Posted by: Dharm Kaur | December 19, 2011

Loving your demons

It always seems like a big deal when the demons show up.   They’re supposed to be scary, they have such bad press.  Lust, anger, greed, pride and attachment.  So unwanted.

Yet, they are with us for life. And, really, they are just what we need to excel as human beings.

They are the energies of the lower triangle of chakras; the first three chakras situated at the base of the spine, near the sexual organs and at the navel respectively. Chakras are vortexes of energy, each having its own unique design and domain of consciousness. Overall they give us the strength and motivation to succeed at being who we are. After all, as Spirit, we have to re-learn this human-thing every single time we re-incarnate.

All energy exists as a polarity in our 3-D universe: dark-light, left-right, up-down, hard-easy etc. We can only know one side of the polarity when we know the other.  For example only really knowing happiness after you’ve known deep sadness.

Each of the demons has a positive vibration and a negative one.  We mostly only know about the negative side.  No wonder we don’t want to associate with them! 

If you FEEL the quality of the energy of each of them then you can more easily investigate their polarity.

Let’s begin with Lust. More then sexual lust, this demon is a tremendous body craving and appetite, a ’need to have that’. It could be food, water, sex, warmth etc. This can be overwhelming and destructive OR it can be seen as the power and intelligence within the body to keep it alive and well.

Anger: A firey feeling of wanting to lash out. OR a sacred flame guarding the Truth. Warning you when you need to pay attention to keeping integrity intact.

Greed: Dissastisfaction with what you have been given. Wanting more than is due to you. OR it can be seen as the desire to excel. To rise above all apparent obstacles and be victorious.

Pride: The action of separating and feeling ‘better than’ to cover an insecurity or perceived deficiency. OR it can be seen as the healthy ego, developing itself to individuate as a sovereign being. And the energy of joy when this happens.

Attachment: The grasping energy that chains us to the possessions and the people in our lives. OR it can be seen as the energy of joining.  Creating bonds with others to form communities and a caring humanity.

NEXT:  Getting along with your demons

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | December 17, 2011

All that was yours and mine and then

There is a river flowing, we call it life.

A moment here, and there, a conversation, a glance, a touch.

She shook my hand, smiled and welcomed us in

He offered us room, shrugged and turned away

The sun rose and set, birds flew into the night

A breath of crisp morning, a taste of sweetness and joy

All so fleeting, so brief,  pictures of light

That was my life, that is my life, and yours and theirs

Delight in the rainbows after the rain, all the colours

So pretty, such a show

But then fade and are gone as we turn back to catch

A last look at all that was yours and mine and then.

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | November 14, 2011

Supported by the Truth

Maru Mehl 1 (ang 1040)

sach bin sat santokh na paavai.
‘Without the Truth, no one finds sincerity or contentment.’

THE GURU (TRUTH) IS THE FIELD OF INTUITIVE WISDOM

Truth is a vibrational Field that we grow in. Life is the force that activates this Field and keeps it ‘alive’ – evolving and changing.

In the Dark Age, Kaliyug, that we have grown up in these past few thousand years, the Field was corrupted. That was the illusion. It was the darkness of our mind kept us blind to the Field of Truth that was always there.

THE FIELD IS CORRUPT

We grew up in the mud. In the dirt, in the garbage.  Here, we learned to fine tune our senses to the garbage.  Our eyes learned the see garbage, our nose, smell it and love it, our ears to hear it, our skin to touch and be touched by it. Our words became worthless,  our bodies grew crooked and diseased. This has been our experience here on Earth in the Kaliyug, the Age of Darkness.

We were taught that we are born in sin and have to redeem ourselves; that God is on the outside or that there is no God ; that we must fight for survival; that it is only the special ones – yogis, monks, priests and gurus that have access to the Truth.

This field is built on falsehood.  This field is corrupt. The eyes that saw us told us, I am hungry and I want you to fill my emptiness. I am crazy with rage and I want you to make me feel better. I have never been seen or heard, and you will make me feel worthy.

We were taught that we were alone, that being our True Selves will not work. It told us that Truth would not confirm, verify or support us. That opening up our heart was risky, dangerous and hurt a lot. We were shamed, blamed and made wrong for just being alive.

We believed that this very life pulsing in us gave us a hell on Earth.  So we learned how to pretend we like it here, how to make do with our lot, how to perform and play the games – for a few scraps of attention, to be appreciated, to get our dinner.  We were no more than dancing girls, the beggars on the corner.  Some performed well and looked and even felt happy. Many failed miserably.

BREAKING FREE TO REALITY

In this Dark Age, one person breaking free to Reality and embodying the Field of Truth can help others to do the same. Through inspiration, through reflection. One by one, expanding our access to the Field of Reality.

Growing up in this Field the caregiver that looked at you would see your soul. Their glance would reflect back to you that, yes, you are here, and as you are, is what we have been waiting for.

Integrity is its own reward.  We don’t need all the complicated lures, prompts and punishments just to keep it all going.

We put an acorn in the ground, water it, protect it and expect an oak tree. We want the oak tree to be itself. It is what we want.

I want you to be you, and when you are you, that allows me to be me.

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | November 13, 2011

11.11.11

The Piscean Age and the Aquarian Age intersect at a right angle – 90 degrees.  It is as if the trajectory of the Piscean Age is hitting right into a wall – the wall of the Aquarian Age.

As of November 11, 2011, the doorway to this new age is now open.11.11.11. One day after the birthday of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith. He was born under the November full moon in 1469, an enlightened being who opened the space of the Aquarian Age over 500 years ago. And now the platform is stable for the first time.

This means that Truth is now past the tipping point, and it is the preference. That God is no longer projected out ‘out there’ but is being felt right inside of us. Yes, there is still falsehood and lies but their grip is rapidly loosening as we, the people of the Earth, are waking up to the corruption of the last 5000 years. The longing of our hearts to be real with each other is now far greater than trying to sustain the insanity of the Age of Duality.

This means, too, that everything that used to work in the Piscean Age – the tricks, manipulations and constant anxiety will now be replaced with freshness, connection and integrity.
As we get used to the beauty of life and each other, we will look back at these times and wonder how we ever made sense of it all. We might even say we were just crazy.

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | November 7, 2011

Seva and Sikhs

Guru Amar Das

A Sikh is a human who has dedicated their life to serving others. This is known as seva.

Serving or seva is not the same as ‘helping’ or ‘volunteering’.

The later include, on the lower vibration, actions to look good, or actions out of guilt or obligation; and in a higher vibration, are sincere efforts to understand what is needed – taking actions based on those decisions.

Seva, on the other hand, is a state of consciousness in which one first becomes One with the Other. It is a merger of consciousness.

Devotion (bhakti) is the force of God in you that allows you to completely feel the Other. By tuning into the Other you can feel directly what’s happening with them and what they truly need. How to really serve them. It is a knowledge that is direct, not a projection of the  mind or a neurosis.

The Sikh, out of gratitude for the infinite gifts of the Creator (Sat Gur prasaad), wishes only to extend the touch of  the Creator’s Kindness (Guru’s kirpa) to all.

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | November 5, 2011

The Illusion of Dread

It starts to move like a creature in the belly, some reptilian presence stirs.  A constriction in the heart, squeezing the doors shut:  the carnival lights go dark. Herded into the Hall of Dread.

Confused thoughts, round and round replaying the dreaded scenario, over and over again, churning the bile in the belly, making it so, so real.

Dread turns into Terror, a climax of frantic thought, sweat bursting from the skin.

The unwanted visitor returns
The indiscretion exposed
Pressure of debt and bills to pay. No clear path.
Strange noises at night, disturbing, upsetting, helpless to make them stop…
No sanctuary, no one to turn to.

Clammy numbness seeps into the brain. Chest contracted, the familiar prickling slicing down the arms. Waking life has become The Nightmare. Dread comes each day with awakening. A heavy paralysis from ancient tendrils of an unknown Force – challenging the soul to regret its very incarnation.  Then a familiar resignation, sliding back again into the blackest despair.

Impossible to leave the safe kingdom of sleep. Waking life has become a tasteless, broken promise.  Yet it demands we rise. Rise and meet it: a slave girl torn from her home to serve a cruel master.

AND NONE OF THIS IS REAL.  IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION.

Reality is just below the surface…sometimes buried deeply beneath the façade.

The moment Truth is spoken it pierces the darkness. Many are now waking up, expressing themselves, finding words for the experiences, braving the denial and fear.

The façade is cracking
The rising sun pierces through the wall of denial
The people gather
Feed and care for each other
Oceans are cleansed
Fresh breeze
Healthy, happy, holy

The frequency of an Awakened Humanity will drown out the hammering hollowness of the lies, lies, lies.  Drowning out the drama, the corruption, the I, I, I of Hollywood glare.

God is not on the outside. We do not have to beg to be free from pain and suffering. Happiness is our birthright.

The Sword again rules.

Narsimha

Does the wax dread the flame? It gives itself willingly in this sacrifice to bring forth the flame. So, too, the Gursikh practices the Naam (relates to their pure essence) and brings forth the Nectar of the True Self.

GUJRI, FIFTH MEHL, FOURTH HOUSE: 

ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU:

O Lord, Man-lion Incarnate, Companion to the poor, Divine Purifier of sinners; O Destroyer of fear and dread, Merciful Lord Master, Treasure of Excellence, fruitful is Your service. || 1 ||

O Lord, Cherisher of the World, Guru-Lord of the Universe. I seek the Sanctuary of Your Feet, O Merciful Lord. Carry me across the terrifying world-ocean. || 1 ||    ( pg 508)

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | November 3, 2011

Sweet Dreams

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s looking for something

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused by you

(annie lennox, Sweet Dreams)


A flash of terror. Age of Darkness. Kaliyug.

We were born into the Age of Falsehood. And we grew up in this home. Our very bones and muscles forming around its malicious frequency.  We call it our life. It’s all we know.  Sometimes we can even enjoy it – sometimes even a lot.

In the Kaliyug, men become worse than beasts. They abuse each other, destroy the Earth, deny the Truth and steal their children’s innocence.

And this can look so attractive!  Latest Fashions!  Clever marketing! Disneyland! Fantastical skyscrapers of glass and steel!  Glittery TV shows!  Laser surgery! Sanitized stylish bathrooms! World wide internet and rocket ships to the moon!

The insane ego has crept in while we were sleeping and took charge. Victim consciousness. Debt, denial, despair, drugs, drama, dread, disappointment, dependency, blame, betrayal, busy, busy, bitterness, freakout, frantic, falseness, arguments, addiction, rage, revenge, rushing, rushing, guilt, shame, negativity, narcissism, numbness…

The news of the world reflects back to us our choices: Superficial, trivial, voyeurism, vicarious, commercial, crisis, heartbreak.

All traps of the mind – to deny the purity of the soul.

Oh, what a fantastic ride it was!

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | November 2, 2011

Sensory Self

http://www.yogibhajan.com/ybkriyas/index.php?id=85

The Sensory Self is a part of our human psyche. It includes the physical and subtle bodies.  All the skills, organs and structures that are available to feel/sense/intuit is part of the Sensory capacity of the human. This is our natural state to Know the Truth ie  Reality, through our own experience of the natural world and The Other.

This Sensory Self is awakening due to the increased vibration of The Earth and the Awakening of 2012. There are some who think that this is somehow related to the increased nutrino stream from the sun to all the planets in our Galaxy. Too, our transit through the equator of the Milky Way Galaxy is thought to be part of the acceleration process.

We can only know ourselves through The Other. As our minds will always have blind spots and subconscious fears, it wants us to feel safe and right – so we can only know our missing parts – good and bad-  through what is projected out onto the world around us.

In the Piscean Age this Sensory Self was shut down and so we were unable to access the Truth of The Other and so, ourselves. We then had to ‘search’ or ‘beg’ for God and ‘enlightenment’.  We projected out our natural knowingness onto Gurus, priests, shamans and rabbis – the intermediaries. We gave away our authority and power to those outside of us and so were built the Piscean institutions of our society: government, law, medicine, education, religion, armies and police, finance.

This was the duality of the Piscean Age. We split ourselves into two- God was on the outside; we, inside, were desperate and helpless.  This duality led to the splitting of power into the dominant and the submissive, the have and have nots, the sick and the healthy, those who were the ‘authority’ and those who were not. The naturally has led to massive corruption and the resultant protests that we are seeing today first with the Arab Spring and now with the worldwide Occupy Wall St movement.

As our Sensory Self continues to open many are becoming overwhelmed and turn to addictive substances or activities to numb out. Others are ‘blissing out’ with the higher frequencies and ignoring the lower- shadow selves that are begging to be integrated. Many of the problems we see with the new children – autism, ADD etc – are a result of their caregivers not knowing how to hold the space and create environments to help the children transition into the current world with their new extra-sensitive nervous systems.

With the awakening Sensory Self we can ‘feel’ the Other. We can feel their magnetic field and the underlying agendas and subtle selves. This is the transparency that is talked about in the Aquarian Age. We can ‘know’ all about The Other this way, and by association, ourselves. Whatever we come to feel and know about The Other will automatically be about ourselves – as what is inside us is resonating with what is ‘outside’. The First Sutra of the Aquarian Age describes it well: ‘The other person is you’.

In order for the Sensory Self to work we have to become consciously embodied. You have to engage the Sensory Self for it to work ie it doesn’t ‘work’ automatically. It’s like learning how to walk all over again.

This is the new normal for ‘enlightenment’. Formally only the yogis who had practiced for many years were able to activate this part of the self in the Dark Times. Now it is automatically awakening for everyone and causing a lot of havoc!  Depression, madness, overload… This is where Kundalini Yoga is the science for the Aquarian Age.
Eventually it will integrate into a very graceful situation of all of mankind. (might take a few hundred years!)

80 years ago, Carl Jung had described the existence of ‘a third thing’ as the identity of the relationship itself between two people. This is also known as the ‘Guru’ field. The living Divine intelligence that we come into awareness of through The Other. The way we ‘know’ anything is through the Guru/the Field- through our Awareness (which is the Guru inside us) we can feel the Truth/Reality of what is happening at any moment.  We can feel nature, the trees, animals, the Life Force itself. And when another person is present we can feel our psyche through them.

As Yogi Bhajan described: we need to go through the Group Consciousness before we can truly experience Universal Consciousness.
The yogis of old through intense discipline, opened up the crown chakra and had an experience of a kind of Oneness – but it was not the Authentic Self. It was a faux-Oneness – trying to skip the karma kind of Oneness.

The Authentic Self is the soul-activated Self.  When it is 51% or more of our awareness our life starts to burn the karma consciously – we begin to live in Dharma. (Andrew Cohen has a slightly different definition – he says the Authentic Self is the Identity that arises in the group when a conscious group forms in dialogue.) 51 % – because as long as we have a mind, then there are samskaras (remnant karmas from past lives) that can get activated at any time. Too, there are those pesky hidden subconscious agendas.

Sikhs identify 5 or more gathered in consciousness as the Guru. This is the experience of Oneness through a group. It’s not just a feel-good sensation, there is an Intelligence with its own identity that awakens in the group. This Intelligence is the same Intelligence that runs the universe. It ‘appears’ or ‘becomes stable’ in the presence of 5 or more conscious beings.

As we learn how to embody and work with this Self Sensory System we will be able to authentically connect to each other. This natural state bypasses the rational mind, and eliminates the need for politics and lengthy discussions to ‘figure out’ how to heal the Earth and solve our problems. When we feel each other, the Guru-field will be there for us – giving us instant access to infinite creativity.  It is a very high frequency state. It is the Realm of Guru Ram Das.

LINKS:

1. Many teachers are now teaching embodiment eg. Dr Judith Blackstone
http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?agmepisode=4661&wwepisode=4667&pepisode=4637&ppepisode=988&utm_source=soundstrue&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklywisdom-111014 does

2. Patricia Albere and Thomas Hubl describe ‘the field in-between’ very well   (4 videos in all)
This video: http://www.evolutionarycollective.com/content/media/2011/spiritual-teachers-meta-sangha/

3. Patricia and Kathlyn Hendricks

http://www.evolutionarycollective.com/content/events/2011/discovering-genius-relationships-2/

4. (Patricia Albere -used to be with Werner Erhart ‘est training’ – also is conducting on-line courses with Jeff Carriera (training director for Alan Cohen)

http://www.evolutionarycollective.com/courses/illuminating-web-influence/

5. The Unified Field
Nassim Haramein  http://vimeo.com/25785757    ‘Black Wholes’
“We can ONLY co-create our reality – because we are constantly merging into the vacuum with everyone else and sharing our understanding of consciousness.”
“It illustrates how MASS is not a constant but oscillates between potential and expression within consciousness.”

6. The Transcendent Function: Jeffrey C. Miller + Carl Jung

http://books.google.ca/books?id=F29B3MFVKW4C&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=the+third+thing+jung&source=bl&ots=q-TmmMli3w&sig=P8AIDzzHXT39RmvbsET5oglAsVk&hl=en&ei=YRGdTrukO4qNigLP3vDjCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=the%20third%20thing%20jung&f=false

pg 129 “We must move beyond the notion of life as consisting of outer and inner experiences and enter a kind of ‘intermediate realm’ that our culture has long lost sight sight of and in which the major portion of transformation occurs. A we perceive such a shared reality with another person, and as we actually focus on it, allowing it to have its own life, like a ‘third thing’ in the relationship, something new can occur. The space that we occupy seems to change, and rather than being the subjects, observing this ‘third thing,’ we begin to feel we are inside it and moved by it. We become the object, and the space itself and its emotional states are the subject. In such experiences, the old forms of relationship die and transform. It is as if we have become aware of a far larger presence in our relationship, indeed a sacred dimension.”

pg 130 “..this ‘third thing’… is the metaphoric third, the transcendent function, where conscious and unconscious come together to produce something new, the alchemical fourth”

7. Radio show: Patricia Albere + Andrew Cohen

http://www.evolutionarycollective.com/content/events/2011/andrew-cohen-evolutionary-enlightenment/

8. http://worldpeaceendowment.org/invincibility/invincibility7.html
Three-in-One Structure in 
Maharishi’s Vedic Science
These impulses of intelligence are generated as the field of pure consciousness recognizes itself in terms of the three qualities —the observer, process of observation, and the observed—within the unity of its self-referral state.
In Vedic Language, the Unified Field is called Samhita, the observer is called Rishi, process of observation is called Devata, and the observed is called Chhandas. Maharishi’s Vedic Science is the science of the Unified Field of observer, process of observation, and observed, the science of the Samhita of Rishi, Devata, and Chhandas—the science of Rk Veda.

9. Lynn McTaggart’s The Field

http://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/006143518X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319687941&sr=1-1

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | October 16, 2011

Reverence II

The soul is ravenous for the blazing Light of God

Asha

without which

life is empty, milk tastes like poison

and the rains of Grace have stopped.

The world has become an eternal fire of anguish

wars rage, brother destroys brother

all mad for a single drop of Infinity.

Posted by: Dharm Kaur | October 13, 2011

Reverence I

REVERE

To regard with awe, deference, and devotion.
[French révérer, from Old French reverer, from Latin reverērī : re-, re- + verērī, to respect.]

SYNONYMS   revere, worship, venerate, adore, idolize. These verbs mean to regard with the deepest respect, deference, and esteem.

Revere suggests awe coupled with profound honor: “At least one third of the population … reveres every sort of holy man” (Rudyard Kipling). Worship implies reverent love and homage rendered to God or a god: The ancient Egyptians worshiped a number of gods. In a more general sense worship connotes an often uncritical devotion: “She had worshiped intellect” (Charles Kingsley). Venerate connotes reverence accorded by virtue, especially of dignity or age: “I venerate the memory of my grandfather” (Horace Walpole). To adore is to worship with deep, often rapturous love: The students adored their caring teacher. Idolize implies worship like that accorded an object of religious devotion: He idolizes his wife.

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