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Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita how the knowledge of the Absolute Truth is understood through the system of disciplic succession. This means that if we want to understand this knowledge, we must take it as it has come down perfectly to us over the ages through an unbroken line of spiritual masters beginning with Krishna Himself. To most people this principle will seem archaic and old fashioned because we live in the modern age of scientific advancement. But it should noted in this connection that science is still not perfect.

"Heavy with fruit, the plant bends to the ground. It has given all it has to give, poured its life into the fruit, and now waits to be relieved of its burden. What is left of the plant now? The fruit offers food and a womb for the infant seed." The Lunar Cycle by Philip Levine M.A.

One reason why rituals have been connected and used by religions throughout history is because of their effectiveness at focusing power. Taking a predetermined set of steps and using the same instruments each time the ritual is performed streamlines the energy and allows the participants to fit into a groove. This groove acts like a channel for the energy to flow in, making the most of the time and effort put into the ritual. Each time the ritual is performed, it’s effects become stronger. It’s basically the same premise as practice.

A lot of highly sensitive people and empaths deal with anxiety on a daily basis. Some are even so used to this anxiety that they don’t even notice it anymore. They will joke about their nervous system being absolutely shattered, their heart beating fast, their thoughts going into catastrophy-thinking, planning for the worst, and so forth, while thinking that this is all part of being a human being and is ‘normal’!

There's a quote I really like: "I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared" by Sheldon Kopp. The only thing that ever holds us back is fear, nothing else. And fear can be described as worry, anxiety, doubt and anxiety. It's all fear, and fear is always from the ego. The ego wants us to stay small and not to move outside the familiar, it likes it where it can keep you a bit agitated and fearful at all times to some extent and where you can stay inside 'the box' and not make much of yourself.

PERSPECTIVES VERSES PERCEPTIONS Perception is the reception and deception of your conception! Good grief, what does that mean? It means that when you have a perception about your Self, some else, or some situation, you can deceive your Self because you don’t always have the facts. The reason that you don’t have all the facts is because of your molecules of emotions that cloud your perspectives about what is really happening or what is it that is really going on with you, the “other” person and/or the situation at hand.

Albert Einstein, Strictly Scientist or Simply Intelligent Intuitive? "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Is one quote that gives you some insight into the mind of Albert Einstein.

I could write a book about how I managed to survive a divorce, or sharing my husband with another woman, losing my home to foreclosure, or how I was still able to smile while sleeping in my car because of homelessness. I could use the cost of ink to smear the painful experiences of yesterday all over these pages, but that would be unwise and pointless.

Colour is so deeply imbedded in our psyche that it's like the air that we breath… we don't notice the power, until it is gone. Can you imagine seeing the world in monochrome? Do you feel a sudden unmistakable sinking feeling at the thought of no colour in your life? The intimate relationship we ...

Do you every stop and say to yourself… “if only I had known then, what I know now, things would be different.” But would they really? Probably not! Why? You did exactly what you did or didn’t do at that time, because you weren’t ready to anything differently. What you did at that time is what you did. Oh well! It is how it” was” then! Don’t look back as though you did something wrong and judge yourself harshly. Look back upon those difficult times as only points of reference.

Who are you? What do you believe? What do you really need? nnWhen we discover who we really are, we stop living on auto-pilot and start to live with intention, focus and purpose. Our choices become clearer. We begin to make active choices in our life, instead of making excuses or passively living with the status quo. nnIf you feel a disconnect between your work and your life, then maybe your initial plans haven't been very successful at helping you carry out your passion abou

How much happiness is there in a piece of paper with the word "happiness" printed upon it?It depends on the person who holds that piece of paper... How much value is there in a 100 dollar bill? Same thing... If you think you're poor and have just enough to make ends meet, an unexpected 100 dollar bill is very valuable.If you believe you're rich and more money is coming to you all the time, an unexpected 100 dollar bill is appreciated, but not crucial. So, it depends on the person... But it also depends on what's going around that person.For example:

Have you ever wanted to tap into your spiritual self and struggled to get there? This does not mean getting in touch with God or your higher power, this means getting in touch with the genuine you. The who you are, not the what you are. Once you try these 3 steps for tapping into your spirituality, you will see that the process is a very simple, yet effective one.

Do you really need hypnosis music in the background while conducting therapy sessions or self-hypnosis? Many people would say that the music is only a nice-to-have addition that doesn’t really play any role besides creating a bit of ambiance. However, there are some really good arguments for giving hypnosis music a little more prominence in your therapy or meditation sessions. Here are at least four good reasons for using appropriate background hypnosis music: - it acts as a trance inducer - it shifts people from a physiological stress response to a rest responser

Spirituality means that we know we are more than just the physical self. We have an energy or spirit attached to us. In some religious circles our spirit is referred to as the soul and is immortal and that the spirit was created by some divine maker or creator. On the other hand, spirituality ...

Kundalini Awakening - the sure shot method for awakening of the kundalini. Before we discuss about kundalini awakening... we need to understand the meaning of kundalini! The kundalini Shakti is that hidden positive energy stored in every human being by awakening which every human being can reach the level of Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed. The awakening of the kundalini is possible by practicing the right Yoga and meditation. In the normal circums

I've looked at two book proposals recently for aspiring authors with agents eagerly awaiting their submissions. The writers came to me for what they considered a "cursory review" because they felt their proposals just needed a "finishing touch," another set of eyes to glance over it before they attached it to an email and hit "send." They were ready and eager to send the proposals on to the agents, who had requested the proposals after a pitch session at a conference. They didn't want to keep the agents waiting.

Many of us are on a spiritual path. We are relentlessly seeking, meditating, chanting, drumming and studying all sorts of modalities to help us heal or understand who we really are and what our true purpose is. Every day, I encounter such individuals serious about their jou ey, asking to ...Many of us are on a spiritual path. We are relentlessly seeking, meditating, chanting, drumming and studying all sorts of modalities to help us heal or understand who we really are and what our true purpose is.

In the 1988 movie Altered States a research scientist (played by William Hurt), dives deep into his subconscious and genetic roots. In doing this, he not only relives ancient experiences of his ancestors but actually changes on the biological level. This film was reportedly based on the real-life research of prominent psychologists and medical researchers of the 1960s and 1970s who used isolation tanks and pharmacological triggers to access deep DNA memories and experiences, which they claimed were real.

"The green shoot is healthy and alive. The pressure of life expanding within the seed builds against the hard shell, the product of an earlier time when protection was necessary against the cold, hard winter. If the plant is to live, this shell must go. The shoot must leave the safety of the shell and begin making it's way in the world.” The Lunar Report by Phillip LLevine M.A.

The Pali Canon is greatly debated by historians and followers alike. Some believe it is the exact words of Buddha from the fifth century B.C., transferred in the oral tradition for many centuries and finally transcribed to written form. Others believe it has additions and deletions by followers ...

It may feel to many of us that we can do little at this point in time to help create peace in the world. However, by just being conscious of our thoughts we might, indeed, be able to move ourselves and the rest of the world just a little bit closer to this goal. We can find peace if we only become conscious of where we place our attention.

Teenage years are full of shocks and mood swings, and it is likely that much of this is a natural process, caused by the troubled learning curve of adolescence. Half way between childhood and adulthood, a teenager can feel like there is no where in the world where they can fit in.

This Valentine's Day, couples and individuals are looking to find and/or strengthen their love relationships. As award-winning authors and world-renowned relationship experts, Ariel & Shya Kane have discovered three simple, yet revolutionary tips for creating magical relationships, based on the idea that you don't need to "work on" your relationship in order to fix it.

Respect is the willingness to show consideration or appreciation for someone. And of course, if we don't have respect for ourselves we can't transmit it to others. Consider that the angry person is often not angry at you but with himself projecting that self-anger onto you. But what's so important about respect in regards to living a better, more joyful life? Consider this, John Adams, the great political philosopher, said that democracy is about consideration and compromise, unfortunately, few ever do so--consider and compromise, that is.

Most people would agree that decision making has never been more challenging, quite simply because more information does not make the decision better. Knowing what information to trust does. Business decisions today demand a balance of intuition and logic. The blend is best captured by what ...

When the Past is Good for You! Why it so much easier to remember those past awful experiences you have had? Maybe these situations were from childhood, or traumas experienced in those challenging teenage years. Perhaps they were from circumstances from those early stages of young adulthood or maybe some of these experiences happened recently in your life. These problematic preexisting traumas can be debilitating. They will impact the productivity and health of your current situation in negative ways if you let them.

Forgiveness and letting go of the past is empowering and freeing. You do it for you and not to let others "of the hook". Give yourself the gift of forgiveness. How to forgive? When I was younger I used to say that I can forgive but I can't forget, and in a way that's good advice if it is understood correctly. I could easily leave people behind who had done me wrong, and by not forgetting what they did I usually didn't make the same mistakes twice, and by forgiving I could easily let them go from my life even if they had been very close to me. I learned and moved on.

We are always looking for, seeking, and anticipating feeling good. We love to feel good because it feels good. That’s a no-brainer for sure. We cannot be without the feel-good factor. Some of us go to drugs to feel good. Some of us use anti-depressants to feel good again or even to hold on to a little bit of the good feeling. Some of us lower our standards to feel good. We go back, and keep going back, to the feel-good moments, hoping that they will be as pleasurable as they were the first time.

Thoughts I remember I used to attract into my life all sorts of things when I was younger, but I had no idea that it was by the law of attraction, I did think about the power of thought, and I had an inner knowing already as a child that we are as vast as the universe itself. I just didn’t know that the laws of the universe could be used deliberately. For example I remember that I could think of needing new shoes and the next day someone gave me new shoes. I thought, “That’s strange, I just thought of shoes the other day and now I’m given them.”

Be Authentic, Be Inspirational! That is quite a challenge, and two completely different attributes that in their own right are worthy of attainment. Tara Wilken would like to suggest that both attributes are conjoined twins. History has maybe suggested that she is right and that we have been mostly inspired by those individuals who stood out as authentic selves. Great individuals like Ghandi, himself a superlatively authentic individual, unequivocally inspired countless millions.

Affirmations are simply statements that we make to ourselves; it's our self-talk. You use affirmations all the time, whether you're doing so intentionally or unintentionally. If you make a mistake and you think to yourself, "I'm always making mistakes, I never do anything right", you've just ...

THE BUSINESS OF CREATIVE LIVING! Life is certainly interesting, the ups and downs that come your way. As you reflect to your past for lessons of your experiences, you probably engaged in some of those situations and wondered why did I even go there? You could easily say for the lessons. However, it may be more than that. Instead of just looking only for the lesson(s), perhaps consider how you got hooked into the relationship or the event in the first place. Have you ever considered that perhaps you were a player in someone else’s event?

Telepathy is considered to be a form of extra-sensory perception nwhere communication between minds in the form of thoughts, nideas, feelings and images are transferred through Psi, which are Parapsychological abilities considered as a group. Telepathy generally occurs spontaneously, ...

“The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money. . . but never learn to have money work for them.” Robert Kiyosaki The #1 New York Times Bestseller "Rich Dad, ...

The mind seems to not find peace and quiet all the time. There is almost always a problem which can drain it’s attention, exaggerates it and believe in the reality that he himself created. Obsessive thinking is a problem for many people. Your way of thinking isn’t really what you want. And if not, it means that you do not experience your “life in the mind”, like you want. This is a mistake. Because you have a right to every thought was in line with your preference. What holds you back?

Are you living an authentic life? When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you know and like who you see? Is there anything that you aren't being truly honest about with yourself or others? Is the "you" that you represent to the world the "you" that you really are? I thought it was interesting the other day when a friend posted on Facebook that they sure hoped they could live up to their profile there. In one of his stand-up routines, Chris Rock talks about dating and how we tend to send our representative to make a great impression.

The law of gratitude is much like the law of gravity in that we know it exists, we know to a certain degree what it is, we know that it is at work whether we are consciously aware of it or not. We don’t have to think about gravity to know that it keeps planets in alignment and us on the face of the Earth. We don’t have to think about it to know that it causes the ebb and flow of the oceans. With gratitude however the more we are conscious and are aware of it and express it, the more we are given for which to be grateful.

Most of us walk around each day with a bit of a protective layer over our hearts, which manifests as a kind of tension around the chest and most likely forward rolled shoulders. As we protect our hearts through tension and by closing the front of the chest, we begin to block the natural flow of emotion through our body. This causes us to hold on to certain emotions that really just need to flow through our body, providing us with an experience of being human, and then allowing these emotions to leave again.

During a Ted.com talk in 2006, Anthony Robbins—a personal development writer and motivational speaker who has written books such as “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement” and “Awaken the Giant Within” —asked the following question: When people fail to achieve something, what are the reasons that they give? Here are the reasons: • They didn’t have enough money; • They didn’t know enough; • They didn’t have the time; • They lacked the necessary technology, and so on. In other words, they argue that they didn’t have the necessary resour

A Destiny Decision Decisions, decisions, decisions! Life is all about them. A destiny decision to come full stop at a drawbridge can actually save your life; however, when you think about it, all decisions are really destiny decisions in that it is truly impossible for any one thing to occur in isolation. Any and every moment feeds into the outcome of the next and continually creates a domino effect rippling causal influences beyond our awareness. It happens every day, everyw

Vipassana translates as “Clear seeing.” Although there are many meditation techniques associated with Vipassana, the Vipassana technique you are about to learn is one that will allow you to enter the highest states of meditation and spiritual enlightenment. One of the main teachings of Buddhism is impermanence. Everything that arises also disappears. So this meditation technique is about observing this impermanence. Find yourself sitting comfortably preferably without back support, close your eyes and simply notice what is happening in this moment.

Are you one of those people that never seem to have a minute to yourself? Do you feel as if your whole life and everyone in it would just stop or die if you weren’t there? Take heart, dear one, take heart. The wisest and most beneficial thing you can do is to yield to yourself first.

Big and bright in the sky tonight is the Leo Full Moon, blazing for all to see and feel. The powerful lunar waves are moving into our collective awareness, as we are reminded of the beauty and majesty of our universal rhythms and cycles. So much has occurred since the New Year double eclipses, I can't believe it is still January. Not only were we jolted out of our personal cocoons by the massive earthquake in Haiti, but our world as we knew it is changing so fast we cannot ma

The other day I bought an unusual piece of software: It runs positive affirmations on my computer, so they can influence me while I work. Sentences like “I am full of confidence” or “I love everyone I meet”. The kind that is supposed to help me so that I stop being negative. I liked the idea, but much to my surprise, it didn’t feel completely right. I just couldn’t understand why. After all, I was doing the right thing… I was, wasn’t I? I mean, I tried to ignore the not-so-positive thoughts I’m capable of, and I was reinforcing the good ones instead of. That’s good, isn’t it?

Clairvoyants in the United Kingdom are very much similar to other ones around the world. They all do the same service either by telephone or email or webcam or face to face. You can find a clairvoyant in the UK by searching online for one or through your local paper for any that live near you. When you are searching for a clairvoyant then you will obviously want one that is in the country that you live, so if you are in the United Kingdom then you will only be searching for

Know that only you have the power and great luxury to feel empowerment to change. To change the way we feel, see, hear, smell, taste the world’s overwhelming compassion is something to figure out how to embrace yourself. There are people wanting to change defined boundaries they have placed for themselves, but what in our mind can help the change we want become an influential reality?

Part One: Paradise Lost and Why Suffering is Inevitable

This is the second in a series of articles based on the groundbreaking best-seller “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” written by Robert Kiyosaki. As stated in the first article, the book compares the mindset of Kiyosaki’s father—who held several degrees and an important position in ...

If you have never come across Zen before, it might seem quite perplexing with it's apparent contradictions and paradoxes. But if you are ready and willing to commit yourself to the "Way" then it is one of the most powerful ways to transform the quality of life that I have ever come across. If you are not ready, it will not make the slightest bit of sense and chances are you will soon quit. Unlike other philosophies Zen is like climbing a huge mountain in which the climb is more important than the destination. This is where a great paradox comes into action...