This post arises out of an ongoing homeopathic quest for better health and vitality. Homeopathy, for readers unfamiliar with it, is a therapeutic system developed in the late 18th century based on the principle of similia similibus curentur (“like cures like”). Remedies are prepared through serial dilution and succussion, a process believed to imprint an …
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The more I dive into thought on the nature of Reality, the more I am persuaded that frequency and vibration are crucial. They act as fundamental "keys" to understanding how consciousness manifests. This applies whether it is subjective or objective. This, in turn, led me to speculate on whether people resonate to different fundamental tones. …
Very few people escape the attention rigidifying impact of our immediate familial and broadly social education. This educational process is heavily weighted toward specific attention biases. A preponderance of our educational resource is spent on intellectual development. This entails, with gradually greater subtlety and specificity, the singling out, or in my language, narrow focusing upon …
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Some considerations when musing on joy....attachment versus detachment. For who could live or breathe if there were not this delight of existence as the ether in which we dwell?From Delight all these beings are born, by Delight they exist and grow, to Delight they return. Taittiriya Upanishad, II. 7; III. 6. For the universal soul all …
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I am Aditi, the Cosmic Mother, Queen of the Universe, Mother of the Gods. You may know Me as the face of the Tao, Mother of the Ba Gua, the cardinal elements of creation. I AM the Space pervading all creation - material, mental, consciousness - enabling your freedom to unfold, grow, develop; Fecund sea …
Regarding seeking joy in oneself - When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When actions come from another section, the feeling disappears. Don't let others lead you. They may be blind or, worse, vultures. Reach for the rope of God. And what is that? Putting aside …
I have struggled with the notion of spiritual surrender for years. My results attempting surrender in prayer and meditation have been barren for a long time. I have not understood it, though I've read much by many of my spiritual guides about what it entails. I've been too much in the mind, and influenced by …
Qigong and Tai Chi both make use of the Qi energy that runs through the body. That qi energy is moved about through the acupuncture energy channels of the body, by use of the mind. “The mind intent leads the qi energy, and the blood follows” is an old training adage. It is the blood …
One of the key insights that has come to me in my polarity therapy work, with relevance for sensgendered meditations as well, was that what appear as static material forms to the eye are backed by standing energetic waves in various whole configurations, more complex than the rectilinear shapes and designs projected by our human …
There is a lack of an appropriate word in the English language to denote the voluntary action of generating an internal feeling within oneself independently of external stimuli. This becomes a particular problem when we are forced to revert to words like "imagine" or "visualize" almost exclusively to describe or convey meditative exercises. Even feeling-type …
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