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- The Universality of the Spiritual Presence in All Existence - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe are educated and habituated to focus on our differences. We see different gender, different class, different racial characteristics, different religious backgrounds, different temperaments, different interests and focus, different value sets, different philosophies of life and living, ...
Views: 1 - The Soul As the True Central Being - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the West, the existence of the soul has been mainly perceived either as a matter of religious belief or scientific skepticism, neither necessarily based in actual experience. At one point, scientists decided that if the belief that the soul departs at the time of death is to be considered as ...
Views: 2 - The Quest to Establish the Connection to the Higher, Subtler, Causal Planes of Existence - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyAt a certain point in life, an individual begins to appreciate that the surface events, surface ‘facts’, the ‘reality’ of the external world are all derivative results, with the causal forces and energies active on more subtle planes or domains and creating from that place, the physical forms ...
Views: 3 - The Reality of Subjective Visions and Objective Sight - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyModern society, influenced heavily by the scientific/technical focus of the West, puts a premium on the concept of “objectivity” versus anything that can be considered ‘subjective’, which is then treated with suspicion and largely dismissed. This implies several things. First, it implies that ...
Views: 3 - The Power of Occult ‘Seeing’ - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyThere is a long tradition and history of individuals who have utilized a variety of methods for the purpose of obtaining ‘visions’ of events, past, present or future. The action generally takes place through creation of a state of trance that allows the surface mental consciousness to recede and ...
Views: 2 - Hypnosis and Individual Development of Its Action for Liberation from the Control of the Surface Waking Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe tend to label actions and thereby don’t reflect on the implications of them. Thus, for most people, when we use the term ‘hypnosis’ we associate it with a hypnotist using some unique power to gain some control over another individual’s will and actions. Since its introduction in the West, ...
Views: 3 - Observing the Influences and Suggestions That Shape Our Responses in Life - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2025 from santosh krinskyIf one practices a simple exercise, even just for a short time, one becomes aware of the numerous forces that are acting upon us, shaping our thoughts, emotions, feelings and reactions. The practice is to sit quietly and observe the various thoughts and feelings that arise while one is sitting ...
Views: 6 - Wise words from Blaise Pascal - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloBlaise Pascal (June 19th,1623 – August 19th,1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, writer, philosopher, child prodigy, and inventor of the mechanical calculator. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry at the age of 16. He also heavily influenced the development of modern ...
Views: 8 - The Potential for Emergence of the Subliminal Powers of Mind - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we begin to recognise the inherent power of the mind, independent of any reliance on the physical senses and the nerve pathways that link them to the mind, the question then arises as to how to become aware of, bring forward and train the use of these powers that are currently subliminal ...
Views: 7 - The Direct Use of the Mind as a Sixth Sense - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe are trained to believe that the mind relies entirely on the 5 senses of perception and the 5 senses of action in order to receive data or undertake action. If the mind is cut off from the senses, we believe that it is powerless and unable to either sense, communicate or act. Spiritual science ...
Views: 8 - Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2025 from santosh krinskyDr. Deepak Chopra told an interesting anecdote from his own experience at a talk he gave in Chicago some years ago. Some of the details may have escaped me, so the gist of it was that he was visiting his birth home area at one point and it was recommended to him to visit a famous Vedic ...
Views: 9 - Objective Versus Subjective Knowledge in the Realms of Psychic Experience - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2025 from santosh krinskyPerhaps one of the biggest hurdles the Western mind needs to overcome in addressing the subtle powers of consciousness that either already are, or will be, coming forward as the next phase of evolution continues to work itself out, is the conflict between the drumbeat of “objectivity” as the ...
Views: 9 - The Reality of Psychic Powers - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe well-known actress Shirley Maclaine described in her book Out on a Limb (and included in the film version under the same name) her experiences with various psychic mediums who were able to actually relate to her details from her life that were not possibly known by them. She began from a ...
Views: 11 - The Evolution and Manifestation of New Powers of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2025 from santosh krinskyPlato in the famous dialogues recounting the teaching of his mentor, Socrates, recounts the understanding that Socrates held that education was simply a recognition by the individual of what he already knows. The process of education was one of drawing out, removing the obstacles to the ...
Views: 11 - The Evolution of Occult Powers - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2025 from santosh krinskyFrom the point of view of animals, we may assume, the actions, and the powers that drive them, of human beings are some kind of ‘occult powers’ about which the animals know nothing. These actions may seem miraculous but they are in reality expressions of the evolution of the mental stage of the ...
Views: 12 - The Mind, the Spirit and the Deeper Knowledge and Power That Can Know and Master the Universal Creation - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe can observe all around us, the steps the mental force is taking to take charge of both physical and vital nature. While much of this takes place through the development of technological tools, it is nevertheless an achievement of the mind that makes these things possible. We may debate the ...
Views: 13 - Freeing the Mind from Subjection to the Life-Force and the Body - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe development of the vital, life-force integrated with the physical domain led to changes in the physical in order to accommodate the action of this new energy. At the same time, the life-force had to itself make adjustments in order to operate in the material world as opposed to in its own ...
Views: 12 - The Role of the Mind in the Search for Ultimate Truth - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2025 from santosh krinskyAs mental beings we tend to believe that the mind is able to determine the truth of things. We soon learn, however, that there are many issues that prevent the mind from actually ascertaining truth in any ultimate form. We rely on the perceptions of our senses, but those senses can be misled. ...
Views: 13 - Utilizing the Mind-Body Connection - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe find that our state of physical health clearly impacts our minds. In cases of severe pain, the mind may actually be fixated on the pain signals and be unable, for that period of time, to focus on virtually anything else. But the connection is more subtle than simply reacting to acute pain. We ...
Views: 14 - The Development, Powers and Limits of the Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe human being consists of multiple levels of consciousness which interact with and impact one another and which, from an evolutionary standpoint, represent a consistent trend of increasing power and subtlety of the consciousness. The consciousness of the body, the physical consciousness is the ...
Views: 14 - Understanding the Stage of Development of the Vital Man - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2025 from santosh krinskyHuman beings are not all at the same stage of evolutionary development. We can see this clearly when we observe the different interests, ways of responding and directions that people take as they grow and begin to participate in the life of the society and the world at large. We see some people ...
Views: 15 - Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 3 Methods and Techniques - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the prevalent ideas about managing the vital nature has been the idea that punishment in some form or other is beneficial. Spanking of children, for example has been a common method of ‘educating’ them. It is a form of conditioning that administers a negative consequence to a specific ...
Views: 17 - Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 2 Concepts and Principles of Action - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyGaining the cooperation of the vital nature is an important step in the transformation of our existence, including the upliftment of the physical nature. Once we have begun the process of observation of the vital nature, its habits and its predilections, we can begin to implement various ...
Views: 17 - Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 1 Understanding the Issues - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we recognize the difficulties of managing the energy of the vital nature, and its long habits of how it finds fulfillment and satisfaction, we can appreciate that there are no ‘simple’ solutions available. The vital, when it is cooperative with the mind and the psychic being, is an ...
Views: 17 - The Vital Nature Can Go On Strike When It Does Not Get What It Wants - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost people have had the experience. An individual has a dispute with a friend, a relative, a spouse. No resolution takes place. An attempt to convince or control the other person is met with resistance. There may be aggression or threats of violence. Or a period of silent avoidance may result. ...
Views: 17 - The Vital Nature: Desire and the Reaction to Failure in Obtaining the Object of Desire - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature is closely tied to the operation of desire. Whether it is a desire for recognition, for money, for sex, for achievement of some sort, for acceptance or comfort, the vital nature activates its energy to reach out and grab some result it believes will satisfy that desire. At the ...
Views: 18 - Power Is to be Transformed, Not Rejected, in Spiritual Development - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyPower is disconcerting. Humanity is attracted to it, while at the same time, it fears raw power. It is often said “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” What is then to be done with our vital nature that expresses power and provides the motive force for our lives? Those ...
Views: 19 - The Divine Shakti in Its Various Forms - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we recognise that the world is an actual manifestation of the Divine, we can begin to appreciate the Divine in all things that we experience, all things that we see, all that we hear, all that we feel or touch or smell. The Divine manifests through his power, Shakti, which takes various ...
Views: 19 - Adaptation of the Body to Support the Manifestation of a New Power of Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn his Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda details a number of events he witnessed or experienced personally whereby a spiritual master was able to materialize his form and communicate with the disciple from a great distance; and where various yogis were able to perform acts of ...
Views: 18 - The Potential for Transformation of the Human Body - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe can look at the idea of a transformation of the body from several viewpoints. One viewpoint accepts the basic current structure and function of the body and simply enhances, protects, extends the life and capacity, or removes limitations and failures to which the body is currently prone. Many ...
Views: 21 - The Impact of the Mind and the Vital Nature on the Body Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe many times fail to recognise the extent of the impact that the mind, and the vital nature, have on the body, its health and its capacities for growth, resilience and development. The mind-body connection is starting to come into focus, however. When the mind sends repeated ‘suggestions’ to ...
Views: 22 - The Body Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to take for granted the innate consciousness and capacities of the body. Much of what takes place in the body is done by systems that are far more complex, and far more subtle, than anything the mind can actively control. In fact, we find that frequently, when the mind intervenes, or the ...
Views: 20 - Harnessing the Body’s Innate Powers for the Transformation of Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to overlook or disregard the capacity of the body and its ‘body consciousness’ to aid in the spiritual quest. Each element of the being, the mind, the vital nature, and the body, has its own consciousness and capacity for response. Each element also can either be an aid or an obstacle to ...
Views: 22 - Aligning Education With the Future - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2024 from santosh krinskySome years ago, some parents in the USA had an interesting conversation with their local elementary school administrator. They were concerned about the type of education their children would receive so they set up a meeting to interview the administrator, with the idea that they were prepared to ...
Views: 21 - Encouraging the Dreams of Children - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe could say that it is almost a universal experience. A child expresses some sentiment, some idea about what he or she would like to do, something that soars beyond the mundane daily existence, something that makes things better, increases the beauty and harmony of life, cherishes life, and ...
Views: 20 - Yoga: Then and Now - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe ancient sages developed a basic ‘life plan’ for people to be able to pursue in their lives a balanced agenda consisting of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. Dharma essentially was following the individual life purpose and being true to one’s own life and destiny. Artha was the pursuit of ...
Views: 22 - The Power of Silence of the Mind - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are habituated, particularly in the modern world, to the mind constantly interacting with its environment, with sensations, with media and with ideas. We are also addicted to the activity, the energy, of the mind’s engagement and when the mind is not engaged somehow, we either sleep, or seek ...
Views: 26 - True Strength Resides in Quietude - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to equate strength with outward expressions whether it be through physical power, emotional pressure, bullying, or the use of mental will force to achieve one’s intended results. We talk about “strong man” dictators who, in particular, use threats, bullying and police power to pressure ...
Views: 22 - Stages of the Non-Reactive State of Being - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost people do not reflect on the state of their inner being. They tend to live on the surface and respond or react to whatever happens to come their way. They become happy or unhappy based on how circumstances impact them. They are essentially under the control of external events or happenings ...
Views: 25 - Dealing With Pain - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we look at the mechanism of pain, we find that wherever there is an injury, disease or stress on a part of the body, a ‘vibration’ starts there, in many cases what medical science would call ‘inflammation’, that triggers a nerve impulse to send the signal to the receptors in the brain, where ...
Views: 26 - Two Conditions for Preventing Illness - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother describes two conditions for preventing illness from invading the physical being. The first condition is basically ‘not to want it’. When we reflect on this, the first reaction is that we don’t want it! This is however not the complete picture. We have to recognise that the human ...
Views: 31 - Healing Sickness With Spiritual Force - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyAn individual reported an experience which, at the time, was unique to him. He was suddenly attacked by a virulent disease and collapsed on the floor. He was carried off to another room in the facility where various individuals tried to figure out what happened to him and what to do about it. ...
Views: 29 - The Vital Envelope Surrounding the Body and the Ability to Ward Off Illness - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany people have had the experience of a feeling that something is happening in the body, such as a feeling of a “cold coming on”. In some cases the feeling is very strong and the pressure is great. There may be some sneezing, some tickle in the throat, some coughing, some amount of congestion. ...
Views: 31 - An Expanding Consciousness Recognises the Inherent Oneness and Mutuality of All Existence - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyAn Expanding Consciousness Recognises the Inherent Oneness and Mutuality of All Existence Posted on December 9, 2024 When we identify with the ego personality, we view the world as being separate and apart from ourselves, and we look at other beings as either competition for resources or ...
Views: 27 - How to Know God - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Taittiriya Upanishad speaks of the unified field of the conscious universe: “The Spirit who is here in a man and the Spirit who is there in the Sun, it is one Spirit and there is no other.” [Taittiriya Upanishad, Brahmanandavalli, Chapter 8, translated by Sri Aurobindo in The ...
Views: 29 - “Simply Watch the Fish” - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor most people, the experience of losing the sense of the ego is unplanned, fleeting and even, unappreciated as it occurs. They simply shift their identification elsewhere without recognising what exactly is taking place with respect to the seat and focus of their conscious awareness. For the ...
Views: 27 - Immersion of the Individual in the Experience of Theatrical Performances - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWith the rise of modern technology in the field of film-making, we find an immersive experience in movie theaters engulfs the viewer deeply in the action. This includes high resolution images, 3D technology, giant wide screens, comfortable seating and surround sound. The viewer of such films is ...
Views: 31 - Reading As a Method of Entering into a Wider and Deeper Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyA teenager was observed as she was deeply absorbed in reading the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo. This novel spans some 1000 pages and encompasses themes of deep and abiding interest, but does so in a captivating story line. It so happened that this teenager was ...
Views: 28 - How to Gain a True Understanding of Another Person’s Viewpoint - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we are met with ideas or understanding propounded by others that we do not agree with we tend to create a mental barrier as a defense and then develop our mental arguments to contradict or overturn the proposed ideas. There is very little, if any, true understanding that comes out of such ...
Views: 32 - A Technique to Shift to Another Domain of Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is a well-recognised phenomena that when an individual focuses his concentration down to a single point, and fixes it there long enough, he suddenly can shift to a new domain of consciousness, and everything becomes wide, clear and known from that new standpoint. There is a yogic practice ...
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