“One of the greatest enlightened men was Raman Maharshi, in South India, on the mountain of Arunachal. He was not a man of many words; he was not very educated either. He was only seventeen when he escaped into the mountains in search of himself. He was a very silent man, and people used to go particularly to have a taste of his silence.

One thing very miraculous was watched by every comer: whenever he sat in the veranda of the temple, waiting for people who wanted to sit with him in silence, a cow used to come without fail, exactly at the right time. She would sit there, and people could not believe it: “What kind of cow is that?” And when Raman Maharshi moved inside his room, and everybody dispersed, the cow would come close to the window and put her head inside — just to say goodbye, every day. And then she would go back. Then tomorrow she would come again.

It went on continually for years. But one day she did not turn up, and Raman Maharshi said, “She must be either very ill or she must be dead. I must go in search of her.”

The people said, “It doesn’t look right for a man of your heights to go in search of a cow.” But Raman Maharshi did not listen to the people, he went. People followed, and the cow was found. She had fallen in a ditch.

She had become old. She was coming, she was on the way, but she had slipped and had fallen into the ditch.

But she was still alive, and as Raman Maharshi reached her, sat by her side, the cow had tears in her eyes. And she put her head into Raman Maharshi’s lap and died.

Raman Maharshi told his people,”A great temple should be made in her memory here, because she has died enlightened — she will not be born even as a human being.” And even today the temple stands there, with a statue of the cow inside.

Perhaps we have not made much effort to communicate with animals, with trees, with mountains, with rivers. Certainly their language cannot be our language; some other ways have to be found. But in silence many people have experienced a harmony with the trees, with the animals, with the birds.

So it is not only a parable, it is also an indication of a possibility for the future. Man just has to explore… there is so much to explore! But we are engaged in trivia. We are not concerned with the real and great values of life. We are not concerned even with life itself and its different forms. All these are different forms of the same life which we are made of — the same stuff. There must be some way of communion.” from OSHO – Zarathustra: The Laughing prophet, Chapter-20

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Q. What is the difference between relative and absolute reality?

This has puzzled me ever since I embarked on my journey of self-exploration and metaphysics. Denying duality; the existence of good and evil, light and darkness is going against the self-evident. Our earthy existence is noting but polarity. But how real is this? Your question is pertaining to the age old dilemma;

Are the demons and gods REAL or perhaps they are our mental projections in this fragmented “reality” where our mind is in the driver seat. Religion teaches us to deny the body. Ascetics are silly. It is not the body you must deny but your mind. The mind is the self. The ego. It is always looking outward and in need of something. Searching for the TRUTH! In this framework Karma and Reincarnation are also driven by our mind. All the teachings of religious doctrines are nothing but the projection of our mind. When I say “our”, I naturally refer to the collective sentient beings in this Universe and beyond. Duality is as “real” as Karma or Reincarnation. It is a projection of our consciousness. We cannot fathom non-duality as we cannot fathom infinity. Our mind is just not set up to deal with this. Thus we invent all this other stuff. Negative and Positive energies are like vortices – like attracts like.
The answer is within you. All you need is to unlock the door. You do not need to be in any religious doctrine or faith.
Does this mean you can do anything and get away with it? The answer is NO. All sentient beings are inherently divine and the collective hive of the higher selves of sentient beings makes sure that Cosmic “laws” would work forever.

Q. Does this mean there is no god?

God (the god particle) is within us and everything else. Collectively there is a god, the Oneness (Infinity).

Namaste

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Many people associate tantric practice with casual sex but that is not what Tantra is all about. Contrary to the ascetic philosophies, the tantric way embraces our feminine and masculine inner qualities, the sounds of mantras, external beauty and joy as a venue to enlightenment. Since Tantra is a more expedient way to enlightenment, naturally it should be closer to our instant gratification seeking Western culture. However, as with most things Eastern we tend to misinterpret many of the Tantric venues, if the books are any indication to our current understanding.
Tantric practice transmutes the energy of desire, realizing that the Universal and primordial divine energy is already within us. We just have to allow it to surface. That is not accomplished by thinking or learning but by letting go, allowing the sounds of mantra to liberate us from our physical imperfection and prison.
All religion uses some forms of music or chanting to accomplish something similar to tantric chanting. We have the hymns in Christianity, canticles in the Kabala, dancing and music in the Sufi tradition, similarly the Buddhist and Hindu tantric practice uses mantras as the vehicle to liberation.
I will not write a comprehensive essay on Tantric chants but point the reader to certain, functional websites to further study. I disagree with the traditional Buddhist way of finding a right Lama to finally accomplish this enlightenment. It is, in my opinion not practical nor very easy. I believe you can practice on your own with the purpose of making this planet a better place for all its inhabitants and not only for your selfish needs, then you will somehow find the way to accomplish this. However, if you are fortunate to have found the right Tantric teacher then by all means do what is natural and learn with his/her guidance.

The Magic of IHVH-ADNI is focused around a Hebrew kabalistic phrase which is spoken musically, almost in the manner of singing.

ANI – IHVH ADNI – RBVNV ShL OVLM – AMN

(Ani – Yod Heh Vav Heh  Adonai – Ribbono Shel Olam – Amen)It is “canted”, so to speak, but in a magical way involving mental, astral and physical utterance. To this three-body speech is added the visualization of specific energy movements which occur in sync with the canticle. Rawn Clark is the person who first introduced this old kabalistic magical canticle online, and he graciously developed a course to properly learn to pronounce and sing it. His course can be found http://www.abardoncompanion.com/TMO-Links.html

The Medicine Buddha Mantra
Tayata
Om Bekandze Bekandze
Maha Bekandze
Radza Samudgate Soha

The mantra means:
May the many sentient beings
who are sick,
quickly be freed from sickness.
And may all the sicknesses of beings
Never arise again.

A good source of Buddhist mantras is the http://www.worldwidehealingcircle.net/index.html

And finally the Manjushri Mantra; ”

Om Ah Ra Pa Ca Na Dhih

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We are constantly involved with people from our past life. But how that complicated entanglement manifests itself and how to resolve it is a question very few books will tell you. Let me, for illustration purposes, quote a story from my teacher’s Guru, RHH’s book; “Talk Does not Cook the Rice”. The word “Husk” implies that when realizing what is going on (always the first step) and properly acting will dissolve the Husk and allow us to move forward in our spiritual progress.

“A young lady had been engaged to a man for 18-years, and their purported marriage was a constant source of arguments, a battle back and forth..She came to me for advice one day, why they could not be married? I said, “I rather you ask yourself this question and when and if you have the answer, you come back to me and I verify that, If I tell you now, you will accept it on an intellectual grounds and you would feel it was right or perhaps not, but like with deep esoteric matters, if you put it to the test, then it would come from within and then it is an experience and you’d KNOW first hand, not secondhand…
A few months later she was back and told me; “I know the reason…In a former life in Italy, I was Jewish and I was involved with a Roman. Now(in this life) he is Jewish and I am Catholic, and he has a complex of being Jewish and the whole idea of intermarriage just makes him worry.
In our former life I as a Jew lived in a Ghetto and there were strict laws against intermarriage (as a Roman your wealth was to taken away if they suspected any involvement) . But we secretly and in a hidden way managed and we even had a son together. Our mother wisely suggested we give our child to a relative to raise and the boy grew up with I pretending to be a nanny to be with him. The boys father died in a chariot race, and when he was sixteen, I revealed to him who I was (his birth-mother) and how he was a half Jew. But he got upset and threw me out and sent me back to the Ghetto. One day, I was knocked down on the town square by a horse and I broke my back. As I looked up, dying, in a flashback I saw the face of the man, my son, and he was the same man I am involved in this lifetime!

Then, I have realized that we cannot marry until we resolve this karmic entanglement somehow and release it. Marriage would not suffice. This is what the ancient wisdom call Karmic Husk and it is more common than many realize.”

Marriage in this case would have been foolish, but realizing what had happened and discussing and releasing thee karmic husk via forgiveness would have been the proper solution.

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I am opening an informal school for Hermetic philosophy, in the form of mentoring. The dissemination of information will be individually handled, ideally, face-to-face or by Skype. I am not interested in making money but I am keen on finding minds that are ready in terms of spiritual age and maturity. I will not accept everybody and there will be an informal discussion before we proceed with the mentoring.

If you are interested or have some questions please respond to this post or my contact form. 

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I am opening an informal school for Hermetic philosophy, in the form of mentoring. The dissemination of information will be individually handled, ideally, face-to-face or by Skype. I am not interested in making money but I am keen on finding minds that are ready in terms of spiritual age and maturity. I will not accept everybody and there will be an informal discussion before we proceed with the mentoring.

If you are interested or have some questions please respond to this post or my contact form. 

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What George Orwell had so acutely observed seventy years ago, escapes this current administration and for the most part the European community. Young people want adventure and a cause. Here in the US we are complacent and we have lack of spirituality and grit. Of course you will argue with me that, “oh, but we are spiritual, we meditate, we pray”, after all there are so many venues, churches, meditation groups etc to confuse the youth who has some “itch to be scratched” . So why is that we have our youth joining a death cult, based on erroneous and evil interpretation of Islam?  Why the youth wants socialism in America, akin to EU style welfare state, in their acts they yearn the opposite. Basic human nature is to get involved with something bigger than ourselves, something spiritual and Historic,  impacting our social and spiritual maladies as society. The EU is just as rotten than beltway of Washington, DC.

There is no easy answer but this should be a warning to the establishment, things are brewing in the air and sooner or later change is coming! Times are no different today that they were before 1848 Imperial Europe where the French revolution triggered fear and apprehension all across the continent of Europe. Here is what Orwell wrote about Hitler;

“Hitler has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades…. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.

My fear (and sadly prediction) is that ISIL came and it will be gone, but as ISIL took the baton from Al Qaeda, there is something will replace ISIL as ideology. Less murderous perhaps, less dogmatic of Sharia. Our ways are of the dinosaurs, we do not have capitalism anymore nor democracy. Furthermore, we also have lost our soul.

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What George Orwell had so acutely observed seventy years ago, escapes this current administration and for the most part the European community. Young people want adventure and a cause. Here in the US we are complacent and we have lack of spirituality and grit. Of course you will argue with me that, “oh, but we are spiritual, we meditate, we pray”, after all there are so many venues, churches, meditation groups etc to confuse the youth who has some “itch to be scratched” . So why is that we have our youth joining a death cult, based on erroneous and evil interpretation of Islam?  Why the youth wants socialism in America, akin to EU style welfare state, in their acts they yearn the opposite. Basic human nature is to get involved with something bigger than ourselves, something spiritual and Historic,  impacting our social and spiritual maladies as society. The EU is just as rotten than beltway of Washington, DC.

There is no easy answer but this should be a warning to the establishment, things are brewing in the air and sooner or later change is coming! Times are no different today that they were before 1848 Imperial Europe where the French revolution triggered fear and apprehension all across the continent of Europe. Here is what Orwell wrote about Hitler;

“Hitler has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades…. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.

My fear (and sadly prediction) is that ISIL came and it will be gone, but as ISIL took the baton from Al Qaeda, there is something will replace ISIL as ideology. Less murderous perhaps, less dogmatic of Sharia. Our ways are of the dinosaurs, we do not have capitalism anymore nor democracy. Furthermore, we also have lost our soul.

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There is a link between super sensitivity/spirituality and bipolar and /schizophrenia in the context of hearing voices/seeing things and elevated importance(delusional thinking) or being persecuted. Past life memories or acknowledgment is not specifically mental illness clue unless it accompanies much of the above (feeling persecuted, elevated importance, hearing voices and seeing things such as aura etc).

Two years ago I was told I was bipolar II (or Cyclothymia) and I indeed had some delusional experiences when I “found out” about my possible past life as Austin Spare. I will not specifically get into details but I will say my delusional thinking was rather oblique and mild compared to some. This however does not invalidate the realness and factual nature of reincarnation and the existence of some mental illness among its midst.

I think what is considered to be “real” and not is often determined by idiots and charlatans. I dislike the word mental illness even as I have to accept that is unfortunately all too real. I am not taking any medication. now (only occasional sleeping pills) and I am often ostracized and criticized for this by my peers who are brainwashed by the medical establishment doing the bidding of big pharma. Having said this, I know from going to a support group that some of us need the medication just to survive and function daily.

After, I broke off with my spiritual teacher and decided to study Hermetic philosophy and naturally what followed was hermetic magic. It was a great eye opener to me but it lead me to assume some false assumptions.
After being diagnosed I have stopped writing here and  I was now afraid of my spiritual side because, now it equated to me delusional thinking and inflated ego, both tell-tales of bipolar mania.

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Finding out about my past life was both exhilarating and disturbing experience. I was never intended of seeking to find out about my past life, thinking that I most likely was a person like million other cases, an unknown, undocumented personality, whose life is hidden behind the veils of history.

I was drawn to mysticism and magic since my late education and initiation into an obscure type of Yoga, called Agni Yoga. After my fall-out with my teacher I begun my solitary journey that eventually had lead me to Hermetic philosophy and later Chaos magic. This is when, purely as a coincidence, I have discovered Austin Osmond Spare, the Edwardian, mystic and artist.

It must also be told that while I was born and raised in Budapest,Hungary, I was an anglophile as early as I remember. My reading and education both lead me to the English culture and literature. I have attempted to immigrate to England first and only after I was refused, I looked into emigrating to Canada or the United States.

Austin Spare died in the Spring of 1956 and I was born in December 1956.

Spare died of a burst appendix and while I’ve never overly concerned myself with my health, the concept of appendicitis, inexplicably has always gave me alarms. I would guess our dying leaves an imprint, a memory that sometimes stays around and can get carried over into the next incarnation.

My life and childhood was non-typical for a Hungarian youth. I was very self-conscious and inhibited with women but I was drawn to older women for comfort and sex. This pattern is a prepetition of Spare’s sex life. I never had any homosexual experience nor the inclination or curiosity but I had certain effeminate characteristics that gave out false signals and I was approached by gay men throughout my life. This is also a very Spare-like attribute.

I loved doodling and drawing of pictures of animals and persons. My mother encouraged my artistic persuasion while my father told me that I needed to learn something I could support myself with. In addition to drawing and painting I loved cats and other animals as well. I was frequent visitor in the Zoo. To this day I am obsessed with cats.

After discovering my past life I begun reading and studying the life and works of Austin Spare and wanted to go deeper. I wanted to know what was before Austin Spare. Who was he/us, before that time? This overactive curiosity eventually got the better of me. I stated imagining things and started actually believing them.  Of course there is no proof or definitive verdict that I was Austin Spare. I believe in my own instincts and inner guides, coupled with certain facts about me that I know, that others might consider lesser importance, would not believe the same way as I. This paper or my book is not about convincing anybody. Certain people who are predisposed against the idea of reincarnation and karma would never believe my story, no matter how much convincing I could muster. Similarly, those who are friendly towards the idea of reincarnation would find my story completely plausible and believable.

The idea of writing a fictional story – partially based on biographical facts, largely based on imagination and the freedom of the novelist. Ideas expressed via a novel do not need to be explained, rationalized or proved. They have to be told, interestingly and with believable and well developed characters.

Figure 1 Austin Spare as a young man.

The Synopsis of the Novel

“During the cold war, Mihai finds himself an orphan and a new immigrant in America. When there is a shooting during their daring escape attempt on the border of Yugoslavia and Italy only Mihai manages to escape  He finds himself in America alone and without a clear purpose, playing poker and using his magic to get buy. Mihai is discovering that he is also a natural magician. Through the power of his will and imagination he can conjure up cards. After a while Mihai’s skill to do magic is gradually fading and he must find work. After a series of attempts to find happiness in self-indulgence and gaining material wealth, he finally finds his purpose and solace after a chance encounter with Raphael, an old and mysterious man in Ashland,Oregon. When Raphael, who is also a spiritual teacher, reveals to Mihai that he is the reincarnated Austin Osmond Spare(AOS), the Edwardian painter and occultist. This revelation changes our protagonist forever. Researching the life and deeds of AOS leads him further into the occult. When Raphael dies, before he has a chance to Initiate him, Mihai’s life again becomes disoriented. Gradually he starts making contacts with the subtle world, where he receives guidance and instructions. Is he in contact with his Guru or something more sinister? Is he losing his mind or his visions are real? Will he find out his life’s karmic lesson that his past self has now to learn in order to move up on the “spiritual ladder” and find peace and joy, or will he repeat the “class” again? …

This serial book will be re-titled and republished as Reincarnation of Austin Spare: from Chaos to Order

Now this book is being published as a serial novel – by chapters on Amazon, KDP Select (free for 5-days).

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Finding out about my past life was both exhilarating and disturbing experience. I was never intended of seeking to find out about my past life, thinking that I most likely was a person like million other cases, an unknown, undocumented personality, whose life is hidden behind the veils of history.

I was drawn to mysticism and magic since my late education and initiation into an obscure type of Yoga, called Agni Yoga. After my fall-out with my teacher I begun my solitary journey that eventually had lead me to Hermetic philosophy and later Chaos magic. This is when, purely as a coincidence, I have discovered Austin Osmond Spare, the Edwardian, mystic and artist.

It must also be told that while I was born and raised in Budapest,Hungary, I was an anglophile as early as I remember. My reading and education both lead me to the English culture and literature. I have attempted to immigrate to England first and only after I was refused, I looked into emigrating to Canada or the United States.

Austin Spare died in the Spring of 1956 and I was born in December 1956.

Spare died of a burst appendix and while I’ve never overly concerned myself with my health, the concept of appendicitis, inexplicably has always gave me alarms. I would guess our dying leaves an imprint, a memory that sometimes stays around and can get carried over into the next incarnation.

My life and childhood was non-typical for a Hungarian youth. I was very self-conscious and inhibited with women but I was drawn to older women for comfort and sex. This pattern is a repetition of Spare’s sex life. I never had any homosexual experience nor the inclination or curiosity but I had certain effeminate characteristics that gave out false signals and I was approached by gay men throughout my life. This is also a very Spare-like attribute.

I loved doodling and drawing of pictures of animals and persons. My mother encouraged my artistic persuasion while my father told me that I needed to learn something I could support myself with. In addition to drawing and painting I loved cats and other animals as well. I was frequent visitor in the Zoo. To this day I am obsessed with cats.

After discovering my past life I begun reading and studying the life and works of Austin Spare and wanted to go deeper. I wanted to know what was before Austin Spare. Who was he/us, before that time? This overactive curiosity eventually got the better of me. I stated imagining things and started actually believing them.  Of course there is no proof or definitive verdict that I was Austin Spare. I believe in my own instincts and inner guides, coupled with certain facts about me that I know, that others might consider lesser importance, would not believe the same way as I. This paper or my book is not about convincing anybody. Certain people who are predisposed against the idea of reincarnation and karma would never believe my story, no matter how much convincing I could muster. Similarly, those who are friendly towards the idea of reincarnation would find my story completely plausible and believable.

The idea of writing a fictional story – partially based on biographical facts, largely based on imagination and the freedom of the novelist. Ideas expressed via a novel do not need to be explained, rationalized or proved. They have to be told, interestingly and with believable and well developed characters.

Figure 1 Austin Spare as a young man.

The Synopsis of the Novel

“During the cold war Mihai finds himself an orphan and a new immigrant in America. When there is a shooting during their daring escape attempt on the border of Yugoslavia and Italy only Mihai manages to escape. He finds himself in America alone and without a clear purpose, playing poker and using his magic to get by. Mihai is discovering that he is also a natural magician. Through the power of his will and imagination he can conjure up cards. After a while Mihai’s skill to do magic is gradually fading and he must find work. After a series of attempts to find happiness in self-indulgence and gaining material wealth, he finally finds his purpose and solace after a chance encounter with Raphael, an old and mysterious man in Ashland, Oregon. When Raphael, who is also a spiritual teacher, reveals to Mihai that he is the reincarnated Austin Osmond Spare(AOS), the Edwardian painter and occultist. This revelation changes our protagonist forever. Researching the life and deeds of AOS leads him further into uncharted territories. When Raphael dies, before he has a chance to Initiate him, Mihai’s life again becomes disoriented. When Mihai develops insomnia he visits a therapists who hypnotizes him, from that point on, obsession, reality and the unseen world gets all tangled up. Our hero must carefully navigate between madness, magic and true enlightenment – walking the razor’s edge.”

This serial book will be re-titled and republished as The Circle of Life: Diary of a Mystic Vagabond

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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism–Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

Tea may, of course, be served without any formality. Hot water may be poured over ordinary tea without thought as to the manner in which it is done. But those who practise the art of Cha-no-yu follow a regulated mode of serving with utensils carefully selected and correctly arranged. It is the elaboration of details which gives additional pleasure to the tea-drinker.

Training in the serving and drinking of powdered tea includes nearly all phases of etiquette observed in the Japanese mode of living. For this reason young ladies are encouraged to take lessons in the tea ceremony before marriage. Through this medium they learn correct manners and deportment. Nor is this training useless for older people.

Opening the sliding-door of the service room, the hostess makes a bow before entering the tea-room. It is interesting to observe the elementary lesson of how to bring in the water-jar, which has to be placed in a prescribed position. She leaves the room to reappear immediately, holding the tea-caddy in the right hand and the bowl in the left. She then makes another trip before she sears herself in front of either the stationary hearth, or portable fire-brazier, as the case may be, according to the season.

 

It would, however, be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to appreciate the fundamental ideals and traditions of Cha-no-yu without knowing something of the philosophy of life and art according to Zen Buddhism.

Meditation and introspection are stressed in the Zen philosophy, and the habit of individual

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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism–Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

Tea may, of course, be served without any formality. Hot water may be poured over ordinary tea without thought as to the manner in which it is done. But those who practise the art of Cha-no-yu follow a regulated mode of serving with utensils carefully selected and correctly arranged. It is the elaboration of details which gives additional pleasure to the tea-drinker.

Training in the serving and drinking of powdered tea includes nearly all phases of etiquette observed in the Japanese mode of living. For this reason young ladies are encouraged to take lessons in the tea ceremony before marriage. Through this medium they learn correct manners and deportment. Nor is this training useless for older people.

Opening the sliding-door of the service room, the hostess makes a bow before entering the tea-room. It is interesting to observe the elementary lesson of how to bring in the water-jar, which has to be placed in a prescribed position. She leaves the room to reappear immediately, holding the tea-caddy in the right hand and the bowl in the left. She then makes another trip before she sears herself in front of either the stationary hearth, or portable fire-brazier, as the case may be, according to the season.

 

It would, however, be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to appreciate the fundamental ideals and traditions of Cha-no-yu without knowing something of the philosophy of life and art according to Zen Buddhism.

Meditation and introspection are stressed in the Zen philosophy, and the habit of individual and independent thinking is cultivated. It is natural that the inadequacy of words as vehicles of expression should be recognized. In the mental discipline of Zen, concentration is considered more important than anything else, and devotees are taught to cultivate direct communion with the inner nature of things in order to arrive at truth. The value of suggestion and intuition are therefore emphasized by those who follow Zen traditions.

Cha-no-yu is now a secular pastime, as we have seen. Neither religion nor philosophy has much to do with the cult as it is today. However, the canon of preferring plainness and austere simplicity to elaborate decoration cannot be accounted for except as being of Zen origin.

Paintings in black and white by Zen monks and artists, creating an atmosphere of transcendental calm, are highly prized for their simple, but subtle and suggestive beauty. For the same reason, hanging scrolls bearing inscriptions by the ancient Zen monks are still used for Cha-no-yu parties. The sentiments expressed may be moral or religious, but they are characterized by untrammelled aloofness from dogmas and creeds, and exercise a liberating influence upon the mind. The free and natural strokes of the ideographs, which are different from the more regular styles of the ordinary calligraphers, suggest the writer’s freedom from worldly emotion and passion.

Only a small section of the Japanese people understand the institution of Cha-no-yu, but the common intuition of seeing true beauty in severe simplicity and refined poverty may be considered a racial trait. This characteristic phase of Japanese life may also be traced to the ideals inculcated by the early masters through the medium of the tea ceremony.

With the introduction of Western modes of civilizationJapanhas undergone changes in many directions; the beauty of chaste simplicity is often sacrificed to ugly vulgarism, which characterizes all cheap copies and imperfect adaptations. Nevertheless, the inborn love of simplicity is so deep-rooted that it is discernible, not only in the art and architecture ofJapan, but also in the daily life of the Japanese people. The influence of the tea cult is to be seen in the Japanese home even though nothing be known of ceremonial tea.

Having observed the tea-master’s way of training his pupils, and having taken part in more than one entertainment, the readers will have noted that Cha-no-yu is related to nearly all branches of arts and crafts, as well as to various phases of Japanese home life. It is its many-sidedness that makes Cha-no-yu one of the most interesting aesthetic pursuits.

The love of chaste and refined simplicity, which is the key-note of the Japanese cult of ceremonial tea, has exercised a wholesome influence upon architecture, pottery, landscape gardening etc. For those who are satiated with looking at elaborate, tawdry and pretentious works of art, it is a relief to discover subtle beauty and refinement under an inornate and almost barren aspect. When accomplished tea-masters and devotees give entertainments, they know how to attain artistic effect without depending upon what is colourful and gaudy.

Pottery is perhaps the most important of the industrial arts allied with Cha-no-yu. The ceramic art ofJapanis greatly indebted to tea-masters and devotees for its refined taste, which has inspired artisans. Some knowledge of ceramics is therefore essential for the full enjoyment of a Cha-no-yu entertainment, at which by far the larger part of the utensils are of pottery. Any guest not interested in pottery will disappoint his host. Such a guest invariably fails to appreciate the tea-bowl, caddy, receptacle for fresh water, etc., of which the host is highly and justly proud.

There are builders and carpenters specially trained to build houses for ceremonial tea. In order to appreciate that artistic value of the work of these specialists, one has to acquire the taste for a plain style of architecture. It is natural that a devotee who is about to have his own Cha-no-yu house should make an intensive study by paying careful attention to the minutest details of the building plan.

Nor is the art of landscape gardening less important. The fundamental principles as evolved by ancient masters like Rikyu and Enshu are observed today in laying out new gardens. The deeper our knowledge of the Japanese art of landscape gardening, the greater will be our enjoyment when invited to inspect any garden, even though not connected with Cha-no-yu.

None but a person with an artistic sense strongly developed is capable of arranging flowers in a simple but highly effective way, which is so characteristic of the alcove decoration at a Cha-no-yu party. Should a guest fail to appreciate the vase and flowers arranged in them, his host might never invite him again.

No host would blame those unfamiliar with the Japanese language and literature for their indifference to hanging scrolls bearing inscriptions. A knowledge of textiles will, however, be helpful in appreciating the quality of the ancient brocade used in mounting them.

Devotees of the tea cult are also expected to be connoisseurs of lacquer ware, and those with scanty knowledge of iron and bronze will be incapable of admiring the antique kettles and vases of rare value.

The art of cookery is one of the most important subjects, because the kaisekimeal is served at a regular Cha-no-yu party. Those but slightly interested in the culinary art will make unsuccessful hosts, no matter how superior they may be in their possession of rare works of art. Fastidious epicures who praise an excellent menu might disappoint their host, should they remain insusceptible to the artistic superiority of the china dishes and lacquer bowls selected for the meal.

It will therefore be realized how profound a devotee’s aesthetic pleasure may be, if he makes a study of one subject after another allied with the tea cult, which has exercised a deep refining influence upon the arts and crafts of Japan for hundred of years. It is sincerely hoped therefore that facilities to become more familiar with Cha-no-yu may be extended to those who desire to penetrate more deeply into the cultural life of the Japanese people.

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I am not a devout Buddhist. While I subscribe and love much of the tenets of Buddhism, especially the Mahayana sect, I cannot be part of any organized religion. So naturally, when killing nuisance pests was the question posed to his holiness the Dalai Lama, this came to mind. Someone asked him what he thought about swatting a mosquito and he evasively smiled and gave some answer that naturally  did not offend either sides. The philosophy of non-killing can also be done dogmatically as we very well know. My first spiritual teacher  often said that he would have killed defending the life of his guru. Why not? After all, non-action, in this case can be damning as well, and as the result the wrong party could perish.  We all incur some negative Karma throughout our lives “so when make a mistake, make a big one”, he often said.

As a friend to Buddhist philosophy, I was a committed non-violence subscriber until my house was invaded by feral pigeons.

For quite a long time I did nothing. I did some research on the Internet, and started to get violent thoughts.

There was a nest of a pigeon family right above the side entrance way and a fair amount of pigeon poop was on our doorstep daily. There were several generations born into that nest and they come back to the same place to nest, following their honing instinct.

So, I’ve bought an air rifle. There were some other alternatives, like placing some unfriendly spikes and objects on the top of the roof where they like to land. But that seldom works, plugging the nest with these substances may have worked but we live in a rental house. We cannot alter things willy-nilly. We have a great absentee landlord, living in Colorado and we cannot ask them to come back and make the pigeons somehow magically go away.

So, I have started shooting them. That works. There is no more pigeons poop and diseased feathers and dirt. I have made two nests on our roof empty and they have been empty for quite sometime.

First, I felt no remorse at all. Pigeons are rats with wings after all. Why was I doing something bad? The last time I shot down a family of birds, frequenting the house next to us, something has happened. I have realized that I was killing a family of creatures, that mate for life. There are the papa pigeons and mama pigeons and the little ones, too many of course. Pigeons breed rapidly and they love sex.

So why was I feeling remorse? Well, after some contemplation I have realized that I was killing pigeons on the neighbours house and those pigeons bothered me none. After I’ve killed one the other came back looking for his mate. He waited there looking, and I shot him. They have a right to live just as much as I have the right to live; philosophically speaking of course. Also I have realized that I was becoming more morose and inward looking, unfriendly…I was losing my mojo. I have realized that we are creatures driven mainly by our hidden, subconscious mind. Killing pigeons was not good for me. I did not realize it first but it had become quite apparent – I’ve achieved my goal, the pests were gone but I was becoming more miserable by the number of pigeons I was shooting down. By killing pigeons I was slowly killing my  own soul. This is when I realized the truth the old saying holds. By harming others you also harm yourself. As we are all one, a big hodgepodge of life and souls, all in it together.

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This post is some further explanation of certain ideas conveyed in my updated, new book the Secret Explained. (available in printed or electronic formats)

New Thought and the Secret has much merit but both fall short on practical advice and cautionary warnings.
The magick community also has its problems and misunderstandings with the true nature of phenomena. Let me post some ideas of mine;

• Ceremonial magic, while it is an important facet of the whole, it is not as important as they make you believe. Ceremonies, costumes etc. are like are crutch to place the practicionair into an altered states, a trance that can be achieved without any costume or hocus pocus.

• true magic is not obvious yet consistent. That is the beauty of it! You operate under the radar and everybody thinks you are just lucky or blessed, while you are making everything happen. This way you avoid attention and negative consequences or unwarranted animosity or envy.
  People come to you for a good show if you want to show off by all means try – good luck. True, transcendental magic is not like that. You do not want to show off and do not want attention. You do things for others and a little for yourself.

• Magical thinking is only partial of the whole – there are the vibrations of letters, colors and sounds can and will work with your mental effort on tandem.
• Lastly, your invisible selves must be in harmony in order to work with the elemental forces. Your physical is only ONE aspect of it. The invisible is ALWAYS more important.

On a certain, mental level time and space does not exist, in addition all possible events are not only possible but actual and probable, as nothing is yet final, sequential.

In our so called “reality” much of that we think as actual and final event is in reality, just a perception based possibility of one in the trillion of permutations of the whole.
What finally “happens” is based on individual and collective visualization, ideas, current and old thoughts and karmic balance of positive and negative individual or group Karma. Nothing is by chance or happenstance, at least not the way most people think of it. Akasha, the fabric of the Universe has traces of the karmic information. Everything is choreographed to perfection, but to a certain extent you (the initiated magician) can alter and change it. You can also create! Conjour up things from nothing. In fact, that it is easier than altering karmically defined future events. In the old days the rainmaker or the soothsayer was often killed when his/hers prediction or effort was not realized, but many times the desired outcome – rain was karmically not possible that time.
For example, a shuffled deck of cards, on the mental level where there is no sequence of time based events, any possibility of the shuffled deck is probable so a true magician can “invoke” any cards, to the low level thinker(neophyte) who is stuck in the trap of time/space fabric of this Universe cannot see that as a probability but as hard as it is to believe this – ANYTHING is possible when imagined and acted out on the mental body, which then automatically gets pushed(propagated) to the physical realm and becomes, final and “REAL”.
This is the true phil

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Dogmatic non-duality is a mental illness. If not yet a full-blown psychosis it has a potential to become one for many people. It is socking to many seekers to explain the Hindu concept of Maya, (illusion) but with the advent of a Course in Miracle a new movement had sprung up inAmerica. Some of the followers are extremists with dangerous ideas.

The new book of Joe Vitale Zero Limits describes a new form of Hawaiian healing Ho’oponopono – Dr Hew Len a follower of the last remaining Kahuna, the late Morrnah Simeon, allegedly had healed a ward of dangerous psychopaths in a Honolulu Hospital of the Criminally Insane. Except other claims question his record of this feat and claim that he and Joe Vitale just in this for the fame and money. I am not sure of the truth, but I’ve decided to write about the idea of pure non-duality and the dangers of the world view where we claim that everything is our own perception and only our thinking will heal the world’s ills.

I am sympathetic to much of what the Course in Miracle(acim) teaches and I am even more fond of forgiveness and looking inward to solve problems of today. However as with all teachings that claim absolute solution to anything, the extreme way of looking at the world could have adverse effect on some people.

Subjective versus Objective Reality

Some extreme followers of acim and other new age teachings actually believe that everyone is a reflection of themselves and they are the only point of observation in the universe. All encompassing oneness is the only REAL thing and all else is an illusion.

While there is an element of truth to this school of thoughts, the real understanding of

what REAL and UNREAL is to understand the invisible side of things.

 

Our non-Physical Extensions

 

Some of the ancients (hindu) describe this as a septenary existence, where they count the seven existence of everything there is. The Cabbalists count these layers of existence as nine, but for the sake of simplicity I just use 3 layers – mental, astral, and physical. Since the demarcation from one level to another is murky the numbers we pick is not important.
The three worlds or “planes” are as follows: the mental plane is the highest reality, save for the undivided akasha, and is the true and eternal ego. Where the akasha is in a sense the world of ideas, it is the mental plane that sets these ideas in motion. The astral plane is the next one down and contains the archetypes of the physical world and to some extent the vital energy behind it; the physical world is the lowest of the planes and requires little explanation. Each of these worlds forms a matrix for the world below it. Since humans also have three bodies corresponding to their presence in each of the three worlds, severing the link between any two of these bodies will cause the dissolution of the lower forms (or death). Such things as astral projection are still possible as they only involve loosening the hold between the bodies.

 

It is important to point our that we often think that the source of all is the physical and that somehow extends out to the higher spheres. The reality is the exact opposite. Our nervous system and biology is controlled and affected by our “doppelganger” at the mental layer. To be able to do extraordinary things we must have these three/nine/seven layers in synch – perfect harmony.
In order to heal or be healed we must first be effective on the mental level and if successful the result will automatically be propagated down to the physical.

 

According to the Cabbala

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The Chaldæan Oracles of Zoroaster

Cause, God

Father, Mind, Fire

Monad, Dyad, Triad

1. But God is He having the head of the Hawk. The same is the first, incorruptible, eternal, unbegotten, indivisible, dissimilar: the dispenser of all good; indestructible; the best of the good, the Wisest of the wise; He is the Father of Equity and Justice, self-taught, physical, perfect, and wise-He who inspires the Sacred Philosophy.

2. Theurgists assert that He is a God and celebrate him as both older and younger, as a circulating and eternal God, as understanding the whole number of all things moving in the World, and moreover infinite through his power and energizing a spiral force.

3. The God of the Universe, eternal, limitless, both young and old, having a spiral force.

4. For the Eternal Æon [1] — according to the Oracle — is the cause of never failing life, of unwearied power and unsluggish energy.

5. Hence the inscrutable God is called silent by the divine ones, and is said to consent with Mind, and to be known to human souls through the power of the Mind alone.

6. The Chaldæans call the God Dionysos (or Bacchus), Iao in the Phoenician tongue (instead of the Intelligible Light), and he is also called Sabaoth, [1] signifying that he is above the Seven poles, that is the Demiurgos.

7. Containing all things in the one summit of his own Hyparxis, He Himself subsists wholly beyond.

8. Measuring and bounding all things.

9. For nothing imperfect emanates from the Paternal Principle,

10. The Father effused not Fear, but He infused persuasion.

11. The Father hath hastily withdrawn Himself, but hath not shut up his own Fire in his intellectual power.

12. Such is the Mind which is energized before energy, while yet it had not gone forth, but abode in the Paternal Depth, and in the Adytum of God nourished silence.

13. All things have issued from that one Fire. The Father perfected all things, and delivered them over to the Second Mind, whom all Nations of Men call the First.

14. The Second Mind conducts the Empyrean World.

15. What the Intelligible saith, it saith by understanding.

16. Power is with them, but Mind is from Him.

17. The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle Guiders, which glitter with the tracings of inflexible and relentless Fire.

18. . . . . After the Paternal Conception I the Soul reside, a heat animating all things.

. . . . For he placed The Intelligible in the Soul, and the Soul in dull body,
Even so the Father of Gods and Men placed them in us.

19. Natural works co-exist with the intellectual light of the Father. For it is the Soul which adorned the vast Heaven, and which adorneth it after the Father, but her dominion is established on high.

20. The Soul, being a brilliant Fire, by the power of the Father remaineth immortal, and is Mistress of Life, and filleth up the many recesses of the bosom of the World.

21. The channels being intermixed, therein she performeth the works of incorruptible Fire.

22. For not in Matter did the Fire which is in the first beyond enclose His active Power, but in Mind; for the framer of the Fiery World is the Mind of Mind.

23. Who first sprang from Mind, clothing the one Fire with the other Fire, binding them together, that he might mingle the fountainous craters, while preserving unsullied the brilliance of His

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I just returned from Kona coast of the Big Island from our family vacation. I would have loved nothing more than having a chance to meet a Kahuna or someone who is versed in the “old ways”. Before and after our trip I have done some research of Hawaiian history, the Kahuna and fire walking. This blog is the summary of that research.

When we see people in videos or on TV walking over hot coals and fire, it can make us cringe. Many of us are very sensitive when it comes to the bottom of our feet. However, the art of fire walking is really intriguing, and it dates back to very early civilizations. In many areas of Hawaii it is still practiced today. In Kona andHilothey continue to do it just as the ancient Shamans and Kahunas did.

History of Fire Walking

According to ancient rituals, fire walking inFijiwas a skill acquired by special members of the villages. It was seen as a mysterious feat and only those that were one with the gods were able to do it successfully. The desire to take part in it was genuine and a person had to show they had the wisdom, heart, and desire to fire walk without any fear.

For many of the culture, it was a family right passed down to them. They males of a given family would take over the art of fire walking as their own father, uncles, and grandfather did before them. It was seen as a rite of passage as well as a way to honor the family by taking part in it.

The rules of fire walking included the males not being around any females for two weeks before the event. They also weren’t allowed to consume coconut during that period of time. It was believed that violating these rules would result in very severe burns to the feet as an individual walked over the fire.

In fact, fire walking is believed to be one of the oldest rituals in civilization, next to praying. The Shaman and their medicine men would walk on the hot coals to inspire the rest of the tribe. It would help them to be recognized in the tribe as those to look up to by the other villagers.

What you may not realize is that fire walking has found its way into every culture around the world. It has been used in different ways though for rituals, rite of passage, healing, worship, and more. Today it continues to be part of the customs for people in Fiji, Bulgaria, Spain, and India.

In Africa the Kung tribe of the Kalahari Desert have used fire walking as a method of healing. It is a very important part of their ceremonies. Not only do they walk on fire, but they are also known to roll across the fire in the pits too in some of their ceremonies. In some of them small numbers of the tribe will walk across the pit of fire at the same time to help seal their unity to each other.

The Hawaiian Islands and the Kahunas are probably the most famous of all fire walkers though. They used molten lava in their rituals even into the 1880s. This continues to be the location where it still occurs frequently today. However, most of it is on a level for tourism and not true rituals for faith as it initially was.

Many of the North American Indian tribes also took part in fire walking rituals. However, only on the Indonesian Island of Bali is it recognized that females took part in the ritual. In fact, they were young girls as children performed the fire walking to show that the gods were children on the people as their faith indicated.

Fire Walking Pit

The area where the individuals walk o

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As much as we do not want to admit there is a cultural and philosophical war going on. This somehow comes from our perception of God. As a protestant from my family background, a western, anthropomorphic, personal God never made any sense to me and I have abandoned Christianity as such. I consider Jesus a very important teacher/historical figure on par with Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, Vishnu but not a God.

There are two ways of looking at God; Immanence vs. Transcendence. According to Islam God is more of transcendence than immanence. Allah is not a personal god. Allah is considered to be the Lord of the worlds, source of all, sustaining everything. He’s the same God Christians, Jews, and Baha’is worship.

We at the west attack and belittle Islam and other non Abrahamic traditions for having pagan roots, calling Islam a moon worshipping religion as if not all religions were based on some pagan origin. Calling Buddhist atehists. God was the same for the cavemen despite his human and faulty reception of it. Christianity came from worshipping the Sun so how is that any better or different from pagan moon-worshiping that may have existed pre Mohammed?

The reality is; whenever we westerners argue about religious philosophy, first cause, creationism we always compare ONLY the two possibilities; scientific atheism or monotheistic, personal god of the Abrahamic tradition. The third viable option, the view of 4/5 of the world’s population, is missing from the argument – never mind that Islam, the Hindu and Buddhist traditions do not consider god as a personal entity with faculties to smite, forgive, even to love. Again, people who follow this school of thought comprise close to 4/5the of humanity. How arrogant is this of the West? To them (the majority), God is beyond human comprehension and it would never take human form like they claim of Jesus. In fact there is nothing in the Christian Bible that states (clearly) that Jesus was of any divinity. Yet, when someone tries to point these inconsistencies out he/she will be labeled as an atheist or devil worshipper by some fringe element of the right.

So yes, despite of what the official line is; the west is in a cultural war with not only Islam but other religious philosophies as well. In any media talk show or discussion the 4/5th of the world are ignored when represented by populations. The growing number of these people also live in the United states as Muslims, Hindu and Buddhists converts or immigrants. They for the argument of the media, do not exist.

The true telltale of any false religion that is preaching that only through them there is salvation. They somehow hold the key to the abode and they, only they have the right answer. Actually Islam is also guilty of that but they do not go our and seek to convert others, while we in the West very much do so. It is obvious that it won’t matter if you truly follow the masters what you call your God. Allah, God, Yehova, Vishnu etc are all the same. A name is not important.

It is high time for the media to extend this debate to all who might want to participate and expand the conversation to include all.

 

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Born November 28, 1864 in Leicester, England, James Allen is considered to be one of the founding fathers of self help philosophy. His work, particularly the 1903 text As a Man Thinketh, has provided incredible inspiration to modern self help and motivational authors and speakers. However, his early life could hardly be described as conducive to his future renown as a poet and author.

Allen was the eldest of three boys born into a working class family with his mother being unable to read and write. His early days were difficult given his father William’s profession as a factory knitter in the textile trade but his teenager years became even harder with William’s death just two days after the family moved to New York looking for a new life in 1879. There is some debate as to whether he was murdered or died of a contracted illness but, either way, his father’s death forced Allen to give up the schooling that he had received prior to the move so that he could work to support his mother and brothers.

Allen soon returned to Leicester with his remaining family and took jobs in manufacturing to make ends meet, working up to 15 hours a day. He pursued his own schooling in his free time, enjoying Shakespeare in particular from the age of 17, and was eventually able to secure employment that suited his interests. For example, he remained in manufacturing but worked as a stationer and a private secretary during the 1890s following a move to London in 1893. At this point in time, Allen had no dreams of becoming an author although he was beginning to demonstrate creativity, which was encouraged by Lily Louisa Oram, whom he married following a two year courtship in 1895. She was also a writer and supported Allen’s ambition.

Allen got his first break as a writer in 1898 when he began to write for The Herald of the Golden Age, a magazine that was to inspire him to found his own publication, The Light of Reason, in 1902. The content of his articles was socially conscious and spiritual, foreshadowing his published books. From Poverty to Power, his first full length work, was published for the first time in 1901 but the bulk of Allen’s work, 19 published books, was written during the course of 10 years following Allen’s move to Ilfracombe in South-West England in 1902. Inspired by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Sir Edwin Arnold, he wrote and published As a Man Thinketh (1902), All These Things Added (1903), Byways to Blessedness(1904), Above Life’s Turmoil (1910), From Passion to Peace (1910), Eight Pillars of Prosperity (1911), Man: King of Mind, Body and Circumstance (1911), Light on Life’s Difficulties (1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) and Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success (1913), amongst other works.

Towards the end of his life, Allen published at least one book every year and was able to write full time following the development of a minor following in the wake of the publication of As a Man Thinketh.

Allen died at the age of 47 on January 24, 1912. He was survived by Lily and their only daughter, Nora Lily, who was born on September 10, 1896. Lily also continued to publish his magazine, which was renamed The Epoch. Allen’s following and renown has undoubtedly grown since his death to the point at which he is held in high esteem by the entire self help community today. His influence has helped to re

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When we talk about the Son of Man, we don’t necessarily mean Jesus.  Think of the Son of Man as a sort of energy source – a “cosmic ray” that’s used by those who have attained such spiritual enlightenment that they can harness this energy force and use it here on Earth.  And this is not a one-time-only occurrence; it happens periodically during Earth’s spiritual evolution, and acts as a sort of “keynote” for the next step in our spiritual development.  This ray enveloped Jesus – so he became known as the “Son of Man.”

This is the basic ray around which the earth was formed – it’s actually known as the “Ray of Vishnu.”  It is the primary ray; all evolution occurs because of it – and Jesus wasn’t the only one to assimilate it, of course; Buddha did also.  But because the Earth is continuously evolving to higher levels, so does the ray evolve to higher levels.  We now recognize that the ray was seen by the Magi when they looked at what we refer to as the “Star of Bethlehem,” and they knew it portended the delivery of a High Spirit who was destined to embrace this energy.  You can think of the Magi as the “Mahatmas.”

In Matthew 24, Jesus says “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”  He was talking about the coming of the Son of Man, but the Christian Church has this wrong – he didn’t mean that he himself would be returning.  If we analyze his words, we find that when he speaks of a “generation” he does not mean those living at the time of Jesus, as they thought back then.  Nor did a “generation” mean the life of the Nation of Israel, which is the current interpretation that gives rise to the fundamentalist versions of “end-times.”  The word “generation” actually comes from the Greek word “genea,” which means tribe, or race, and refers to “Yuga.”  A Yuga is a period of time that’s defined by evolutionary change.  We came out of a “Kali Yuga,” a Dark Age, in 1942 – and since then have been in an enlightened, or “Golden Age” known as a “Satya Yuga.”  This gives us reason to believe that the Son of Man may be arriving very soon – thought we won’t really know exactly when.  Remember: “Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not (even) the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”  The angels of heaven are the Mahatmas, and the reference to “my Father” is the Cosmic Evolutionary Force.

If it’s not Jesus who’s coming, who is?  Who will be this “World Teacher?”  Well, in the East he’s known as Kalki Avatar – the “White Horse.”  In Sanskrit, he goes by the name of Rigden Jeypo, and in Tibet circles he has long been referred to as the Maitreya .

He is here now, but his origin is not the planet Earth, it’s a planet in a solar system orbiting Sirius (the Dog Star) which is in the constellation Orion – so for the first time in history a World teacher will be from deep space.  At this time, on Earth, he is the head of the Invisible Government, or the “White Brotherhood” of Mahatmas in Shambhala.  When the time is right, he will reveal himself to those who are ready and able to receive him.

Just as it said in Matthew 24, there is not one set way that the Maitreya will appear to people.  Forget these fantastic notions that he will manifest himself on the internet or on some worldwide television hookup – it won’t happen that way.  Instead, he’ll appear to those who need him whenever and wherever it&

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to quote my former teacher…..
“Ever since the word ”spiritual” came alive during the 60′s (We never told anyone we meditated or had a shrine until the Beatles made it all popular) it has slowly turned into a cash crop of “metafizzlers”. Anyone can put on a robe and meditate and make money at it… It seems to me, it’s the dark forces that are making this happen–masquerading as light–drawing in people with no discrimination. What I see is darkness running rampant, snaring people with weekend fire dances or sweat lodge happenings or “leadership” counseling or how to find your twin soul, etc. All for the mighty buck. ”

There is this ancient battle raging on. Dark versus the Light….

Nowadays, with the pop spirituality the book-learned gurus tell us about oneness and vehemently deny the existence of the dark forces, but this is precisely what the dark forces want; obfuscating the pure truth and muddying the water. They are doing this by false teachers and pseudo gurus. Just go to any psychic fair to see what I am talking about. I call them the “grey eminence” because they do not do this knowingly, they just think that their way is right and it is business as usual… You rightly say dark and light is the SAME in the purest, esoteric sense, YET there are for example those who worship money and would let Mother Earth drown in crude oil, and people choke on smog before their stop drilling, pumping or stealing and shelving cleaner technologies. Are they same as the other side? Of course not. Here on Earth we have rights and wrongs and right path and misleading paths. The oneness exists only on the top, non-material level.

Here is what an acquaintance told me, happened to her at a “psychic fair”;
“I was at a psychic fair a few months ago when a very emphatic woman came up to me and hugged me. She followed the hug by proceeding to tell me she was willing to, and would, lift any negative karma I might have. I had not run into this particular claim before, but I am familiar with the tactic, so I asked her how much she would charge. “Oh, it’s only $4,000 cash now.” I protested I didn’t feel any need for assistance with my karma and thanked her for the hug. “Oh, I hug everybody. It gives me a feel for what they need. And if you want to use your credit card because you don’t have that much right now, I’m in Boston [Massachusetts] and you can just contact me on my website with your credit information. I don’t have to be here with you. I can do it from anywhere.”

There are ways to tell a false guru or Grey Eminence in spirituality

• He/She charges money for “spiritual counselling” or other questionable “services”.
• He/She denies the existence of the dark forces and keeps repeating it vehemently.
• He/She advocated using mind altering substances and/or sex
• He/She advocates full moon meditation.

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This problem has been plagued philosophers and mystics alike for sometime. The problem deals with the conundrum of events and perception of events that seemingly make them “real” in the eye of the observer. The main puzzle is; if a tree falls in somewhere in Siberia and nobody is there to observe it, did it actually happen?

Consider the card shuffle paradigm. After a shuffle, the cards are seemingly finalized and sorted in an order and dealt out, but we never know the sequence of the cards turned over only the ones shown, never the discarded ones? So, could the human mind influence the outcomes of cards, AFTER they are dealt out? I say it can. Further, the collective continuousness and mental fortitude and emotional state of the participants mutually influence the final outcome.

Of course the changing of a certain card into what we wish would have a ripple effect on the whole 52-card deck. But that is also possible. It is my belief that time and space less reality which is the ultimate high, has every conceivable outcome of any possible event that we people are involved in. The actual outcome is destined in our mind.

I have been experimenting with this for a few years now in a casino environment spending hours and hours doing this with varying success. Now, I’m without the shadow of a doubt, firmly believe in the possibility of a mental magic. This is no longer a theoretical or philosophical quest, rather than a practice that I have embarked on without a clear goal in mind.

In reality, the human mind, properly trained can influence much bigger things in magnitude and complexity. The following are my observations;

1. Verbalizing your will, thinking and SAYING it simultaneously can be an enhancer or amplifier of the thought that accomplishes a certain desired outcome. If possible, always verbalize what you want.
2. Erase any inkling of a doubt or question. You must seriously expect the event without any wavering
3. Emotional state. Your emotional state must be at a certain pitch for this to work, well rested, happy state can greatly support that the desired event will happen. This is very important!
4. If you do this selflessly, without significant material gain or expectation of profit, your success will be certain if all the other(1,2,3) points are fulfilled.

The last (4th) item is quite puzzling and I have no explanation, as to why this is. It is my observation and conclusion during my experiment which is quite extensive, in terms of time span and number of hours spent almost daily.
I have not quite figured out the emotional state, to the extent of which I would be able to put myself in self-hypnosis to acquire such an emotional state. After more time perhaps I will.
As with anything a person has varying degree of mojo every day, some days we are a powerhouse and other time we just want to go home and sleep. This is no exception.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings and a great Winter Solstice, after all. May the force be with you all….

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I normally ONLY write book reviews as I am a publisher and amateur writer; in this case I had to make an exception as I truly adore this movie. (As you might have guessed, I am definitely bias, as I am an aficionado of esoterica and magic. That is why I have rented it from Netflix.. It is possible that if you are not into these things as I am, you might feel differently!)

This is a movie, a Hungarian and French co-production, is about true miracles versus “the phenomena”, just for the sake of it. The essence of the movie is the opposing characters of the two magicians and the contrast of resurrection versus hibernation. Peter is all about effort, he is standing on his head to show off and become the star, while Simon is a natural he draws people to him, with calming and healing qualities.

The story line without spoiling the ending is that Simon (Péter Andorai) is a revered psychic (I despise this term as so many are charlatans) who is know to work with the police all over Europe solving high profile murder cases. As he arrives to Paris rail station, we instantly realize that the true reason he had travelled to Paris is not solving the murder but something else. In Paris, Simon meets a young and beautiful college  student and an other Hungarian magician (Péter Halász), who seeks fame and fortune and who is also very successful but harbors resentment against Simon, who he considers a natural (Simon can move the cursor on a  computer, WITHOUT using a mouse) and only possible rival of his in the world. The finale of the movie is Simon reluctantly accepting Peter’s challenge to a duel at which they both voluntarily  get buried underground for 3-days to show off their supernatural talents.

People, who naturally savor phenomena often forsaking and missing the true miracles of life that often masquerades as happenstance or luck. The love affair is also a sideshow to see the glimpse of the ending from the mirror of the girl’s eyes. A truly visual and esoteric movie. Full with symbolism of sleep, nature’s magic and love and redemption. The movie was written, produced and directed by Ildikó Enyedi.

The film is 35-mm, in French and Hungarian with English subtitles, available via Amazon and other DVD retailers. If you understand Hungarian this link can be of use for further reading.

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