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 Cosmic Consciousness – A New Look at Enlightenment Chris: So what do you think of people who are considered very enlightened or who have special healing powers that have proved to be valid? Tony: I think they have simply grown a bit more than ......... More |  The Enlightenment Intensive During the explosion of new or improved self-help techniques that emerged in the 1960’s, Charles Berner started teaching a modification of an age old form of Eastern meditation. The approach was very well known, and Kipling describes it in his book Kim. It was also the method recommended by the s... More |
 Shaktipat- The Indian Way to Enlightenment The Sanscrit word ‘shakti’ means energy, bio-energy, or more correctly, bio- cosmic energy. Shaktipat is a practice which is described as the loosening of this energy by a guru from the way it may be blocked in us. When this shakti energy is loosened and no longer tightly bound by the control of... More |  The Archetype of the Buddha On the positive side the archetype holds in it power to transcend and let go of the limiting factors of ones personal life, instinctive drives and socially imprinted behaviours. Because a religious figure such as Christ and Buddha have many similarities in their social and personal impact, it is wor... More |
 Jesse Watkins Experience of Enlightenment Jesse Watkins’s own description of his inner experiences. The barriers between Jesse’s known self, and wider self had been broken down by overwork, fatigue, a dog bite, and a visit to hospital. Below is quoted some of his description of what he saw of himself.... More |  Archetype of the Ascetic/Hermit At a personal level the ascetic may connect with feelings of pain or failure in our experience of how we relate to sex or society. Through such pains we may have withdrawn our enthusiasm or involvement in what life offers. ... More |
 Dreams Growth and the Trackless Way It may feel as if everything is being taken, or might be taken, away from us. For some the entrance is marked by an experience of death, this is either a deeply psychological experience, or for some an actual near death experience. For this is how it feels for many of us, that our ego, our self, is ... More |  Archetype of the Monk To sum up in simple words, the monk archetype can either be a tendency toward see such things as fame, money and ambition as things that can pass as quickly as they come, and the seeking of something more permanent and fundamental; or it can be an avoidance due to anxiety or lack of ability to meet ... More |
 Helpful Addresses for Yoga Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp Helful Addresses for Yoga – Chapter 11 Organised bodies teaching various aspects of Yoga: Teachers Ramakrishna Ramana Maharshi The Theosophical Society in England 50 Gloucester Place, London ......... More |  Archetype of the Beggar The fundamental qualities of this archetype are dependence, powerlessness and lack of resources, both personal and material. In some way many of us have something of this archetype influencing our behaviour. We might be impoverished of the ability to love, or of initiative or motivation.... More |
 Anaesthesia the Mind and Dreams A Native American unspoilt by exposure to Western life styles, was allowed to witness a tonsil operation on a child. He was horrified to see the child put into a sleep state by a man who had not himself been initiated into consciously entering the inner worlds of the unconscious. ... More |  Archetype of the Night Journey – the Search for Self But you also meet the wonder of an enormously enlarged awareness, the sparkling immediacy of questions answered, the splendour of bodiless life linking in love and mind with an infinity of others. Here you experience the vision of the spirit’s journeys into time and space, and its life in eternity... More |
 Archetype of the Paradigm To step out of the paradigm of the western mind, or any other paradigm, the path of self enquiry and direct experience of the reality you are is the only way. In the past this has often been called ‘illumination’ or ‘enlightenment’ – but think of it simply as direct experience of yourself.... More |  Prayer And Dream Interpretation If you are practised in prayer, or a form of meditation in which you can allow unconscious or spontaneous insights or feelings to arise, then all you need to do is bring your dream to that state and seek such insights. If you are not practised, then learn to allow your conscious critical self to bec... More |