Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: The Power to Create Anew
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: The Power to Create Anew Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has an electric quality perhaps because of its energy and vitality. What rises in human consciousness when a symphony of this magnitude is heard? What energies does it loose on the human soul? How do we grow in a planetary and cosmic sense as a result of hearing it? After all, we are receptive to the music because it arouses something within, reminding us that we are, “above all, the carriers of culture, the endless frontier of creative transformation” (1)...
read moreWonderful Zen Poem – Bacho
Does It Matter If It’s a Summer Day There is a wonderful Zen poem that goes this way: Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out on the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don’t know...
read moreDealing with Impending Death
Dealing with Impending Death A close friend of mine has been diagnosed with a fatal disease. For months she has been on oxygen 24/7. She expects she’ll live another four or five months. She is far enough along in the progress of the illness that hospice has been called in. She wrestles with all kinds of things from feeling a victim of unseen forces to questions arising from the extensive reading she has done from the Tibetan and the Western traditions. She is unsettled because there are unanswered questions. Naturally! Prior to death most...
read moreReflections on Peace of Spirit: The Transformation of Anger
Reflections on Peace of Spirit: The Transformation of Anger An evolutionary task for humanity is to deal wisely with negative emotions which can be the starting point of disease and discomfort. Disease occurs because, according to the Tibetan, D.K., the etheric body can so easily be whooshed into motion by the emotional body. When the emotional body becomes agitated, as it does when one is angry, stressed or worried, astral or emotional energy pours through the solar plexus center and stimulates that center into extreme commotion. The problem...
read moreUniversality and Learning to Breathe under Water
Universality and Learning to Breathe under Water At the same time we live in a wonderful and beautiful world, we simultaneously live in a world that is new and strange. For example, the following was on the internet. It proves we (humanity) are “the massive barrier breakers of the world” (1) as Sri Aurobindo said when he referred to humanity. It said: Back by popular demand: Breathing under Water A self-paced, online course. June 19 – August 14, 2013” How unusual can you get? Yet isn’t that the way the Divine is, surprising us all the...
read moreSuzanne Barnett Interviews Dr Rebecca A Field, Author and Evolutionary Cosmologist
Great interview of Dr Rebecca A Field by Suzanne Barnett, host of ‘In Our Community’ TV Show aired on KMTV15. Discover great insights on Life and memorable stories about Dr Field’s Global Networking experiences. Ever wondered what an Evolutionary Cosmologist is? Rebecca explains it as well and shares with us the core message of her recent book ‘To Choose The Fire Of The Cosmos’, prefaced by the Dalai Lama. Great moments to enjoy! Watch it...
read moreWhat is the Life Divine?
In the past Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga took me by storm and his master work, The Life Divine, became the source of many elevated thoughts. What is the Life Divine? Aurobindo says that “the divine expresses himself as existence, consciousness, bliss wisdom, knowledge, love, beauty and as the impersonal and universal powers of himself…but he is not an impersonal state; he is the Being, absolute, universal and individual.” Source: The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo, Vol. II, p. 1069. It is not impossible that there is both a co-existence and...
read moreNew Style of Business Person Arises: Being Authentic
. New Style of Business Person Arises Every person we meet can teach us something of value! It is an honor to introduce you to a man I recently met who embodies and practices a new business ethic, a value system born of years of meditation and of pain. He is unbelievably sensitive to what others are experiencing interiorily. The immediacy of his laughter lightens every moment. I showed him my media kit and told him I didn’t think it sparkled much. After all, I thought media people and producers were interested in pizzazz and sparkle. Was I...
read moreTrinity and the Soul
For awhile the question of the evolution of the soul has been a subject of interest and there is some inner urgency to find an answer. To find the answer from an esoteric perspective, it seems to be necessary to take into consideration the subject of the Trinity.The Trinity prevails in both Eastern and Western thought and it is central to the tradition of the Ancient Wisdom. So the question right now seems to be: from the perspective of the Perennial Philosophy (Ancient Wisdom), what does life at the center of our solar system, per A Treatise...
read moreWesak Is Coming
Wesak Is Coming The Wesak Festival is celebrated every year on the moment of the Full Moon of Taurus, usually in May. Wesak marks the high point in the spiritual year. Both the Buddha and the Christ come together to participate and cooperate in delivering spiritual energy to humanity. In a very real sense Wesak is about peace—about bringing peace—to the world. Each of us has a role to play in making peace a reality. The Hierarchy impresses the Plan on the receptive human mind. They convey both the intended power to execute the Plan and the...
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