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- Applying Knowledge Criteria Appropriate to Each Domain According to Its Own Law of Nature - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe frequently try to ‘know’ things based on a particular capacity of our being; however, this may not always be the correct way to appreciate and understand what is actually taking place. Trying to understand music, for instance, by applying the logical intellect and trying to parse the sounds, ...
Views: 155 - Involution and Evolution of Consciousness in the Material World of Forms - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe the material world around us and as we study that world, we see the development of forms of ever-greater complexity and power of action and intelligence. Charles Darwin described the process of the evolution of forms in his book The Origin of Species. The cause and purpose, however, ...
Views: 185 - Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature gets excited by things that seem to be “occult” or that promise some kind of interaction with the “dearly departed” loved ones who have passed away. An entire industry has arisen to cater to people who are seeking solace, contact or information from the deceased. Some of this, ...
Views: 188 - Vital Beings Utilize Vital Drives to Control Human Action for Their Own Benefit and Enjoyment - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyVital beings, by their very nature, take advantage of our ambitions, desires, greed, and fears to convince us to interact with them, and they then use these responses for their own enjoyment or nourishment. The more we are motivated by these vital drives, the easier it is for such beings to toy ...
Views: 153 - Miracles, Belief, Powers and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor most people, there is a tremendous barrier of skepticism about things that they cannot see or experience for themselves, There is also a good deal of ignorance about how things actually work in the world, which can lead to misconceptions and a tendency toward gullibility when someone appears ...
Views: 210 - Automatic Writing, Ouija Boards, the Planchette and Communication With People After Their Death - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe see a proliferation of people who claim to act as intermediaries through a process of seance, or use of a Ouija board or planchette, to communicate with individuals who have passed away. The interest in this area goes through periods of peaks and troughs, but continually captures the popular ...
Views: 151 - The Utilization of Powers That Arise Through the Development of the Yogic Practice - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2024 from santosh krinskySpiritual seekers are frequently advised not to indulge in or display any ‘powers’ that arise along the way. Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutras, describes a number of powers that can arise naturally through the practice of Yoga, and seekers throughout the ages have validated the reality of powers ...
Views: 173 - How To Deal With Vampirism When Confronted With It - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual is confronted with a possible, or likely, case of vampirism, several questions arise. The first is how the individual can be safe from the negative effects of such activity impacting them or their family, friends or associates directly; the second is the possibility and ...
Views: 199 - The Law of the Rebound in the Practice of Occultism - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs with physical laws and laws of physics, laws of nature, there are laws of occultism which operate when there is vital interchange between people on an occult level. Knowledge of these laws is essential both to protect oneself and to ensure that occult powers are not being misused or ...
Views: 182 - Are There Really Vampires? — the Reality and Nature of Vampirism - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe popular imagination about the existence and characteristics of vampires has developed from the famous novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula. From that book we get the picture of beings that survive many hundreds of years, who are shapeshifters , and who drink the blood of their victims, preferably ...
Views: 178 - The Occult Action and Power of Vital Beings and Forces in Human Activities and Institutions - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor the most part, people live on the surface of their being, and do not see into the occult or hidden beings and forces that exist and act upon them, unseen, invisible and essentially unregarded. Many things that occur in the world are hard to explain without an understanding of the occult ...
Views: 141 - Growing Spiritually Beyond the Forms of Religion - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe see a growing movement around the world of people leaving the religion into which they were born, and starting down a spiritual path of inner growth. A driving factor behind this change is the perception among these people that the religion has either lost any life-force that it may have had ...
Views: 220 - The Forces and Beings Active in Places of Worship - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to attract those energies, beings and forces to us that respond to the vibratory pattern of our thoughts, emotions, feelings, desires and physical state. Keeping this in mind, we can review our relationship to places of worship, whether a temple, mosque, church or other. Some ...
Views: 214 - The Question of Possession by Vital Entities - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe question of possession by vital beings has been sensationalized to such an extent in modern society, with an entire genre of motion pictures depicting such things in an extreme way, that it is difficult to have a serious discussion and review of whatever reality underlies these sensational ...
Views: 172 - The Attraction of the Spiritual Life to Beings of the Vital World - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyBeings of the vital worlds in many cases interact with and act upon the material world in which we live and act as embodied beings. What is the attraction? Vital beings generally crave energy, excitement, novelty, the ‘food’ of their existence. If they are seeking to harvest such energy from ...
Views: 195 - Mental Formations Can Create Experiential Domains - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe gross physical forms result from the subtler levels that are either the immediate, effective means, or the causal level that has formulated the result. If we look at the construction of a bridge, or a building, we see that first there is an idea that develops. The idea turns into a ...
Views: 199 - Small Vital Entities and Their Action in Human Life - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother relates two stories here about interactions she personally had with some small entities. One group were of good will and acted to remind her of things when she was otherwise distracted. She was able to pay attention to their hint and ensure that all worked out properly. It takes a ...
Views: 214 - The Action of Vital Entities in Human Life for Their Own Sense of Enjoyment - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyHuman beings love subjecting others to practical jokes. But very likely, we are not the only beings who suffer from this malady. Many people have had the experience related here by the Mother about searching for things, sometimes looking in the place where those things are, but not finding them. ...
Views: 189 - Interpreting Actions in the World Based on Our Preconceived Ideas and Notions - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn the Mahabharata, a story is related that illustrates the inability of anyone to judge an action by the outer form it takes or the result that eventuates. The birth of Bhishma is related in the Adi Parva. Prince Shantanu fell in love with a beautiful woman he met and asked her to marry him. ...
Views: 214 - Experiencing and Understanding Infinite Worlds of Experience - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists nowadays are speaking of infinite numbers of parallel universes, each one carrying out some different ‘choice’ that can be worked out. Not every world is based on the same set of factors and choices as the world we currently inhabit. There are also realms that are not physical in the ...
Views: 189 - Vital Beings and Their Interaction in the Evolutionary World on the Material Plane - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyAccording to sages and rishis who have investigated the issue deeply, the earth, the material manifested world we live in, is the place where evolution of consciousness takes place, and thus, where the psychic being develops to carry the progress in this evolution at the individual level through ...
Views: 194 - The Need for Preparation of the Being Before Exploring Occult Worlds and Domains - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual leaves the relative safety of the physical being and traverses other domains and interacts with other beings, including vital beings both beneficent and maleficent, he is faced with the reality that the vibrations which he carries with him, or that resonate with him, draw to ...
Views: 196 - Worlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyWorlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses Posted on June 4, 2024 Explorers of the world came across situations and beings with whom they had no prior contact and found some of them to be extremely dangerous while others seemed to be neutral or even positive. ...
Views: 187 - Occult Beings and Entities In This and Other Worlds or Planes Can Impact Human Life - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists are now beginning to speak of an infinite number of universes, each with their own beings and existence, many of which are very closely related to, and possibly interacting with, the universe within which we live. Separately, we are beginning to appreciate that our limited field of ...
Views: 191 - Occultism and Hypnotism - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists and medical practitioners have studied hypnotism and even applied it in various situations. They raise some doubts due to studies that did not completely follow the highest double-blind standards used in medical research; nevertheless, hypnotism has been found to have some very clear ...
Views: 174 - Science and Occultism - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists study the hidden, let’s admit, the occult powers of the material world and of our lives. While they clothe their study in words that imply a process that would distinguish what they do from the general term of ‘occultism’, if we reflect carefully we can see that science is essentially ...
Views: 174 - Differences Between the Practice of Magic and Spiritual Action - by Submitted on May 31, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is an obvious fact that as one grows and develops in the spiritual path, the concentration of conscious force, tapasya, will definitely increase not only the spiritual development, but also the powers that the individual has available to accomplish action in his life in the world. In the ...
Views: 150 - Distinguishing Magic from Occultism - by Submitted on May 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is considerable confusion between the concept of occultism and the idea of the practice of magic (whether considered ‘white’ magic or ‘black’ magic). Occultism essential is the science of dealing with forces subliminal to our outer senses, but nevertheless active and acting upon our being. ...
Views: 148 - Matter, Subtle Matter, the Causative Level and the Ability of Mind-Power or Vital Power to Create, Modify, Influence and Dissolve Material Forms - by Submitted on May 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyMatter, Subtle Matter, the Causative Level and the Ability of Mind-Power or Vital Power to Create, Modify, Influence and Dissolve Material Forms Posted on May 30, 2024 We tend to look at things from the standpoint of the material formation it has taken. If we look deeper however, we see that ...
Views: 195 - Occult Forces: Their Development and Proper Use - by Submitted on May 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen a scientist studies the physical properties of matter and energy, and thereby creates an invention that can do things such as communicate voice or sound wirelessly across the world, or predict general weather patterns, or develop pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines that can cure, mitigate or ...
Views: 167 - Universal Forces, the Chakra Energy Centers, and the Utilization of the Forces - by Submitted on May 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyEach individual has his own unique types and levels of receptivity, and these too can vary over time. The universal forces are constantly there, but if an individual is closed off, unresponsive, then he does not gain the full benefit of that force. The ancient description of the energy centres ...
Views: 169 - The Need to Prepare the Being to Receive, Hold and Utilize the Influx of the Higher Forces - by Submitted on May 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe raw power generated by an electricity power plant is far greater than any single house can sustain. Thus, the utility company utilizes step-down transformers to systematically bring the power down to a level that the homes and the wiring to the homes can sustain. A similar principle is at ...
Views: 215 - How to Experience the Influx of Universal Forces Directly Through the Experience of a Wider Consciousness - by Submitted on May 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis described a change in conscious awareness as representing satyam, rtam, brihat, the truth, the right, the vast. It is difficult for most people living in the modern world to gain a conception of the vastness of existence. We may know intellectually that the universe is large, we ...
Views: 212 - Accessing Universal Vital Forces Directly or Through Vital Interchange With Others - by Submitted on May 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother clarifies a distinction between receiving the universal vital forces directly and receiving them through a vital interchange with other individuals. These two methods represent two entirely different statuses of consciousness. To receive the universal vital forces directly, a wide and ...
Views: 174 - Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development - by Submitted on May 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the trajectory of human development, we can see a very clear direction taking shape. As we have become more conscious of the stages of life, and the processes that accompany those stages, including the increasing weakening and deterioration of the body and the life energy, and the ...
Views: 180 - Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development - by Submitted on May 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the trajectory of human development, we can see a very clear direction taking shape. As we have become more conscious of the stages of life, and the processes that accompany those stages, including the increasing weakening and deterioration of the body and the life energy, and the ...
Views: 164 - Biological Energy Developed from Food and from Other Sources - by Submitted on May 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyPeople are not generally consciously aware of the energy interchanges that take place to fuel their bodies and drive their live energies. They understand that they need to eat food as a form of ‘fuel’ for their energy, and they count ‘calories’ that are produced by various food sources. Clearly, ...
Views: 176 - Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force - by Submitted on May 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical energy and it then gets transformed, or converted, into other forms of energy including life energy. The first step in this transformation comes about through the ability of plants ...
Views: 175 - Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force - by Submitted on May 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical energy and it then gets transformed, or converted, into other forms of energy including life energy. The first step in this transformation comes about through the ability of plants ...
Views: 177 - Overcoming the Discomfort of Cold Temperatures - by Submitted on May 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyDealing with the heat radiation that comes from the sun is a matter of gaining the ability to absorb and utilize the energy without being overwhelmed by its force. Turning then to the issue of how to deal with cold, we have an entirely different scenario, in that we have a reduction in the ...
Views: 189 - Receptivity to the Universal Vital Forces - by Submitted on May 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn May 1973, a devotee from the West was visiting Auroville in South India. At that time, it was primarily an eroded, dusty plateau, not the lush forested scene that one can see today if one visits. May is an extremely hot month, and the visitor had just arrived a couple of weeks earlier from ...
Views: 191 - Economic Systems Cannot Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo continues to explore the various proposed methods for effecting positive change in human life and society so as to confront the evolutionary crisis we see before us. Some have proposed that the solution can be found in developing a more perfect economic system, and much effort has ...
Views: 183 - Regimented and Mechanised Social Life Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskySome societies have attempted to solve the the complex problems humanity is facing through massive attempts to educate and regiment the life of the individuals making up that society. These attempts rely on the idea that by controlling the education the society can create more or less “cogs in a ...
Views: 174 - Religion Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyThroughout human history, mankind has turned to religion in an attempt to address or solve the problems of human life. In many cases, charismatic leaders have arisen who, through their teaching and their personal example, have inspired people to make changes in their individual lives, and there ...
Views: 181 - The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyUnder the influence of the gnostic consciousness, the entire framework of the mental organisation of life, which we accept as assumed and given, would necessarily be modified. The very basis of viewing and understanding things would have to shift from one of division and separation to one of ...
Views: 181 - Receiving and Utilizing the Universal Vital Forces - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn our fragmented process of understanding, we frequently create an artificial separation that does not exist in reality. Thus, seekers sometimes undertake to find ways to draw on the universal vital energy, when in fact, it is through the flow of that energy that they live, breathe, exist, grow ...
Views: 152 - Preparation and Training Needed to Consciously Draw on the Universal Vital Force - by Submitted on May 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe recognise that there are ocean currents which circulate ocean water world wide and regulate the climate. We also recognise that there are air currents which we can partially observe through the soaring of birds who let the air currents carry them along, and experience directly if we are ...
Views: 167 - The Question of Possession of an Individual by Vital Beings - by Submitted on May 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we acknowledge the idea that forces, beings or entities from the vital planes can act upon and through human individuals, the question then arises as to how we can identify this action and distinguish it from what we might call normal actions of a human being under the impulsion of the ...
Views: 166 - How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives - by Submitted on May 15, 2024 from santosh krinskySince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital ...
Views: 205 - The Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness Grapple for Supremacy in the World - by Submitted on May 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn Paradise Lost, John Milton describes at great length the intentions and motivations of the fallen angels as described by the Christian tradition, and their attempt and need to influence and control the human world and thereby to defeat God’s intention and plan for humanity. This story is in ...
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