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Written and published on 15 December 2014; revised

  • OLD EARTH: CALL AND RESPONSE
  • TALKING WITH NATURE SPIRITS: ALSO CALL AND RESPONSE
  • WHEN A FAERIE PASSES ON
  • ON SPEAKING WITH DEVAS
  • ON SPEAKING WITH ELEPHANTS, WHALES AND DOLPHINS
  • ON SPEAKING WITH ALL LIVING THINGS, AND WITH ROCKS, CRYSTALS, AND ELEMENTALS
  • ON SPEAKING WITH OUR STAR BRETHREN
  • MORE INFORMATION

Dear Ones,

OLD EARTH: CALL AND RESPONSE

I have had hints recently of the manner of communication on New Earth. Very hard to define, illusive … We all know about two people talking together … the cadences of speaking and replying, of what was called in ancient India ‘call and response’. The pauses, the changes from softly spoken to emphatic words. It is a little like the songs of birds, one with the other, from treetop to treetop.

TALKING WITH NATURE SPIRITS: ALSO CALL AND RESPONSE

Same same when we talk with nature spirits who are not yet individuated; it is ‘call and response’ … human and nature spirit. Keeping in mind that when we talk to one faerie of a particular flower, we are talking to all of them. For faerie Souls individuate a little later in Soul evolution than do humans. Which has its pluses and minuses.

WHEN A FAERIE PASSES ON

For nature spirits, for example, there is far more joy in passing than for humans. They never think of themselves as separate, so for them the passing of one is but a chance for great rejoicing. Of the return of one of them to the small spark of the All that they are.

ON SPEAKING WITH DEVAS

Devas are another story. Being both long-lived and wise, they draw on a wealth of knowledge about Gaia and all her inhabitants. It is from that base of vast knowledge that they speak to us humans, and so, the weight of their speech, and more specifically, of what they take for granted as known, is very evident. In saying very little, they convey a very great deal. The ebb and flow of Gaia, of the story of life evolving on Earth, is the ‘scenery’ of their conversations with us.

ON SPEAKING WITH ELEPHANTS, WHALES AND DOLPHINS

People forget about elephants, whales and dolphins, who are people of Earth like us. At this point in the Ascension process, we are all able to reach out to them, speak with them, assure them of our mutual love for Gaia, of our desire to live in harmony with all Earth’s inhabitants. At this moment great wonders kaleidoscope into the Now for those first of us who take this step.

ON SPEAKING WITH ALL LIVING THINGS, AND WITH ROCKS, CRYSTALS, AND ELEMENTALS

And let it not stop there. We can communicate with every living thing, both plant and animal life. With rocks, with crystals, with the humming spirits of air, fire, earth and water. What lacks? Only the knowledge that we can do so. Only the desire to do so.

I say from personal experience, there is the greatest joy to be had from realizing all this, and acting on it. Let us speak with all that is on Earth. With Earth herself, that great being, our Mother, let us hold long conversations as the days slide in a blaze of glory into evening. Why should we stint in this deep-in-our-hearts remembered joy?

ON SPEAKING WITH OUR STAR BRETHREN

On to the Star Races. People say, they are here with us now. To that I say, both yes and no. We humans are here, now, on Planet Earth, but connected through our home star supercluster Laniakea. And from thence to all this Universe. And from thence to the Multiverse. And from thence to Source.

And how may we speak with our brothers and sisters of the Stars. Not with words, but with streaming Light. We can visualize this stream as wide as we like … as wide as our head, as wide as our person, as wide as our outstretched arms, indeed as wide as Earth. We can receive it as fast as we like, no stumbling over spoken syllables, only the least nanosecond of a pause for emphasis. This is the encoding of Light, which weaves together all that is, allows our hearts to beat in harmony with the Great Song of the Cosmos. To thrill to the Self-discovery of unfolding creation.

And so, Dear Ones, my thought is this. Never think that you cannot communicate with All That Is. Or with the tiniest part of it, the smallest brightest photon. We are that. We are the Great All. We are the smallest brightest photon. Now is the time. Lift up your voice with your brothers and sisters everywhere. We are that One.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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The Song of the Wind . Durga Mata . by Alice B. Clagett

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Written and published on 8 December 2014; republished on 6 October 2017; revised

  • SONG OF THE WIND IN THE RAILINGS, recorded by Alice B. Clagett
  • GODDESS DURGA

Dear Ones,

SONG OF THE WIND IN THE RAILINGS
Recorded by Alice B. Clagett
8 December 2014

I was at a pretty graveyard on a windy day, listening to the sound of the wind whistling through the railings in a fence there …

 

GODDESS DURGA

The sound of the wind reminded me of Goddess Durga. Here is my favorite image of her:

Image: Goddess Durga, source unknown, https://galleryofgod.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/jai-maa-durga-41.jpg ..

And here is some information about her from Wikipedia …

“Durga, also identified as Adi Parashakti, Devi, Shakti, Bhavani, Parvati, and by numerous other names, is a principal and popular form of Hindu goddess … She is the warrior goddess, whose mythology centers around combating evils and demonic forces that threaten peace, prosperity and dharma of the good … She is the fierce form of the protective mother goddess, willing to unleash her anger against wrong, violence for liberation and destruction to empower creation …” –from “Durga” in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga ..

See also: “The Goddess Durga Is the Mother of the Hindu Universe,” by Shri Gyan Rajhans, at ThoughtCo. Updated 18 September 2017 … https://www.thoughtco.com/goddess-durga-1770363 ..

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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Mudra to Help Protect Against Psychically Induced Heart Attack . by Alice B. Clagett

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Filmed and published on 21 October 2014; transcribed on 10 September 2018
Previously titled: Previous title: Mudra vs Psychically Induced Heart Attack

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Dear Ones,

Here are a mudra and visualization to help protect ourselves from psychically induced heart attack. The visualization utilizes the wonderful protective and healing violet flame of Saint Germain. Naturally, if you feel you may just have had a transient ischemic attack (a TIA) or a heart attack, go to your nearest Hospital Emergency Room right away. Meantime, this mudra may help a little (but of course, it is no substitute for an Emergency Room); I have seen online recommendations about taking baby aspirin as well; this would be something to look into.

There is a lightly edited Summary after the video, and then some further explanations. Note that the links in the video are outdated, and have been corrected in the Summary.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice.

I have another protection mudra technique for you. A mudra is a yogic hand position technique to achieve a specific energy effect, such as wisdom, courage, compassion, and so on.

You may remember that a little bit earlier I gave a grounding technique …

Link: “Mudra for Grounding to Mother Earth” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 October 2014 … http://wp.me/p2Rkym-2dV ..

… which is good for making sure that your own energy is ‘to yourself’ and not invaded from the root chakra. And then just today, I gave the root chakra technique … ‘root lock’ or ‘mul bhand’ … for solidifying the root chakra energy …

Link: “Root Lock to Avoid the Astral, Ground in the Physical, and Dispel Fear,” by Alice B. Clagett, 21 October 2014 … http://wp.me/p2Rkym-68X ..

That is called ‘mul bhand’ … It is an old yogic technique. In fact, it is the very simplest and easiest yogic technique. And that will stop astral invasion. It will stop unwanted telepathic activity. It stops incursions on the aura through mind control, and it is the beginning of the solidification of our pranic column energy (aka energy of the pranic tube, central vertical power current, kundalini, antahkarana, silver cord, silver thread).

So we can do that all day long, and be completely safe from the interference of the astral world. We can be here in the physical world, ok? So, there is that. It is about grounding and root lock.

And here is the second technique. This technique is for protecting the heart chakra, if there is a telepathic attack where a person uses psychic energy to try and stop the heart. Unfortunately there are some unscrupulous psychic individuals in the world today … and even in ancient times there were, in India, people who did not really practice yoga, except to gain psychic powers, if you know what I mean … or siddhis, as they are called. These folks who have attained psychic powers are called siddhas, and they are well known in India.

In recent times, because of the philosophy being brought in to the Western world, there are people who combined the materialistic ideology … the idea that getting things for themselves is the most important thing … with the Indian siddhis, or psychic powers. For more on this, see my blog categories: Neo-HInduism – Neo-Vedanta … and … Spiritual adepts

So there are things that we have to do to protect ourselves. Of course. the main thing is to plenty of yoga, and to build up our pranic energy, and build up our force field, and their electromagnetic field.

I do not know anything better, for this purpose, than kundalini yoga … because it is very fast; it works very well. The only caveat about it is, that you have to take it kind of easy, because it is so thorough, and so cleansing, and so protective, that a little bit is quite a lot. So, I suggest finding an easy-going kundalini yoga center, and working with that. That is what I say. Or else, buy a book, you know?

So now, I am going to give you the technique for protecting your heart energy from psychic attack. I thought I would mention it because I had such a psychic attack last night, and I have been getting them, off and on, for years now. And from the Divine, I just received this mudra, and this visualization for protection.

It worked great last night. I cannot promise that it will help others, but at least I can say, it helped in my own case. So this is for each of you, I hope it can be useful to you, to make you feel safe and secure in the world … because we all know that the Divine is right here with us, every minute, taking care of us, and giving us all we need to protect ourselves. So here you go …

All right, so you are feeling an incoming energy that is full of hate, or of desire to harm your heart. So what you do is, you place your hands like this … see?

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Image: Mudra for Grounding to Mother Earth 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 21 October 2014, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Person is standing facing forward. This image shows the hand position only: Hands are placed palms forward, fingers together, left palm behind the back of the right hand, at heart level. Fingertips of the right hand are angled at 45 degrees to the left of the person; fingertips of the left hand are angled at 45 degrees to the right of the person.

Image: Mudra for Grounding to Mother Earth 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 21 October 2014, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Person is standing facing forward. This image shows the hand position only: Hands are placed palms forward, fingers together, left palm behind the back of the right hand, at heart level. Fingertips of the right hand are angled at 45 degrees to the left of the person; fingertips of the left hand are angled at 45 degrees to the right of the person.

It is like a shield, There is no hole between fingers and thumbs. The fingers and thumbs of each hand are together, palms outward, palm of left hand resting on top of right hand.

Take the fingers, in this position, and place them at the level of your heart, and about a foot in front of the chest …

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Image: Mudra for Grounding to Mother Earth 2,” self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 21 October 2014, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Person is standing facing forward. Hands are placed palms forward, fingers together, left palm behind the back of the right hand, at heart level. Elbows are up, so that the arms describe a circle in front of the heart. Fingertips of the right hand are angled at 45 degrees to the left of the person; fingertips of the left hand are angled at 45 degrees to the right of the person.

Image: Mudra for Grounding to Mother Earth 2,” self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 21 October 2014, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Person is standing facing forward. Hands are placed palms forward, fingers together, left palm behind the back of the right hand, at heart level. Elbows are up, so that the arms describe a circle in front of the heart. Fingertips of the right hand are angled at 45 degrees to the left of the person; fingertips of the left hand are angled at 45 degrees to the right of the person.

… and there you are building a force field like a circle … Your arms and hands describe a circle pointing outward from the chest. You are feeling the incoming energy on your palms, all right?

You know Saint Germain and the violet flame … a very protective force! Imagine the violet flame of Saint Germain coming down all around you, and concentrating in your palms. And this violet flame combines with the energy that is incoming and harmful and hateful. It combines with it, and transmutes it to love.

And you are sending, with your mind and with your visualization, the energy that came to you with an intent to kill … You are sending it outward, to the one who sent it to you, transmuted to love and joy. Ok? It is like a boomerang effect.

Now, the person that sends the desire to kill … that person may perceive the innocent incoming energy as an attack. That is no concern of yours, Ok? Your heart is full of love and joy; your arms are full of the violet flame of Saint Germain; and your intention is the highest. Ok?

Well, so, that is my tip for today. And in the meantime, all day long, you can be feeling your heart … feeling the inhale and the exhale … feeling the energy of the heart expanding and contracting as you breathe … and enjoying a wonderful day.

And the more we enjoy a wonderful day, the less possible it is for anyone to frighten us with a terrible technique like that … a technique that is very destructive to them, in their karma and in their future incarnations. Whatever goal we have, in harming other people, is so much buried under the thing that we do to ourselves when we practice that technique …

It is really an act of ignorance; it is an act of spiritual ignorance, to think that we can gain something by injuring someone else. There is nothing in the Universe that is more opposite the will of God, which is only Love.

So, never think that anyone can injure you on the psychic plane. Love is the greatest power in the Universe. It is the only power in the Universe.

So, that is it for now. You all take care. Love you lots.

[image of Saint Germain, with a violet background]

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

The image of Saint Germain in the video is adapted from an image of the Count of St Germain in Wikipedia … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Count-of-Saint-Germain.jpg … public domain.

For another drawing of “Saint Germain” and one of “The Violet Flame, The Alchemist’s Dream” see … http://thevioletflame.tripod.com/ ..

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How to Know God . from Patanjali . with comments by Alice B. Clagett

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Written and published on 19 October 2014; revised

  • BOOK I … THE BASICS OF YOGA
  • BOOK I … ON PURIFYING THE MIND
  • BOOK I … ON NON-ATTACHMENT
  • BOOK I … YOGA PRACTICES
  • BOOK II … ON SEXUAL ACTS AND SEXUAL FANTASIES
  • THE SUTRAS OF PATANJALI … REFERRAL TO SWAMI JNANESHVARA BHARATI’S TEACHINGS

Dear Ones:

The teachings of Patanjali are one of my all-time favorite explanations about how to attain God-consciousness. (1)

Fortunately, there is a version of these teachings that is in the public domain …

Link: “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man,” by Charles Johnston. (2010). Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 19 October 2014, from … http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2526 ..

It is from this text that I will quote, below, some of the most important things that I learned from Patanjali …

BOOK I  … THE BASICS OF YOGA

1. “OM: Here follows Instruction in Union.

  1. “Union, spiritual consciousness, is gained through control of the versatile psychic nature [thoughtwaves (2)].

  2. “Then the Seer comes to consciousness in his proper nature.

  3. “Heretofore the Seer has been enmeshed in the activities of the psychic nature [thoughtwaves].

Link: “Yoga Sutras 1.1-1.4: What is Yoga?” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, in “Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters,” https://swamij.com/yoga-sutras-10104.htm ..

BOOK I  … ON PURIFYING THE MIND

  1. “The psychic activities [thoughtwaves] are five; they are either subject or not subject to the five hindrances [painful things] (Book II, 3).

  • “These activities are: Sound intellection, unsound intellection, predication, sleep, memory.

  • “The elements of sound intellection are: direct observation, inductive reason, and trustworthy testimony.

  • “Unsound intellection is false understanding, not resting on a perception of the true nature of things.

  • “Predication is carried on through words or thoughts not resting on an object perceived.

  • “Sleep is the psychic condition which rests on mind states, all material things being absent.

  • “Memory is holding to mind-images of things perceived, without modifying them.”

    • Link: “Yoga Sutras 1.5-1.11: Un-Coloring Your Thoughts by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, in “Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters,” https://swamij.com/yoga-sutras-10511.htm ..

    BOOK I … ON NON-ATTACHMENT

    1. “The control of these psychic activities comes through the right use of the will, and through ceasing from self-indulgence.

  • “The right use of the will is the steady, effort to stand in spiritual being.

  • “This becomes a firm resting-place, when followed long, persistently, with earnestness.

  • “Ceasing from self-indulgence is conscious mastery over the thirst for sensuous pleasure here or hereafter.

  • “The consummation of this is freedom from thirst [desire] for any mode of psychical activity [any thoughtwave], through the establishment of the spiritual man.”

    • Link: “Yoga Sutras 1.12-1.16: Practice and Non-Attachment” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, in “Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters,” https://swamij.com/yoga-sutras-11216.htm ..

    BOOK I … YOGA PRACTICES

    1. “By sympathy with the happy [happy people], compassion for the sorrowful [people], delight in the holy [people], disregard of the unholy [people], the psychic nature [the mind] moves to gracious peace.

  • “Or peace may be reached by the even sending forth and control of the life-breath.

  • “Faithful, persistent application to any object, if completely attained, will bind the mind to steadiness.

  • “As also will a joyful, radiant spirit.

  • “Or the purging of self-indulgence from the psychic nature [thoughtwaves].

  • “Or a pondering on the perceptions gained in dreams and dreamless sleep.

  • “Or meditative brooding on what is dearest to the heart.’

    • Link: “Yoga Sutras 1.33-1.39: Stabilizing and Clearing the Mind,” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, in “Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters,” https://swamij.com/yoga-sutras-13339.htm .. 

    BOOK II … ON SEXUAL ACTS AND SEXUAL FANTASIES

    38. “For him who is perfect in continence, the reward is valour and virility.”

    By ‘continence’, I feel is meant ‘self-control’ or ‘chastity’ and not ‘abstinence’ … otherwise, the term ‘virility’ would not have been added.

    The commentary on this verse by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (1) mentions sexual fantasies as well as the act of sex, and how these consume the vital force.

    The commentary by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati explains that practicing God-consciousness results in celibacy, but celibacy does not create God-consciousness:

    Link: “2.38. When walking …” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, in “Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters,” at https://swamij.com/yoga-sutras-23545.htm#2.38 ..

    THE SUTRAS OF PATANJALI … REFERRAL TO SWAMI JNANESHVARA BHARATI’S TEACHINGS

    For explanations of the sutras I have not covered, see Link: “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Raja Yoga – Ashtanga Yoga,” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, in “Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters,”  https://swamij.com/yoga-sutras.htm ..

    In love, light and joy
    This is Alice B. Clagett.
    I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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    FOOTNOTES

    (1) I like this version, which is still under copyright …

    Citation: “How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali,” translated with a commentary by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, copyright 1953, 1981 by The Vedanta Society of Southern California ..

    There are also various online versions of Patanjali’s teachings. For instance, Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati provides an amazingly thorough explication of the “Aphorisms of Patanjali” at https://swamij.com/index.htm ..

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    (2) The translation by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (1) uses the term mental “thoughtwaves” rather than “psychic nature,” and I prefer this translation.

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    Mystical Poetry Celebration in Los Angeles . by Alice B. Clagett

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    Written and published on 23 August 2014; revised

    • INTRODUCTION
      • What Is Mysticism?
    • WAYS TO EXPERIENCE MYSTICISM
      • Slowing the Mind
      • Concentrating on the Body Instead of the Mind
      • Extraordinary Sensory and Emotional Experiences
      • Bringing Up the Emotions of Gratitude, Appreciation, or Divine Love
    • EVERY MAJOR RELIGION HAS ITS MYSTICS
    • WHY IS MYSTICISM SO ALL-PERVADING?
      • The Mystical Mind
      • Mental Intelligence versus Universal Intelligence
    • SWARM BEHAVIOR
      • Could These Notions Be True?
    • PRAYER FOR MYSTIC INSPIRATION by Alice B. Clagett
    • SUGGESTED READING AND LISTENING
    • FOOTNOTES
    • MEDIA CREDITS – BACKGROUND MUSIC PLAYED DURING THE EVENT

    Dear Ones,

    INTRODUCTION

    I just woke up thinking about a Mystical Poetry Celebration I facilitated at The Onion … http://sepulvedauu.org/ … in North Hills, Los Angeles, California, a few years ago. It somehow seemed relevant today, so here it is.

    Image: Seagulls landing on a bridge in the blue sky, with white clouds … https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/33/7d/4e/337d4ee83193a115c3b57fcb31228d16.jpg  ..

    What is Mysticism?

    Mysticism is immediate consciousness of the transcendent or ultimate reality.

    WAYS TO EXPERIENCE MYSTICISM

    Slowing the Mind

    • Meditation
    • Repeating a mantra (a sacred sound or word)
    • Gazing at a mandala (sacred art that induces a meditative state)

    Concentrating on the Body Instead of the Mind

    • Dance, such as: Sufi whirling and Dances of Universal Peace (1)
    • Walking in a maze or labyrinth
    • Walking in a circle

    Extraordinary Sensory and Emotional Experiences

    • Extreme pain, such as mortification of the flesh
    • White tantric yoga (kundalini risen, which I feel to be a good choice for many healthy, spiritual people)
    • Black tantric yoga (reverse kundalini, which I strongly advise against)
    • Red tantric yoga (sexual union in a sacred context)
    • Use of such psychoactive substances … LSD, peyote, etc (Caveat: This can cause ‘bad trips’ and contact with negative astral entities.)
    • Neurophysiologic disturbances … profound depression, schizophrenia, or stroke
    • Near-death-experience

    Bringing Up the Emotions of Gratitude, Appreciation, or Divine Love

    • Affirmations of gratitude or appreciation – giving thanks
    • Heartfelt prayer, spirit-filled religious services,
    • Devotional chanting (bhakti yoga)
    • Spiritual music, hymns
    • Reading mystical poetry

    — adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

    EVERY MAJOR RELIGION HAS ITS MYSTICS

    These are just a few examples:

    • Christianity and Sufism … “God Is Love”
    • Kabbalah … Judaism … “… To love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him …” –Deuteronomy 11: 22 (KJV, public domain) … This is devekut, or communion with God
    • Hinduism … “Atman is Brahman” (i.e., the individual Soul is the cosmic Soul)
    • American Sikhism, quote by Yogi Bhajan on the oneness of a person with God:
      Link: “God and Me, Me and God Are One,” mantra, downloads, and CDs, at SpiritVoyage,  https://www.spiritvoyage.com/mantra/god-and-me,-me-and-god,-are-one/man-000041.aspx ..
      This concept is sometimes termed advaita, nonduality, or ‘God indwelling’ or ‘God immanent
    • Zen … haiku (short poems that can bring one to experience of the present moment) and koan (riddles that baffle the mind)

    — adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

    WHY IS MYSTICISM SO ALL-PERVADING?

    The Mystical Mind

    In 1999, Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg wrote a book in which they demonstrated that God is generated by and generates the brain (2,3) …

    Citation: “The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience,” by Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg, 1999

    If this is true, then it follows that the mystical experience is inherent in brain chemistry.

    Now, the doubter in us might propose that any experience based on brain chemistry is suspect, might he not? But on what basis might he make that assumption? On the basis of sense perceptions?

    Sense perceptions are also based on brain chemistry, and so, our doubter must posit, they are also suspect. More suspect, I might suppose, than the mystical experience, since many subjective interpretations may be put upon sense perceptions, and all mystical experiences are remarkably similar.

    A person determined to experience ‘things as they are’ will find sense perceptions often mislead … they severely limit the data that come to us from the universe. What about the mystical experience? Could it be an experience of reality at the quantum physics level? At the level of the most basic subatomic particles?

    If, in fact, the mystical experience holds greater scientific validity than sense perceptions, then the question becomes, how to have this mystical experience, how to experience reality as it is, and not through the filter of the senses.

    Mental Intelligence versus Universal Intelligence

    In autumn, starlings flock and dance together at nightfall in the skies above England and Scotland. These dancing clouds of starlings are called murmurations and their complex dance patterns, performed, as it seems, of ‘one mind’ are like aerial ballet in their precision.

    In the video clip below, the starlings are the tiny black specks in the sky …

    Video: “Murmuration” by Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith, Facebook: Islands and Rivers … https://vimeo.com/31158841 .. 

    Why do they do it? How do they do it? It is not like they have been having practice sessions together. It is not like they are all that intelligent. Why do they not bump into each other in mid-air?

    There is a theory that we have been looking at the starlings for intelligence, and we have been looking in the wrong place … intelligence is all around us … in the air …

    Video: “Intelligent Air,” by conferencereport, 24 April 2009 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoIIUB3irys ..

    … or so the theory goes. We (birds, people) are the end-receptors, so to speak, of universal intelligence. (4)

    All we have to do is open ourselves to it and let it in. What if we do not? Well, then we will be stuck with the limited intelligence stored in our personal minds. We will not get to stand in the doorway to unlimited intelligence, the doorway to All That Is. The key to that door is found through the practice of mysticism.

    SWARM BEHAVIOR

    Scientists call what the starlings do ‘swarm behavior’. Two-dimensional computer simulations have been made showing this behavior.

    The second and last video clip is just such a computer simulation. As you watch this video, imagine that you yourself exist as points of light … in quantum physical terms, as a ‘swarm’ consisting of tiny bundles of subatomic energy. Imagine that the edges of the screen represent time and space …

    Video: “Swarm Simulation,” by flight404 … https://vimeo.com/11704967 ..

    What would happen if there were no edges on the screen of our minds? What would happen to the points of Light that represent our awareness?

    Could These Notions Be True?

    • God is generated by and generates the brain.
    • The mystical experience is more valid than sense perceptions.
    • Unlimited intelligence pours into our limited human form from the air, from water, and some say, from the solar winds, from the Universe. As the song goes, “Love is in the air!” All we have to do is perceive it.
    • And finally: We exist as points of Light. Our awareness is compressed by our concept of time and space into a four-dimensional reality (length, width, breadth, and time). This time-and-space limitation is a mental concept only; not reality. What is reality, then?

    Image: Hands of a man, holding water with a heart-shaped ripple in it …  https://files.constantcontact.com/37702b02301/dcc82d5d-a63e-4afd-b8f3-e8ae14ea07ab.jpg ..

    PRAYER FOR MYSTIC INSPIRATION
    by Alice B. Clagett

    May the love that the great mystics felt
    touch the hearts of each of us.
    May each of us know the wisdom that they knew.
    As we go about our lives, may that love and wisdom
    touch and transform the hearts of all we meet.prayer

    . . . . .

    In love, light and joy
    This is Alice B. Clagett.
    I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

    SUGGESTED READING AND LISTENING
    (All can be purchased at www.Amazon.com )

    • Link: “A Gift of Love: Music Inspired by the Love Poems of Rumi,” by Deepak Chopra, 1998 …  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-gift-of-love-music-inspired-by-the-love-poems-of-rumi/id2901840 ..
    • Citation: “A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings,” translations and commentary by Coleman Barks, published by Harper One, 2006
    • Citation: “The Gayan: Notes from the Unstruck Music,” by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Omega Publications, 2005
    • Citation: “For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai,” translations by Andrew Schelling, revised edition, Hohm Press, 1998 … The ‘dark one’ is Lord Krishna, whose skin color is traditionally depicted as blue.
    • Citation: “Thirst,” poems by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, 2006
    • Citation: “The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems,” by Abraham Isaac Kook … His poems in the back of the book are quite good.
    • Citation: “God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry and Prose,” compiled by Eknath Iswaren, 1982
    • Citation: “A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew,” translated by Stephen Mitchell, 1993

    FOOTNOTES

    (1) Link: “Dances of Universal Peace are being led by Lakshmi Lambert in West LA,” Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center … https://www.sivananda.org/la/DancesOfUniversalPeace.htm ..

    (2)  A short book review by Tim Knepper, 2001, of the book “The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience,” by Eugene d’Aquili, Andrew B. Newberg, may be found here …

    LInk: “Eugene d’Aquili; Andrew B. Newberg … ‘The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience,'” Review by Tim Knepper, 2001 … http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/relexp/reviews/review_daquili_newberg01.htm ..

    (3)  By the way, in a book called “Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief,” d’Aquili and Newberg … together with Vince Rause, spoke of incomplete ‘neurobiological transcendence’ as a possible cause of religious intolerance.

    So, I gather, when the brain is working at optimum capacity, in a state of ‘neurobiological transcendence,’ religious bigotry will be a thing of the past. Here is the book …

    Citation: “Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief Paperback – March 26, 2002,” by Andrew Newberg (Author), Eugene D’Aquili (Author), & 1 more, in www.amazon.com .. 

    (4)  Rupert Sheldrake has another way of explaining murmurations. He proposes that mind extends beyond the brain and is capable of connecting with everything else. See his long video talk:

    Video: “The Mind Is Not the Brain, Matrix,” by Ifitallfails, Rupert Shaldrake, Consciousness, 19 September 2014 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBc9_e60-7k ..

    MEDIA CREDITS – BACKGROUND MUSIC PLAYED DURING THE EVENT

    • Link: “Himma,” a CD by the Sufi Music Ensemble. You can hear and purchase the CD at www.amazon.com … Here is the youtube video …
      Link: “Sufi Music Ensemble – Himma – 06 – Anatolia,” by IzzyREACTS, 28 December 2011 …        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzwxvAPHExQ ..
    • Link: “Harmony Within,” a CD by David Castle … http://celestialenergycenter.com/ .. David Castle, who transitioned in May 2019, was a  master healer, whose Celestial Energy Center, now under the care of his widow Anne K. Castle, is here in the San Fernando Valley.
    • Link: “Solace,” by Tom Kenyon … https://tomkenyon.com/store/solace ..

    Image: Sunlight filtering through forest leaves … https://biancabibiri.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/picture152.jpg  ..

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