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@wavydude OSHO: I Have Been Poisoned by Ronald Reagan’s American Government

Not that every step leads to the goal, sometimes we are moving in just the opposite direction, but we learn from mistakes. The journey is vast, and you cannot be in a hurry. Everything takes its own time, impatience makes no sense. If one is very much afraid that he may go astray, then there is no possibility of traveling. One should be ready to wait even if it takes eternity.

Your family have some investment in you. Your family have some ambitions they would like to fulfill through you. They will tell you the ways so that you can adjust in society. It is natural.

Most of the masters, most of the religions , don't talk about kundalini. It is not necessary to describe kundalini , it is not necessary that you will feel kundalini in your spiritual journey.

. As you grow older it becomes more and more difficult to unlearn, what you have learned from the society. An older man becomes rigid, resists any change. Youth is the best time for inner transformation because youth is the most flexible time. If you miss your youth, it will be more and more difficult later on. Not that it is impossible , it can happen even when you are old , but it will take more arduous effort and things will not be so easy.

Thanks for sharing the report.

Invoke the Goddess: Visualizations of Hindu, Greek and Egyptian Deities by Kala Trobe https://www.amazon.in/Invoke-Goddess-Visualizations-Egyptian-Deities/dp/1567184316 Invoke the Gods: Exploring the Power of Male Archetypes by Kala Trobe https://www.amazon.in/Invoke-Gods-Exploring-Power-Archetypes/dp/0738700967/ Kala Trobe is a priestess and esoteric whose interests encompass many ancient traditions and mythologies. She's based in London, but has travled widely—studying, writing, and lecturing.

I think humans will be civilized in the future , they will not need police and military to keep them sane.

There is a possibility, in future, we may become civilized.

Accept it, become relaxed, that will be the beginning of your transformation. More you are discontented with yourself, more weak you will become. Learn to live in a relaxed way. Walk in relaxed way, eat in a relaxed way, talk in a relaxed way. Learn the knack of meditation.

It is a beginners class, he was talking to the people who had even not started seeking. He was not taking about money and objects. He was talking about kingdom of heaven. Seeking is out of desire. Seeking is for a future goal, but if you don't start seeking, how will drop it?

Gurdjieff’s whole work consisted of separating the consciousness from the body and making the consciousness such a solid force that the body cannot drag it, that the body becomes only a servant and is not a master. And he was trying many kinds of experiments. For example, he used to drink alcohol. One cannot imagine such a quantity of alcohol, but he would remain perfectly conscious. No quantity of alcohol was able to make him unconscious. That is one of the ways of tantra, a method: one has to go on increasing the amount of alcohol and getting attuned to it, but remaining conscious. Even LSD was not able to disturb consciousness of Neem Karoli Baba as I mentioned in previous post.

If the fast is helping the body, you will feel more energetic; you will feel more alive; you will feel rejuvenated, vitalized. This should be the criterion: if you start feeling that you are getting weaker, if you start feeling that a subtle trembling is coming into the body, then be aware -- now the thing is no longer a purification. It has become destructive. Stop it.

Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931) is an American spiritual teacher, former academic and clinical psychologist. In 1961, Alpert devoted himself in experimentation with and intensive research to the potentially therapeutic effects of hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin, LSD-25, and other psychedelic chemicals. Ram Dass reflects on conscientiously dosing Maharaji (Neem Karoli Baba) with LSD In 1967 when I first came to India, I brought with me a supply of LSD, hoping to find someone who might understand more about these substances than we did in the West. When I had met Maharajji (Neem Karoli Baba), after some days the thought had crossed my mind that he would be a perfect person to ask. The next day after having that thought, I was called to him and he asked me immediately, “Do you have a question?” Of course, being before him was such a powerful experience that I had completely forgotten the question I had had in my mind the night before. So I looked stupid and said, “No, Maharajji, I have no question.”He appeared irritated and said, “Where is the medicine?” I was confused but Bhagavan Dass suggested, ” Maybe he means the LSD.” I asked and Maharajji nodded. The bottle of LSD was in the car and I was sent to fetch it. When I returned I emptied the vial of pills into my hand. In addition to the LSD there were a number of other pills for this and that–diarrhea, fever, a sleeping pill, and so forth. He asked about each of these. He asked if they gave powers. I didn’t understand at the time and thought that by “powers” perhaps he meant physical strength. I said, “No.” Later, of course, I came to understand that the word he had used, “siddhis,” means psychic powers. Then he held out his hand for the LSD. I put one pill on his palm. Each of these pills was about three hundred micrograms of very pure LSD–a solid dose for an adult. He beckoned for more, so I put a second pill in his hand–six hundred micrograms. Again he beckoned and I added yet another, making the total dosage nine hundred micrograms–certainly not a dose for beginners. Then he threw all the pills into his mouth. My reaction was one of shock mixed with fascination of a social scientist eager to see what would happen. He allowed me to stay for an hour– and nothing happened. Nothing whatsoever. He just laughed at me. The whole thing had happened very fast and unexpectedly. When I returned to the United States in 1968 I told many people about this acid feat. But there had remained in me a gnawing doubt that perhaps he had been putting me on and had thrown the pills over his shoulder or palmed them, because I hadn’t actually seen them go into his mouth. Three years later, when I was back in India, he asked me one day, “Did you give me medicine when you were in India last time?” “Yes.” “Did I take it?” he asked. (Ah, there was my doubt made manifest!) “I think you did.” “What happened? “Nothing.” “Oh! Jao!” and he sent me off for the evening. The next morning I was called over to the porch in front of his room, where he sat in the mornings on a tucket. He asked, “Have you got any more of that medicine?” It just so happened that I was carrying a small supply of LSD for “just in case,” and this was obviously it. “Yes.” “Get it,” he said. So I did. In the bottle were five pills of three hundred micrograms each. One of the pills was broken. I placed them on my palm and held them out to him. He took the four unbroken pills. Then, one by one, very obviously and very deliberately, he placed each one in his mouth and swallowed it– another unspoken thought of mine now answered. As soon as he had swallowed the last one, he asked, “Can I take water?” “Yes.” “Hot or cold?” “It doesn’t matter.” He started yelling for water and drank a cup when it was brought. Then he asked, “How long will it take to act?” “Anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour.” He called for an older man, a long -time devotee who had a watch, and Maharajji held the man’s wrist, often pulling it up to him to peer at the watch. Then he asked,” Will it make me crazy?” That seemed so bizarre to me that I could only go along with what seemed to be a gag. So I said, “Probably.” And then we waited. After some time he pulled the blanket over his face, and when he came out after a moment his eyes were rolling and his mouth was ajar and he looked totally mad. I got upset. What was happening? Had I misjudged his powers? After all, he was an old man (though how old I had no idea), and I had let him take twelve hundred micrograms. Maybe last time he had thrown them away and then he read my mind and was trying to prove to me he could do it, not realizing how strong the “medicine” really was. Guilt and anxiety poured through me. But when I looked at him again he was perfectly normal and looking at the watch. - Ram Dass

René Guénon René Guénon (also known as ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá) was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics. He wrote and published in French, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 1917, Guénon began a one-year stay at Sétif, Algeria, teaching philosophy to college students. In 1921, Guénon published an Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines. His goal, as he writes it, is an attempt at presenting to westerners eastern metaphysics and spirituality as they are understood and thought by easterners themselves. Guénon chose a conversion to Islam rather than to Hinduism because the Hindu ritual life is not compatible with the Western way of life, whereas following Islamic rituals is compatible with modern Western life. In 1930, Guénon left Paris for Cairo. During his lengthy sojourn in Egypt, René Guénon carried on an austere and simple life, entirely dedicated to his writings and spiritual development. In 1949, he obtained Egyptian citizenship. Guénon's work, consists of the following books Introduction to the Study of the Hindu doctrines, Man and His Becoming according to the Vedânta, The Multiple States of Being, Symbolism of the Cross, Oriental Metaphysics. The Simple Life of Rene Guenon by Paul Chacornac https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0900588764

Paul Brunton Paul Brunton is the pen name of Raphael Hurst , a British theosophist and spiritualist. He is best known as one of the early popularizers of Neo-Hindu spiritualism in western esotericism, notably via his bestselling A Search in Secret India (1934). In 1930, Hurst embarked on a voyage to India, which brought him into contact with Meher Baba, Vishuddhananda Paramahansa, Paramacharya of Kancheepuram and Ramana Maharshi. One day—sitting with Ramana Maharshi—Brunton had an experience which Steve Taylor names "an experience of genuine enlightenment which changed him forever". He died in Vevey, Switzerland (1981) Paul Brunton: A Personal View by Kenneth Thurston Hurst https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Brunton-Kenneth-Thurston-Hurst/dp/0943914493

Sri Aurobindo Aurobindo Ghose was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, Cambridge, England. Aurobindo was imprisoned for writing articles against British rule in India. During his stay in the jail, he had mystical and spiritual experiences, after which he moved to Pondicherry, leaving politics for spiritual work. Sri Aurobindo developed a method of spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. The central theme of his vision was the evolution of human life into a life divine. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. Sri Aurobindo died on 5 December 1950. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Sri-Aurobindo-Peter-Heehs/dp/0231140983

Douglas Harding Douglas Harding was born in 1909 in Suffolk, England. He grew up in a strict fundamentalist Christian sect, the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren. The ‘Brethren' believed they were the ‘saved' ones, that they had the one true path to God and that everyone else was bound for Hell. When Harding was 21 he left. He could not accept their view of the world. While walking through the Himalayas one day when he was 33 years old Harding suddenly had the profound realisation that from his own point of view he had no visually observable head. Douglas Edison Harding was a philosophical writer, mystic, spiritual teacher and author of a number of books, including On Having No Head, Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious. While the spiritual implications Harding drew from the experiments are deeply traditional, the exercises themselves may be said to constitute a new category of spiritual experience, which he sometimes summed up as “meditation for the marketplace”. He died at Nacton near Ipswich, England. The Man With No Head: The life and ideas of Douglas Harding by Richard Lang https://www.amazon.com.au/Man-No-Head-Douglas-Harding-ebook/dp/B0716TSR48

"There are moments when you become aware not only of what you are doing but also of yourself doing it. You see both ‘I’ and the ‘here’ of ‘I am here’—both the anger and the ‘I’ that is angry. Call this self-remembering if you like." (Gurdjieff, Views From the Real World)

Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii He was a Russian philosopher who rejected the science and psychology of his time under the strong suspicion that there had to exist a superior system of thought. In the early 1900′s, Ouspensky ventures to the Middle and Far East in search of traces of lost knowledge. He returns to Russia and gives lectures on his search for the miraculous. In 1915, Ouspensky meets George Gurdjieff and immediately recognizes that Gurdjieff possesses the knowledge he had been searching for abroad. He becomes Gurdjieff’s pupil for ten years, learning from him the principles of the Fourth Way. Ouspensky settles in London in 1930 and begins teaching the Fourth Way as well as writing literature about the system he had learned from Gurdjieff. Ouspensky dies in Lyne Place, England on October 2, 1947. The Strange Life of P.D.Ouspensky by Colin Wilson https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Life-P-D-Ouspensky-Colin-Wilson/dp/1904658253

We only mention enlightened people who are publicly teaching. Teaching is a different art, it has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Earning money can be a distraction but if you have money already, don't renounce it. If you are possessed by money,if you cling to it, then it is wrong. Otherwise money can provide you many things which can make your life and journey of self development easier. Nothing is wrong in having a beautiful house, garden, swimming pool and healthy food.

Charles Webster Leadbeater Leadbeater remains well-known and influential in New Age circles for his many works based on his clairvoyant investigations of life, including such books as Outline of Theosophy, Astral Plane, Devachanic Plane, The Chakras and Man, Visible and Invisible dealing with, respectively, the basic principles of theosophy, the two higher worlds humanity passes through after "death", the chakra system, and the human aura. His writings on the sacraments and Christian esotericism remain popular, with a constant stream of new editions and translations of his magnum opus The Science of the Sacraments. His liturgy book is still used by many Liberal and Independent Catholic Churches across the world. The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater by Gregory Tillett (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Elder-Brother-Biography-Charles-Leadbeater/dp/113812012X/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Largely self-educated, she developed an interest in Western esotericism during her teenage years. According to her later claims, in 1849 she embarked on a series of world travels, visiting Europe, the Americas, and India, claiming that during this period she encountered a group of spiritual adepts, the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom", who sent her to Shigatse, Tibet, where they trained her to develop a deeper understanding of the synthesis of religion, philosophy and science. In New York City, Blavatsky co-founded the Theosophical Society with Olcott and William Quan Judge in 1875. Blavatsky's Theosophy has been described as representing "a major factor in the modern revival" of Western esotericism. H.P.B. The Extraordinary Life & Influence of Helena Blavatsky Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement by Sylvia Cranston https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0874776880/