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Tantric Buddhist empowerments and retreats ( San Francisco area ) by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche ( January - June 2010 )

2009-12-27T23:24:09Z

Tantric Buddhist empowerments and retreats ( San Francisco area ) by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche ( January - June 2010 )

Keywords: tantric empowerment, yoga sadhana, Mahayana, Buddhist yogic teaching retreat, Tibetan Buddhism / Nyingma lineage, Guru Padmasambhava as Wealth Lord Padmasambhava / Orgyen Khandro Norlha, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Orgyen Dorje Den Alameda CA, Vajrayana Foundation Corralitos CA, Heart Teachings audio video resources for tantric Buddhist practice.

Tharchin Rinpoche's coming to town!
Tharchin Rinpoche's coming to town!
Tharchin Rinpoche's commminnnng to towwwn!

. . . And he is giving a large cycle of tantric transmissions and retreats this January through June, in San Francisco East Bay and at his home center in Watsonville ( down the coast from San Francisco ).
Tantra means magic and yoga, in this case in the definite context of Buddhist ethics and practice. ( I provide context and substantial information on these below. )

These tantric practices are mainly focused on the lineage of Guru Padmasambhava i.e. the Nyingma school, and lead towards or incorporate the central Awareness Yoga known as Dzogchen, the Great Perfection. To do any of these practices, personal initiation is required. That is why the teacher is of central importance.

For more background on the Great Perfection and Dzogchen, see the book
"The Crystal and the Way of Light", by Namkhai Norbu
also
"Dakini Teachings", by Padmasambhava
and view the extensive materials at
http://keithdowman.net/dzogchen/index.htm

For background on Guru Padmsambhava see
http://www.rangjung.com/authors/padmasambhava.htm
"Padmasambhava : A Short Biography by Jamgon Kongtrul the First"

The home center for Lama Tharchin is
The Vajrayana Foundation
web site
www.vajrayana.org
contact info:
Phone: (831) 761-6266
Email: office@vajrayana.org
Address: 2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is a teacher of Buddhist tantra, extremely gentle and open, yet also profound and powerful. I first began taking teachings and transmissions from him in the early 1980s. This is one of my most favorite people on the entire planet. Just to see him brings real gladness to one's heart, just to remember him is greatly comforting. Please note that I do not represent him in any official sense.

I use texts and practices from his fellowship, the Vajrayana Foundation, which principally focuses on the lineage transmissions of HH Dudjom Rinpoche. HH Dujom Rinpoche was a profound Nyingma lineage holder whose efforts were of central importance in saving major parts of the Buddhist tantra during the destruction of Buddhist Tibet by the Chinese. HH Dudjom Rinpoche trained and authorized Lama Tharchin as a vajra master. Lama Tharchin can train westerners to become full fledged tantric Buddhist gurus - on a basic but functional level - in the Nyingma lineage of Guru Padmasambhava.

KT

See also
http://heartteachings.com/index.html

"Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche"

"The Friends of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche have put together this site for Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's video series. The video series is the main vehicle Rinpoche uses to disseminate his vast knowledge of Buddhist teachings. Each month Rinpoche records a 1-2 hour long video.

"Anyone interested can purchase any of the past Series as an individual set, or subscribe to the Series in progress on an ongoing basis. There are also a few teachings offered as individual DVDs or DVD sets."

Note - many of these recordings require specific authorization, i.e. empowerment.

From the above site
"Turning the Three Wheels of Buddhadharma: Learning, Practice, and Teaching
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is a Dzogchen (Great Perfection) master of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is the tenth lineage holder of the Repkong Ngakpas. This is a family lineage of yogis, or householders, and was the largest community of non-monastic practitioners in Tibet. Rinpoche was trained in His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's monastery, engaged in five years of solitary retreat and then completed the three year retreat with three others under Dudjom Rinpoche.

"In addition to Dudjom Rinpoche, his main teachers have been Chatral Rinpoche, Lama Sherab Dorje Rinpoche, and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. Rinpoche left Tibet by foot with his family in 1960.

"Many of the early years of Rinpoche's life were dedicated to intensive study, practice and retreat. Mastering the many traditions of his lineage under the guidance of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche benefited countless beings through the purity of his heart and his compassionate dedication to all beings. Through many years of practice and retreat, Rinpoche developed the skills and qualities most needed to bring maximum benefit to beings in this lifetime.

"Fulfilling the request of his teacher, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche came to the West with the intention to protect the holy Buddhadharma and to plant authentic seeds of dharma in the West. With an incredible flurry of enlightened activity, Rinpoche's blessings and accomplishments have flowed like rich wisdom nectar. Founder of the Vajrayana Foundation, Rinpoche has established the College of Tibetan Buddhist Studies (Shedra), and the three-year retreat program (Drupta). He has directed study and practice retreats, given us bountiful empowerments and pure Dzogchen teachings, and he has shown us the true nature of our own minds."

From the home page of
www.vajrayana.org
with some notes and commentary

•Orgyen Khandro Norlha Wealth Empowerment and Teaching: January 23rd
Orgyen Dorje Den, Alameda,CA

Orgyen Dorje Den
2244 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
www.orgyendorjeden.org

"Lama Tharchin Rinpoche has offered to give the empowerment and teachings on the Orgyen Khandro Norlha wealth practice at Orgyen Dorje Den in Alameda as a benefit for the Vajrayana Foundation. “I not only want to benefit Pema Osel Ling,” he said, “but to share this with all the sangha with my love, care and aspiration for positive results for all of us. As the whole world, and I am thinking especially of our country and sangha, are having a difficult time financially, so I would like to share Guru Rinpoche’s wisdom and compassion solution to remove obstacles; how to get success not only for short term material results but long term enlightenment."

•Namchak Putri (Vajrakilaya) Gutor and Losar Retreat: February 5 – 14
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Note - this is an ultimate wrathful Vajrasattva practice, commonly practiced to clear away negativity and obstacles in preparation for the Tibetan New Year, 14 February 2010.

•Spring Retreat: April 2 - 4
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to teach on Shabkar's Flight of the Garuda
Note - this is a primary dzogchen text. See part of the text online at
http://keithdowman.net/books/fg.htm

'Dzokchen, the Great Perfection, is the quintessence of the tantric paths to Buddhahood. This book contains the translation of four Dzokchen texts belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. These sacred revealed texts, never before freely available, provide inspiration and instruction for the Dzokchen aspirant. The Flight of the Garuda, which gives the collection its title, written by Shabkar Lama in the nineteenth century, comprises a series of twenty-three songs designed to inspire and instruct the yogin practising Dzokchen trekcho meditation. Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision is one of three texts said to have been written by Padma Sambhava, Tibet's great Guru, himself, who visited Tibet in the eighth century. It belongs to the lam rim genre, a stage--by--stage description of the path to Buddhahood. An extract from Emptying the Depths of Hell, revealed by Guru Chowong in the thirteenth century, provides a Dzokchen confessional liturgy, and The Wish-Granting Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo, revealed by Rikdzin Godemchan in the fourteenth century as part of an extensive Dzokchen tantra, is a prayer for attainment of the Dzokchen goal.'

This collection includes four shiningly clear and starkly beautiful Dzogchen texts. Their common denominator is the soaring freedom of the Dzogchen viewpoint as symbolised by the Garuda -- the divine eagle that is said to fly as soon as it breaks free of its egg.' Robin Cooke in The Mirror.

•Summer Retreat: May 22- June 21
2013 Eureka Canyon Rd., Watsonville,CA 95076

Dorje Drolod: May 22 – 30
Note- this is wrathful Padmasambhava guru yoga

Throma Nagmo: June 1 – 9
Note - this is a profound and comprehensive great goddess cycle of the Buddhist Kali

Shitro Nakso: June 11– 12
Collection of Seven Treasures Drupchen: June 13 – 21

Note - This is a comprehensive cycle of Great Perfection teachings, but I cannot comment on it. The drubchen means intensive ( day and night ) practice.

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. . . And from Orgyen Dorje Den, more upcoming events

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Gutor & Losar coming soon, February 11th-14th, 2010

On February 11, 12 & 13, we will practice Vajrasattva at the request of Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche. (Just like Vajrakilaya can be done to remove negativity from the past year, so can Vajrasattva be done to purify our negativity & obscurations from the last year. Same result.)

Ven. Lingtrul Rinpoche will preside as the Vajramaster and we will practice the sadhana of Dorsem Lama Chodpa from the Dudjom Tersar tradition.
There will be 3 sessions per day and all are welcome to join.

February 14th is Losar, the New Year, according to the Lunar & Tibetan calendar.
On this day we will also practice Vajrasattva, although we will use a more concise sadhana.

Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche may join us and offer a Vajrasattva empowerment if he is available, in other words, if we have the merit!

Orgyen Dorje Den
2244 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
www.orgyendorjeden.org

Dedication:

Sarva mangalam!
Siddhi rastu!

May this be greatly beneficial to all!
May the lineage of the Dudjom Tersar and of Lama Tharchin long endure!

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Sustenance

2009-12-17T17:42:02Z

Psychopomping and Howler
By Kathie Wallace

I have been reluctant to share this information because it is sacred. I feel moved to speak about it at this time partly in light of what happened with Howler leaving this world this past summer.

In 1989, a phone call informed me that the only real ally I had had in my family was dying. I was devastated. I immediately booked a flight back to Ontario to be with my cousin, Bronwen Wallace. In making my plans to go, and at a time in my life when I was not at all spiritual, I realized that I was somehow “altered” and being guided to do “strange” things. I accepted the guidance. I went to a crystal store and bought a double-headed amethyst crystal; I found a particular poem and copied out two lines to take with me; I packed a bell and a very sacred picture of mine; and I took a mauve scarf even though I never wear scarves.

When I saw Bronwen, her pain was so unbearable I could only be with her a very few minutes. I showed her the picture and she said, “Yes, that is where I am going.” I asked her to keep it but she refused. She kept the crystal. The other rituals I was moved to do I had to perform with her partner as she couldn’t see me any longer. So I put on the scarf and rang the bell several times, read the lines of poetry, and flew back home to Calgary. I had told Bronwen I would fly back to see her again. She died a few days later before I could return.

Several years later I received a package from her partner with a note,”This doesn’t belong with me.” It was the crystal Bronwen had kept with her. It had transformed. The solid violet colour and form had become a clearly visible, striated crystalline structure. Some sections appeared as clear quartz in colour and there was a rainbow in it. I “knew” that Bronwen had gone through the crystal to pass over to the other side.

About seven years after Bronwen had passed over, I was reading about shamanic practice and was electrified to read about psychopomping as the practice of helping others to the other side with the use of things like bells, rattles, drums, crystals, pictures and poetry.

Since then, I have helped several people pass over as well as a dearly beloved pet. I have never sought out the work.

Later, Bronwen came to me in a dream and asked me to help her mother pass over. I painted a picture, like Bronwen had showed me, focusing on the tops of a grove of trees which were in a closed circle with the sun pouring through them. After I gave it to her mother, she told me later that for the first time she was able to communicate with Bronwen through that painting.

I have also experienced people on the other side. Some of them, like Bronwen and my pet cat, pass over and become “one with all that is”. At Bronwen’s memorial, I heard her laughter in billions of pieces of all existence. Others, like my father and grandfather, remain unhealed and as toxic as they were here on Mother Earth. Much like the spectrum we all exist along here on Mother Earth, there is a spectrum of what appears on the other side.

When Howler passed, what I felt from him initially was sadness, greater wisdom, an understanding of what he had done and where he was, regret, resignation and…he is the same Howler. Being the Heyoka he is who gave himself permission to do and be anything he wanted, especially if it was outrageous and pushed our buttons, he appeared in a dream of mine and did something totally unacceptable.

The thing I want to share about Howler is that I could have helped him, like I have with many people, move out of his despair and sadness and he knew that. There was more than one opportunity for him to open to me and reach out for the help that he was looking for. But he never reached out. Perhaps his Heyoka contraire nature just couldn’t do it or perhaps his ego got in the way. Or perhaps Howler, with his huge mind, was meant to be on the other side to more effectively help us here on this side as we go through the most amazing transformation in the history of human existence. In the end, I don’t pretend to know.

About two days after the news went out that Howler had swum out to sea to drown, I was startled to see an internet video that came to me of a young child, completely costumed as a jester, dancing through a country setting. He was in every way energetically Howler the Heyoka. I took that as a sign that Howler will be coming back as that energy again on this planet. (The video has disappeared).

I do know this: In the face of the horror we are living on this planet at this time, I will ground into Mother Earth; I will connect with the whole universe that runs through us right here and now; and I will sing fierce self-love because our very lives depend on it. Yes to life! And yes! to the new world that we together here and now are dancing into existence. We are meant to be here. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

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2009-12-16T15:07:25Z

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Portland area tantric empowerments December; also online pagan and Buddhist resources for Pacific Northwest

2009-12-10T22:17:44Z

Title:
Portland Oregon area tantric empowerments December; also online pagan / Buddhist resources for Pacific Northwest

Note to Energy Awareness tribe - sorry to have left you out on the listing. KT

Keywords: pagan and tantric resources online, empowerment and transmission, pagan magic, tantra and highest yoga tantra, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and vajrayana, Vajrasattva and Padmasambhava, Nyingma / Early Transmission Lineage and Palyul lineage and teacher Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso, Portland Oregon Dec 11 - 12, PDX Pagans, Northwest Dharma Association online, The Portland Buddhist Hub online.

Summary: a major teacher ( great abbot ) of the Palyul lineage will be giving major transmissions in Portland Oregon December 11th and 12th.

I do not represent this teacher, but this is a fine lineage with major global reach, in which I have received major transmissions ( from HH Penor Rinbochay ). Their main web site is at
www.palyul.org
They have a major center in upper New York state with comprehensive yogic and tantric teachings each summer. I hear only good things about their work there.

Vajraattva and Padmasambhava are two of the most important and useful tantric transmissions and practices in all of Buddhist tantra. They are universal in nature, broadly useful, powerful, and profound. These two transmissions are of central importance in three of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the Sakya, the Kagyu, and the Nyingma. HH the Dalai Lama has taught advanced forms of both practices.

These transmissions necessarily confer bodhisattva vows of universal service and higher level tantric vows of Buddhist yoga. By definition.

Northwest Dharma Association and The Portland Buddhist Hub are major Buddhist and pagan community resources for multiple states and provinces in the Pacific Northwest. There is also the group PDX Pagans in tribe dot net. I support their efforts without in any way formally representing them.

This information is given for informational purposes only. Although my own tantric practice relies very strongly on these two practices in particular, I cannot claim any specific benefit or expected result for anyone else.

These practices are traditionally used for inner healing, inner purification, inner guidance, and psychic protection, for purifying and strenghtening the human magnetic field and so forth. Both are extremely broad and diverse in their many forms and applications, and deep in terms of connecting practitioners with the path to primordial awareness yoga. These transmissions can involve authorizations for kundalini yoga and dzogchen, but it depends on the individual transmission.

See also my basic Vajrasattva teaching at
http://people.tribe.net/aa35e5c2-3d1f-4b92-b135-bdc41d795776/photos/29ed8d70-e1db-4172-b3e0-4b2bfc3044a6
and my continuing mantra thread on
http://tibetanbuddhism.tribe.net/thread/9a908430-dc8b-4496-bec7-2ecbbebbc093

Relevant books are
The Crystal and the Way of Light
Sky Dancer : The Life and Songs
Tantric Practice in Nying-ma
Dakini Teachings

Part of the purpose of this listing is to make known resources such as PDX Pagans, Northwest Dharma Association, and The Portland Buddhist Hub. Thus it is posted as a listing.

Sarva mangalam. Siddhi rastu.

May the Circle Be Open and Unbroken. All Our Relations.

KT

http://www.northwestdharma.org/calendar/calendarentry.php?eventId=110095

FEATURED EVENT: Vajrasattva Empowerment (AM)
Padmasambhava Empowerment (PM)
Khenchen will deliver two empowerments

•10am - Noon: Vajrasattva Empowerment
•2pm - 4pm: Padmasambhava Empowerment

Bio on Khenchen Rinpoche: In 1969 he entered the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan studies at Sarnath, near Varanasi. There he followed a nine-year curriculum in Buddhist studies and general education under his principal teacher, Khenpo Palden Sherab, and other masters. His class work included Sanskrit, English and intensive studies in the textual traditions of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. He graduated with the degree of Acharya in 1978, ranking first overall among the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism represented at Sarnath. His Holiness the Dalai Lama honored his achievement with the award of a silver medal. After graduation he was invited to teach at Palyul Namdroling Monastery at the Tibetan settlement in Bylakuppe, near Mysore in South India. For several years he was engaged in training the young monks and teaching in the monastic college, the Ngagyur Nyingma University (Shedra). In 1983 he was enthroned as a khenpo by His Holiness Pema Norbu Rinpoche. In the Nyingmapa tradition, a khenpo is a professor of Buddhist studies.

Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso has received all of the major lineage empowerments and transmissions of the Nyingmapa school, including the Dudjom Tersar from Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche; the Longchen Nyingthig Yabshi, and Nyingma Kama from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; and the Rinchen Terdzod and Nam Chos from Pema Norbu Rinpoche. He has done intensive dzogchen practice under the guidance of Penor Rinpoche and other eminent masters including Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. Pema Norbu Rinpoche has authorized him to represent the monastery and to teach, to confer empowerments and to give personal instruction in Buddhist practice.

start date: 12-12-2009 end date: 12-12-2009 start time: 10:00am / 2:00pm end time: 12:00 Noon / 4:00pm
category: Other tradition: Tibetan
teacher: Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche sponsor: Portland Sakya Center
venue: Portland Dharma Center
Address: 25th & S.E. Madison (Please park on Hawthorn) City: Portland state/Prov: OR
Primary Contact: Ani Gilda Padron Taylor phone: 503.234.8887 email: loopski@gmail.com
link: cost: $25

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Facilitating the Spread of Dharma in Portland
The Portland Buddhist Hub
http://www.portlandbuddhisthub.org/

As when there are timely rains and all trees and grass receive moisture and thrive, so all sentient beings derive benefits and grow by themselves. There are different methods, but they all spring from the same source. -- Master Han Shan

Many different resources are available for the study and practice of Buddhism in the greater Portland area alone. This site is intended to help those searching for a Way place, a Bodhimandala, they can call their own. If only one person by virtue of this site can find the resources to help him or her on their Way, its purpose has been fulfilled.

Homage to the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha, and the Precepts.

Contact Information
The best way to contact us is to send email to pbh [AT] portlandbuddhisthub.org

PDX pagans
public - created 11/21/03
This tribe is for heathens, pagans and free thinking individuals residing in or around Portland Oregon metro area who want to communicate with other like minded folk.

See
http://tribes.tribe.net/pdxpagans

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(repost ) "Tantra and spiritual power? Here is a definite answer, in terms of Buddhist tantra."

2009-11-19T19:03:55Z

Title
"Tantra and spiritual power? Here is a definite answer, in terms of Buddhist tantra."

Sentient, on tribe Tantra

" think a lot of people, especially in the west, got interested in tantra because of its sexual practices and people seem to like sex. Some people go a little deeper and want to use it to take their love making to a deeper level that incorporates the emotional and higher energetics. What about people who really use it as a meditation, who learn to raise energy for psychic or spiritual practices? What can tantric practices be used for in the practical application of psychic discipline and spiritual practice, beyond the temporary experience of it? A lot of psychic energy is being directed. What can it be used for?"

http://tantra.tribe.net/thread/ee95fef5-e011-4547-951d-23f4f2ed024e

Re Sentient:
"What about people who really use it [ tantra ] as a meditation, who learn to raise energy for psychic or spiritual practices?"

Tantra means several things. It means "integration", "wholeness", as in integration / wholeness of psychophysical experience, through integrative yogic discipline, and in the Buddhist usage it also means
"primordial pure awareness", specifically the Basis Path and Result of Awareness Yoga. Awareness yoga is in one of two major categories, Atiyoga / Dzogchen / Great Perfection, and Mahamudra / Chagyachenpo / Great Seal.

In each of these three sets of terms, the first term is Sanskrit, the second is Tibetan, and the third is an English language approximation. In either Buddhist system, the basic idea is that Basis = Path = Result, or
Basis Buddha = Path Buddha = Result Buddha.

Basis Buddha is you, specifically your own primordially pure awareness, or mine for that matter, which is temporarily obstructed or limited, resulting in a lower energy, divided state of awareness. But the original pure awareness within each individual is never lost nor can it be destroyed, even by physical death.

From one perspective, the teacher known as Guru Sakyamuni Buddha developed or realized his own pure Buddha nature over a period of one thousand lifetimes, with five hundred "impure" lifetimes and five hundred pure lifetimes.

This resulted in an extraordinary event which is the refounding of Buddhist yoga in the current world age. The current founder Buddha Guru Sakyamuni Buddha manifested three defining attributes
1) wholeness and completeness of awareness
2) wholeness and completeness of compassion
3) wholeness and completeness of power, meaning spiritual power.

You asked about spiritual power, so I will give you a concrete, specific historical act of power manifested by Guru Sakyamuni Buddha.

Once, about twenty five hundred years ago or so, the historical Guru Sakyamuni was attacked by a large, wild, ferocious stampeding elephant. This elephant was specifically provoked by Guru Sakyamuni's cousin Devadatta in hopes of killing Guru Sakyamuni.

The elephant was charging straight towards Sakyamuni, and as I understand matters, some people nearby were trying to flee, since a raging elephant is a powerful and unpredictable force, that might turn in any direction.

Guru Sakyamuni saw the elephant charge straight towards him, and he just stood there. This was not because he was lacking attentiveness, nor because he was frozen with fear. He was standing there to address a problem, not only for himself, but for others present.

So, the elephant is making a straight line for Guru Sakyamuni, and Sakyamuni is standing there for a long moment considering the elephant. Then Sakyamuni raises his right hand palm forward in the Abhaya hasta mudra, the Sacred Hand Gesture of Fearlessness. Then the crazed elephant stops dead in its tracks right in front of Guru Sakyamuni, becomes completely calm, and the problem is solved.

Now in Honolulu Hawaii, it took a lot of effort to stop a rampaging elephant that was tearing up a main downtown avenue some twelve years back. It took a lot of firepower to bring that elephant down, to cripple and kill it.

But to all appearances, all that Guru Sakaymuni did when he was attacked, was to make a simple hand gesture, and the huge and dangerous problem was resolved in the space of one breath.

This is a definite expression of spiritual power, of the power of a great mystic and yogi and indeed a true Buddha. It's not a magic trick nor any kind of swindle nor rumor of what may have happened. It is simply put, a direct manifestation of jnana ( wisdom ) karuna ( compassion ) and bala ( power ).

The overall tradition of Buddhist yoga remains alive today, at varying levels of effectiveness and completeness. Great acts of power have been performed over the centuries since Guru Sakyamuni originally taught. I myself have seen and experienced some real acts of power in the Buddhist tradition, as well as in some other traditions.

For example, I once saw a native American bring a lame woman to ( begin to ) walk in one very short healing session, back in 1983. She actually was beginning to lift her legs. The teacher, Rolling Thunder, said
"I did not expect this to happen in one session. I thought it would take three sessions. I did not perform this healing. It wasn't me. You healed yourself."

So here is the real teaching on wisdom compassion and power: wisdom compassion and power are already within us. That is the core meaning of tantra in the Buddhist tradition. There is an equally important core meaning known as Lineage and Transmission, which means connecting with an authentic guru and receiving abhisekha, or transmission/ empowerment. And also there is samaya, which means maintaining the sacred connection, through ethics and self-reflection.

In the mid 1980s Buddhist tantra saved my life, through a series of major transmission cycles and several million mantra recitations, and so forth. The abhisekha/ transmissions were mainly from
- HE Luding Khen Rinbochay ( the principal Sakya Tibetan Ngor lineage holder )
- HH Kalu Rinbochay ( the principal Shangpa Kagyu Tibetan lineage holder ) and
- HH Chetsang Tulku Rinbochay, one of the two principal Drikung Kagyu Tibetan lineage holders
- Longchen Nyingtik Breakthrough from Ven. Lama Terton Sogyal Tulku ( Nyingma, Rigpa Fellowship ).

This includes three primary cycles of transmission from HH Kalu Rinbochay.

I was therefore able to receive power, healing and purification, and so able to develop some power, healing, and complete some purification, when these were most needed to save my own life.

There was no way a western muggle doctor or shrink could address the kind of problem I faced, which in retrospect seemed about as easy to handle as a wild charging elephant. So I didn't talk to any. I took the medicine of Buddha Dharma, the Discipline of Awareness.

I have never believed in "faith healing." When I was very young, a little girl died because her parents provided her only Christian faith healing. She had appendicitis and her abdomen ruptured. Over forty years later, I still do not believe in faith healing, certainly not as the muggles do.

But there is spiritual power, there is yoga, and there is healing. At least, these are present as possibilities.

I myself am a medical yogi, an inner medical tantrika. I took my final exams over twenty years ago. In all that time, I have never believed in a personal creator God, nor in faith healing, nor really in any of what the yogically illiterate call "religion".

I don't have a personal religious belief to espouse. I study and practice yoga, mainly Buddhist tantra, along with a large set of related and similar practices from across Asia, plus various protocols for high level wellness from all over, including Native American teachings.

There are many many classical and and traditional practices that really work. My own experience is that the tantra - considered in the broader sense - is the deepest and most powerful and most broadly acting spiritual discipline. A lot of it has to do with breathing techniques ( pranayama ) and visualization, based on lineage transmission and sacred commitments as mentioned earlier.

Vajradhara Kalu Rinbochay wrote a book:

"The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Impartially Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon"
by Kalu Rinpoche (Author)
# Paperback: 222 pages
# Publisher: State University of New York Press (October 1986)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0887061575
# ISBN-13: 978-0887061578

There is also

"The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen" by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and John Shane

# Paperback: 176 pages
# Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (October 25, 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1559391359
# ISBN-13: 978-1559391351

For general purposes, these are two books I have been recommending to many here and there over the years. They are both very accessible and together provide a good foundation for further study in more technical areas of Buddhist tantra. ( My own core Buddhist stack of books and materials and sadhanas and notes is over sixteen feet tall, but you don't need more than a small functional set of teachings and transmissions and texts to engage this path. )

I am really thankful for the efforts of these two Buddhist gurus, as well as many others ( over sixty Buddhist gurus in fact ). I have benefited greatly thereby. Perhaps you can too. It's mostly about doing your homework, it's mostly about effective yoga sadhana.

It's mostly about awareness and responsibility and caring enough. . . and prioritizing what matters in the long term.

You have been helped.

Sarva mangalam. Siddhi rastu.

KT

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transforming energy

2009-11-15T21:47:43Z

is there anyone out there who knows anything about the magic wheel etc., in buddhism...I had a very weird experience -- seriously where I completely transformed energy t mcro level--I know, sounds egotistical but it would appear that it may be true--the issue is I have come to understnd that I may have got something backwards--the wheel the tape something. Since then I have seriously gone back to church and now listen to gospel music. Smile. I know it sounds trippy and that is why I would be only interested in hearing from persons who really know what I am talking about--it was my spirit--I didn't make it happen--it just happened but while it was happening I think I--I know I started manipulating the experience becuse it was scaring me and/or I wanted another outcome. Anyway--anyone comprende???I have decided--becauise I do believe in God- to hand it over--which my sound like a cop out but I clearly did not know what I was doing--I was cutting chords with someone and it was very dramatic and then all of a sudden in the deepest recesses of my mind a wheel appeared with colors and then tpes and it was spinning and I believe it was my destiny to do wht i ddi but I don't think I did it right--I have even had dreams where things are bAckwards and I had a master yogi teacher from new york look at meand say it was backwards----I know it sounds wonky so only those who understand need apply----The bottom line is I HAVE stopped--I have now joined a church and just accept that whatever happened----happened and that I have to accept it and move forward---as is and I ask god/higher self to straighten out anything that is not in alignment or out of balance and so forth--any ideas....Thanks. Beth

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San Francisco Reiki classes

2009-11-11T23:39:16Z

*Shoden ~ Reiki 1*

Shoden is an introductory level Reiki class open to anyone who has a desire to learn Reiki. Shoden is for your own personal benefit. It is intended for students interested in self-healing and transformation. This level will enable you to offer hands-on healing sessions to your friends and family.

In this class, you will:

• learn about the history, ideas and theory behind Reiki
• receive the Shoden Level attunements
• learn Reiki self-healing techniques
• learn how to give a Reiki healing session to others
• receive and give a full Reiki hands-on healing session

You will receive a handbook, certificate and personal follow-up support after the class.

One-day course $195
Next course: Saturday, December 19th (10am-6pm)

*Okuden ~ Reiki 2*

Okuden enables you to deepen and intensify your experience of Reiki, taking it to a new level. Okuden is for those desiring a deeper understanding and connection to Reiki and are actively involved in personal transformational work. This is the practitioner level where, after you have completed the course, you can start your own Reiki practice.

At this level, you will connect to a higher frequency of Reiki energy after receiving the Okuden level attunements. Okuden includes training in energy and meditation practices designed to advance your healing ability and support your personal and spiritual development.

In this class you will:

• draw and use the Reiki symbols learn symbol meditation techniques
• practice using the symbols
• learn ways to treat with the symbols
• learn techniques for increasing the energy flow
• learn distant healing techniques
• work intuitively
• learn to balance the chakras
• give and receive a mini Reiki session

You will receive a handbook, certificate and personal follow-up support after the class.

One-day course $295
Next course: Saturday, November 21st (10am-6pm)

Please email me or visit my website for more information.

Blessings,

Marla :)
marla@rainbowmandala.com

www.rainbowmandala.com
Reiki for transformation, growth and healing

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San Francisco Lightarian Reiki class

2009-11-11T23:35:20Z

Lightarian Reiki is an extremely high vibrational Reiki healing energy.

Inspired by Ascended Master Buddha, Lightarian Reiki has been brought forth now to accelerate the healing process for humanity. It focuses on expanding your abilities as a Reiki Teacher/Practitioner to channel healing energies of a higher vibrational nature for the benefit of others.

The emphasis of Lightarian Reiki is on simplicity. No further symbols are used. Through a series of four levels, you will raise your personal vibration, while dramatically expanding your capability for delivering these higher and finer healing energies. Each of the four levels has its own training, attunements and certification process.

Prerequisites: Usui-based Reiki Master plus either the Lightarian Buddhic Boost or Karuna Reiki Master

Buddhic Boost is $50, Lightarian I&II is $195, and III, IV, V&VI are $95 each

Next course: Lightarian I&II – Saturday, December 12th (12pm-5pm) $250 (includes Buddhic Boost)

Please email me or visit my website for more information.

Marla :)
marla@rainbowmandala.com

http://www.rainbowmandala.com
reiki for transformation, growth and healing

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Lighthearted Living

2009-11-11T18:50:31Z

In last month’s update, Thinking About Thinking, I shared a technique for transforming limiting thoughts. I would like to build on that technique, offering a doorway to lighthearted living.

Begin by sensing your heart chakra as a large plane of light. It expands out from your body in all directions. It is infinite. Sense as much of it as you can without straining. Hold the image gently, again no straining and no forcing it to conform to your mental image of what it should be. Stay with this for a little while, then keeping an awareness of your heart chakra plane, turn your attention also to your third eye chakra. Sense it as an infinite plane of light, floating above your heart chakra.

Sense the space between the heart chakra plane and the third eye plane. It is the energy upon which the third eye chakra floats. Feel your heart chakra plane expanding even more and notice how it impacts your third eye chakra plane. Feel more light and ease in your heart chakra plane and notice how it impacts your third eye chakra plane. Notice how it impacts the energy between the heart and third eye chakra planes. In the floating energy between the two planes you can find an opening to a feeling of ease and clarity. As you experience the ease and clarity, you also synchronize your heart and third eye chakra planes. It feels incredible and it leads to greater lightheartedness and clarity in your day to day experience, long after you do this activity.

Regarding the space between the two planes, you can enjoy the experience of it, and the clarity and lightheartedness, but you can also use it as a portal. If you enjoy exploration of consciousness for the sake of exploration, or if you want a fun adventure, sense the portal and go through it. Because it comes from the synchronization and lightfilled expansiveness of heart and mind, it is a stable and empowering place from which to meditate and journey.

However you work with this activity, I wish you the same wonderful lightheartedness and clarity it is offering me. If you find this activity helpful, I would love to hear about it. Feedback is welcomed and encouraged. Thank you for the opportunity to share this activity with you.

Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com

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Ascension Ease Attunement

2009-11-11T18:43:36Z

Ascension Ease Attunement

You are an infinite being. As an infinite being you have all states of being inside you from which to choose. This attunement was inspired by the ever increasing number of articles circulating online about Ascension symptoms and how to address them. The purpose of this Ascension Ease attunement is to help you tune into the experience of yourself as Awakening and/or Ascending with comfort and ease, bringing it into your everyday experience. The other purpose of this attunement is to help you experience yourself in a new way: as a spiritual master who can change your state of being- simply by tuning in.

When you read this document and follow the instructions, I am working with you, sending an energy transmission to help you tune in. My transmission does not make it happen for you, but rather enhances what you are doing, making it easier for you to tune in, and strengthening the results. You will have your own individual results, unique to your needs at the times you attune. You tune in at your convenience. No set appointment time is necessary because I am sending from non-linear time where everything is in the moment and I am ever present. If you are looking at this document, wondering how such a thing can happen from reading a few words, or how an attunement can be transmitted via words on a page, I want to clarify that the attunement is not in the words on this page. The energy/state of being you are seeking is inside you. This document is only words and instructions.

Attunement Instructions:

Whenever you wish to attune, all you need to do is relax, close your eyes and intend to attune in accordance with your highest good. Allow a few minutes for the attunement results to unfold, and then ground carefully before resuming other activities. For best results, I recommend attuning at least once a day to build a baseline of mastery, then you can attune additionally as needed when symptoms are problematic.

My energetic assistance when you tune in will be available for one week from the date you first use the instructions in this document to attune. After that, you can continue the process of attuning without my energy assisting you, if you wish, or you can use the Life Mastery Attunement at: http://www.lindawhitedove.com/Life_Mastery.php to further develop your mastery.

Because I receive many e mails about the attunements I offer, asking to receive the attunement, I want to be very clear. You do not need to e mail me to receive this attunement. It is in your intent to receive and mine to send…and I am offering it for free to all who receive this document and wish to attune. All you have to do is follow the instructions in this document and the attunement takes place.

If you find this attunement helpful and wish to share it with others, you are welcome to send it to friends, post it on bulletin boards, on discussion lists, etc. My energy assistance is available for everyone who wishes to attune, but only for one week per person. Any attempts to change the wording of this document, or to share it without my name and website info will render the energy assistance unavailable. If you have any questions on how to use this attunement, you can e mail me at somaticdakini@gmail.com Feedback on results from this attunement is welcomed and encouraged. An extended version of this attunement will be available in my November 2009 Update. To subscribe to the free monthly update, please contact me at somaticdakini@gmail.com

All the best,
Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com

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What is going on with me?

2009-11-06T02:15:23Z

I feel people's energies acutely , sometimes to the point of just being overwhelmed . So there's that. I have always felt that I needed to be with a person whose energy was really light and airy or I would feel weighted down by them. Other people's emotional baggage feels really heavy to me.
I have some of my own emotional baggage to deal with too of course so I do and I feel pretty light these days in general.
I was talking to an energy worker and she was saying that in her experience Tibetian monks has a kind of lightness that must come from meditation. I really want to learn about different energy styles and how to relate to different people with different styles well. I almost can't stand lots of repressed anger and denseness around me . I work with people who have I'd say denser energies but that's work and somehow that's ok. Whereas someone in my home space or heart space would need to be fairly clear ( I don't know if I have the words to explain this stuff, if you get it please explain it to me).
I am very attracted to energy work as a therapist. I want to get to the core of someone's energy field and work from there.

Does anyone else feel that with other people, that if they are with someone who is really dense it feels heavy. Are there just fewer really clear people? I associate clearness with positivity and some faith in humanity ( like Barrack) I associate heaviness with emotional baggage unprocessed and unresolved anger. I remember something by Ester-hicks I think about how energies can't come into our lives unless we allow it. I recently had two teachers whose energies were really disturbing to my system so I know that stuff is still there in me, but also I notice it as the kind of heaviness I used to have all the time and don't have but occasionally anymore and I could displace it from my energy quicker than before.
What do you think? Vibrationally, people with the highest of vibrations, are they able to live and work well with all energies? Do they prefer certainly similar energies?
What do you make of me wanting to be around really clear people and feeling yucky being around the underneath anger other denseness?
What do you make of any of this?

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Soul Hunger: The reason of faith, according to Karen Armstrong

2009-11-05T17:50:00Z

www.odemagazine.com

MICHAEL BRUNTON
Ode
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 ISSUE

The reason of faith

Religion isn’t easy, Karen Armstrong says: “You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form.”

Modern science knows how to fix a hole in the heart. It can diagnose a hole in the ozone layer and prove the existence of black holes at the edge of the universe.

But when it comes to explaining what's often described as the "God-shaped hole" in our lives, neither quantum physicists nor geneticists nor neuropsychologists appear to quite have the measure of it.

If anything, the rate of scientific advance in recent decades has only served to polarize religious debate. At one extreme is a resurgent atheism—epitomized by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who've both written best-selling books denouncing religious belief—which trusts that this hole, like every hole, will be filled in time by knowledge. At the other extreme is religious fundamentalism—epitomized by political spats over headscarves and creationism—which believes this hole is brimful of scriptural truth. For most of us in between, the hole in the soul gnaws away at our subconscious, like a hunger. And all of us, believers and non-believers alike, rush to fill the void with words.

One way or another, according to Karen Armstrong, "We talk far too much about God these days." Which might sound a bit rich coming from the English author of almost 20 books on religion as well as two memoirs about her becoming—and then unbecoming—a Catholic nun, who has been decked with religious prizes and who regularly lectures the high and mighty of church and state around the world. What's more, according to her new book The Case for God, the things we say when we do talk about religious faith are often "facile," "stupid" or "primitive." Ammunition, perhaps, for Armstrong's critics, of whom she has had her share, ever since her breakthrough book, A History of God, in 1993.

In that and the books that followed, Armstrong has traced the tangled roots of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, liberally reinterpreted the lives of Muhammad, Buddha and Jesus, and dived headlong into the maelstrom of theological debate around fundamentalism, both before and after 9/11. Some have criticized her idealistic interpretation of the Koran; religious academics berate her for shortcomings of scholarly rigor; atheists dismiss her for refusing to engage in debate on their terms.

Yet Armstrong's consistently eloquent arguments for compassion and commonality as an antidote to Islamophobia and the "clash of civilizations" have struck a chord, particularly in the U.S., where she has addressed both houses of Congress. She's also increasingly in demand on the lecture circuit in countries like Pakistan and Egypt, and is to be found on book stalls in 40 languages around the world. Drawing together the main threads of her previous research, The Case for God is Armstrong's most concise and practical-minded book yet: a historical survey of how rather than what we believe, where we lost the "knack" of religion and what we need to do to get it back.

"A lot of the arguments about religion going on at the moment spring from a rather inept understanding of religious truth," says Armstrong, settling into her theme and a winged easy chair in her early-Georgian home in north London. The furnishings and decoration suggest Jane Austen may have just stepped out of the room. Like Austen, and in a polished English accent, Armstrong is sharp-witted, quick to ridicule nonsense, and a good storyteller. "Our notion changed during the early modern period when we became convinced that the only path to any kind of truth was reason. That works beautifully for science but doesn't work so well for the humanities. Religion is really an art form and a struggle to find value and meaning amid the ghastly tragedy of human life."

Armstrong's The Case for God begins with the cave paintings of Lascaux in the French Dordogne, made some 17,000 years ago—seemingly religious art works in which the hunter assuages his unease at killing his prey through shamanic rituals in honor of the Animal Master. Such myths were born because, Armstrong writes, "As meaning-seeking creatures, men and women fall very easily into despair. They have created religions and works of art to help them find value in their lives, despite all the dispiriting evidence to the contrary."

From that point on, the religious impulse took the form of creation myths like Tao and Brahman from the East, on through the gods of ancient Greece and eventually the emergence of the world's three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—and their founding scriptures. But none of them, says Armstrong, were meant to be taken literally. "The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one."

Reason, science and logic—what the Greeks called "logos"—were also evolving as ways of understanding the world, but always in concert, not competition, with the stories—the mythos—they relied on to deal with the mysteries of the human psyche. Pythagoras, for example, a founding father of mathematics and astronomy, sought the geometric truth of the universe from within a religious community dedicated to Apollo and the Muses. He also called himself a philosopher and expected his students to lead an ascetic and monastic kind of life, undergoing rites of purification and silence "in a search," Armstrong writes, "for transcendence and a dedicated, practical lifestyle."

In conversation, Armstrong spins the threads of her research with agile, unhesitating precision, leaping across centuries of scripture, philosophy and theology. She dissects the writings of Denys the Areopagite, the pseudonymous 5th-to-6th-century Christian theologian; explains the roots of Greek words like pistis (faith); pauses to unpick the purpose of Socratic dialogue or the classical atheism of Ludwig Feuerbach, the 19th-century German philosopher and proto-Marxist.

But through all the twists and turns, the notion of transcendence is the one she returns to time and again as the beating heart of all pre-modern theology. "The idea was that when we spoke about God we were speaking of something that lies beyond words," says Armstrong. "People like Thomas Aquinas would say we can't talk about God as a creator because we can only have in our heads the idea of a human creator and that can't apply to God. We can't even say that God exists because our notion of existence is too limited to apply to God. People were instructed to think about this in those terms."

In Armstrong's scheme of things, it was with the dawning of the Age of Reason that the problems started. As philosophers and mathematicians both, Descartes and then Newton well understood that science and religion—logos and mythos—were discrete realms in the search for universal truth. But when the foundation for modern science was laid, the conceptual nature of truth itself began to blur.

"Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their mathematics," says Armstrong. "And when you try and mix science and religion you get bad science and bad religion. The two are doing two different things. ... Science can give you a diagnosis of cancer. It can even cure your disease, but it cannot touch your grief and disappointment, nor can it help you to die well."

Newton seeded not only the idea that God was reducible, says Armstrong, but also that understanding religion would be easy. So easy that by 1900, the German mathematician David Hilbert could confidently assert that precisely 23 problems remained to be solved in order to complete the Newtonian view of the universe. More than a century later, few of us can even comprehend those problems, let alone calculate the answers or grasp the significance of all the things we've learned since. Worse, as our theories about the universe grow ever more abstract, a sense of bewilderment is replacing the sense of transcendence. "It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet," says Armstrong. "You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work."

And as with great art, the realization that God defies understanding can be a source of the profoundest joy. For Einstein that sense of the existence of something impenetrable was, as he wrote in a 1930 essay, "the sower of all true art and science" and "the centre of all true religiousness." Armstrong herself calls this experience "the stunned appreciation of an otherness"—a state she says she can occasionally glimpse in the long, silent and solitary hours of study that fuel her writing.

In her studies, Armstrong, at 64, now finds what countless hours of obligatory prayer as an unhappy Catholic nun in her teenage years had flatly failed to bring into focus. Suffering a lost vocation and physically frail, she considered her eventual departure from the convent in 1969 as a relief of sorts. But coming to terms with the world outside and the God she'd left behind triggered a profound spiritual trauma. After a diagnosis of epilepsy and disastrous spells teaching at a university, Armstrong's convalescence proper began in 1981—it's still underway, she says—when she poured her pain into a memoir of her convent days, Through the Narrow Gate. A second volume Beginning the World related her adjustment to the outside world, but Armstrong later recanted it because of the false heartiness she'd adopted to satisfy both her publisher and her own delusion of contentment.

In fact, Armstrong's adjustment wasn't going well, and a brief spell as an erudite but pungently skeptical presenter of religious TV programs in the U.K.—egged on by the producers, she claims, to say ever more outrageous things—did little to help matters. But in the course of that work, Armstrong found herself drawn back to the theological texts underpinning the monotheistic religions and to what they really mean. To do that, says Armstrong, "I had to put my clever, post-Enlightenment, Oxford-educated, aggressively logos self on the back burner, and enter into the mind of someone like Muhammad, who believed he'd been touched by God. Because if I didn't sympathetically and compassionately feel with him, I would miss the essence of it and just write another clever riposte."

A report by the Pew Forum, a U.S. research body on religion and public life, recently painted a startling picture of religious faith in America. About half the population appears to have changed religious affiliation at least once, while the number of believers unaffiliated with any particular faith is rising faster than those of any of religion. Yet more than half of those who grow up unaffiliated later choose to join one. Of the reasons people give for this restlessness, far more cite disenchantment with their religious institutions than a loss of faith per se.

Across Europe, in contrast, while many still identify with a religious denomination, Pew's Global Attitudes Project report last year showed that only a fraction value religion as "very important" in their lives, compared to America, where 55 percent consider it so. In secular-minded France, only 10 percent take that view. Even in traditionally Catholic Spain, the figure is only 19 percent. Among young Europeans, religion's importance appears to be still on the wane. That's somewhat true in America, although 49 percent of adults under 40 value it like their parents and grandparents do, while in places like Egypt (69 percent), Turkey (88 percent) and Pakistan (95 percent), many more young people are keeping the faith.

That longing for spiritual uplift and communion, along with the sense of being let down, have no doubt driven the popularity of New Age beliefs in the U.S. and elsewhere in recent decades. It may also have contributed to the rise in eco-consciousness and the emergence of a "Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability" (LOHAS) demographic, said to include some 40 million people in the U.S., socially responsible green consumers interested in spiritually tinged practices like alternative medicine and personal development.

Armstrong for one isn't surprised at these shifts. "We—the British and the northern Europeans—are beginning to look endearingly old-fashioned in our secularism. The rest of the world is becoming more religious." But while God-centered religion may not own the copyright on transcendence, she warns, "None of it is of any value unless you translate it into practical compassionate action for others. In Buddhism, yoga is properly about the dismantling of egotism; if you just do these things to lose weight or to get a warm glow, that's not religion."

For Armstrong, it's compassion that's the defining virtue of religion, the Golden Rule articulated by Confucius two and a half millennia ago as "Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you." Practicing compassion is, she says, a form of "ethical artistry" that requires the dethroning of ego—a virtue, Armstrong believes, that's alive and well for the majority of the faithful in all religions, but one often singularly lacking in the higher echelons of the various faiths she addresses.

Last year, that message earned Armstrong a prize from the TED Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering big ideas, allowing Armstrong to promote a Charter for Compassion that aims to get religious leaders to commit to a program of compassionate principles (see sidebar). For some religious commentators, like the U.S. rabbi Brad Hirschfield, the Charter amounts to little more than "a ‘Kumbaya' moment" for "a world filled with hate-driven faith." Armstrong disagrees, believing the abundant supply of compassion among religious communities the world over will win out. She does have a poor opinion of religious committees though, and admits she was nervous before the first meeting of the high-profile, multifaith, multinational body convened to draw up the Charter. Until, that is, the first speaker got up and said, "We must include a sentence saying that we, that religious people, have failed." Everyone agreed, nodding, says Armstrong with a grin. "As soon as I heard that, I thought, ‘We're going to be all right.'"

Michael Brunton is a writer living in London who agrees with Voltaire on the necessity of god and gardening.

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@%^&%$&^()&()%^%#$

2009-10-31T19:16:21Z

@%^&%$&^()&()%^%#$

That's how my Brain feels with all these new concepts , new ways of looking at things, new ways of being, possibilities that seem to be falling at my feet lately.
Some of the stuff I am integrating right now are:
Transperonal/ transcendence psychology
Angelic realms, bliss states, body states
Energy work
Love ( of course)
Bay area energy
Attachment (oneness with initial caregiver)
Quantum Physics
Rumi, Rodin, Ryan Gosling ;)

Anyone want to talk about any of those things?

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Nervous Energy

2009-10-21T19:27:43Z

What are some ways to neutralize it so as not to affect your own sense of peace? Sometimes it can be hard to ignore and contagious, especially when someone is defensive and nervous.

Thoughts?

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Are you living an engaged life?

2009-10-14T18:12:31Z

I ask myself, am I living an engaged life?
I am exercising several days a week. I go to school to use my mind. I have people in my life who care about me and I care about. I have a career I am working on that is meaningful and ever evolving. I love my life. I love being physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually healthy. I don't take it for granted as I spent my 20's feeling numb, depressed, shut down. My energy is way up because I got it flowing. I learned that I needed to express my anger, sexuality, joy, goodness, etc... With like minded folks. I put myself in places that I could and continue to do that. I have gifts that not everyone has. I am very empathetic and I care about the health of everyone. I can work in situations where I use those gifts. A small thing but it's huge actually, people don't know how to eat. A lot of people eat to survive but they are not eating for healthy and optimal functioning. I can help with that. As a society we are not even eating with sanity yet. I can teach people how to eat. We also don't move enough, I can teach people how to move.

Are you living an engaged life?
My engaged life includes: relationships that are a joy to be in. Where we are kind and funny and good to each other for a long time. This world is one where I have meaningful work that benefits humanity. This world is an engaged world, where I am and fully present with all that I encounter.
What does your engaged life look like?

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A repost from the Quantum Physics tribe/Physics and Consciousness

2009-10-09T09:08:23Z

Consciousness,....
I am curious what scientists or theorists have developed in terms of quantifying this element in the flux of physical phenomena...assuming there is something tangible to quantify.

http://quantumphysics.tribe.net/thread/f73902b2-be17-4ee3-9a8d-3a4e3e025530#7472a0be-8f8e-4500-8bea-58ed271d5397

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this is a weird one.....

2009-10-07T04:26:53Z

Okay- to make it short- do you believe it is possible to merge with someone elses energy to the point where you start looking like them? If thats the case can you change it? and remove their energy from your energy body/ soul what have you? particularly if there energy is dark-very dark- and you have somehow brought that energy into your life. I am curiuos. What bothers me is feeling so powerless. Do you thisnk we are that powerless over energy....over karma.....what have you or do we have more control over what w ebring in and out of our lives??? Beth

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Sugar Craving Free and Blood Sugar Balancing Attunement

2009-10-05T14:51:54Z

Sugar Craving Free and Blood Sugar Balancing Attunement

You are an infinite being. As an infinite being you have all states of health inside you, along with the ability to make it happen. This attunement helps you tune into your state of being free of sugar cravings and your state of blood sugar balance. The other purpose of this attunement is to help you experience yourself in a new way: as someone who can change your health and your life simply by tuning in.

If you are looking at this document, wondering how such a thing can happen from reading a few words, or how an attunement can be transmitted via words on a page, I want to clarify that the attunement is not in the words on this page. The energy/state of being you are seeking is inside you. This document is only words and instructions. When you read this document and follow the instructions, I am working with you, sending an energy transmission to help you tune in. My transmission does not make it happen for you, but rather enhances what you are doing, making it easier for you to tune in, and strengthening the results. You tune in at your convenience. No set appointment time is necessary because I am sending from non-linear time where everything is in the moment and I am ever present.

My energetic assistance when you tune in will be available for two months from the date you first use the instructions in this document to attune. After that, you should have enough experience and comfort with the process of attuning to continue the process without my energy assisting you. For best results I recommend you attune at least once a day (to create a base of well being) even if you are feeling fine, and then as needed when you are craving sugar and/or want to balance your blood sugar.

A few very important things:

1. If you have blood sugar health problems and are taking medication, changing your blood sugar can cause your medication dose to no longer be correct, which can lead to serious health problems. Even if you do not have blood sugar health issues, changing your blood sugar levels can impact other health concerns (including those of which you may not be aware), and medication levels for non-blood sugar related conditions. This attunement is designed to be used under the supervision of your doctor.

2. By using this attunement, you release the creator of this attunement, Linda White Dove, from any liability for any results of using this attunement.

3. This attunement addresses the symptoms of sugar cravings and blood sugar imbalance. It does not address the psycho-spiritual root cause of the symptoms. To address the cause of these symptoms, as well as other health symptoms, and to develop your mastery in attuning to whatever states of wellness and life changes you desire, coordinating use of this attunement with the Life Mastery Attunement is highly recommended. Learn more about the Life Mastery Attunement here: http://www.lindawhitedove.com/Life_Mastery.php

Attunement Instructions:

Whenever you wish to attune, all you need to do is relax, close your eyes and intend to attune in accordance with your highest good. Allow a few minutes for the attunement results to unfold, and then ground carefully before resuming other activities.

Because I receive e mails about the attunements I offer, asking to receive the attunement, I want to be very clear. You do not need to e mail me to receive this attunement. It is in your intent to receive and mine to send…and I am offering it for free to all who receive this document and wish to attune. All you have to do is follow the instructions in this document and the attunement takes place.

If you find this attunement helpful and wish to share it with others, you are welcome to send it to friends, post it on bulletin boards, on discussion lists, etc. My energy assistance is available for everyone who wishes to attune, but only for two months per person. Any attempts to change the wording of this document, or to share it without my name and website info will render the energy assistance unavailable. Feedback on results from this attunement is welcomed and encouraged. Gratitude in the form of donations makes my life easier and therefore makes it more likely that I will create and share more free attunements in the future. If you would like to make a donation, please contact me.

All the best,
Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com

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Peace of Mind Attunement

2009-09-23T16:28:00Z

Peace of Mind Attunement

To attune is to tune in. As an infinite being, you already contain within every state of consciousness you could wish to experience. The purpose of this attunement is to help you tune into your peace of mind, bringing it into the forefront of your experience.

These words you are reading are instructions on how to tune in. As you follow the instructions for attunement, I am working with you helping you tune into your experience of peace of mind. To receive the attunement (which is offered as you read these very words): relax, close your eyes and intend to receive the attunement in accordance with your highest good. Allow a few minutes for the experience to unfold and integrate before resuming other activities.

This is a one time attunement. You may use it viewed on the computer or printed. It has no expiration date, but will only work one time per person (my assistance in attuning will be available one time per person). Each person who attunes receives their own individualized attunement, which is always current to where they are on their spiritual path are at the time of using the attunement. This attunement was designed to always be current, to be in alignment with the ever shifting and evolving energies supporting our planetary awakening and beyond. It will never be out of date.

If you wish to share this attunement with others, you may do so and it will work, provided you include my name and website address below. If you would like to offer feedback about your peace of mind experience, I would love to hear from you. An extended version of this attunement will be included in my October 2009 e-mail update. Visit my website to subscribe (it is free), or contact me offlist.

Thank you for the opportunity to share this attunement with you.
Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com

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Cleansing others energies out of my system. Issues with shapeshifting and feeling people from past inside me.

2009-09-14T00:08:55Z

Hello all,
Have you ever had the experience of momentary embodiment of other people's energy? i'm empathic, working on more solid boundaries.

I've been noticing over the last few years that i tend to store other people's energy in me. (a feminine trait especially with old intimate partners and friends.) this is especially strong with people who i have shared deep intimacy with, and even sometimes people they have shared deep intimacy with. it's like i'm finally realizing the power of energetic merging of sexual and deep intimate relations. kind of like a family tree of sexual energetic relations.

The way this feels for me is as if I'll drop into someone's character (facial expressions, movements, sounds, and general vibe) it's more intense than just picking up someone's common expressions like when you pick up someone elses laugh or saying. i actually for a very quick moment, actually feel the person in me. kind of a shape-shifting of sorts. it feels similar to when i've jumped into the feeling of what it is like to be a certain animal.

the issue is, it comes uninvited. when i've done it with animals, it's through a concious decision on my part to explore, meditate with, and experience an animal. it's especially spooky when it pops up while i'm having my own sexual expression and some old lover's vibes channel in. eek!

this feels more like stagnant energy. maybe it's good and the energy is moving out of me. sometimes i feel like there's too much old energy from the past stagnating and mucking up the free-flow of my own divine creative energy in my vessel.

any ideas to effeciently usher out these old energies to make room for the full me? boundary strengthning excersizes, clearing excersizes.

i am very familiar with chakra clearing and angel assistance. also have done some shamanic trance work. maybe i just need to devote more time to these paths that i know.

if anyone has that special key technique to help with clearing past energies esp. sexual and intimate friends and partner energies, i'd really appreciate you sharing them.

Thanks!

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Let's trade spiritual Wed addies

2009-08-31T14:30:55Z

Things have slowed down so much on Tribe.net... way fewer posts.

Here's a good discussion site, people serious about personal development, spiritual things, psychic stuff, achieving goals, being healthy:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/

Please post some other web addresses. And can you say a little about what's the scope, and why the site is good?

Blessings on your path...

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Chakra Pleasure Attunement

2009-08-28T18:20:54Z

Chakra Pleasure Attunement

This attunement is for experiencing pleasure in each of your chakras. Your chakras are energy centers that correspond with your body, emotions, mind and spirit. By experiencing pleasure in your chakras, you bring more pleasure to your life. However, while the primary focus of this attunement is for enjoyment, the opening of your physical, emotional and mental bodies to pleasure often has a clearing, healing and awakening effect.

This Chakra Pleasure Attunement will work with any and all of your major and minor chakras. I recommend starting with your major chakras and working with all of them in one session beginning with the root/base chakra and working your way up. Then if you wish to work with any of your minor chakras you can do that as part of the same or a separate session. If you need a list of major and minor chakras you will find many internet sites, books and other reference material containing that information.

The purpose of my attunements is to help you tune in and become more in-tune with yourself. When you attune using this attunement, you are becoming more aware of the pleasure in each of your chakras. This is not intended as a healing modality, but rather as self exploration, empowerment and life enrichment. I offer no course materials or certificates, only a way to journey into yourself and bring more of yourself into your everyday life.

Although it is common to attribute the attunement to someone or something outside of yourself, what I offer through my attunements is an understanding that everything you wish to attune yourself to is already present inside of you. When you follow the written instructions in this attunement, I am working with you to help you tune into and experience your pleasure as it already exists inside of you. I am not adding anything to you, I am simply helping you to focus your awareness. However, if while working with any or all of your chakras, you would like to add my pleasure energy to yours, all you have to do is intend to experience it and it will be present.

To Attune: relax and close your eyes. Starting with your root chakra, intend to experience the pleasure that is there. Then just go with the experience. When the sensation subsides or moves to the next chakra, it is time to intend to experience the pleasure that is there. All you need to experience this attunement is intent. These written words are merely information and instructions. When you intend to attune, your intent is assisted by mine and the attunement takes place. Nothing more is needed so please do not ask me to send you the attunement, everything you need is inside of you and supported by the words on this page you are currently reading.

This attunement will work one time for each chakra. After that if you choose to attune, you will still be able to do so because tuning in is a natural process. However, my assistance in attuning, and the addition of my pleasure energy will no longer be available. If you would like further assistance exploring your sexuality, I offer the Sexual Empowerment Attunement for purchase on my website http://www.lindawhitedove.com/Sexual_Empowerment.php

Thank you for the opportunity to share this attunement with you.

Linda White Dove
Copyright 2007 Linda White Dove

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Thinking About Thinking

2009-08-28T18:19:41Z

Thinking About Thinking

I have been thinking about thinking. The evolving energies helping us to awaken have brought new awareness to my thoughts. When limiting thoughts show up, they present along with a continuum of possibility from which to choose. I then know I can either choose the limiting thoughts or I can choose something more fulfilling.

My inner knowing is often in the form of holographic spatial relationship (I see/feel/know/hear energy patterns in relationship with other patterns). This makes it easy to embody change. I do not have to engage my mind; I simply choose to feel myself as the pattern. You can do this too, using this metaphorical-based activity:

Do you have a thought or belief you wish to change? If nothing comes to mind, remember a challenging situation and your thoughts about it. Choose one thought with which to work. Sense it as a large plane, like a large plate expanding out from your heart chakra in all directions to infinity. Allow the plane to become light: feel it, see it, experience it as light until you no longer think about the thought, you just sense the plane as light.

Once you have skill at doing this, you can use it to transform limiting thoughts. If you do it often enough, and if you intend for it to happen, whenever you have limiting thoughts you will be notified by the illuminating plane which will show up when you need it. If you wish to take this activity further, when the plane shows up as light, sense the light clearing away all thought, leaving you open for other thoughts on the situation, ones that are more fulfilling.

I wish you infinite fulfillment and joyful exploration. Thank you for the opportunity to share this activity with you. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated!

Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com

If you wish to share this article with others, you are welcomed to do so, provided you do not change it in any way and you include my name and website.

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Prana - Reiki or Both

2009-08-28T14:56:28Z

Have Reiki I & II attunements, am planning for the next step there. I am considering taking Prana classes too. I've heard they are similar and yet different. Would like to hear from others about the comparrison and similarities from actual practioners. Thanks!

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Energies that hurt your prana

2009-08-23T20:43:17Z

How about energies that hurt your prana and mind energies.... like directed energy weapons? The government and all it's corporate friends in the weapons industry employ such weapons and direct them at innocent people.. whether to test the weapon, or to hurt or manipulate the person. This is a huge issue that is not spoken about mostly because the government won't speak about the creation or use of such weapons. And they definitely mess up your pranic energy system and affect you by directing vibrations at your mind or body.

I can't give any other proof except which won't be ridiculed... except for websites that talk about this stuff. Here is one website that has articles relating to the directed energy weapons industry and use.

http://www.silobreaker.com/directed-energy-11_1783996

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Favorite quotes that inspire peaceful co-existence.

2009-08-19T15:13:28Z

I am collecting quotes for a musical experiment. The experiment is going to consist of gathering the quotes that most inspire humanity to peacefully co-exist, and that also promote us to come together and live in harmony. In addition I am also gathering quotes that offer real meaningful solutions to troubles both physical, spiritual, and societal.

My intent is to take the best quotations and translate them word by word into musical notes. I will then begin to put together a symphony consisting of the top voted quotations that sound the most amazing. Once that is completed I will ask many people to listen to both the symphony and the literary translation that it derived from. I will also ask them if they liked the song and if they have any constructive criticisms, and or suggestions that would add to the continuing perfection of the symphony.

If we all begin to live our lives in a mutually beneficial groove we will all be creating a state of mind that enhances the quality of life for anyone who listens to it. The meaningful purpose of this experiment is to co-create a song that everyone will enjoy subconsciously tuning themselves into.

I need your help. This is not something that can be done by one person. I have learned that doing this on my own can create beautiful music that tunes me into manifesting things, situations, and aspirations into being. But it also limits the true potential of what this form of literary musical translation can do. I know I do not have all the answers to all of the modern day problems that humanity faces, but I know that we as a human race do. We need to come together and create a song that we can all enjoy tuning into. If we do things, situations, and aspirations will begin to manifest for anyone who listens and tunes into it, because they will understand its true musical and literal meanings with all the benefits it implies.

If you would like to contribute to this musical experiment please respond by posting your favorite quotes that you feel will most benefit and inspire humanity to wake up and realize who we are, and what we all are truly capable of becoming.

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Relationships, energy drain and source....

2009-08-15T01:42:16Z

Relationships are energy exchanges and two people are giving it's the best stuff on earth. I have had relationships that tended to devolve into energy sucking, both ways. I was first in a relationship with a much older man and really wanted him to take care of me and figure things out. Then I was in a relationship with a much younger man who drained my energy so bad I was depressed for a year after he left. I'm confident I won't do either kind of relaltionship again. I feel like I have a relationship to my own source energy and will find my way back to that from now on.
What do you all think? Do you think that relationships are essentially co-dependent until both people are fully connected to their own source of energy? Or is it just growing and differentiating until we have our full selves , and can be two whole people together and two whole people apart?
What's the key to non-codependent , whole relationship between two equal entities?

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Dreaming the New World into Being

2009-08-12T15:25:03Z

Thursday, August 13 from 9:00-11:00 is a time I will focus my intent. It will find me a-dreaming of the new world again. We are in remarkable times this summer with powerful energy available for transforming if we choose to accept the invitation.
Current sustainability initiatives to salvage this “surface reality” dying world are not enough.
We must also realize that we are the dreamers and the co-creators. Our task is to dream. The new world we have to dream into being is like the Garden of Eden. This will be what sustains us and offers us all we need. It is possible to create it in our life time if enough people dream it.
Anastasia of the Ringing Cedars books gives us a clear vision of the joy and abundance of this new world: simply living and being in country garden settings with each other and nature. Yes to life!

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Goal of 2013 members by 2010

2009-08-12T01:04:36Z

Calling all tribers and members of our club to manifest another 1000 new members... presently vision to manifest spread the word....
onelovefamily.tribe.net

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Awakening

2009-08-10T16:39:54Z

August 5 is the full moon and the third eclipse in 5 weeks. This is a lunar eclipse. It is the quickening of our awakening, expanded consciousness…a life-altering, huge window of opportunity. As a time of powerful synchronicity and manifestation, I BE joy and gratitude as I sleep outside under the stars by my garden, talking to the whole universe, giving thanks as I assert what I am as the new world.
August 20 is the last of three Super New Moons in a row: empowered manifesting. I am joy and abundance. May we all shine on!
[Adapted from Rose Marcus]
Picture from www.astronet.rudbxwaremsg1199836

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Dream.... I need help with....

2009-08-08T18:09:58Z

I need help interpreting this dream. I have dreams of this ex sometimes. Last night I dreamt that I was at a really nice house and I realized that my ex's house was in the nieghborhood. I had to swim across a pond to get up to the property. Then I went to the house and no one was home but this random guy, I asked if my ex was there, he said no but that I could go up to his room. I went up the stairs to his room, it was messy and seemed lived in even though he wasn't there. I looked around and then I left. When I was about to swim across the pond again to the other house I realized I had a back pack of stuff. I must have taken it from his room , i looked ino the bag and there were a bunch of wires like telephone wires all in a bundle. I closed the bag and jumped into the pond to swim back to the other house.
What do you think?
The emotional content was that I was sneaking around and he was going to be mad that I was in his room. Also the wires interest me, He is an IT guy, very heady, very in his head and works with lots of wires. Did I sheak into his room and remove some wires? Or re-wire some stuff figuritively. Maybe it was my head that was rewired.

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My Mantra for these Times

2009-08-05T06:37:15Z

Time does not run me;
The whole universe runs through me.

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Energy aficionados - check this...

2009-07-29T22:54:55Z

Hi. Thought that many people here might find this interesting.

From YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl05c0jT-ws

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2009 U.S. Teaching Schedule/ Intro For H.E. Gochen Tulku Sang Ngak ( incl. Vajra Armor method of tantric healing )

2009-07-29T17:12:53Z

N.B. to Energy Awareness Tribe :
I have the Vajra Armor transmission. This is a profound and powerful practice of psychic healing in the form of a Fierce Guru Padmasambhava. It will be given by His Eminence at Mount Shasta.

Best,
KT

2009 U.S. Teaching Schedule For H.E. Gochen Tulku Sang Ngak ( Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma lineage )

Keywords: Nyingma, Great Perfection / Dzogchen, tantric transmissions and retreats, H.E. Gochen Tulku Sang Ngak, Ewam USA.

Here I provide details on the current 2009 teaching schedule, practice centers, and background for H.E. Gochen Tulku, a most accomplished Tibetan yogi.

His Eminence is a major teacher and incarnate guru in the Earlier Transmission ( Nyingma ) of Buddhist tantra into Tibet from India, as established by the Great Guru Padmasambhava, in particular of the Primordial Awareness Yoga known as "Atiyoga", that is, the Great Perfection, a.k.a. "Dzogchen" in Tibetan.

For more information on esoteric Buddhist tantra in the form of Nyingma and Dzogchen materials, see Snow Lion Publications online
http://www.snowlionpub.com/
and the book
"The Crystal and the Way of Light", by Namkhai Norbu.

For current information on H.E. Gochen Tulku, his Evam USA organization and their projects and teaching schedules, see
http://www.ewam.org/

H.E. Gochen Tulku is a lineage holder and has even transmitted a major tantric / atiyoga cycle TO H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinbochay, but is not yet well known in the West. He is nevertheless a very important teacher in several western Nyingma fellowships such as Chagdud Gonpa Foundation and the Dudjom Yeshe Nyingpo.

I have seen this teacher several times from 1997 to 2000, and received numerous major transmissions, including some that are both extremely rare and very powerful. He is truly extraordinary and I strongly recommend him to those who wish to connect with the inner Early Transmission and the Great Perfection.

This year he is teaching in Montana, Colorado, and California ( see below ). This schedule includes extraordinary healing practice ( Vajra Armor ), and extraordinary goddess yoga ( White Dakini ). Note that I do *not* represent this teacher, and schedule details are subject to change.

The merit of sharing this teaching is dedicated to the life and spiritual work of H.E. Gochen Tulku, with great gratitude, and to the continued development of these tantric lineages, with the hope that these will be profoundly beneficial to many.

Sarva mangalam. Siddhi rastu!

KT

"Tulku Sang ngag Rinpoche, the sixth Gochen Tulku, is an incarnation of Gyalwa Chokyang, one of the close disciples of Padmasambhava. Recognized at the age of three, Rinpoche began learning religious rituals and liturgies, as well as traditional Tibetan medicine, at an early age.

"Rinpoche met his root guru, Tulku Orgyen Chemchok, in a Chinese prison where he was held for nine years. Here he received teachings and secret transmissions. Upon release, Rinpoche met his other root teacher, H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, with whom he traveled, studied, and practiced intensively for nearly fourteen years.

Rinpoche teaches worldwide and oversees his two retreat centers in Pharping: Yuloko Nunnery and Phurpaling, a dharma center in Taiwan and his U.S. retreat center, Ewam Sang-ngag Ling, located in Arlee, Montana."

Contact info

- - Ewam USA - -

Sang-ngag Ling - Arlee, Montana
406-726-0217

PO Box 330
34574 White Coyote Road
Arlee, MT 59821
ewammontana@blackfoot.net

Samten Ling - Tuolumne, California
(near Sonora)
209-928-1326
michaelirw@mlode.com

- - Ewam Nepal - -

Phurba Sang-ngag Ling
Phone: 977-1-4710-093

Turquoise Leaf Nunnery/Yuloko
Phone: 977-1-4710-094

To contact Nepal Centers:
P.O.B. 7032
Devi G.B.S. Pharping
Kathmandu, Nepal
e-mail for both: ewamnepal@hotmail.com

- - Ewam Asia - -

Ewam Phurba Ling Taiwan
Dr. Choeji Lodoe Tashi
1F and 4F, No. 76, Sec 1. Hsiu Lang Rd
Yung Ho City, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan
Phone: (02)2928-7993 - (02)2920-5294

Ewam Taichung
Dr. Choeji Lodoe Tashi
F3, No. 105 Nan Yang Rd
Feng Yuan City, Taichung, Taiwan
Phone: 886-4-2529-5973

Ewam Hong Kong
Flat F, 18/F. Block 1, Pierhead Garden
Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong

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Schedule for H.E. Gochen Tulku Sang Ngak for 2009

White Dakini Drub Chen
with Tulku Sang ngag Rinpoche & Lama Tsultrim Allione
August 23 - 31, 2009

Tara Mandala Colorado
See http://www.taramandala.org/

White Dakini Drub Chen. For the first time in the West a Drub Chen (Great Accomplishment Ceremony) of the White Dakini ( White Goddess ) practice from Do Khyentse’s Dzinpa Rangdröl (Self-Liberation from Fixation) treasure cycle will be performed. This lineage comes directly from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to Tulku Sang ngag who will be the Vajra Master at the Drub Chen.

We will experience a traditional empowerment given by Tulku Sang ngag, and we will be lead through an in depth process of learning and practicing the White Dakini mandala. This White Dakini practice is the union of Machig Labdron and Yeshe Tsogyel surrounded by the dakinis of the five families. During the retreat, in addition to the precious teachings from Tulku Sang gnag, Lama Tsultrim will help frame the experience through discussion and further teachings.

The White Dakini practice will be established as a key practice at Tara Mandala and links directly to Machig through Yeshe Tsogyel, her previous incarnation. This is an opportunity to be in the first group receiving this lineage transmission and is open to anyone interested. In addition, it is a strictly closed retreat and requires intensive practice and the ability to hold the container.

During the Drub Chen traditional instruments will be played, a mandala will be created, and continual mantra recitation will occur. The participants will experience deep immersion in the Vajra world. This is an exciting deepening of the tradition at Tara Mandala and we encourage everyone drawn to be here to come. Mipham Rinpoche said, ”One Drub Chen is equal to seven years of solitary retreat.”

Price
Double: $1,553 - $965
Queen Double: $1,575 - $1,080 - SOLD OUT
Queen Single: $1,685 - $1,190 - SOLD OUT
Camping: $925 - $650
Suggested Dana: $160 - $320

Buddhahood Without Meditation

Sept 8-15th, Arlee Montana
http://www.ewam.org
http://www.ewam.org/pages/directions.php

Please register by August 1st, to register and pay for this retreat, click here, see below for retreat costs. This is a restricted retreat so please contact Devi in the office for more information at 406-726-0217.

Widely known by its subtitle, Nang-jang (Refining Apparent Phenomena), presents the view of the Great Perfection through the approach known as t'hreg-chhod (cutting through solidity). The nineteenth-century master Dudjom Lingpa received these teachings in visionary dialogue with fourteen enlightened beings, including Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani, Longchenpa, and Saraha.- The Dudjom lineage, based on the terma, or hidden treasures, revealed by Dudjom Lingpa and his immediate rebirth, His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987), late head of the Nyingma school of Buddhism, is one of the principal modern lineages of Dzogchen Transmission.

RETREAT COSTS:
Non-Member $560.00
Non-Member/Camping $505.00

Member $476.00
Member/Camping $428.00

Guya Garbha ( Hundred Deities / Bardo ) – Shedra Retreat

Sept 20-27th
Arlee Montana
http://www.ewam.org
http://www.ewam.org/pages/directions.php

Prerequisites for these teachings are the prior Shedra retreats on the first part of a commentary on the Treasury of Precious Qualities - A Commentary on The Root Text of Jigme Lingpa. This book presents the entire Buddhist path according to the Nyingma School. Tulku Sang-ngag began giving these retreats at Ewam in 2002 and finished the text in 2007 which are available on CD. , Lama David Curtis also taught this text over the course of 3 years. This year Rinpoche's brother, Khenpo Ngawang Gelek, will continue these teachings and Rinpoche will give the empowerment. There are no translations of this part of the text yet.

If you are interested in this retreat, please contact Devi in the office as soon as possible at 406-726-0217 or via email.
( It is important to get an idea of how many people are coming to this retreat to plan accordingly. )

RETREAT COSTS: Non-Members $500.00
Non-Members/Camping $450.00

Members $425.00
Members/Camping $382.00

The Nature of Mind ( Great Perfection )
Root Text by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche

October 14th - 19th
Ewma Samten Ling, Tuolumne California ( near Sonora )
Contact phone 209.928.1326
Email
michealirw@frontiernet.net

Vajra Armor Retreat

November 5-8
Mt. Shasta, CA
please contact John Cashman at (530) 926-5196.

"The Vajra Armor Mantra (Tib. Dorje Go-Drab), is among the most powerful healing practices in Tantric Buddhism. Long held as a secret practice, it has been practiced for over a millenium by tantric adepts and Tibetan physicians as an effective method for treating diseases, purifying negative energies and protection from misfortune.

"The Vajra Armor Mantra was first introduced into Tibet in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, who had collected various teachings and practices on this mantra from the ancient Indian Buddhist tradition. After teaching his close disciples in Tibet, he hid the Vajra Armor teachings in 124 places, to be discovered by future ‘treasure finders’ as prophesied in his writings.

"Padmasambhava predicted that a time would come when there would be a great need for this mantra and to preserve the integrity of the teachings and lineage, he hid different versions of this practice in many different places for safekeeping, until the designated treasure finder would reintroduce them to the world.

Over the past one thousand years, there have been numerous major teaching cycles of the Vajra Armor Mantra that have been revealed, including those of Dorje Lingpa, Mipham, Dudjom Lingpa, and Trak-t’hung Namkha’I Jigme. These teachings outline a deep and profound path to realization and ultimately to Buddhahood through the practice of healing and rebalancing the outer and inner elements."

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call for healers, burningman 2009

2009-07-22T03:38:38Z

My dear brothers and sisters,

My name is Soulfriend and I am calling together the healing domes for the Redlightning community in Black Rock CIty, Nevada. (www.redlightning.org)

The healing council has formed and our vision is materializing. This message is for you who are called to hold space with us. To be of service to the immediate community Redlightning, as well as to the community of BRC and beyond.

Are you interested in co-creating and activating a harmonic resonance for vitality, health, life and transformational work? Are you who we are dreaming in, to collectively hold down this space on the playa?

The intention is to offer a variety of healing modalities ie: DNA activations, oracles, light workers, massage, healing touch, yoga, sound healing… you name it, to those going through their processes within the vibrations of the divine feminine and sacred masculine, uniting at the vesica piscis.

We will be working out of two domes within the Redlightning. The first will be a facilitated healing space with tables for active process with a center altar for prayer and connecting to the vortex of the 7th dimension. The second dome will be a community wellness sanctuary for group work ie: breath work, sound healing, guided meditation, talks on blood mysteries... Between workshops, it will be a contemplative/retreat space for people to meditate or rest and receive the vibrations that we as a collective activate and hold throughout the week.

We will also be working in tandem with the tender-hart guardians and invite you to consider offering your services as a guardian of the healing domes and the healers as well.

Please contact Gabriel (gabesho@hotmail.com) if you have interest in the following:

*Serving on the council

*Participating as a healer offering one or more 4 hour shifts (I will need a short bio from you)

*Offering workshops

*Have any questions / offerings

*Participating as a guardian of the domes and healers

If we all bring our gifts to this process, fully offering who we are, it will be effortless and transformational for all involved, reaching far into the future and into the world.

I look forward to speaking with you, knowing you and your gifts and playing in the light.

Namaste,

Soulfriend

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Caroline Myss

2009-07-21T18:41:30Z

right now KPFK.org programe,.... Trama and mystic transformation,...the awakening of the inner life.+++

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Energy Vampire Alert, or something else?

2009-07-15T01:57:35Z

I've noticed over the past couple years that when some girlfriends go in to kiss my throat, or the side or back of my neck, I get really sensitive and cringe away. I just feel really ticklish, but not scared or anything like that. I'm fine with getting massaged in those areas though, so I'm wondering what this is about.

My first thought is that it may be related to getting throttled by my father in a scary moment of confrontation when I was about 13, but I didn't have any problems with getting my neck touched, sucked on, or kissed after that. Also, I figure that if I was traumatized by that, then I wouldn't feel comfortable with getting massaged there either.

Over the past couple years, I've been developing more awareness of energy and strength and clarity in my intuition. My body has become a sort of "canary in the coal mine" when it comes to letting me know when a situation, person, food, or drink is good for me or not.

I recently started dating a woman my age. On our 1st date, she revealed that she has all these mental issues like depression and anxiety which she takes medication for. Since I felt safe and capable enough to handle whatever may come up, I went on another date with her to give her the benefit of the doubt despite my initial hesitation.

During that 2nd date, she went in to kiss my throat and neck for the first time, and I felt the need to block her. The more I've meditated on her, the more clearly I know that she'll be an energy drain on me, so I'm wondering if my reaction to her going in for my neck was my body warning me of an "energy vampire"?

Thoughts?

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Obesity is a spiritual issue....

2009-07-14T21:26:44Z

Now that I am addressing my food issues head on I am seeing how important they are to my spiritual growth. I also see how many people are suffering from obesity. It's not just the length of life but the day to day quality of life that I'm noticing. I feel really energetic and clearer when I'm eating more balanced. It's like a drug addiction. The "bad" foods that make people fat': simple carbohydrates: pasta, rice, breads, they get turned into sugar the same way alcohol does. But in a "bad" way that the fruits and vegetables don't get broken down. ( this is the Zone plan or Barry Sears philosphy, and it's working for me) So it works on the same addictiveness that alcoholics are working on. Plus it masks feelings of unworth or pain basically. And dealing with pain in constructive ways is a spiritual issue if ever there was one.
Also food like alcohol taken in larger than needed qualities seem to work like a depressant. It's a terrible cycle of eating and depression about the eating and eating more. And look around, how many people do you see doing that in your life?
What are your thoughts about weight, food, energy, health? Do you see it as a spiritual issue in your life?

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Lama Mingyur Rinpoche: tantric Buddhist teaching and empowerment tour June - August 2009

2009-06-30T23:18:56Z

Lama Mingyur Rinpoche: tantric Buddhist teaching and empowerment tour June - August 2009

Keywords : meditation practice ( tantra devayoga sadhana ), Mahayana Buddhist transmission, mantra yoga, Heart Sutra, Karma Kagyu lineage of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, 2009 Tour, Portland, deity of "Liberating Compassion" Avalokitesvara empowerment ( a.k.a. Kuan Yin, Kannon, Chenresig etc. ).

Summary: His Eminence Yongey Mingyur will be giving a tantric Buddhist empowerment ( highest yoga tantra ) for Avalokitesvara in Portland this June 19, and later, other cities as well. This major tantric guru of the Karma Kagyu lineage is on international tour through August. Background references and a key book reference are provided.

" If we try too hard, meditation becomes difficult. But it is so easy... Meditation is resting in our own natural awareness. "
His Eminence Yongey Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche

His Eminence Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a younger yet also major teacher in the Indo-Tibetan tradition of vajrayana and tantra, specifically as a retreat master in the Karma Kagyu lineage. He is the son of the great Nyingma master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and his main residence is Sherab Ling, the seat of His Holiness Khentin Tai Situpa, a principal Kagyu guru.
http://www.mingyur.org/biography/index.html

Although quite young, HE Yongey Mingyur is an accomplished master of both the Great Seal ( Mahamudra ) and Great Perfection ( Dzogchen ) traditions of pure awareness yoga. I have received from His Eminence both the Tsik Sum Ne Dek ( Great Perfection Breakthrough ) and Karma Pakshi Great Seal guru yoga empowerments some years back, and both transmissions were quite powerful.

His Eminence is also establishing fellowships in North America ( e.g. San Jose CA and Phoenix AZ ) and participating in western scientific studies on mind science. He is the author of two well received books on meditation, including the recently released "Joyful Wisdom - Embracing Change and Finding Freedom".

This young teacher is clearly one of the most important of the new generation of tantric Buddhist gurus teaching in the West, in terms of the quality and quantity of his teaching work, and the deep and broad impact he is beginning to have. ( See "Yongey Foundation Links" at http://www.mingyur.org/links.html ).

This year he teaches coast to coast and also in Brazil. For information on the North American Tour continuing through August, see
http://www.mingyur.org/schedule.html

The main event of the Portland visit is a major empowerment for the meditation deity Avalokitesvara. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokitesvara

and many book titles and other resources from Snow Lion Publications. See
http://www.snowlionpub.com/

and the Kagyu bookstore for the Karma Kagyu lineage seat in North America at Woodstock New York:
http://www.namsebangdzo.com/

Avalokitesvara is a primary and pre-eminent deity and practice for Buddhists worldwide. Avalokitesvara is the renowned deity of "Liberating Compassion", known in many parts of the Far East as Kuan Yin ( China ), Kwannon ( Japan ), Kwan Seeum ( Korea ), Kwan Theum Botat ( Viet Nam ), etc. This is a major practice for both general Mahayana ( Great Way ) Buddhists and also for esoteric / yogic ( tantric ) Buddhists, and thus unites and helps all schools of Buddhist practice in many different cultural contexts, both Asian and Western.

This is a most well known and quite universally practised pagan / polytheistic deity yoga of South Asian Buddhist origin. For example, it has become incorporated into some Hindu practice lineages, such as that of Swami Nikhilesvarananda. It is very similar to or overlaps the practice of Blue Throated Siva, as shown in one of the mantras for Blue Throated Avalokitesvara.

The influence of Avalokitesvara is vast throughout the world, and in different Buddhist lineages. Several of my teachers are considered to be emanations of Avalokitesvara including ( the late ) HE Deshung Tulku Rinpoche ( Sakya ), HH the Seventeenth Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje and the Karmapa lineage, HH the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama lineage, and so forth.

His Eminence Dzongsar Rinpoche ( Sakya and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism ), who teaches worldwide, has stated that Avalokitesvara is the most broadly and most commonly practised of all Buddhist mantras worldwide. This is consistent with my experience in Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, and Vietnamese traditions.

Avalokitesvara is without doubt the most well known Buddhist ( or other ) esoteric spiritual practice in the West ( either as "OM MANI PADME HUM" or as the "Heart Sutra" or as other variants, see below ).
Many tens of millions of Buddhists recite daily either a Sanksrit formula for Avalokitesvara or a meditation text associated with this deity, as in (1) and (2) following.

1) One of the root mantras ( esoteric invocations or evocations ) of Avalokitesvara is
"OM MANI PADMA HUM", which is discussed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum

2) Avalokitesvara is the source of the primary Buddhist text Prajna Paramita Hrdaya, the Heart or Essence of Transcendent Wisdom, which is recited daily in many Buddhist countries, such as in the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_sutra
This is a primary and central and definitive text for many of the Mahayana Buddhist schools, both outer and inner.

An example of a deeper and essentialized practice focused on Avalokitesvara is given in the book
"The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen"
by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
ISBN 962-7341-13-9
Rangjung Yeshe Publications

This is a commentary on "The Direct Instructions of the Compassionate One" originally given by Karma Chagmey Rinpoche the First.
See
http://www.snowlionpub.com/html/product_6174.html
THE UNION OF MAHAMUDRA AND DZOGCHEN
by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
240 pp.
# UNMADZ - $ 18.00

"Teachings on the complete path to enlightenment in 8 songs by the 17th century yogi/poet Karma Chagmey explicated with Rinpoche's trademark brilliance and humor.
'This advice spoken through personal experience embodies the quintessence of the Dharma.'--Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche"

Please note that I do not formally represent this teacher nor the fellowship hosting him in Portland.

Sarva mangalam! May it be beneficial!
Siddhi rastu! May there be accomplishment!

KT

Hosted by Portland Dharma Group
www.portlanddharmagroup.org
503.341.7776

From
http://www.portlanddharmagroup.org/Mingyur2009/Mingyur.html

schedule

16 June
7:30 pm
Book signing at Powell's Books for
"Joyful Wisdom - Embracing Change and Finding Freedom"
http://www.mingyur.org/book/joyful_wisdom.html

17 June - 18 June
Public talks 7 - 8:30 pm
First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Ave, Portland OR

19 June
7pm
Avalokitesvara [ Chenrezig ] empowerment
First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Ave, Portland OR

[ end listing / article ]

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Chakra Evolution Attunement

2009-06-23T20:45:33Z

Chakra Evolution Attunement

This is the Chakra Evolution Attunement. This attunement works with each of your 7 major chakras. It helps evolve each chakra, working with the physical, emotional, mental, ego and all higher aspects of who you are. Anywhere that you are ready for a higher expression in the chakra, it will be facilitated.

To attune is to tune in. As you tune into each chakra, your intent to evolve the chakra combines with my transmission of energy to assist you and the attunement takes place. All you have to do is follow the instructions in this document and it will happen. Nothing more is needed so please do not ask me to send you the attunement, everything you need is inside of you, and my transmission happens automatically when you follow these instructions: Chose the chakra you want to evolve from the list below. Close your eyes, relax and affirm that you intend to receive the attunement in accordance with the highest good. Then just enjoy for a few minutes, while the attunement integrates, before resuming other activities.

Here are the 7 chakras. I recommend working with only one per attunement, and waiting until the energies settle down before starting with the next chakra. This attunement will balance the chakra you are addressing with all the other chakras each time you use it so that you will have balance even though you are working with only one chakra at a time.
Base/Root
Navel
Solar Plexus
Heart
Throat
Third Eye
Crown

This attunement (my assistance in helping you tune in), will be active for one time for each chakra. It will work either viewed on the computer or printed. You can make as many copies as you wish and share it with friends, it will be active for them also. Any attempts to alter the way the document is worded will render the attunement inoperable. This attunement is created in such a way that each person who attunes receives based upon their unique needs at the time they use the attunement, every time they tune in, regardless of how long it has been since the attunement was created. Additionally, the energy of the attunement is always current to the energies of the time the attunement is used, not to the energies at the time the attunement was created. This means the attunement is always up to date and will never lose its relevance or usefulness.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions on how to use this attunement. If you find it helpful, I would love to hear how it has worked for you.

Thank you for the opportunity to share this attunement with you.

Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com
Want more from Reiki? Go deeper: http://www.lindawhitedove.com/Life_Mastery.php

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The Energy of Self-Righteousness

2009-06-23T03:45:49Z

...from what i observe we all do it sometimes, or at least have done it in the past....to be self-righteous, to be convinced that our point of view is the one that matters most. I wonder why we do that, why do we put all else below us? Often self-righteousness is accompanied by a 'holier than you' attitude....why? i mean self-righteous does NOT equal righteous, more often than enough it is hypocrisy at its best....

Now where does this come from, where is the origin, what drives us to be self-righteous at times....what energy does it create or use to propel itself?
Now i'm not sure i asked the right questions to ignite a fruitfull discussion, however, i'd like to ask everybody to leave observations about others out of this and analyze yourselves instead....honesty with self is a key factor to be able to see 'self-righteous' patterns.

For myself i can say that self-righteousnees seems to be an ego driven, ego boosting thing....and perhaps the unwillingness to admit my point of view is wrong or at least not all there is....i believe i can feel it in the area of my solar plexus when it happens, also maybe in the throat area, however that feeling i think arises after the fact, not sure though, i'll need to pay attention next time...

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Trust is the key

2009-06-22T08:01:04Z

What keeps us from moving into a deep and profound peace is our lack of
TRUST. Trust is the key to liberation.

For those on a spiritual or religious path, the idea that a
higher power is in charge of your existence is not a new concept.
So why then are you questioning your journey? Why are you second
guessing your life? Having faith or belief is simply not
enough. Trust is absolute. One's faith can be tested. Your
beliefs can be challenged. Trust comes from the heart and is
rooted in a deeper level of consciousness. It comes from a
profound place of knowing that you are divine and that your life
is happening in divine order. In any moment of frustration,
agony, sadness or fear you can bring trust into your experience
and expand your consciousness. For example when you are
frustrated that life isn't going the way you think it should,
instead of continuing on this destructive path of frustration,
simply breathe and acknowledge that every experience is unfolding
in divine order. In consciously doing this practice, the stress,
the worry and the fear will dissipate. Complete trust allows you
to simply enjoy the ride of your life knowing that with the
Divine in charge you couldn't ask for a better driver.

Jesus, Buddha and Krishna lived a life of complete and total
trust. Trust has the ability to propel you into complete
realization and opens you up to a life filled with peace and
authentic surrender. Trust removes the worry and fear from life
and brings absolute clarity. Practice the principle of trust.
As you do you will witness your life transform before your eyes.
Allow the Divine to lead as you relinquish control. Follow
lovingly the path that unfolds before you. This is the path to
your freedom and the map to your road home. Trust your Self.
You know more than you think you do. In the presence of the
light, nothing but the light can exist.

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That feeling....

2009-06-22T00:58:50Z

I was at Agape this morning and I recognized this feeling. It's has to do with vibration and high vibrations around and within me. I feel it as a warmth, it feels like I am swiming in warm water ( but I'n not really), sometimes there is a feeling of slowness like I am walking through molases. There is a reaction of me not wanting it to stop but it's there for a fairly long time. I experience this several times a week lately. I experiences it with my therapist . I experience it while dancing sometimes. I did feel some of it during mediation ( but not as much as with Agape). It's really great and I'm glad to have a lot of it these days. It waxes and wains . But somehow I know I will find it again, ( like with my therapy apoinment and agape) . Does anyone know what it is? Or why it's there? ( maybe the why is not important) . I see it as a good sign on my path. What do you think?

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Etheric Supplement Attunement

2009-06-19T15:32:04Z

Etheric Supplement Attunement

Greetings. As humanity continues with accelerated evolution, our nutritional needs change. We incorporate our multi-dimensional and higher aspects and live our infinite, holographic nature. As this happens, our bodies increase in vibration and take on the energetic qualities of those higher vibrations, which results in changes in our physical bodies and nutritional needs.

This attunement assists you in tuning into your body’s ability to create the nutrients you need at this time in your evolution. As you work with this attunement, you will further develop your ability to supplement etherically, to work with the energetics of your infinite holographic self to meet your evolving nutritional needs beyond what can be provided by your healthy diet. This is not intended as a substitute for healthy eating and proper health care, but rather is a way to add the nutrients that your evolving body needs and which cannot easily be met by dietary means at this time.

To access the attunement: close your eyes, relax and intend to receive it in accordance with your highest good. Then just enjoy. This attunement works because I intend to offer it and you intend to receive it. Nothing more is needed, even this text is just information and instructions. Please do not contact me asking for the attunement, it is inside of you. If you are accustomed to thinking of attunements as part of a healing modality, such as Reiki, please be aware that the purpose of this attunement is for self healing only. I do not offer certificates, nor are there any instructional materials beyond what is written on this page.

You can use this attunement as often as needed. This attunement has no expiration date and can be used by anyone who wishes to tune into their innate ability to supplement etherically. Yet every person who uses it will receive whatever they individually need, at whatever time they choose to tune in, making this attunement a personalized approach to etheric supplementation.

I hope you enjoy this attunement and find it helpful. Feedback is welcomed and much appreciated!

Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com
copyright 2007 Linda White Dove

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Beyond Intense Emotions Into Ease and Flow

2009-06-19T15:07:13Z

Beyond Intense Emotions Into Ease and Flow

With so many people I know going through a lot of strong emotional clearing, I have decided to share with you a technique I often use when I feel triggered by people or situations. I also use it when I can tell some strong emotion is brewing inside me but I do not know what it is. The beauty of this technique is that it is easy to use, does not require that you know the cause, and it usually quickly defuses the intensity, leaving you with a sense of peace. Repeated use of this technique will remove any attachments to the people and situations, along with the reactivity.

Here is the technique:

Begin by tuning into your infinite self. You have a small (personality/ego) self, and yet you are also an infinite being to whom whatever triggers you is just a miniscule grain of sand in comparison. Working as your infinite self gets you beyond feeling powerless in the grip of a situation and gives you the perspective from which to easily resolve what used to feel impossible. Your infinite self is always present; all you have to do to access it is feel it.

Once you sense yourself as your infinite self, stay with the experience while also remembering the situation (or person) that brings up the strong feelings (or just the strong feeling if you do not know the cause). Notice any sensations inside your body, for example tension or heat that arise from thinking about the situation. Now, let go of any thoughts or memories, allowing your mind to be quiet and still. Feel the sensations related to the situation. Stay with the experience of the sensation, allowing it to do whatever it needs to do, with no resistance or direction from you. It is important to stay with the sensation only. If you find yourself evaluating, wondering what is unfolding, judging yourself for the sensation or situation or using your mind in any way, refocus on the sensation.

As you stay with the sensation, sometimes it will move up your chakras and out your crown, other times it will release through another chakra or body area and other times it will move around your body eventually dissipating or transforming. All you have to do is stay with the experience of the sensation until it releases, dissipates or transforms. If the sensation is intense or painful, reconnecting with your expansiveness, your infinite self, makes the process gentler.

When you work with a situation or person via sensation, you address emotions, thoughts, physical challenges and all aspects of the situation. Because you do not spend a lot of time in the mental/emotional ego processes that keep people stuck much of the time, this is a much quicker way to process than any other approach I have tried. Sometimes results even come after one session, although often I find it takes more. The way to tell if you have done the healing: remember the situation again and see if sensations still come up. Usually even if I still react, the response is not as strong as before.

Another nice thing about working with sensation in this way is that when you work with sensation as an infinite being, you work with your inner Presence/Knowing. This aspect of you is actually your wholeness and it knows exactly why you respond and exactly how to “fix” it. You allow your Presence to lead the process without the need for your smaller ego self to have to figure things out. Besides, most of the things we think and the ways we process intellectually is based on ego illusion anyway and it is ultimately irrelevant, despite how it may feel sometimes.

I hope you find this technique helpful. It has helped me a lot. If you have any questions about it, let me know. I am happy to clarify. And if you want to share any successes, I would love to hear about it. This technique works especially well paired with the Life Mastery Attunement and/or the Sexual Empowerment Attunement. For more information on these: http://www.lindawhitedove.com

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the energy of crystal skulls and the origin of our world as we know it (and the end).. (another book for you)

2009-06-13T13:37:02Z

book title: The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls

it's incerdible!

talks in depth on the various aspects of the skulls and the crystal skulls known to exist such as sha na ra, the one in the brittish museum, etc. scientific, anthropological, native american, and spiritual perspectives. very good stuff. recommended! natrually, ties in 2012 and the mayan calendar, etc etc etc..

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Patterns of Pain

2009-06-11T13:42:00Z

When someone says they've been "hurt" or "i'm hurt" ,, when you've hurt someone's feelings...

what is going on there? of course people are hurt for different things, and some things that hurt other people wouldn't hurt you and vice versa, and even if nothing ever bothers you-

do you find there is a pattern to this madness,, what is going on inside?

some phrases that comes in to mind,

Heart Broken
crushed
devastated

technically, do you know what's being done to our energies at those points?

and why do people become addicted to pain sometimes?

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Dopamine, Serotonin, Awareness, and Energy

2009-06-11T05:42:21Z

I've been reading this book by John Gray for the past few days titled "The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution", and it's been incredibly illuminating with regards to the various experiences of energy I've encountered both in myself and in my relationships. This book basically focuses on the roles of Dopamine and Serotonin in our body and mind, how these differ between men and women, and what things we can eat, do, and even say that influence these primary neurotransmitters.

Just knowing how to see most of one's experiences and interactions as the interplay of these two, and how to appropriately respond to them, is incredibly empowering! For years I experienced this inexplicable "fog" in my head. It came and went without any apparent rhyme or reason. Sometimes it was affected by what I ate, or by certain activities, but I didn't know why. It wasn't until I read this book that I found the keys to unlock these mysteries -and I can't begin to tell you how this knowledge has benefitted me in so many ways! It's like being reborn, and all my potential is now available to me! I encourage everyone now to read this book as I feel it is perhaps the most essential, relevant, and practical book out there today!

I invite your stories about your own experiences and experiments in the management of Dopamine & Serotonin, how these have affected your life and relationships, and especially what you've found in Gray's book that you'd like to cite and illustrate.

One thing I'd like to point out is how the book goes into the role of amino acids and cleansing the liver to optimize the dopamine & serotonin levels in our brain. Gray refers to this clinic in Mexico where drug addicts experience a quick release from their cravings through intravenous amino acid supplementation. Before I read further, I went to the website for that clinic to see more about this and I contacted them to ask what they recommend in terms of foods that one can use instead of IV supplementation to achieve the same results. I went back to reading the book, and found that in the next paragraph, John writes about how he had the same question in his mind, and that after doing a lot of research and experimentation, he found the answer with the Isagenix Nutritional Cleansing program -which just so happens to be what I've been using since November 2006, although I haven't been consistent enough with it to achieve the results he writes about. How ironic! I've done the program a couple times now and have consistently had wonderful results -particularly by doing 2 cleanse days in a row. Now my goal is to keep this program a regular feature in my lifestyle to see how things go over the coming months. I know that I have a lifetime of habits and neural programming to modify and that it will be a gradual process. I encourage everyone to experience this for themselves and invite you to begin by watching this 15 minute video by my friend and colleague Dr. Becky Natrajan at http://sunyata.isagenix.com/us/en/areyoutoxic.dhtml

I've had lots of experience in adjusting the program to work with people's various needs and schedules, so I encourage those interested in exploring this for themselves to get in touch with me so I can make this an easy and enjoyable experience!

One of the things I've noticed, especially on my 2nd cleanse day, is that I feel more alive and in tune with the currents of energy all around me. The environment sparkles with spirit -as do I! I also have KPA -aka "Chicken Skin"- which is really common and genetic. It's not aggravating per se, but it doesn't feel attractive -which for me, has been a really big deal all my life. I've noticed that when doing the cleanse, my KPA lessens dramatically! I don't know if this is necessarily due to the levels of dopamine and serotonin in my body/brain, but I don't care. I've been keeping a more regular exercise regime of just walking, running, bicycling, push ups and abdominal strengthening, as well as sun bathing for about 10-15 minutes front and back, and I keep feeling better and better as more people express surprise when they find out I'm 35 -because they routinely think I'm in my early 20's!

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how to maintain ones own energy

2009-06-01T21:31:27Z

i have been pretty happy in my normal life and trying to make firm in my mind what i want.
yesterday i saw a girl that i have not seen for a long time and i have strong feelings for.
I am happy that she is now happy, but then aterwards i feel my attitude is different.
the things i normally enjoy seem to be boring. i want to do something else but I do not know what.
i try to maintain my interest in normal activities but it seems that they are not as important as they were.

does this meani need to love myself more? i don't know how to do this. i had read somewhere that we can learn about ourself and love ourself mmore by loving others. but i truly love this girl in the purest sense since i want her to be happy no matter what. even if her happiness does not include me. so how can that be true, how can i learn and love myself more by loving others.. if i love this girl and seem to lose interest in my self?
i guess my balance is wrong. does anybody have any tips on how to maintain a good balance?

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Reiki Mastery Courses in L.A.

2009-05-24T23:38:26Z

Dear Friends,

Last few days to sign up for a 3 month Integrative Reiki Mastery (levels I, II, and III) Course in Los Angeles.

www.IntegrativeReiki.com

We're really excited for the classes, and there are a few spots left. Contact me if you're interested.

Classes begin (3X month) Mon., June 1st.

Blessings,
Ariella
323.652.7915
ariella at earthsounds.net

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Gaian Mind Summer Festival - Celebrating the Dance of Life

2009-05-21T10:18:08Z

Presenting the 8th Annual
GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL
Thursday, June 11th to Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Ramblewood, Darlington, Maryland, USA

Join us for four days and three nights of Transcendental Dance, Visionary Arts, Healing Arts, Lectures and Workshops in the open air – truly, a magical event which has established itself as the annual summer tradition for the global Trance Tribes!

Gaian Mind Summer Festival showcases visionary arts, lectures, workshops, spiritual dancing, tribal drumming, healing arts, yoga, sweat lodge and a wide variety of progressive and enlightening information to stimulate self-healing, spiritual growth, and expansion of human consciousness. Currently in its eighth year, the Gaian Mind Summer Festival features the world's leading international talent in psychedelic trance music, plus the finest national and regional talent from the USA, becoming the premier destination for hundreds of dancers from all over the world.

2 Stages of Music:
Psytrance & Progressive Trance
Downtempo & Chillout

Lectures & Workshops Featuring:
Evolver Salon featuring CHARLES EISENSTEIN
The Dance of Liberation by PARASHAKTI
What on Earth Is Happening? A Groundbreaking Presentation on Human Consciousness by MARK PASSIO
History of Electronic Music and Its Effect on Human Consciousness by BUDDHA BOMB
Yoga
QiGong
Daily Sweat Lodge
Hoop Dance
Poi & Circus Arts
Alternative Energy, Mayan Calendar, and more!!

Performances Featuring:
Ceremony & Performance by SEPHIROTH DANCE
Blacklight Archetypal Dance Performance by ARCHEDREAM FOR HUMANKIND
Poetry Jam hosted by PLUMDRAGONESS & THE ELEMENTS
Fire Performances, Live Painting, and more!!!

Also Featuring:
Psy Cinema
Visionary Art Gallery
Nightly Fire & Drum Circle
Healing Area
KINDERTRIBE Children's Area & Activites

Including:
FREE 24-Hour Coffee/Tea Service by CAFÉ KAIA
Full-Serve Chai Shop by PUTALI
Merchant Village
Hookah Lounge
Spring-fed Pond w/ Boats
Swimming Pool
Spacious Campgrounds for Tent Camping
Bunk-Style Cabin Accommodations Available
Hot Showers & Flush Toilets
FREE Drinking Water
FREE & Secure Main Parking

Dates:
Thursday, June 11th to Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Gates open on Thursday at noon - Drum Circle at dusk.
Amplified music starts on Friday at 10:00am.

Tickets:
Advance - $125 (April 9th – June 1st)
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How to have discipline in oneself.

2009-05-19T23:16:02Z

how does one discipline oneself?

there are things we all wish to do, schedules we wish to keep to, but a lot of the time we can be tardy.
how does one use discipline?

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Other people' energy's/ transferance/countertranceferance

2009-05-12T21:35:57Z

I feel energies very acutely. I read that basically it must be going both ways , when I am feeling another person's energy a lot, it's probably linked to them feeling my energy a lot too. Although they may not be conscious of it, nor I for some time.
( like I have this friend that I see occasionally, and I looked over at him the other day and it occured to me that he really loves me , we are not dating at all, anyway as soon I thought that, brought it to consciousness, now I have seen him like 3 times in a week and that's much more than usuall)
Anyway, what do you think about the " it must be mutual" theory? I still feel som energy from this ex. I would like to detach from it and I have a lot. But it's there on some level.
Energy studies are so exciting because it's new and has to be felt. What do you make of it in your life when you have felt someone's energy a bunch and either couldn't get rid of it or made it conscious and tried to work with it?

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Can you tell me....

2009-04-30T09:49:16Z

one thing to be absolutely true...

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Light of Freedom

2009-04-29T17:01:57Z

Light of Freedom

What is freedom?

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity"

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr. knew that for change to happen the collective unconscious has to free itself from the exclusive `me and mine' paradigm and embrace an all-inclusive `greater good' concept. This is the path to personal freedom. It is a road less travelled.

Freedom comes when we release ourselves from the competition, stress, anger and envy that accompany the pursuit of individual excess at the expense of others

Freedom begins when we choose to work instead for universal abundance trusting that there is enough for all.

Freedom comes when we deprogram ourselves from the collective hypnosis of materialistic desire and stop accumulating and using stuff as a dumb down denial escape pod.

Freedom emerges as we learn to value the simple gifts of life such as fresh unpolluted water, clean air, a biodiversity of species, the life sustaining power of the trees, the grounding force of the earth and the joy of human connection.

Freedom begins when we stop following the route set up for us by those that think they know what's best for us based on their own personal and often misguided ambitions and desires.

Freedom emerges as we choose to step onto the path that we intuitively feel is right for us. The more we follow our individual higher purpose, the freer we are to manifest and serve the world with our unique gifts.

Freedom does not just turn up in the collective unconscious of nations. It begins with a few individuals here and there and like the hundredth monkey syndrome, it starts to emerge in people all over the world.

Freedom begins when you break free from the prison of outdated dogmatic theologies and ideologies and the belief that God is a separate entity outside of and apart from yourself.

Freedom emerges when we begin to sense that God is the collective light of all life in this universe and the galaxies beyond. God is only as good, bountiful and forgiving as we are collectively and that our every action contributes to the godliness or otherwise of the world.

Freedom comes when you see another fall along the way, and instead of saying as the Pharisees did "what will happen to me if I stop and help this person?" you are compelled to ask "what will happen to this person if I don't stop and help?"

Freedom begins when your commitment to change is no longer motivated by selfish individual greed, but by a harmonic desire for the betterment and enrichment of all mankind through the healing of ourselves and our planet..

It is our experience that this way of being does not come upon us in a big bang. It's a long challenging journey and sometimes it feels almost impossible as we are tempted back into the matrix of illusion. But as they say, once awoken, there's no going back.

The journey seems to be made up of a series of illuminations that flicker on and off from experience to experience until we get the 'aha' and the light stays on. These illuminations allow us to see our path more clearly and encourage us to stay on course.

And we are constantly asking ourselves the question - what has to happen for us to take one more step on the road to freedom? How about you?

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Changing the hologram of thought-form construct

2009-04-27T21:03:51Z

When I think of something, I often get the thought or whole situation construct hanging around my shoulder electromagnetically.
I am asking because i feel that thought-forms are responding to my thought. It is not an inert process.
Sometimes, this is an unpleasant situation and I cut the experience short. I now wonder if I could enter into the electromagnetic thought-form and work around it to settle issues?

Also, I often get dreams that I am riding lines that could be probability lines and doing calculations to change them. I seem to have a lot of power (energy) there and I know what I am doing in my dreams but the knowledge does not carry to the conscious.
I understand that it has to do with the hologram.

Does anyone have any idea of what I should do to alter these constructs electromagnetically as they are hanging around me.

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Relationship between adverse childhood experience and adult health

2009-04-24T07:35:01Z

The Relation Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Health: Turning Gold into Lead
By Vincent J Felitti, MD

Background

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a major research study that compares current adult health status to childhood experiences decades earlier. With the cooperation of 17,421 adult Health Plan members and with the ongoing collaboration of Dr Robert Anda at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study is being carried out in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente (KP) San Diego--where for many years we conducted detailed biomedical, psychological, and social (biopsychosocial) evaluations of more than 50,000 adult Kaiser Foundation Health Plan members per year.

The findings are important medically, socially, and economically: They provide remarkable insight into how we become what we are as individuals and as a nation. The ACE Study reveals a powerful relation between our emotional experiences as children and our adult emotional health, physical health, and major causes of mortality in the United States. Moreover, the time factors in the study make it clear that time does not heal some of the adverse experiences we found so common in the childhoods of a large population of middle-aged, middle-class Americans. One doesn't "just get over" some things.

Study Design

The ACE Study was triggered by observations we made in the mid 1980s in an obesity program at the KP San Diego Department of Preventive Medicine. This program then had a high dropout rate. The first of many counterintuitive discoveries was that the great majority of the dropouts actually were successfully losing weight. Detailed life interviews of almost 200 such individuals unexpectedly revealed that childhood abuse was remarkably common and antedated the onset of their obesity. Many patients spoke openly of an association between the two. The counterintuitive aspect was that, for many people, obesity was not their problem; it was their protective solution to problems that previously had never been discussed with anyone. An early insight was the memorable remark of a woman who was raped at age twenty-three and gained 105 pounds in the subsequent year: "Overweight is overlooked, and that's the way I need to be." The contrast was striking between this statement and her desire to lose weight. Similarly, two men who were guards at the State Penitentiary became anxious after losing more than 100 pounds each. They made it clear that they felt much safer going to work looking "big as a refrigerator" instead of normal size. Overall, we found the simultaneous presence of opposing forces to be common; many of our weight program patients were driving with one foot on the brakes and one on the gas, wanting to lose weight but fearful of change.

In 1990 in Atlanta, I presented information about the frequent relation between obesity and abusive childhood experiences to a largely skeptical audience at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Unexpectedly, this presentation led to contacts with researchers at the CDC, who recognized the importance of what had been reported. They proposed a large epidemiologic study to provide definitive evidence of our clinical observations. This was the beginning of the ACE Study at KP San Diego, where, each year, we could easily ask more than 26,000 consecutive adults seen in the Department of Preventive Medicine if they would be interested in helping us understand how childhood events might affect adult health status. Sixty-eight percent of this population agreed to participate and understood that the information they provided about their childhood would never be included in their medical records.

The ACE Study compared current adult health status of these participants with eight categories of adverse childhood experience that we had frequently identified in the weight program. Three categories pertained to personal abuse: recurrent physical abuse, recurrent emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. Four categories pertained to growing up in a dysfunctional household--ie, with an alcoholic person or a drug user; where someone was in prison; where someone was chronically depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal; where the mother was treated violently; and where the parents were separated, divorced, or in some way lost to the patient during childhood. In addition, we decided to monitor this large cohort for at least five years to compare childhood experiences prospectively against adult pharmacy costs, doctor office visits, emergency department use, hospitalization, and death. An ACE score was constructed to analyze the huge mass of information we gathered. A person exposed to none of the studied categories had an ACE Score of 0; an individual exposed to any four had an ACE Score of 4, etc.

Because the average study participant was 57 years old, we actually were measuring the effect of childhood experiences on adult health status a half-century later. Dr Anda, my coprincipal investigator at CDC, designed the data management and retrospective and prospective components of the Study with great skill. Here, I will only touch upon some highlights of our findings; details may be sought in the anchor article of a series of publications deriving from the ACE Study. The initial article was published in May 1998 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, v 14: 245-258;1 full text is at their Web site: www.meddevel.com/site.mash?left=/library.exe&m1=4&m2=1&right= /library.exe&action=search_form&search.mode= simple&site=AJPM&jcode=AMEPRE.

A list of published peer reviewed publications from the ACE Study is provided at the end of this article.2-11

Findings

A striking finding was that adverse childhood experiences are vastly more common than recognized or acknowledged. Of equal importance was our observation that they had a powerful correlation to adult health a half-century later. It is this combination that makes them so important. Slightly more than half of our middle-class population of Health Plan members experienced one or more of the categories we studied. One in four was exposed to two categories of abusive experience, one in 16 to four categories. Given an exposure to one category, there is 80% likelihood of exposure to another. All this, of course, is well shielded by social taboos against obtaining this information. Further, one may "miss the forest for the trees" if one studies these issues individually. They do not occur in isolation; for instance, a child does not grow up with an alcoholic person or with domestic violence in an otherwise well-functioning household. The question to ask is: How will these childhood experiences play out decades later in a doctor's office? How does one perform reverse alchemy, going from a normal newborn with almost unlimited potential to a diseased, depressed adult? How does one turn gold into lead?

Smoking is a useful starting example to illustrate what we found; moreover, it allows us to start with a minimally threatening topic. In California, there are now profound social pressures against smoking; persistent smoking in the face of these is often attributed to "addiction." But did you know that current smoking has a high degree of association with what happened decades ago in childhood? Figure 1 is a graphic illustration of how the ACE Score has a graded, dose-response effect on the probability of current smoking. The higher the ACE Score, the greater the likelihood of current smoking. This graded, dose-response effect is present for all the associations we found, although I will only present three. All the relations have a p value of .001 or better. Further details of the ACE Study findings are published in a series of articles exploring our findings from the retrospective and prospective arms of the Study.
Figure1. Graph shows relation between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Score and smoking status.

Lest one doubt the significance of smoking, we found that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has a strong relationship to the ACE Score. A person with a midrange ACE score of 4 is 390% more likely to have COPD than is a person with an ACE Score of 0. What does this do to the conventional concept of smoking that attributes addiction to characteristics that are intrinsic within nicotine? We instead found "addiction" attributable to characteristics that are intrinsic in early life experiences. If early emotional stress predicts COPD, is COPD properly understood as a psychosomatic condition? Are certain common, chronic, adult diseases the result of attempts at self-treatment of concealed problems that occurred in childhood?

When we looked at self-defined current depression, we found that a person with ACE score >4 was 460% more likely to be depressed than a person with ACE score of 0. Confirming the reliability of this conclusion, we found a 1220% historical increase in attempted suicide between these two groups. For groups with higher ACE scores, incidence of attempted suicide increases thirtyfold to fifty-one fold! Using the analytic technique of population attributable risk, we found that more than two thirds of suicide attempts could be attributed to adverse childhood experiences.
Figure 2. Graph shows relation between longtime smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ACE Score.
Figure 3. Graph shows relation between ACE Score and illicit use of injected drugs.

Intravenous drug use is a major public health problem. In spite of massive efforts to curtail it, little progress has been made. We found that IV drug use may properly be viewed as a personal solution to problems that are well concealed by social niceties and convention. For example, a male child with an ACE score of 6 has a 4600% increase in the likelihood of later using intravenous drugs. This relation to adverse childhood experiences is powerful and is graded at every step; it provides a perfect dose-response curve; and epidemiologically, these outcomes are nearly unique in magnitude. Because no one shoots heroin to get endocarditis or AIDS, might heroin then be used for relief of profound anguish dating back to childhood experiences? Might it be the best coping device a person can find? If so, is this phenomenon a public health problem or a personal solution? How often are public health problems personal solutions? Is drug abuse self-destructive, or is it a desperate attempt at self-healing, albeit at a significant future risk? This point is important because primary prevention is far more difficult than anticipated--possibly because incomplete understanding of the benefits of so-called health risk behaviors causes these behaviors to be viewed as irrational acts that have only negative consequences. Does this incomplete view of drug abuse leave us mouthing cautionary platitudes instead of understanding the cause of our intractable public health problems?

Beyond these few illustrations, we found many other measures of adult health to have a strong, graded relation to what happened in childhood: hepatitis, heart disease, fractures, diabetes, obesity, alcoholism, occupational health, and job performance. These findings are detailed in the original and subsequent articles and will further be reported in publications of the yet-to-be-analyzed prospective arm of the ACE Study.

Discussion

What do these findings mean for medical practice and for society? Clearly, we have shown that adverse childhood experiences are both common and destructive. This combination makes them one of the most important, if not the most important, determinants of the health and well-being of the nation. Unfortunately, these problems are both painful to recognize and difficult to cope with. Most physicians would far rather deal with traditional organic disease. Certainly, it is easier to do so, but that approach also leads to troubling treatment failure and to the frustration of expensive diagnostic quandaries where everything is ruled out but nothing is ruled in.

Our usual approach to many common adult chronic diseases reminds one of the relation between smoke and fire. A person unfamiliar with fires would initially be tempted to treat the smoke--ie, the most visible aspect of the problem. What we have learned in the ACE Study represents the underlying fire. Fortunately, fire departments learned to distinguish cause from effect long ago; if they had not, they would use fans instead of water hoses.

If the treatment implications of what we found in the ACE Study are far-reaching, the prevention aspects are positively daunting. The very nature of the material is such as to make one uncomfortable. Why would one want to leave the relative comfort of traditional organic disease and enter this area of threatening uncertainty that none of us has been trained to deal with? And yet, as I write these words, I am interrupted to consult on a 70-year-old woman who is diabetic and hypertensive. The initial description given to me omitted the fact that she is morbidly obese (one doesn't go out of one's way to identify what one can't handle). Review of her chart shows her to be chronically depressed, never married, and, because we ask the question of 57,000 adults a year, to have been raped by her elder brother six decades ago when she was ten. The same brother also molested her sister, who also is said to be leading a troubled life.

We found that 22% of our Health Plan members were sexually abused as children. How does that affect a person later in life? What does it mean that early sexual abuse is never spoken of? We find it useful routinely to ask all patients acknowledging this experience, "How did that affect you later in life?"

What, then, is this woman's diagnosis? Is she just another hypertensive, diabetic old woman, or is there more to the practice of medicine? Here is the way we conceptualized her problems:

Childhood sexual abuse

Chronic depression

Morbid obesity

Diabetes mellitus

Hypertension

Hyperlipidemia

Coronary artery disease

Macular degeneration

Psoriasis

This is not a comfortable diagnostic formulation; it points out that our attention is comfortably focused on tertiary consequences far downstream. The diagnosis shows that the primary issues are well protected by social convention and taboo and points out that we have limited ourselves to the smallest part of the problem: the part where we are comfortable as mere prescribers of medication. Which diagnostic choice shall we make? Who shall make it? And if not now, when?

This article, with minor change, was originally published in The Family Violence Prevention Fund's "Health Alert," Volume 8, No. 1. Adapted and reproduced with permission of the publisher, Peter Sawires.

Acknowledgments

The original study was funded by the US Department of Health & Human Services; the CDC Foundation; and the Kaiser Permanente Garfield Memorial Fund.

Selected ACE Study Publications

1. Felitti VJ, Anda RF, Nordenberg D, et al. Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Am J Prev Med 1998 May;14(4):245-58.
2. Foege WH. Adverse childhood experiences: A public health perspective. Am J Prev Med 1998 May;14(4):354-5.
3. Weiss MJ, Wagner SH. What explains the negative consequences of adverse childhood experiences on adult health? Insights from cognitive and neuroscience research. Am J Prev Med 1998 May;14(4):356-60.
4. Anda RF, Croft JB, Felitti VJ, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and smoking during adolescence and adulthood. JAMA 1999 Nov 3;282(17):1652-8.
5. Dietz PM, Spitz AM, Anda RF, et al. Unintended pregnancy among adult women exposed to abuse or household dysfunction during their childhood. JAMA 1999 Oct 13;282(14):1359-64. Hillis SD, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and sexually transmitted diseases in men and women: a retrospective study. Pediatrics 2000 Jul;106(1):E11.
6. Edwards VJ, Anda RF, Nordenberg DF, et al. Bias assessment for child abuse survey: factors affecting probability of response to a survey about childhood abuse. Child Abuse Negl 2001 Feb;25(2):307-12.
7. Edwards VJ, Fivush R, Anda RF, et al. Autobiographical memory disturbances in childhood abuse survivors. In: Freyd JJ, DePrince AP, editors. Trauma and cognitive science: a meeting of minds, science, and human experience. Binghamton (NY): Haworth Press; 2001. Published simultaneously as a single-topic issue of J Aggression Maltreatment Trauma Vol 4(2), No. 8.
8. Anda RF, Felitti VJ, Chapman DP, et al. Abused boys, battered mothers, and male involvement in teen pregnancy. Pediatrics 2001 Feb;107(2):E19.
9. Dube SR, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Adverse childhood experiences and personal alcohol abuse as an adult. Addict Behav. In press 2002.
10. Dube SR, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Exposure to abuse, neglect and household dysfunction among adults who witnessed intimate partner violence as children: implications for integrated health and social services. Violence Vict. In press 2002.
11. Dube SR, Anda RF, Felitti VJ, et al. Childhood Abuse, Household dysfunction, and the risk of attempted suicide throughout the life span. Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. JAMA 2001;286:3089-3096.

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Energy fields taking on symbolic forms/interaction

2009-04-23T22:45:56Z

Once in a dream/? state,i was in a place that was a very large stick thatched dome.
Something,a force wraped around my legs,and thrust me up,my arms and back breaking through
the roof snapping boughs and branches as this force continued to throw me sky ward.
At that point i made a loud sound,and i was released,left floating weightless for a moment and then
falling back through the roof and crashing to the floor.So there i was,some one asked me what i thought i was doing.
What i found most interesting was,.... some thing had got a grip on me like that.
I've traveled astral many times,sometimes with real interaction.
This experience wasn't a dream it was some kind of energetic/spirit,... interaction.

Dam pesky gremlins,...

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Of Abundance and Suffering

2009-04-23T20:19:17Z

I pulled this from "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" by T. Harv Eker and found it a grounded, sensible example of how the energy of Abundance works:

"Imagine you're walking along the street with a five-year-old. You come across an ice cream store and go inside. You get the child a single scoop of ice cream on a cone because they don't have any cups. As the two of you walk outside, you notice the cone wobbling in the child's tiny hands and, all of a sudden, plop. The ice cream falls out of the cone onto the pavement.

"The child begins to cry. So back into the store, and just as you're about to order for the second time, the child notices a colorful sign with a picture of the 'triple scooper' cone. The child points to the picture and excitedly screams, 'I want that one!'

"Now here's the question. Being the kind, loving, and generous person that you are, would you go ahead and get this child the triple scooper? Your initial response might 'sure'. However, when considering the question a little more deeply, most of our seminar participants respond, 'No'. Because why would you want to set the child up to fail? The child couldn't handle even a single scoop, how could the child possibly handle a triple scoop?

"The same holds true when it comes to the universe and you. We live in a kind and loving universe, and the rule is 'Until you show you can handle what you've got, you won't get any more!' You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount."

This comes from a section that I summarize as: "Manage what you have so you can earn what you want".

Eker says that "the single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money."

Next, Eker says, "Many people don't like to manage their money, because, first, they say it restricts their freedom, and second, they say they don't have enough money to manage."

Eker shows the irony of such thinking when he says, "As for the first excuse, managing money does not restrict your freedom --to the contrary, it promotes it. Managing your money allows you to eventually create financial freedom so that you never have to work again. To me, that's real freedom."

As for the 2nd excuse, Eker likens it to saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."

The point of all of this is that a lot of people wish they had more money. They're asking the universe for more, but like the child in the story, most people aren't managing the money they have now, so why would the universe want to give them more when the habits they have now with their money will just operate on a larger scale and result in the same complaining?

I don't want to sell you short with this one example of a fabulous book that uncovers many other principles that work financial energy as well as energy in other forms in our life.

Another example that immediately comes to my mind that relates to how we manage the energy flow in our lives is in friendship and love. Many people wish they had more love and friendships in their life, but they don't want to give it unless they get it first. There's an old saying "To have friends you have to BE a friend". Just the same, to receive love, you have to give love -however, with this last thought, I would add that in order to receive love, we have to not just give love, but give love to ourselves! That is, we have to accept that we deserve to receive love.

I say this because many people think they have to give love to get love, but because they don't believe they deserve love themselves, they find that more often than not, they give love to others and don't receive it in kind. This is because they don't realize that they unconsciously believe they don't deserve love. This generally arises from a kind of vicious Martyrdom complex that began with them giving something out of love, and not getting something back which hurt them -but only because they didn't realize they had an expectation to receive in return.

Unconscious to their expectation and how it lent to their feeling hurt, they naturally want to salve their pain by creating something to feel good about. They create a story about how "good" they are for giving -and even *better* than the other person who didn't give in return. Here we have Self-Righteousness -which requires looking down on another. This is all sourced from not realizing our Abundant nature -which of course we get from the universe. This is how we "steal" energetically from another to artificially feed our Self -which we only do because we managed to "unplug" from the Source of all the Love and energy we need. And because this separation usually happens unconsciously, we don't know better.

So while I'm opening all of this up for thoughts, I'd like to direct the focus onto how we can become aware of how we're "stealing" from others -Present and Past; how to track down where we lost our connection to Source, and how to re-establish that connection to break this cycle of mutual suffering.

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Powerful Thoughts

2009-04-23T03:06:12Z

Please contribute your favorite powerful thoughts -be they quotes or your own :o)

One I found today is:

"The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone." -- T. Harv Eker

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Posting Guidelines

2009-04-21T05:13:10Z

Hi Everyone,

So I just removed a couple posts because one didn't seem related in any way shape or form to this tribe, and the other was posted as a topic which looked more like a listing.

So to save all of you and myself the time and trouble, please keep your posts related to this tribe -and to their respective purposes.

For example, "Topics" should encourage thoughtful discussion. "Listings" should promote something but not necessarily stimulate conversation.

Thanks

-Le Mod

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Here comes the Sun. Sanskrit mantras for Sun ( Surya ) and Moon ( Chandra )

2009-04-19T20:56:17Z

Here comes the Sun.

Sanskrit mantras for Sun ( Surya ) and Moon ( Chandra ) from the Vedic traditions of Sanatana Dharma ( Hindu culture ), and a related mantra from Vedacarya David Frawley. Plus some George Harrison.

Sun and moon worship are very ancient and universal pagan practices. I personally have really missed the sun for many months due to a winter that extended through early April.

We all share the same sun over the same earth. Let's celebrate the healing strength of the natural elements. All Our Relations.

May the Circle Be Open And Unbroken!

Acarya KT, inner medical tantrika and dharmapala-guru

http://www.mailerindia.com/slokas/mantras/index.php SakamGayatri

9. Surya Gayatri: Worship with this mantra is very beneficial for curing grievous diseases.

Om Bhaskaraya Vidmahe
Divakaraya Dhimahi
Tanno Suryah Prachodayat

10. Chandra Gayatri: For the removal of suffering and to get peace from dejection and worries, this mantra has been used for the worship of this Divine Shakti.

Om Shirputraya Vidmahe
Amrit Tatvaya Dhimahi
Tanno Chandrah Prachodayat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya

Surya Namaskara, or the "Sun salutation"

A well-known Hindu mode of worship of the devotional movements of Surya is done at the rising of the Sun, known as Surya namaskara (Sun Salutation). Ten yogic postures are assumed in successive flowing movements to complete one namaskar. Twelve sacred Hindu mantras uttered and for each mantra one complete namaskar is done. Ancient practice is to do 108 namaskaras a day. It is considered most auspicious by Hindus to do this.

The 12 mantras for surya namaskara:

1. aum mitraya namah
2. aum ravayé namah
3. aum suryaya namah
4. aum bhanavé namah
5. aum khagaya namah
6. aum pushné namah
7. aum hiranyagarbhaya namah
8. aum marichayé namah
9. aum adityaya namah
10. aum savitré namah
11. aum arkaya namah
12. aum bhaskaraya namah

http://www.yoga-training-you.com/surya-mantra.html
A great astrologer said:
"To transcend the stars we must become the stars."

The Planetary Mantras

I've given several examples of powerful mantras for each planet. Choose one or more mantras from each planet and put it to practice.

Surya Mantra -- Sun Mantras

Om suryaya namaha

Om savitri namah

Om adityaya namaha

Om ravaye namaha

These four separate mantras can be repeated at least 108 times a week. Best on Sunday, the day of The Sun, during the day.

Chandra Mantra -- Moon Mantras

Om somaya namaha

Om chandraya namaha

Should be repeated on a Monday, the day of The Moon, or in the evening, particularly around the Full Moon.

also . . .

The Mantra to the Supreme Light
By David Frawley
From American Institute of Vedic Studies
http://www.vedanet.com/

Above is the Mantra to the Supreme Light, Param Jyoti Mantra, which is a famous Vedic, Vedantic and Tantric Mantra. We could also spell it phonetically as OM HREEM HAMSA SO HAM SWAHA! This mantra brings us into the Divine or inner light and causes it to resonate in our body, breath, speech and mind.

The Mantra for the Supreme Light is the main mantra for the American Institute of Vedic Studies. We recommend all our friends and students to chant it regularly. We initiate individuals into this mantra and its many variants. It is the core form of an entire set of mantras of which there are several dozen versions that can be used for many different purposes. We also use this mantra along with other important mantras like the famous Tantric Panchadashi Mantra to Tripura Sundari.

This Mantra to the Supreme Light is first a Vedantic mantra. Om is the Supreme Brahman. Hrim is the mantra of the spiritual heart. Hamsah is the mantra of the liberated soul. So'ham means "I am He", meaning the Supreme Being. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used along with meditation to realize the Self within.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is a Tantric mantra. Om is the Supreme Shiva. Hrim is the the Supreme Shakti. Hamsa So'ham is the unification of Shiva and Shakti in our breath and consciousness. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. This mantra can be used along with the worship of the Goddess to bring her presence into our hearts.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is a Yoga mantra. Om is the supreme guru. Hrim is the light of the awakened Kundalini. Hamsa So'ham is the balancing of the Sun and Moon, or solar and lunar forces, the Ida and Pingala Nadis. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used along with pranayama to empower the breath and open the chakras.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is an Ayurvedic mantra. Om is the cosmic prana. Hrim is the health giving power of the spirit heart. Hamsa So'ham is the power of the breath to give vitality and promote rejuvenation. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used to bring the cosmic prana into us for healing purposes.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is an astrological mantra. Om is the mantra of the cosmic light. Hrim is a mantra for the Sun. Hamsa So'ham is the energy of the Sun as the power of life and consciousness. Swaha indicates consecration into the light. The mantra can be used to propitiate weak planets in the Vedic birth chart, starting with the Sun.

The Mantra to the Supreme Light is an important mantra for usage at the winter solstice, the equinoxes and summer solstices for the worship of the Sun. With the mantra Shrim (Shreem) instead of Hrim, it can be used at the new, half and full Moons, for the worship of the Moon and the Goddess.

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And here is a Buddhist Sun Goddess mantra, from the oral ( lineage holder ) tradition, which I received in 1983:

OM MARICIYE SVAHA

From George Harrison
( copyright retained )

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right

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East West Massage School Thai and Deep Tissue Classes !!

2009-04-18T21:07:30Z

East West Massage School

Summer Class Schedule for 2009

“Dedicated to the finest continuing education in Massage Therapy and Asian Bodywork”

A deposit of $50 is required for registration. They are held at the “Upstairs Studio” at 343 Florence St., Sebastopol, Ca. Please visit eastwestmassageschool.com for information and call 707-823-1480 for registration.

Thai Massage Introduction June 13-14, 2009, 10am-6pm, $150.00: 14 Hours

This workshop will introduce you to one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful forms of bodywork. Traditional Thai Massage combines deep compression and Hatha Yoga inspired mobilizations to balance the body. No experience necessary.
Tim Holt CMT, RTT

Deep Tissue Bodywork July 7-9, 9am-6pm, $300: 24 hours

Most massage therapy touches and relaxes the surface layer of muscle . This workshop will teach how to access the structural origins and insertions of the most problematic muscles in the body. Body Mechanix are a major focus for this workshop. CMT is a prerequisite.
Tim Holt CMT

Traditional Thai Massage September 8-10, 22-24, 9am-6pm $700.00: 50 Hours

This workshop is a professional level training in one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful forms of bodywork. Traditional Thai Massage combines deep compression and Hatha Yoga inspired mobilizations to balance the body.You will learn to give a 2-3 hour Thai Massage from one of the most experienced Thai therapists in the United States. CMT or Yoga Instructor is a prerequisite.
Tim Holt CMT, RTT and Abby Bard, CMT

East West Massage School 8017 Washington Ave., Sebastopol, Ca 95472
707-823-1480 eastwestmassageschool.com

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Reactions triggered by fear

2009-04-17T04:08:25Z

Hi, havent posted on the tribe for what seems like an eternity....*sorry guys*

Anyway, im curious to learn more of how our fears, insecurities and jealousies can trigger emotional states of being.Specifically i am trying to deal with and resolve , and to try and prevent re occurring experiences which are taking control of my days.
Ill give an example, i may be at work and i decided to call my girlfriend, she does not answer the phone, instead i get the answerphone..because i cannot speak to her there and then i panic, this triggers something within and the lower chakras seem to fire into overdrive, this then seems to fuel my panic, resulting in a fear situation manifesting, this grows into such an intense period, that i find myself engulfed in an intense battle with my self, thoughts arising that she may be doing something she shouldnt.The experience grows to become a hellish battle to control and ground my thoughts.The left side of my body becomes greater in awareness than the right side.I suffer from a hot flush that seems to flow through my right leg/groin area.I experience a huge surge of what i can only describe as sexual energy that rises and fills me, but goes no further than the heart chakra area.I become lightheaded, vacant, but full of fear, panic and insecurity.I have to down tools at work because the intensity of this experience literally renders me useless,. fit for nothing infact.It can last from 10-15 mins to several hours.

It feels like all of this originates from an external source yet i might be right in suggesting it originates from within myself.

Any ideas guys?...

thanks

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A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

2009-04-16T22:56:47Z

A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

We think this is so harmonically tuned to the spirit of Tribe and all of the mankind who are working towards a more peaceful, abundant, natural and consciously emerging planet. We trust you will feel the sentiment of it and pass it on...

with love and blessings

in the spirit of cooperation, family and global community

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

On the surface of the world right now there is
war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,

something else is happening deep down.

An inner emergence is taking place

and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent awakening.
From the inside out. From the ground up.

This is a Global operation.
A Spiritual C * nsp * r * cy.
There are 'sleepers' awakening in every nation on the planet.

You won’t see us on the T.V .
You won’t read about us in the newspaper
You won’t hear about us on the radio

We don’t seek any glory
We don’t wear any uniform
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles

Some of us work anonymously
We are quietly working behind the scenes

in every country and culture of the world;
in cities big and small, mountains and valleys;

in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.

You could pass by one of us on the street
and not even notice

We go undercover
We insinuate into the system

from behind the scenes
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done

During the day some of us pretend we have normal jobs
But behind the false storefront and at any hour
is where the real work takes a place

Some might call us the Conscious Warriors
Rainbow Warriors of Light, Spiritual Activists,
Lightworkers, Shamans, Helians [healing beings]

However we know ourselves as,
we are slowly creating a new world

with the power of our minds and hearts
We follow, with passion and joy

Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence or The Celestial Concourse Administration...
Whether it's the CSI or the CSA or our own deepest access to global consciousness
We are all dropping soft, secret love b *m b s when no one is looking

Poems * Hugs * Music * Photography * Movies * Gifting * Kind words * Smiles * Inspiration * Meditation & prayer * Compassion * Workshops * Community Gatherings * Dance * Social alternatives * Websites * Blogs * Random acts of kindness and outgoing concern for the whole before self

We each express ourselves in our own unique ways
with our own unique gifts and talents

Be the change you want to see in the world
That is the motto that fills our hearts.

We know it is the only way real transformation takes place
We know that quietly and humbly we have the
power of all the oceans combined.

Our work is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains
It is not even visible at first glance
And yet with it entire tectonic plates
shall be moved ....

Love is the new religion of the 21st century
You don’t have to be a highly educated person
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it

It comes from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings..

Be the change you want to see in the world
Nobody else can do it for you

We are now recruiting
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.

All are welcome
The door is open

author unknown

Welcome H.E.R.E. We love you

SunWaterClear & WindWaterClear

Harmonic Emergence - Return to Earth H.E.R.E.

http://harmonicemergence.org/ - our foundation site
http://www.panoramio.com/user/2861230 A photographic tribute to the hallowed forests we roam
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/justcamping/ Small informal forest gatherings. More than just camping
http://www.everytrail.com/
http://tribes.tribe.net/harmonicemergence Join us on Tribe.net

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How do you respond to word?

2009-04-16T21:41:07Z

How do you respond to the following words?

Pleasure
Good
Enjoy
Ecstasy
Contentment

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Hi, I'de like to meet you!

2009-04-16T05:11:15Z

I have come here to help in building a stronger online community. Through building a community electronically via the internet, we are one step closer to uniting the world. My hope is that this is a big step in the right direction, one toward peace and understanding among the people of the world. Let us build bridges of understanding together! I firmly believe it is up to all the people of Earth to create a better world, not corporations, politicians, and other demagogues. Now we have the means to do so and make no mistake this is truly the dawning of a new age!

So visit my profile if you like, say hello, add me to your friends, and just communicate in general. I am also contributing to a blog if your interested; www.riseupforthenewday.net. Remember there can be no community without communication!

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Kymatica

2009-04-12T17:20:02Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akOESmaSLk&feature=PlayList&p=61376B4F58F324C5&index=0&playnext=1

Great insight....

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Quick Cleanse Aura

2009-04-10T06:12:17Z

Stand with feet slightly apart. Imagine something like a firework sparkler. Chrystaline white light fire about 40ft above your head, spinning in clockwise to the right direction. It begins in small spiral and gets bigger all time. until large enuf to encircle your body an arms length in every direction from your body.

It slowly moves down and the point of contact is the crown of the head. Seeing is making it real. (Budha said keyy to meditation is the imagination) As it lowers slowly, it burns off any negativity which is disintergrated, and slowly it pins like a tornado and clears thru the chakras and the all around the Aura, Cleansing, puryfying, and watch it descend into the earth going deep down into the earth to becomes compost for the good of all concerned.

A good excercise for after being in neg atmosphere, or in busy town cities etc. And before doing meditation.

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Music to get your Chi Flowing

2009-04-08T20:48:01Z

I'm particularly fond of this tribe's name because I specialize in Chinese Medicine and am an enthusiast for other forms of Energy work, so I'm all about helping the Chi to Flow ;o)

This thread is for everyone to submit what they enjoy for mobilizing positive energy -whether it's for going into deep states of calm healing, or energizing through ecstatic trance.

Among my favorites are:

Karma Moffett's "Golden Bowls of Compassion", "Ocean Bowls", and "Vibrations". You can find the 1st two on iTunes, but I can't find the latter anywhere on the internet so you may want to email him about getting that at http://karmamoffett.com/

"Vibrations" is a fantastic album that takes you from the earthly plan to the lower world, up to the celestial world, and back to your body again like a classic shamanic journey. It uses Tibetan Bowls, Bells, Cybals, Ten Foot Long Horns, and Conch Shells and was recorded from three live concerts.

I also highly recommend Dr. Jeffrey Thompson's "Awakened Mind System 2.0" which you can find on iTunes among his many other works.

Product Description:

We all seek a state of higher consciousness that awakens and enlivens our whole being. Masters of meditation and yoga, great artists, inventors, and highly accomplished people in many walks of life have learned to develop and live from such a state.

British researcher and Zen master C. Maxwell Cade spent decades analyzing the brainwave patterns of these extraordinary people. He discovered that they each shared a common pattern of brainwaves, which Cade called the Awakened Mind Pattern, and which he believed held the key to tapping into one’s highest potential.

Created by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, The Awakened Mind System 2.0 uses breakthrough audio recording processes to help you access this brainwave pattern so that you can directly experience the enormous benefits of this heightened state of consciousness.

Dr. Thompson embeds inaudible pulses of sound that mirror the Awakened Mind Pattern into an ambient musical soundtrack. As you listen, your own brainwaves begin to reflect the Awakened Mind pattern, drawing you easily into states of deep insight, clarity of mind, creative inspiration and peak performance.

Listen as soft background music while working, painting, writing, or enjoying other creative activities. Daily use trains your brain to draw on your deepest capacities and abilities wherever and whenever you need them.

- Based on over 15 years of pioneering clinical research - Use with headphones or ordinary speakers - Contains no spoken words or subliminal messages

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson’s pioneering work with thousands of patients has led to groundbreaking discoveries in how sound frequency patterns built into musical soundtracks induce brainwave entrainment. Fortune 500 companies, healthcare professionals, clinics, hospitals, meditation groups, and individuals worldwide use Dr. Thompson’s audio programs for deep relaxation, healing, inner exploration, and meditation.

...Lastly, I'm a fan of Ishq's "Lotus" and "Orchid" albums which you can find on iTunes.

Enjoy!

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Deuter is great for Reiki

2009-04-08T19:30:23Z

Deuter’s newest 'Atmospheres' from www.newearthrecords.com has grabbed my being. Check him out at http://www.newearthrecords.com/web/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=18&idproduct=1537 It really flows. What do you think?

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The Art Of Healing

2009-04-08T15:30:45Z

This is one of my first articles I wrote on healing for beginners.

The Art of Healing

In this article I will teach one how to heal him/her self or some one else and how to do it close range and far distances.First lets define healing.What is healing ???,healing to me is to stop pain or make a wound feel better its like the concept of a band aid,when you ask for a band aid and you put it over that cut what do you think "It will heal my cut and the pain will stop"thats what will come to mind,just like a kiss from your mother when she kisses :-* the boo-boo lol it gets all better.Thats what healing is you can either define what healing means to you or you can adopt what healing means to me not every one will have in mind what healing means to me is what healing means to them.

Cleaning:The reason I am skipping meditation is because I'm pretty sure we all know how to meditate and plus this "Cleaning" will make you focus on "Cleaning" and it will be like your meditating.Okay so you should all ways clean your energy before healing your self or some one because you don't want Negative energy when your healing your self or some one else Negative energy is bad energy,its just like when you clean your hands before eating you don't want germs on your hands while eating or it will get in your mouth and or around your mouth area and affect you thats the same way with healing,so to clean your self stand up straight no hunching or being lazy and if you don't feel like it then you can sit down cross legged Lotus position no slouching back straight up.Now after you got that done visualize a white beam coming from the skys above and entering you and pushing down all the dirty negative energy visualize the dirty negative energy black or red or what ever color represents dirt or dirty to you with the white light visualize the negative energy going down your body and out because the white light is pushing it out and replacing the negative energy now you know how to clean your self I will give you couple more examples.

Meditation url:http://artofpsionics.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=enterinastateofmind&action=display&thread=1198827150

The three white balls of light
1st example:Visualize three white balls of light over your head and when you inhale breath in one white ball of light at a time ,breath it into your body and have the white ball of light explode inside of your body killing of negative energy repeat this with the other two balls

Like washing your hands
2nd example:This one is just like washing your hands to get the dirt off,so what you do is either stand up or sit down"lotus position" or go into a position that is relaxing to you,now visualize a vast wide ocean above your head thats clean good pure water now visualize the water running down entering your body and washing all of that negative energy away.

Healing:Now that you got the cleaning part down we can move on to healing.I would prefer you to lay down on your bed and relax.Now that you are relaxed locate the pain and when you do so visualize that area where the pain is at red or some other color that represent pain to you,now concentrate on moving that good clean energy to the spot where the pain is at now visualize the good clean energy going into the red pain and turning it white which is the good clean energy color.Their are many ways to do this couple of examples

Healing munchers
1stexample:you know how pacman looks like right,well visualize a white healing pacman and visualize your red pain as red dots,spots or circles and that your pacman is eating away the pain and making you feel better.
[IMG]http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee229/tinkywinky_will_shoot_you/pacman.gif[/IMG]

Converting
2nd example:Visualize the white light energy going over covering the area where the pain is at and converting the red pain to white clean good healing energy and know it will make you feel better must have the intent of feel good.

Tactile users:No I didn't for get you tactile people,so what you do is feel white light that has a warm feeling and have this feeling flow threw out your whole body know that it is healing energy.Now lay down and concentrate on the pain have the intent that you want to heal this area that is hurting you,now feel your energy flowing"moving" to the area where the pain is and feel this warm healing energy going in side the pain and surrounding the pain making you feel better
keep repeating this process.

Healing some one else:Now that you can heal your self I will teach you how to heal some one else using a psi ball.First make a psi ball make it hollow then feel it up with that good clean white healing energy visualize your psi ball turning to a brilliant white light,now that you have that done visualize your self sending this brilliant white light healing energy to some one who is sick or have pain visualize the sick person with a said face and when the healing psi ball enters them that when you visualize that sick person with a happy face to indicate"to show" that their feeling better.

psi ball url:http://artofpsionics.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=ballofenergy&action=display&thread=1198571675

Healingsome one else "Tactile style":Make a psi ball remember that warm feeling of that good clean white light healing energy,well have that feeling flow into the psi ball knowing it is a healing psi ball and feel it leave your palms and having the intent that it will heal the person you send it to.

How to heal some one close to you:visualize that good clean white healing energy flowing to your palms keep on repeating this until your palms feel:heavy,hot,warm,tingly ect... and when doing so visualize your hands becoming bright light because of the healing energy now touch the spot of the person where the pain is located visualize that the pain is going away and the good clean white light energy is take the place of the pain their are many ways to do this I will give you couple more example.

1st example:Okay do the process above and visualize them white glowing healing hands of yours hovering over the persons body and have the energy leave from your hands and enter that sick person body destroying the pain or you can visualize all that good clean white light healing energy leave your hands and feel their whole body up with the white light.

P.s. when working with the white light when it enters your body make sure you actually feel it entering your body feel its warmth the good sensations it gives you have it keep flowing into your body until your filled up with it and all the dark nasty negative energy is out,oh yeah if this doesn't work the first time please don't give up you have to practice to get better just like foot ball,soccer and basket ball you practice so you can get better.Remember be creative with this "art" go out side the box

:DLive,Life
Drynal

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HUGE QI / CHI /ENERGY SEMINAR EVENT - Orlando - April 25th - 28th

2009-04-08T05:05:36Z

In celebration of World Qigong / Tai Chi Day (April 25th), when millions of people around the world will practice Qigong & Tai Chi, the Supreme Science Qigong Foundation will host the Largest Qigong Gathering in US History!

For 4 days, 5000 people will come together, in one room, in Orlando, to learn and practice Qigong! Imagine, being one of 5000 people breathing together and moving together! The group energy will be AMAZING!

Qigong (pronounced "Chee Gong") is the ancient chinese art of directing Qi energy. All matter, including the air around us, is composed of energy. In Qigong, we cultivate internal and external Qi, through deep abdominal breathing techniques, specific movements, and mental focus. You will literally FEEL the magnetic energy in the air, between your hands, and coursing through your body!

For just $99, in just 4 days, you will learn Level-1, and Level-2 standing Qigong forms, a beautiful, freestyle Qigong dance called Wu Ji, Pranayama Breath Empowerment and 9-Breath Method breathing excercises, powerful meditations, Taoist stretching, Food Based Healing, and Qi Healing. You will meet many beautiful, open people, overflowing with peace and love, and make new friends. There will be live music, huge TV screens so everyone can see, and advanced computer animations & more than 100 instructors to help you learn.

If you are a Massage Therapist or RN, this is worth 32 Continuing Education Credit Hours.

You can't find a better deal than this anywhere! This is an experience you will never forget! You will thank yourself for coming!

To REGISTER & GET MORE INFO., click or copy and paste this link: http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3417718-10649567

I hope to see you there!

Blessed be,
:) Michael Raphael
www.QigongDallas.com

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Art and energy

2009-04-07T13:50:02Z

Hopefully this isn't off topic for this tribe, but I thought you'd be interested in art that is energetically inspired.

Have you wanted to get more involved with supporting art at Burning Man? Not sure how?

Please support my friend Robert's vision by donating to the piece, buying a print to help make the piece a reality, and/or sending on the link to others.

The piece is called memortrees.
You can learn more about it at: http://www.memortrees.com
You may have seen his collaborative piece from BM 08: http://www.memortrees.com/Self-Evidence.html

The philosophy behind memortrees:

The philosophy behind this piece is the belief that we are energy beings. That we co-create the lives we are living through the vibrations of the feelings we are offering. Feelings that are the result of our thoughts, words, and actions. These feelings are being offered in every present moment. The only moment. Given this relationship that what we create is tied to what we are offering, by consciously activating positive feelings within ourselves we participate intentionally in the manifestation… in the evolution… of our own lives.

Focusing our attention in positive ways by consciously thinking thoughts that give us joy may very well be the first domino of causality. We have the choice in every moment to decide what to place our attention upon, as well as how we choose to place it. This is the most powerful act that we can offer to our individual life that is ever-evolving. Every moment… every feeling… is a calling.

The events of our lives manifest in response to the emotional vibrations we are offering. We also have the ability to place our attention on anything we choose, and so choosing to activate powerful, positive vibrations contributes directly to the evolutions of our lives. Memortrees intends to inspire the visitor into positive emotions by inviting them via creativity, to activate past and/or future memories that give great joy. And in that great joy... great power.

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Qigong (Energy Practice) Classes in Dallas Area

2009-04-03T03:41:22Z

Come join us in learning and practicing Qigong (pronounced "Chee Gong"), a beautiful, ancient Chinese "soft" martial art, similar to Tai Chi, in its slow and graceful movements.

This particular style of Qigong differs from Tai Chi, in that it is easier to practice, much easier to learn, and is more specifically focused on physically feeling and directing the Qi (the life force or energy that exists in all matter, including the air around us). The simplicity and repetition of this style of Qigong make it an especially effective moving meditation that energizes your body, clears your mind, calms your emotions, and allows you to feel more connected to the Universe.

Classes will be held on Saturdays, near the Preston / Plano Pkwy. intersection. The address is:
5068 W. Plano Pkwy.
Plano, TX 75093

Weather permitting, we'll be in the outside courtyard at the rear entrance of the building. In inclimate weather, we'll be in Conference Rm. A on the 3rd Floor.

SPACE IS LIMITED, SO ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

For More Info. go to www.QigongDallas.com

..$15 per Class or $69.96 for 6 classes.

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increasing intensity

2009-04-01T07:32:12Z

i feel on the edge of the overwhelm.
we are immersed in transformation, i can feel this.
on the brink of oh so much.

let this thread serve as an outlet for expression of our experiences in the challenging days that lay before us.

many blessings.

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energy fields taking on symbolic forms?

2009-04-01T02:19:49Z

heya, I was wondering if anyone felt anything like the wings of an angel?
I just felt it.

I'm not sure if it's entirely related, but in hte past while meditating, I felt an enormous tension at the back of my neck, pulling my head back really strongly. i thought that this sensation of an energy field there might be related to what i feel now.
I just experienced a clearing of some blocked energy passages.. quite an incredible expereince.. but now, I feel like i have this energy behind mye like the wings of an angel.
seems really cool :D
kinda comforting. very powerful.
anybody else experience anything like this?

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Ascension times? 10:10, 11:11, 12:12, 4:04, 12:21, etc...

2009-03-31T10:45:54Z

is anyone else here experiencing these numbers in abundance lately?

it used to happen to me once in a while, then a few times a day, and now since last week, it's happening nearly every time i randomly look at the clock. i am not exaggerating when i say 98% of the time when i look at the clock it's some variation of these, either the same number repeated, sequential numbers like 3:45 or 5:43, or symmetrical numbers. it just happened again right now ... 6:56.

so i'm wondering if there are others who are noticing this more than before. and i'm also curious about what you do when it happens. i'm trying to pause just for a moment and still my thoughts. just curious.

intense times we're living in right now.

namaste,
~claude.

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Merging, poisoning, relationships

2009-03-31T05:15:13Z

I had this thought recently. When I am discovering that I love someone I have this strong desire to merge with them, physcially, emotionally, spiritually. I also am noticing in my self and others how much we poison ourselves in this culture with alcohol, food, negativity, dishonesty. We gum up the works internally with lies , secrets , undisgested emotionals, food ,etc..
And merging with someone who is not aware or poisoning themselves in these ways is not safe or healthy for me. It's as simple as not being able to kiss a smoker or as copmplicated as not being able to merge with a man who still has unresolved mother issues that are likely to come out in any relationship with maternal energy ( I.E. me) I also have some unresolved father issues , so I may be able to work with that one a bit. Regardless awareness is key. I feel "cleaner" or lighter than I have felt in a long time and that's why I feel the poison or negativity around me so acutely I think.
What do you think? Is merging and then individuating a pattern that is always there in relationships? Has anyone had this expereince where they were really sensitive ( even more than usual) to people who were exhiniting self-destructive behavior, to the point if felt gross to be around them ?

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How do i protect myself?

2009-03-30T20:14:01Z

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this tribe. I'm glad I found it. So, I have been doing a lot of intense mediation for a couple months now and I'm really feeling my energy increasing and I am becoming very sensitive to other people's energies. 2 days ago my husband's kidney's started acting up and he was in a lot of pain. I spent all day monday calling the doctors for him and researching a new diet to help him get better, then we spent the night at the hospital and yesterday and today I have been continuing my research, and calling more doctors. He has a history of bad kidneys, so this is serious. I have been doing reflexology on him and I know energy healing, but I am out of practice and I want to wait until I feel ready to do that. Here's the problem, I woke up today with a terrible headache and zero energy despite getting more than enough sleep last night. I know what is happening. I am under stress plus I think I am taking on some of his sick energy. I want to help him heal, but how do I protect myself in the process?

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been seeing flashes of colour...

2009-03-27T00:54:50Z

heya, on occasion... recently..
I have noticed flashes of colour in normal everyday things...
Like, I ws looking at teh wallpaper on the wall earllier and i ws getting flashes of bright blue and yellow. it's not like my eyes were seeing it.. but it's almost like teh colours were overlayed onto the patern of teh wallpaper. but it wasn't imaginary, it was like, it was there, but it wasn't. and i wasn't even certain of what i saw, but i got the definite sense that i had seen a wonderful blue and yellow pattern.
I have heard about how some substance can raise your vibration such as psilocybin muchrooms, i read about how it can make surfaces shimmer and colours stand out and stuff.
well I was thinking could this perhaps be that maybe i am raising my vibration somehow and this is enabling me to see teh higher frequencies of teh world?

It's not directly tied in, or it might be, but wheni go to meditation group, i find that when i start to relax and change my mental state,and become more receptive, I find that the floor changes. it undulates and changes into all sorts of patterns. like those 'magic eye' pictures.

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Healing Exchange...

2009-03-24T04:01:34Z

Reiki II attuned female offering Reiki treatment in exchange for massage therapy treatment. East Bay area... seeking female trained massage therapist.

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Sacred Promises

2009-03-17T20:51:04Z

Is there anyone on my friend list who understands this- the whole consciousness of contracts- who has experienced this in their own life??? Can you let me know who you are? I would be interested in hearing your thoughts? I am going to post tis ona couple of tribes also. Thanks!!

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aware of the energy

2009-03-08T20:39:41Z

I am very aware of the energy in this tribe, which will explain why I am leaving it.

I hope that this childish bickering and badmouthing will cease at some point, but I can't sit around wishing and surrounding myself with energy I would never want to project.

SO! That being said, Thanks for the few good threads in between the arguments.
Blessings,
Teketa

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cosmetic acupressure/ facial rejuvenation

2009-03-06T16:07:33Z

I wonder if anyone has an experience with cosmetic acupressure/ facial rejuvenation.
I first came across this idea through a book by Victoria J. Mogilner "Ancient Secrets of Facial Rejuvenation: A Holistic, Nonsurgical Approach to Youth and Well-Being". www.amazon.com/Ancient-Se.../1577315529

I am a big believer in holistic methods and was very enthusiastic about the application of acupressure to facial treatments. However, to my big amazement i found that this is not a widely used practice. There are only two books on the subject that i found( one mentioned above and out of print book Cosmetic Acupressure Facelift by Kurt Schultz).
Search on the web returned only a few places that provide acupressure facial treatments.

Don't such treatments work? Please share your opinions/experiences

Thank you!
Lisa

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Newness, Newness Everywhere....

2009-03-05T08:47:23Z

Barack is kickng some ass. We are excellerating big time. I can feel the energy and I am exhausted. I feel love, I feel frenetic. I feel like I could crash at any time. I feel like I need some down time. This weekend is as good a time as any since I'm broke again.

The end of war ( for real), the economy starting back up ( maybe), this internal frenzy to get through grad school, Anybody else feeling this energy?
I talked to a friend in Montana and he was so calm. Maybe it's LA.

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Entity that makes the room go cold

2009-02-27T20:21:28Z

I have recently had encounters with a spirit that sucks all the heat out of my room. I don't feel threatened and he seems very wise and helpful. I just don't know if it is good for me to be around this energy. It seems to deplete me also. Has anyone encountered this?

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ORMUS boost up my lifeforce

2009-02-26T22:04:12Z

I have settled on taking the zynergy powder, aquagold, aquamin
and palladium. Overall I have noticed that my emotions are closer to the surface and that they bubble up more freely. Things are manifesting quicker. I am spending more time in attending to my day to day stuff rather than thinking about it.
There is also a "smoothing effect", hard to put it in words, but its like my interactions with people have become more rounded, fluid, and satisfying. These experiences have been of a subtle nature.

http://zptech.eu

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Reformated a tribe on meditation

2009-02-23T18:14:22Z

Hey everyone, I started a tribe on the practice of breath awareness, so if you guys are intereted in discussing meditation, feel free to join!

http://tribes.tribe.net/theconsciousenergybreath

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Work & Play

2009-02-23T07:29:08Z

In today's world, America and the world face many tough challenges about the future. Our jobs are at the forefront of those challenges as, through an increasing cruciality, we are faced with a recession and an economy in need of repair. The jobs which we choose to work at represent characteristics of our totality and bring them to the surface. It is important to remember that any and all jobs have numerous valid lessons within their modalities. Even jobs that many people think of as 'bottom jobs' have many useful perks and advantages (as we see in the example of the janitor in the movie 'Breakfast Club') that aid in our process of learning through this experience of life. The goal is to blend the world of work with that of play and unify the two. They are essentially one and are simply two ways of understanding ourselves. The more we blend our artistic potential into our work & play, the more that life becomes synchronisticly abundant and fluid with threads of purpose that inner-twine. Either in work or play, we must see every interaction with co-workers, the general public, or friends as a opportunity to not only learn a great deal from our environment, but also to spread seeds of our light & perspective into the lives of others. Enjoy your work & play, and enjoy turning one into the other into completion. *

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Ephemeral Mists "moon ritual"

2009-02-23T05:04:14Z

Ephemeral Mists is the newest side project by composer Brett Branning (The synthetic dream foundation & Abandoned Toys). The debut album, "Moon Ritual" is out now on Mythical records.

The sound of the project is best described as downtempo ambient electronics mixed with ethnic world musics in the vein of "Karma" era Delerium, Amethystium, and Dead Can Dance. Its really a very intoxicatingly beautiful creation and I highly recommend it to anyone into ambient music styles.

http://www.ephemeralmists.com/

http://www.mythicalrecords.com/

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Vivid memories

2009-02-21T03:16:23Z

Recently, over a period of about 2 months, I was being burdened with intense bad memories. they were very vivid and it was as if i was experiencing them over again. i could feel the same exact feelings i had felt as a child and it was shocking to remember what i had been put through. as an adult looking back, i had the extra sadness of knowing 150% sure that no one should ever be treated that way. i know that i was here in the present, so i don't believe it was a flashback in the true sense of the word. But still, it was very disturbing. Pot made these experiences even more common and intense. It started when my father had a heart attack and it ended when he apologized for hurting me when I was younger. I had also begun serious meditation study again. The memories are gone (thank god), but who know if this will ever happen again? Has this ever happened to anyone else out there?

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Connecting with "energy workers" as I travel - suggestions?

2009-02-14T02:00:09Z

Hello!

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I'd love your insights.

I'm looking to connect with others exploring energy work in all of its many flavors. When I arrive in a new area/town, how can I reach out? Any listserves/etc. that you can recommend?

Thanks in advance,

Meander

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Looking for clients of reputable Medical Intuitives (i.e. Caroline Myss, Judith Orloff) for interviews

2009-02-08T23:51:25Z

Hi,

I am writing a dissertation on Medical Intuition/Intuitives, and the benefits received from getting a consultation.

I need to interview persons who have been clients of known reputable Medical Intuitves who do not just self promote themselves. Caroline Myss and Dr. Judith Orloff are clearly two examples.

If you have seen, had a reading, or counseling from either of these recognized Intuitives, or someone equally noteworthy, and know of many others who have too - so it is not just you and your exuberance over some unknown - and would be willing to be briefly interviewed (i.e. answer 3 simple questions), I would be greatly appreciative.

It is for a dissertation, and information will be used anonymously, or acknowledgement given, whichever your preference.

best,

Ed Kaitz

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dog and cat

2009-02-08T14:05:39Z

Okay- so I am new to all of this energy stuff, and boy am I making a mess of things. I decided to get a puppy over 2 years ago and my cat is really unhappy and has been for 2 years. She was an older cat and although I tried to keep the puppy away from her I was not completely succeSsful. We also had a stressful move and she was diagnosed with kidney disease. She told me after I got the puppy that If I really loved her I would not get a dog. SO. I don't know if this is fodder for my OCD tendencies but I have received lots of universal feedback that this was not a good choice. Of course, I got attached to the dog. I don't know if I should find a new home for the dog. I keep them seperated and I spend a lot of time with the cat but she is clearly depressed. Has anyone else made a decision that felt completely out of line with the universe. Seriously. What did you do. I am trying to stay calm- because really, I am an egghead for not giving away the dog right away. I do need to make a new decision soon but of course my inner child (the culprit) loves the dog but my first priority is the cat. I have made many decisions that seem to be out of alignment (broken contracts and promises...), but, really, I feel like I never get the memo until afterwards. All of this has actually made me believe in godmore because I can't possibly be god when I make so many mistakes. It may sound lame but I have to have faith that if I turn my will over- that god will help me straighten things out or bring things back into alignment. Does this resonate with anyone or should I just get some meds- smile. Thanks

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Love poems from Rumi, for this Valentine

2009-02-03T16:32:34Z

To all of you that feel the call to explore the endless potential of love, journey now with love’s greatest student – and master – the 13th century mystic poet of Persia : Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi’s incredible, profound verses invite us to experience a love beyond our senses, beyond time, beyond language: a love that removes all boundaries and answers all desire.
Sina Yasavolian recites selections of Nader Khalili’s translations in a graceful, lyrical dance to an original musical score by Hamoon Tehrani . His music awakens our hearts as Sina’s soothing voice and Rumi’s sensitive words transport our spirits to a place of union with the infinite divine presence. In her readings, Sina exhibits a deep respect and understanding of Rumi’s writing, which she generously shares with us. Do more than listen to this poetry and music; let it color your soul. You can buy and download these music, directly from this site. hope you enjoy it.
you can visite these web site for the CD.

http://trueloverumi.com/shop.html

http://cdbaby.com/cd/sina2

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love and light

Sina

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anyone notice the upshifting of today's energy?

2009-02-03T14:50:54Z

Today there seems to be a wonderful uplifting energy pulling us through the recent stagnant energy some of us have been experiencing.
I notice a pulsating feeling around my crown chakra and third eye chakra.

is anyone else feeling especially wonderful today?

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new tribe - soul searching

2009-01-29T02:54:13Z

hey guys, I decided that i would let you all know of a new tribe i created.

http://tribes.tribe.net/soulsearching

the idea of this is to help people find who they are.
to help people through emotional difficulty.
to help people on their path.

I only really made it 'because i could' but now there are a couple of members i feel i owe it to them to get more members so they aren't lonely. ^^

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Reiki energy in the video...

2009-01-23T21:45:47Z

For anyone that wants Reiki for themselves, a pet, or anyone at all. Just say the persons name or place their picture near the video, play it and it will be sent. Get as much beautiful energy out of this as you can, this is for everyone. Many blessings to you all!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAau4SrikKs

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THE ENERGY BEHIND ENLIGHTENMENT

2009-01-22T04:20:19Z

Most people use ten percent or less of the Brain. Through the awakening of Kundalina energy the brain can organically evolve to a higher performance. No time has been spent investigating perhaps the most powerful energy of nature. Religious experience and its root.

Kundalini is the evolutionary potency in all humans. A fundamental bioenergy. It comes from an Indian word meaning “to join the soul with the cosmic soul,” In the ancient Indian language Sanskrit it is a term referring to a coiled force or energy originating at the base of the spine, and seated near the sex organs a coiled up sleeping snake. Implies latent energy or potential to expand. Serpent Power when activated travels up the seven chakras which are the nerve centers along the spinal cord and enlightens the mind. Expanding consciousness the nirvana of Buddha. It is responsible for human evolution and all-psychic abilities genius and spiritual illumination. Kundalini is the biological way to expand the mind.

Kundalini is the “secret” behind yoga and all other esoteric psychology’s and genuine occult mysteries. A scientifically measurable biochemical essence Kundalini is the substance that is the nourishment of consciousness. It penetrates the nervous system and influences the nerves to become the instrument of higher consciousness. This subtle substance is a snake-like force that fuels the mind in order to sustain a more active state, producing an awakened Kundalini individual, Note: snakes have two hemi penises and the power to hypnotize.

Such inner power is represented by the two snakes on King Tut’s headdress and the feathered serpent of Mexico and South America, The serpent in the Garden of Eden. The upward flow of Kundalini nectar (prana force, bioplasmic stream) is concentrated in the reproductive fluids of both men and women. When Kundalini is activated a reverse action takes place, feeding the center of the brain. “cavity of Brahma” in the brain’s ventricular cavity. Kundalini is the power that controls it. All great saints’’ mystics’ poets and people of genius, as well as the insane were influenced in this way.

If an experiment were performed it would prove the existence of the Kundalini force and show its physiological effects on the body. It could bridge the gap between science and mysticism and show the essential truth of religious experience and tradition. Religion has always been a companion of humanity. Religion came to guide humanity. No scientist could doubt the reality of this phenomenon once it has been observed and measured.. Such an experiment would uncover the vale of darkness and delusion under which humanity has been living. This evolutionary force needs publicity and actual proof would provide it. The results will speak for themselves. It will be a discovery more important than anything that has preceded it.

It is only from an awakened perspective that such observation can be made and this potential lies within everyone. As humanity evolved from cave men to the United Nations it becomes inevitable that this discovery will come to light and that there is indeed a purpose. A planned creation to our being. God protects our blue-green planet earth from the inferno of intergalactic space. Why? Because humanity has to attain to other states of consciousness for which all these recourses are needed to do this. We have been granted an intelligence to make the best use of it.

Life’s purpose and evolution’s power lead to cosmic laws, which must be obeyed for nature’s divine grace within us all to come to light. These laws as spoken of in all religions occult and mystical beliefs describe a path to enlightenment. As great empires have come and gone, so too must humanity’s faiths change.

My teacher, the late Pundit Gopi Krishna, an Indian Yogi-scientist and world renowned expert of Kundalini who has written over twenty books on the subject states, “We all know what happened whenever a political system became despotic and oppressive, a social system exacting and corrupt, and a religious system excessively authoritarian and dogmatic. There arose a demand for revision and reform. Political revolutionaries, reformers and prophets appeared on the scene, The old system was overthrown often with dreadful bloodshed, suffering and pain and a new one installed in its place. We have to cooperate with inner evolution.”

What is needed for a more positive harmonic peaceful and prosperous existence is a fuller understanding of humanity’s need for god. As society accelerates the brain must work increasingly beyond the point of balance. We are giants of intellect and dwarfs of the spiritual. We give no time to the spirit. Bringing on grave consequences. Gopi Krishna says. “ We have given too much emphasis to the material side of life at the cost of the spiritual side.” Time must be set aside for prayer, meditation, yoga or some other spiritual act in order to keep life’s evolutionary needs in balance and maintain inner sanity. Yoga meditation provides a channel for the opening of a powerful energy (inspiration) which can enable anyone to blossom into a genius, an artist, a poet, a mystic.

If this force awakens in an impure or out of balance form it can result in evil genius fanaticism delusions of grandeur, or mental illness (like manic depression and schizophrenia). There is a lot that is not understood that kundalini research will explain.

The brain is subject to the influence of countless factors connected with the life environment and the family history of an individual. When even slightly tainted or stained do to the pressure of reality or various causes such as wrong mode of life, unhealthy environment, faulty heredity, shock, frustration, repression, tension and numerous other factors. If the mind is abnormal the brain too must be a shareholder in the abnormality. There are subtle changes in some neuronic structures in the cranium. The real root of the abnormality is an impure or toxic condition of the prana. If you do not live a disciplined life then the awakening of this center can be unhealthy. A distorted vision of the same power. It means that the system is not pure and that the energy is not working in a healthy way.

There is a positive spiritual energy force within us all. Which has a physical counterpart in the human body that feeds a certain portion of the brain cavity of Brahma. This is a living electricity or intelligent energy that is needed to open the brain. The macrobiological changes and its effect can be observable and scientifically verified. Elevations of consciousness can only occur through the transformation brought by kundalini and by no other agency.

Nature shows compassion to humanity in order to help guide us safely through transgressions. God to me is a universal god that is not tied to any one organized religion. It gives us chance after chance. But when we digress off the path unhealthy results occur. We can not blame nature but ourselves. We have intelligence, we have reason, and we have learning. But if by having everything we ignore it then of course nature has no alternative except to teach us by suffering. Heaven is always merciful and all compassionate.

Great prophets, mystics, inventors, sages and people of genius have come to guide our race towards evolution’s goal. The study of the past will show the common thread within these great men and woman. Study is needed in order to educate us about how life should be led to be more in harmony with the forces of nature, which govern our life. A life of humility – love – purity - truth - moderation and compassion.

But how can we prove kundalini’s effect on the body? We can perform an experiment in a controlled environment. This experiment would take on hundred individuals with a healthy average intellect - normal typical people all with a great urge to awaken with a deep passion for spiritual matters and who are prepared to mold their lives in consort with the spiritual laws. Men and women aged twenty to thirty five. They would be put in a peaceful environment and subjected to various tests over a period of five years or more.

Scientists can observe them as the subjects try to awaken their kundalini. They will awaken to differing degrees. Tests will document the physiological changes that occur and will provide the empirical proof of what happens to the body as the kundalini force is awakened. I hypothesis that there are definitive biological differences in the blood, the cerebrospinal fluid and the composition of the brain matter in its subtle layers. Research on brain mapping. EEG ceg ces and the electricity in the body may show the kundalini force. The brain activity will be increased and its effect will be found all over the body. There will be metabolic processes, which can be measured. There will be physiological changes, which can be measured. This will convince the biologist that this change of the mind of the brain has physiological counter part. The result will start humanity towards a greater understanding of this evolutionary mechanism.

Once it is proved that the potential to awaken lies within everyone and is the most valuable asset we have, people will strive for it. The result on humanity will be comparable to the splitting of the spiritual atom. Instead of releasing a nuclear holocaust it will unleash the beginning of a utopian age, our cosmic destiny that can transform a mortal into an immortal and eternal source of happiness.

The awakening of these energies produces genius in mortal man or woman. Creativity, love and compassion emerge and pathways are opened to a future, awakened humanity. We will become the trailblazers of our own inevitable destiny. A utopian age of peace and harmony will follow. All political and spiritual processes will be developed for the highest good. Individuals will develop their “inner Sun” to the fullest during their lifetime. Kundalini research is part of an evolutionary force that compels us to look for enlightenment as an experience accessible to all. To awaken is the goal nature has set for us.

The time is right for we can use state of the art technology to study the phenomenon. We can study the common thread that lies at the root of all religion mysticism which is to guide humankind’s understanding of evolutionary change The understanding of kundalini is now becoming provable for the first time.

Sigmund Freud in fact understood that the libido is directly responsible for mental imbalances. At some point in time we will discover that all we know can be reduced to the bio-chemical. This center of the brain cavity of Brahma is still undiscovered but could be called the “third eye” or the “philosopher’s stone”. Kundalini will for the first time reveal how energy is supplied to the brain and that it is superintelligent. Freud’s concept about libido is of a psychic energy drawn from the libidinous tendencies in human beings. Which is to say the reproductive energy but only from a psychic point of view. He does not say that it has organic roots. This is what famed psychologist Wilhelm Reich emphasizes that this libido must have roots deep in the biochemical structure of the body.

The sex organs in a state of awakened kundalini produces a vast amount of fluid to feed the newly activated part of the brain. Sexual energy may well be directly connected to a mechanism that is affected by evolutionary advancement. Kundalini is the fundamental bioenergy stored primarily in the sex organs. This basic life force is normally associated with the genitals for simple continuance of the species by providing a sex drive. The tie in to the human sex drive and higher consciousness must be explored. Why do men have ejaculation while asleep or wake up with erect penises. There is a force of nature that needs physical release to be sane.

It is called the “goddess Kundalini” or “Mother Nature” because a mother’s love is similar to the bliss of higher consciousness. Woman have more feelings! Life is part of them - menstruation each month reminds them of that. Soulmates, man-woman have intercourse to prolong the race (children). Plus experience the love, kundalini evolutionary force of completion, happiness and bliss that keeps growing.

Sexual or relaxation exercises may release inner pressure of an over-taxed libido. An evolutionary super-nectar, extraordinary life force feeds the mind, a kissing food of unlimited bliss. The sublimation raising up of sex energy is the basic lever of all spiritual disciplines. But the all-inclusive nature of sex energy is a misnomer. Reproduction is but one of the aspects of the life energy of which the other theater of activity is the brain.

Humanity’s basic needs are for sex, god and a need for prayer to control our environment i.e.. hope within everyone lies the ability to awaken. Humanity needs love to balance our own unbalanced state and give us time to meditate, to control our over-taxed brain. Humanity’s sex drive may well be the only time some people relax from their hectic lifestyles. There is a need to just kick back and enjoy. Sex could be a form of deep meditation and experience between two soul mates. Loves deep blissful passion, kundalini’s purest expression an active prayer one of the most powerful forces in the universe. A positive experience that ends in an explosion of uncontrollable bliss. However for the average person, sex is not a deep meditation but is merely a physical release, a small slice of love’s true potential.

What is needed is that deep magnetism of love - a yin/yang of a universal constant. First came the big bang theory for the creation of the universe, now the love theory of creation states that the universe is a constant - always was here. That pure love magnetism, that yin/yang. Example. Trees love earth. Earth love the sky the sky loves the stars space… Love is consciousness … The universe is male and female and in love with both forces.

Suppression of sexuality out of contempt or hatred of our lower nature is an act of ignorance leading only to atrophy of the sexual system. Celibacy is contrary to nature. Since enlightenment is an evolutionary process with heredity playing an important role stamping the genera of the enlightened so that their biological gains through spiritual disciplines can be passed to their progeny. DNA research will eventually discover the consciousness gene.

Sexual energy has been represented in ancient art and statues by an erect organ. Showing the upward streaming of the reproductive essence that effects the transformation of consciousness.

In order to discover the factual evidence behind consciousness, one must first study kundalini energy and its effects. Scientific proof will free humanity to accept the fact that within everyone lies the temple of god leading to a clear realization of our own divine nature. Man’s incomprehensible inner bliss and oneness with divinity and a way of life that overpowers doing wrong or any other action that goes against this cosmic evolutionary force. The misunderstanding of kundalini has led to environmental decline that seems rooted to ultimate destruction of Planet Earth i.e. ozone layer, burning of rain forests, religious wars and terrorism, rape and murder….

It is one relationship not just to their own kundalini but also towards each other. It is the combination of the two that will lead not only to harmony but also to sharing and ultimately to progress. The appeal especially in these times is kundalini which offers hope promise. There is negative energy (i.e. ours) that can be transformed into positive communal conscience which will try to eradicate feelings of helplessness, negativity, pain and the burden of feeling isolated.

Why are people so selfish? Due to not having an understanding of kundalini. Just desperation, helplessness and power struggles which lead to hurting others and ourselves or apathy both of which have a profound effect on our history and the mood of the energy.

Our goal and objective is to create a paradise on earth. A peaceful co-existence, long lives, greater achievements and more freedom. A utopian society living by the laws uncovered by the experiment. A union with the divine is a sum total of the physical laws of the universe. We are in the process of taking the next evolutionary leap. The new century is here.

The study of what lifestyle would be best to advance ones inner potential is a task that may take eons to complete. With the help of divine grace may we free the veil that covers the eyes of the blind masses. We who have been chosen for this colossal task are the humble instruments of this evolutionary force. We will do our part to understand this unfathomable awareness of our eternal souls. The universe is ruled by an intelligent power! Consciousness does not change in birth or death it is bigger than our individual soul. Consciousness is an eternal om...

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