My brief sojourn to the Himalayas brought me face to face with a Shivite monk, perhaps the tallest monk I’d ever seen. It was 1990 and I was traveling on pilgrimage with a group of like-minded souls, eager to see what India had to offer. We were in the steep foothills near Darjeeling, where views […]
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Much has been said about the coming earth changes that our planet will be experiencing in the next ten to fifty years. Some pundits say this “yuga shift” will come in 2032—a time when the old materialistic Kali Yuga fully transitions into the new Dwapara Yuga age of energy.
The hill we know of today as the Acropolis has been the site of communal worship and civilization long before Classical Athens in 500 BC. Possessing good fortification, natural springs, and a view of the surrounding mountains and sea ports, the Acropolis is not just the center of Athens but a well-positioned site to protect and manage a community. Perhaps for this reason the Acropolis eventually became the sacred precinct of the goddess Athena.
I hope you are doing well and full of light! I say this because we are light. It may not feel that way when we trip and fall or twist our ankle, but underneath the fabric of our being exists a great wave of light that we are all a part of.
In yogic terms, Kundalini is associated with snakelike energy. Kundalini awakening can be powerful, the cosmic current or energy within our subtle spine. The circular movement of energy is the Ida and Pingala, which moves around the Sushumna.
Once, many years ago I witnessed a healing that’s taken half a lifetime to understand. I was quite young, perhaps only six. My mother, raised by a Christian Scientist grandmother, led intense and moving prayers for the legs of my five-year-old brother. He had been diagnosed with a disease that would prevent him from ever walking.
“Meraki” is something you do with passion, from the heart, with absolute devotion, and undivided attention—similar to the total devotion of a mother to her child.
When I was in India in 1990, I met a female Hindu mystic who was able to use her consciousness in a way that I never imagined. Just by deeply attuning her own exalted awareness to particular mythical deities from the higher yugas she could invoke them to tell her their stories.
With so many wars and violence swirling around this planet, what are we to do? I think about this every morning and evening when I finish my meditation. Who do I pray for now? Which country needs the most prayers? And on and on….
On this planet that we currently inhabit, there’s a little-known highway that travelers can experience, if they so desire. It’s a highway so subtle it requires a magnitude of spiritual willingness even to begin.