Helpful Meditations

There are more meditation videos online now than ever before on places like YouTube.  Below are two helpful videos that I have been using lately.  The first is an excerpt from Jonathan Goldman & Crystal Tones, called, "Crystal Bowls Chakra Chants."  It's about ten minutes in length.  The soft chants interweave into the tones quite nicely.  I like to take videos like that on YouTube and put them into a playlist - the same video on the same playlist three or four times - and then have a good 30-40 minute auto-playing background soundtrack for a meditation.  I really enjoy simple tone-based meditation soundtracks, like the Solfeggio Frequencies that I wrote about in a previous post.  I used to listen to simple ambient music like this with headphones during my time creating in virtual reality simulators, where my work itself became a meditation of creation.  The tones I would listen to would merge with the sounds of breezes, water, etc. in the simulator and really provide a profoundly deep immersion experience.

The Crystal Bowls track also makes a good background for other meditations, such as the many group events taking place daily around the world on places like the WingMakers' Event Temples and the newly-launched site Do As One, which features guided unison breathing.  I really like the concept of group meditation events.  Never before in modern times have so many people been able to come together in meditation on a daily basis to focus positive intentions together that will hopefully have a broadening cumulative effect on our world as time goes by.

The second video is a guided meditation from Drunvalo Melchizedek.  The mediation is similar to the one outlined in his book, "Living In The Heart."  Focus and intention is placed on Mother Earth, with one's love sent down to her, and then to Father Sky, or essentially everything in the universe outside of the earth.  In his book, he adds giving thanks to and acknowledgement of the Unity Grid or Consciousness Grid that comprises the higher dimensions and includes ancestors and ascended beings whose energy is contained in the grid that surrounds the earth.  In the book, focus is first placed on Pachamama (the earth), followed by the Unity Grid and then finally directed to Father Sky, the All That Is.  I've been playing the Jonathan Goldman video as a background to Drunvalo's guided meditation, playing both simultaneously.  They seem to flow nicely together.

Jonathan Goldman ~ Crown Chakra ~ Diamond Light

~ Guided Meditation by Drunvalo Melchizedek ~

Peace ; )

Pane Andov: 2012 Equation Solved?

If you have read my post about my Cosmic Initiation, the ensuing Bits And Pieces or any of the others dealing with my rather bizarre experiences that began in late 2009 - early 2010, this video series may interest you.  I found this talk by Pane Andov to be among the most interesting I have watched over the past several years.  If you are one who surfs the web for information about a potential evolution in human consciousness, ascension, coming earth changes, etc. among the light worker and/or conspiracy websites, you may well find this presentation to be quite compelling.  I certainly did.  Recorded at a raw food group meet-up recently in Australia, Andov, a former computer scientist from Macedonia, paints a picture of 2012, the current and predicted earth changes, the rise in awareness of an emerging unity consciousness and various other elements that is quite unlike anything else on the web right now.  Pane's perspective is much more grand than virtually anything else I've seen.  He incorporates several streams of information that cover virtually all of the ground of the many different groups, beliefs and rumors on the web regarding what exactly will happen over the next two years.  Further information and additional materials are available through his website, linked above.

Although he brings to light many different popular elements currently on the web, including shadow governments, HAARP, the elite controllers and multiple types of extraterrestrials that many of us have heard about before, none of those subjects are ultimately the focus of this presentation.  This is a call to action.  A much larger picture emerges in Pane's presentation, which points directly to the need for meditation, heart-centered living and ultimately DNA upgrades in light of a more prolific picture of galactic changes that are soon to have an effect on our planet.  He also illustrates how present and future earth changes are not entirely due to the influence of the aforementioned negative forces.  Instead, he describes an event that has already occurred at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, an event that NASA and the planet's other space agencies are already well aware of.  It is precisely this event that is the main cause for serious concern.  What's even more interesting about this information is that it neatly ties into the exponential rise of channeled messages from light beings of various extraterrestrial or other-dimensional origin who have been warning us of coming changes in the earth's magnetic field and how those changes will affect how we mutate and/or evolve over the coming months.  Many dots are connected here.

This is a profound talk.  The presentation answers more questions than I have found in any one singular place recently in terms of the big picture and has provided additional perspective for my recent period of guided information sourcing.  As someone who has been monitoring the USGS earthquake activity daily for more than six months, I found his insights into the increasing seismic activity around places like Vanuatu, Japan and the Gulf of Aden to be quite profound.   Crop circles are also discussed, with interpretations that were more concise than anything I'd seen in the past.  A lot of ground is covered, including some insights into why the vegetarian, vegan and raw food movements have arisen in recent years.  I enjoyed the talk very much, and hope you will too.  A quick note on Part 7 of 8: it begins at 12:38.  The earlier segment of Part 7 is a repeat of Parts 5 and 6.  My thanks to Mr Astralwalker, whom I have been told is Andov himself, for the upload.

~ 2012: Equation Solved?  Part 1 ~

~ Part 2 ~

~ Part 3 ~

~ Part 4 ~

~ Part 5 ~

~ Part 6 ~ 

~ Part 7 (starts at 12:18) ~

~ Part 8 ~

Peace ; )

Living In The Heart

A friend recently gave me a book by Drunvalo Melchizedek, entitled, "Living In The Heart".  I was somewhat familiar with Drunvalo and his work with indigenous tribes around the world, but had not read any of his books.  I came across his work through a website called Spirit of Ma'at that contains some interesting reading and resources and I'd visited the site over the years a few times.  I've read a fair amount over the last few years, but not since "Far Journeys" and "Journey of Souls" have I felt such a profound impact from something I've read in the field of consciousness studies.

There is a meditation in Drunvalo's book that I found to be incredibly useful and enlightening.  In addition to some fascinating stories about indigenous tribes around the world, the book largely focuses on activating the Merkaba, or human light body.  The Merkaba is our vehicle to other states of awareness and ultimately other dimensions. 

                                                  Merkaba (or Merkabah)

It starts with the premise that the heart is the (only) place of creation.  The mind helps with the construction and logistics, but anything we create has to initially come from our hearts.  The mediation starts with what's called The Unity Breath, where you being a process of deep meditative breathing focused on being in unison with your spirit guides.  The meditation then moves to an act of intention whereby you are sending thanks to first Mother Earth... female energy (I've noticed that visual thanks in the form of graphics and pictures work really well for me... flowing in streams).  The second step is to radiate thanks to the Soul Grid, the energetic life grid that all things on and around the earth are connected to.  The third step is to extend thanks then to the Universal Source... male energy.  I've found that picturing visuals spiraling out to and between all three and circulating from there works well and is really easy to do.

The Lake Shrine

My awareness has continued to change over the past year, and it seems as though as time goes on, my awareness continues to change and shift at a faster rate, as if it's getting to be more expansive and accelerating while doing so.  A friend recently invited me to go to the Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California, which is the community that neighbors Santa Monica to the north, on LA's west side along the coast.  She gave no reference about the facility other than to say that she and other friends (some of whom I have met recently) often go to the Shrine to walk, meditate and enjoy the energy.  "It's beautiful.  You'll love it," said my friend.

After agreeing to go, I Googled the Shrine and was amazed to find out that it was started by Paramhansa Yogananda, who's "How To Be Happy All The Time" was a book that I had been using as a daily inspirational text for the previous two months.  I had purchased the book a few years prior, and it resurfaced after my move back in September and had been on the table next to my bed.  I had been reading it daily.  "A pleasant seeming coincidence," I first thought, which was followed by a "must-go" energy just because of the measure of same.  I had no idea that since my first two trips, days apart, that my awareness would change again, once during my first visit and again during the second, which is an awareness that is strong and I've managed to hold it since.

The Shrine is a fascinating place.  It's part of the Self-Realization Fellowship, which was founded by Yogananda.  There is a spiritual wishing well and a area that serves as a monument to the world's religions.  On the higher end of the grounds (it's spread up over a hill), there is a temple that holds weekly services and times of teaching. Territorially, it's not that large, but it contains both a beauty and an energy that is uncommon, at least to my experience.  I've spent a fair amount of time in nature, and I am easily awed with beauty.  That much has been true my whole life.  As a rebellious teenage punk in Greenwich Village around '81 or '82, I was taken by a friend to a shop for the first time that was then on 8th Street called Poster Mat.  As we walked around in the store, one particular laminated word collage poster caught my eye.  At the center of the word collage was the phrase, "Never lose your sense of wonder."  The rest of the poster had compelling words in different colors.

"That works for me," I thought, and I bought the poster.  It really resonated with me.  Many years later I was searching for something completely unrelated online and came across the author who was said to have originally coined the phrase that had become one of my mantras.  I don't recall his name at the moment.  I was going to say Dalton Trumbo (one of the original Hollywod Ten and an ultimately blacklisted author during the McCarthy era) but I don't think that's correct.  Perhaps it was a quote from Shel Silverstein, author of "The Giving Tree" and a man with many, many memorable quotes.  I know there's a band from England called Yeti who released a song by that name, but the saying is much older than that.  Words to live by wherever they came from.

Back to the Shrine.  This place is like a living diorama of the world in balance, at least that's what I was perceiving in terms of the energy that I felt there.  It's very powerful.  The Yogananda's teachings had already become a part of my daily practice by this point, and I considered it a real blessing when speaking with one of the staff members there who was kind enough to give us some of the history of the site.  Yogananda had a saying during his time here, "Whenever you think of me, there I will be," or words to that effect.  I couldn't help thinking about the seeming measure of coincidence after going through a few months of consulting "How To Be Happy..." on a daily basis.

When you look into who this being was, the people whom he affected and the nature of the Shrine and how it came to be, it's astounding.  The Beatles, in particular George Harrison, played a role in the development of the site, which was in its previous incarnation, according to the staff, a gravel pit.  The Yogananda had then been living in the LA area for some time and had the desire to construct such a place.  Without any physical effort, though only meditation, Yogananda placed himself within the mind of the gravel pit owner, repeatedly, over time.  Eventually the owner came to him in person, to which Yogananda replied, "What took you so long?"  and plans ensued for him to to secure the space for the Shrine from the then-current owner, whom I believe gave him the land or did so at a special price.  For me, this was a huge spiritual lesson.  If only I could do such things... if we all could... and if we could... surely the world would become a much more interesting place where unity could grow, instead of division.

I have since returned to the Shrine and taken some photos, which maybe at some point I'll put into a slideshow of some kind.  As I said, the energies there are very powerful.  I'm so glad my friend turned me on to the place and I hope to go there regularly.  I have since found that listening to George Harrison's "Dark Horse" album and its lyrics have taken on a whole other level of meaning, especially the song, "Give Me Love," which is a masterpiece.  My respect for George, which was already high, has hit all new heights as a result.  What an amazing individual.  It was also he (George) who financed Monty Python's "Life of Brian".  What fascinating person and bringer of good great things to the rest of us.  Without Python, my life would have been different.  They rewrote the concept of comedy on so many levels.  Harrison's insights into the human condition, which is found in the music he left behind, are profound and have such a delicate, true-feeling resonance to me, as if the universe itself was singing through him.  I'm so thankful that I haven't lost my sense of wonder.

Something Random Written

There are elements of stability present in my life at this point but things are certainly not as they were.  I miss my former partner, companion and partner in crime very much.  I wish her all the best.  Life for the past year or so has been getting tougher, and my two jobs - making money by creating and selling virtual reality landscapes to customers internationally has taken a beating due to effects from the overall economy (as well as the host company's foibles) and my other job at a local friend's dot com seems like it will be ending soon, which will leave me in a place that I haven't been in quite some time.  I'm trying to remain as positive as I can and take to heart the fact that this existence is a learning process that breeds spiritual growth.

I recently came across a paragraph that I had written several years ago, although I'm not sure quite when since it was on a page pulled from another notebook and placed into the back of a notebook that I happened to open.  It must have been from early 2004, as near as I can tell.  Ironically, it's also an example of me being at odds with my writing.  As I believe I stated somewhere earlier, I keep a lot of notebooks and also have a tendency to just throw some of them away after a few years.  I'd almost rather not write anything, much less read it back to myself.  The thing is, I have no recollection of writing this at all, which is strange.  I can usually picture where I was when I wrote something or heard a particular song for the first time.  Who am I talking to in this paragraph?  I have no idea.  I don't even know where the words came from or why.  Either way, in my present situation I find some sort of comfort in them...

"My words are like water, my thoughts like cheap wine.  Turn again Wind of Ways and bring to me Time.  Open your doors once again and begin to share with me the secrets hidden within your halls.  Open to me and pour yourself on to my body ~ Run through my entire being ~ Cover me with your flood and rush of all the universe's knowledge.  Speak to me like your spoke to me before - Like you spoke to the billions of stars as they formed so many billions of times.  I am a vessel, your vessel.  I do indeed know you and you me.  Let the circle once again remain unbroken and let us share in the grand infinite knowledge of all things.  Here I am.  Whenever always."

There were other ramblings at the bottom of the page...

"Spool.  Spools of time.  Wheels.  A Wheel.  The Wheel, turning."

"Here again.  For what purpose?  Again.  Always.  Nevermind."

"Is there any need to remember when I was asleep?  Is there?  Is there?"

"Like a familiar theme song of someone coming home."

"If someone should sing, is it... joyful?"

It's all just something random written, but sometimes coming across notes like that can help add some perspective to one's current state of affairs.  I don't claim to know much about anything, and as I said early on, I am only the sum-total of my experiences.  I take everything with a grain of salt, working on the mosaic, trying to make some sense out of what seems just as random as events in daily life can appear to be.  I don't believe anything happens by chance anymore.  Hermetically speaking, there is no such thing, as hard as that can be for my physical mind to sustain sometimes, especially when I feel things aren't going my way, so to speak.  There is just infinite possibility and situations are created by cause and effect.  This I must remember and take to heart.

Dark Night Of The Soul

Just when I thought I felt like writing more often, haha.  My personal life has taken a bit of a spin.  I am losing my partner of the past six years and that in itself makes me said.  She was a great teacher for me, from whom I have learned many things.  I will take them with me wherever the road leads from here.  I hurt myself pretty badly about a month ago and have had a lot of trouble with mobility, which has been something new to me.  I am now under some excellent wellness care and hope that my condition can improve.

When life starts to come at you from all sides, it's hard to stay focused on what's important.  Daily routines alone, including work and personal concerns, can be enough for one to lose focus, but toss in a few black swans and things can get rough.  I'm in a time now of upheaval.  I have been trying to meditate steadily, but it's been hard.  It happens.  Everything is cyclical in nature.  I try to remember the words of one of my early "gurus", Wayne Dyer, who is fond of saying that the answer is always to "go within."  All I have been getting back for weeks now in meditation is "Dark night of the soul."  I don't know what it means for me.  Wikipedia has an explanation, but as of right now I don't have context other than the general upheaval, frustration and an ominous unknown component in my life at this time.

I forget where I heard the phrase first, but I have kept it close in my being for over a decade now, "There is wisdom in uncertainty."  I will try and keep that in the forefront of my mind.