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I was listening to this the other day...what a magical moment...! And we walked the pagan streams And searched for white horses on surrounding hills We lived where dusk had meaning And repaired to quiet sleep, where noise abated In touch with the silence On Honey Street, on Honey Street What happened to a sense of wonder On yonder hillside, getting dim Why didn't they leave us, alone Why couldn't we just be ourselves We could dream, and keep bees And live on Honey Street And we walked the pagan streams In meditation and contemplation And we didn't need anybody, or anything Then, no concepts, being free And I wanna climb that hillside again, with you One more time As the great, great, great, great, great, great, great Being watches over And we repair, repair, repair, shhh, repair, shhh, we repair...

"A myriad of other more admirable and divine particulars are likewise unanimously and uniformly related of the man, such as infallible predictions of earthquakes, rapid expulsions of pestilences, and hurricanes, instantaneous cessations of hail, tranquilizations of the waves of rivers and seas, in order that his disciples might the more easily pass over them. The power of effecting miracles of this kind was achieved by Empedocles of Agrigentum, Epimenides the Cretan, and Abaris the Hyperborean, and these persons performed them in many places. Their deeds were so manifest that Empedocles was surnamed a wind-stiller, Epimenides an expiator, and Abaris an air-walker, because, carried on the dart given him by the Hyperborean Apollo, he passed over rivers, and seas and inaccessible places like one carried on air." Iamblichus http://books.google.com/books?id=QQ6iFjoBDkEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=don+jose+matsuwa+when+the+impossible+happens&source=bl&ots=oGAiwvI8TT&sig=y8PWJGpuwYaBa_N6IobfXTsLxLM&hl=en&ei=N9qrTfXhB_SO0QHKgtD5CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The mythopoetic reasoning by Eliot Cowan is that the Chinese compared Air to metal because of the preciousness of th latter...I admit is a tenuous link and could be a esoteric thread here..but, anyway, the organs correspondence for Metal in the 6 Healing SOunds are intestines...and LUNGS...

resonances between "Aloha": Hawaian (Breath of Life) "Elohim": Hebrew "Hey": Native American medicine word no language is arbitrary...

I enjoyed a lot reading Eliot Cowan's book. His insights about the 5 Elements/phases - gained through shamanic journeying - are great: For example, I love how he reveals that the source of authority of the masculine energy of Metal/Air ("our heavenly father..."/Zeus for the gnostics)...is in allowing oneself to feel grief... http://www.amazon.com/Plant-Spirit-Medicine-Healing-Plants/dp/1893183114 Pagan Gnostic Archetypal Elemental Correspondence: Zeus/Air Demeter/Earth Hades-Dyonisos/Fire Persephone/Water

UG did not, of course, use high-sounding words or expressions like 'superman' or even resort to traditional terms; instead, he used simple terms like 'creative energy', 'human flower', 'natural state' to describe his state of being. A few times, though, he did refer, however reluctantly, to traditional expressions such as Brahmasakshatkara, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, Turiya and so on, and also to the modern term 'mutant', meaning the one who has undergone biological mutation. However, the one thing he stressed -- even over-stressed at times -- was that the natural state, or nirvana, or enlightenment, or whatever term we want to use, is a pure and simple physical and physiological state of being, where, it is not the self or the mind, but a different kind of intelligence that is in operation. It is a state where the human animal has flowered into a human being, into a human flower. Perhaps such an individual is the end product of human evolution, if there is such a thing. In other words, if there is a purpose to evolution at all, then, it is to produce such human flowers. 'But this process of evolution,' UG says, 'is retarded or delayed because of the culture, because of our anxiety to shape man according to a pattern, a model, or an idea or belief.' Every human being is different. As UG would put it, 'Each individual is unique, unparalleled; there is not another one like you in the whole universe. That is your natural state.' But we ignore that fact and try to put everybody in a common mould and create what we call the greatest common factor. Our education, religion and culture are geared towards producing copies of acceptable models, and, in the process, destroying that unique, living quality in a child, in every human being, which is yearning to blossom and express itself. Otherwise, there would be more human flowers... ‘We imitate (sages) and that is not going to help,' says UG. ‘You doing good, being kind, giving up something, behaving in a certain way, are all attempts to imitate the lives of the sages. That is not going to help and that is not the way to consider the sages, whether the Buddha or Jesus or other sages. If they are there it is to enable you to understand that there is a possibility of being there, of that state of being. But what you are doing is to imitate their lives and to create this imitation all over the world. You create Buddhists and you create Christians and there is a conflict between the two. The belief is the one that separates you from others, from everything that is there. But it is all one. Life is one unitary movement.' All existence is one; there is no two. Life is a unitary movement. That is the message of every sage, and if there is a mission to his or her life at all, it is to enable other individuals to surpass the animal in them and become human flowers. A sage is the new society, the new world, the change for which humanity has been yearning for over thousands of years, through its philosophies and religions, however flawed and erroneous these may be. It is possible, for every human being is a potential sage. 'You are unique,' says UG. 'You are far ahead of the Buddha, Jesus and all these religious teachers put together. But this uniqueness cannot express itself unless the limitations are destroyed'; unless 'you touch life at a point never touched before'. "I am not saying that this is something that has not been said before. Several people have come into this state and they have expressed it in different ways. But what I am trying to point out is you must reject not only that but also what I am saying. It has to be your path. The essence is not different-how can it be different? It can't be, because the movement of life and its functions are exactly the same in everybody. But its expression is bound to be different, because it's your path and you come to a point where you reject your own path as well. This is a pathless one." http://www.realitysandwich.com/introduction_u_g_krishnamurti

I find his writings indistinguishable from other nondual teachers from different wisdom traditions, with his non sectarian approach (altough with references to the many wisdom traditions) being the key of his success. I think he embodies the evolutionary future of spirituality: People awakening without "isms" (schools, hierarchies, lineages,etc.,etc.)... In fact, he is being quoted/asked to write blurbs more and more by other more traditional teachers (Sufi, Zen).I find a strong similarity with Krishnamurti... He is not my favourite cup of tea, but I find his articulation refreshing at times and very clear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIaY0l5qV0c

SNAKE Snake says to me, "You only have me as a reference point and I am your own energy!" I suddenly see that as I was growing up I was taught to take everything else as a reference point but never my own energy! Everything else had some value but never me! (...) Snake says "All the reference points you have learned in your life have now disappeared! Feel my energy as a part of the Universe. This part is always in contact with all the other parts of the universe, there is no separation!" I see that I have always been in touch with this part but that my awareness was glued to everything else but this. That was the separation! I ask snake what it needs from me and he replies he needs for me to love him. I immediately feel fear. I realize there was always fear of loving the snake, sometimes overwhelming fear. I see an inmense history of people being taught to fear the snake. I see the bible: there is a tremendous fear of loving the snake. But then I see that you can never love another person fully until you have loved your own snake, for everyone has a snake! "That is the separation. Your inability to love me!" I become fully aware that the snake that I had so feared had always been in the right side of my body! (...) Snake says, "Because people fear the snake instead of loving it, it get loose and is very destructive!" I then experience that there are in fact two snakes: one in my left side that is very fearful and the one in my right side that is very powerful. I realize that I have always identified with the snake on the left side and that I have been terrified of the snake on the right side. I then realize that the fear on the left side is also love! When it pulls back and retreats it is fear, but when it goes forward it is love. Both snakes rise up in me and meet deliberately face to face in the middle of my forehead. This powerful meeting vibrates throughout my body and it comes to full focus right in the center of my forehead. I recognize this animal! It is the Sisiutl from Mexican simbology: the single snake with two heads. It embraces the universe and comes back to meet itself face to face. I realize Sisiutl is both the symbol and the energy of wholeness... "Into Wholeness:The Path of Deep Imagery", Eligio Stephen Gallegos, PhD

Interesting your reaction to the site...having read the site for a few years now, I have to say that the author doesn't promote any teaching/wisdom path in particular, all the contrary, he encourages a radical exploration, free of any "story".. Suffice to say that I discovered this site - very sinchronistically - in the middle of a collapsing of stories that I held very dearly ( a deep cognitive release, so to speak). I remember the extraordinary feeling of bubbling excitement reading some paragraphs ( and I say "bubbling" metaphorically and literally: my gut was bubbling with a joyful, ecstatic "A-ha" energy while reading the site.. At the end of the day, it's not about the messenger, it's about the message of radical freedom that it's our birthright... More and more people are getting it, spontaneously: "Maps are needed by the individual to feel some sense of safety and control in a reality they inherently feel separate from. And I am coming to see that without the individual, maps are not required. Life then becomes spontaneous living. Certainly I am not talking about geographical maps where you are trying to get from point A to point B or directions about how to put together a model plane. I am talking about maps that explain life. And perhaps it is the non-linear aspect to life that is causing so many of our maps to fall apart. For no map can ever represent that which is un-mappable. (...) It's a funny notion to think that all these systems of religions and spiritual paths are predicated on the search to see through eyes of childhood. Taking communion, being circumcised, meditating, religious text, prayer, fasting, going to places of worship and on and on are seeking what little infants see. It is a great absurdity. What is rather simple has been made thoroughly complex. And wars have been fought and lives lost over that which an infant sees. (...) We are born with no sense of self being boundlessness. Sense of self apparently arises as a means of survival. In primitive cultures, the sense of self is not the focus. Rather it is a tool, so their identification remains with their boundlessness. Because there is a degree of separation, myths and stories do arise in these cultures to explain the universe. That is the function of feeling separate. Explanation is needed when feeling separate as a means of feeling secure in a world where natural forces and other variables can pose a threat to existence. The sense of self is a program that apparently arises in boundlessness. The complexity of the program is increased by learning. What appears to have happened in our modern world is that we have come to believe we are the program and misplaced our sense of boundlessness. The program no longer is just a tool, it has become who we think we are..." Nancy Dolin http://nonduality.org/2011/03/29/nonduality-street-interview-with-nancy-dolin/

"up" "down"...Tired linear thinking...we still have to do the cognitive transition to circular thinking (re-discovered by 2d order cybernetic thinking and kept alive by all the First People) What about the perspective of Daniel Odier, saying that so-called kundalini is a SPHERICAL awakening...? Sorry, but all these (artificial) distinctions seem to me hilarious reifications of a Mystery that is best approached with a realistic, respectful "beginner's mind" When I open to the Life Force, sometimes it feels like water, sometimes like fire, sometimes it's "electric", sometimes it's "magnetic", sometimes it's wild shaking, sometimes it's the most exquisite gentle taichi-like movement..and so forth and so on...endless variations...I'm in awe of the complexity unfolding through opening/surrender/attuning to this Love Song...

I'm feeding it/feeling it trought the Shaking, Qigong, sitting meditation....honey in the heart.... "the Great Heart of Consciousness" The Old Ones tell me, "The expanded heart connection to everything is everything. From this, everything flows. The closest you humans can get to the void is to connect yourselves as one extended heart. Within that heart, all breathe together. Those in despair can be held; those in love can radiate. Thus all of you feel the whole bigger and more expansive than your parts." Meg Beeler http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Expanded-Heart--Unified-Heart.html?soid=1011134954899&aid=n6zqEUWhiGM

"Love is how Oneness feels" Tim Freke "Everything you do to help enhance your energy flow and balance your energy are good for you. The more you can do it the better you will be at it and the more benefit you will receive. The very best, in my opinion, is connecting with the limitless, unconditional love of the universe and the infinite source. Opening your heart, connecting with this unconditional love is always the best. There simple is no more powerful healing energy than unconditional love. When you open your heart like this you can get into the emptiness/the oneness faster, then the Qi will do what is best for you naturally and spontaneously." Chunyi Lin

Definitely I'd recommend the traditional use - in our case the tincture - and trying little by little. I think that is much more interesting the shamanic use ( little doses that enhance any shamanic practice) rather than heroic doses and similar "macho" stupidities,potentially harmful... Remember, it's a very gentle, shy being, the Shepherdess ( gentleness, respect, appreciation make the difference, as in Kat Harrison's experience): "diviner's sage", yep, it's for retrieving knowledge about your past, healing, etc.

"Worthless in spiritual terms..." I don't think so...by the way, the traditional Mazatec use is chewed, not smoked... http://www.sagewisdom.org/shepherdess.html

It's STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you have a sitter with you to take care of you when in the salvia dimension. The reading of this book would be a great preparation for entering the "thoughtless state": http://www.realitysandwich.com/salvia_divinorum_doorway

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I dare to say, based in my own first non-intentional manifestations, that David Spangler is on the spot: attuning to unity consciousness/the Sacred/call it what you want, presence, excitement/opening to the "anything is possible" consciousness, key:EMOTION (the more intense, the better)....and last, but not least:GRATITUDE. As wisely Spangler remarks, it's much more complex than a vulgar linear transactional model. What interests me about David Spangler's approach is how he stresses the wholeness-making...definately "high magic" in the service of the whole (he as a experience of, let's say, 60 years working with the subtle dimensions) without all the "mumbo-jumbo" power-crazed, hilarious pomposity of a lot of magickal stuff... "I have said several times in these fied notes that there is a major effort within the higher-order and transitional realms to heal the obstructions humanity is creating and re-stablish a co-creative partnership in love and consciousness between the different elements of the planetary system. To be part of that effort - to join in partnership with subtle beings to use our differences to enhance the circulation of spirit for the healing and transformation of the world - is for me the major reason for attempting to engage with the non-physical worlds. It's not to get guidance or to be told what to do; it's not to be taken care of by some heavenly parents; it's not to satisfy our curiosity or to appear special in the eyes of the others. It's to work, and work hard, at restoring wholeness to the earth system in alliance and partnership with beings whom we've either ignored or misunderstood for far too long..." Subtle Worlds: A Explorer's Field Notes,David Spangler

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