her basic cosmic constituents shortly after the Big Bang occurred.
Consciousness would then not be an accidental “add on” that never quite fits in a material universe, but instead would be a primary feature of the universe that occurs at all levels of reality, right down to that of quarks.
- Michael Zimmerman
The world is in crisis and transformation. Now, our civilization has the opportunity to evolve it's thinking. We are beginning to realize that the old ways of competition and "survival of the fittest" are not sustainable, for individuals, businesses, or the planet. Nature may be our most qualified life coach, with millions of years of experience in creating sustainability.
It's time to look to Her wisdom for some answers. It's time to do something different!
The evolution occurs when we try smarter- not harder!
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you can click away now. I am not here to persuade you otherwise.
What does it mean to suggest that consciousness is a driver of evolution? Is there something more than a purely random process involved that in some way shaped the development so far and that will shape in in the future?
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of the
cosmos in our bodies and our consciousness.
The next step in our evolution is driven on the one hand by increasing crises with accompanying
unrest and turbulence, and on the other by a deepening and ever more evident unsustainability
in the world. The economic, social and political crises of our time are clear and objective evidence
that the kind of thinking dominating our world is flawed. Its fragmentation into I/you, we/world,
man/nature dualities cannot ensure the survival of the seven billion humans of the global family. It creates polarization in society and gaps between humanity and nature.
Einstein was right: we cannot solve the significant problems of our time with
the same kind of thinking that gave rise to them. We need new thinking.
Young people, and all people young in spirit, realize that to confront the problems of our time we
need something radically and fundamentally new. We need a new culture. Culture is not a luxury,
the exclusive province of the privileged; it is the essence of how we see the world, and ourselves
in the world. It is the ground of our values and the warrant of our aspirations.
The new culture we seek must offer an embracing view of the human being, of society, and of
the web of life on the planet. It must suggest a pragmatic ethic for life in a globally extended,
interacting and intercommunicating world. And it must enable us to transcend the fragmented
and ever more dysfunctional culture that still dominates the contemporary world.
Ervin Laszlo
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usands of individuals and groups around the world, he is dedicated to creating nothing less than a revolution in consciousness and culture.
For years Andrew and Ken have been engaged in an ongoing dialogue about spirituality in today's world. Known as the "Guru and Pandit" series, this unfolding conversation has often been featured in the pages of EnlightenNext magazine (formerly What is Enlightenment?). In August of 2010 Andrew and Ken held a live event at Boulder Integral, where the two spoke for hours about the history of enlightenment, the relationship between enlightenment and evolution, and the future of spiritual life in this corner of this universe.
Here Andrew and Ken share their overall intentions for the discussion. Ken offers a brief history of enlightenment, then goes on to point out some crucial tweaks to the classical conception of enlightenment that could have only been realized in recent years.
Part 2: Ecstatic Urgency and the Creative Impulse (41:38)
click here: http://integrallife.com/node/85540…
In an evolutionary context, we could choose to describe that absolute principle as "the energy and intelligence that initially created and is continuing to create the universe." In the way that I understand it, that driving force is more an impulse than it is a divine being. In that impulse, there is no predetermined plan at work. It is a directionality, a momentum, a reaching towards. This definition of God does not depend on any kind of metaphysical belief or faith. All we need to do is look into the truth of our own experience and what science has revealed to us. 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution has given rise to 3.8 billion years of biological evolution, which has given rise to tens of thousands of years of cultural evolution. We're on a moving train.
We're all part of a process that's going somewhere.
We don't have to believe in a metaphysical deity to feel the drive of an evolutionary impulse as a tangible energetic presence in our own experience at different levels. At the lowest level, the sexual drive can be recognized as an evolutionary impulse. At a much higher level, the uniquely human compulsion towards innovation can be recognized as an evolutionary impulse. And finally, at the highest level, the spiritual impulse, which is a compulsion towards higher consciousness, can be recognized as an evolutionary impulse.
Something miraculous is going on here and it's trying to happen in and through all of us in every moment.
—Andrew Cohen…
misery created by your own uncontrollable thoughts? Your mind tosses you around like a ragdoll - taking control of it is like taming a hurricane. Well, the Himalayan masters discovered the techniques to make the mind lie subservient to the Awareness. They understood the power of the Nothingness.
What is nothingness? Is it the same as emptiness, the void, shunya, consciousness, the ether, the vacuum, the unmanifest, pure potentiality, pure Awareness? How is this related to bliss, enlightenment, self-realization, nirvana, samadhi, nirvikalpa samadhi, etc? Yogiraj explores this topic here.
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Yogiraj is considered an illumined living master and solar seer, and helps sincere practitioners of yogic meditation awaken to higher levels of consciousness through chakra awakening/activation and esoteric practices of Himalayan yoga.
Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath was born on May 10, 1944 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has been meditating since the age of 3, and spent his early years in the Himalayas amongst the HamsaNath yogis, in whose presence he was transformed. The divine transformation flowered after his deep and personal experiences in 1961 and 1967 with the yogi-christ Mahavatar Shiv-Goraksha-Babaji, the same spiritual master described in Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. He has a wife of 30+ years, Gurumata Shivangani, with whom he built by hand the Hamsa Yoga Sangh Ashram (Spiritual Retreat) outside the city of Pune, near Bombay, India. They have two sons, and two grandchildren.
Yogiraj teaches yogic meditation for the evolution of human consciousness. These perennial practices of yoga are the most ancient closely guarded sacred practices of the Himalayan yogis and masters from time immemorial. They help the practitioner gradually transform him/herself into the likeness of his/her own divinity.
This ancient art and science has been a way of life for rare yogis and ascetics of India and abroad who have sacrificed everything in the search for their own inner Truth, their inner Godessence. Today, Yogiraj demonstrates in his own life and livingness, that powerful spiritual practice can be integrated with family life and a career. By the blessings of Babaji, Yogiraj teaches these techniques, which he collectively calls "The Alchemy of Total Transformation" to sincere seekers throughout the world, who wish to integrate these practices into their daily life, without the necessity of giving up worldly pursuits.
These techniques are called:
1. Mahavatar Babaji's Kriya Yoga (N.B., the exact same kundalini kriya originally given to Lahiri Mahasaya in the 19th century)
2. Siddhanath Surya Yoga - A dynamic osmosis of solar healing. Pranic healing with solar power.
3. Siddhanath Hamsa Yoga - The Way of the White Swan.
Website: http://hamsa-yoga.org
Hamsa Yoga Sangh:
If Earth Peace is to Herald the Dawn of the New Age, let us All Realize:
Humanity is one's only religion
Breath one's only prayer, and
Consciousness one's only God.…
dot, on behalf
of ALL of the passengers of Planet Earth ~ "BY effectively taking
down the historic 4th WALL that kept us separate from NATURE
and BY embracing the very fact that What IS Possible NOW, was
never possible before" ~ such that THE human[KIND] of Spaceship
Earth in Freespace 4D™ can embark on a new collective relationship
with NATURE, which establishes a [TIME]less zone for communication
and commerce in FS4D by realising the dream of a common language
[in4D] • THE WHOLE IDEA of which [BE]ing to reclaim y[our] species
lost relationship, as a constituent component of NATURE, through a
permanent manifestation the original concept of ... The ART of the POSSIBLE.
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