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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Beyond Mental Ideas to Spiritual Experience

The human mind is always at work, trying to figure out what life is all about, where we came from, why we are here, what we are to do, what lies in the future. We have developed a countless number of ideas, philosophies, religious concepts, and we become adherents to those that make sense to our minds. In many cases, we then wield our various ideas, philosophies and religious dogmas against each other and create division, separation and warfare.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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Aspiration and Prayer

Many people confuse aspiration with prayer. They are however, actually two different things, and while they may support one another when they align, it is not necessary that aspiration lead to prayer. Aspiration refers to the inner state of consciousness that arises from the psychic being in a spontaneous movement of directed focus on some form of growth, development or realisation. Aspiration does not require belief in a supreme deity, although, again, it may coincide with such a belief.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the Exte al Being

Modern-day Western psychological researchers are finding that certain portions of the brain are related to higher cognitive functions, logic, reasoning, extrapolation, imagination, projection, analysis and classification while some parts are in charge of the purely mechanical control of things like bodily functions, some are repositories of memory, some are receptors of impulses from the various senses, some control motor functions and other parts are involved in language capabilities, artistic ability, music ability, etc.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Physical Body in its Gross and Subtle Aspects

When a particular power of consciousness is intended to participate in the evolution in the exte al world, it utilizes the physical body as the foundation or anchor of its action. This fixes its action in the world, while at the same time, imposes limits on the power due to the watering-down effect of having to leave its native, subtler world of unrestricted freedom within its own sphere, and acting within the limits imposed by material nature.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Supramental Evolution Represents the Fulfillment of Life, Not the Abandonment of Life

For much of human history, spirituality has been looked upon as a contradiction of an active life in the world. The anchorite in the desert, the renunciate, the Sannyasin, the monk or nun in the cloister are held up to us as the examples of dedication to spiritual growth and purpose. All of these examples imply that if one is caught up in the world’s affairs, if one acts in a full and rich life in the world, that there is little hope for true spiritual progress.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Issues of Mastery Over Vibrations Inwardly and in the Exte al World

We try to control or dominate other people generally through various methods. It is customary in many cultures to subject children to strict discipline and education so that they do things the way the parents or educators like, or they get subjected to some kind of punishment, whether it be corporal, emotional, or vital; or else, get rewarded for doing what is expected. This is a form of “operant conditioning” as described in the Western psychological literature. What this does NOT accomplish, however, is the true mastery over the impulses, feelings, etc.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Most Effective Method for Achieving Detachment

When one works to develop the consciousness of the witness, Purusha, observing the Nature, Prakriti the progress comes generally over time with repeated persistent and patient effort. Consider for a moment going through one’s own life observing but not reacting internally. If we observe even a little bit, we see that we are constantly being drawn into response, and even if we refrain from responding outwardly, we still react inwardly.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Third Step in the Mental Discipline: Control of Thoughts

The inner control of thoughts is a further development once the poise of the witness consciousness has been attained. As the seeker observes the thoughts, he can also determine their effect in the being, and see if they lead to uplifting, widening, and harmonizing results, or whether they shrink the being back down into the ego-consciousness with all of its turmoil, disruptions and limitations. For the yogic practitioner the issue is not one of an artificial exte al moral or ethical code, but rather, the consciousness-impact of the thoughts that are permitted to act within the being.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Suggestion and Illness, Spiritual Force for Healing and the Use of Medical Treatment

Whether consciously or subconsciously, suggestions reach the being from the outside world, in some cases impacting directly on the body, and in others through the mind or the vital being. When these suggestions arrive subconsciously, we only recognise the thought or feeling when it arises within us and we take “ownership” of it as our own. At this point, it is much more difficult to reject it as we have already let it in and made it part of our being!

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Reality of Psychic Powers

The 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 skeptical mindset, normal for the modern Western mentality, but soon became aware that there were indeed individuals who could sense, experience and describe events in her life that had not been publicized and which were private occurrences in nature.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Psychic Being — the Nature of the Soul

.When we try to understand what is meant by the term ‘soul’ we run up against a confusing mix of ideas about what the soul actually is. Similarly, the use of the term ‘psychic’ has its own issues with confused interpretation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Intensity of an Experience Does Not Guarantee Its Veracity

There are occasions when an individual experiences something that is so powerful, so intense, that it causes him to trust the experience. Spiritual experiences in particular can have a force that overwhelms the normal mental standpoint of the individual and impose themselves upon the seeker in a way that goes far beyond the normal action-reaction processes of the mind-life-body complex. It is easy in such an instance to believe that such a powerful experience represents a truth that cannot be denied.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Meaning of Vital Formations and Beings That Arise During Meditation

When people take up the practice of meditation, they generally do not know much about it. They follow a set of guidelines on ‘how to meditate’ and just let things happen. The result is very much dependent, then, on their state of conscious awareness, and their focus of attention. Meditation is not a state that just allows anything to come with no form or purpose. Rather, for it to accomplish its purpose, meditation needs a concentration, an object of meditation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Healing the Body Through Spiritual Force or Through Faith

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Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Status of the Purusha in the Individual and in the Universal Manifestation

We see pattens repeating from the macro-level to the micro-level. The study of fractals shows us that there are indeed certain patterns and relationships that repeat themselves in every smaller configurations as we drill down toward the micro-level. The macrocosm and the microcosm reflect the same overarching framework of existence.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Complete Dedication and Consecration Required by the Integral Yoga

The integral yoga is not a ‘hobby’ or ‘pastime’ to be taken up when convenient. It requires an intensity of dedication and focus, and a depth of aspiration and consecration that is both rare and difficult to achieve. An individual needs to be fully immersed in the yoga and its processes in order to obtain the result.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Tantra and the Integral Yoga

The Tantric tradition has developed a methodology (frequently and widely misunderstood and misapplied), to bring about the opening of the subtle energy centers, called chakras, that reside within our energetic body and control the various functionality of powers of body, life and mind within our human instrument.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Practical Applications of the Power of Immobility

The Mother provides a practical example of the ‘power of immobility’, albeit as applied in the exte al world and society. There is an apocryphal story from the time of the Mahabharata. Drona, the preceptor of the sons of Dhritarashtra and the sons of Pandu, princes and future king of the Kaurava kingdom, was teaching the lesson of the day to them. All 100 of the Kaurava princes were asked, one by one, if they had learned the lesson of the day, which was ‘not to become angry’. They each replied affirmatively.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Necessity and Methods of Overcoming Inertia in the Physical Nature

The quality of Tamas has as a major characteristic the sense of inertia. Nothing seems to be moving or advancing, there is little energy or will active to undertake action, there is an overpowering sense of helplessness, weakness, failure and dullness.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Distinguishing Various Types of Symbolic Visions

As the seeker interacts more with the inner levels of consciousness, there are often various types of visions and symbols which are perceived. These visions, however, are not all from the same source, and do not all carry the same weight or significance. It is another element of the research and growth of understanding that the seeker undergoes, to gain a feel for the meaning of these visions and thus, be able to place the correct emphasis on them, and see what they actually are having as an impact on the consciousness.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Waking and Sleep, Day and Night

During daytime, we see the sun, the atmosphere and the world around us, and our thoughts and activities, for the most part, are focused on the life of the world. At night, we see the vast ranges of space and the myriad of stars, and can thereby recognise that our world is a small part of a much larger and more complex universal creation. Similarly, our waking mind is preoccupied within the framework and limits of the life of the day, while our sleep state moves beyond these boundaries and can openly participate in the wider reality within which the human waking state is just a small element.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Project and Personnel Management From the Viewpoint of the Spiritual Seeker

Being a spiritual seeker, and a manager of a business, or a unit or department or program, are not incompatible activities. The question that seekers raise is how to find the proper balance that allows the work, including the management work, that they do, be part of their spiritual sadhana. If they are interpreting that work according to a fixed guideline of “right or wrong”, they frequently opt toward a more severe and less forgiving form of management.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Energies Sources: Energies of the Physical Body and the Universal Vital Energies

There are a number of different ways that physically alive beings draw and obtain energy. Human beings tend to rely heavily on eating food, and converting the food into other forms of energy to carry out work in the body. Plants, on the other hand, rely primarily on direct conversion of sunlight into physical energy to fuel the creation of their bodies and the operation of their energetic action. We can understand that there are other and higher forms of energetic reception and action which can provide ‘fuel’ for beings of various sorts.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Action of the Higher Grace

We normally judge things based on our own individual egoistic standpoint, basically, how a particular event or circumstance affects us in the moment. We build up expectations and plans, and suddenly, something gets in the way and destroys or diverts those plans. We naturally become disappointed, potentially even angry about what happened. With the benefit of hindsight, however, we may frequently find that what took place at that time actually was an enormous act of Grace that helped us move into a direction that we otherwise would not have seen, or would have actively avoided.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

What Is the Divine?

The term “Divine” is used by Sri Aurobindo, starting with the title of his magnum opus, The Life Divine. How do we understand the term?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Effective Power of the Yogic Process in the Life-Experience of the Practitioner

Rare are those individuals who can take up a practice and not see any result whatsoever, yet continue on with endless patience and persistence. We look at the example of Milarepa, the great yogi of Tibet who spent a number of years doing hard labor at the behest of his guru, Marpa, and who was not granted any teachings. Yet even Milarepa did not do this without a sense that there were real powers and achievable results if he persevered. His time learning and practicing the magic arts showed him the powers available and their real, and tangible, results.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Illness, Faith, Yoga-Power and Medicines

If we examine how illness comes upon us, and what effects it has, we can identify multiple different contributing factors that can lead to the physical imbalances that we call illness. Many of the symptoms of illness are the result of the physical body actually resisting the effect of the illness. Is it possible to do away with illness? Is it possible to prevent illness? Is it possible to heal illness?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Imagination is a Power of Formation

Most people tend to respond to life circumstances and opportunities based on past experience, training, education and any guidelines or rules they have imbibed from their past, all combined with their basic outlook on their lives, their desires, their needs and their circumstances. We can say that they are focused primarily on the past and the present. They do not attempt to develop the power of imagination to any degree, as they do not see how it ‘fits’ their day to day lives.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Total Dedication to Participate in the Birth of a New World

When people become totally immersed in something, they concentrate, naturally, all their energies and focus in that direction, without seeming effort, and experience the joy of the process. We can observe this in children at play. They become the act of play and don’t conce themselves with hunger, thirst, time of day, chores or homework, or anything other than what is occupying them at the moment.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Environmental Consciousness — the Circumconscient

A feeling, an emotion, a thought arises within us. Do we ‘manufacture’ these, or are we the recipients of them from elsewhere? If we manufacture them, how exactly do we do that? Where does the basis for that thought or feeling come from? What causative factors are there for a specific feeling or thought to come to our awareness at a specific time?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Concentration of Conscious Force Through Work Can Bring Deeper Realisations

In the Taittiriya Upanishad, Sri Aurobindo translates the term tapasya variously as ‘concentration in thought’ or ‘concentration of force’. Elsewhere he aligns the terms chit-shakti as ‘consciousness-force’, co-equal with the principles of sat, existence and ananda, bliss as the supreme existence, Sat-Chit-Ananda. The Upanishad equates this concentration of conscious force, tapasya, as the Ete al.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Essential Role of Supermind in the Transformation of Mind-Life-Body

The aspiration and goal of seekers from time immemorial is the Ete al, which represents a status outside of the normal functioning of body-life-mind, that is, outside our normal experience. Through achievement of samadhi, the consciousness enters into the experience of pure existence, consciousness and bliss, Sat-Chit-Ananda. This is an “undifferentiated” state that is pure and unmoving. This status, while being the underlying basis and frame for the active movement of the universal energy in its manifestation, is not one that actively and dynamically creates that manifestation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Principle Behind Mantra and Japa

Everything we experience is based on vibrations that impinge upon us and bring about a response in the substance of our being. All matter is created by energy, which consists of vibratory waves. All energy is created by consciousness, which provides the specific impulse of vibration to be created. This principle is recognised throughout the world. The New Testament of the Bible starts with a statement to this effect: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” Succinctly put, this recognises the essential nature and power of vibration.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Violence and Non-Violence — in Life and in Yoga

‘The law of the jungle.’ ‘Dog eat dog’. ‘Survival of the fittest.’ ‘Darwinian evolution.’ These ideas illustrate the way we understand life on earth, and its requirements for survival and success in worldly life. When Jesus proclaimed ‘the meek shall inherit the earth’, he expressed an idea that until now has shown no signs of coming to pass. He asked people to ‘beat your swords into plowshares’, but we have more ‘swords’ today than ever.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Necessity of a Reversal of Consciousness for Living the Spiritual Life

Whether we describe it as a ‘shift of standpoint’ or a ‘reversal of consciousness’, it is an essential turning point in the development of a spiritual life that the individual adjust both his focus and his interpretation of the life experience to conform, not with the outer view on the surface which is immersed in family, enjoyment, work, and organization of the outer life, but with an inner view that sees the deeper purpose of life and the oneness of the entire creation that develops according to the designs of the Divine rather than from some standpoint of satisfaction of the individual ego-

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Power of Imagination and Visualisation Can Aid in Coming into Direct Contact with One’s Psychic Being

The power of visualisation has been recognised as an aid in healing from illness, in excelling in sports, and in helping an individual achieve results in the exte al world. The spiritual seeker also can put this power to work to achieve results in the inner world. Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism are trained on how to utilize visualisation in their spiritual practice and considerable focus is placed upon the techniques involved.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Intermediate Zone and Its Dangers

We see many examples through time of individuals who began a spiritual quest with good intention and who later came to grief as they got caught up in the snares of what Sri Aurobindo calls the ‘intermediate zone’. When we leave behind the safety and security of the exte al consciousness and its grounded physical reality, and enter into a world filled with vital forces, pressures, inner thoughts and drives, it becomes difficult to sort out what is actually taking place.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Powers Within: Summary and Conclusions

We tend to overlook, or underestimate, the powers inherent in our human existence, the powers of the body, the powers of the vital nature, the powers of the mind, the powers of the psychic being, and the power of the spirit. Some of these powers are manifest but not fully understood, explored or developed. Others remain latent within our being. Still others we can see active in other forms and beings in Nature. From time to time, some of these other powers can be activated within the human being as well.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Our Surface Personality Is Only a Small Representation of Our Complete and True Being

We construct a personality that we present to the world and organize our expression and actions around this chosen construct. In doing so, we pick and choose elements that are present in our conscious mind, heart, life-force and physical body and create for ourselves the ego-personality that seemingly ties all of this together into what we know as ourselves. In some cases, we consciously mislead ourselves and others by omitting thoughts, motives, drives, and reactions that are occurring, through active suppression or through simple avoidance.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Experience of the Witness Consciousness

The standpoint of the witness consciousness, separated from the exte al being, is not something that is acquired through thinking or the exercise of will-power based in the mind. Many people have developed approaches or systems to not react to outer circumstances, such as stoicism, various forms of training disciplines, or attempts at acclimating oneself to particular forces and thereby increasing one’s capacity to resist their influence.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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Resisting and Overcoming the Negative Universal Forces That Try to Control Our Reactions

All consciousness, all energy, all material substance is essential one, although it takes different forms in the exte al surface consciousness. Vibrational patterns move across the universal creation and forms respond to them if they are able to vibrate within the range of the vibrations. Human beings can respond to vibrations within a particular limited range, which means the colors we see, the sounds we hear, are not the entire spectrum of color or sound.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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Two Forms of Protection from Attacks of Hostile Forces

There must be some form of inner connection or resonance for any vibration to succeed in impacting an individual. On the more general basis, the physical body represents a connection to the material world, so that actions which impact the material world may obviously impact the physical body. Thus, all of humanity is subject to impacts by virtue of living in the world.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Seeker and the Influence of Vital Forces in Social Interchange

It is common for spiritual aspirants to be advised to isolate themselves or at least limit their contact with others in a social setting, with the ostensible reason to aid the seeker in focusing on the spiritual effort and avoid distraction and the possibility of being diverted or diluted in the energy through vital forces affecting the life. Many are told to cut off the influence of family and friends for similar reasons. Some require devotees to avoid any interaction with money as well, since it carries its own occult power.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Psychic Being and the Evolutionary Principle in Earthly Life

There are certain beings that occupy specific positions in the hierarchy of consciousness, who inhabit specific planes with a specific define role in the creation. These are essentially ‘static’ beings as they do not ‘evolve’. It is commonly held that, on the contrary, the evolutionary principle is embedded in the earth consciousness. Those beings that aspire to evolve and develop, not remain ‘static’ take birth on the earth.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Remembering One’s Dreams Upon Waking

Western psychology has been fixated on dreams and dream interpretation since the dream interpretation work of Sigmund Freud. C. G. Jung took the review of dreams deeper by exploring what he called the ‘collective unconscious’ and the archetypes and symbols that arise widely in dreams. Dreams have always had an outsized importance for people, and ancient cultures had shaman priests who were adept at interpreting dreams. Shakespeare attributed significance to dreams and used them as a way to move the story he was telling forward.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Safely Transitioning Between the Exte al Physical Consciousness and the Mental, Vital and Subtle Physical Realms of Inner Experience

Whenever an individual enters into a new situation or circumstance, there is a period of disorientation, which may involve misinterpretation of what is being experienced, as well as failure to understand the rules, laws or protocols that may apply in that new situation. In society this may lead to difficulties and in some cases, a complete failure to relate or even entering into various legal difficulties due to differing laws or customs. An example is the difference between those used to English or American law versus French or Italian law.

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Spiritual Growth

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So-Called ‘Spiritual’ Experiences and True Spiritual Development

We tend to associate experiences of various unusual powers as either evidence of high mental development or perhaps spiritual development. Most of what gets mooted about, however, may be seen as experiences of entering into various occult vital planes and bringing back the experience from those realms into the waking or the dream state of the individual. This does not actually require that the individual be someone with either extraordinary mental capacities or spiritual opening.

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Spiritual Growth

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The Nature and Role of the Ego

The development of the ego-consciousness is part of the evolutionary cycle of increasing manifestation of conscious awareness in Nature. As consciousness develops it moves from a generalized sense of existence to a more specific recognition of one’s own life and awareness. In animals we see this progression as an individual instinct for survival, as well as the development of hierarchies of power and control, and the perks that come with attaining a higher place in the societal structure.

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Spiritual Growth

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The Path of the Integral Yoga

The integral yoga relies on the action of a force of consciousness beyond the mind-life-body complex under which we ordinarily function. This involves a self-exceeding beyond the normal framework. Thus, it cannot be accomplished purely by the action of those powers residing within that framework, the powers of the mind, the powers of the life-force, the powers of the body.

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Spiritual Growth

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Integral Yoga: Answering the Call

For many, the idea of Yoga is physical postures and breathing techniques, to attain fitness and flexibility. This is not the whole story, however. Hatha Yoga, which has been popularized world-wide over the last 50 years or so, is one element of the much larger understanding of Yoga which we find in the ancient texts, such as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or the Bhagavad Gita. Yoga has a vast range as seen in the practices of Tibetan Yoga, the Vedantic and Tantric traditions, and various spiritual disciplines, many under other names and forms, found in traditions around the world.

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Spiritual Growth

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