Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Mark Nepo––poem
poem by Mark Nepo (excerpt)
It doesn’t matter how we come
to this. We may jump to it or be
worn to it. Because of great pain.
Or a sudden raw feeling that this
is all very real. It may happen in a
parking lot when we break the eggs
in the rain. Or watching each other
in our grief.
But here we will come. With very
little left in the way.
When we meet like this, I may not
have the words, so let me say it now:
Nothing compares to the sensation
of being alive in the company of
another. It is God breathing on
the embers of our soul.
Mark Nepo
It doesn’t matter how we come
to this. We may jump to it or be
worn to it. Because of great pain.
Or a sudden raw feeling that this
is all very real. It may happen in a
parking lot when we break the eggs
in the rain. Or watching each other
in our grief.
But here we will come. With very
little left in the way.
When we meet like this, I may not
have the words, so let me say it now:
Nothing compares to the sensation
of being alive in the company of
another. It is God breathing on
the embers of our soul.
Mark Nepo
Monday, November 25, 2019
When You Came to Me––Poem by Dorothy
In my awakening many years ago, I was thrown into ecstasy. People often ask what ecstasy feels like.
This is my attempt to answer. It is not sexual, but rather spiritual love that is erotic. There is no touching, just enlivening of every cell and pore. It is the unconditional love that meets one in heaven as well as in childbirth for some and in music or poetry for others.
When You Came to Me
(for all who know what it is to have a heavenly lover)
Heavy with desire
I came to you.
You, the consummate lover,
took me into your unseen arms:
lightning, frequencies seasoned in eternity,
kisses shaped in other realms,
what could I do but relent?
At last I lay on the floor,
arms outstretched,
and prayed for mercy.
But you were no candles
and soft incense lover.
You were there each morning,
in wait at midnight.
When Zeus came to Semele
she turned to dust.
And I bore it all.
Now all I have
is memories and words
to comfort me.
Like a melody once heard
that clings.
Like a face once seen
that fades and remains as mystery.
Who were you?
What was I?
What was the purpose
of our meeting?
Dorothy Walters
November 24, 2019
This is my attempt to answer. It is not sexual, but rather spiritual love that is erotic. There is no touching, just enlivening of every cell and pore. It is the unconditional love that meets one in heaven as well as in childbirth for some and in music or poetry for others.
When You Came to Me
(for all who know what it is to have a heavenly lover)
Heavy with desire
I came to you.
You, the consummate lover,
took me into your unseen arms:
lightning, frequencies seasoned in eternity,
kisses shaped in other realms,
what could I do but relent?
At last I lay on the floor,
arms outstretched,
and prayed for mercy.
But you were no candles
and soft incense lover.
You were there each morning,
in wait at midnight.
When Zeus came to Semele
she turned to dust.
And I bore it all.
Now all I have
is memories and words
to comfort me.
Like a melody once heard
that clings.
Like a face once seen
that fades and remains as mystery.
Who were you?
What was I?
What was the purpose
of our meeting?
Dorothy Walters
November 24, 2019
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Tell Me
Tell Me
Tell me I am radiant
I will glow.
Tell me I am loving
I will embrace you,
kiss you many times over.
Tell me I am who you are
I will believe you,
You are my sister, brother,
chosen companion and mate.
How could we be separate,
we are one the way
paper is one both sides,
flower, stem and bloom,
poet and poem.
Dorothy Walters
November 24, 2019
Tell me I am radiant
I will glow.
Tell me I am loving
I will embrace you,
kiss you many times over.
Tell me I am who you are
I will believe you,
You are my sister, brother,
chosen companion and mate.
How could we be separate,
we are one the way
paper is one both sides,
flower, stem and bloom,
poet and poem.
Dorothy Walters
November 24, 2019
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Consciousness and the New Paradigm––Adrian David Nelson
FYI: the Architects of the New Paradigm Conference for March 2020 is in Seattle/Bellevue
https://anpconference.com
Blog - - -
Consciousness and the New Paradigm
March 3, 2016
Adrian David Nelson
These days a lot of people talk about a ‘new paradigm.’ In the modern world there are paradigm shifts taking place everywhere, from ecology, economics and health, to physics and cosmology. For many, however, when we’re talking about the new paradigm, we’re talking about something bigger: an approaching shift in thinking that, when realized, will constitute a deep collective change in the way we see our place in the universe.
I recently attended the 2016 Architects of the New Paradigm conference in Northern California, where a diverse cast of speakers spoke truth to power on a range of issues, from new energy solutions to the disclosure of government secrets. I think, perhaps, of all these on-going ‘revolutions’ in our perception, the most profound and consequential of these rests with the nature of perception itself. That is, new theories and evidence arriving from modern research suggest that the heart of our experiencing self, the unique natural phenomenon we have called ‘consciousness’, is more than an incidental emergence in the human animal, it reflects something fundamental about the way reality is organized.
In science and philosophy a movement is now taking place -a growing openness toward deeper views of mind. There are many reasons why, including discoveries in physics, yet perhaps the driving factor has been a widening recognition of the difficulty of explaining consciousness in purely material terms. As a psychologist and journalist, I’ve followed this movement to places I never expected to find myself. For example, in delving into the research of scientists like Dean Radin, Robert Jahn, and Rupert Sheldrake, I learned that at least some categories of psychic phenomena actually occur – and under rigorously controlled conditions.
Over nearly three decades, experiments conducted by researchers at Princeton University revealed that when people direct their intention to a physical random system the outputs will often shift in line with their intentions. Outside any ordinary physical contact, the reported effect seems impossible to reconcile within any materialist understanding of the mind.
Other research exploring this mysterious mind-matter interaction found that a network of random systems located all around the planet mysteriously respond to collective shifts in attention of entire populations. The Global Consciousness Project, led by psychologist Roger Nelson, found that when dramatic world events occur, and millions of minds respond with similar emotions; strange patterns of order emerge in the data. Where attention goes, order mysteriously flows.
Perhaps equally surprising to me was that deeper views of consciousness are increasingly expressed by mainstream scientists and philosophers. Believe it or not, a leading theory of consciousness in mainstream neuroscience today, ‘integrated information theory’ is actually a form of ‘panpsychism’, in which the fundamental information underlying the physical world has both an objective and subjective pole. Consciousness, as the theory goes, is matter viewed from within.
Today world-renowned philosophers, including David Chalmers, Freya Mathews, Thomas Nagel, and Galen Strawson tell us that Western science has profoundly overlooked the significance of consciousness, and that its origins lie not in us, but in a fundamental interior quality of the world. They argue that science’s external mapping of nature both implies and requires an interior, qualitative dimension that grounds it in reality. In other words, consciousness. The self-realizing, self-referential qualities unique to consciousness may also be necessary to explain why anything at all exists.
I found similar views expressed by mainstream physicists and cosmologists attempting to understand our larger cosmic situation. Paul Davies is among a number of thinkers who argue that the astonishing fine-tuning of the universe -which has permitted the evolution of complex observers, cannot be adequately explained by summary referral to a multiverse. In light of a catalogue of worries, including paradoxes, logical inconsistencies and infinite regressions, Davies argues that the universe may actually require the evolution of life and mind. Perhaps, offers Davies, existence necessitates an ability to be ‘self-knowing’ and this entails the evolution of life. Another physicist, the celebrated father of ‘inflation theory’ Andrei Linde, has urged his colleagues to remain open-minded toward a fundamental place for consciousness in quantum mechanics. ‘Avoiding the concept of consciousness in quantum cosmology’, he warns, ‘may lead to an artificial narrowing of our outlook.’ Linde is one of several respected physicists who have pointed out that the quantum wave function of the entire universe could not evolve in time without the introduction of a relative observer.
In considering such cosmic questions, the philosopher Thomas Nagel observes that our standard materialism neither explains nor anticipates the coming into existence of purposive, conscious beings like us. For Nagel, the mysterious mind-body problem has far reaching implications that transcend our more immediate attempts to understand the human mind, it invades our understanding of the entire universe. Nagel argues that the existence of consciousness hints to a cosmic imperative toward life and mind – as though the evolution of consciousness is implicit to the cosmic process. We are, he offers, the universe ‘gradually waking up.’
So what does all this mean for us? Why is this growing openness to deeper views of consciousness, as I argue, among the most profound shifts now occurring for our species? The answer, I think, is that consciousness is ultimately who we really are. There is a profound and consequential distinction between the old materialist view, in which we are isolated fragments of illusory experience in a doomed and meaningless universe, and the now emerging view, in which we are each of us truly conscious participators in an on-going unfoldment of cosmic creativity. In my book, Origins of Consciousness, I call this modest though growing shift in thinking, the intrinsic consciousness movement.
Our modern seeking is revealing a profound new picture of consciousness, not dissimilar to that described by mystics for millennia. We are learning that consciousness is real and intimately bound up with the world. In a universe in which consciousness is intrinsic to nature’s workings, we can see ourselves as invested into a larger matrix of meaning that transcends and includes our lives. The emerging view may not only shed light on some of the most enduring mysteries of modern science and philosophy, it offers, I think, a unifying and catalyzing vision, in which we and all life are truly ‘in this together’ – an integral part of a larger cosmic process. We, in our core identity, are the universe coming to know itself. That, for me, changes everything.
Adrian is a psychologist and author currently interning at IONS. His new book, Origins of Consciousness(2016), is now available on Amazon.
References
https://anpconference.com
Blog - - -
Consciousness and the New Paradigm
March 3, 2016
Adrian David Nelson
These days a lot of people talk about a ‘new paradigm.’ In the modern world there are paradigm shifts taking place everywhere, from ecology, economics and health, to physics and cosmology. For many, however, when we’re talking about the new paradigm, we’re talking about something bigger: an approaching shift in thinking that, when realized, will constitute a deep collective change in the way we see our place in the universe.
I recently attended the 2016 Architects of the New Paradigm conference in Northern California, where a diverse cast of speakers spoke truth to power on a range of issues, from new energy solutions to the disclosure of government secrets. I think, perhaps, of all these on-going ‘revolutions’ in our perception, the most profound and consequential of these rests with the nature of perception itself. That is, new theories and evidence arriving from modern research suggest that the heart of our experiencing self, the unique natural phenomenon we have called ‘consciousness’, is more than an incidental emergence in the human animal, it reflects something fundamental about the way reality is organized.
In science and philosophy a movement is now taking place -a growing openness toward deeper views of mind. There are many reasons why, including discoveries in physics, yet perhaps the driving factor has been a widening recognition of the difficulty of explaining consciousness in purely material terms. As a psychologist and journalist, I’ve followed this movement to places I never expected to find myself. For example, in delving into the research of scientists like Dean Radin, Robert Jahn, and Rupert Sheldrake, I learned that at least some categories of psychic phenomena actually occur – and under rigorously controlled conditions.
Over nearly three decades, experiments conducted by researchers at Princeton University revealed that when people direct their intention to a physical random system the outputs will often shift in line with their intentions. Outside any ordinary physical contact, the reported effect seems impossible to reconcile within any materialist understanding of the mind.
Other research exploring this mysterious mind-matter interaction found that a network of random systems located all around the planet mysteriously respond to collective shifts in attention of entire populations. The Global Consciousness Project, led by psychologist Roger Nelson, found that when dramatic world events occur, and millions of minds respond with similar emotions; strange patterns of order emerge in the data. Where attention goes, order mysteriously flows.
Perhaps equally surprising to me was that deeper views of consciousness are increasingly expressed by mainstream scientists and philosophers. Believe it or not, a leading theory of consciousness in mainstream neuroscience today, ‘integrated information theory’ is actually a form of ‘panpsychism’, in which the fundamental information underlying the physical world has both an objective and subjective pole. Consciousness, as the theory goes, is matter viewed from within.
Today world-renowned philosophers, including David Chalmers, Freya Mathews, Thomas Nagel, and Galen Strawson tell us that Western science has profoundly overlooked the significance of consciousness, and that its origins lie not in us, but in a fundamental interior quality of the world. They argue that science’s external mapping of nature both implies and requires an interior, qualitative dimension that grounds it in reality. In other words, consciousness. The self-realizing, self-referential qualities unique to consciousness may also be necessary to explain why anything at all exists.
I found similar views expressed by mainstream physicists and cosmologists attempting to understand our larger cosmic situation. Paul Davies is among a number of thinkers who argue that the astonishing fine-tuning of the universe -which has permitted the evolution of complex observers, cannot be adequately explained by summary referral to a multiverse. In light of a catalogue of worries, including paradoxes, logical inconsistencies and infinite regressions, Davies argues that the universe may actually require the evolution of life and mind. Perhaps, offers Davies, existence necessitates an ability to be ‘self-knowing’ and this entails the evolution of life. Another physicist, the celebrated father of ‘inflation theory’ Andrei Linde, has urged his colleagues to remain open-minded toward a fundamental place for consciousness in quantum mechanics. ‘Avoiding the concept of consciousness in quantum cosmology’, he warns, ‘may lead to an artificial narrowing of our outlook.’ Linde is one of several respected physicists who have pointed out that the quantum wave function of the entire universe could not evolve in time without the introduction of a relative observer.
In considering such cosmic questions, the philosopher Thomas Nagel observes that our standard materialism neither explains nor anticipates the coming into existence of purposive, conscious beings like us. For Nagel, the mysterious mind-body problem has far reaching implications that transcend our more immediate attempts to understand the human mind, it invades our understanding of the entire universe. Nagel argues that the existence of consciousness hints to a cosmic imperative toward life and mind – as though the evolution of consciousness is implicit to the cosmic process. We are, he offers, the universe ‘gradually waking up.’
So what does all this mean for us? Why is this growing openness to deeper views of consciousness, as I argue, among the most profound shifts now occurring for our species? The answer, I think, is that consciousness is ultimately who we really are. There is a profound and consequential distinction between the old materialist view, in which we are isolated fragments of illusory experience in a doomed and meaningless universe, and the now emerging view, in which we are each of us truly conscious participators in an on-going unfoldment of cosmic creativity. In my book, Origins of Consciousness, I call this modest though growing shift in thinking, the intrinsic consciousness movement.
Our modern seeking is revealing a profound new picture of consciousness, not dissimilar to that described by mystics for millennia. We are learning that consciousness is real and intimately bound up with the world. In a universe in which consciousness is intrinsic to nature’s workings, we can see ourselves as invested into a larger matrix of meaning that transcends and includes our lives. The emerging view may not only shed light on some of the most enduring mysteries of modern science and philosophy, it offers, I think, a unifying and catalyzing vision, in which we and all life are truly ‘in this together’ – an integral part of a larger cosmic process. We, in our core identity, are the universe coming to know itself. That, for me, changes everything.
Adrian is a psychologist and author currently interning at IONS. His new book, Origins of Consciousness(2016), is now available on Amazon.
References
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Lawrence Edwards––poem to the Beloved
On Oct 30, 2019, at 7:05 AM, Lawrence Edwards Dear Dorothy,
Om Kali Ma! This gift appeared in Her field of Consciousness this morning. Here we are Dorothy, two old souls besotted on the wine of Her ecstacy! Let the pundits roam the arid deserts of religion and philosophy, we'll drink deeply from Her wellspring!
My Beloved brought me to Her
midnight black portal,
entryway to mysteries beyond mysteries.
I peered into the Infinite Dark,
Her formless Presence,
knowing the boundless Love
of ecstatic dissolution
She was drawing me into.
Fear and trepidation have long fled,
yet ecstatic trembling seizes this body!
O the blissful anticipation that is given
to mind and body, heart and soul!
Her luscious embrace pulls
what remains of a me
into the dark,
now, suddenly, radiant
with flames of Love blazing everywhere!
All is aflame!
All is alight with Her fire!
She is the Fire, the Love,
birthing infinite forms,
all within Herself,
all radiant with Her
Living Presence!
All forms are Her!
Only Her, dancing everywhere!
O my Beloved,
grant this vision to everyone!
How can we breathe without knowing
the Fire of Your Love?
Lawrence Edwards
© 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The Aged Poet Speaks
·
The Aged Poet Speaks (fun poem)
Now that I am ninety
I shall wear a veil and
long flowing garments
and carry a long cigarette holder
(though I no longer smoke)
and speak in a low Talulla Bankhead voice
and constantly scribble
in a little notebook
I carry with me at all times.
When my admirers crowd around
I shall demand silence
as I drop my pearls
of verse and wisdom
at their uncaring feet.
I will read favorite poems
on request, though at times
I wonder at the choice.
Later many will request my autograph
which I shall obligingly furnish
in my own indecipherable scrawl
along with a smirk
that passes for a smile.
At home I will relax
with a snack
and a bit of drink,
even though my physician
says no,
but I think,
what the hell,
you only live once.
My walls are adorned with
pictures of my loving fans,
many famous names
mostly now deceased,
several of whom were
my lovers,
though sometimes
these days
I get their names and sexes confused.
Then I will go to sleep in the bed
that Charlotte has prepared for me
getting ready for another day,
another public performance.
Dorothy Walters
November 6, 2019
There is a long tradition of mixing the serious with the less serious, often the comic. Shakespeare did it in his plays, T. S. Eliot did it with his poems on cats. In Greek myth, Baubo was an irreverent old woman who cheered up Demeter when she was mourning her lost daughter (Persephone) by reciting obscene passages.
The Aged Poet Speaks (fun poem)
Now that I am ninety
I shall wear a veil and
long flowing garments
and carry a long cigarette holder
(though I no longer smoke)
and speak in a low Talulla Bankhead voice
and constantly scribble
in a little notebook
I carry with me at all times.
When my admirers crowd around
I shall demand silence
as I drop my pearls
of verse and wisdom
at their uncaring feet.
I will read favorite poems
on request, though at times
I wonder at the choice.
Later many will request my autograph
which I shall obligingly furnish
in my own indecipherable scrawl
along with a smirk
that passes for a smile.
At home I will relax
with a snack
and a bit of drink,
even though my physician
says no,
but I think,
what the hell,
you only live once.
My walls are adorned with
pictures of my loving fans,
many famous names
mostly now deceased,
several of whom were
my lovers,
though sometimes
these days
I get their names and sexes confused.
Then I will go to sleep in the bed
that Charlotte has prepared for me
getting ready for another day,
another public performance.
Dorothy Walters
November 6, 2019
There is a long tradition of mixing the serious with the less serious, often the comic. Shakespeare did it in his plays, T. S. Eliot did it with his poems on cats. In Greek myth, Baubo was an irreverent old woman who cheered up Demeter when she was mourning her lost daughter (Persephone) by reciting obscene passages.
Neither Mirabai nor Rumi––poem by Dorothy
Neither Mirabai nor Rumi
No Mirabai or Rumi
could flourish here.
Their innocence was their charm,
an indulgence not granted today.
Now our task
is doubly hard.
We must be the actor
in the play
and the critic observing,
analyzing, putting things
in perspective.
In a way,
we know too much.
We have lost our innocence,
our unregarded actions.
We are both playwright and
editor, protagonist and drama coach,
someone who follows the
speaking poet within
and yet heeds the ever present director/witness
who also speaks and gives advice.
Such is our task,
our assignment in this curious world.
Dorothy Walters
November 1, 2019
No Mirabai or Rumi
could flourish here.
Their innocence was their charm,
an indulgence not granted today.
Now our task
is doubly hard.
We must be the actor
in the play
and the critic observing,
analyzing, putting things
in perspective.
In a way,
we know too much.
We have lost our innocence,
our unregarded actions.
We are both playwright and
editor, protagonist and drama coach,
someone who follows the
speaking poet within
and yet heeds the ever present director/witness
who also speaks and gives advice.
Such is our task,
our assignment in this curious world.
Dorothy Walters
November 1, 2019
Monday, November 18, 2019
Joe Dispenza, Master Teacher, Healer
(Above picture is of Royal Raymond Rife, found on internet)
Joe Dispenza, Master Teacher, Healer
I have recently become enamored of Joe Dispenza, who seems to have knowledge and power coming from other realms. My suspicions were confirmed last night when I listened to a conversation on Youtube recorded with LilouMace TV in England. It is also listed on Youtube as "Giant Invisible Beings with Joe Dispenza." This interview confirms my suspicions, for Joe is indeed in touch with other worldly beings, who, under the right circumstances, aid him in his healings.
These events hold a special interest for me and I will explain why below.
When these beings appeared to Joe, he was told that they were especially interested in working with him and his clients because the frequencies in the room where he presented his workshops were raised sufficiently for them to connect with the subjects. Otherwise they could not help them for their own energies were far too strong for ordinary humans to bear.
The success they enjoyed is evident from the remarkable testimonies by certain subjects who benefited greatly from such contact.
Now here is why I am especially interested in these amazing healings.
About 10-15 years ago when I was living in San Francisco, I was invited to try a "Beam Ray," a spin off of the earlier frequency healing device developed by Royal Raymond Rife in the thirties, who demonstrated beyond doubt that his device could in fact cure cancer and other diseases. I simply went for a trial demonstration out of curiosity and was not seeking any cure for some ailment. However, as I sat on the edge of my friend's bed with the beam ray turned on, I had a strange perception. I sensed that the "cure" that some received was often not the result of the frequencies themselves, but rather from certain "E.T.s" who in effect used the frequencies to "ride in" to our realm. I saw in my "vision" creatures with strange heads and eyes, just as they are commonly portrayed in today's popular culture.
I pondered this notion but drew no conclusion.
A few days later I was crossing an asphalt street in an area near my house and once more was wondering whether the healings came from the "E.T.s" or the frequencies alone, when I noticed some letters embossed in silver on the asphalt by my feet. The letters were "E.T.s ." I was of course quite surprised by this synchronicity but thought to myself, "Well, that answers my question," and let it go at that.
Now I am wondering how it is that both approaches (beam ray channel for alien healers and Joe's invisible helpers) both stress the importance of having the right frequencies to allow the extra terrestrial helpers to do their work properly.
As for the early genius Royal Raymond Rife, the establishment ruined his career, confiscated his equipment, and left him to live out an impoverished old age in disgrace and humiliation. Such is the fate of those whose discoveries threaten the money making institutions that control our health system, even though their inventions could save untold lives.
Saturday, November 16, 2019
The Monk and the Cat
"The page of the Reichenau Primer on which Pangur Bán is written...
"Pangur Bán" is an Old Irish poem, written about the 9th century at or around Reichenau Abbey. It was written by an Irish monk, and is about his cat. Pangur Bán, 'White Pangur', is the cat's name, Pangur meaning 'a fuller'. Although the poem is anonymous, it bears similarities to the poetry of Sedulius Scottus, prompting speculation that Sedulius is the author. In eight verses of four lines each, the author compares the cat's happy hunting with his own scholarly pursuits."
above from BrainPickings.org
The monk and his cat, Pangur Bán
(from the Irish by Robin Flower)
I and Pangur Ban my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.
Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill-will,
He too plies his simple skill.
'Tis a merry task to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.
The Monk and the Cat
Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur's way;
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.
'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.
When a mouse darts from its den,
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!
So in peace our task we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.
Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Mary Oliver––Yes! No!
Yes! No!
poem by Mary Oliver
How necessary it is to have opinions! I think the spotted trout
lilies are satisfied, standing a few inches above the earth. I
think serenity is not something you just find in the world,
like a plum tree, holding up its white petals.
The violets, along the river, are opening their blue faces, like
small dark lanterns.
The green mosses, being so many, are as good as brawny.
How important it is to walk along, not in haste but slowly,
looking at everything and calling out
Yes! No! The
swan, for all his pomp, his robes of grass and petals, wants
only to be allowed to live on the nameless pond. The catbrier
is without fault. The water thrushes, down among the sloppy
rocks, are going crazy with happiness. Imagination is better
than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless
and proper work.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
When the Angel Came––poem by Dorothy
When the Angel Came
Then the angel came.
It arrived in a halo of fire
so intense we hid our eyes.
Some dropped to their knees.
Others wept.
Then, although it spoke no words,
it gave us a message
that we all could comprehend.
It gave us truths
we had forgotten.
It reminded us of things
that we knew
but failed to practice.
For some, it quoted
from the holy books
they each revered.
For the rest, it gave old words
full of new meanings.
Finally, one of us
asked its name.
It paused, and then as it
swept away
(again in a blaze of fire)
it answered "Love"
and the sound echoed
through the heavens
and across the universe
before it became a full throated song
by the same name.
Dorothy Walters
November 12, 2017
Monday, November 11, 2019
Preparing––poem by Dorothy
Preparing
Be drunk on love
for love is all that exists.
RUMI
In death I will forfeit what
I thought of as my body
and go to be a formless being
that will now possess
even a new name.
Where I will be,
how I will live,
what I will do
to occupy my time
I do not know.
Yet I think
there will still be ways
to be in touch,
since I will be invisible
and the powers that lead me
also will not be seen.
We will be drawn
to those who need us here
and help them in secret ways.
They will be filled with love
and sense that this
is the power that binds,
seen to unseen, mighty
to small.
Now is the great leap of faith,
preparing to join that which
I do not know,
to listen to what
I cannot hear.
Dorothy Walters
November 11, 2019
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Rumi poem––In death I lose a body
in death I lose a body
and He will lose
my phantasies of Him
I go shirtless
to this lovemaking
my body becomes all soul
every hairtip alive
love, enter this body's house
or I must leave it
to seek you
my soul is a ship
scudding the waves
in pursuit of love
be drunk on love
for love is all that exists
mother and father played at love
and one such as you
sprang from nothingness...
Daniel Liebert, tr.
Saturday, November 09, 2019
My talk tomorrow
I will be speaking at 10 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow. If you want to listen, you likely have to retype this link: https://mysteryschoolforanewparadigm.com/–online/– symposium. The talk will be available for replay for 48 hours after the presentation.
The Aged Poet Speaks (fun poem)
The Aged Poet Speaks
Now that I am ninety
I shall wear a veil and
long flowing garments
and carry a long cigarette holder
(though I no longer smoke)
and speak in a low Talulla Bankhead voice
and constantly scribble
in a little notebook
I carry with me at all times.
When my admirers crowd around
I shall demand silence
as I drop my pearls
of verse and wisdom
at their uncaring feet.
I will read favorite poems
on request, though at times
I wonder at the choice.
Later many will request my autograph
which I shall obligingly furnish
in my own indecipherable scrawl
along with a smirk
that passes for a smile.
At home I will relax
with a snack
and a bit of drink,
even though my physician
says no,
but I think,
what the hell,
you only live once.
My walls are adorned with
pictures of my loving fans,
many famous names
mostly now deceased,
several of whom were
my lovers,
though sometimes
these days
I get their names and sexes confused.
Then I will go to sleep in the bed
that Charlotte has prepared for me
getting ready for another day,
another public performance.
Dorothy Walters
November 6, 2019
There is a long tradition of mixing the serious with the less serious, often the comic. Shakespeare did it in his plays, T. S. Eliot did it with his poems on cats. In Greek myth, Baubo was an irreverent old woman who cheered up Demeter when she was mourning her lost daughter (Persephone) by reciting obscene passages.
Now that I am ninety
I shall wear a veil and
long flowing garments
and carry a long cigarette holder
(though I no longer smoke)
and speak in a low Talulla Bankhead voice
and constantly scribble
in a little notebook
I carry with me at all times.
When my admirers crowd around
I shall demand silence
as I drop my pearls
of verse and wisdom
at their uncaring feet.
I will read favorite poems
on request, though at times
I wonder at the choice.
Later many will request my autograph
which I shall obligingly furnish
in my own indecipherable scrawl
along with a smirk
that passes for a smile.
At home I will relax
with a snack
and a bit of drink,
even though my physician
says no,
but I think,
what the hell,
you only live once.
My walls are adorned with
pictures of my loving fans,
many famous names
mostly now deceased,
several of whom were
my lovers,
though sometimes
these days
I get their names and sexes confused.
Then I will go to sleep in the bed
that Charlotte has prepared for me
getting ready for another day,
another public performance.
Dorothy Walters
November 6, 2019
There is a long tradition of mixing the serious with the less serious, often the comic. Shakespeare did it in his plays, T. S. Eliot did it with his poems on cats. In Greek myth, Baubo was an irreverent old woman who cheered up Demeter when she was mourning her lost daughter (Persephone) by reciting obscene passages.
Thursday, November 07, 2019
Mystery School Symposium––free
To access this symposium (free), go to https://mysteryschoolforanewparadigm.com/–online/– symposium. Each starts at 10 a.m., Eastern time.
I will present onSunday, November 10
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Exploring how Mystery Schools can create a Magnificent FuThis symposium is an extended exploration of the many ways that mystery schools are alive and active today, and the role that we can play in shaping the future of this world. A mystery school is a gathering of pioneering individuals working together to dramatically shift the course of the future. Deep inside many of us know that something wonderful is possible for this world, but none of us can create that future on our own - it can only be done together. We can learn how to support and teach each other so we can tap into the hidden sources of love and wisdom that wait for us in the heart and mind of the cosmos. Together we can awaken each other to our true potential and unlock the higher human capacities that will change everything for everyone. This symposium is an extended exploration of that incredible possibility.
The Mystery School for a New Paradigm Online Symposium starts November 9 and we wanted to remind you to register now so you won’t miss any of the event.
On Saturday, November 9 the symposium starts with our first seminar. After that you will receive one recorded seminar each day. The symposium ends with a live online event with Jeff Carreira on Saturday, November 16.
Here is the full line up of seminars:
Saturday, November 9
Gary Lachman – Esoteric Scholar and Author, explores the esoteric tradition of the Mystery School.
Sunday, November 10
Dorothy Walters – Pioneering Teacher of Kundalini Awakening, illuminates the path of energetic awakening.
Monday, November 11
Nicolya Christi – Spiritual Visionary and Futurist, speaks about conscious evolution and the path of purification.
Tuesday, November 12
Tim Freke – Spiritual Philosopher, explains our crucial role in transitioning humanity into a dramatically new way of being.
Wednesday, November 13
Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, explores the significance of paranormal gifts.
Thursday, November 14
Nora Bateson – Award winning filmmaker, Writer and Educator – discusses the multi-dimensional complexity of the world.
Saturday, November 16
Jeff Carreira – (LIVE ONLINE EVENT) Guiding Teacher of the Mystery School for a New Paradigm.
Please be sure to register now for our free online symposium.
I will present onSunday, November 10
The Mystery School for a New Paradigm
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HOME
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CHANNELS
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FREE Online Symposium November 9-16, 2019
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Exploring how Mystery Schools can create a Magnificent FuThis symposium is an extended exploration of the many ways that mystery schools are alive and active today, and the role that we can play in shaping the future of this world. A mystery school is a gathering of pioneering individuals working together to dramatically shift the course of the future. Deep inside many of us know that something wonderful is possible for this world, but none of us can create that future on our own - it can only be done together. We can learn how to support and teach each other so we can tap into the hidden sources of love and wisdom that wait for us in the heart and mind of the cosmos. Together we can awaken each other to our true potential and unlock the higher human capacities that will change everything for everyone. This symposium is an extended exploration of that incredible possibility.
The Mystery School for a New Paradigm Online Symposium starts November 9 and we wanted to remind you to register now so you won’t miss any of the event.
On Saturday, November 9 the symposium starts with our first seminar. After that you will receive one recorded seminar each day. The symposium ends with a live online event with Jeff Carreira on Saturday, November 16.
Here is the full line up of seminars:
Saturday, November 9
Gary Lachman – Esoteric Scholar and Author, explores the esoteric tradition of the Mystery School.
Sunday, November 10
Dorothy Walters – Pioneering Teacher of Kundalini Awakening, illuminates the path of energetic awakening.
Monday, November 11
Nicolya Christi – Spiritual Visionary and Futurist, speaks about conscious evolution and the path of purification.
Tuesday, November 12
Tim Freke – Spiritual Philosopher, explains our crucial role in transitioning humanity into a dramatically new way of being.
Wednesday, November 13
Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, explores the significance of paranormal gifts.
Thursday, November 14
Nora Bateson – Award winning filmmaker, Writer and Educator – discusses the multi-dimensional complexity of the world.
Saturday, November 16
Jeff Carreira – (LIVE ONLINE EVENT) Guiding Teacher of the Mystery School for a New Paradigm.
Please be sure to register now for our free online symposium.
Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Subtle, Subtle Yoga––Anonymous
Subtle, Subtle Yoga
Here is a letter I received recently from a woman who has experienced the same kind of diffuse "ecstasy" that I have. Like me, she has been able to experience the bliss flows merely by moving her hands and fingers in imperceptible ways. She is the first person I have ever met who has been able to do this (other than me). I call this phenomenon "subtle, yoga," as opposed to the"gross" (large) moves that characterize the asanas of traditional yoga. I was quite pleased to hear from her. It was a bit like encountering someone from my own lost tribe. I think that acquiring such abilities is part of our widespread transformation into a new stage of evolution.
Dear Dorothy,
I hope you are doing fine. Today I would like to tell you about my latest Kundalini adventures.
Since I saw your interview with Rick Archer and was reminded of those tender, tiny movements of fingers and hands which obviously make Kundalini energy flow in some of us, I made it my almost daily practice to experiment with those hand movements.
Usually I am in a relaxed state then after having meditated for a while. What happens is that only the slightest finger moves make me feel the Kundalini. Often it starts in the heart chakra and I feel very emotional as if stuck emotions were melting. Then it moves on to other parts of the body, arms, legs and base chakra. What happens next is that the energy becomes so intense that I get up and start to move the whole body.
And without thinking my body performs most interesting movements which resemble dancing in an Asian style or yoga or qi gong exercises. Big strong movements while I am standing, sitting or lying on the floor, which I never learned, and I did not do much yoga in my life. One posture looks like the image of “Shiva dancing”.
As I see it those movements aim at stretching, rotating, strengthening the spine so that Kundalini is able to flow without being stopped by blockages.
And then last Tuesday I practiced in that way. I was standing upright and stretched my arms up above my head and it happened: Kundalini rose from the base chakra all the way up through the spine, through the head and through my arms and finger tips. A swift flow, gentle but powerful, like a whole body orgasm, almost indescribable. The energy flowed and flowed without meeting any obstacles in the body system. Oh my God, this was ecstasy. I felt like a torch of light. And it did not stop. But I was still conscious and could use my will power (I am referring here to your blog entries about ecstasy) and after a while I decided to come back to my everyday life. Which made the energy flow subside.
And I had a similar experience yesterday. It is incredible.
I am sharing this with you, dear Dorothy, because you are a witness for me, a kind of confirmation that this mystery really happens. And maybe my story is helpful for those people who contact you with their questions about Kundalini.
There would be more to write, but so much for today.
All the best and much love to you
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
The Messenger––poem by Dorothy
The Messenger
Yes, I know,
I volunteered for this assignment.
Instructions were sewn into my spine
so I would know what to do.
I was sent to the middle realm,
the place where things
have substance and heft.
I was given to parents
who were kind
but did not recognize me.
It was difficult
to be a child among others
who were so very different
from who I was.
It took me many years
to understand all this.
Kundalini was the mode,
the teacher, the one who
told me my true name,
gave me messages
pointing the way.
I did the best I knew how
to share with the others,
the unawakened ones
yearning to be stirred.
I used poetry, speaking,
books.
I wanted them to know
that they too were composed
of light, of music–– their
corpuscles and cells were
singing to them
night and day.
I did not attempt to open them
too abruptly, but encouraged
each one to be inspired
and find their own path,
lotus unfolding.
I had many unseen helpers
guiding me on,
helping me through the
many (but minor) challenges of health,
or when my heart
was so often broken
in this unfamiliar realm.
At first it was very lonely.
I had no real human companions
or mentors, and I did not trust those
who sat on thrones and proclaimed
a single truth.
Finally, I saw great changes
in my world
as authentic teachers arose,
groups banded together
to accomplish essential goals,
new means of communication
emerged.
I will be leaving soon.
All I can offer now
is my blessings,
my wishes for a continuing
smooth transition on earth
as the new species emerges.
Others will carry on
this necessary work.
I will watch with gratitude
from the some other place.
It is possible that if I am needed,
I may return.
Difficult as it is,
I like it here
and would in fact accept another assignment.
Something somewhere
wanted me to say these words.
Dorothy Walters
November 1, 2019
Monday, November 04, 2019
Someone Tells Me––poem by Dorothy
Someone Tells Me
Someone tells me
this image is not Shiva.
Not a god, does not
exist.
Does Michangelo's God
on the ceiling exist?
Did Buddha?
Bodidharma,
whose name I carry inside?
Do I exist? Do you?
Am I a phantasm wandering
through the grounds
of an imaginary world?
Am I a creature
invented by myself?
This is what enlightenment
insists upon.
Many are devastated
by this news, don't know
where to turn.
They wish to continue
as they think they are,
not be swallowed by nothingness.
The form does not matter.
We are each real
in an invisible world.
We are each connected
by an unseen thread
to that which endures
and holds us steady
on our way.
When Shiva comes
into your body
you will know
whether he is real.
When delight suffuses
your being,
you will not have questions.
Dorothy Walters
November 3, 2019
Sunday, November 03, 2019
Awakening Your Kundalini Summit from Shift Catalyst
I copied and pasted this notice from Shift but there is no way to register here. You could contact Stephan Dinan at Shift or else go to the website of Kia Miller and see if she can help you. You could also contact Shift Catalyst and see if they can help, I have pointed out this problem to Shift in the past but nothing has been changed.
Awaken Your Kundalini Summit from Shift Catalyst––November 5-8--Free
By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
Coiled at the base of your spine, waiting to be awakened, is the powerful energy known as Kundalini. It is your prana, your life force. It is powerful beyond measure, infinitely creative, and who YOU are, at your core.
Once awakened, the vital energy of Kundalini begins flowing up your spine like lava from an oozing volcano, flooding your body, mind, and spirit with the divine love-energy of the universe, immersing you in bliss and enabling you to access a more boundless field of love.
If you’d like to discover how to activate this electrifying energy, join us online for the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit from November 5-8, hosted by internationally celebrated yoga teacher Kia Miller. You’ll have free access to more than two dozen video presentations featuring visionary speakers — and receive leading-edge practices and tools to ignite deeper levels of healing, spiritual awareness, and energy mastery.
The dynamic roster of summit speakers includes Guru Singh, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Gurmukh, Maya Fiennes, Jai Dev Singh, Tommy Rosen, Jeanie Manchester, Gurucharan, Raja Choudhury, Francesca McCartney, and many more.
If you’re intrigued by yoga, tantra, energy mastery, and spiritual evolution, the brilliant speakers in the Awakening Your Kundalini Summit will provide powerful practices and wisdom to heal, empower, and inspire you.
To register for this free summit, click here.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Master Key by Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit, is one of the most profoundly important books I’ve ever read. I can say that it’s life-changing with complete confidence, because it changed my life before I even finished reading it. I was so impressed with this book that we’ll be serializing the section called “One Hundred Days of Darkness and Night” in future issues of Catalyst. You can read the first installment here.
— Phil Bolsta
The stories in this issue’s “The Nicest Thing” section come from two featured speakers in the Awakening Your Kundalini Summit — Kia Miller, an internationally celebrated yoga teacher and your summit host… and Maya Fiennes, an author, yogi, and musician who travels the globe teaching a mix of Kundalini yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong.
We’d love to hear your answer to the question, What practices have you engaged in to harness the powerful spiritual energy within you and awaken your full potential? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
When you don’t go within, you go without.
— Yogi Bhajan
A Personal Invitation to the November 5–8 Awaken Your Kundalini Summit From Your Host, Kia Miller
Hi, my name is Kia Miller. I'm excited to be hosting an online summit covering the topic of Kundalini as a vehicle for healing, for awakening our inner potential, and for accessing highest states of awareness and consciousness.
Kundalini is not some esoteric principle. It's a force within each and every one of us. The ancient yogic texts reference it, modern scientists talk about it, and you can access it through specific practices and approaches to life.
To watch this 2-minute video and read the rest of the text, click here.
The Master Key
By Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit
It's 1972 in the industrial city of Xiangtan, China. A frail child with a heart condition sneaks into a hotel boiler room and befriends the elderly yet vibrant attendant, who eventually reveals his true identity as a revered Qigong master. He heals the boy and, for the next 13 years, secretly teaches him the keys to unlocking the spiritual and healing dimensions of the Life Force.
It sounds like a modern-day fable, but the story is true. And with The Master Key, that grateful student, Robert Peng, invites all of us to enter the next chapter of this empowering path. Here, Master Peng brings together the unique insights of his teacher with the moving account of his own journey.
Click here to read the first installment of this profoundly moving book.
In this special video series, prominent authors, speakers, thought leaders, and others answer the question, “What is the nicest thing a non-family member has ever done for you?”
Kia Miller’s Story
EXCERPT: When you first asked this, one story came to mind because it was quite unexpected. I lived in London for many years and I worked as a model in London and in different parts of Europe. And as a model, I guess one expects, usually there's an ulterior motive when people are offering things. But there was this one occasion where I worked with a director...
To watch the video and read the transcript of Kia’s life-changing 4-minute story, click here.
Maya Fiennes’ Story
EXCERPT: So that's when I was invited to go to a dinner party at Prince Andrew’s and the Royal Family. And as soon as I arrived there, I saw this amazing, beautiful piano, nine foot, handmade, engraved with different colors. And Prince Andrew was saying, “Oh, Mommy (meaning the Queen), has just given them this as a present. Nobody knows what to do because nobody knows how to play. And I go, “But I can play.”
To watch the video and read the transcript of Maya’s 3-minute “blessing in disguise” story, click here.
If you missed any “Nicest Thing” stories, you can catch up on all of them here.
“The Japanese Art of Happy Money” Facebook Live Q&A with Ken Honda
Would you like to live in maro — a heart-centered spiritual state — to draw on the abundance of the universe and welcome in miracles? Money and happiness expert Ken Honda, Japan’s #1 bestselling personal development guru, will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Tuesday, November 12, at 6:00pm Pacific to share how you can apply 7 steps to remove blocks and expand your capacity for experiencing a healthy, abundant, new relationship with money. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
“School of Imaginal Healing” Facebook Live Q&A with Robert Moss
Would you like to embrace a joyful, magical new way of healing your old wounds — beginning at the root issue of your consciousness that’s hidden in your dreams? Bestselling author and dream shaman Robert Moss will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wednesday, November 13, at 10:00am Pacific to share how you can reclaim your inner child — and explore why trauma chased it from your adult life. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
Your Voice:
We want to know: What practices have you engaged in to harness the powerful spiritual energy within you and awaken your full potential? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
Kundalini: Accidental Discovery or Evolutionary Gift?
Video Interview with Raja Choudhury (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
EXCERPT: That is the question of the ages: Why were we as human beings given a gift of divinity, yet it was hidden from us? Why? Why would it not be a part of our biological consciousness? Religions have always argued that it is something for the purest of the pure to attain, and it is not something that is for everyone. It is the opening up of a divine secret inside you. I think that that misses the whole point. I think that it was…
To watch the video and read the transcript of Raja’s 15-minute Kundalini interview, click here.
Seeing Through the Eyes of Love
By Maya Fiennes (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
As a mother, musician, composer, yogi, and author of Yoga for Real Life, my approach to yoga is about using the tools that yoga offers in day-to-day life. Everything in life we have to experience fully. We create our lives, we paint our canvas, we write our scenario, we direct it, and we act in it. This process has a beginning, middle and end. And that’s what people get each time they come to my yoga class.
To read more, click here.
How to Create a Relationship With Kundalini Energy
By Bonnie Greenwell, (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
I believe marriages last because the partners have learned flexibility, mutual respect, loving attention, and facing challenges as a team. Navigating a Kundalini arising or spiritual awakening process needs the same kind of attitudes. So I have identified four characteristics useful in marriage, life, and spiritual awakening to help you find a better way to live with Kundalini.
To read more, click here.
ACLU Celebrates Settlement Ending Unconstitutional Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters in South Dakota
By Jessica Corbett of Common Dreams
Demonstrators protest against the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Trump administration is attempting to approve despite its disastrous environmental impact. (Photo: Rainforest Action Network/Bonnie Chan/flickr/cc)
The ACLU and environmental activists celebrated Thursday after reaching a settlement agreement with South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem and state Attorney General Jason Ravnesborg to end what critics called "their unconstitutional attempts to silence pipeline protestors."
To read more, click here.
Waorani People Win Landmark Legal Victory Against Ecuadorian Government
A Half-Million Acres of Amazon Rainforest Protected From Oil Drilling
Published in Amazon Frontlines
Photo courtesy of Disclose.TV
The Waorani people of Pastaza won a historic ruling in Ecuadorian court protecting half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon rainforest from being earmarked for oil drilling. The decision by the three-judge panel of the Pastaza Provincial Court immediately voids the consultation process with the Waorani undertaken by the Ecuadorian government in 2012, indefinitely suspending the auctioning of their lands to oil companies. The verdict also disrupts the contemplated auctioning of 16 oil blocks that cover over 7 million acres of Indigenous territory by providing an invaluable legal precedent for other Indigenous nations across the Ecuadorian Amazon.
To read more, click here.
Awakening Kundalini From an Ancient Shivite/Shakta Esoteric Tantra Tradition
By Jeanie Manchester, (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
Jeanie Manchester is the founder of Anjaneya Yoga Shala in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Master Yoga Teacher and Meditation Instructor with over 30 years of dedicated practice, teaching, and training. Her students love her heart-based, friendly style of intuitive mentoring and teaching. Her offerings, which are dedicated to “women on the rise,” are supportive of householder women on the path with the teachings, tools, practice space, and community she's found crucial to living a spiritual life in the world.
To watch Jeanie’s 19-minute video, which she created exclusively for Catalyst, click here.
Light on the Teacher: Yogarupa Rod Stryker
Yogarupa Rod Stryker is a world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher, guiding and sharing his wisdom for 40 years. He is the founder of ParaYoga® and the author of The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom. The creator of one of the most comprehensive online yoga trainings in the world, Rod has dedicated his life to improving lives through his lectures, writing, practice, teaching, leadership, service and family life.
To watch Rod’s 6-minute video, click here.
The Awaken Your Kundalini Summit
A free online summit — November 5–8
Everything in the universe is energy. Kundalini is the energy of awakening, it represents your potential as a human being. Awakening your Kundalini is about becoming a true master of the energy YOU ARE — a creative intelligence that’s powerful beyond measure, and intimately connected to your soul.
On Tuesday, November 5, you’ll have a front-row seat at a complimentary online event that will feature over two dozen experts with diverse experience and approaches — each one a trusted leader in their field. The Shift Network’s Awaken Your Kundalini Summit, hosted by internationally celebrated yoga teacher Kia Miller, is a journey that will deepen your understanding of Kundalini, going well beyond yoga as fitness.
You’ll meet visionary speakers and teachers from around the globe, sharing how to clear karmic patterns from your mind-body and the collective field... and experience true joy and wellbeing.
The amazing speaker lineup includes Guru Singh, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Gurmukh, Maya Fiennes, Jai Dev Singh, Tommy Rosen, Jeanie Manchester, Gurucharan, Raja Choudhury, Francesca McCartney, and many more.
Over the course of this free 4-day summit, you’ll receive leading-edge practices and tools to ignite deeper levels of healing, spiritual awareness, and energy mastery.
See our full list of dynamic speakers and find out everything you need to know by clicking here.
Devaa Haley Mitchell Releases New Single, "Sacred Home"
Download now and get updates on Devaa's forthcoming album, Rebirth
Shift Network co-founder Devaa Haley Mitchell invites you to celebrate finding deep peace within, cultivating a sense of belonging, and reveling in true love with a free download of her new single “Sacred Home.”
“My fans have really been resonating with this song’s downtempo chill space vibe," explains Devaa of the first single from her forthcoming album Rebirth, “but the reason why this song is so special to me personally is because it’s the first song that fully I co-wrote with my husband, Stephen [Dinan]. We worked closely together on the lyrics which really speak to the sense of ‘Sacred Home’ that one can find with a beloved partner who really ‘gets you’ at the deepest level. This quality long-term love is rare, and when you find it… it’s such a true gift.”
Click here to download Devaa’s gift of a free download of "Sacred Home" — and to register to be among the first to hear about the release of her new album, Rebirth.
Yoga for Real Life
By Maya Fiennes (a featured speaker in Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
The effervescent, charismatic Maya Fiennes introduces her method of Kundalini yoga, shares her life story, and reveals the secrets that have helped her and her students manage the stresses and strains of everyday life. Kundalini is a very direct form of yoga with an immediate effect, combining movement, breathing, and chanting to energize the body and relax the mind, while strengthening the body's nervous and immune system. Order your copy here.
When Spirit Leaps
By Bonnie Greenwell (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
Whether it happens all at once or gradually over time, spiritual awakening is an experience that may be accompanied by great insight, ecstatic bliss, or a mystical infusion of light, love, and vision. But it can be an overwhelming experience, too, leaving those to whom it’s occurred searching for answers and understanding. Written by a transpersonal psychologist and non-dual teacher, this book will help you understand the phenomenon of spiritual awakening, and provide guidance and support for you on your spiritual journey.
Click here to order your copy.
Awaken Your Kundalini Summit from Shift Catalyst––November 5-8--Free
By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
Coiled at the base of your spine, waiting to be awakened, is the powerful energy known as Kundalini. It is your prana, your life force. It is powerful beyond measure, infinitely creative, and who YOU are, at your core.
Once awakened, the vital energy of Kundalini begins flowing up your spine like lava from an oozing volcano, flooding your body, mind, and spirit with the divine love-energy of the universe, immersing you in bliss and enabling you to access a more boundless field of love.
If you’d like to discover how to activate this electrifying energy, join us online for the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit from November 5-8, hosted by internationally celebrated yoga teacher Kia Miller. You’ll have free access to more than two dozen video presentations featuring visionary speakers — and receive leading-edge practices and tools to ignite deeper levels of healing, spiritual awareness, and energy mastery.
The dynamic roster of summit speakers includes Guru Singh, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Gurmukh, Maya Fiennes, Jai Dev Singh, Tommy Rosen, Jeanie Manchester, Gurucharan, Raja Choudhury, Francesca McCartney, and many more.
If you’re intrigued by yoga, tantra, energy mastery, and spiritual evolution, the brilliant speakers in the Awakening Your Kundalini Summit will provide powerful practices and wisdom to heal, empower, and inspire you.
To register for this free summit, click here.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Master Key by Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit, is one of the most profoundly important books I’ve ever read. I can say that it’s life-changing with complete confidence, because it changed my life before I even finished reading it. I was so impressed with this book that we’ll be serializing the section called “One Hundred Days of Darkness and Night” in future issues of Catalyst. You can read the first installment here.
— Phil Bolsta
The stories in this issue’s “The Nicest Thing” section come from two featured speakers in the Awakening Your Kundalini Summit — Kia Miller, an internationally celebrated yoga teacher and your summit host… and Maya Fiennes, an author, yogi, and musician who travels the globe teaching a mix of Kundalini yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong.
We’d love to hear your answer to the question, What practices have you engaged in to harness the powerful spiritual energy within you and awaken your full potential? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
When you don’t go within, you go without.
— Yogi Bhajan
A Personal Invitation to the November 5–8 Awaken Your Kundalini Summit From Your Host, Kia Miller
Hi, my name is Kia Miller. I'm excited to be hosting an online summit covering the topic of Kundalini as a vehicle for healing, for awakening our inner potential, and for accessing highest states of awareness and consciousness.
Kundalini is not some esoteric principle. It's a force within each and every one of us. The ancient yogic texts reference it, modern scientists talk about it, and you can access it through specific practices and approaches to life.
To watch this 2-minute video and read the rest of the text, click here.
The Master Key
By Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit
It's 1972 in the industrial city of Xiangtan, China. A frail child with a heart condition sneaks into a hotel boiler room and befriends the elderly yet vibrant attendant, who eventually reveals his true identity as a revered Qigong master. He heals the boy and, for the next 13 years, secretly teaches him the keys to unlocking the spiritual and healing dimensions of the Life Force.
It sounds like a modern-day fable, but the story is true. And with The Master Key, that grateful student, Robert Peng, invites all of us to enter the next chapter of this empowering path. Here, Master Peng brings together the unique insights of his teacher with the moving account of his own journey.
Click here to read the first installment of this profoundly moving book.
In this special video series, prominent authors, speakers, thought leaders, and others answer the question, “What is the nicest thing a non-family member has ever done for you?”
Kia Miller’s Story
EXCERPT: When you first asked this, one story came to mind because it was quite unexpected. I lived in London for many years and I worked as a model in London and in different parts of Europe. And as a model, I guess one expects, usually there's an ulterior motive when people are offering things. But there was this one occasion where I worked with a director...
To watch the video and read the transcript of Kia’s life-changing 4-minute story, click here.
Maya Fiennes’ Story
EXCERPT: So that's when I was invited to go to a dinner party at Prince Andrew’s and the Royal Family. And as soon as I arrived there, I saw this amazing, beautiful piano, nine foot, handmade, engraved with different colors. And Prince Andrew was saying, “Oh, Mommy (meaning the Queen), has just given them this as a present. Nobody knows what to do because nobody knows how to play. And I go, “But I can play.”
To watch the video and read the transcript of Maya’s 3-minute “blessing in disguise” story, click here.
If you missed any “Nicest Thing” stories, you can catch up on all of them here.
“The Japanese Art of Happy Money” Facebook Live Q&A with Ken Honda
Would you like to live in maro — a heart-centered spiritual state — to draw on the abundance of the universe and welcome in miracles? Money and happiness expert Ken Honda, Japan’s #1 bestselling personal development guru, will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Tuesday, November 12, at 6:00pm Pacific to share how you can apply 7 steps to remove blocks and expand your capacity for experiencing a healthy, abundant, new relationship with money. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
“School of Imaginal Healing” Facebook Live Q&A with Robert Moss
Would you like to embrace a joyful, magical new way of healing your old wounds — beginning at the root issue of your consciousness that’s hidden in your dreams? Bestselling author and dream shaman Robert Moss will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wednesday, November 13, at 10:00am Pacific to share how you can reclaim your inner child — and explore why trauma chased it from your adult life. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
Your Voice:
We want to know: What practices have you engaged in to harness the powerful spiritual energy within you and awaken your full potential? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
Kundalini: Accidental Discovery or Evolutionary Gift?
Video Interview with Raja Choudhury (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
EXCERPT: That is the question of the ages: Why were we as human beings given a gift of divinity, yet it was hidden from us? Why? Why would it not be a part of our biological consciousness? Religions have always argued that it is something for the purest of the pure to attain, and it is not something that is for everyone. It is the opening up of a divine secret inside you. I think that that misses the whole point. I think that it was…
To watch the video and read the transcript of Raja’s 15-minute Kundalini interview, click here.
Seeing Through the Eyes of Love
By Maya Fiennes (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
As a mother, musician, composer, yogi, and author of Yoga for Real Life, my approach to yoga is about using the tools that yoga offers in day-to-day life. Everything in life we have to experience fully. We create our lives, we paint our canvas, we write our scenario, we direct it, and we act in it. This process has a beginning, middle and end. And that’s what people get each time they come to my yoga class.
To read more, click here.
How to Create a Relationship With Kundalini Energy
By Bonnie Greenwell, (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
I believe marriages last because the partners have learned flexibility, mutual respect, loving attention, and facing challenges as a team. Navigating a Kundalini arising or spiritual awakening process needs the same kind of attitudes. So I have identified four characteristics useful in marriage, life, and spiritual awakening to help you find a better way to live with Kundalini.
To read more, click here.
ACLU Celebrates Settlement Ending Unconstitutional Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters in South Dakota
By Jessica Corbett of Common Dreams
Demonstrators protest against the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Trump administration is attempting to approve despite its disastrous environmental impact. (Photo: Rainforest Action Network/Bonnie Chan/flickr/cc)
The ACLU and environmental activists celebrated Thursday after reaching a settlement agreement with South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem and state Attorney General Jason Ravnesborg to end what critics called "their unconstitutional attempts to silence pipeline protestors."
To read more, click here.
Waorani People Win Landmark Legal Victory Against Ecuadorian Government
A Half-Million Acres of Amazon Rainforest Protected From Oil Drilling
Published in Amazon Frontlines
Photo courtesy of Disclose.TV
The Waorani people of Pastaza won a historic ruling in Ecuadorian court protecting half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon rainforest from being earmarked for oil drilling. The decision by the three-judge panel of the Pastaza Provincial Court immediately voids the consultation process with the Waorani undertaken by the Ecuadorian government in 2012, indefinitely suspending the auctioning of their lands to oil companies. The verdict also disrupts the contemplated auctioning of 16 oil blocks that cover over 7 million acres of Indigenous territory by providing an invaluable legal precedent for other Indigenous nations across the Ecuadorian Amazon.
To read more, click here.
Awakening Kundalini From an Ancient Shivite/Shakta Esoteric Tantra Tradition
By Jeanie Manchester, (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
Jeanie Manchester is the founder of Anjaneya Yoga Shala in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Master Yoga Teacher and Meditation Instructor with over 30 years of dedicated practice, teaching, and training. Her students love her heart-based, friendly style of intuitive mentoring and teaching. Her offerings, which are dedicated to “women on the rise,” are supportive of householder women on the path with the teachings, tools, practice space, and community she's found crucial to living a spiritual life in the world.
To watch Jeanie’s 19-minute video, which she created exclusively for Catalyst, click here.
Light on the Teacher: Yogarupa Rod Stryker
Yogarupa Rod Stryker is a world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher, guiding and sharing his wisdom for 40 years. He is the founder of ParaYoga® and the author of The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom. The creator of one of the most comprehensive online yoga trainings in the world, Rod has dedicated his life to improving lives through his lectures, writing, practice, teaching, leadership, service and family life.
To watch Rod’s 6-minute video, click here.
The Awaken Your Kundalini Summit
A free online summit — November 5–8
Everything in the universe is energy. Kundalini is the energy of awakening, it represents your potential as a human being. Awakening your Kundalini is about becoming a true master of the energy YOU ARE — a creative intelligence that’s powerful beyond measure, and intimately connected to your soul.
On Tuesday, November 5, you’ll have a front-row seat at a complimentary online event that will feature over two dozen experts with diverse experience and approaches — each one a trusted leader in their field. The Shift Network’s Awaken Your Kundalini Summit, hosted by internationally celebrated yoga teacher Kia Miller, is a journey that will deepen your understanding of Kundalini, going well beyond yoga as fitness.
You’ll meet visionary speakers and teachers from around the globe, sharing how to clear karmic patterns from your mind-body and the collective field... and experience true joy and wellbeing.
The amazing speaker lineup includes Guru Singh, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Gurmukh, Maya Fiennes, Jai Dev Singh, Tommy Rosen, Jeanie Manchester, Gurucharan, Raja Choudhury, Francesca McCartney, and many more.
Over the course of this free 4-day summit, you’ll receive leading-edge practices and tools to ignite deeper levels of healing, spiritual awareness, and energy mastery.
See our full list of dynamic speakers and find out everything you need to know by clicking here.
Devaa Haley Mitchell Releases New Single, "Sacred Home"
Download now and get updates on Devaa's forthcoming album, Rebirth
Shift Network co-founder Devaa Haley Mitchell invites you to celebrate finding deep peace within, cultivating a sense of belonging, and reveling in true love with a free download of her new single “Sacred Home.”
“My fans have really been resonating with this song’s downtempo chill space vibe," explains Devaa of the first single from her forthcoming album Rebirth, “but the reason why this song is so special to me personally is because it’s the first song that fully I co-wrote with my husband, Stephen [Dinan]. We worked closely together on the lyrics which really speak to the sense of ‘Sacred Home’ that one can find with a beloved partner who really ‘gets you’ at the deepest level. This quality long-term love is rare, and when you find it… it’s such a true gift.”
Click here to download Devaa’s gift of a free download of "Sacred Home" — and to register to be among the first to hear about the release of her new album, Rebirth.
Yoga for Real Life
By Maya Fiennes (a featured speaker in Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
The effervescent, charismatic Maya Fiennes introduces her method of Kundalini yoga, shares her life story, and reveals the secrets that have helped her and her students manage the stresses and strains of everyday life. Kundalini is a very direct form of yoga with an immediate effect, combining movement, breathing, and chanting to energize the body and relax the mind, while strengthening the body's nervous and immune system. Order your copy here.
When Spirit Leaps
By Bonnie Greenwell (a featured speaker in the Awaken Your Kundalini Summit)
Whether it happens all at once or gradually over time, spiritual awakening is an experience that may be accompanied by great insight, ecstatic bliss, or a mystical infusion of light, love, and vision. But it can be an overwhelming experience, too, leaving those to whom it’s occurred searching for answers and understanding. Written by a transpersonal psychologist and non-dual teacher, this book will help you understand the phenomenon of spiritual awakening, and provide guidance and support for you on your spiritual journey.
Click here to order your copy.
Free Symposium––The Mystery School
Please try this link to register and let me know if it works:
https://mysteryschoolforanewparadigm.com/online/-symposium/
Hi Dorothy,
The Mystery School for a New Paradigm Online Symposium starts next week and we wanted to remind you to register now so you won’t miss any of the event.
On Saturday, November 9 the symposium starts with our first seminar. After that you will receive one recorded seminar each day. The symposium ends with a live online event with Jeff Carreira on Saturday, November 16.
Here is the full line up of seminars:
Saturday, November 9
Gary Lachman – Esoteric Scholar and Author, explores the esoteric tradition of the Mystery School.
Sunday, November 10
Dorothy Walters – Pioneering Teacher of Kundalini Awakening, illuminates the path of energetic awakening.
Monday, November 11
Nicolya Christi – Spiritual Visionary and Futurist, speaks about conscious evolution and the path of purification.
Tuesday, November 12
Tim Freke – Spiritual Philosopher, explains our crucial role in transitioning humanity into a dramatically new way of being.
Wednesday, November 13
Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, explores the significance of paranormal gifts.
Thursday, November 14
Nora Bateson – Award winning filmmaker, Writer and Educator – discusses the multi-dimensional complexity of the world.
Saturday, November 16
Jeff Carreira – (LIVE ONLINE EVENT) Guiding Teacher of the Mystery School for a New Paradigm.
Please be sure to register this week for our free online symposium.
I look forward to sharing this gift with you.
Sincerely,
Jeff
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https://mysteryschoolforanewparadigm.com/online/-symposium/
Hi Dorothy,
The Mystery School for a New Paradigm Online Symposium starts next week and we wanted to remind you to register now so you won’t miss any of the event.
On Saturday, November 9 the symposium starts with our first seminar. After that you will receive one recorded seminar each day. The symposium ends with a live online event with Jeff Carreira on Saturday, November 16.
Here is the full line up of seminars:
Saturday, November 9
Gary Lachman – Esoteric Scholar and Author, explores the esoteric tradition of the Mystery School.
Sunday, November 10
Dorothy Walters – Pioneering Teacher of Kundalini Awakening, illuminates the path of energetic awakening.
Monday, November 11
Nicolya Christi – Spiritual Visionary and Futurist, speaks about conscious evolution and the path of purification.
Tuesday, November 12
Tim Freke – Spiritual Philosopher, explains our crucial role in transitioning humanity into a dramatically new way of being.
Wednesday, November 13
Dr. Jeffrey Kripal – Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, explores the significance of paranormal gifts.
Thursday, November 14
Nora Bateson – Award winning filmmaker, Writer and Educator – discusses the multi-dimensional complexity of the world.
Saturday, November 16
Jeff Carreira – (LIVE ONLINE EVENT) Guiding Teacher of the Mystery School for a New Paradigm.
Please be sure to register this week for our free online symposium.
I look forward to sharing this gift with you.
Sincerely,
Jeff
e: jeff@jeffcarreira.com
w: jeffcarreira.com
w: mysteryschoolforanewparadigm.com
w: mysteryschool-memberscircle.com
Sent to: dorothywalters72@yahoo.com
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Saturday, November 02, 2019
"Jai Ma/No Woman No Cry" | Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda | Live at Shakti Fest...
