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ARTArticleWise words from Haruki MurakamiHaruki Murakami æä¸ æ¥æ¨¹ (January 12th, 1949) is a Japanese international best-selling author who has sold millions of copies. He’s received many awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.ARTArticleWise words from Salvador DalíSalvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical brilliance, flamboyant personality, and dreamlike, often shocking imagery. His most famous works include The Persistence of Memory, Christ of Saint John of the Cross, and The Temptation of Saint Anthony. A master painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and writer, Dalí turned his entire life into a work of art, blending genius with provocation and forever expanding the boundaries of imagination.ARTArticleWise words from Seneca The YoungerSeneca The Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), was a Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, known for his influential writings and tragedies. His works offer profound reflections on ethics, resilience, and the art of living well. As a tutor to Emperor Nero, Seneca navigated the complexities of Roman politics while advocating for virtue and reason. The philosopher Michel de Montaigne later remarked, “Seneca’s wisdom is a guide to life’s storms, teaching us to stand firm through reason and courage.”ARTArticleWise Words from Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst. His seminal works, including The Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle, revolutionized the understanding of the human mind, introducing concepts like the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, and defense mechanisms. Freud’s theories on sexuality, dreams, and the psyche profoundly influenced psychology, literature, and culture.ARTArticleWise words from Truman CapoteTruman Capote (September 30th, 1924 – August 25th, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his novels and plays are literary classics. He was planning to become a writer at eight years old and began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam" in 1945 attracted the attention of Random House publisher. He achieved widespread acclaim with Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966). Capote spent six years writing the latter. Below we list some words of wisdom by Truman Capote.ARTArticleWise words from Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who became one of the most influential figures in Western art. Though he produced over 2,000 artworks, including iconic pieces like The Starry Night, Sunflowers, and Irises, he achieved little recognition during his lifetime. His letters, especially those to his brother Theo, reveal profound reflections on art, life, nature, and the human soul. Van Gogh’s passionate and innovative use of color and brushwork transformed painting, leaving a lasting legacy.ARTArticleWise words from Yamamoto TsunetomoYamamoto Tsunetomo (å±±æ¬ å¸¸æ) (June 11th, 1659 – November 30th, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain, in Hizen Province, under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. He became a Zen Buddhist priest and told his experiences, wisdom, memories, and theories to the samurai Tashiro Tsuramoto, who put them together in the book Hagakure. Below we list words of wisdom from Yamamoto Tsunetomo. "Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like." "A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm."ARTArticleWriting your own storyGrowing up is not an easy thing to do. Children negotiate a world full of obstacles one of these obstacles is adult expectations. Through this negotiation an understanding of how the world works is born. This knowledge is then used as a foundation for adult life.ARTArticleYogic PsychologyWestern psychology is still a relatively young science, and it necessarily does not have the complete picture of all the complex interactions that take place within our being.ARTArticleYOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!December is a wonderful time to reflect upon all the seeds we’ve planted the year before. When I look upon 2008, I can see the actions that lead to the landscape of my 2009 garden. It’s important to take note of which seeds we planted, which plants we watered and fertilized, and which weeds we allowed to overtake our gardens due to our fear and denial.ARTArticleYour 2011 Spiritual Workshop Idea GeneratorThe best way to generate ideas for spiritual workshops is to draw from your personal experience, knowledge and wisdom. Even if you think that there's nothing remarkable about your life, I have yet to meet any person in this world who did not have something to teach. So just imagine for a minute that you could look at your own experiences, knowledge and wisdom from an outside perspective, how remarkable would they seem then? PictureIdea Generator Exercise: Take out a piece of paper and draw two lines down the page vertically so that the page is divided into 3 equal columns.ARTArticle“Simply Watch the Fish”For 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 spiritual seeker, however, these glimpses provide an insight to the eventual process of loosening the grip of the ego and widening the individual ego-consciousness to join the universal consciousness with all of the liberating effects and powers of knowledge and action that accompany that shift.r ARTArticleA Basic Form of IntuitionWe frequently hear people say that they had a “gut feeling” that something was not right when they went to a certain place. In fact, most of us have had similar feelings from time to time. We don’t have any exte ally perceptible facts to base this feeling on. It just ‘is’. The same thing happens when we get into certain situations or interact with certain people. We just ‘know’ there is something there to take care about.ARTArticleA Method for the Seeker to Obtain Guidance Through Accessing a Random Passage in a BookThe idea that one can receive guidance in response to a question, or aspiration, one is holding within oneself, from a randomly chosen page of a book is not based on some idea of magic, but is grounded in an understanding of the unity of consciousness and the interactive nature of consciousness in action.ARTArticleA Reversal of Consciousness Accompanies the Seeker’s Focus on Spiritual GrowthWe read or hear about the accounts of individuals who had some kind of experience, either dramatically uplifting, or severely traumatic, who awaken to a spiritual purpose in their lives which changes the entire direction and focus of what takes place for them afterwards when compared with their earlier life.ARTArticleA Shift of Consciousness Brings New Understanding of One’s Life and Existence in the WorldWe typically live rooted in the ego-consciousness in the exte al, physical world. We judge things based on our perceptions, our physical, vital and mental processes and our habitual way of understanding things from the standpoint of the ego. This leads to a very limited and biased viewpoint that does not provide a complete view of things. We see a small slice of existence and try to judge from that.ARTArticleA Technique to Shift to Another Domain of ConsciousnessIt 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 called ‘tratak’ which has the individual fix his focus on a flame, a candle or some other bright object until he passes out of the exte al consciousness into that new domain. This can also occur through focus on a mantra, or through concentration of conscious force (tapasya) on a single subject.ARTArticleAccessing Universal Vital Forces Directly or Through Vital Interchange With OthersThe Mother clarifies a distinction between receiving the universal vital forces directly and receiving them through a vital interchange with other individuals. These two methods represent two entirely different statuses of consciousness. To receive the universal vital forces directly, a wide and receptive consciousness is needed. Many people do not appreciate that this is an actual, palpable experience of wideness, not restricted to a mental status.ARTArticleAdaptation of the Body to Support the Manifestation of a New Power of ConsciousnessIn 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 materialization of various material objects. His experiences are not isolated, but are similar to those reported by others on a number of occasions.ARTArticleAddressing the Fallacy of an Individual Perfection in the Absence of Collective ProgressWe start from the ego-consciousness and we treat ourselves, from that standpoint, as independent, separate and “walled off” from all other beings, interacting with them from our insulated status. When we then turn to spiritual growth and development from this standpoint, we start by looking at it as something that the individual can “accomplish” regardless of the status of the rest of humanity or the world as a whole.ARTArticleAligning Education With the FutureSome years ago, some parents in the USA had an interesting conversation with their local elementary school administrator. They were conce ed 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 undertake ‘home schooling’ but did not feel competent themselves to teach some of the more technical subjects such as mathematics or science, nor the character forming subjects such as art or music.ARTArticleAll Problems Can Be Solved Through the Power of ConcentrationIn the yoga sutras of Patanjali, the power of concentration is extolled. In particular, the one-pointed concentration on any particular object unites the seeker with the object such that they become one. At that point, all of the secrets of the object are delivered up to the person undertaking the concentration. The process of unification through one pointed concentration with the object is called samyama. Anything can become the object of such focus, including any particular issue, obstacle, decision, plan, direction or practical skill one wants to choose.ARTArticleAn Accident AvoidedThe Mother advises us that we are generally not aware of the action of all the subtle forces and how they interact to cause circumstances that occur in the exte al world. She further notes that with awareness, many accidents could be avoided. This reminds us of an incident reported some time back:ARTArticleAn Expanding Consciousness Recognises the Inherent Oneness and Mutuality of All ExistenceAn Expanding Consciousness Recognises the Inherent Oneness and Mutuality of All Existencer Posted on December 9, 2024r ARTArticleApplying Knowledge Criteria Appropriate to Each Domain According to Its Own Law of NatureWe frequently try to ‘know’ things based on a particular capacity of our being; however, this may not always be the correct way to appreciate and understand what is actually taking place. Trying to understand music, for instance, by applying the logical intellect and trying to parse the sounds, notes and combinations is going to be an exercise in futility. Music must be appreciated through a different type of evaluation than that of the logical intellect.ARTArticleApplying the Power of Concentration to Develop Efficiency of Time of Accomplishment of Any TaskOne of the key elements of Raja Yoga, based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the practice of samyama, which is a one-pointed concentration that is so complete that it merges subject, object and the process of knowing into one unified whole. By this practice, one knows everything about the object of the concentration, from “inside” as it were.ARTArticleApplying the Scientific Method to the Understanding of the Yoga-ForceHow do we determine whether there is any such thing as a ‘yoga-force’? Some treat it as a form of self-delusion, some as hypnotic suggestion, some as some form of ‘placebo effect’ of the mind, some as simply the action of other forces that we simply define as ‘yoga-force’ without any objective method of distinguishing such a force from other forces active in our world and in our awareness.ARTArticleAre There Really Vampires? — the Reality and Nature of VampirismThe popular imagination about the existence and characteristics of vampires has developed from the famous novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula. From that book we get the picture of beings that survive many hundreds of years, who are shapeshifters , and who drink the blood of their victims, preferably the blood of young, innocent women, in order to gain sustenance and extend their lives. The blood-sucking concept appears to have come from the actions of a form of bat, the vampire bat.ARTArticleAspiration and the Witness ConsciousnessWhen spiritual seekers attempt to implement the technique of the separation of Purusha and Prakriti, they generally go through a stage where they try to utilize the mind to observe. The mind, however, is not the instrument for the actual shift to the standpoint of the Purusha; in fact, the mind is one of the elements that is to be observed by the Purusha.ARTArticleAstrology: Destiny, Possibility, or Irrelevancy?There are those who treat astrology as a science, those who believe that our fate is determined by the “stars” and also those who believe that astrology is a pseudo-science with no real basis in anything that can meaningfully either control our destiny or even signify events in our lives. How can we understand what role, if any, astrology has in providing guidance and direction in our lives?

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