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ARTArticleThe Hidden Forces of Life: Summary and ConclusionsWe tend to live our lives in the belief that we are separate and isolated from one another. We struggle to survive and thrive in a world where every other being is competing with us for their own survival and self-aggrandisement. In such a world, we suffer from self-doubt, anxiety, fear, and pressure. We subject ourselves to internal judgment when we fail to meet the standards we believe govern our lives, and we project our desires, needs, thoughts and conce
s onto others and judge them on that standard as well.ARTArticleThe Human Consciousness Cannot Comprehend Fully the Vastness of the Universal CreationWe spend little time or thought on the place we occupy in the universal creation. The larger forces at work, the consciousness that creates, builds, shapes and directs this massive and complex undertaking remain hidden from us. The power we can consciously receive and utilize is a minute amount of the total energy moving around the universe all the time.ARTArticleThe Imagination: a Tool for DevelopmentImagination is a window to the future. People who are stuck in their past, or the present, tend to close themselves off from development. They insist that things have always been done a certain way, and that is how they are going to be done. Change is anathema to them. They have little, if any, receptivity to progressive views, to new directions, to development off of their fixed ways of seeing and doing things. They even fight to maintain their status quo rather than face the reality that change is inevitable.ARTArticleThe Impact of the Mind and the Vital Nature on the Body ConsciousnessWe many times fail to recognise the extent of the impact that the mind, and the vital nature, have on the body, its health and its capacities for growth, resilience and development. The mind-body connection is starting to come into focus, however. When the mind sends repeated ‘suggestions’ to the body it impacts the response of the body. It can send positive affirmative messages and the body will respond with a renewed vigor, energy and resilience. Or it can send negative messages, which then increase the body’s sense of helplessness, victimization and failure.ARTArticleThe Individual Experience of Free Will in the Context of the Play of Forces Behind the ScenesHow do we decide what we decide? Why do we do what we do? For most people, the response is relatively automatic. They have an innate sense of having ‘made a decision’ and they thus believe they have free will.ARTArticleThe Inevitability of the Emergence of the Supramental Consciousness and Its Transformative Action On Body, Life and MindOne of the limitations of Mind embedded in a physical body is that it tends to fixate on what it can experience ‘here and now’. It has a hard time correlating past, present and future and seeing and understanding trends, directions, trajectories and momentum, other than in specific areas such as physics or mechanics that focus the mind on those things. Things that are unseen are for the most part either ignored or dismissed.ARTArticleThe Inevitable Emergence of New Powers of Consciousness Is Difficult for the Mind of Man to EnvisionWe live in a time of incredible feats of technological progress. Digital technologies, quantum computing, wireless transmission of energy, solar power, airplane flights, space flight, landing on the moon, instant communications of audio and video content world-wide are things we tend to take for granted. Just 50 or 100 years ago, however, many of these technological wonders were considered to be fanciful or the stuff of science fiction.ARTArticleThe Infectious Nature of Vibrations in Our Social EnvironmentAuthoritarian states throughout history have understood, intuitively, the power of collective vibration and suggestion.ARTArticleThe Influence of the Awakened Consciousness on the Circumstances of the Exte
al Being and LifeHave you ever wondered how some people seem to go through various situations without a problem while others go through similar situations and have to undergo tremendous challenges and suffering? If someone escapes a harrowing incident once, we tend to call it “luck”. But if it happens repeatedly in the course of an individual’s life, we have to look for some causative factor that is at work. Similarly, if someone has a bad experience, we will tend to call it ‘bad luck’. When it happens repeatedly through an individual’s life, again we have to look for a causative factor.ARTArticleThe Influence of Unseen, Unperceived Beings and Forces in Our WorldWhen we can once appreciate and accept the fact that forces, unseen by us, unperceived by our senses, can, and do, act upon us, pushing us to act in certain ways, pressing on us to move in certain directions, it is but a small step to recognize that there are beings who inhabit these unseen and unperceived regions and that they have their own goals, objectives, agendas which they carry out, but in their own sphere, and in their action upon the physical world.ARTArticleThe Initial Psychic Realisation Helps You Go Beyond the Barriers of Your EgoismWhen the astronauts left the planet and were able to look back at Earth from outside, it radically changed their viewpoint. It represented a visceral shock that forced them to see things in an entirely new way from a new perspective.ARTArticleThe Inner Spiritual Light Exists in the Entire Creation and Maintains the Balance of ExistenceOur normal human view of things is based in the framing of the mental process which relies on distinguishing differences between one thing and another, between one being and another, between one event and another. This “fragmentation” leads us to focus primarily on the separation we have rather than on the underlying unity, the oneness of all creation. Our reliance on this standpoint leads us into sometimes quite tragic consequences.ARTArticleThe Investigation of Extra-Sensory Powers of PerceptionAs science begins to recognise the fact that there are ranges of vibration outside of the limited scope that we can normally experience, and that countless reports of perceptions that are inexplicable based on the outermost physical reality that we have heretofore treated as our sole reality, we have seen a breaking down of the narrow and blinkered approach to knowing that has ruled humanity for so many millennia. The insights provided by quantum mechanics have also greatly upset our formerly orderly world-view about things, and forced us to look at reality from an entirely new perspective.rARTArticleThe Law of the Rebound in the Practice of OccultismAs with physical laws and laws of physics, laws of nature, there are laws of occultism which operate when there is vital interchange between people on an occult level. Knowledge of these laws is essential both to protect oneself and to ensure that occult powers are not being misused or misapplied. Practicing occultism is not something that can be taken up lightly or without proper training and preparation, and the consequences can be significant.ARTArticleThe Limitations in the Concept of Free WillWe believe we have free will. We are confronted with choices and make a decision and carry it out and believe that this decision was made freely by the individual we identify as ourself. At the same time, we can recognise the step-wise development which is called ’cause and effect’, or the law of Karma.ARTArticleThe Limitations of the Mind and the Senses in Knowing the Hidden Forces of LifeOne of the greatest difficulties we face in trying to understand the operation of hidden or occult forces in life is the limitations on our ability to perceive and to know what is actually taking place. Each aspect of our being has its own way of “knowing”. For our lives in the exte
al world we rely heavily on our senses for impulses that carry information to our nervous system and our brains. We are heavily dependent, then, on the accuracy and completeness of the sense perceptions and the ability to correctly interpret what we are sensing.ARTArticleThe Limiting and Diluting Effect of the Exte
al Instruments on the Intimations of the SoulDuring the evolutionary development of the ascending powers of consciousness, the action of the soul is to provide an influence from behind, while the primary attention is fixated on the needed development of the powers of the exte
al being, body, life and mind. This severely limits the direct action of the soul until everything is readied. There are however additional factors which both limit and distort the soul’s action in the exte
al being.ARTArticleThe Limits and the Effectivity of PrayerWhen we reflect on what we mean by prayer, and what expectations we have for it, we can determine both the limits and the uses of prayer in navigating our way through life, and obtaining results aligned with our aspirations. In the USA it is common for people to send “thoughts and prayers” for those subject to mass school shootings, for instance, when they have little or no interest whatsoever in actually addressing the underlying causes and doing anything at all to mitigate the problem.ARTArticleThe Lines of Karma Vary According to the Type of Energy InvolvedWe have a physical being, we have a vital energy including nervous energy, moral force and emotional energy, and we have a mental nature which includes thought, reasoning powers, and formulation of thought into word or deed. The vital force acts on its own plane as well as utilizes the physical being to effectuate its results, but the character of that energy is based in the way the vital element within us responds.ARTArticleThe Manifestation of the Supermind Level of Consciousness As the Next Evolutionary PhaseEach successive plane of consciousness has a native action in its own domain and then, as it enters the material plane, it has to modify its action to conform to the limitations of the other principles. Thus, the native action of the vital plane is freer and more fluid and powerful than when the vital force manifests in the physical. Similarly, the native action of the mind is much more powerful when not limited by the instruments and incapacities or specific impulsions of the physical and vital nature as manifested here.ARTArticleThe Material Universe, the Causative Plane and the Forces of ManifestationWhen we look at existence from the individual standpoint, we see a number of solid forms interacting with one another. We do not see how they came into existence (other than the physical, material, practical methodology we can observe, which fails to give us the causative factors or significance.) We do not see the forces that play through each of these forms, and we experience most of our life as originating within each form ‘somehow’. This view is unfortunately so limited and framed as to prevent us from gaining a complete or true understanding of existence.ARTArticleThe Material World Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Vital, Mental, or Spiritual ManifestationHumanity, for the most part, continues to believe that the material world occupies a primary place in the creation of the universe, and that somehow, Matter is able to create the encoding and the complex systems that come along with that encoding out of some random mixture of elements.ARTArticleThe Mechanism of Action Of the Subconscient in Relation to the Exte
al BeingWhen we respond to a vibration, either at the physical level, the vital level or the mental level, we open a pathway for that vibration to impact us in some way, and, having once been accepted for admittance, it creates a propensity for us to admit it the next time it comes our way. In this way, a habit of response is built up. This idea is validated by scientists who track neural pathways, and who indicate that a repeated experience builds up ‘grooves’ in the pathways of the brain which allow impulses to traverse them more quickly and easily.ARTArticleThe Mental Will and Its Influence on the Health and Well-Being of the BodyBy now most people have heard of the ‘placebo effect’. Yet, they have not gone into the significance of what this implies. Studies have shown that as much as 30% of a group given an ‘inert’ treatment have similar healing outcomes to those given an actual targeted treatment. The individual given the placebo does not know he has received an inert treatment. The mind of the individual adopted the sense of being aided and undertook to create a will to heal.ARTArticleThe Mind, the Spirit and the Deeper Knowledge and Power That Can Know and Master the Universal CreationARTArticleThe Miracles and Mysteries in Our Everyday Lives and the Conclusions We Can Draw From ThemWe are constantly surrounded by ‘miracles’ in the sense that our lives are filled with activities, events, processes and circumstances that we clearly do not understand, but accept based on some explanation, assuming that someone knows what it is all about. Airplanes flying through the air, rockets traveling to outer space and visiting the moon, wireless communication anywhere in the world, wireless electric charging, and all the myriad inventions that we take for granted in the modern world — who really knows what powers are at work to make these things happen.ARTArticleThe Misdirected Mind and the Harm It Can CreateThe Dhammapada provides the spiritual seeker with a deep wisdom that forces us to reflect and gain understanding. The Mother has taken up a particular verse about the harm caused by a mind that is not tightly focused and under control. With some consideration we can understand the deeper intent.ARTArticleThe Nature and Action of the Power of SuggestionThere are many forms of suggestion, some more subtle than others. Peer pressure is one form that everyone experiences at some point in time. Our friends and acquaintances do something and encourage us to participate and do it also. In some cases, this can lead to life-long consequences, such as gaining an addiction to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, etc. In other instances, it can be a positive force. Suggestion is a form of influence that acts when it finds a sympathetic vibration or receptivity in an individual. Another form of suggestion is advertising and its further extension of propaganda.ARTArticleThe Nature of the Subconscient Level of Consciousness in ManEuropean culture takes credit for ‘discoveries’ that it makes despite the fact that societies in other parts of the world have long known about these things. Thus, Europeans ‘discovered’ America while disregarding the fact that it was already populated with numerous tribes of indigenous people, and had been visited by Scandanavian Vikings much earlier than the European “discovery”.ARTArticleThe Need and Benefit of the Power of Concentration“By askesis do thou seek to know the Ete
al, for concentration in thought is the Ete
al.” Thus spoke Varuna to Bhrigu in the Taittiriya Upanishad [Sri Aurobindo’s translation].
Swami Vivekananda’s lectures on Raja Yoga, expounding the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with an extensive commentary, are a textbook on developing the science of concentration and the benefits of such development. For those who eventually recognise the chaotic and undisciplined state of the mental space, the practice of Raja Yoga can be a tremendous benefit.