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- Occult Forces Surround Us and Can Act Upon Us - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human range of perception is bounded on both sides and thus, forces that are active in ranges above or below our own field of perceptions are able to act without our ability to direct know what they are doing, or interact with them consciously. To the extent that they wield influence on our ...
Views: 391 - Occult Forces: Their Development and Proper Use - by Submitted on May 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen a scientist studies the physical properties of matter and energy, and thereby creates an invention that can do things such as communicate voice or sound wirelessly across the world, or predict general weather patterns, or develop pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines that can cure, mitigate or ...
Views: 319 - Occult Knowledge or Perceptions Originate in the Inner Mental, Vital or Physical, not the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyPeople get intimations, intuitions, ‘gut instincts’, or simply a feeling about something, maybe a form of uneasiness, or a sense of expectation, or some pressure, or new thought process or emotional reaction. Sometimes these things occur during the waking state, but often they come as elements ...
Views: 51 - Occult Powers and the Spiritual Sadhana - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn his lectures on Raja Yoga, in the chapter titled “Powers”, Swami Vivekananda explains how various occult powers arise or can be developed. The process is an extension of the preceding efforts of purification, quieting of the ‘mind stuff’ and then gaining the ability to fix the concentration ...
Views: 454 - Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2025 from santosh krinskyDr. Deepak Chopra told an interesting anecdote from his own experience at a talk he gave in Chicago some years ago. Some of the details may have escaped me, so the gist of it was that he was visiting his birth home area at one point and it was recommended to him to visit a famous Vedic ...
Views: 242 - Occultism and Hypnotism - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists and medical practitioners have studied hypnotism and even applied it in various situations. They raise some doubts due to studies that did not completely follow the highest double-blind standards used in medical research; nevertheless, hypnotism has been found to have some very clear ...
Views: 328 - Occultism and Our Daily Lives - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe rarely reflect on the occult powers that we use all the time, automatically, including the various powers of the mind and emotions. Researchers in the field of medical science have now recognized the important role that our mental state has on our health and well-being. They now admit the ...
Views: 397 - OM, the Mantra and the Use of Mantra in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe ancient Mandukya Upanishad describes OM in considerable detail as the sound-body of the Universe: “OM is this imperishable Word, OM is the Universe, and this is the exposition of OM. The past, the present and the future, all that was, all that is, all that will be, is OM. Likewise all else ...
Views: 601 - On Loneliness & Solitude: Shut The Door As You Leave, Please - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2021 from Rochi ZalaniThis article was originally published at rochizalani.com Solitude has become another commodity to sell (being lonely is still hushed). It became a fad when self-help gurus and pseudo-spiritual teachers started preaching about the benefits of time spent alone: Take this silent retreat, this ...
Views: 794 - One Should Be Greater Than One’s Experience - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhenever an individual has any kind of powerful emotion or experience, he tends to “lose himself” in that experience. He becomes angry, or lustful, or ecstatic, or joyful and the feeling takes over his entire being and for a time, he “is” that force. The same thing can, and does, tend to happen ...
Views: 469 - One’s Attitude to Events Affects the Impact of the Event - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe tend to evaluate events or circumstances based on their relation to our personal identification with the external ego-personality, and our prevalent idea about ourselves at that point in time. In retrospect, we frequently find that those things which we considered to be ‘bad’ were actually ...
Views: 180 - Online Book Stores Contain Books with a Good Title - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2012 from rahul kumarnline book stores India contain a huge collection of books from different countries and different authors all around the world. In this present time general people are more interested in buying books online through online book stores. That's why online book stores are becoming more popular ...
Views: 976 - Online Coaching For JEE 2021 - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2021 from najma husainTaking up NEET test in 2021 The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) managed by NTA (the National Testing Agency) catalyzes the understudies to get affirmations in undergrad clinical, dental, BHMS, or comparable courses in India. Goodness, stand by! Is it accurate to say that ...
Views: 513 - Online Counseling Course - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2012 from Rosemary PriceOnline counseling course - How to become a therapist. Firstly let us look at why you wish to. Is it to understand yourself better? Or your partner? Or potential lovers and partners? Or are you actually thinking of this as a tool that you can use career wise and sell to clients to earn a ...
Views: 1536 - Only Six Months to Live - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2021 from Charles HeinekeWhat is it about the words, "You've only got six months to live," that strike such fear in a human heart and shake a person to his or her very foundation? Why do those words cause such shock to those who receive them? Is it because they now know that their time is limited, and ...What is it ...
Views: 4582 - Opening the Door to Our Latent Capacities - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor the most part, we live within a framework set for us by our parents, community, society, education and the individual choices we make as a result of these things. To some extent these things determine where we will concentrate our focus, what capacities we will practice and develop, and ...
Views: 307 - Opening to a New Consciousness Through the Revealed Word - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2022 from santosh krinskyA seed in the plant kingdom remains inert and non-developing until such time as it is placed in the proper conditions and pressure from outside, in the form of heat or moisture primarily, is exerted upon it. A corollary process takes place in the animal kingdom, of course. Once the encoding ...
Views: 484 - Opening to the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe draw to us and interact with whatever draws our attention. The external being is motivated by the forces of desire and fear. Each of these creates a link to objects that we desire or that we fear. We thus live in a world of constant distraction from the inner truth of our being. When an ...
Views: 14 - Options and Risks in Widening the Consciousness Using Various Methods - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2022 from santosh krinskyThere are numerous ways to widen one’s consciousness to begin to incorporate the viewpoint and direction of others. Some of these methods are easier than others, in that they utilize a mood or feeling that is evoked from a natural environment, such as the starry sky, the ocean, a wide view from ...
Views: 514 - Order, From Disorder - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2013 from Albert Wagner"Under all disorder there is an underlying order." The author thinks this is an interesting quote from psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung. It is interesting because the word "disorder" seems to imply that things are "haphazard", so to speak. What Dr. Jung seems to implying in this ...
Views: 1494 - Ordinary Consciousness and Spiritual Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2021 from santosh krinskyOur mind and senses are generally turned outwards and we constantly are prodded to pay attention to events, people and circumstances in the outer world. We build up careers, we start families, we entertain ourselves, we satisfy the desires that arise as a result of our interaction with the outer ...
Views: 815 - Organising One’s Life Around the Ideal - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2022 from santosh krinskyObservation and reflection eventually can lead to focus of the life and attention to achieve a specific aspiration. The process of reviewing with care in the light of the higher aspiration allows the individual to then choose which things to do, and which things to avoid, sculpting, if you will, ...
Views: 499 - Organizing One’s Life Around a Central Aspiration - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2023 from santosh krinskyOne of the things that spiritual seekers experience is that regardless of how strong the central aspiration of the soul happens to be within them, they experience fluctuations based on the various parts of the external nature coming to the front and asserting their own priorities. This leads to ...
Views: 455 - Other Domains and Worlds Exist Beyond the Limits of Our Waking Awareness - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we reflect deeply on the development of life and mind out of Matter, it becomes clear that they are not able to manifest in Matter if they do not already exist in their own right and in their own domain. Seers and mystics have described vital worlds. Teilhard de Chardin described a mental ...
Views: 379 - Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction - by Submitted on May 28, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe tend to believe that we are a single, consistent and harmonized individuality, personality, character. For the most part, we are not self-reflective enough to recognise the inconsistencies and inner conflicts that take place within the being, due to different drives, needs, desires, and ...
Views: 590 - Our Physical, Vital and Mental Sheathes Are Impacted by Energetic Forces in a Constant State of Interchange - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to live with an illusion of the separateness of our individual being from all others. We treat the physical body as a distinct, self-standing unit that is free and independent, has its own integrity and is essentially isolated in its separateness. This however is not quite the actuality ...
Views: 417 - Our Subconscient Inheritance - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe pride ourselves on our independence and self-sufficiency. We believe that we make conscious choices that are ‘our own’ choices. We do not generally recognise that who we are today, and what choices we tend to make, are very much conditioned by and even controlled by influences from the past. ...
Views: 551 - Our Surface Personality Is Only a Small Representation of Our Complete and True Being - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe construct a personality that we present to the world and organize our expression and actions around this chosen construct. In doing so, we pick and choose elements that are present in our conscious mind, heart, life-force and physical body and create for ourselves the ego-personality that ...
Views: 334 - Our Undying Love for Vampires - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2012 from Claudia CunninghamWhen I began writing my first book, Biting Back: A No-Nonsense (No Garlic) Guide to Facing the Personal Vampires in Your Life (Llewellyn, 2010)—and that was well over eight years ago, mind you—I remember I was anxious, even then, that the national fascination with vampires would pass before I ...
Views: 1528 - Out of Body Experiences - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2021 from santosh krinskyMost people, embedded in the physical body and its consciousness, find it difficult, if not impossible, to accept or validate the reality of the out of body experience. At the same time, there are countless anecdotes of people who have an out of body experience, or the related ‘near death ...
Views: 636 - Overcome Fear of Confrontation with Affirmations - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2015 from Matthew E. AlleyneConfrontation is a part of life, and as much as we would like to avoid it, there are certain times when we really should just get on and deal with it. Avoiding confrontation will often make any situation worse than it needs to be, as people quite often start to feel awkward and the lack of ...
Views: 1756 - Overcoming Desire Without Suppression or Indulgence - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe mental consciousness likes to frame issues in terms of black and white determinations, as ‘either/or’ considerations. So we tend to swing from one extreme to the other. Either we try to indulge ourselves in fulfilling desires, in some cases with the idea that by satisfying the desire we will ...
Views: 570 - Overcoming Difficulties With Cheerfulness - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are all familiar with the artificial type of cheerfulness of the vital nature, which puts on a happy face, and glad hands everyone in a show of bubbly cheer. We are also familiar with the artificial type of cheerfulness that arises through the use of intoxicating beverages and immersion in an ...
Views: 234 - Overcoming Disturbance of the Nerves - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual takes up the inner observation process and begins to look carefully at the motives, actions, feelings, emotions and ideas that dominate the being, there is frequently a stage where the witness consciousness becomes ‘self-critical’ and worries about every misstep, every wrong ...
Views: 537 - Overcoming Doubt and Fear of Failure in the Yogic Sadhana Through the Shift from the Ego-Standpoint to the Divine Standpoint - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe seem to be always second guessing ourselves. Are we doing the sadhana in the right way? Is there another method or technique i should be employing? Why am I not seeing the results I expect and desire? Am I even cut out for doing sadhana? Maybe this was all just a big mistake and I should get ...
Views: 160 - Overcoming Doubt, Fear and Depression Which May Arise During the Practice of Yoga - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe changes sought in the integral Yoga are of such magnitude and detail that they will naturally take a considerable time to work themselves out in all the levels and aspects of our being. Along the way, there come periods of difficulty which may challenge one’s faith or determination, what is ...
Views: 563 - Overcoming Fatigue and Lack of Energy Through Receptivity to the Higher Planes of Consciousness - by Submitted on May 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople who reside in communities adjacent to the beach regularly see visitors stretched out on the sand, ostensibly sleeping while ‘working on their tan’, in some cases for the entire stay of a vacation. When asked, these people indicate that they are taking a well-earned vacation and just want ...
Views: 152 - Overcoming Hopelessness and Depression by Tuning the Consciousness Towards the Light - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2022 from santosh krinskyMany people, including those who are treading a spiritual path, feel depressed and hopeless when they see all the negativity, violence, and destruction taking place in the world around us. The mass media focuses on, and emphasizes, all this negativity, with the saying ‘if it bleeds, it leads’. ...
Views: 507 - Overcoming Negative Suggestions Through Faith in One’s Spiritual Destiny - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2022 from santosh krinskyHow many times in the course of an individual’s practice of yoga do thoughts of failure and lack of capacity or ability to succeed intervene and work to create doubt and despair? If allowed to dominate the being, the quest fails, at least for the time being, or for the rest of the current ...
Views: 566 - Overcoming Polarization and Argument - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe live in a time of extreme polarization. People and even entire societies are taking fixed stands, and disputing the validity or right of anyone holding different or opposing viewpoints. In the framework of governing a nation, this leads inevitably to either a form of political gridlock if the ...
Views: 523 - Overcoming Self-Doubt and Fear of Incapacity in the Spiritual Endeavour - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2025 from santosh krinskySpiritual seekers throughout the ages have been confronted with internal anguish about whether they actually have the capacity and ability to succeed in their spiritual endeavour. They go through periods of enthusiasm and joy as they feel the spiritual force working in them, bringing them ...
Views: 114 - Overcoming Suffering and Changing the Future of Our Karma - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyMany people believe that there is some kind of inexorable law of reward and punishment being doled out by God or some other all-powerful, all-observant being. In the West children are taught this lesson through the myth of Santa Claus, when they are encouraged to be “good” because Santa Claus is ...
Views: 153 - Overcoming Tamasic Depression in the Practice of Yoga - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2021 from santosh krinskyIt is inevitable that as long as the human standpoint remains active, there will be periods of doubt, depression, dissatisfaction, weakness, and self-doubt. The action of the Gunas ensures there will be such periods when the enthusiasm and focus, energy and optimism depart and darkness tries to ...
Views: 544 - Overcoming the Bias of Materialism In Our Viewpoint About Living a Meaningful and Happy Life - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2025 from santosh krinskyWestern civilisation has a distinct bias in favor of what we may call a materialistic viewpoint. Money, possessions, status and power based on monetary power, a drive to own ever newer possessions, and the need to try to increase our enjoyment and satisfaction of life through these factors leads ...
Views: 185 - Overcoming the Darkness and Depression When the Psychic Being Recedes - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe distinction between the state of consciousness with the psychic being active and leading, versus that where it has receded and the ego-personality of the surface being is predominant, provides a very clear method for the seeker to know what is taking place internally. By adopting the ...
Views: 503 - Overcoming the Discomfort of Cold Temperatures - by Submitted on May 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyDealing with the heat radiation that comes from the sun is a matter of gaining the ability to absorb and utilize the energy without being overwhelmed by its force. Turning then to the issue of how to deal with cold, we have an entirely different scenario, in that we have a reduction in the ...
Views: 328 - Overcoming the Distracting Force of Vital Desire to Find and Live the Truth of One’s Life - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2025 from santosh krinskyWind is a metaphor for the vital force. The vital being is moved by desire. When we covet or desire something, we are tossed about as by a great gust of wind. This is the normal state for most people, and they just get tossed about from one focus to another trying to achieve what is held before ...
Views: 155 - Overcoming the Force of Desire - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2025 from santosh krinskyIf we reflect on the course of human life, it is easy to determine that we fixate upon different things at different stages of life. As a child, our desires tend to be centered around physical and vital satisfactions. We may desire a specific food, or a specific toy, or a specific form of ...
Views: 156 - Overcoming the Habit of Illness of the Body - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe first time we experience something it starts to create a “groove” in our neural network, nerves or responsive centers. As the experience recurs, the groove becomes a ‘pathway’. Eventually, the pathway becomes an embedded habit. When a similar vibration is experienced, it ‘automatically’ ...
Views: 207 - Overcoming the Impulse of Anger - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2022 from santosh krinskyThere is an illustrative tale in the Mahabharata. The Pandava and Kaurava princes were being instructed by their noted teacher Dronacharya. Today’s lesson was ‘not to become angry’. The 100 Kaurava princes were asked if they had learned the lesson and they all replied in the affirmative. The 4 ...
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