Around the world love is held to be in the highest esteem, as a pinnacle of human experience. Love is sung about in songs, written about in poetry. It is exalted in great literature. It is bandied about in normal conversation. People claim they are in love, that love is the ultimate, that all you…
“Touching – The Human Significance of the Skin” by Ashley Montagu is a book I can highly recommend to anyone, not only to massage therapists, but to anyone who wants to learn about themselves, and especially for parents to understand the tactile parent-child relationship. This book explores the importance of healthy touch and how it…
Armoring and Suppression of Natural Sexual Expression from “Reich and Gurdjieff – Sexuality and the Evolution of Consciousness” by David Brahinsky (Part II, Chapter 3) Armoring Character armor, according to Reich, generally speaking, is the product of the interaction of a threatening, hostile world with the innocent, vulnerable organism. Chronic muscular rigidity develops because, as infants,…
Dissolving Your Fears – Importance of Experiencing All Feelings By Eva Pirrakos, Pathwork Lecture No. 190 We all know, my friends, how important and essential it is to face and accept those aspects, feelings, convictions and attitudes in you which are either not at all conscious or not sufficiently so. Unless this awareness is cultivated, it…
Kazimierz Dabrowski is a Polish psychiatrist and psychologist, who developed the Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD). The Theory of Positive Disintegration is a novel approach to personality development. It’s interesting to point out how this personality development model is similar to certain esoteric teachings, such as Gurdjeff’s Fourth Way, Mouravieff’s Gnosis (Esoteric Christianity) as…
The Positive/Negative Realms of Higher Densities By Michael Topper In the higher densities, the Name of the Game is Consciousness. This simply means that the higher densities of existence, whether positive or negative in orientation, all recognize that the business of all being and existence everywhere is always that of Consciousness… becoming more and more “Aware.”…
The Hidden Forces of Life Excerpts from “The Hidden Forces of Life – Selections from the works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother” (The Integral Yoga): “Men are being constantly invaded by the hostiles (occult forces) and there are great numbers of men who are partly or entirely under their influence. Some are possessed by…
“The condition of spirit possession, (that is, full or partial takeover of a living human by a discarnate being) has been recognized or at least theorized in every era and every culture. In 90% of societies worldwide there are records of possession-like phenomena (Foulks, 1985). Extensive contemporary clinical evidence suggests that discarnate beings, the spirits…
We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity. Like a fish in water who doesn’t recognize water because it is everywhere, both outside and within the fish itself, many of us don’t realize the collective insanity in our midst, as our madness is so pervasive that it has become…
[The Vital: The Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of all the play of possessive and other related instinct, such as anger, fear, greed, lust, etc.] The first thing the seeker will detect in his vital exploration is a part of the mind whose only role…
Beings and Forces From “Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness” by Satprem Constantly and unknowingly, we receive influences and inspirations from higher, superconscious regions, which express themselves inside us as ideas, ideals, aspirations, or works of art; they secretly mold our life, our future. Similarly, we constantly and unknowingly receive vital and subtle-physical vibrations,…
The True Vital By Satprem (from “Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Conscuousness”) “The vital is an indispensable instrument – nor creation or strong action is possible without it. It is simply a question of mastering it and of converting it into the true vital which is at once strong and calm and capable of…
The Pilgrimage of Ascension From “The Synthesis of Yoga” by Sri Aurobindo He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite… For the Sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however greatest authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of…
Imagine, that you have only a few minutes, maybe an hour left to live; somehow you have discovered exactly when you will die. What would you do with this precious hour of your stay on Earth? Would you be able to complete all your things in this last hour, do you have a conscious idea…
The Secret From “Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness” by Satprem Sri Aurobindo has never told us the circumstances of his discovery [of the Secret]. He was always extraordinarily silent about himself, not out of reserve but simply because the “I” did not exist. “One felt,” his Chandernagore host reports with naive surprise, “one…
On the Way to Supermanhood – The Mental Fortress By Satprem, from “On the Way to Supermanhood” Our difficulties always stem from the belief that we alone remedy them. As long as our intellectual power (or inadequacy) does not play a role and our greater or lesser capacities are not actively involved, we feel that our…
Money, Spirituality, and Energy By LKJ Keep in mind that the conditions of your life reflect who you are inside. “You will see that in life you receive exactly what you give. Your life is the mirror of what you are. It is in your image. You are passive, blind, demanding. You take all, you accept…
Manly P. Hall on the False Light of New Age Spirituality from “A Monthly Letter”, April 1st, 1936 The field of popular metaphysics is now a battlefield of competitive isms. There is no code of fair play among the merchants of pseudo-religion/spirituality. Metaphysical movements frequently sacrifice integrity upon the altar of success. It was once…
Embodiment – The Key to Soul Integration and the Ascension Process By Lisa Renee As we move into the next five years, which are defined as the Morphogenesis stage of the Ascension Cycle, we are encountering drastic geomagnetic recalibration and structural changes within the planetary architecture that begin new stages of higher consciousness coming into…
Alchemical Inner Fusion and the Parable of the Coach From “Gnosis I – The Exoteric Cycle” by Boris Mouravieff In Western civilization the interior life of the individual, with all its richness, finds itself relegated to a minor role in existence. Man is so caught up in the toils of mechanical life that he has…
First Initiation By Jeanne Se Salzmann You will see that in life you receive exactly what you give. Your life is the mirror of what you are. It is in your image. You are passive, blind, demanding. You take all, you accept all, without feeling any obligation. Your attitude toward the world and toward life…
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