tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50378045206008918572024-03-12T00:50:48.921-04:00Golden Age JourneySPIRITUALITY FOR 2012 AND BEYONDmanoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-461512040380093192021-08-04T11:34:00.002-04:002021-08-04T11:34:47.727-04:00An Ecovillage is Born<p>
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This will be my last post for this blog as Google is ending the email subscription service for it in August. I will instead start making public blog posts at my <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ManojTheYogi">Patreon site</a>, and to get you started I've made over 50 of my previous posts public.</p>
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The big news is that a few people have joined with me and we've purchased land for an ecovillage! Join and follow me on Patreon to read all about it!</p>
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<img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-84181288828075202652021-04-02T09:51:00.000-04:002021-04-02T09:51:01.794-04:00Patreon $1 Unlimited<p><iframe width="440" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jI5xX75CzWA" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>I'm now offering unlimited $1 per month subscriptions to my <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ManojTheYogi">Patreon site</a>. I also published a hardcover version of my <a href="https://amzn.to/3a2EO6z">Kriya Yoga book</a> that also includes color pictures. Starting on May 2nd, 2021, I'll be hosting live streamed yoga classes based on my Kriya Yoga book for Patreon subscribers. See you there!</p>
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<img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-84956319637831621572020-11-08T18:15:00.000-05:002020-11-08T18:15:08.831-05:00Manoj the Yogi on Kriya Yoga Book<p><iframe width="440" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yKEW1K2DwpM" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>I just published a book called "<a href="https://read.amazon.ca/kp/embed?asin=B08MNVY4DQ&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_lkvPFbXRFYYF8&tag=golde05-20">Manoj the Yogi on Kriya Yoga</a>"</p>
<p>This book is a synthesis of all the knowledge and experience I've acquired over the last 19 years, distilled down to its essential essence. The book has been written with both the beginner and expert in mind. The book is short, simple and to the point. It contains just 7 lessons, where the first is suitable for all and the last for only the most advanced yogis, everything essential is covered. I've taken inspiration from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, as well as the work of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Paramahansa Yogananda in creating this condensed yet extremely effective course on Kriya Yoga.</p><p>Love always.</p>
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<img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-32246636837580754632020-05-19T10:39:00.000-04:002020-05-19T10:39:43.454-04:00Patreon $1 Sale on Now<p><iframe width="440" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mKlu3pSIgbk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>My Patreon site is now live at: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ManojTheYogi">patreon.com/ManojTheYogi</a></p><p>The $1 per month sale price has started and will end at 12 pm noon on Wednesday, May 20th, as per the local time in Ottawa, Canada.</p><p>That should give you about 24 hours to sign up at this price, after which the price increases to $5 per month until next Wednesday when it reaches its final point of $10 per month.</p><p>For full details of what you get, please see the video at my Patreon site and thanks so much for joining me in this new adventure.</p><p>Love always.</p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-88768440809001801602020-05-16T19:23:00.000-04:002020-05-16T19:23:26.877-04:00Patreon? Requesting Feedback<p><iframe width="440" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZY4KeXLR2w" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>Just a heads up that I'm planning to start a Patreon page where I'll offer weekly live streamed yoga classes.</p><p>I'm primarily interested in creating a community, and motivating people to sign up sooner rather than later. To achieve that goal, I'll offer the $1 price for the first 24 hours, then $5 for the next 6 days. After that $10 is a fair price to join, but anyone can still email me if that's too much of a financial burden and I'll give them the $1 price.</p><p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-37687849194071202822020-04-20T19:28:00.000-04:002020-04-20T19:28:11.916-04:00And the People Stayed Home<p><img height:="" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49798150802_9cf08982b3_w.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>The above poem is by Catherine M. O’Meara and was posted on <a href="https://the-daily-round.com/2020/03/16/in-the-time-of-pandemic/">her blog</a> on March 16, 2020. On the same day Deepak Chopra <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DeepakChopra/posts/10157079181385665">shared it</a>, making it a worldwide sensation, for it beautifully captures the start of humanity's journey to the Golden Age.</p><p>My own journey started in 2001 <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com/2010/03/after-911-rumors-began-flying-around.html">after 9/11</a>, then in 2010 I started this blog and all of you joined me, now with the events of 2020, I feel strong evidence for the start of the Galactic Shift is finally here. The Founders in 2007 had this <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com/2010/03/founders.html">to say</a>.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /> <blockquote style="color: #666;">As planet Earth moves into the more intense frequency bands of the Galactic Shift (between 2015 and 2035), she and one to two billion humans will move into fourth density. Another four to five billion souls will be unable to make the shift from third to fourth density and will leave Earth and reincarnate on other planets more suited to their level of soul growth.<br />
</blockquote><p>As detailed in my blog, the Founders expected the events we are seeing today to have started in 2015, but now that they have started, it's probably a good time to re-read my blog and start thinking about taking real action to be fully prepared for the next 20 years, for our arrival in the Golden Age is now in sight.</p><p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-50344612380429514182020-01-05T17:14:00.000-05:002020-01-05T17:14:53.445-05:00The Hidden Teachings of Jesus<p><iframe width="440" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Upj5U1jx_WA" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>This is a video by Steve Johnson, whose experience of the breathless state I posted previously here: <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com/2013/05/steve-on-breathless-state.html">Steve on the Breathless State</a>. In the second half of this video, starting at the 27:44 mark, Steve provides an excellent explanation of Kechari Mudra and I've included an excerpt below. Finally, I was honored that Steve chose to mention me at the end of the video. Thank you Steve!</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">The purpose of a mudra is to redirect the energy flows in the body. The reason kechari mudra is known as the king of all mudras is because of the benefit it bestows.<br />
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Number one: the ability to stop the Breath or go Breathless which quiets the mind considerably.<br />
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Number two: it completes the electric circuit; it attaches the spine to the brain.<br />
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Number three: allows the Sadhaka to balance the Nadis which then makes the electricity of the body go up the Sushumna or Brahmin Nadi.<br />
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Number four: allows the Sadhaka to rub a nerve center which leads to Dharana or one-pointedness of mind.<br />
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Number five: turns on your Kundalini or opens the knot at the Muladhara Chakra.<br />
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Number six: allows the Sadhaka to push on a nerve center shutting off all sensory perception.<br />
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Number seven: allows the Sadhaka to drink from the Fountain of Youth or King Arthur's Holy Grail. Absorption of the liquid the brain makes which is also known as Ayahuasca, Amrita, or DMT with the tongue separates the consciousness from the mind. This is the land of milk and honey.<br />
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Now that is quite a list there so let's talk about them one at a time...<br />
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My bhakti discovery has been tightly connected to that of the Kriya Yoga of Babaji, the atemporal himalayan yogi becoming famous thanks to Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi. I have been initiated to Kriya Yoga by my friend Sita in the spring of 2015. The two days initiation started with a puja in Babaji’s honour. That ceremony was something new for me, I did not feel very confortable with all that. I was finding that time was passing slowly during that initiation’s weekend; the practices proposed seemed to me very soft compared to the ones I was used to. In particular no retentions, no unending pranayamas. I had the wrong feeling in those days of the necessity of pretty strong ways of practicing. With Kriya Yoga I will learn in between other things that the strong ways are not always necessary. I had the need of strong practices at a certain moment in time but that is not everyone’s rule.<br />
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At the end of the initiation the last practice is dedicated to Babaji. While the practice has not even begun Babaji’s mantra, that I did not know yet the previous day, becomes active, it starts to resonate in me. Everything happens as if I was hearing someone reciting the mantra close to my ear, strongly, much faster that I could master consciously... Babaji is appearing to me, he opens his arms and shelters me in there in a cascade of benevolent grace; the connection with that lineage of yogis and yoginis is sealed.<br />
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Om Kriya Babaji Namah Aum!<br />
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<blockquote style="color: #666;">Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system. It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator. The network is peer-to-peer and transactions take place between users directly, without an intermediary.<br />
</blockquote><p>The second coin by market value is <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/">Ethereum</a>. It started 2017 at US$8.35 and peaked on January 13, 2018, at over US$1400. I bought some Ethereum coins at the end of May 2017 for a price of around US$200 and in June 2017 my son built a special computer for about US$1000 to "mine" the coins. He now has mined almost three coins. From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum">Wikipedia</a>:</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.<br />
</blockquote><p>The last crypto coin/platform I want to tell you about is <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/eos/">EOS</a>. It is currently in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_coin_offering">ICO</a> phase and the platform is expected to launch shortly after the ICO completes on June 1, 2018. I invested in the ICO earlier this month on April 10, 2018 at a price of US$6.00, which in hindsight was clearly divine timing, as starting on April 11 the price began shooting up and is currently over US$19.00. From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS.IO">Wikipedia</a>:</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">EOS is a cryptocurrency token and blockchain that operates as a smart contract platform for the deployment of decentralized applications and decentralized autonomous corporations. EOS aims to become a decentralized operating system supporting industrial-scale applications, with claims to eliminate transaction fees and also conduct millions of transactions per second.<br />
</blockquote><p>I know that many people don't understand what's so special about cryptocurrencies, so here's a great <a href="https://medium.com/@maciejolpinski/why-i-no-longer-explain-ethereum-as-a-world-computer-5adf7220b3eb">article on Medium</a> that explains them beautifully. Essentially, a cryptocurrency token is an incentive, like when the company you work for gives you stock options. They are initially not worth anything, but if the company becomes successful they could be worth a lot, so you do your best to help make the company successful.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Bitcoin proved it’s possible to embed incentives in software so that the same level of coordination and efficiency is achieved without establishing legal entities, signing agreements, employment contracts etc. Bitcoin proved that economic coordination at the global scale that was previously extremely costly is now possible with pure software. This is the real breakthrough of Bitcoin, the creation of a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO).<br />
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Ethereum takes the idea of Bitcoin to the next level. It abstracts out the underlying platform so that you can focus on building other incentive structures. Ethereum does the same for DAOs. DAOs are not organisations as we normally imagine them (own stuff in the physical world, have employees etc). DAOs are pure economic coordination mechanisms. By distributing risks and rewards, DAOs can make people that never met each other contribute resources to the shared purpose.<br />
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Cryptographic tokens represent various risk/reward profiles and their holders create various incentive networks.<br />
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Web 1.0 — Static Document Networks : web of static pages connected via hyperlinks.<br />
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Web 2.0 — Social Networks : web of people connected via social links (likes, follows).<br />
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Web 3.0 — Incentive Networks: web of people connected via economic links (tokens).<br />
</blockquote><p>In 2016, I wrote about <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2016/10/the-singularity.html">The Singularity</a> and a world where machines do all the work, but if we bring DAOs into the picture, then not only do they do all the work but also make all the money :-) From <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/11/16/why-decentralized-artificial-intelligence-will-reinvent-the-industry-as-we-know-it/">Forbes</a>:</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Terra0, a project involving an augmented self-owned forest proposed by Paul Seidler and Paul Kolling from the University of Arts, Berlin. In the project, forest land ownership is structured as an AI DAO with smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Then, using drones and satellites, the AI DAO can evaluate the wood stock and decide how much and when to sell in the market. Once the project is up and running, the AI DAO can pay out debts to its initial owners and eventually turn a forest into the autonomous, self-owned entity that controls its own resources. Taking this idea further, we can imagine self-owned AV (autonomous vehicles) and robots becoming a normal part of our future economy.<br />
</blockquote><p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-725308716060516912017-01-12T23:03:00.000-05:002017-01-12T23:03:21.954-05:00Comet Annanhutak<p><img height:="" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/349/31857802876_d78a56f617_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>Above is an image of the comet Lovejoy flying past the Earth. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet">Comets</a> are essentially balls of ice and dust that begin to melt as they fly past the Sun producing a dusty gaseous tail.</p><p>According to the <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2010/03/founders.html">Founders</a>, the comet Annanhutak, as part of its 10,500 year orbit, will make its scheduled pass within 25 million miles of the Earth on May 5, 2017. This is approximately the same distance as between the Earth and Venus when they pass each other, however, the influence of Annanhutak is more significant. It is responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs about 60 million years ago when it came unusually close to the Earth during that particular pass. The Earth got hit by the icy gasses in the comet's tail causing the temperature to drop drastically to well below what the dinosaurs could withstand.</p><p>The passage of Annanhutak is the second of three major astronomical events that will assist in increasing the Earth's vibration to bring us to the Golden Age. The first was the precessional alignment in 2012 and the third will be the passage of the planetoid Nibiru in 2030.</p><p>I searched the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_near-parabolic_comets">list of near-parabolic comets</a>, which are comets with an orbit of more than 1000 years, to look for a match to Annanhutak and found a comet named "C/2015 ER61" that will reach its closest point to the Sun on May 9, 2017 at a distance of 1.050452 AU. One <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit">AU</a> equals the distance from the Earth to the Sun, so subtracting one leaves the closest possible distance to the Earth at 0.05 AU which corresponds to only 4.65 million miles. This means 25 million miles is entirely reasonable for the current pass.</p><p>The only problem is the length of the orbit, which wikipedia states is 170,000 years, so I decided to look for another source and found the <a href="http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search">Minor Planet Center Database Search</a> and entered "C/2015 ER61". This produced 3 sets of data for 3 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(astronomy)">epochs</a>, and each epoch corresponded to a different length of orbit: 7,533 years, 11,401 years and 158,133 years. These differences are caused by unknown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbation_(astronomy)">perturbations</a>, but given that 10,500 falls within this range, it may be the actual orbit once perturbations are accurately accounted for.</p><p>If you click the "Interactive Orbit Sketch" on the same page with the epoch data, you will see the orbit of the comet as shown below. The yellow ball in the center is the sun and the third orbit from the sun in light blue is the Earth. The comet orbit is dark blue when below the Earth orbit plane and yellow when above.</p><p><img height:="" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/370/32182678136_c5936d2bb5_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>Due to the passage of Annanhutak, the Founders anticipate "a mild to moderate fluctuation in Earth’s EM field in May of 2017". They also say the following:</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Because 3D humanity will already be weakened from their experience of the precessional alignment (while 4D humanity will be strengthened), the fluctuations from the comet will further accelerate the changes already underway in humanity. Add to this the likelihood that the economic and political systems of Earth will be a lot less stable, and you have a formula for dramatic change. In the event that the economic systems of the countries of Earth are still functioning in 2017, they could be severely tested by floods, strong storms and droughts attributed to the passage of the comet.<br />
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If humans decide to experience the comet’s passage in a loving instead of fearful way, any radiation or cooling of the atmosphere associated with the passage of the comet will be only minimally felt.<br />
</blockquote><p>I don't know about you, but it's been pretty cold in Ottawa this winter :)</p><p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-75405080214472003012016-10-24T20:49:00.000-04:002016-10-24T20:49:05.548-04:00The Singularity<p><iframe width="440" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rbsqaJwpu6A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>Wikipedia states the following about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity">the Singularity</a>:</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.<br />
</blockquote><p>The singularity has been talked about for decades and always seemed a long way off as little progress had been made in the field of artificial intelligence...until last year. The company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind">DeepMind</a>, acquired by Google in 2014, has built an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network">artificial neural network</a> that can think and learn just like a human being. In the video above, at the 10 minute mark, you can see how the AI learned to play some 1980's Atari video games. It started out much worse than a human, but because it is able to play and learn continuously, in a mere 24 hours it had learned to play better than any human.</p><p>One game that computers have never been able to beat a human at, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-electronic-holy-war">unless given an advantage</a>, is the ancient Chinese game of Go. Earlier this year, DeepMind's AI named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo">AlphaGo</a> finally achieved that goal, defeating world champion Lee Sedol 4 to 1 in a best of 5 match. Again, it was AlphaGo's ability to learn and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/15/google-ai-beats-go-world-champion-again-to-complete-historic-4-1-series-victory/">teach itself</a> that made this possible.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Unlike previous AI victories — such as Deep Blue’s defeat of chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, or IBM Watson’s Jeopardy! triumph in 2011 — DeepMind programmed AlphaGo to be capable of teaching itself, not just carrying out a set of fixed moves or activities.<br />
</blockquote><p>I believe this ability to teach itself and quickly surpass human ability in any task, makes artificial superintelligence and the singularity an almost certainty. This will eventually create a world where machines do all the work, leaving humans free to focus on creative and spiritual pursuits, but there may be <a href="https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU">a lot of turmoil</a> before we get there.</p><p>I recently read the book <a href="http://amzn.to/2eIrZBb">Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind</a> that discusses numerous technological advances taking place at the present time, beyond just artificial intelligence. The author, Yuval Noah Harari, believes humans are on the <a href="http://www.ynharari.com/future/articles/how-humans-will-turn-into-gods/">verge of becoming gods</a> through technology.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">geneticists have already managed to engineer genius mice that display improved memory and learning skills, and super-worms that live up to six times their normal lifespan. There is no technical reason why we could not start engineering superhumans too. Within a century or even a few decades, genetic engineering and other forms of biological engineering might enable us to make far-reaching alterations not only to our physiology, immune system, and life expectancy, but also to our intellectual and emotional capacities.<br />
</blockquote><p>That was written in 2014 and then earlier this year in 2016, Elizabeth Parrish became the first woman to actually become <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/brf-fgt042116.php">biologically younger through gene therapy</a>.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">In March 2016, the same tests taken again by SpectraCell revealed that her telomeres had lengthened by approximately 20 years, from 6.71kb to 7.33kb, implying that Parrish's white blood cells (leukocytes) have become biologically younger. These findings were independently verified by the Brussels-based non-profit HEALES (HEalthy Life Extension Company), and the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK-based charity committed to combating age-related diseases.<br />
</blockquote><p>That description led me to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere">wikipedia page on telomeres</a> where I came across the following study that was done.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">A 2013 pilot study from UCSF took 35 men with localized early-stage prostate cancer and had 10 of them begin "lifestyle changes that included: a plant-based diet (high in fruits, vegetables and unrefined grains, and low in fat and refined carbohydrates); moderate exercise (walking 30 minutes a day, six days a week); stress reduction (gentle yoga-based stretching, breathing, meditation)" and also "weekly group support". When compared to the other 25 study participants, "The group that made the lifestyle changes experienced a 'significant' increase in telomere length of approximately 10 percent.<br />
</blockquote><p>So there you have it. With some simple lifestyle changes, you can make yourself biologically younger to the same extent as Elizabeth did, and it has been scientifically proven! So you will have a choice for achieving immortality: technology or spirituality, however, there is a catch if you take the technological approach. Here's what the Founders have to say, taken from the book <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2011/10/earth-awakens-prophecy-2012-2030.html">Earth Awakens</a>.</p><img height:="" src="https://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Your genetics researchers will continue to map out the “immortality gene” and develop new technologies for splicing and combining it with existing “mortal genes.” Stem cell research will continue, despite opposition from some religious groups. Cloning and related practices will be extended and refined.<br />
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Although these new medical advances will start prolonging the lives of a few human beings, the vast majority will be unresponsive because the cause of their aging and decay will not have been addressed. Keeping a human body alive when the soul has given up interest in living does not work, and eventually the soul will find a way of exiting the body in such cases. Of course, the egoic self will continuously try to prolong itself, mostly out of fear of death or belief in self-importance.<br />
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In order for humans to attain physical immortality while in fourth density, they will need to have a great degree of enthusiasm and excitement about being alive. They will need to have a strong sense of purpose and commitment to being on Earth. They will also need to clear their subconscious and unconscious fear of death. If they are ready to move into fifth density ascension, then they will not need modern medicine to attain immortality anyway.<br />
</blockquote><p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-66705861697452099212015-11-15T18:07:00.000-05:002015-11-15T18:07:33.316-05:00The Real History of the Earth<p><img height:="" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/775/22599088368_6fd81fd85c_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>I just finished reading <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2010/03/founders.html">Sal Rachele's</a> latest book "The Real History of the Earth" and thought it was great. Regarding the predictions, this book confirms what was hinted at in <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2013/10/soul-integration.html">Sal's last book</a>, that nothing major would happen until after the comet flyby on May 5, 2017 that causes another ascension boost and a <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/06/economic-realities-chapter-6.html">major upheaval in world economies</a>.</p><p>On December 21, 2012 the Earth reached a 4.00 vibration and transitioned to being a 4D planet. By mid-2015 the Earth reached a vibration of 4.25. In Sal's last book he had stated a person needed to be within 1.00 of the Earth to remain on the planet (i.e. at least 3.25 with the Earth at 4.25), but in this book he says a person needs to be within 0.5 of the Earth to remain here.</p><p>Since Sal's last book, the average vibration of humanity has increased from 3.55 to 3.60, but during that same time period the Earth has gone from 4.05 to 4.25. So the situation has reversed from most people being within the 0.5 range to now being outside it. This means that in the coming years more people will be dying such that by 2020 deaths will exceed births and the world population will begin declining. As I <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2014/12/validating-galactic-shift.html">wrote last December</a>, world population is what I'm using to validate the predictions.<br />
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In terms of <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2011/06/founders-on-ascension.html">physical ascension</a>, similar rules apply, as it's also extremely difficult to maintain a physical vibration more than 0.5 higher than the Earth average. Since physical ascension requires a vibration of 5.00, this will only be possible once the Earth reaches a vibration of 4.50 which is not expected until sometime between 2030 and 2050.</p><p>Boy, 2050 would be a much longer wait than what I was expecting when I first read about physical ascension back in 2008, but the book does offer some hope. It hints that high in the mountains far away from 3D civilization the Earth maintains a much higher vibration than the average. So moving to a 4D spiritual community far from any 3D cities might allow for physical ascension as early as 2025. In any case, I'll be here waiting, watching and raising my vibration through daily spiritual practice.</p><p><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-16013200695894623622015-10-14T23:01:00.000-04:002015-10-14T23:01:07.047-04:00Thane Heins: Rewriting Physics<p><img height:="" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5736/22164156882_6a8b4f9635_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>I had the pleasure of meeting <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/pdi-ceo-thane-heins-4199-connections/30/2b/a74">Thane Heins</a> and getting a live demonstration of his device, the ReGenX Generator, back in 2012. Here are some quotes from others that have seen and examined his device.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">"Of course it accelerates when a load is applied...! This represents several new chapters in physics, that is why we are consulting MIT."<br />
<b>-Dr. Habash, University of Ottawa (2007)</b><br />
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"I saw it. It's real. Now I'm just trying to figure it out. To my mind this is unexpected and new, and it's worth exploring all the possible advantages once you're convinced it's a real effect."<br />
<b>-Markus Zahn, Ph.D., M.I.T. Professor of Electromagnetics and Electrical Systems (2007)</b><br />
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"When we finally understand what Thane Heins has discovered, we likely will have to rewrite the laws of electromagnetism."<br />
<b>-Mike Brace EV World Tech Editor (2010)</b><br />
</blockquote><p>Mike Brace, the source for that last quote, wrote a great article back in 2012 called <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ThaneCHeins/heins-effect-gaining-credibility-ev-world">Heins Effect Gaining Credibility</a>. Here is an excerpt.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">When I last spoke to Thane several years ago he had come to grips with the mechanics of his technology, but not quite the explanation of it (at least not one that most engineers could understand). He could prove it in the lab to anyone that questioned it but without that basic, rock solid and understandable explanation of how his electric motor can draw less energy, and accelerate at the same time, most of his naive colleagues just scratched their heads and walked away. [deleted] It almost seems like free energy... creepy, huh.<br />
</blockquote><p>Mike goes on to explain his theory for how the device might work, but I believe it is a zero-point energy device and only a theoretical physicist with an understanding of string theory will be able to understand and explain it. Here is an excerpt from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory">String theory</a> Wikipedia page.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">One notable feature of string theories is that these theories require extra dimensions of spacetime for their mathematical consistency. In bosonic string theory, spacetime is 26-dimensional, while in superstring theory it is ten-dimensional. In order to describe real physical phenomena using string theory, one must therefore imagine scenarios in which these extra dimensions would not be observed in experiments.<br />
</blockquote><p>I believe the free energy generated by Thane's device is coming from one of these extra dimensions. In a 2012 post, I explained how a <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-founders-on-zero-point-energy.html">zero-point energy device</a> operates by opening a tiny window to another dimension and allowing energy to flow through.</p><p>Many people engaged in spiritual practice are aware of these other dimensions and the energy that resides there, as the human body also has aspects that <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2010/12/chakras-and-dna.html">exist in these other dimensions</a>, and through spiritual practice it is possible to shift your consciousness into them and experience them directly.</p><p>Now with Thane's device and other zero-point energy devices, physicists will be able to easily observe the energy flowing in from another dimension as predicted by string theory. They just have to open their minds and take a serious look at it.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-47136744943708540592015-09-03T19:40:00.000-04:002015-09-03T19:40:40.858-04:00BitGold<p><a href="https://bitgold.com/r/AsVd18"><img height:="" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3675/19763759391_8bbd5f95f5_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></a></p><p>Buying gold just became incredibly easy. Certainly, buying gold bars that you took delivery of was also pretty easy, but storage could be a problem unless you are happy hiding them in your mattress. Safety deposit boxes are a hassle and opening a brokerage account requires lots of paper work. <a href="https://bitgold.com/r/AsVd18">BitGold</a> solves all of these problems. All you need is a smart phone to confirm your identity, a credit card or interact bank account for payment, then choose your preferred vault location and voila, you now own some gold.</p><p>As an added bonus, if you use <a href="https://bitgold.com/r/AsVd18">this link</a> to open your account you will get 0.5 grams of gold for <b>free!</b> Worth about US$18. Here are some snippets from a recent <a href="http://bitgoldinc.tumblr.com/post/124768345260/we-thought-wed-take-a-moment-to-express-thanks">blog post</a> of theirs.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">We’d like share our reasons why we believe gold can be useful to anyone’s overall savings, and describe the key differences between having a gold account versus your traditional savings or spending accounts.<br />
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<b>1. It Is Permanently Yours</b><br />
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Over the course of history (6,000 years!) gold has been ultimately chosen by every great human civilization, community, nation and society as the desired currency due to its permanence. When you buy gold, it’s always yours. In fact, you never really own it you’re just looking after it over your own lifetime because it will outlive you, your children and even your descendants thousands of years from now.<br />
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<b>2. Gold is just a currency like Dollars, Euros, Yens or Pounds</b><br />
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Most national currencies were linked to or redeemable in Gold until 1971 when “Fiat Money” was re-introduced by the United States and soon thereafter every other country. Since then, gold has gained over 3,000% vs. the US Dollar which is arguably the world’s strongest fiat money. Gold may seem to go up, down or sideways but in reality and when viewed over long-timescales such as the avg. human lifecycle – it always rises.<br />
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<b>3. Gold Preserves Purchasing Power</b><br />
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Only gold provides effortless long-term preservation of value. The scientific properties of gold are what make it so special. As humans we have nothing else that has a cost-structure which is linked to our natural human systems (farming, energy, labor, mining) that is also permanent and inexpensive to store (At BitGold, storage is free!) Gold is the only element that allows us to effectively measure the value of food and energy, over long periods of history. That is why it’s future cost will always also be related to the value of food and energy.<br />
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<b>4. Gold is not an Investment like a Stock or Bond, it’s a Store of Value for Long-term Predictable Savings</b><br />
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The biggest mistake people tend to make is comparing the price and performance of gold with investments such as stocks or bonds. Gold should only be compared with currencies because fiat currencies were introduced by governments in 1971 to replace gold. An investment in the stock market or the purchase of a house requires management, oversight and running costs. Investments also carry risk of total loss. For every successful investment such as shares of Google or Apple there are also failed investments such as shares of Lehman Brothers or Kodak. Gold doesn’t require any upkeep, it’s just a piece of metal that is very expensive to produce and very cheap to store.<br />
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</blockquote><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-79572113783220776662015-08-10T20:53:00.000-04:002015-08-10T20:53:40.957-04:00Ekadashi Fasting<p><img height:="" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/436/20445397871_5140ae3320_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>For about 6 months in 2002 I practiced Ekadashi fasting and found it to be a powerful addition to my yoga practice. Let's start with the mythology behind the fast. Here is a quick summary from <a href="http://www.onlinetemple.com/blogs/updates/15927640-utpanna-ekadashi">OnlineTemple.com</a>:</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">It is said that the demon Mur conquered Indralok after defeating Indra and other Devas. The Devas sought refuge in Lord Vishnu and requested Him to defeat the demon. The battle between Lord Vishnu and the demon lasted for many years. During the battle, Lord Vishnu decided to rest in a cave for some time. Sensing victory over Lord Vishnu, the demon entered the cave only to find a beautiful damsel called Ekadashi who fought and killed Mur. On waking up, Lord Vishnu found that Ekadashi had killed the demon. Pleased with Ekadashi, Lord Vishnu blessed Her and said that whosoever worships Ekadashi on the same day would attain moksha.<br />
</blockquote><p>In terms of instructions for the fast, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekadashi">Wikipedia</a> says the following:</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Only fruits, vegetables and milk products are eaten during Ekadashi. This period of abstention runs from sunrise on the day of Ekadashi to sunrise on the day following Ekadashi.<br />
</blockquote><p>The site <a href="http://www.drikpanchang.com/vrats/ekadashidates.html">drikPanchang.com</a> provides everything you need to know to practice Ekadashi fasting, including a calculation of the Ekadashi days corresponding to your location. Ekadashi follows the lunar cycle which varies according to location. Here are some more food guidelines:</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Devotees take single meal in the afternoon a day before fasting day to make sure there is no residual food in the stomach on next day. Devotees keep strict fast on Ekadashi day and break the fast on next day only after sunrise. Eating of all type of grains and cereals is prohibited during Ekadashi fasting.<br />
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Devotees can choose to observe fasting without water, with only water, with only fruits, with one time latex food (vegetables, milk and nuts) according to their will and body power.<br />
</blockquote><p>When I practiced this fast, I ate normally the day before, took water only on the day of the fast, and ate normally the day after, which means fruit, followed by oatmeal for breaking the fast. Once I even tried no water, and had no problems. My meditation practice on the morning after the fast was always particularly deep and spiritual. You may be wondering why I stopped practicing? It was primarily due to my discovery of <a href="http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1982/isep82/conch.shtml">Shankhaprakshalana</a> in the fall of 2002.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-50442270449493097942015-07-01T17:33:00.001-04:002020-10-09T15:34:26.842-04:00The Little Soul and the Sun<p><img height:="" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/516/19334230785_ea1446257c_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>Many people don't understand why a loving God would create a world full of so much pain and suffering. The story of "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148234.The_Little_Soul_and_the_Sun">The Little Soul and the Sun</a>" adapted from the "<a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/06/conversations-with-god.html">Conversations With God</a>" books does a nice job of explaining why that is. The excerpt below is the original version with some preamble taken directly from Book 1 and 3 of Conversations with God.<br />
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<blockquote style="color: #666;"><b>Book 1</b><br />
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Illness and disease are opposites of health and wellness, and are made manifest in your reality at your behest. You cannot be ill without at some level causing yourself to be, and you can be well again in a moment by simply deciding to be. Deep personal disappointments are responses which are chosen, and worldwide calamities are the result of worldwide consciousness. <br />
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Your question infers that I choose these events, that it is My will and desire they should occur. Yet I do not will these things into being, I merely observe you doing so. And I do nothing to stop them, because to do so would be to thwart your will. That, in turn, would deprive you of the God experience, which is the experience you and I have chosen together. <br />
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Do not condemn, therefore, all that you would call bad in the world. Rather, ask yourself, what about this have you judged bad, and what, if anything, you wish to do to change it.<br />
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Inquire within, rather than without, asking: “What part of my Self do I wish to experience now in the face of this calamity? What aspect of being do I choose to call forth?” For all of life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opportunities for you to decide, and be, Who You Are. <br />
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This is true for every soul, and so you see there are no victims in the universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this. That is why, no matter which Master you might name, none imagined themselves to be victimized— though many were truly crucified. <br />
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Each soul is a Master—though some do not remember their origins or their heritages. Yet each creates the situation and the circumstance for its own highest purpose and its own quickest remembering—in each moment called now. <br />
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Judge not, then, the karmic path walked by another. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul’s reckoning. Call not a thing calamity, nor joyous event, until you decide, or witness, how it is used. For is a death a calamity if it saves the lives of thousands? And is a life a joyous event if it has caused nothing but grief? Yet even this you should not judge, but keep always your own counsel, and allow others theirs. <br />
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This does not mean ignore a call for help, nor the urging of your own soul to work toward the change of some circumstance or condition. It does mean avoiding labels and judgment while you do whatever you do. For each circumstance is a gift, and in each experience is hidden a treasure. <br />
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There once was a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. “I am the light,” it said. “I am the light.” Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand, every soul was magnificent, and every soul shone with the brilliance of My awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light —of which it was a part—it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it Really Is. <br />
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Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that I one day said, “Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?” <br />
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“Oh, what, God? What? I’ll do anything!” The little soul said. <br />
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“You must separate yourself from the rest, of us,” I answered, “and then you must call upon yourself the darkness.’ <br />
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“What is the darkness, o Holy One?” the little soul asked. <br />
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“That which you are not,” I replied, and the soul understood. <br />
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And so this the soul did, removing itself from the All, yea, going even unto another realm. And in this realm the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did. <br />
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Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, “Father, Father, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Even as have you in your blackest times. Yet I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are; ready, always ready, to call you home. <br />
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Therefore, be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not. <br />
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And forget not Who You Are in the moment of your encirclement by that which you are not. But do you praise to the creation, even as you seek to change it. <br />
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And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph. For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are—and Who You Want to Be.<br />
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<b>Book 3</b><br />
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Do you remember the parable of The Little Soul and the Sun that I gave you in Book 1? <br />
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Yes. <br />
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There is a second half to that parable. Here it is: <br />
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“You may choose to be any Part of God you wish to be,” I said to the Little Soul. “You are Absolute Divinity, experiencing Itself. What Aspect of Divinity do you now wish to experience as You?”<br />
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“You mean I have a choice?” asked the Little Soul. And I answered, “Yes. You may choose to experience any Aspect of Divinity in, as, and through you.”<br />
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“Okay,” said the Little Soul, “then I choose Forgiveness. I want to experience my Self as that Aspect of God called Complete Forgiveness.”<br />
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Well, this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was no one to forgive. All I have created is Perfection and Love.<br />
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“No one to forgive?” asked the Little Soul, somewhat incredulously. “No one,” I repeated. “Look around you. Do you see any souls less perfect, less wonderful than you?”<br />
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At this the Little Soul twirled around, and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They had come from far and wide throughout the Kingdom, because they heard that the Little Soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God. “I see none less perfect than I!” the Little Soul exclaimed. “Who, then, shall I have to forgive?”<br />
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Just then, another soul stepped forward from the crowd. “You may forgive me,” said this Friendly Soul. “For what?” the Little Soul asked. “I will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive,” replied the Friendly Soul. <br />
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“But what? What could you, a being of such Perfect Light, do to make me want to forgive you?” the Little Soul wanted to know. “Oh,” smiled the Friendly Soul, “I’m sure we can think of something.”<br />
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“But why would you want to do this?” The Little Soul could not figure out why a being of such perfection would want to slow down its vibration so much that it could actually do something “bad.”<br />
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“Simple,” the Friendly Soul explained, “I would do it because I love you. You want to experience your Self as Forgiving, don’t you? Besides, you’ve done the same for me.” <br />
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“I have?” asked the Little Soul. “Of course. Don’t you remember? We’ve been All Of It, you and I. We’ve been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and the Right of it. We’ve been the Here and the There of it, and the Now and the Then of it. We’ve been the Big and the Small of it, the Male and the Female of it, the Good and the Bad of it. We’ve all been the All of It. “And we’ve done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as The Grandest Part of God. For we have understood that. ... “In the absence of that which You Are Not, that Which You ARE, is NOT.<br />
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“In the absence of ‘cold,’ you cannot be ‘warm.’ In the absence of ‘sad,’ you cannot be ‘happy,’ without a thing called ‘evil,’ the experience you call ‘good’ cannot exist. If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible.” The Friendly Soul then explained that those people are God’s Special Angels, and these conditions God’s Gifts. “I ask only one thing in return,” the Friendly Soul declared. “Anything! Anything,’ the Little Soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience every Divine Aspect of God. He understood, now, The Plan. <br />
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“In the moment that I strike you and smite you,” said the Friendly Soul, “in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever imagine—in that self-same moment.., remember Who I Really Am.’ “Oh, I won’t forget!” promised the Little Soul. “I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always.” <br />
</blockquote><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-33881651827799125402015-06-01T22:55:00.000-04:002015-06-01T22:55:47.519-04:00Web Business Journey<p><a href="https://webbusinessjourney.wordpress.com/"><img height:="" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/352/18182084219_5a2bf092e0_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></a></p><p>In May I started a new blog called "<a href="https://webbusinessjourney.wordpress.com/">Web Business Journey</a>". Here is a brief excerpt from <a href="https://webbusinessjourney.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/web-business/">my first post</a>:</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">I’ve been writing about spirituality and making videos on yoga for a few years now and have grown a following way beyond anything I ever expected.<br />
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In December of 2014 I decided I would try to turn what has so far been a hobby into a real business. The goal of this blog will be to document that journey. It will focus on what is common to all web based businesses.<br />
</blockquote><p>I just wanted everyone here to be aware of what I'm working on in case I don't have time to write monthly posts for this blog.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-70654892725020447662015-05-09T13:54:00.001-04:002020-10-09T15:32:41.777-04:00The Alchemist<p><img height:="" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5349/17455526112_52787b0cdc_b.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>Paulo Coelho has written an excellent book on following your dreams and realizing your Personal Legend. It is called "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144590-the-alchemist">The Alchemist</a>". In the excerpt below, the boy Santiago, who is the hero of the story, is helping an Englishman to find the Alchemist.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;">Another man appeared. He was older, and was carrying a small bucket. The boy repeated his question.<br />
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“Why do you want to find that sort of person?” the Arab asked.<br />
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“Because my friend here has traveled for many months in order to meet with him,” the boy said.<br />
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“If such a man is here at the oasis, he must be the very powerful one,” said the old man after thinking for a few moments. “Not even the tribal chieftains are able to see him when they want to. Only when he consents.<br />
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“Wait for the end of the war. Then leave with the caravan. Don’t try to enter into the life of the oasis,” he said, and walked away.<br />
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But the Englishman was exultant. They were on the right track.<br />
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Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. She had a vessel on her shoulder, and her head was covered by a veil, but her face was uncovered. The boy approached her to ask about the alchemist.<br />
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At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.<br />
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Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well. She smiled, and that was certainly an omen — the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life. The omen he had sought to find with his sheep and in his books, in the crystals and in the silence of the desert.<br />
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It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world.<br />
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He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.<br />
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<i>Maktub</i>, thought the boy.<br />
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The Englishman shook the boy: “Come on, ask her!”<br />
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The boy stepped closer to the girl, and when she smiled, he did the same.<br />
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“What’s your name?” he asked.<br />
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“Fatima,” the girl said, averting her eyes.<br />
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“That’s what some women in my country are called.”<br />
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“It’s the name of the Prophet’s daughter,” Fatima said. “The invaders carried the name everywhere.” The beautiful girl spoke of the invaders with pride.<br />
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The Englishman prodded him, and the boy asked her about the man who cured people’s illnesses.<br />
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“That’s the man who knows all the secrets of the world,” she said. “He communicates with the genies of the desert.”<br />
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The genies were the spirits of good and evil. And the girl pointed to the south, indicating that it was there the strange man lived. Then she filled her vessel with water and left.<br />
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The Englishman vanished, too, gone to find the alchemist. And the boy sat there by the well for a long time, remembering that one day in Tarifa the levanter had brought to him the perfume of that woman, and realizing that he had loved her before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.<br />
</blockquote><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-44808118791094416682015-04-03T07:45:00.001-04:002020-10-09T15:28:50.038-04:00The Power of Now<p><img height:="" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7638/16311200063_1d29511736_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>I just finished reading <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now">The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</a> by Eckhart Tolle and found it to be quite good. I even developed a new practice based on it, which is simply to keep my mental voice quiet as much as possible throughout the day. This is the main teaching given in the book, but near the end he talks about surrender and briefly mentions the Apocalypse which I've quoted below.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;"><i>How do you equate surrender with finding God?</i><br />
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Since resistance is inseparable from the mind, relinquishment of resistance - surrender - is the end of the mind as your master, the impostor pretending to be "you," the false god. All judgment and all negativity dissolve. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That which cannot be named.<br />
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I don't call it finding God, because how can you find that which was never lost, the very life that you are? The word God is limiting not only because of thousands of years of misperception and misuse, but also because it implies an entity other than you. God is Being itself, not a being. There can be no subject-object relationship here, no duality, no you and God. God-realization is the most natural thing there is. The amazing and incomprehensible fact is not that you can become conscious of God but that you are not conscious of God.<br />
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The way of the cross that you mentioned is the old way to enlightenment, and until recently it was the only way. But don't dismiss it or underestimate its efficacy. It still works.<br />
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The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God - because God, too, is no-thing.<br />
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At this time, as far as the unconscious majority of humans is concerned, the way of the cross is still the only way. They will only awaken through further suffering, and enlightenment as a collective phenomenon will be predictably preceded by vast upheavals. This process reflects the workings of certain universal laws that govern the growth of consciousness and thus was foreseen by some seers. It is described, among other places, in the Book of Revelation or Apocalypse, though cloaked in obscure and sometimes impenetrable symbology. This suffering is inflicted not by God but by humans on themselves and on each other as well as by certain defensive measures that the Earth, which is a living, intelligent organism, is going to take to protect herself from the onslaught of human madness.<br />
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However, there is a growing number of humans alive today whose consciousness is sufficiently evolved not to need any more suffering before the realization of enlightenment. You may be one of them.<br />
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Enlightenment through suffering - the way of the cross - <b>means to be forced into the kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming.</b> You finally surrender because you can' t stand the pain anymore, but the pain could go on for a long time until this happens. Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. You then don't need pain anymore. How much more time do you think you will need before you are able to say "I will create no more pain, no more suffering?" How much more pain do you need before you can make that choice?<br />
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If you think that you need more time, you will get more time - and more pain. Time and pain are inseparable.<br />
</blockquote><p>This past Christmas I saw a beautiful animated special with the underlying theme of surrender that the whole family can enjoy. It is called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_That_Time_Forgot">Toy Story That Time Forgot</a>. I've watched it with my kids three or four times already.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-68901873381854350102015-03-02T20:56:00.002-05:002020-10-09T15:27:37.399-04:00Hatha Yoga Pradipika<p><img height:="" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8671/16491775267_3336c8d7fb_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>I just finished reading the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18603663-hatha-yoga-pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a> by Shailendra Sharma. It is a quick and easy read, but unfortunately lacks detail for many of the practices. However, when detail is provided it is of the sort that is hard to find elsewhere. As an example, here is the first shloka on nadi shodhana.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;"><h2>nadi shodhan</h2><br />
<b>Sitting in Baddha Padmasana, the yogi should inhale through the left nostril, drink the vayu and hold the breath to full capacity, and then exhale through the right nostril. Then, inhaling through the right nostril, gradually drinking the vayu and retaining it, he should perform kumbhaka as before and then exhale completely through the left nostril.</b><br />
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Sit in Baddha Padmasana and do Khechari. Put your chin down. Now close your right nostril from inside the nasal cavity with the tongue and inhale from the left nostril. Then close your left nostril from inside with your tongue and exhale from the right nostril. When you are doing Baddha Padmasana it sort of squeezes your Sushumna, especially near Anahata Chakra. Without Baddha Padmasana and Khechari, Nadi Shodhan is not possible. It also opens your lungs and your abdomen in a certain way to start a very special reaction of intestines. Opening the lungs enables you to use its full capacity while breathing, so you can fill up your lungs as well as abdomen with vayu and are able to do Nadi Shodhan.<br />
</blockquote><p>In the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199514.Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a> by Swami Muktibodhananda of the Bihar School of Yoga, the sitting posture is translated as Baddha Padmasana, but then it is recommended to not even attempt to sit in Padmasana let alone Baddha Padmasana. Of course, his book is for the general public, while Shailendra's book is for "very senior yogis" only as he says in the Forward.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-56083971784807982982015-02-01T17:45:00.000-05:002015-02-01T17:45:32.731-05:00Vishwa Amara on 2015<p><img height:="" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7570/16114788468_67ce44ea24_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>Back in 2010 I posted material from numerous channeled sources, but over time many proved to be very unreliable. On the contrary, the Sapta Rishis (<a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2010/09/vishwa-amara-blog.html">channeled at Vishwa Amara</a>) have been better than most. In 2010 they indicated that nothing significant would happen in 2012 because the major events had been <a href="http://www.vishwaamara.com/2012-and-after/2012-postponed/">postponed to 2015</a>. Well, 2015 has started and they have confirmed in their <a href="http://www.vishwaamara.com/special-days/the-new-year-2015/">January 2015 post</a> that a major crisis will hit by the end of the year. Below is an excerpt.</p><blockquote style="color: #666;">The New batch of Rishis and the Saptarishis have made many plans for the year ahead. Instead of having two large phases like the last year, they want to divide the year into five phases, each of about two to three months. Each phase would have a certain objective.<br />
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In the first phase, the Earth will experience the intensity of the Pralaya energies. The aim of this phase is to help every individual see the merit in choosing righteousness. The more we adopt Light, love and peace into our lives, and outgrow anger, bitterness and pessimism, the easier it will be to sail through. Those who resist will be the ones to face more difficulties. Our humility and surrender to God are essential.<br />
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The second phase will be a little relaxed. It will help every individual to assimilate the changes and strengthen their progress. During this phase, many new energies will be anchored on our Earth.<br />
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During the third phase, experimentation on freewill will be conducted by the Higher Intelligence. It will be easier to embrace the positive changes and adopt Light. We can also witness many changes all over the Earth. This phase is an important preparatory phase towards the Light Age.<br />
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In the fourth phase is when the battles between the Light and the dark will be at their peak. At the global level, the Individuals who spoil the lives of others, corrupt businesses and falsity will be exposed. This battle will also occur within each individual. At each juncture, we have to choose, let go of the unwanted, embrace Light and move on.<br />
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The last phase would be chaotic. There will be panic, confusion and a struggle for survival. For those who are connected to Light and have their basics in place, it should be a smooth phase. The Rishis expect Lord Kalki, to begin his work at the physical level during this period.<br />
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These are roughly the way the Rishis want to carry out their work during this year. But there will naturally be revisions and improvements based on their observations of how humanity responds to their initiatives.<br />
</blockquote><p>So while they don't predict what form the crisis will take, Sal and the Founders provide all the details. In <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2011/10/sal-rachele-2012-2030.html">this first post</a> they indicate that the $US and all global currencies will lose most of their value, while in <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/06/economic-realities-chapter-6.html">this second post</a> they provide instructions for how to prepare for it. Even some financial analysts agree that the world is poised for a <a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2014/12/russian-ruble-turkish-lira-ukrainian.html">Global Currency Crisis</a> and to buy gold in preparation.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-31984812535656008672015-01-01T14:12:00.001-05:002020-10-09T15:18:19.583-04:00The Fountainhead<p><img height:="" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7530/15759589701_11b77e1d15_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>I recently finished reading <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2122.The_Fountainhead">The Fountainhead</a> and found it to be very well written and quite an interesting book. Ayn Rand built quite a following from it and her other work <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged">Atlas Shrugged</a>.</p><p>The hero of The Fountainhead, Howard Roark, has mastered divine co-creation in architecture, and her presentation of that is quite inspired and makes the book well worth reading just for this. Unfortunately though, all of her characters have no understanding of unconditional love, so it is quite awful from that point of view. Here, the villain, Ellsworth Toohey, explains how spirituality has been used to control and exploit humanity through the ages.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /> <blockquote style="color: #666;">Don’t allow men to be happy. Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. So kill their joy in living. Take away from them whatever is dear or important to them. Never let them have what they want. Make them feel that the mere fact of a personal desire is evil. Bring them to a state where saying 'I want’ is no longer a natural right, but a shameful admission. Altruism is of great help in this. Unhappy men will come to you. They’ll need you. They’ll come for consolation, for support, for escape. Nature allows no vacuum. Empty man’s soul--and the space is yours to fill. I don’t see why you should look so shocked, Peter. This is the oldest one of all. Look back at history. Look at any great system of ethics, from the Orient up. Didn’t they all preach the sacrifice of personal joy? Under all the complications of verbiage, haven’t they all had a single leitmotif: sacrifice, renunciation, self-denial? Haven’t you been able to catch their theme song--’Give up, give up, give up, give up’? Look at the moral atmosphere of today. Everything enjoyable, from cigarettes to sex to ambition to the profit motive, is considered depraved or sinful. Just prove that a thing makes men happy--and you’ve damned it. That’s how far we’ve come. We’ve tied happiness to guilt. And we’ve got mankind by the throat. Throw your first-born into a sacrificial furnace--lie on a bed of nails--go into the desert to mortify the flesh--don’t dance--don’t go to the movies on Sunday--don’t try to get rich--don’t smoke--don’t drink. It’s all the same line. The great line. Fools think that taboos of this nature are just nonsense. Something left over, old-fashioned. But there’s always a purpose in nonsense. Don’t bother to examine a folly--ask yourself only what it accomplishes. Every system of ethics that preached sacrifice grew into a world power and ruled millions of men. Of course, you must dress it up. <b>You must tell people that they’ll achieve a superior kind of happiness by giving up everything that makes them happy.</b> You don’t have to be too clear about it. Use big vague words. ’Universal Harmony’--’Eternal Spirit’--’Divine Purpose’--’Nirvana’--’Paradise’--’Racial Supremacy’--’The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.’ Internal corruption, Peter. That’s the oldest one of all. The farce has been going on for centuries and men still fall for it. Yet the test should be so simple: just listen to any prophet and if you hear him speak of sacrifice--run. Run faster than from a plague. It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. But if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself--that will be the man who’s not after your soul. That will be the man who has nothing to gain from you. But let him come and you’ll scream your empty heads off, howling that he’s a selfish monster. So the racket is safe for many, many centuries. But here you might have noticed something. I said, ’It stands to reason.’ Do you see? Men have a weapon against you. Reason. So you must be very sure to take it away from them. Cut the props from under it. But be careful. Don’t deny outright. Never deny anything outright, you give your hand away. Don’t say reason is evil--though some have gone that far and with astonishing success. Just say that reason is limited. That there’s something above it. What? You don’t have to be too clear about it either. The field’s inexhaustible. ’Instinct’--’Feeling’--’Revelation’--’Divine Intuition’--’Dialectic Materialism.’ If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn’t make sense--you’re ready for him. You tell him that there’s something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you play it deuces wild. Anything goes in any manner you wish whenever you need it. You’ve got him. Can you rule a thinking man? We don’t want any thinking men."<br />
</blockquote><p>Unfortunately, this is how spirituality is taught by many. You must practice yamas, niyamas, selfless service, sacrifice, renunciation and self-denial all day every day to achieve that superior kind of happiness. Well, this is simply not true, but you do need to devote about an hour each day with the mind turned inward. This can be done at any time while engaged in any activity that allows for an inward focus, from meditating to exercising, to eating food to having sex. Then in a few months or even weeks, you'll suddenly discover that superior kind of happiness that really does exist.</p><p>Of course, once you've realized that this inner happiness is far greater than any external happiness, you may desire to prolong your periods of inner focus, which to the casual observer may appear to be sacrifice, renunciation and self-denial but is in fact the exact opposite.</p><p>Ayn Rand on the other hand knew very little about happiness, as can be seen in this excerpt from <a href="http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/60120/">an article on her</a> at <a href="http://nymag.com/">nymag.com</a>.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /> <blockquote style="color: #666;">Rand approached her. “Would you tell me what is the most important thing in life to you?” she asked, showing once again her flair for smooth opening lines. “My mother,” the girl answered. Rand turned away, disgusted. As an adult, she called this exchange “the first most important event in my life socially” and analyzed it as follows: “I had thought she was a serious girl and that she was after serious things, but she was just conventional and ordinary, a mediocrity, and she didn’t mean anything as a person.”<br />
</blockquote><p>The happiness that girl knew, which most people know, was beyond Ayn Rand's understanding. It's too bad that Ayn Rand died before the book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310259.Love_You_Forever">Love You Forever</a> was published, for if she had the opportunity to read that book, she might finally have understood what that girl was talking about.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-79681105156217589962014-12-02T19:58:00.000-05:002014-12-02T19:58:46.072-05:00Validating the Galactic Shift<p><img height:="" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5616/15391678210_931d0fd19f_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>It has been almost two years since the Precessional Alignment of December 21, 2012 and starting in 2015 the peak period of the Galactic Shift begins. It coincides with the Mass Ascension as discussed in my post on the <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2010/10/divine-dispensations-part-3.html">Divine Dispensations</a>.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /> <blockquote style="color: #666;">The Mass Ascension Dispensation was issued in 1950 and removes the requirement of needing to have most of your soul fragments reassembled in order to activate the Ascension transformation. If you remember from part 2, the Galactic Shift also began in 1950, so looking at the combined view we see that prior to 1950, the Earth was conducive to the 3D/4D human form, but during the Galactic Shift transformation it will gradually cease to support 3D human life. After 2100 it will only support the 4D physical human form as well as the new 5D etheric human form. Of course, as before, higher density beings will still be able to incarnate on Earth, but 3D humans will no longer be able to survive. The peak of this transition occurs between the years 2015 and 2035, when most humans will either evolve to 4D/5D or leave the Earth and incarnate on another planet still suitable for 3D human life. As discussed in part 1, the primary distinguishing characteristic between a 4D human and a 3D human is Love. The only emotion felt and expressed by a 4D human is Love. This is all that is required for you to move with the Earth into the Golden Age, and the way to purify your emotions is with a daily spiritual practice.<br />
</blockquote><p>I was thinking about the best way to validate that the Galactic Shift is actually happening. Of course the final validation happens in 2035 when most of the world has arrived at the Golden Age, but what can we measure in the mean time to see if we are progressing in the right direction? For the Precessional Alignment, I looked at the <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/03/validating-december-21-2012.html">magnetic field fluctuations</a> on that day and determined that the <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/12/prediction-failed-what-now.html">prediction had failed</a>. For the Galactic Shift we could also look at magnetic field fluctuations, or stock market fluctuations, weather fluctuations, but I think the statistic with the most impact will be world population fluctuations.</p><p>The chart below is from <a href="http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#pastfuture">worldometers</a>, and shows the current projected world population growth up to the year 2100. I've highlighted at the top that on July 1, 2024 the population is expected to be 8.01 billion.</p><p><img height:="" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3955/15608666361_2aa3d347a6_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Death">Black Death</a> of the 1300's wiped out 30% to 60% of Europe's population, and the Galactic Shift is expected to do the same, except on a worldwide basis. In my post on the coming <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2011/07/impending-medical-crisis.html">medical crisis</a>, the Founders list the primary means of exit for 3D souls.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /> <blockquote style="color: #666;">...an increased rate of allergies, chemical reactions, debilitating viruses, sensitivities to bacteria, molds, fungi, and other "environmental illnesses," as well as long-term cancers, heart and lung conditions. So-called "exotic bugs" will surface, which are really just hybrid viruses and bacteria that are able to penetrate the weakening immune system of humans.<br />
</blockquote><p>The Founders predict that the population will stop growing in the early part of the shift and then go into decline. So in the coming years the slope of the curve on the above chart should flatten such that the predicted date for reaching 8 billion continues to get pushed out. Since 2024 is approximately half way through the shift, the population should already be in decline by then, so my criteria for the prediction failing will be if the population doesn't decline and instead crosses 8 billion as currently predicted by worldometers.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-85684973534819607332014-11-04T18:52:00.000-05:002014-11-04T18:52:19.458-05:00Yogani on Kechari Mudra<p><img height:="" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5608/14925710293_bde259aa89_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>Yogani at <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2014/08/ayp-site-advanced-yoga-practices.html">AYP site</a> has written the most complete description of Kechari Mudra that I've seen. An excerpt follows, but I highly recommend reading the <a href="http://aypsite.org/108.html">full lesson</a>.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /><br />
<blockquote style="color: #666;"><b>Lesson 108 - Kechari mudra – A giant leap for humankind</b><br />
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What is kechari mudra? Let's put it in terms that we can easily relate to. A centimeter or two above the roof of our mouth is located one of the most ecstatically sensitive organs in our whole body. It can be reached relatively easily with our tongue. It is located on the back edge of our nasal septum, and when the nervous system is purified enough through advanced yoga practices, our tongue will roll back and go up into the cavity of our nasal pharynx to find the sensitive edge of our septum. When this happens, it is like a master switch is closed in our nervous system, and all of our advanced yoga practices and experiences begin to function on a much higher level. When kechari is entered naturally, we come on to the fast track of yoga. It is the major league of yoga, if you will.<br />
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Ramakrishna said, "When the divine goddess comes up, the tongue rolls back." <br />
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Many have experienced this natural phenomenon at times in their yoga practices. When the nervous system is ready, it just happens. The tongue wants to go back. But few are able to follow though, and this is just a matter of education. If strong bhakti is there and the tongue is rolling back, it is a short trip to make the connection in the pharynx to a higher level of spiritual experience. <br />
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Not many people on earth today have made this important transition in yoga. However, it is likely that the number of people entering kechari will increase dramatically in the coming years. As this happens, it will be a giant leap forward for humankind, for it will mark humanity's shift to a predominantly spiritual mode of functioning of the nervous system. This will bring with it the many benefits of rising enlightenment spreading out through our modern society. Kechari is that significant, that powerful, and that indicative of where the human race is heading. Only a few yogis and yoginis in kechari can have a huge affect on the spiritual energies in everyone. They radiate energy that quickens the rise of the enlightenment process in all. So, while kechari is an individual phenomenon on the road to human spiritual transformation, it has global implications, as do all of our advanced yoga practices. As Jesus said, "You are the light of the world." <br />
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Advanced yogis and yoginis use kechari continuously throughout their sitting practices, and often during the day when not engaged in conversation. In other words, kechari is home for the advanced yogi and yogini. We do not even know that they are in kechari. Only the subtle glow of divine light gives them away. Inside, they are in the constant play of divine lovemaking. <br />
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We will cover four stages of kechari here (see Image above), all pertaining to the location of the tip of the tongue: <br />
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<b>Stage 1</b> – To the point on the roof of the mouth where the hard and soft palates meet. This is the line of demarcation that must be crossed before stage 2 can be entertained.<br />
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<b>Stage 2</b> – Behind the soft palate and up to the nasal septum. It is a short trip, but a momentous one. Initially this is done with help from a finger pushing back under the tongue, going to the left or right side of the soft palate where entry is easiest. This may require "breaking the hymen" of the membrane under the tongue. See below for more on this. <br />
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<b>Stage 3</b> – Gradually working to the top of the nasal pharynx and septum. This takes us to the bony structure containing the pituitary gland. <br />
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<b>Stage 4</b> – Entering the nasal passages from inside and moving upward beyond the top of the pharynx toward the point between the eyebrows. It is not as far for the tongue to go as it seems. Put your thumb on the hinge of your jaw and put your index finger at the tip of your tongue extended straight out. Then pivot the fixed length to your index finger up on your thumb to the point between your eyebrows. See? It is not so far for the tongue to go straight up from its root.<br />
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In these lessons we view the frenum as a tether to be trimmed back when the time is right. It keeps us out of kechari until we are ready. When we are ready, and each of us knows when that is, the frenum can be trimmed. It is like a "hymen." When a woman is ready for sexual intercourse, the hymen goes. Until then it serves to provide protection. This breaking of the hymen can be a stressful and painful event if it is forced. Sooner or later the frenum will be forced open too, because going into kechari is as natural as going into sexual intercourse. It is biologically preordained. It happens when the nervous system is mature enough. Advanced yoga practices bring us closer to the transition with each day of daily practices.<br />
</blockquote><p>In terms of my own timeline, I started with stage 1 in 2003 but had no interest in moving to stage 2 until 2012, then after about a month of <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2013/03/ennio-on-kechari-mudra.html">Talabya Kriya</a> I was able to push my tongue with my fingers into stage 2, and I did not have to trim my frenum as Yogani describes. In 2013 I achieved stage 3 and this year (2014) I achieved stage 4 and have begun practicing Nadi Shodhana by using my tongue to block each nasal passage in turn. I generally use stage 3 for the <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2011/01/kundalini-kriyas.html">Kundalini Kriyas</a> and <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/03/golden-age-kriya-en-kriya.html">Golden Age Kriya</a>.</p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037804520600891857.post-16317283314936601482014-10-14T20:09:00.000-04:002014-10-14T20:09:49.617-04:00Kriya Yoga Freedom Fighters<p><img height:="" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3889/14973728647_ebff7cbbb1_o.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center;" width:="" /></p><p>I'm often told that I have violated Kriya Yoga secrecy by publishing my videos on YouTube. The reason for the secrecy is based on the idea that a student must attain the right level of advancement before a particular technique would offer them any value, and more importantly, be safe for them to practice. This sounds reasonable, but who is qualified to judge that a student has reached the appropriate level? Upon reading Ennio's book and the experiences of many others, it is clear that this judgement has been lacking in many organizations.</p><p>It should also be clear that a person keeping a secret has power and control over any person wishing to learn that secret, essentially robbing them of their freedom and making them a slave. Does this sound like the behavior of an enlightened person? People wonder why God allows humans to torture and kill each other, and they ask, "Is this the act of a loving God?" Well, yes it is, because any intervention would turn those humans into slaves, and God is not a slave master, God is a freedom fighter. Freedom is love, and control is slavery. Ennio, and the other Kriya Yoga Freedom Fighters that have joined him, understand this.</p><p>For many years, Ennio stood alone in the fight, but now more and more people are joining the cause. Of particular significance is Swami Nityananda Giri, in the lineage of Swami Shriyukteswar Giri, and the first Swami to fully reveal almost all of the techniques in his book <a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.ca/2013/12/kriya-yoga-science-of-life-force.html">Kriya Yoga: Science of Life-force</a>. Below is an excerpt where he shares his thoughts on Kriya Yoga secrecy.</p><img height:="" src="http://www.blogblog.com/tictac/quotes.gif" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: left; border-width: 0px;" width:="" /> <blockquote style="color: #666;">Kriya-yoga has now become a household name among westerners and urban elites of India though people still do not have a clear-cut understanding of it. Though we find many books on Kriya-yoga the lack of clear exposition on its philosophy and practice is still felt very much. So many myths and misunderstandings are gaining ground regarding name and techniques. One of the reasons may be that present day masters of the tradition are more interested in teaching this in the west rather than in India. Though humanity is one and seekers from the west have equal rights, then in the same logic the seekers from India must not be neglected. A true master belongs to the cosmos.<br />
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The second reason is the secrecy involved in the techniques. The secrecy was introduced with a view that a precious gem cannot be sold in the open market thereby bringing the suspicion of genuineness and the danger of having fallen into the hands of undesirable and not-so-serious people. Again secrecy developed interest among the masses to learn and practice it. So the purpose of secrecy was not to hide but rather to give to the public. Another aspect we learn from history is that in the name of secrecy, the teachers of yoga and tantra have only helped in the extinction of the precious techniques for knowledge. This sometimes brings additions and alterations that are not in accordance with the spirit of the scriptures though additions and alterations, which facilitate progress and adhere to the teachings of scriptures, are always welcome.<br />
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Over the ages it has been seen that due to hiding the techniques distorted variations appeared and, particularly in the name of tantra, many practices diametrically opposed to spirituality were introduced and are still in practice giving a bad name to a system that has nothing to do with those things. But we have to see that we are now in a completely revolutionary age of information and technology, which was not even thought of twenty years back. Now due to the development of technologies and various other factors the techniques are no more hidden and it is not even possible to keep them hidden. Moreover the scriptures have already described these techniques. A reader will find how the scriptures describe these techniques in this book in general and on the fourth chapter of the book in particular. So question arises since the scriptures do not hide the techniques then why should a book written on the subject does not describe the techniques. Hence it is time to discuss rather than hide and a middle way is to be accepted to keep the balance. <b>I know many masters and organizations will not agree with me but I tried to act according to my conscience.</b> Readers are always advised to learn them not from books but from a master and those who do so from a book it is at their personal risk. The book is only to clarify and help.<br />
</blockquote><p>I also discovered that Swami Nityananda Giri has recently created a YouTube channel, and I would like to wish him a warm welcome! Below is his video on Kechari Mudra.</p><p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nLyE_qs5FVM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p><a href="http://goldenagejourney.blogspot.com"><img height:="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtbtKLi-xRES0dRQoWeIRpp9RjyOMEBpQHs0Op2vsFASBfiNW65aMBVASf7OXAX49X8JU3K4vZhMw0T_OYjKAMUp5WEjkHLx9YNL2V6QZOBLwIvw-u-Ukuk__btGScc9syI4PEqtohBE/" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; float: center; border: none;" width:="" /></a></p>manoj.the.yogihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17177305694041358465noreply@blogger.com5