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- Transitioning from the View of a Body With a Soul, to a Soul With a Body - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe primary standpoint for most people is that they are a physical body endowed with Life, Mind and (potentially in their minds) a Soul. Everything starts from the primacy of the body and its centrality in their view of their lives. This makes the purpose of life one of survival and procreation, ...
Views: 300 - Involution, Evolution and the Pressure from Domains of Life and Mind - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to take the development of life, and mind, for granted. We do not actually reflect on what it takes for them to emerge from Matter. Many believe that somehow various chemical elements in the material world are impacted by the radiation from the sun and through the heat of the core of the ...
Views: 255 - The Investigation of Extra-Sensory Powers of Perception - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs science begins to recognise the fact that there are ranges of vibration outside of the limited scope that we can normally experience, and that countless reports of perceptions that are inexplicable based on the outermost physical reality that we have heretofore treated as our sole reality, we ...
Views: 273 - Do We Have Subtle Sense Organs, Beyond the 5 Physical Senses We Recognise? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are generally so fixated on the impressions we receive through the action of the five physical sense organs, that we fail to recognise that we frequently sense things without these senses providing any input. For instance, people can frequently sense when someone is staring at them, even when ...
Views: 302 - Vital and Mental Life Forms Interact With Us in the Material World - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe scour the galaxy for signs of intelligent life elsewhere. The reality is that unless an extra-terrestrial race has found a way to circumvent the constant of the speed of light, through some method of ‘folding’ space or creating “wormholes” that truncate the distance to be travelled, setting ...
Views: 260 - The Influence of Unseen, Unperceived Beings and Forces in Our World - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we can once appreciate and accept the fact that forces, unseen by us, unperceived by our senses, can, and do, act upon us, pushing us to act in certain ways, pressing on us to move in certain directions, it is but a small step to recognize that there are beings who inhabit these unseen and ...
Views: 281 - Applying Knowledge Criteria Appropriate to Each Domain According to Its Own Law of Nature - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe frequently try to ‘know’ things based on a particular capacity of our being; however, this may not always be the correct way to appreciate and understand what is actually taking place. Trying to understand music, for instance, by applying the logical intellect and trying to parse the sounds, ...
Views: 273 - Involution and Evolution of Consciousness in the Material World of Forms - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe the material world around us and as we study that world, we see the development of forms of ever-greater complexity and power of action and intelligence. Charles Darwin described the process of the evolution of forms in his book The Origin of Species. The cause and purpose, however, ...
Views: 310 - The Magic of Ase: African Spiritual Power Unveiled - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2024 from Krishan KumarAse, often referred to as Ashe or Axe, is a concept deeply embedded in the spiritual fabric of Africa. Originating from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Ase encapsulates a profound understanding of divine energy and the interconnectedness of all life. The phrase 'ase african meaning' reflects the ...
Views: 335 - Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature gets excited by things that seem to be “occult” or that promise some kind of interaction with the “dearly departed” loved ones who have passed away. An entire industry has arisen to cater to people who are seeking solace, contact or information from the deceased. Some of this, ...
Views: 297 - Vital Beings Utilize Vital Drives to Control Human Action for Their Own Benefit and Enjoyment - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyVital beings, by their very nature, take advantage of our ambitions, desires, greed, and fears to convince us to interact with them, and they then use these responses for their own enjoyment or nourishment. The more we are motivated by these vital drives, the easier it is for such beings to toy ...
Views: 266 - Automatic Writing, Ouija Boards, the Planchette and Communication With People After Their Death - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe see a proliferation of people who claim to act as intermediaries through a process of seance, or use of a Ouija board or planchette, to communicate with individuals who have passed away. The interest in this area goes through periods of peaks and troughs, but continually captures the popular ...
Views: 263 - Stink Bugs in Spiritual Lore - Hidden Meanings and Messages - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2024 from Krishan KumarWithin the intricate tapestry of spiritual lore, stink bug symbolism occupies a unique and often overlooked place, yet its profound meanings and messages resonate deeply for those attuned to its significance. In spiritual traditions around the world, from ancient cultures to contemporary ...
Views: 408 - The Utilization of Powers That Arise Through the Development of the Yogic Practice - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2024 from santosh krinskySpiritual seekers are frequently advised not to indulge in or display any ‘powers’ that arise along the way. Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutras, describes a number of powers that can arise naturally through the practice of Yoga, and seekers throughout the ages have validated the reality of powers ...
Views: 288 - Zen Zaps: Navigating the Spiritual Journey Through Hiccups - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2024 from Krishan KumarBeneath their surface, hiccups—those sudden and involuntary contractions of the diaphragm—are often seen as trivial annoyances in our daily lives. However, they reveal a rich tapestry of spiritual meaning that spans cultures and philosophies, inviting us to explore deeper connections between our ...
Views: 385 - Tiny Messengers: Understanding the Spiritual Symbolism of Gnats - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2024 from Krishan KumarIn life's grand mosaic, every creature, regardless of its size, holds its place and significance. Among these tiny beings are gnats, often regarded merely as nuisances. However, from a spiritual perspective, gnats are much more than bothersome insects. They are considered powerful symbols, ...
Views: 410 - Wise words from Herbert Spencer - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHerbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, and anthropologist. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” yet his concept of evolution included ethical human progression. In the late 1800s he was one of the most influential European ...
Views: 335 - The Occult Action and Power of Vital Beings and Forces in Human Activities and Institutions - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor the most part, people live on the surface of their being, and do not see into the occult or hidden beings and forces that exist and act upon them, unseen, invisible and essentially unregarded. Many things that occur in the world are hard to explain without an understanding of the occult ...
Views: 249 - Growing Spiritually Beyond the Forms of Religion - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe see a growing movement around the world of people leaving the religion into which they were born, and starting down a spiritual path of inner growth. A driving factor behind this change is the perception among these people that the religion has either lost any life-force that it may have had ...
Views: 392 - Divine Synchrony: The Significance of 3333 in Your Thoughts - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2024 from Krishan KumarIn a world that often seems governed by chaos and randomness, many people find solace and meaning in the patterns and symbols that emerge in their daily lives. Numbers, in particular, have long been considered a bridge between the physical and spiritual realms. The appearance of specific ...
Views: 401 - Differences Between the Practice of Magic and Spiritual Action - by Submitted on May 31, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is an obvious fact that as one grows and develops in the spiritual path, the concentration of conscious force, tapasya, will definitely increase not only the spiritual development, but also the powers that the individual has available to accomplish action in his life in the world. In the ...
Views: 257 - Distinguishing Magic from Occultism - by Submitted on May 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is considerable confusion between the concept of occultism and the idea of the practice of magic (whether considered ‘white’ magic or ‘black’ magic). Occultism essential is the science of dealing with forces subliminal to our outer senses, but nevertheless active and acting upon our being. ...
Views: 260 - 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: 287 - Universal Forces, the Chakra Energy Centers, and the Utilization of the Forces - by Submitted on May 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyEach individual has his own unique types and levels of receptivity, and these too can vary over time. The universal forces are constantly there, but if an individual is closed off, unresponsive, then he does not gain the full benefit of that force. The ancient description of the energy centres ...
Views: 266 - The Need to Prepare the Being to Receive, Hold and Utilize the Influx of the Higher Forces - by Submitted on May 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe raw power generated by an electricity power plant is far greater than any single house can sustain. Thus, the utility company utilizes step-down transformers to systematically bring the power down to a level that the homes and the wiring to the homes can sustain. A similar principle is at ...
Views: 325 - How to Experience the Influx of Universal Forces Directly Through the Experience of a Wider Consciousness - by Submitted on May 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis described a change in conscious awareness as representing satyam, rtam, brihat, the truth, the right, the vast. It is difficult for most people living in the modern world to gain a conception of the vastness of existence. We may know intellectually that the universe is large, we ...
Views: 327 - Accessing Universal Vital Forces Directly or Through Vital Interchange With Others - by Submitted on May 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother clarifies a distinction between receiving the universal vital forces directly and receiving them through a vital interchange with other individuals. These two methods represent two entirely different statuses of consciousness. To receive the universal vital forces directly, a wide and ...
Views: 282 - Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development - by Submitted on May 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the trajectory of human development, we can see a very clear direction taking shape. As we have become more conscious of the stages of life, and the processes that accompany those stages, including the increasing weakening and deterioration of the body and the life energy, and the ...
Views: 288 - Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development - by Submitted on May 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the trajectory of human development, we can see a very clear direction taking shape. As we have become more conscious of the stages of life, and the processes that accompany those stages, including the increasing weakening and deterioration of the body and the life energy, and the ...
Views: 276 - Biological Energy Developed from Food and from Other Sources - by Submitted on May 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyPeople are not generally consciously aware of the energy interchanges that take place to fuel their bodies and drive their live energies. They understand that they need to eat food as a form of ‘fuel’ for their energy, and they count ‘calories’ that are produced by various food sources. Clearly, ...
Views: 292 - Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force - by Submitted on May 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical energy and it then gets transformed, or converted, into other forms of energy including life energy. The first step in this transformation comes about through the ability of plants ...
Views: 276 - Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force - by Submitted on May 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical energy and it then gets transformed, or converted, into other forms of energy including life energy. The first step in this transformation comes about through the ability of plants ...
Views: 286 - 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: 296 - Wisdom of John Stuart Mill - by Submitted on May 20, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloJohn Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 – May 7, 1873) was an English economist, philosopher, politician and civil servant. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy called him "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century." He greatly influenced classical liberalism and ...
Views: 373 - Receptivity to the Universal Vital Forces - by Submitted on May 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn May 1973, a devotee from the West was visiting Auroville in South India. At that time, it was primarily an eroded, dusty plateau, not the lush forested scene that one can see today if one visits. May is an extremely hot month, and the visitor had just arrived a couple of weeks earlier from ...
Views: 306 - Economic Systems Cannot Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo continues to explore the various proposed methods for effecting positive change in human life and society so as to confront the evolutionary crisis we see before us. Some have proposed that the solution can be found in developing a more perfect economic system, and much effort has ...
Views: 296 - Regimented and Mechanised Social Life Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskySome societies have attempted to solve the the complex problems humanity is facing through massive attempts to educate and regiment the life of the individuals making up that society. These attempts rely on the idea that by controlling the education the society can create more or less “cogs in a ...
Views: 285 - Religion Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyThroughout human history, mankind has turned to religion in an attempt to address or solve the problems of human life. In many cases, charismatic leaders have arisen who, through their teaching and their personal example, have inspired people to make changes in their individual lives, and there ...
Views: 284 - The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyUnder the influence of the gnostic consciousness, the entire framework of the mental organisation of life, which we accept as assumed and given, would necessarily be modified. The very basis of viewing and understanding things would have to shift from one of division and separation to one of ...
Views: 294 - Receiving and Utilizing the Universal Vital Forces - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn our fragmented process of understanding, we frequently create an artificial separation that does not exist in reality. Thus, seekers sometimes undertake to find ways to draw on the universal vital energy, when in fact, it is through the flow of that energy that they live, breathe, exist, grow ...
Views: 262 - Preparation and Training Needed to Consciously Draw on the Universal Vital Force - by Submitted on May 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe recognise that there are ocean currents which circulate ocean water world wide and regulate the climate. We also recognise that there are air currents which we can partially observe through the soaring of birds who let the air currents carry them along, and experience directly if we are ...
Views: 282 - The Question of Possession of an Individual by Vital Beings - by Submitted on May 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we acknowledge the idea that forces, beings or entities from the vital planes can act upon and through human individuals, the question then arises as to how we can identify this action and distinguish it from what we might call normal actions of a human being under the impulsion of the ...
Views: 276 - How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives - by Submitted on May 15, 2024 from santosh krinskySince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital ...
Views: 308 - The Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness Grapple for Supremacy in the World - by Submitted on May 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn Paradise Lost, John Milton describes at great length the intentions and motivations of the fallen angels as described by the Christian tradition, and their attempt and need to influence and control the human world and thereby to defeat God’s intention and plan for humanity. This story is in ...
Views: 298 - Conscious Powers of Light and Darkness Oppose One Another in the External World We Inhabit - by Submitted on May 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyEverywhere we look, whether in material Nature, or in the vital or mental domains, we see a play of forces, attraction and repulsion, centrifugal and centripetal, positive and negative, dark and light, etc. It appears to be a core principle of the creation to utilize these opposing forces to ...
Views: 276 - Consciousness Pervades All Forms, Beings and Entities in the Universal Creation - by Submitted on May 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare comments on the limitations of the objective mind and its ability to understand existence: ““There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. Our mind’s view of the existence of the universe and its significance ...
Views: 302 - Impersonal and Personal Aspects of Consciousness in the Universal Manifestation - by Submitted on May 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur understanding of existence is very much rooted in our own anthropocentric view of things. We generally recognise the awareness we hold within ourselves, and, viewing other beings and forms in our visible environs, we either attribute to them no consciousness, or, at best, lower forms or ...
Views: 300 - Universal Forces and the Subconscient - by Submitted on May 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many functions of our existence that take place without the conscious awareness or intervention of the mind. All of the complex functions of the body and its organs, for instance, are very much independent of control by our conscious mind and will, although some of these functions may, ...
Views: 290 - Universal Forces, the Aura and the Individual Consciousness - by Submitted on May 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany people hold that the truth of existence is an “either/or” proposition. If the universal forces create all of existence, then the individual is essentially an illusory conception; and on the other hand, if the individual is a real and separate entity, then the universal is somehow denied or ...
Views: 287 - The Material Universe, the Causative Plane and the Forces of Manifestation - by Submitted on May 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we look at existence from the individual standpoint, we see a number of solid forms interacting with one another. We do not see how they came into existence (other than the physical, material, practical methodology we can observe, which fails to give us the causative factors or ...
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