ShaktiMama

I am the world's biggest skeptic. Every time something happens, that I see or experience, a voice in my head is heard to yell, "you are so full of sh*t. This so unscientific, illogical, and crap." Complete confidence, while living in this 3D meat suit, escapes me. s

I am reading right now, How God changes your Brain, written by a neuroscientist. http://www.amazon.com/How-Changes-Your-Brain-Neuroscientist/dp/0345503414 Much of the book is a heavily referenced research study which will enable to answer your questions and find some questions you didn't even know you had. Must reading for the meditation practice or any internal cultivation practice you may be following. It should be required reading for all teachers of these systems. Where it really gets good is when he says belief in God or a god is not necessary to benefit from "spiritual practices." I find fascinating where he takes a contruction worker, trains him in meditation, and with in less than two months is showing brain activity that rivals a buddhist monk who has been practicing his whole life. s

i can tell you what I think and what I have experienced and known for years but first it is easier to walk together if you define your terms to me.

I meant to throw it out into the ring for consideration not throw it away if you thought that I was saying that.

it seems like that, doesn't it? What if I throw out there the concept of "wisdom erases karma?" s

I started this class a few weeks ago and we have managed to only go forward a few steps in the group. The reason is because we have camped out on laying the foundation of what it means to become a conscious co creator for a new evolutionary human and to become better stewards of Mama Earth. We eventually will be stepping up to becoming a universal human, a homo spacialis versus a homo sapiens. It is based on the work of Barbara Marx Hubbard, a noted futurist and evolutionary thinker. Since many of the participants have or are working on awakening kundalini we will integrate this into the talk because in my assessment kundalini development is crucial to be consciously evolving. I am recording a review today of all the key points. I will post a link so you can download it for your own review. If you are like what you hear, please join us this Thursday night at 7pm Denver, CO time on Skype. My ID is susanacarlson. If you IM to be a contact, tell me your real name and your bums name. All the aliases can be terribly confusing if you don't. I have a huge SKYPE contact list. This is not lead by Santi. He is very busy with his own classes but he knows he is invited anytime. He loves what I am doing on creation. we will not be reviewing KAP stuff although sometimes I do reference the process in the course of the conversation. This is led by me. You can ask me questions by chat. After the group is over...about an hour or so...we can discuss questions. The last half hour is a kundalini shaktipat meditation. If you look at my avatar next to this, that picture was taken right after I led the last class on Ustream which also concluded with a Kundalini Shaktipat meditation. This group is 100% dogma and guru free I will post the link to the recording later this afternoon. The class is free.

"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you." Hafiz May you all have a wonderful week and know this to be true for you as well. Susan

yes...this is reflected also in my own years of personal experience and practice. sometimes i screwed up... a lot.. but I thinking i am kinda getting it now.

Just speaking from my own experiences here: I only knew how to love someone deeply and authentically when I realized I was worth loving my own self in the same way. I found that was a lot harder but once I was able to begin it made the quality of my loving others more soulful and personal not just a motion or act to go thru. s

we begin in the dao and we end in the dao. someday we will wake up to the fact we never left the dao except in our minds. no, i am not a daoist. what am I...still evolving....

Do you really read what I wrote or just look for inflammatory terms so that you can ridicule what I said? If you did you would have seen, IMO, a synthesis of much available research and study and personal experience coming close to 30 years. Have you never heard of a sports coach or champion of some system called the "big Kahuna". big kahuna is just a slang cultural term of respect. I know an authentic kahuna who comes from an authentic lineage and teaches me things that white kahunas never will. I never said that Johnson was a kahuna. You inferred it. you can read his academic and martial bios here: http://www.qigongmedicine.com/ too long for me to get into here. I am minister of a Christian line that traces it self back through at least 18 different lineages to the time of AD 55. I won't go on. Do your own research. You are entitled to your own opinions and you are making subjective value decisions on my opinions and my own research. Ridicule and sarcasm I can be sure is not a component of someone who has a contemplative practice in the Dao. Just my opinion but are all here on TBs to say I have arrived, I have the right opinion? If people feel the need to tell other people their answers, the tellers have missed asking the appropriate questions. You can, as I tell all my students, agree with me 100% but that means the conversation gets boring and goes nowhere fast. We can totally disagree and conflict can arise and we still do not move anymore. You can sit with what is being examined, honestly give it some consideration, and we can go for awhile together. In my own very personal opinion, I am getting a bit annoyed (i said this was personal)with people who sling around the term "new age" like it a curse or epithet of the worst implications. After studying and teaching since the late 80s I can say now with some assurance that it is evidence of the sloppy thinking of most people who hurl that slur around. People will throw out the plain looking touchstone that nestles among the other plain looking stones. The grail cup is the Carpenter's cup.

When I was studying Daoist medical gigong with Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson's school( I did the first year) we were studying conception, birth, etc. He wrote that one common daoist theory is a human body can be too small to energetically contain the vastness and shining light of the Ling Shen, what some western schools call the Monad, over soul, etc. The Hun and Po of our bodies are more like the souls which is what we all contain. http://www.itmonline.org/shen/chap1.htm Talks some of what Jerry talks about. I cant find my text book to quote pages cause it is still packed away from moving but it is in the first couple of chapters of volume 1 of his medical gigong textbook series. What he surveys and explains is the movement of us from the Dao to pregnancy to birth as it involves becoming human. Johnson received the majority of his training in Daoism, daoist medical qigong in China. He is also a big kahuna daoist priest. He is meticulous with footnotes so it would be easy enough to review your self and make your own decision. If I remember correctly it goes something like this: First there is the Dao which is sometimes explained in Buddhism which encompasses "the ten thousand things" which, among other things represents the concept of the diversity and unity of all things in the universe. A human being's journey starts there. He says the Ling Shen or Shen Ling, you can say either way, is best represented by the term, "the Holy Spirit." Now, IMO, I firmly believe that the Holy Spirit is the way Christians describe something that some hear me refer to as Kundalini SHakti. TO make a long explanation short cause I don't have the time to get in this deeply on this forum...what I took away from reading those textbooks and lectures...and I will qualify that by saying I am not attached to dogma and I know there is far more in this universe that I dont know than I do know. I am, as I grow older, more cognizant of the fact that I am but a broken plate on this planet. So, what I took away from those lectures, is a physical body is a conglomeration of souls (hun and po) which is different (by daoist tradition) is different from Shen to differentiate from our individual shen. Our bodies hold shen which is a fragment of the Ling Shen. Since there are so many fragments of the Ling Shen (10,000 things, remember?) in the Tao, there are infinite permutations of shen and hun and po so there could be infinite numbers of "souls". Increase your world view to the universal. If Earth is just one of the inhabited planets in the Universe, and the Tao is Universal ( and yes, that Dao which can be knows is not the Dao... but that is conversation for another time)...then ????? what? For that perspective there can be an unlimited number of souls to go around, especially if look as if as souls, or fragments of the Ling Shen are what comprises an individual in whatever form you take, or whatever dimension you live in. Change your perspective, ie, chi you have was shared with Queen victoria. I offer chi is never shared, it always is and we exist in a Universal Chi field. Our personal chi (energy field) is a wave or frequency that extends from the Universal Chi. (universal energy field) This reductionist view does not at all but represent an infinitesimally small attempt to understand All that Is. What hubris we have if we think we have the answers let alone, the Answer. What I know from my ongoing research in neurotheology is these questions alter the brain to receive even more refined and discrete understanding of the nature of the universe. Don't stop asking questions but just realize none of us have the answer. Time for a bhakti chai latte. No, I am not a scholar of buddhism...just a student of life. s

In honor of the big wedding, tell us your royal wedding guest name. Start with either Lord or Lady. Your first name is one of your grandparents' names. Your surname is the name of your first pet, hyphenated with the name of the street you grew up on. Looking forward to your responses. Cordially, Lady Bess Ann Banjo-Woodland I have photo proof that I was there. oops I forgot to put my whole name from my grandma's lineage. It is Lady Bess Ann Clydesdale Banjo-Woodland. Cant forget the Scotch side.

I loved that movie!

Right out of the recording studio (my dining room table) to your ears. Unedited, uncensored, no frills review of the past several weeks of the study group led by me on Conscious Evolution and Co Creation. When you get to a certain part of the review you will hear me say the word: Chrysalis Remember this phrase when you hear me say Chrysalis: We are the Imaginal cells of planet earth. http://www.sendspace.com/file/atxotj

Nice. Some of my teachers have told me that you cannot authentically recognize a quality in others until you recognize them inside yourself. Here's a poem for you by Lawrence Bloom FIRST First you have to let go, Only then can you truly surrender Only then can you truly trust Only then can you truly have faith. When you have faith you can enter the gateway When you enter the gateway You stop living life And life starts living you And then you dance 'cos that is all there is left to do.

yum...now I have to figure out the measurement coversions...i like intense lemon flavor too.

For some reason I just developed a craving to try a lemon biscuit. Since I only see lemon scones or lemon bars or my fav, lemon poppy seed muffins, in the US of A I was wondering do you have the recipe?

If people are surprised you even have a meditation practice when you tell them and start ROTFLTAO that is good marker that your practice needs work. If people you are acquainted with say that your presence makes them feel peaceful and calm when you are around them just keep practicing what you are doing. If you want a more refined measuring tool...are you happy? is your sleep quality better? are you more healthy? are you becoming more engaged in a positive way with the people around you?

Be amused with your projections and live your life as is if you were in a constant interaction with the Tao. Because you are whether you know it or not.

m e n !

you crack me up...

Yes you both were ever so lovely.

Heheh...I always have said Enlightenment is what you do in your own home with curtains closed.

Shakti Mama, sexy new avatar! Wa-whoom, can feel the shakti! Songs, you are so adorable. Thanks. That picture was taken immediately after leading a guided kundalini meditation, giving shaktipat, some healing sessions, mostly done thru Ustream. Meditation is sexy. Internal cultivation is sexy. Being in the Shakti zone is real. s