In this website you can find a lot of content on Human Development, especially some of the early writing in the blog section and The Truth Seekers page.

In our yoga sessions we have been “practicing” how to shift into different states relative to body-mind. When we are in pose we are in a state of conscious attention to movement and breath. When we enter into a Shavashana we embody the witness or the observer, And when we let go of the witness we enter the void or the ground of being. Another way to describe it is that we experience the states of the physical, the subtle and the casual.

Many of the “Maps of The Territory” have been presented to demonstrate “Stage Development.” The Post Modern mindset has sought to minimize and even eradicate the concept of hierarchy. It is seen as discriminatory or mean spirited to think of higher, or lower, stages. But the reality is that hierarchy is part of the fabric of reality and we stand at the precipice of entering a new stage of integrating all previous stages.

Along with Piaget and Maslow this website has information on the Transpersonal Psychological work of Wilber and Susan Cook-Grueter, for example.

As Wilber says, “States are free but Stages are earned.”

What stage are you in?

As your “guide” in what we do in the yoga and meditation and map inquiry it is my ‘duty’ to inform you that humanity, as a whole, is about to undergo a major paradigm shift; an evolution into the next stage in our journey back home.

A stage shift does not require all of humanity to get there before it happens. In fact, only about 3% is needed. Have you heard of the 100th Monkey concept?

It has been my intention in the work we have done together to assist in confronting, exploring and understanding this potential paradigm shift.

Now, we are poised to master and transcend by clearing the path for others to follow.

Here is a video to support what I have been talking about……

I am sharing two videos for you to study, if you so choose. REMEMBER, nothing I share is for belief or acceptance or liking. Neither is it for unbelief, disagreement or disliking. Yoga is inquiry into the Self with compassion. Know thyself.

Also……….Just like in yoga, there are three stages of learning and wisdom. The first two we can do together. The third is on you.

The first one is about the object of the game.

The second video is about the “landscape” of history from an interesting spiritual perspective.

Ok……I found it! I found a very effective video which introduces The Mer-Ka-Ba and which is an excellent training video for The Mer-Ka-Ba Activation Meditation.

I suggest on your first viewing that you establish a drishti (a soft gaze) as you watch. Allow your eyes to close every once in awhile. When he takes you through the 17 breaths he may spend a lot of time on one breath. I believe it is designed this way as to be more of an initial training endevour rather than a guided meditation per se. Although, it is certainly both.

I am committing to watching this video every day for the next 3 days after which I will find and share a more condensed version to practice for the next 18 days adding up to 21. This takes me right up Thanksgiving day

As some of you know….it was Thanksgiving day 1976 when I was discharged from the hospital after spending a week going through a process of bringing my blood glucose level down from a critically dangerous level.

I got my first “shot” of insulin. I remember to this day the first time I gave myself an injection. I was sitting with the nurse and threw my hospital robe to the side exposing my left thigh. I filled the syringe and stuck it in. I clumsily put my thumb on the plunger and squeezed. It burned going in. It stung for a minute or two. I felt desperate and afraid.

I was discharged in the afternoon around 4pm. It was dark and rainy and cold. A typical late November day in Rochester, NY. All the leaves were gone. My eyesight was blurry because of the high blood sugars and the traffic lights were merging together. We (I think it was my father and I) arrived at my Aunt Karen’s house….not far from the hospital and before us was all the food laid out for our annual Thanksgiving feast.

I was put on a strict diet at the hospital. I could have some turkey and maybe one warm biscuit and some green beans. No more sweet potatoes or apple pie or cherry pie or whipped cream for me……..or so I thought then.

Why do I tell you this?

It is because my biggest desire is to be done with this dis-ease. While diabetes has been a curse it has also been a blessing in that it motivated me to awaken to the spiritual path and to stay on it. I know that my experience with my physical condition has a spiritual seed. I also know that because of this I can cure it. And I know this because I have learned from The Kabbalists that…..”Fulfillment is the Seed of Desire.” In that quote is a secret and with this secret I move forward.

Ok. So I know everyone is dealing with a lot right now. We are all “in the weeds” at some level. Perhaps, this training is the one needed right now? Perhaps not.

I am looking for ten others who will join me….Michael