How we live on the inside affects us on the outside world, the most potent way to change everything is change our inside first. This is a Collaborative post with Tereza Coraggio, Third Paradigm.
Thank you Tereza for linking the scripture of these powerful words. One of the best ways I like to combat EMF is by using our heart's EMF.
I'm sure you probably know about the human heart/ horizontal magnetic field aspect, but did you know that animals emanate a heart field vertically (to the ground)?
What an informative and well-written article. Thank you for directing my attention to it, Roman. I see that Gary Sharpe, who I read, has already been here and it seems like Frances Leader and Pasheen Stonebrooke might be reading you. I heard The Heartmath Institute at a local TEDtalk, so I think they may be located near me in Santa Cruz. Everything you're saying makes sense.
Thank you so much Tereza! I appreciate you taking the time to read the article. That's amazing that you heard HeartMath at a TEDtalk! Do you practice any of their meditations? I'm looking into the Freeze/Frame technique.
Nef may be interested in this on their webpage: "The meditation practices offered by iamHeart have their own lineage, including Hindu and Sufi meditation practices."
I just read your post and it's breathtakingly beautiful. I'm still soaking in the sense unity I see that you have. A course in miracles is very rich in the connections of self. Both you and Ronda have a lot of the necessary literary knowledge to carefully review Biblical related topics. I can read those same sources, I default to the symbolism for the message. You two are amazing in picking up the details. I just love partnering with you.
Oh the feeling is mutual, Nef. I was telling my daughters tonight what a joy it is to have found people, very much you and Rhonda, to have these deep conversations with. They're so rich in the symbolism, new discovery and leapfrogging of meaning, by which I mean we keep leapfrogging from one lily pad to another. Thank you for that kind note!
I love this post. Inner contemplation/meditation effects outer Right Actions - both are needed for balance. Look forward to more of these kinds of posts.
The first thing to "do" or "be" is to get back into equal relationship with Nature and all living beings as Relatives. That said, there are no dictates with this - some will eat their animal Relatives and some their plant and seed Relatives, but once this is understood, what matters is how we treat beings while they are alive, including asking permission and compassionate 'taking' and 'giving' (reciprocity) - including gratitude and appreciation.
We humans could find our way if we got out of anthropocentrism and spent more time Be-ing, and Quiet. This is just one mere human's opinion, but observing what remains of the ancient so-called primitive civilizations who remembered this, kept the oral traditions and languages alive even with all that happened to them, and who are now passing it on to youth who are once more connected to their culture - that is where I feel hope. So much was lost, yet they remain true to their Old Ways. It's impossible to imagine inner work done without closely observing and feeling wonder at everything Nature does to teach us these things over and over again.
My go-to book for these lessons is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. (and Krishmamurti and Ramana Maharshi - who embodies pure love, even through a photo of his face.) There are so many Beings who can teach us!
What a wonderful post and insights, Tereza, thank you (I have bookmarked to read in full when I have finished work). My late Dad introduced me to the Bhagavad Gita which I read in August 2020 (introduced and translated by Eknath Easwaran). I just took it down from my bookshelf, it's full of notes and I had forgotten about it! I will earmark this for a book review at some point which I publish here on Saturday's.
The credit is all due to Nefahotep! I just got to share in the glory of the byline, and I'll be posting another episode in response tomorrow. I agree on the wonder full.
A book review of the Bhagavad Gita is an excellent idea. There's a lot of material to review for sure. You could actually do series highlighting various aspects of the message. I'm looking forward to it. 🙏
Sane cultures prioritize shared interiority. Natural humanity spends much time around the fire discussing, laughing. And much time "puttering" - flowing between pleasant and useful activities. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) practices and cultural wisdom evolve directly. That is some of what comes up for me in reflecting on what I read here. Thank you for each of your ongoing work.
Oh that's a great way to put it, Michael. 'Shared interiority.' And the casual sharing of puttering, in pleasant and useful activities. There's so much low-intensity manual labor involved in natural humanity, leaving so much time for easy conversations. I love your reflection.
I adore Aurobindo though it's been a while since I've spent time with his writings; The Life Divine, sat next to my bed for awhile, decades back now. What a mind, and Spirit he possessed. Given the density of the overall frequency at the time he wrote, it's nothing but astounding that he - and others - were able to glimpse these deeper insights into the Nature of Reality.
I have a persistent sense that the changes we are in the midst of - which we are largely still comprehending with tools and references, writings and frameworks from history - will upend so much, that even teachings about eternal truths that were not easy to come by (making them all the more remarkable) will be directly accessible to many. As the time-space settings and corresponding frequencies shift (the best words I have though still frustrating) and move into new bandwidths. Literally what has been happening on our planet, won't be able to and what we strived to see, will become standard knowing.
Mystics and their insights then, won't be rare. (Perhaps even super basic.)
Strived for meaning - One in the Many, Many in the One as example - will become foundational to the human operating system.
Can't prove any of that, but I do sense it. And as times of collapse brings gifts along with challenge, trusting that inner sense has surely been one of the gifts for me.
Thank you both for the overall elevation your work brings. Best.
Indigenous people have been living this way for thousands of years - super basic and available to all in the collective, without forcing any kind of collective. Their relatives are all living beings. Their spirituality makes the most sense to me.
Super basic mystics, yeah! I share your feeling that this is nudging us, bumping us, accelerating us into that shift. We are certainly in a time of collapse but it doesn't feel that way. It feels like my world's expanding so fast it takes my breath away.
When morality emanates from the inner self. People could spend a lifetime searching for this door to Enlightenment. Problem is religion and its books have closed that door to people’s belief in their inner self. I also appreciate there has been a deliberate attempt to prevent Humanity from reaching its true self.
Ultimately, we each experience the Individuated sense of Humanity. The morality we act on comes only from the individual. One thing I sometimes say:
There's not One World with 8 billion separate Consciousnesses in it; there's One Consciousness with 8 billion Worlds in it.
No matter how difficult or different we each are, that path leading to a point where we each See, will be unique and essential. I think, It's why we are here.
Thank you both. What a gem! Read, and Downloaded Isha Upanishad. Thanks for the interpretations. I loved the Works and Knowledge subsection. Great reference. Shared.
What an honor, Nef, to share the byline with you on a topic so central to your worldview. And a fun experiment to figure out the Substack collaboration feature, although I think your readers will correctly figure out this is written by you. And I get to put my thoughts here and in future posts in response. What a joy!
This seemed like drinking pure chocolate, too rich to digest except in little sips. So much depth and nuance. The concept of the One taking shape in the Many for God to experience the pleasure of Becoming is very intriguing. I love this phrase, "The Movement is a phenomenon of the Quiescence, the Quiescence itself may be conceived as a Movement too rapid for the gods, that is to say, for our various functions of consciousness to follow in its real nature." The Quiescence, what a word!
I was just reading that the word 'verify' comes from a root meaning place side-by-side, juxtapose. And I feel like my role is to juxtapose the metanoia of A Course in Miracles, not as right or wrong but holding together as seekers. My initial thought on the difference is that the Course emphasizes relationships whereas it seems like the Isha and Gita are more abstract concepts of Oneness. In the Course, the Many are not created by God but a fragmented illusion of our Self. So it's not renouncing the existence of the World that's needed but recognizing all the fragments of our Self.
I interpret sin as an acronym for Seeing INferiority. When we give anything, including forgiveness, from a position of superiority, we just compound the sin. The only real gift is assuming everyone does everything for a reason, whether or not we see it. And this ties directly to our joint research into the World Wars and changing the perception of Germans as people who committed atrocities for no reason, bringing us to the realization they didn't commit those atrocities.
I feel that both perspectives flow into each other. I'm sure I'll be bringing these insights in in episodes to come. Thank you, Nef.
And, as an aside, I was looking at the six-pointed star in your Top postings and realizing it's a pyramid right-side up and upside-down. Could this be related to the strategy of presenting the rulers as victims, crushed beneath the pyramid rather than on top, crushing everyone else? Curious.
About the 6 point star, this would depend on which one you refer. I think there's one in a Dragon Court post that shows like a star of David, the way that is presented is an illustration of the outside facing vs the occulted projection of power. Here you could think of it as the "rulers as victims, crushed beneath the pyramid rather than on top, crushing everyone else. "
Sri Aurobindo's symbol may look similar, but it is different. This depicts the descending force of divine transformation meeting the rising force of essential life. There in the middle, waters of existence is a lotus, representing the divine avatar, existing in perfect balance.
About the collaboration of posts: I'm still not sure how it works, so I think you are willing, you can do a second one and make a connection to the material.
"The Isha and Gita are more abstract concepts of Oneness. In the Course, the Many are not created by God but a fragmented illusion of our Self." They say the same thing actually.
Oneness will always be abstract to the Mind. This is true no matter how mind attempts to approach it. That's why it is a part of Spiritual Sadhana and not standard intellect.
Thank you Tereza for linking the scripture of these powerful words. One of the best ways I like to combat EMF is by using our heart's EMF.
I'm sure you probably know about the human heart/ horizontal magnetic field aspect, but did you know that animals emanate a heart field vertically (to the ground)?
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/matty
What an informative and well-written article. Thank you for directing my attention to it, Roman. I see that Gary Sharpe, who I read, has already been here and it seems like Frances Leader and Pasheen Stonebrooke might be reading you. I heard The Heartmath Institute at a local TEDtalk, so I think they may be located near me in Santa Cruz. Everything you're saying makes sense.
Thank you so much Tereza! I appreciate you taking the time to read the article. That's amazing that you heard HeartMath at a TEDtalk! Do you practice any of their meditations? I'm looking into the Freeze/Frame technique.
I haven't done their meditations but since you're directing me to them, I think I should check them out!
For sure! Here's one I'm going to try soon:
https://www.iamheart.org/our-method/
Nef may be interested in this on their webpage: "The meditation practices offered by iamHeart have their own lineage, including Hindu and Sufi meditation practices."
I'll check it out, thanks Tereza. For me there four principles:
Karma Yoga = Yoga of Works
Shunyata Yoga = Inner Silence
Bhakti Yoga = Yoga of Love
Hatha Yoga = Yoga of the Body, this includes a form called Kriya Yoga; focused on the inner energy of the body such as Kundalini.
Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is referred to as Integral Yoga.
Fantastic! I don't know those people personally, but their work was recommended by James Oschmann/ HeartMath
The credit is all Nefahotep's. I got to ride on his coattails in the byline but my response is here: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-isha-the-gita-and-the-course. And glad that you're tuned into the heart's EMF! I'll check out your post.
I just posted a response to this on my stack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-isha-the-gita-and-the-course. It's competing, of course, with the Superbowl but I think I have a little bit of a lead ;-)
I just read your post and it's breathtakingly beautiful. I'm still soaking in the sense unity I see that you have. A course in miracles is very rich in the connections of self. Both you and Ronda have a lot of the necessary literary knowledge to carefully review Biblical related topics. I can read those same sources, I default to the symbolism for the message. You two are amazing in picking up the details. I just love partnering with you.
Oh the feeling is mutual, Nef. I was telling my daughters tonight what a joy it is to have found people, very much you and Rhonda, to have these deep conversations with. They're so rich in the symbolism, new discovery and leapfrogging of meaning, by which I mean we keep leapfrogging from one lily pad to another. Thank you for that kind note!
I love this post. Inner contemplation/meditation effects outer Right Actions - both are needed for balance. Look forward to more of these kinds of posts.
The first thing to "do" or "be" is to get back into equal relationship with Nature and all living beings as Relatives. That said, there are no dictates with this - some will eat their animal Relatives and some their plant and seed Relatives, but once this is understood, what matters is how we treat beings while they are alive, including asking permission and compassionate 'taking' and 'giving' (reciprocity) - including gratitude and appreciation.
We humans could find our way if we got out of anthropocentrism and spent more time Be-ing, and Quiet. This is just one mere human's opinion, but observing what remains of the ancient so-called primitive civilizations who remembered this, kept the oral traditions and languages alive even with all that happened to them, and who are now passing it on to youth who are once more connected to their culture - that is where I feel hope. So much was lost, yet they remain true to their Old Ways. It's impossible to imagine inner work done without closely observing and feeling wonder at everything Nature does to teach us these things over and over again.
My go-to book for these lessons is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. (and Krishmamurti and Ramana Maharshi - who embodies pure love, even through a photo of his face.) There are so many Beings who can teach us!
What a wonderful post and insights, Tereza, thank you (I have bookmarked to read in full when I have finished work). My late Dad introduced me to the Bhagavad Gita which I read in August 2020 (introduced and translated by Eknath Easwaran). I just took it down from my bookshelf, it's full of notes and I had forgotten about it! I will earmark this for a book review at some point which I publish here on Saturday's.
The credit is all due to Nefahotep! I just got to share in the glory of the byline, and I'll be posting another episode in response tomorrow. I agree on the wonder full.
A book review of the Bhagavad Gita is an excellent idea. There's a lot of material to review for sure. You could actually do series highlighting various aspects of the message. I'm looking forward to it. 🙏
Sane cultures prioritize shared interiority. Natural humanity spends much time around the fire discussing, laughing. And much time "puttering" - flowing between pleasant and useful activities. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) practices and cultural wisdom evolve directly. That is some of what comes up for me in reflecting on what I read here. Thank you for each of your ongoing work.
Oh that's a great way to put it, Michael. 'Shared interiority.' And the casual sharing of puttering, in pleasant and useful activities. There's so much low-intensity manual labor involved in natural humanity, leaving so much time for easy conversations. I love your reflection.
Lovely post and collaboration.
I adore Aurobindo though it's been a while since I've spent time with his writings; The Life Divine, sat next to my bed for awhile, decades back now. What a mind, and Spirit he possessed. Given the density of the overall frequency at the time he wrote, it's nothing but astounding that he - and others - were able to glimpse these deeper insights into the Nature of Reality.
I have a persistent sense that the changes we are in the midst of - which we are largely still comprehending with tools and references, writings and frameworks from history - will upend so much, that even teachings about eternal truths that were not easy to come by (making them all the more remarkable) will be directly accessible to many. As the time-space settings and corresponding frequencies shift (the best words I have though still frustrating) and move into new bandwidths. Literally what has been happening on our planet, won't be able to and what we strived to see, will become standard knowing.
Mystics and their insights then, won't be rare. (Perhaps even super basic.)
Strived for meaning - One in the Many, Many in the One as example - will become foundational to the human operating system.
Can't prove any of that, but I do sense it. And as times of collapse brings gifts along with challenge, trusting that inner sense has surely been one of the gifts for me.
Thank you both for the overall elevation your work brings. Best.
Indigenous people have been living this way for thousands of years - super basic and available to all in the collective, without forcing any kind of collective. Their relatives are all living beings. Their spirituality makes the most sense to me.
Super basic mystics, yeah! I share your feeling that this is nudging us, bumping us, accelerating us into that shift. We are certainly in a time of collapse but it doesn't feel that way. It feels like my world's expanding so fast it takes my breath away.
I like that - exactly.
The collapse is freeing us from the layered-prison that included distorted identities we took on we adjusted to the prison.
No doubt your world is expanding - you are expanding and coming in more fully by the day!
When morality emanates from the inner self. People could spend a lifetime searching for this door to Enlightenment. Problem is religion and its books have closed that door to people’s belief in their inner self. I also appreciate there has been a deliberate attempt to prevent Humanity from reaching its true self.
Ultimately, we each experience the Individuated sense of Humanity. The morality we act on comes only from the individual. One thing I sometimes say:
There's not One World with 8 billion separate Consciousnesses in it; there's One Consciousness with 8 billion Worlds in it.
No matter how difficult or different we each are, that path leading to a point where we each See, will be unique and essential. I think, It's why we are here.
Thank you both. What a gem! Read, and Downloaded Isha Upanishad. Thanks for the interpretations. I loved the Works and Knowledge subsection. Great reference. Shared.
What an honor, Nef, to share the byline with you on a topic so central to your worldview. And a fun experiment to figure out the Substack collaboration feature, although I think your readers will correctly figure out this is written by you. And I get to put my thoughts here and in future posts in response. What a joy!
This seemed like drinking pure chocolate, too rich to digest except in little sips. So much depth and nuance. The concept of the One taking shape in the Many for God to experience the pleasure of Becoming is very intriguing. I love this phrase, "The Movement is a phenomenon of the Quiescence, the Quiescence itself may be conceived as a Movement too rapid for the gods, that is to say, for our various functions of consciousness to follow in its real nature." The Quiescence, what a word!
I was just reading that the word 'verify' comes from a root meaning place side-by-side, juxtapose. And I feel like my role is to juxtapose the metanoia of A Course in Miracles, not as right or wrong but holding together as seekers. My initial thought on the difference is that the Course emphasizes relationships whereas it seems like the Isha and Gita are more abstract concepts of Oneness. In the Course, the Many are not created by God but a fragmented illusion of our Self. So it's not renouncing the existence of the World that's needed but recognizing all the fragments of our Self.
I interpret sin as an acronym for Seeing INferiority. When we give anything, including forgiveness, from a position of superiority, we just compound the sin. The only real gift is assuming everyone does everything for a reason, whether or not we see it. And this ties directly to our joint research into the World Wars and changing the perception of Germans as people who committed atrocities for no reason, bringing us to the realization they didn't commit those atrocities.
I feel that both perspectives flow into each other. I'm sure I'll be bringing these insights in in episodes to come. Thank you, Nef.
And, as an aside, I was looking at the six-pointed star in your Top postings and realizing it's a pyramid right-side up and upside-down. Could this be related to the strategy of presenting the rulers as victims, crushed beneath the pyramid rather than on top, crushing everyone else? Curious.
It is an honor to share this with you, Tereza 🙏
About the 6 point star, this would depend on which one you refer. I think there's one in a Dragon Court post that shows like a star of David, the way that is presented is an illustration of the outside facing vs the occulted projection of power. Here you could think of it as the "rulers as victims, crushed beneath the pyramid rather than on top, crushing everyone else. "
Sri Aurobindo's symbol may look similar, but it is different. This depicts the descending force of divine transformation meeting the rising force of essential life. There in the middle, waters of existence is a lotus, representing the divine avatar, existing in perfect balance.
About the collaboration of posts: I'm still not sure how it works, so I think you are willing, you can do a second one and make a connection to the material.
"The Isha and Gita are more abstract concepts of Oneness. In the Course, the Many are not created by God but a fragmented illusion of our Self." They say the same thing actually.
Oneness will always be abstract to the Mind. This is true no matter how mind attempts to approach it. That's why it is a part of Spiritual Sadhana and not standard intellect.