Body & Mind

Unfortunatley, our western culture often sees the body as a purely material thing. In doing so it overlooks the forces and wisdom that has grown you from a tiny seed, and continues to offer you that wisdom form your core self. In fact, our body, like everything else in nature, is linked with every aspect of the living process around us. As such it is a way to the highest. The mind and the body are a continuum.

Your Guru the Dream – Step Six

It is important to express what you experience in these experiments. I believe a good test of integration is that what you describe is understandable not only to yourself, but also to any casual listener. For some people the word and the feeling are very much connected....More

Your Guru The Body – Part Five

The experience of changing a feeling of failure into one of pleasure showed Pete the situation he had been creating in his own life. While he was feeling a failure due to the attitude that life is a great competition that you either win or lose, he gave up exploring the opportunities and pleasures t...More

Your Guru The Body – Part Four

And a song of love burst from me spontaneously. It was love of life, of my cause. Then laughter came, for I had been such a fool, to crush myself with my own rigid morals, with my own emotions and strength. We were all fools, to crush ourselves with our own worlds, to chain ourselves with our own fe...More

Your Guru The Body – Part Three

To start step two, stand in your space for a while and be aware of the movements of your chest as you breathe. As you observe this, every so often hold your breath out for a while and notice what it feels like as your body wants to make the movement to breathe in. Unless you hold your breath for a l...More

Your Guru The Body – Part Two

Something that is helpful though, is to hold your body in a way that might be called the 'piano key' feeling. This is a condition of sensitive balance, like the keys on a piano. A touch on a piano key causes it to move and the note to play. But as soon as the finger is removed the key springs back i...More

Your Guru The Body – Part One

Shakespeare has Hamlet say, ‘What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god—the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!’...More

The Mind Reaches beyond the Body

In the dream Brenda saw the baby and a voice from behind her told her the child was ill. Its illness, she was given to understand, was serious, and would need to be treated with a drug taken every day of the child's life. The reason for this illness and the drug use, she was told, was because in a p...More

The Initiation of Ageing

When it comes to ageing we also experience this very deeply – but again each in our own way. For women in particular their flower withers in menopause. But for men and women there is a loss of much that was incredibly important and satisfying or painful in the middle years prior to the time the bo...More

The Great and Ancient Secret – Part Nine

A harsh climate: What was your childhood situation and environment? Napoleon said that as the twig is bent so the tree grows. That is obviously true of human life. We know it only too well now from studies of the childhood and home environment of psychopaths and abusers. Hitler's past abuse went bac...More

The Great and Ancient Secret – Part Eight

For many of us, our parents were raised and educated in a social situation that was deeply controlled by political or religious do's and don'ts, the domination by authority figures or the threat of unemployment. They may thus have raised us in the same way, a way helping us to deny any spark that wo...More

The Great and Ancient Secret – Part Seven

Life told us all this 2000 years ago. Forget names like Jesus or Christ, it was Life speaking. Forget the churches and the dogma, the rules and regulations, go straight to the source. Life told us that, "The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you, not in buildings of wood and stone. Spli...More

The Great and Ancient Secret – Part Six

The methods of meditation are so many it would be foolish to try to look at them in detail, and the point here is to consider those that are directly connected with revealing the Secret. And this is where the subtle trick comes in. So we will look in detail at some of the classic approaches, and als...More

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