ifcare.org).

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What is Spiritual Maturity, and Do I Have It?

W

by Darity Wesley

hether we have

there value to these spiritual practices?

been on the spiritual

Any truly significant value from

path for a very long

integrating them into my life?”

time or are just now

beginning, we may find ourselves

The answer lies deep within each of

asking: “What is the value in this? Is

us, and it’s different for every person.

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We are drawn to spiritual practices

want a specific outcome, or we will

because, at some level, we know that

be disappointed. We will not be

it leads to the cultivation of our very

happy unless this outcome happens.

own life mastery … spiritual maturity.

That is attachment. The practice of

Spiritual maturity ultimately results

non-attachment requires that we

in a deep, inner sense of happiness

consciously choose to let go of our

and fulfillment. So, what, you may

attachment. We decide that we don’t

ask, is spiritual maturity, and how do

mind what happens, that we will be

I get there?

happy no matter how it turns out.

This really does take practice; we

There are many aspects of spiritual

need to remind ourselves.

maturity. One of the most important is to consciously allow our creative

Spiritual maturity also includes

power. Whether it be God, our

compassion and tolerance. Both

Higher Self, our Spirit, our Heart

compassion and tolerance support

energy, or whatever we call it - to

our journey through life, particularly

flow. We allow it to work through our

in how we interact with and relate

lives so that happiness, fulfillment,

to the rest of humanity. It helps

and what makes us feel good to

to remember that everyone is on

come from inside ourselves. We

their own soul journey. Everyone is

recognize that it’s an inside job.

really driving their own bus through

Another aspect of spiritual maturity

life. We only drive our own. Hence,

is non-attachment. We are no longer

compassion and tolerance allow us

attached to the outcome of any

to bless them on their journey, love

situation. Being attached is when

them, and understand they are here

we set our feelings on a particular

to make their own choices about

situation turning out a certain

everything.

way. We have an attachment to a particular outcome. We hope our

Spiritual maturity also includes

book becomes a New York Times

introspection. The process of

Best Seller. We don’t want it to rain

introspection consists of the concepts

on our picnic. We want someone

of going within, tapping into our

we like to notice us. We want our

intuition, using our inherent Wisdom,

favorite sports team to win. We

learning about ourselves. In other

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words, allowing and understanding

When we can touch that stillness,

that introspection is more than

that space between thoughts

just looking inside to see what is

and that space between words

going on with us. It will enable us

strengthen our inner senses and

to explore more of who we really

inner awareness. This helps us in

are. The exploration, the expression,

the outer world as much as it does

and Wisdom from that discovery

in exploring our inner world.

are all part of what comes with introspection. When we quiet our

Spiritual maturity also includes

minds, we find great opportunities

authenticity. Being authentic

to connect with the underlying

is being real no mattered our

stillness beneath everything.

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are dressed or where we are. It is

As we emerge more and more as our

about expressing who we are in full

true selves, we will find a place, an

consciousness. Allowing ourselves

experience, to remind ourselves to

the heart space to know that we

feel grateful for the grace of all lives.

are okay no matter who or what is

We awake for the pleasure of love and

happening to us.

life and wholeness and peacefulness.

Becoming or allowing ourselves to be

Integrity is another attribute of

thankful for what is in our lives and the

spiritual maturity. It is about living

beauty that surrounds us at all times

our lives in congruence with our

brings with it remarkable changes

values, congruent in mind, body,

within our mind, our body, and our

and Spirit. It means we are living

Spirit. It is a sensation that seems to

our truth. It means we are doing

clear the mind, bring us back to the

the work, the processing, and

present moment, and calm our hearts.

spiritual development, to bring our lives into a state of integrity.

Spiritual maturity establishes a

Integrity and authenticity go

basis for us to learn more and more

together. And remember, above all,

about ourselves as we move into the

it is an inside job!

extended, expanded versions of who we really are. Are you on the path to

Lastly, one of the most important aspects of spiritual maturity is the energetic feeling and gratitude. No matter where we are on our path or how much work we feel we have yet to do, one of the most supportive and expansive practices is feeling and expressing our gratitude for everything. We get so busy in our lives with what’s happening next that we tend to allow only brief periods to experience that fundamental stillness that represents who we truly are.

spiritual maturity?

Darity Wesley is an award-winning, best-selling author, a lawyer, a speaker, a Death Diva, and a Wisdom Sharer. She has traveled the spiritual, metaphysical, and personal development paths for many decades.

She has become a powerful resource for those awakening to their evolving consciousness. Her ‘Wisdom for the New Reality’ messages goes out monthly to her international community for free. Sign up on her website www.DarityWesley.com.

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Books

Kass Thomas, a best-selling author, today released her newest book, Dancing with Riches, a self-empowerment manual that encourages readers to change tracks if the journey they are on is not working for them. Within the pages of this book, readers will find a guide to transform negative into positive, and to come through a front-runner, even in limiting situations.

This book is for those on a journey of self-discovery and selfempowerment who wish to truly dance with the riches of their life. Throughout the pages of this book, individuals are guided to change their existing reality by clearing the energy around them and erasing their dense effects across time and space.

Dancing with Riches teaches the transformational tools of Access Consciousness® to clear the energy around you, bring more joy into your life, and manifest your best self.

Through Kass’ experiences, you will learn about continual evolution and using the flow of energy, which includes both intuition and instinct, to create movement even when the waters around you are stagnant.

The tools in this book are interchangeable and can be used in your daily life to alter your way of thinking. Learn how to take risks to avoid predictable or undesirable futures, and how to change your point of view to create the life you desire. Be in step with the energy of change and dance to the infectious rhythm of life.

For more information, or to purchase the cards, click the cover or visit:

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