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The name of our group is “The Truth Seekers.”

We started this zoom yoga, meditation and ‘mapquesting’ group at the end of March 2020. The pandemic just hit and everyone was searching for ways to connect, share, help and do a little yoga inquiry.

The original name of the group was the “Atwater Yoga Group.” Those from NY will recognize that the name Atwater was the name of the road that went down to the lake to access the boat house. On the second floor of the boat house was our yoga room. What a special place……

The Lake House Yoga Room

There are many places from which to enter into the spiritual map. Here is one that provides a step-by-step understanding.

The language of the universe is mathematics. It doesn’t matter if you are good at math or not. Watch this to start your inquiry.

A Two Tier ‘Map’

The word recovery means a restoration or return to normal condition.  This begs the question of what is normal?   Perhaps we will address that question down the road a bit. What we do know.  What we have become aware of is that things are not working to our satisfaction. We have become aware of a disturbance.  We can deny it no more.  In some cases the situation seems to spiral and we, not only notice dysfunction but experience it in our life.  

A desire wells up in us.  This desire is for the present moment to be different from what it is.  The desire for things to be different from what is – is suffering. We suffer whether we are aware of it or not whenever we have any degree of desire for this moment to be anything other than it is.  Of course, with anything, there is a sliding scale as far as the degree to which suffering presents itself.  I guess the poles would be from mildly irritating to excruciatingly unbearable.  I think you get my point.  

I started this with the concept of recovery because I have seen a connecting pattern between the Twelve Steps of AA/GA/NA….. and The Four Noble Truths of The Buddha.

First, The Four Noble truths.

Continue reading A Two Tier ‘Map’

God has been Revealed

The New Age mystical idea that All-is-God has now been corroborated by religion’s long standing enemy, Science!

Quantum Mechanics has provided all of the necessary data which to present a more solid and persuasive case for God than religion ever could.

The Particle/Wave Debate – For a long time physicists debated as to whether energy of existence could be reduced to basic building blocks called particles or whether it was a wave form. Quantum Theory/Physics/Mechanics finds that energy behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Every Particle contains Information – Every particle in the universe is a carrier of knowledge. Every particle is “conscious.” As humans, we tend to assume that only we are conscious, because only we seem to be self-conscious. The human brain is a receiver of the information contained within each particle. The information received by the brain is stored in every single atom of our bodies. For organic beings, the “filing system” provided for every living molecule is DNA.

Every particle communicates with every other particle – Being, after all, but moving points on some infinite wave, particles are in communication with one another at ALL times. Anything one given particle experiences can be experienced by another particle simultaneously. They are all part of the same wave; the same energy flow.

Ok. So let’s try and bring this all together. Remember the three levels of wisdom? So important. They match up perfectly with the three stages of Kripalu Yoga. Three is the foundation or structure…..of anything. Think about receiving and doing intellectual inquiry into this type of information like you are doing a new yoga pose – First, Right Alignment. Dissolve present knowing by being willing to suspend your current conscious and unconscious beliefs.

When you consciously receive by mastering awareness of the first two “levels” of wisdom then you create a more purified channel to the third level of wisdom – Your Individual Personal Authentic Experience! Time to Wake Up. Perhaps this is a way……

As Above So Below

Since every particle carries information and all particles, no matter how distant, are in instant communication then, it follows, that every particle potentially ‘contains’ all the information in the universe. In other words, “AS ABOVE, SO BELOW.” The particle is the universe and vice versa.

Ok. Now this is where it gets a little funky. Now is the time that I would ask you to suspend, not only your beliefs, but your disbeliefs. They are one in the same, aren’t they?

Once upon a time, before the creation of the universe, there was an infinite positive force of energy that some people have the habit of calling ‘God.” This energy filled all reality. There was nothing else besides this Energy, this Light.

One fine day, God decided to share all His Light, which consisted of love beyond love, bliss beyond bliss, and joy beyond joy. But there was no one with whom to share. So, God created a being to act as a recipient, to receive the goodness that God wanted to give. This being of receiving was one giant soul, which encompassed what would later become all the individual souls of humanity, even yours. This being was The Vessel. God filled The Vessel with infinite happiness, whereupon both God and The Vessel lived happily ever after……….

Well, not quite…..

So, what happened? Not much, really. Only the development of the cosmos, including the entire history of human civilization up to and including the present moment, as well as the events that will transpire tomorrow, leading to the final destiny of the world.

From our perspective, that’s a lot. But from the perspective of God, it transpired in less than a blink of an eye.

What happened? the Big Bang happened and The Vessel shattered into infinite particles traveling across space and time and forming the universe.

Why did it shatter? Why did Happily Ever After give way to Miserably Ever More? Did we do something wrong? Wait! There is was no “we”, there is was only the original vessel. Did God get angry with us? Is this punishment? Is it a joke? Maybe it is some horrible mistake?

Are we each a particle of the original Vessel that was created to receive God’s beneficence. Is there a way back “hOMe?” Or, are we destined to live out our lives in quiet separation?

As above, so below.

Find your center

Namaste, Michael

Session “Two”

In our second session we, briefly, reviewed the 5 koshas and other 5 step processes that we brought into our awareness on the first session.

Then I introduced the 3 stages of Kriplau Yoga –

The 3 Elements of the Vipassana Meditation technique

The 3 columns found in The Tree of Life –

Reiterating the value of flowing information through the three levels of wisdom according to The Buddha –

Then we checked out a few yoga poses and a breathing exercise.

As I am guiding this group I am becoming more and more aware of the potential secret that may be found in The Fibonacci sequence and The Golden Mean – Phi.

I look forward to our 3rd session this Saturday. I am planning on touching on the 2 and the 8.

The Battle For The Soul Redux

What do you mean? What battle?

Let’s use some of our “tools” we have been using in yoga, meditation and mapquesting sessions for confronting, exploring and understanding:

First, suspend belief and disbelief

Second, Remember that we receive “information” in three layers. Initially, something comes into our awareness. We hear about it or we read a book about it. Then, we may choose to pursue some intellectual inquiry about this thing. We talk about it, research it, try its ‘practices and techniques. And then we have a direct personal experience with this thing that has come into our awareness field.

Third, we learn through metaphor…..After receiving the perspective offered then compare it to other maps we have experienced. For example, can you locate where the ego lives in the Vipassana technique? Is it in the realm of consciousness? Perception? Sensation? Reaction? The Physical?

Listen to this short video. I have attached the other video he was referring to from the movie Revolver. He is talking about Ego.

The battle is within. The Ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain. If you allow the ego to run free then the momentary reactions of liking and disliking will create formations (Sankharas) of craving and aversion. These creations then mold a perspective through which consciousness flows.

The enemy has been located and he lies within.

https://youtu.be/IksBONUBGz0

Let the battle begin!