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"My own faith is rooted in the unshakable belief in God... and an awareness of a constant and holy spiritual presence in all people, all life, and all things." Former vice president, Al Gore
"I am a Christian.... I believe that there are many paths to the same place.... I am a great admirer of our founding charter... and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country.... I think Gandhi is a great example of a profoundly spiritual man who... never slipped into intolerance or dogma." Former Senator, Barack Obama
“Lift us to the level of the universal…. Chant the names of the gods. Start with om: Om Krishna… Om Buddha…"
"The Buddha said, ‘You are God yourself.’”Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
Berit Kjos wrote,If you have read 1984 by George Orwell, you probably remember Big Brother's mind-changing creed:
"War is PEACE. Freedom is SLAVERY. Ignorance is STRENGTH."
It illustrates the Soviet double-speak used to confuse, transform, and then unify a compliant mass of contented slaves. And now, seventy years after its publication, Orwellian double-speak is spreading this confusion faster than ever. In this upside-down world, wrong seems right, good is called evil, and lies are simply the new convenient truths. Since feelings count more than facts, illusion reigns, oppression spreads, Jihad is justified, and the Bible is banned!
The true God behind our national Thanksgiving celebrations doesn't conform to America's changing values. But other spiritual options are filling the gaps as they sweep across our land. Blinding eyes to His truth, they cloud history, and mock the faith that built honesty, truth, and integrity into America's foundation. Sad to say, that foundation is now crumbling fast. As God warned us,
"...when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them... [then] your heart is lifted up and you forget the Lord your God. ...you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ ...if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods... you shall surely perish." Deuteronomy 8:10-19
On September 17, 1995, I signed in at Mikhail Gorbachev's well guarded State of the World Conference as an official [amateur] reporter. I wanted a first-hand glimpse of the global plans for the 21st Century. Those earlier signs helped build the foundation for today's rapid change.
This was clearly a global event. The former head of the Soviet Union had gathered "nearly 500 senior states-people, political leaders, spiritual leaders, scientists, intellectuals, business executives, artists and youth from 50 nations to begin a process of deliberation on the central question of what priorities, values and actions should guide humanity as it moves into the next phase of development." As Gorbachev announced,
"From the outset I would like to suggest that we consider the establishment of a global Brain Trust [forget representative government] to focus on the present and future of our civilization ... this idea of a Brain Trust can only succeed if endorsed and actively pursued by people who are widely respected as world leaders and global citizens."
The elite speakers and partners in this venture included the elder president George Bush, Carnegie Chairman David Hamburg, Ted Turner, Maurice Strong, the New Age chief of the UN's 1992 environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, founder of the Trilateral Commission (with David Rockefeller), who became a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama thirteen years later.
An elegant Baha'i singer in a flowing white gown set the spiritual tone with a prayer to her universal god: "O faithful One... O helping one... Source of all being..." The music was her own, she said -- given by the unknowable, compassionate god of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and other spiritual avatars throughout time.
Her prayer-song fit the conference theme. As Mikhail Gorbachev observed during a dialogue on a new form of democracy.
"...there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability..."
That synthesis abolishes all Biblical absolutes. Again and again, the Communist leader and his hand-picked "council of the wise" or "global brain trust" told the assembly of more than 1000 guests and participants that a new set of inclusive universal values must replace the Judeo-Christian world view. Familiar terms must be redefined to fit the new global perspective, while the old beliefs and political systems must be abandoned.
Like many other speakers, New Age author Dr. Deepak Chopra repeated the call for synthesis in his evening plenary speech. He challenged his friendly listeners with this question:
"Can you step out of the river of your own conditioning...? For only then is there an opportunity to create... a new world. We cannot do it the way we have done it in the past. It is time to change the whole paradigm through which we view physical reality."
Apparently, these esteemed visionaries had already made that paradigm shift. The conference left little doubt that the chosen speakers and enthusiastic audience viewed reality from a decidedly evolutionary/universalist perspective -- the kind that popular author Dan Brown promoted through his latest book on the philosophy behind Freemasonry and the mystical Noetic Sciences.
The spiritual leaders addressing the Forum taught either pantheism ("God" in all), universalism (all paths lead to the same ultimate reality), or monism (all is one) as the world's new spiritual foundation. Among them were New Age educator Willis Harman, Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, Sonia Gandhi, and revered representatives of Vietnamese, Mongolian, and Cambodian Buddhism. Their input during panel discussion and roundtable sessions left no doubt that Biblical Christianity was marked for decay.
Astronomer Carl Sagan showed us pictures of our tiny blue planet in the midst of a vast galaxy in an infinite universe --- then scolded those who still viewed minuscule individuals as significant pieces of the cosmic puzzle.
Had they forgotten the horrors of collectivism -- and the environmental devastation -- spawned by the Communist ideology that Gorbachev never renounced?
OCTOBER 2-3, 7:30-9:30 PM - Meet renowned spiritual teacher and author Lama Christie McNally as she returns to Los Angeles to introduce her newest book, The Tibetan Book of Meditation, and shares two days of rare and beautiful teachings on how these profound practices can transform the mind and open the heart.
ABOUT LAMA CHRISTIE MCNALLY - Lama Christie is a professor of spiritual studies and a translator of Tibetan and Sanskrit classical monastic texts. She co-authored The Essential Yoga Sutra, How Yoga Works and The Eastern Path to Heaven. She is an accomplished practitioner who has spent six years of her life in silent deep meditation and is one of the first American women to be recognized as a lama. Lama Christie trained in India and Nepal and has received extensive instruction in all the texts required for a Geshe degree (traditionally a 20-year course of study). She is co-founder of Diamond Mountain University, a revolutionary effort to provide a classical monastic education to Westerners from all walks of life, free of charge. In 2003, she completed a traditional three-year silent meditation retreat with her spiritual partner, Geshe Michael Roach.
DATE/TIME: October 2-3, 2009, 7:30-9:30 PM
LOCATION: Mahasukha Center, ACI-LA (Asian Classics Institute of L.A.)
ADDRESS: 6512 Arizona Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045
The Tibetan Book of Meditation is a synthesis of all the great Tibetan commentaries on meditation. It is a comprehensive guide to transforming one’s meditation practice from ordinary to extraordinary. The book begins with wisdom from a profound ancient teacher, Master Kamalashila, and continues with teachings carried through by a long lineage of Tibetan masters, right up to the great modern day Lamas. Lama Christie combines her own insights and experience together with ancient wisdom, to teach today’s practitioners how to transform their meditations into a practice that can bring them ultimate happiness.
ABOUT THE MAHASUKHA CENTER
Mahasukha (Sanskrit for “great bliss") is the home of the Asian Classics Institute of Los Angeles (ACI-LA). The Center provides a wide range of courses, including guided meditations, Buddha dharma, teachings on spiritual partners, workshops by nationally known yoga teachers and informal talks on a variety of subjects. The Center is a place for people to connect through study, practice and events such as Dharma Flicks evenings, debate nights, dinners and more. All classes and events are open to the public and offered on a donation basis. All are welcomeSee aci-la.org for events and pod-casts
TO LEARN MORE about the Asian Classics Institute of Los Angeles, Lama Christie McNally, The Tibetan Book of Meditation and Diamond Mountain University, and for information about events or downloadable podcasts, please visit the following links:
aci-la.org
aci-la.org/mg -podcasts.html
DiamondMountain.org
TibetanBookofMeditation.org
Energized water lives up to it's name....kinda.
Ausome Water is a spiritually energized frequency tool, designed to assist you in reaching a stronger connection to your Highest purpose and life.
Pretty big ideas. To some, pretty strange ideas.
One thing we can agree on is that we die without water. We can go without food for a long time but we can't go without water. It is vital to all our cellular activities.
Structured water has been around for a long time and so have energized waters. This one is new and I decided to try it because I have noticed differences in my health when using alkaline ionized water and other structured or catalyzed waters such as Willard Water or Prill water so I thought, why not see if it can make a difference on a spiritual level too?
In just seven days on Ausome Water, I got an answer. It can make a difference, a big difference.
http://www.healthylife.net/RadioShow/archiveSPA.htm
The address of the first show is:
http://www.ecstreams.com/HealthyLife/wma/spa1017_wma.asx
The "law" is that like attracts like. It's most often applied to positive/negative thinking - that postivie thinking attracts positive events to you, and negative thinking attracts negative events. If it really does apply to events, this rewards happy douches and punishes their victims, making it totally unfair. It also puts the blame for how things go in our lives entirely on ourselves - it's like according to this law, if you get raped, it's your own fault for being too negative. Some things we do have control of, but not all. What also annoys me is how people try to take advantage of it, which kinda cheats the system.
I should add that this law only really rewards the bad+punishes the good in a dark world where most of the people are spiritual airheads, because events are really the result of the decision of the perp, so we can decide to go against the grain and help the sufferring, or bring the overconfident down a notch.
It goes beyond events... good people are attracted to what they believe is the good element in other people, and bad to bad. A good person would be naturally gravitated to heaven but not hell, whereas a bad person couldn't stand the people who'd make up heaven, or their view on things. When someone is where they don't belong they'd be an outcast, and become more polarised - only a taste of the opposite, whatever that be, would bring them back to a healthy middle (where they're fair and contented people).
Being attracted to bad people is actually a learning thing (their souls crave punishment to learn), whereas attraction to good is a reward. I would say I wish the law didn't apply to events but then, if it didn't, people couldn't get close enough for the above to happen. I suppose I wish the world was more balanced - so that there wouldn't be outcasts and everyone gets their just deserts, be it good or bad, and there'd be reward with growth this way, but maybe not the same level of isolation hell for outcasts to experience, which they might themselves need for growth.
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