28 Feb 2011

ARTIFICIAL LIFE VERSUS NATURAL LIFE

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At what point will humans go to completely disconnect from nature.


Humans should focus on the state of modern scientific understandings with regard to human behavior, along with advanced technological and organizational methods which could improve our society greatly, reducing the possibility of severe ecological problems for the future and hence working towards true global sustainability for the species itself.

Humans should be dealing with the "intellectual/spiritual/cultural awareness of the time" and it should be the goal of humans to explore what makes us who we are, how we relate, what we are doing and what we should be doing if we wish to live in a peaceful, abundant, and healthy global community.








25 Feb 2011

LITTLE GRANDMOTHER'S MESSAGE 2011

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Kiesha Crowther, also known as "Little Grandmother," was initiated as shaman at age 30 by a Native American elder and was told that her task was to be shaman and Wisdom Keeper of the “tribe of many colors.”

As a child, she spent long periods of time alone in the wilderness, where she lived with and learned from the four-legged, one-legged, winged-ones and swimmers, as well as the star and stone people. Her young life was marked by many unusual experiences and abilities that she did not understand.

As a child, she had been taught by the ancestors, grandmothers past, and Mother Earth, and was known for her ability to sense and communicate with wild animals and to see and work with energy.






Humanity is still evolving in consciousness, together, as One.


For untold ages, man has wandered the Earth for sustenance, gain, security and peace.


As tribes and even nations, he has criss-crossed the planet over and over again, fighting with, and intermarrying with, a long succession of disparate peoples. The result of this endless wandering is the One humanity today.

No matter the differences in colour, religion, tradition and language, all humans are descendents of common ancestors and have evolved by the same means to their present state. That this present state undoubtedly favours some groups over others is the result of many historical factors, and not of any innate difference in intelligence or adaptability. Throughout history, groups have risen to prominence for a longer or shorter time, only to sink back into obscurity again, leaving their creativity to remind later generations of their presence.

All of this being true, it is essential for modern humanity to see itself as One, and the differences in appearance the result of relatively recent climatic conditions.



Advancing together, each race and sub-race adds some new quality to the whole. The process of repeated incarnations ensures that gradually, each individual inherits the new knowledge and awareness of the epoch. If men truly understood the complexity and beauty of this process, gone for ever would be the dislike and distrust, the ‘racism’ of today. Men would realize that, in truth, they are brothers; journeying together on a seemingly endless voyage of self-discovery.

In it we learn to co-operate and thus create together, fashioning the rich tapestry of our shared identity.

Then will humans conquer the heights of achievement, sharing their knowledge and experience. Gone for ever will be the false barriers which humans have erected to keep at a distance their brothers, realizing them at last as themselves.






BISHNOI ...FIERCE CUSTODIANS OF NATURE

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I read this ARTICLE and thought it was so inspiring 


Tribal Faiths - Bishnois : Fierce custodians of nature


by Anupama Bhattacharya

The Bishnoi tribe of the western Indian state of Rajasthan have, over centuries, made a unique blend of ecological sense and religious sensibility their faith's cornerstone

Unique Customs

Though worshipping the Hindu diety Vishnu, the Bishnois bury their dead. The idea is to give the body back to the elements.

Bishnoi carpenters never cut trees. They wait for trees to die on their own or fall down during storms.

Every Bishnoi family creates a tank in their field to provide water for animals in the arid summer months.

Even though much of their standing crop is eaten by deer herds, no Bishnoi ever chases a deer away.

Bishnois consider it a great pride to be able to die saving trees or animals.

Though propounders of peace and non-violence, Bishnois can become extremely violent if any animal or tree is harmed in their area.

The Thar desert in India is full of ironies—one of them being the Bishnoi community of Rajasthan. Here, peace is maintained with aggression and robust health rubs shoulders with regular famine. Here penniless women flaunt heavy gold jewelery and wild animals leave the supposed security of jungles to stroll around village huts and farmlands.

Not to mention the fact that the Bishnois worship nature in all its manifestations. Not the ripe, yielding nature of ancient pagan societies, but the ruthless and demanding desert where a desolate horizon meets a blazing sky. Here, women suckle motherless deer, die to save trees, go hungry to provide food for animals and live a strictly sattvic (simple) life advocated by their guru Jambaji.

Jambaji, or Jambeshwar Bhagavan, born in 1451 in one of the warrior sects of Rajasthan, was soon disillusioned by communal riots between Muslim invaders and the native Hindus. However, instead of wallowing in despair, he went ahead to form a religion of peace based on 29 (bish: twenty, noi: nine) principles that included compassion for all living beings, cleanliness, devotion, vegetarian diet and truthfulness. Thus, the Bishnois came into being.





"It was actually a clever ploy," says Maharaja Swaroop Singh, vice-president of the Heritage Hotels, India, and former MLA of the Looni (Bishnoi) constituency in Rajasthan (where the Bishnoi population is concentrated). He has worked closely with the tribe for the last 36 years.

"Jambaji knew that to form a successful religion, he had to put in both Hindu and Muslim elements. So he asked the Bishnois to worship Vishnu and bury their dead. The idea, of course, is to give the dead back to the elements. We Hindus use the fire element, the Muslims use the earth element."

The Bishnois, however, have a different explanation. Says Dev Ram of Guda, one of the largest Bishnoi villages in
Jodhpur district, Rajasthan: "Cremating the dead requires wood. But Jambaji said that killing a live tree to get rid of a dead body is ridiculous." So the Bishnois bury their dead without so much as a memorial. "We let the earth take back what it gave to us," adds Dev Ram. What surprises you as you approach a Bishnoi village is the sheer freedom with which spotted deer, blue bulls, and black bucks race along the roadside or frolic in the open fields. In fact, during our approximately 50 minutes drive from Jodhpur to Guda, we must have seen hundreds of deer and antelopes, some actually crossing the road ahead of us.





"Animals are sacred," says Bana Ram of Guda. "Before he passed away, Jambaji told us that in his absence, the black buck should be revered as his manifestation. That belief continues. Hunting black buck for us is like killing our guru. One call of 'Shikar! (the hunt)' and 500 villagers will assemble here this moment to teach the offenders a lesson. We'll kill our own children before we let these animals be killed."





Which is why the worst thing to happen to a hunter is being caught by the Bishnois. "Once, an Indian Air Force captain was caught hunting. We stripped him and forced him to lie down on the hot sand in the middle of summer. He'd never dream of hunting again," adds Bana Ram.

This ruthless protection of animals is part of the Bishnoi culture. An extremely aggressive race, they fight for wildlife and environment with a vengeance. In fact, we were warned against going to the villages by the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Wildlife Division, M.L. Sonal. "The contribution of Bishnois to wildlife protection is almost 100 per cent. But they can be dangerous if angered," says he.

But our reception in the Bishnoi villages, though initially suspicious, was soon friendly and warm. "You must tell others how fragile these animals are," said a village elder, holding the picture of a black buck. "They are so delicate that most often they die of fright. We try our best to save these gentle creatures but what can we do against so many hunters? They are lured by the people of
Jodhpur who don't hesitate to get these animals killed for easy money."




As we take a tour around the village, we come across giggling women in colorful clothes, sturdy men in their traditional white dhoti-kurtas zooming around on their motorbikes, sparkling clean mud houses and an occasional carpenter carving wood with intense concentration. "Most of us here are either farmers or wood/stone carvers, goldsmiths and milkmen," says Maunlal Suta, a carpenter from Guda. "This art runs in the family. We have been carving wood for generations. Now I'm training my son to do the same."

Wood carving? But isn't it against Jambaji's 29 principles to cut trees?

"We never cut trees," explains Suta. "We wait till a tree dies on its own or falls down during a storm. This work that you see here," he points at a pile of carved wood for doors, windows and bedposts, "has been done over many years, waiting patiently for wood."

Patience, actually, is the catchword in this simple and dedicated community. "We have only four months of farming," says Johra Ram, community head of a Bishnoi village. "The rest of the year we just sit around and hope the food will last." To add to that, herds of deer end up eating much of the standing crop. "Earlier, almost 30 to 50 per cent of the crop was destroyed by animals. Now it has decreased to about 15 per cent," informs H.L. Meena,
Conservator Forest, Jodhpur.





But not a stick is raised to chase away the animals. "We would willingly go hungry to feed the animals," says Bana Ram. "We believe in the co-existence of life. Our guru said that those who die saving innocent animals or trees will go to heaven. For us, animals are the avatars of divinity." Which is why, in the water-starved desert, each Bishnoi family creates a tank in their field to provide water for deer in the arid summer months.

Much of the lifestyle of the community has its basis in the 29 principles of Jambaji. "Our guru forbade us to get addicted, be it smoking, tobacco chewing, drugs or alcohol. Even tea is considered a vice," says Teja Ram. "He also asked us to consume plenty of milk and milk products and home grown cereals. We never eat outside. Even when going on long trips, we either cook or pack food from home."
 



Which explains the robust health of this community in spite 
of recurring famines. Here, though women are traditionally limited to household chores, they play a dominant role. "Women are the symbol of creation. Which is why guruji asked them to wear vibrant colors such as red and orange," explains Bhanu Ram. "Men wear white because it is symbolic of cleanliness and austerity."

Bishnois also have a strange interconnection between death and festivity. Whenever the head of a family dies, all unmarried girls, irrespective of their age, are married off on the 12th day. "On the face of it," says Teja Ram, "guruji started this custom to limit expenses during weddings. But it also has deeper implications. For us, death is a way of life. One person dies, the next generation takes his place and the cycle continues. We believe that whatever you do in this life, you pay for it in the next birth." The marriage of minors, however, as Teja Ram is quick to point out, "is not practiced anymore since we understand that it is detrimental to their development".





Living amidst the barren wastelands interspersed with khejri and babool trees, the Bishnois are a proud race. "We don't get any help from the government and don't want any," says Johra Ram. "Any change in the world has to begin within the society. All this talk about nature and wildlife protection would be more effective if each individual was to believe in the earth as a living, breathing entity and fight for its survival the way we do." He narrates the story of Amrita Devi, a Bishnoi woman who, along with more than 366 other Bishnois, died saving trees. "About 200 years back, Maharaja Abhay Singh of
Jodhpur required wood for his palace. So he sent his soldiers to cut trees. Amrita Devi and other villagers hugged the branches while the soldiers chopped them down with the trees. This is still remembered as the great Khejarli sacrifice."





Such stories abound in the Bishnoi community. In fact, the Bishnoi pantheon has more martyrs who died for the sake of nature than gods. And the trend shows no signs of diminishing with time. "What makes me proud," says Bana Ram, "is that the next generation is even more committed to nature than we are." As if on cue, a little boy who can hardly keep pace as we walk around the village, tugs at my sleeve and says: "I'll never let anybody kill these animals."

Strange dedication, this. A small community spread over the northwestern states of India, including Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh besides Rajasthan, the Bishnois have contributed more to nature and wildlife protection than the entire country put together. They have learnt, with time and hardships, how to nurture nature and grow with it instead of exploiting it.





As we turn back from the village, we come across a Bishnoi woman quietly nursing a fawn that was wounded by a dog. Nearby, her little daughter plays. Outside, herds of deer saunter in the fields or take a nap in the mellow afternoon sun. Can this be for real, you wonder? Perhaps not, at least not in a world where, in the manner of King Lear's gods, we kill animals for our sport. But reality, as the scriptures say, is relative. So, amidst the reality of corruption and crime, a community dedicated to nature struggles to survive, teaching, along the way, a few lessons in harmonious co-existence.






24 Feb 2011

NATURE SPIRITS ...AN INTRODUCTION INTO THEIR WORLD

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I thought I'd better introduce the ''Angelic World'' ... that we, as humans are humbly living in ...so more people can understand at what Grace these beings allow us to experience their abode on this Earth ......


Elemental Kingdoms


We now come to a group of beings that we can neither see nor feel in a direct sense although their forms of expression are all around us through the elements of earth, air, fire and water.

We call these beings elementals although they are also known as Faeries and are a part of the Faerie realms. Many traditional cultures have sensed the presence of spirits in nature, indeed one major religion Shinto, from Japan, specifically worships the spirits of place, called Kami, which reside in rocks and caves.

The beings that inhabit these realms are conscious like you and I, although obviously they have a very different way of connecting to the physical world that we see around us.



Unless you possess clairvoyant vision you will not readily ‘see’ the beings that lie behind these seemingly inert elements although they are very attracted to the innocence of young children and sometimes appear to them, so the child that claims to have seen a ‘fairy’ may indeed be telling the truth.





Elemental Evolution

Like all spirit essences these beings commence their evolutionary cycle with a choice in the way they wish to explore physicality. They also have the additional option of choosing which ‘element’, be it earth, air, fire or water, as their starting point. An elemental spirit therefore has additional choices on whether to start their spiritual journey as a Gnome, Sylph, Undine or Salamander.



Elementals evolve through first learning to manipulate and understand their own element before progressing to embody the qualities of another element. For example an earth elemental or Gnome that is associated with a group of rocks by the seashore may eventually come to understand and appreciate the role of the Undines or water beings.



This development process continues until eventually all four elements are assimilated at which stage the elemental being is given a new accolade of being called a ‘deva’.





Devas

This is a Sanskrit word, from the Hindu tradition, which literally means ‘shining one’. However Christian, Judaic and Islamic cultures know these beings as angels of which the Cherubim and Seraphim are a part.

Once devahood has been gained the elemental or angelic being takes on greater and greater responsibilities looking after whole areas of land or sea and becoming responsible for groups of spirits, which are part of its retinue.



There are devas which look after towns and cities as well as tracts of the countryside. At the top of this metaphoric tree is the Planetary Deva, which many people nowadays have come to call Gaia.


Communicating with Elementals

Elementals communicate with us through telepathic images presenting information on the things they know and understand.





In the first instance you need to believe in their existence. This can be hard for some people brought up in a very rational way. Once the bridge has been crossed there is a rich world waiting to be explored. Over he centuries we have created a picture on how these elemental beings look and these images get fed back to us.



For example Gnomes are traditionally seen a small human-like beings one or three feet tall, much as is portrayed in the traditional ‘garden gnome’. If they presented an image to us of say a golden rock we might not identify it as an elemental spirit.

In a similar way a fire elemental would more likely to show itself as a fiery being rather than a bright ‘spark of light’. They present mental images to us that reflect our understanding of their domains. They read not only our minds but also are acutely conscious of our feelings and spiritual awareness.



 A person who disrespects nature will never gain their sympathy or support. We do not appreciate how clearly these emotional qualities show up in our individual energy fields, which can be easily read by spirit essences.





So to gain the respect and help of the Elemental kingdoms you have to have a love of nature.





23 Feb 2011

KUNDALINI ( THE HOLY GHOST)

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Kundalini (kuṇḍalinī, Sanskrit: कुण्डलिन) literally means coiled. 


In yoga, a "corporeal energy" - an unconscious, instinctive or  Shakti, lies coiled at the base of the spine. 

It is envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'.

 The kundalini resides in the sacrum bone in three and a half coils




Kundalini is a psycho-spiritual energy, the energy  of the consciousness, which is thought to reside within the sleeping body, and is aroused either through spiritual discipline or spontaneously to bring new states of consciousness, including mystical illumination. 


Kundalini is Sanskrit for "snake" or "serpent power," so-called because it is believed to lie like a serpent in the root chakra at the base of the spine. 


In Tantra Yoga kundalini is an aspect of Shakti, the divine female energy and consort of Shiva.









KUNDALINI ( THE HOLY GHOST)







The power of kundalini is said to be enormous. Those having experienced it claim it to be indescribable. 

The phenomena associated with it varies from bizarre physical sensations and movements, pain, clairaudience, visions, brilliant lights, superlucidity, psychical powers, ecstasy, bliss, and transcendence of self. 

Kundalini has been described as liquid fire and liquid light.




Indian yoga, with its emphasis on the transmutation of energy to higher consciousness, was the chief contributor to the cultivation of kundalini and the preservation of its knowledge prior to present times. 

Kundalini was a rarity in the West before the 1970s until more attention became centered upon the consciousness. 


In 1932, for example, psychiatrist Carl G. Jung and others observed that the kundalini experience was seldom seen in the West.






However, an examination of mystical literature and traditions showed that kundalini, called by various names, seems to have been a universal phenomenon in esoteric teachings for perhaps three thousand years. 

Kundalini-type descriptions or experiences are found in esoteric teachings of the Egyptians, Tibetans, Chinese, some Native Americans, and the Kung bushmen of Africa




HUMAN EVOLUTION





One of the most dramatic instances of classic kundalini awakening was experienced by Gopi Krishna (1903-1984), of India, who meditated for three hours every morning over seventeen years. 

On Christmas Day, 1937, he had his explosive awakening with kundalini pouring up his spine. 

By his personal account, he rocked out of his body and was enveloped in a halo of light. His consciousness expanded in every direction, and a vision of luster unfolded before him ... 

he was like a small cork bobbing on a vast ocean of consciousness.



GANESH ( REMOVER OF OBSTACLES )


This extraordinary experienced occurred once again, and then Krishna was plunged into twelve years of misery, during which he "experienced the indescribable ecstasies of the mystics…and the agonies of the mentally afflicted."

 Following twelve years his body apparently adapted to the new energy and stabilized, but he was permanently changed. Everything in his vision was bathed in a silvery light. 

He heard an inner cadence, called the "unstruck melody" in kundalini literature.





CELTIC DRAGON RING

Eventually he could experience bliss just by turning his attention inward. He became, as he said, "a pool of consciousness always aglow with light." 

His creativity soared allowing him to write poetry and nonfiction books.











Krishna devotedly spent most of the remainder of his life learning the secrets of kundalini. He considered it "the most jealously guarded secret in history" and "the guardian of human evolution." 

To him it was the driving force behind genius and inspiration. He also thought within the brain is the blueprint to evolve humankind to a higher consciousness, one that makes use of kundalini. 

Too, he believed kundalini could improve the health of humankind with its ability to regenerate and restore the body, to lengthen life, and eradicate such conditions as mental retardation.







20 Feb 2011

ANCIENT UFO'S IN ARTWORK

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TOUCHED BY ANGELS


The appearance of fiery chariots and hovering discs in Renaissance Era paintings - as well as beings working their controls and/or attired in garb that we commonly recognize today as spacesuits - proves, at least, that UFOs were being sighted in medieval times.

While no direct connection can be isolated from this, between space aliens and religious icons, there certainly is a lot of supernatural phenomena associated in and around these depictions.

The common images of one or more hovering saucer shaped metallic craft, often with highly intense beams of light emanating from the bottom, intelligently controlled and traveling at outrageous speeds - as if the artists witnessed these things first hand - are not in any sense ordinary events, even in modern times.

It is extremely hard to find mention of these events, but they do exist - as scattered fragments, vague remnants, survivors of censorship.










THE KISS OF AWAKENING

One possible explanation is that these paintings were commissioned (by the church or the state) to place these phenomena in a deified context. Officially declared to be the vessels of angels, the peasants would ask fewer annoying questions - that likely, the clergy of the day had scant answers for themselves. It is likely that ancient UFO sightings coincided with important historical and political events - and just as likely that the sightings impressed, or pressured, leaders of the day to take bold, or unusual actions.


One set of images depicts a late 8th century battle, in which Saxon Crusaders besieged and surrounded the people of SigiburgCastle, in France- when suddenly a group of saucers appeared in the sky, apparently hovering over the top of the church. The Saxons fled, believing that the French were being protected by the "flaming shields."


It was a very superstitious time - but people, as today, knew what they saw - though they probably had little context to associate with it. While there were certainly no flying machines (designed by humans) in those times, there were sailing ships - people were familiar with portholes. Some depictions illustrate these and other classic UFO details - begging the question: what did the ancients think of flying saucers?





BAPTISM





DIVINE CHARIOT

Today, we are more comfortable with the idea of beings from outer space. For one thing, we know our world to be a planet, orbiting a star that is one of billions in a rather ordinary galaxy, floating somewhere in the vast reaches of the incalculably infinite universe. 

People of ancient times were told quite the contrary - that Earth was the center of the universe, the planets were gods, and the stars were fixed points of light on the inside of a celestial sphere. 

Any close encounter of any kind would most likely have been met with immediate extreme fear and wonder (as is the case today, for the most part), but considered without question to be angels, gods, demons or monsters. 

Their assertions may have been more on the mark than ours......




CRUCIFIXION ............PAINTED AD 1350





CRUCIFIXION ............PAINTED AD 1350


There were no airplanes, weather balloons, or experimental military jets to explain away the UFOs native to the skies of the pre industrial aeons. 

Events such as these would not have been as easily dismissed. Would those who witnessed such craft or encountered such beings first hand, be feared as witches, seen as cursed ~ or even blessed? 

A medieval abductee might descend from the mountain saying, in a reverent but dazed tone, "I have been touched by the angels."




































U.F.OLOGY: a modern mythology emerges from the primordial Ocean. Ra, the Son-Disc, resurfaces from the abyss of Nu, born of Water.





THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IN THE QUANTUM CATHEDRAL





ABORIGINAL ART




Glorification of the Eucharist by Bonaventura Salimbeni 1600






La Tebaide by Paolo Uccello 1465 (close-up)





Madonna with St.Giovannino by Domenico Ghirlandaio 15th century




THE STAR CHAMBER OF ISIS ... WORLD OF ARCHETYPES

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The Star Chamber Of Isis






THE WORLD OF ARCHETYPES


When one experiences a shamanic journey our pulse rate increases at the same time that our blood pressure drops.


This is also what happens as the body is preparing to die.


As the life-force leaves our body through the pineal gland, another flood of DMT is released.


I believe that the initial stages of a shamanic journey replicate this near death experience and so triggers DMT release in the brain.








Lore has it that the pineal gland is the gateway into the soul.


An energy vortex; a meeting place between psyche and soma, soul and body.









I believe that shamanic work combined with breathwork brings large volumes of oxygen and life-force into the bloodstream and, because of its excellent blood-supply, the pineal gland receives much stimulation from the oxygen/ prana drenched blood causing it to resonate/ vibrate thereby stimulating the release of DMT, our body's own powerful psychedelic.






Merkabah, is the divine light vehicle used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. 


Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports spirit/body from one dimension to another. It is taught that one can activate a non-visible 'saucer' shaped energy field around the human body that is anchored at the base of the spine.


Depending on the height of the person doing the exercise, this field is about 55 feet across.


Once activated, this 'saucer' shaped field is capable of carrying ones consciousness directly to higher dimensions.


Ancient people knew of the importance of the pineal gland .....to the priests of Heliopolis, the embalmers of ancient Egypt (who were the forerunners of today's pathologists), the Star Chamber of Isis (the Holy of Holies) and the Halls of Anubis and Thoth were not just fanciful terms given to mythical locations but were actually places within the living brain where the priests and priestesses travelled to be taught by the gods.





ANUBIS


The following is a description of The Star Chamber of Isis given by a priest of Isis undergoing the Rite of the Meeting of Mind with Mind





ISIS


The corridor is long and narrow and gleams like the inside of a shell drawn from the depths of the sea. The curtains that guard the entrance are of the softest gossamer, so fine that they seem like mist on a lake at dawn. As I pass through them I come into the presence of the Gods. The walls are of silver and give off a faint silver light that illuminates this holy place. Beneath my feet is the sandy silt of the sacred Nile, and all about me I hear the heartbeat of Isis .


Behold, I dwell in the Star Chamber of the Goddess.





SYNCHRONICITY