Now is the time when our decisions and choices in life start to catch up with us. Life is all cause and effect. Or as that famous Yogi in the Bible put it: ‘Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.”

We see this theme of cause/effect in nearly all religions in the world, in classic Newtonian physics and now more than ever, quantum physics has proved that “life is in the eye of the beholder.”

In short, “thoughts become things” so “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” (Prov. 4:23)

One of my main goals in life is to spread Awareness. I am not perfect, but I try very hard to cultivate a very intentional, powerful, creative life and through those ventures, I have discovered a great deal of knowledge available to anyone with a library card. Seeking spirit or not, we are all human so inevitably we are all graced with life’s ups and downs, all the while, revealing the human experience.

As I’ve approached this milestone marker of my fortieth birthday and looked in the mirror, I’ve been thinking about what key decisions I have made that have contributed most to my healthy state of being.

That being the case, here are 11 lifestyle choices to help inspire tomorrow with healthful and wealthful giving to thyself today, as to reap that health and wealth tomorrow. The choices fall into three main categories: Body, Mind and Spirit:

Body:

#1 – Your body is your Temple, treat it with the greatest respect

In 2003 I interviewed acclaimed jazz pianist Brian Hass for Meniscus Magazine and he told me something that turned into a piece of my existence: Haas said:

“Jesus said, your body is a temple. If you treat your body like a temple, it spreads into the rest of your life. Every aspect of your life becomes holy; everything you do is holy.

“The mind, body and soul are connected,” Haas continued. “If you don’t allow your body to operate at its full potential, how do we even know what our minds are capable of? I’m all about living like a real human and realizing my full potential..I want to be the best human I can be…We have to turn ourselves into superheroes, we have to turn ourselves into ultra-humans. We have to find our true potential.”

The best way to keep the temple clean, is to understand you have control, which leads us to step #2…

#2- Discipline the Robot

Your body is a robot and you have to make the choose whether you are going to tell it what to do, or it is going to tell you what to do.

There are terrible epidemics of obesity, cancer and heart disease in this country and much of it has to do with food addictions.

Most people are addicted to food. That few seconds of flavor from that bite of potato chip, bacon, corn bread, cup cake, doughnut, soda…all of that highly addictive junk food eventually will catch up to the body in the form of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer not to mention your body and mind will be clogged full of junk. “You are what you eat” so those who thrive on processed food will constantly be “over fed and under nourished” and will never reach their full potential.

So you have to make a choice: Am I going to let the robot control me via my tastebuds?

My choice has been to eat a macrobiotic diet consisting of vegetables, whole grains and a little fish; no meat or dairy. The stuff I eat is probably “earthy” to most people. However because I have trained my tastebuds to appreciate the nutrients and not the sugar, it is delicious. On the contrary, if I eat a Duncan Doughnut or God forbid a diet soda, all I can taste is the chemicals. I don’t taste any real food, and my body is trained to reject it.

#3 Fast and Detox your Temple

The best way to reset your control over the robot and cleanse the body is to fast. I know, this sounds crazy, “not eat for 3-6 days?! How is that possible,” you ask? “I get light headed after missing dinner for 1 hour!”

By abstaining from food for significant periods of time, your body has a chance to turn its immune attention towards breaking down toxins in the system that, if left unattended to, could manifest into any number of diseases.

As Paul Bragg explains in The Miracle of Fasting, there is a Vital Force that is used every day of your life to maintain your body’s processes. In addition to pushing blood through millions of filters in your kidneys and exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide in your lungs, a large percentage of this energy goes towards digesting food through your 30-foot digestive tract. Once you stop eating, this Vital Force begins recharging and is freed up tove move throughout the body breaking down poisonous residues that have built up. Even after just 24 hours, the body is able to begin rebuilding Vital Force.

Aside from fasting, there are many ways to detox on a regular basis. One of my favorite, easy things to do is this: Each day upon waking, drink a pint of water in the morning with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, one hour (or as long as possible) before your coffee or breakfast. (Make sure you use a straw and brush your teeth after the mixture! The acids can be bad for your tooth enamel.)

You can also find natural, herb-based cleanses on the market like this seven-day cleanse from Arbonne.

#4 Cultivate Awareness

Now that you’ve got your body cleaned out, you’ll start to see you have a very clear mind, which brings us to the next stage in the positive cause/effect cycle: Awareness. Actually, more specifically the best place to start here is awareness of awareness.

Now that you have control of the robot you can start taking control of other rituals that may or may not be spinning your cause/effect cycle in a positive direction.

- Exercise: There is no shortage of benefits to exercise, get yourself on a schedule and train the robot to get out there at least a few times a week.
- Negative people: Who in your life is it time to step away from? Your awareness will help you see the cause/effect they have on you.
- Emotional intelligence: Knowing that we are emotional creatures, when do you need to step away from a situation before it drives you to a regrettable outburst. (I.e. An “amygdala hijacking”)
- Career navigation: Once you have this awareness, you can start to see how other people’s robots react to professional situations. If you rise above and always make your moves from a very intentional, logical place, you’ll start to see you have more professional freedom than before—to get a raise, to move companies, or to move into new industries all together.
- Helping the whole planet: The best benefit comes when we all have a greater Awareness of how our daily choices affect the planet, and therefore every one of us, especially our future generations.

The benefits of Awareness are endless, and the next step is to start to refine how you incite Action into the universe to get what you want. The gateway to this manifestation is of course, the mind.

Mind:

Einstein proved that everything is made up of energy in his famous equation E=mC2. We also know the human mind can affect energy.

As far back as the early 1800’s, Quantum physics established that the behavior of particles actually changes depending the observer.

In 1803, Thomas Young discovered what would become the cornerstone of modern quantum physics. In his double-slit experiment, he shot a single particle of light towards two slits in a plate. He was trying to determine whether light traveled as a wave or as a particle. What he found is that when he changed his hypothesis, the particle would change its path.

This experiment opened up many questions. What the quantum physics community determined since then is that the physical world of matter and energy respond to our thinking on a subatomic level.

The mind is part of the robot. Most people think their mind is them, but it is actually just another organ running in the background like your liver, kidneys and heart. Now that we have a clean temple, and the power of Awareness, we can start crafting the mind to support our positive cause/effect cycle.

#5 Work with your subconscious mind

Florence Scovel Shinn, a pioneer of the New Thought movement, stated that “The imagination has been called, ‘The Scissors of the Mind,’ and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world.”

And to know what creations we should expect in our outer world, she reminds of us what the Greeks said: “Know Thyself.”

What we are creating in our imagination is not always a conscious decision. The subconscious mind is running in the background at all times. It is the operating system that you don’t even see. So if your operating system is running a poverty mantra, or a guilt complex, or a I-don’t-deserve-it paradigm, our power as creators will manifest that poverty, guilt and lack in our lives. However if we program our subconscious with positive mind treatments and acknowledge our place in the universe as acting with and as a part of God, then we can harness the creative power of the universe.

As Earnest Holmes said, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve.”

More on this topic soon, as a part of my new 40 goals, I am going to work on getting more of this information out, stay tuned.

#6 Know that God is within (and feel good about that!)

To truly bring divine power to your creative ability, know this:

There is one Divine power and presence in life. You can call It God, Infinite Intelligence, the Force, what ever you connect with. That Infinite Intelligence is operating in, around and through you. You are in a divine partnership with that Divine Intelligence and every part of your life is one with God. Embrace this Divine presence and know that the creative power of the universe is within you. Your job is to direct It’s creative potential in any way you would like. Just know that you direct that Divine Creative Power whether you are aware of that or not. So think good thoughts, and Good shall come.

I have never been all that religious. In fact, I don’t like organized religion at all. It started with good intentions many centuries ago, but now most world religions are loaded with dogma and limitation that does not serve our highest potential. That said, I do study the world religions to find the needles of wisdom among the haystack of the ages.

One of those great gems is this statement by JC, He said: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

For some reason, when I bring this up in conversations with Christians, they have a lot of resistance to that idea that the Kingdom was within man. To me, it is crystal clear: God is within, so instead of praying to some entity out there in the sky, we pray with every word we speak, every day: “By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.”

As Shinn pointed out, “There is always plenty on man’s pathway: but it can only be brought into manifestation by desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ brought out clearly that man must make the first move.”

“Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened you.” (Mat. 7:7)

#7 Meditate

So now that we know that the mind can literally affect the subatomic particles that make up everything around us, and we understand that the Infinite Divine power of creation is within, how do we clean out that subconscious mind and start churning out some positive cause/effect into our life?

One of my favorite yoga instructors, Yogi Charu, once said something that really stuck with me: “We brush our teeth, we wash our hair, but we never clean our mind.” Of all the important bodily functions, most of us do not consider our “mental hygiene.”

The only way to calm the mind down and actually see it for what it really is, is to meditate.

The most frequent response I get when talking about meditation is “I can’t do it—I can’t sit there and think about nothing for more than a few seconds.” What I would say to that is, it’s not about the result of having a clear mind, free from thoughts, it is about the practice of watching the mind in action and from there we’ll be able to start seeing the mind for what it is: another organ in our body.

We are not our mind.

The best analogy I’ve heard about meditation is to picture yourself laying on your back watching the clouds go by on a blue sky. Each cloud is a thought. Now ideally you sit down and focus on the breathe and try and just look at the blue sky, the silence, the breath. Only the breath. However as far as I know that is impossible. Inevitably there is a cloud that comes by, interrupting the azure above. That’s ok, a thought comes in, you watch it go across your purview, then it is gone, and back to blue sky.

The reason that is so powerful, is you start to realize there is something outside of your brain that is You. There is your mind and then there is You, which you start to get to know once your mind finally shuts the hell up for a moment. (Damn thing is running non-stop! Shut up brain!

In this way, there is nothing as powerful for understanding the mind than meditation.

This is such an important step in cultivating your super powers as a human being.

Spirit:

#8 Acknowledge the Spirit

The other cardinal cornerstone of the happy life is acknowledging and working with the spirit. About an arm’s length around our physical body is our spirit body. If you cleanse your body, purify your mind and spend enough time meditating, you can start to connect to the more subtle energies of the spirit realm. Ask me to define what that really means? I can’t. But I do know it is worthy of a lifetime of study.

Call it God, call it the Universe, the Force, what ever you will, it is the everything that is all, that is One, that is no thing. And if you follow Quantum Physics into it, you will see the mystics have been correct this whole time:

We are all connected by an unseen force.

Take some time each day to connect with that greater Source energy and greater synchronicity will start to unfold, allowing you to bring out the gifts that only you bring to the world.

#9 Beware of The Illusion

Now that we have Awareness of our power to control the body, purify the mind and work with the spirit, we can start to step out of the day-to-day distractions that constantly pull us back into mental chaos and drama.

There are a million things out there to distract us. Thousands of products vying for our dollars. We’ve got Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Drama playing through people’s emotions that have little or nothing to do with what is happening right now. News media inciting fear and prejudice on a 24-hour cycle. Doctors prescribe drugs to dull the psyche, put us to sleep, or make us “normal.” Energy vampires seeking to suck your energy and pull you down.

Through the tools we’ve discussed, you now have the ability to see through what the Hindu mystics call the Illusion, or the Maha Maya. The more you use the tools of Awareness, Meditation and harnessing of the Divine within, the more your own intuition will heighten and it is in there, that you’ll discover the gifts you have to give to the world.

Think of the illusion as the flock of sheep being led off a cliff. All of the sheep think it is the cool thing to do because they are following the sheep in front of them. And it creates a great deal of effort to turn around and go against the flow. But so long as you stay part of that flock, the only footsteps you’ll tread are ones that have already been beaten down by minds before you.

#10 Don’t do what you’re told

From the moment we are born, people have an opinion about what they think is best for us. Growing up, our parents want us to follow a certain path, go to an in-state college (because they love us :), our friends encourage us to do what’s cool, we want to be accepted, society reinforces our existing paradigms, and marketers push trends.

If you are going to find out who you really are, you can’t blindly follow what other people expect of you. Do not obey. Don not do what you’re told. Do not stay in your comfort zone. Move out of state. Travel internationally. Don’t marry “in your tribe”. Read lots of books from people you agree with and disagree with. Do not discount anyone or any thought based on what “they” think.

No one who ever did anything revolutionary followed the rules. Some of the greatest minds of our time went against the grain and dropped out of school despite everyone telling them it was a bad idea. Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, John D. Rockefeller, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates all went against popular advice and dropped out of school.

Get out of conventional wisdom as much as possible and then you’ll start to welcome the insight from within, to be the best person you can be.

After all, if you do not bring your own gifts to the world, no one else will. Each one of us has something unique to bring to the planet, and no one finds that unique gift without a healthy sense of adventure and discontentment of how things are now.

#11 Love

The final, and perhaps most important trait to living a healthy, wealthy, joyus, blessed life is love. All of our decisions in life either come from a place of love or a place of fear.

My favorite Beatle Yogi said it best:

“That’s it really; it’s all love, whichever way you look at it, it’s all love. How much you can Get from each other and that’s determined by how much you’re Giving to each other… But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that’s it, I think it’s the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back.
Amen”
― George Harrison, Cloud Nine

40 years, in conclusion

I have done my best to search out and follow these 11 approaches to life. I constantly work to cleanse the body, cultivate the mind and embrace the spirit and as I turn this grand milestone of 40 years old, I am enlivened by the thought of life. I want us all to be the superhumans that we were born to be.

Every birthday, just like every day, is a new opportunity to set new cause/effect into motion.
I wish you all the best of success in building a healthy, wealthy, joyous, blessed tomorrow by planting the seeds of body, mind and spirit today. I encourage you to harness your Divine partnership with the great Infinite Intelligence in the universe, to be present and live intentionally each and every day, to tap into the greater Spirit to find out who you truly are, and to give your unique gifts to the world.

God Bless and good luck!

- By Jon Heinrich

Meniscus: Shakti, can you tell us more about the subtle effects of going vegetarian? Why do Hindus not eat Cows and Pigs?

Shakti: Every act we do affects our consciousness, and eating is an act we do many times a day. “We are what we eat,” is very close to the truth, in that what we eat greatly affects our consciousness. We may think we can see the world clearly, but actually there is so much happening around us that we are completely blind to.

The more we eat “mode of goodness” foods the more we are open to see the world and ourselves and others clearly. And much peace and happiness comes when we have the ability to see clearly.

However when we eat meat of any kind, we are eating flesh, blood and fat of a body that once was alive and currently is dead. So we are eating dead matter, and that enhances a tamasic or “mode of ignorance” consciousness. That is the yogic perspective.

To live and enhance a level of “dead” knowledge or “dead” vision is never going to enhance happiness, much less spiritual knowledge. Eating meat sadly has the opposite affect, it reduces the chance of having spiritual sensitivity and makes spiritual knowledge harder to acquire.

In fact just from a basic logical perspective, when an animal is killed, fear is running through it’s body. And that anxiety is causing specific hormones or chemicals to run through the animals blood stream. It has been proven that animals are aware that they are going to be killed. Many try to escape, and even shed tears. They know they are about to be killed. And that fear, that pain is affecting their biochemistry. So you can imagine what that means for our consciousness as we ingest the meat that contains that fear. We are a society of enhanced fear and anxiety and in many respects ignorant of so many subtle realities.

Rising up

The practice of meditation, yoga, prayer, mindfulness and genuine searching for genuine answers all helps lift our consciousness. However, just like we go to school for many many years to earn knowledge of this material world, it takes years to cultivate spiritual knowledge. And most of us are not putting in the time, energy and dedication it takes to know deeply who we are.

Now there is an analogy I love. If a mechanic and you (or any of us who are not mechanics) look at the same engine we will see totally different things. Our eyes are I taking different visions, due to knowledge or the lack there of. In that same way we need spiritual training to see ourselves and this world for what it truly is.

Eating foods that are mentioned in the “Bhagavad Gita As It Is” that are in the mode of goodness like legumes, grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and ahimsa milk products is the beginning of raising your own ability to see the spiritual subtlety in the world.

- by Shakti Assouline

If you are interested in what Shakti has to say, you may be interested in her Yoga Nidra training as well. Check out her site for more details: http://pureshaktiyoga.com/yoga-nidra/nidra-trainings

Divine Cows in India by Kurma Rupa

Each Sunday in New York City’s Lincoln Center Film Society, Reverend Wade Adkisson along with the membership of ministers and practitioners participate in Science of Mind at the First Church of Religious Science. Here is a beautiful example of a monthly treatment you’ll hear from Rev. Adkisson:

“There is only One Power and Presence expressing throughout the universe. This Divine Presence of Love is expressing as me and through me at all times. I am an outlet by which God loves and creates. I am the way and means by which God experiences and celebrates life. There is only One Life, It is perfect, whole and complete and that LIfe is my Life right now.

“Today I celebrate this One Life and I let the One Mind guide and direct my own life. Every moment gives birth to fresh new creative ideas that unfold as new experiences in my world. My word is the law unto my life and will create for me what I desire because I am at one with the great Creative Action of the universe. I move from good to greater good because of the love and givingness of Spirit. And so it is.” – Rev. Wade Adkisson

The temple of God is within you

The philosophy of Earnest Holmes supports that true human selfhood is divine and by participating in spiritual mind treatments, we can program the subconscious to accept our divine thought as a force for good within our own life and for the greater good.

In his book, The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes states “Religious Science is a correlation of laws of science, opinions of philosophy, and revelations of religion applied to human needs and the aspirations of man.”

He teaches that disease originates in the mind, and that “right thinking” can heal any of life’s afflictions.

Science of Mind: So what does it mean?

When participating in the Science of Mind, we are looking to understand our true spiritual self, that within us all is a divine spark. By speaking to our higher self through the mind treatments, we can achieve a realization of self.

Ideas are the building blocks of life

When we consciously move creative energy towards where we want, we take our lives into our own hands. We allow our spirit to know itself, to celebrate life and lift the consciousness of self.

We possess the ability to speak and initiate that great creative power of the universe through the law of cause and effect. We are always creating, because we are always thinking.

Consciousness = the cause
Experiences in life = the effect

As Rev. Adkisson explains, “You are the writer, the director and the actor of your own life,” he says “the only obstacle is your own imagination. The only thing that can prevent you from achieving anything, is you.”

I invite you to pick one of Earnest Holms books or visit a Center for Spiritual Living near you. And each day, remember that God is not something “out there” that you need to broker a conversation with. The Infinite Intelligence is all around us, waiting for your conscious right action to initiate the creative power and take your life from good to greater good—and anywhere you’d like.

“There is but one Life, one vitality, one energy and it is God. This is pure Mind, pure Love, pure Being.” – Dr. Raymond Charles Baker

- by Jon Heinrich

Some good books to check out:

The Science of Mind (Earnest Holmes)
This Thing Called You (Earnest Holmes)
Living the Science of Mind (Earnest Holmes)
The Science of Successful Living: The spiritual formula for a Joyous Life (Raymond Charles Barker)
Money is God in Action (Raymond Charles Barker)

Photo by Jon Heinrich © 2015

It is that time of year when the party’s over, literally and figuratively. It’s always difficult for me to get through the darkest and coldest days of the year in NYC. Like many of us in the Northeast after the holiday season ends I crave newness, warmth, physical exercise and sunshine. But Mother Earth has me held in the natural process of winter. Like nature and the animals in the forest, we are meant to be more internal, calm and meditative as we prepare for our rebirth in the spring.

As a fashion designer, stylist and a certified Feng Shui practitioner I know it is time for me to take a sobering look my closet and my life. In the tiny walk-in closet I share with my husband I stood and stared at my coveted collection of Mui Mui, Prada, Fendi and all the rest of my friends. With not an empty space on the rail or an empty shoe cubby I asked myself what I could possibly part with, and got no answer at all. I loved all of these shoes, bags, dresses, blazers for they ARE me, I thought. And, even though I don’t wear most of them regularly I was hesitant to even touch them.

Wind and Water

I remembered what I learned in my classes that Feng Shui is about so much more than just stuff, even my beautiful stuff that I love so much. The term Feng Shui means wind and water. Feng Shui is about the stagnant and fresh chi or energy that moves in and around our physical spaces, including our closets. When areas are clogged up and cluttered, the chi or energy cannot move and becomes stagnant. It directly affects our health, wealth, relationships, future, and well, pretty much everything.

So to get the chi or energy moving I decided to start cleaning and clearing. If a space is not clean, it is not Feng Shui. I cleaned everything and anything I could get my hands on: laundry, the bathroom, the vanity, the kitchen, the magazine rack, my nightstand, my jewelry drawer and the junk drawer. Suddenly I had filled two bins of recycling and one full of trash.

At that point, I had broken the stagnant chi and was able to create two piles of couture accessories and clothing to consign. And, then the most important pile I created was the give-away pile to be donated. According to Feng Shui, what we give away will return to us multiplied.

When we make space for the fresh chi, we allow the energy of our personal space to move swiftly and make way for new energy, health, wealth, experiences, love, clothes, shoes, jobs and relationships to find their way into our lives. I know this fresh energy moving in my space will blossom into something magical in my life this year.

Five ways to create fresh chi or energy in your space:

1. Start by cleaning one drawer, go through all items contained and decide if you really need all the items. Clear out what you no longer need and put back what is necessary in an organized fashion. Starting small will help you break way for bigger projects like your closet.

2. Clean the kitchen and bathroom until they are spotless. The chi of these two areas is very important as they are vital to our overall health.

3. Clean the entrance of your space: organize shoes, umbrellas, coats in closets and storage bins neatly. Make sure the foyer is not cluttered. The chi of this area of our home is very important as it is connected with our career and wealth.

4. Make sure the air in your space is fresh, like the chi when it is swiftly moving. Open a window, even for a few minutes in the winter and let in the fresh air. Also, burning white sage and diffusing essential oils changes the energetic frequency of your entire space which connects to all aspects of your life.

5. Clean out and organize all books, mail and decorative pieces. Put in an orderly fashion that is aesthetically pleasing. Make sure you feel an open airiness in your space that is calming and nurturing to you, so you can go out in the world and create a life you love.

After all, Feng Shui is “all about the space, about the space….no clutter.”

- by Judith Longo

I am here now. I am present.

“The wonderful thing about an opportunity like this is the ability to connect with people real time. So many people have this concept of Yeshua being in the past because they first became familiar with me in the Bible. But its important to know, given that time does not exist, that I am here now. I am present. Its very important to tell people that, because people are aware that something is happening, things are changing, things feel different. Maybe there is a different way of moving and acting in this world, they will think “oh, Jesus did that but it was so long ago, it does not relate, Jesus was in the past, I need something now..”

Jesus is now, Yeshua is now.

Being able to connect with people in the now is a wonderful way to have people open up and listen, and even have new ears when they’re reading the old text.

The beautiful thing is the message really is the same, but the wording will be different. Because, during this period of ascension, everyone is being combined, everyone’s brains are being rewired to our true divine original state, so you’re able to hear things differently. Its the same thing, but you’re able to grasp it on different levels. And so you can look in the Bible, you can look at the writings of Lao Tsu, you can look at Buddha.. There are so many things that are going to be very similar and it’s literally about getting the message in enough times, until the the tipping point is reached, [and you say] “oh wait, yes, I get it!”

My message really is very simple: You are divine. Period.

You are divine. You may believe otherwise, because of your experiences—and so many people are working on releasing their prior programming which is wonderful—but the truth I would like everyone to embrace is for everyone to sit down in a meditative pose, some place that feels very peaceful, where you can just sit in your room and have peaceful music and just contemplate: I. AM. DIVINE. I am divine. I am a divine being. I am divine. And really just move around in that space for at least a half an hour.

If your thoughts start wavering…and you mind starts thinking of ways how you are not divine and going back into your current situation, just say, “that’s okay, my mind’s going there for a second but I’m going to bring it back to ‘I am divine.’”

The more you can contemplate that the more you find yourself aligning with that. The beauty is, that the universe is always the how. You do not have to use your mind to figure out how you are divine or what that means, or how you have to act.

Its literally about giving your consciousness to the truth that you are divine, rather than anything that seems to be requiring your attention outside of you.

Of course if there’s an emergency you should deal with it. But if there’s something on television you can turn the television off. You can wait a few more minutes to eat if you’re not starving. You can hang up your clothes a little bit later.

Really, as much as you can, devote your consciousness to Truth. This one simple powerful [statement] is going to help you align with the truth, and from there you’re just going to find things unfolding so majestically. Things are going to start making sense, things are going to start clicking. You’re going to find yourself in the flow…because, like we said, its already true.

It’s already in you. You are divine.

But that nugget of truth has been buried under concrete after so many lifetimes of having to deal with just being on the physical plane and just dealing with survival, with whatever the next emergency is. [As] you align with [this divine truth] its breaking through all these layers. Eventually you allow the light to shining forth to be your main truth, the main being that you are. It sounds very simple, it is very powerful if you commit to doing this, you really will find just so many wonderful things in your life.

And the other beauty is that, We the ascended masters, on the other side of the realm, the other side of the veil, we all see you as this already. We know this as who you are. We love how you radiate in that wholeness of who you are. But when YOU start knowing who you are, start radiating as who you are, it’s really a different ball game, dear one, its really quite magnificent.

Your Divine self interacting with others

When you interact with others from this space of Truth, its of great assistance. One positive thought can counteract hundreds or thousands of negative ones. And its really the same if one person is aligned with their truth, and they encounter others, its going to be interesting.. It’ll actually be fun especially if you can stay in your divine observant state and just see how people are reacting in front of you.

You will find some people are very happy just to be in your space. It makes perfect sense when you radiate the space of Truth, there’s an unconditional love that is inherent in that. And people feel wonderful around that.

You may find that some people are uncomfortable in the light. They’re uncomfortable in the powerful Truth. Even that can be a wonderful view because you are literally waking [them] up, you’re calling out that nugget of truth, that light within them to move around. And they’re not sure about the way it feels. It can feel uncomfortable but you’re helping it to wake up within them. They may never cross your path again but at a later date, you can be sure that they’re really going to be waking up to who they are as well, because one lit candle can light all the other candles in the darkness.

Commitment and Consistency

Your priority and your greatest gift to all of life is for you to realize that you are divine….the important thing in this is the COMMITMENT and the CONSISTENCY. These two things are extremely powerful because when you say to yourself, when you contemplate “I AM DIVINE” daily, you are telling the universe that you are serious, you are telling yourself that that you are serious. You may find things coming up that may challenge that belief, that is very natural. On the path when you are growing, when you are pushing against something, it’s very natural that you may find challenges.

But the beautiful thing…is that you’ll find yourself, even in those challenges, falling back into that place faster: “Oh yes, I am divine.” Seeing through the challenges faster. Saying “Yes, Yeshua said this would come. This is just something for me to see through to remember that I am divine.”

It’s a beautiful thing to do and one of the other benefits of consistency and commitment is that when you are doing the same thing over and over and over again, you’re really forming a beautiful habit of getting in the space of light, getting in the space of truth. You’re letting that part of your mind that had a preconceived idea of who you are. You’re letting it know who you are. “I am Divine. I am Divine. I am Divine. I am Divine.”

At first there may be some self sabotaging experiences but then [you’re] going to realize, “but wait, I AM Divine! I am Divine.” Then its going to work for You. Because the…true rule of the brain is also to be your servant. And when we say “You” we mean your divine essence that is clothed in form at this time. Every part of you is to work for You, it should be your vehicle for enjoying life, for growing, your skin, your heart, your muscles, your eyes, your brain, all of it is here to work for You. When you learn how to get it to work for You, then that’s when you find your existence on this plane is nothing short of bliss and joy.

Louise Hay wrote a beautiful book called You Can Heal Your Life, its talking about, in short, how your body—parts of your body—respond to whatever messages you have on autopilot. And so when you begin to contemplate Truth you can imagine what that does to your body. So a natural consequence in addition to bliss, will be health.

Other consequences of this commitment and consistency to the Truth that you are divine, is going to be amazing relationships, abundance and you’re going to [find insights in the work that you are doing].

You’re going to be ready to follow the guidance of the Universe easier, and it’s going to be clearer for you to understand, its going to be clearer for you to make out. When you are sleeping, the result of [you being in Truth, play out as] beauty, purity, love, light, joy, bliss and wonder in every area of your life. Which is why We are recommending this. Its very simple.

This does not mean it may not be challenging to people because, for so long, people have been told…”you are a loser, you are a winner, you’re very strong, you’re very weak, you hurt people, you lift people up..” And the reality is, in the totality, you are all of these things, but at your very core, you are Source. You are Source. You encompass everything. And when you are able to contemplate the fact that you are divine, that you are one with Source, this becomes something that radiates from your core, up to your heart, down through your feet, it radiates out from your heart, its truly truly wonderful. Its truly wonderful.

Its worth the effort, it’s worth setting aside the time, its worth making your password on your computer “I am divine”, its worth writing “I am Divine” on pieces of paper around you. Its worth it to wear mala beads around your wrist so when you look down they remind you of that, you can even say “I am Divine, I am Divine,” 108 times, once for each bead. You really can not devote too much time to that, because like we said at this time, during this ascension process, your body is already experiencing the pull of being in the physical and remembering in certain areas where there’s not as much resistance, its remembering that it is divine. And so it can feel awkward, but the more that you contemplate how Divine you are, that you are Divine, that you are one with Source, the more harmonious your experience is going to be.

Grounding

Grounding is extremely important in this situation. Sitting with your feet on the ground, sitting with the base of your spine, your coccyx on the ground, sitting just on the floor, on the grass. If you are in the city and you’re not near any grass, and you only have concrete available, really just closing your eyes and sitting down and seeing yourself as a tree and feeling yourself as a tree.

Feel your legs and your feet as roots in the earth. Just feel the earth and how its supporting you, really this is wonderful. Because the more that you do this, the more the natural increase of light will be supported as a result of you knowing that you are Divine. And that is also very important. Because you are here to ground the light down to the earth.

Your energetic make up is literally a beautiful tube of light and the tube of light connects them to the earth’s core and it goes up to the central sun to Source. This beautiful, beautiful, beautiful tube of light is why its very important to ground.

Imagine those roots going down to the center of earth’s core and then just feel how wonderful it feels to be so so supported. Because the earth is here to support you, it’s literally a support to your experience as a human. That is what the earth has chosen to do in this lifetime. Gaia is a powerful powerful force and chose to be this and chose to house all these wonderful human lights. So the more that you connect with this beautiful power, the more that you find you are supported and so when you do this beautiful exercise, remembering that you are Divine, and that you connect with source, you will feel just this beautiful harmonious beam of energy going up.

It will be very subtle at first, but the more that you do it, the more you will feel it, and the more comfortable you will feel holding large amounts of light, because that is also a job of beings that are consciously on the path of growth in this lifetime. You’re here to enhance the light. And you do that by holding greater and greater and greater amounts of light. When you have a strong solid base you can hold more light, you can radiate more light, you are more light. So its just very important to ground.

Different methods of grounding

One of Chernise’s clients put some soil in her socks when she went to sleep and found herself feeling much much more grounded the following few days afterwards. That is something also that you can do, it seems very simple but the energy of the earth is the core of yours, its in every grain of sand. Source is in every being, so the energy of the earth’s core, that beautiful support, that wonderful life system, that energy is in every grain of sand and every drop of soil and so we would say soil particularly for grounding. Sand has a lot more ocean energy which is extremely wonderful and powerful but for the grounding we think it would be very good to have soil in your socks if you choose to go that route.

And plants in the home are wonderful. Its a conscious passive way to help you with grounding, especially if you find yourself—if you think of yourself as someone who connects to the light and connects to the energies of the upper three chakras very easily.

So this is the message we have for you this evening. Does this make sense?

JH: Thank you, I will put this together and spread it to as many people as I can!

It has been an honor and a gift and a pleasure to speak with you. I send you so much love, I am always always with you, please know this, I am always with you.

Interview with Chernise Spurell
by Jon Heinrich

For more information, and to connect with Chernise, visit her website here: chernisespruell.com

Incidentally, this particular workshop was a fortuitous one to be a part of. In the middle of one of the meditations, Mas received what he describes as an “energetic upgrade”. In the middle of the Seven Deadly Sins workshop, Mas dropped to his knees and dropped into a deep state. Source energy was working on him to bring him up to a new state.

This is the first time an upgrade like this has happened in public, normally it happens in the middle of the night when he’s doing one of his 3 AM meditations. The process is typically the same, he falls to his knees or falls down because he can’t even control what is happening.

Mas explains that when we connect to Pure Source, at those levels it is difficult to control your body because you are so high up into your spirit level that your body starts to disappear. The spirit does not want to be in your body, it is so expansive outside it.

The amount of information coming in during an upgrade is like being plugged into a massive transformer with much higher voltage than you are used to. The energy went out like a sonic boom, going through the room bringing the energy not just to Mas, but everyone in attendance.

He likened the higher realms of consciousness to an upside down pyramid, where the level of information you can access expands the higher you get. Most people on the planet are not even at the very tip in terms of conscious awareness, but Mas continues to go higher and higher with every upgrade.

Back—twice—for a reason

When Mas came back to life after his second near death experience, he came back to do what no other person on the planet is doing right now. Mas connects with Pure Source in a way that has never happened before in any other realm in any other individual. It is a different process than what was previously on the planet like Jesus or Buddha. It is difficult to describe exactly what that means and is out of scope for a conversation based in physical reality.

In a recent interview with Alan Steinfeld, Mas was asked why he was chosen for this path. “Good question,” said Mas. “This has been my life purpose,” he explained. From his ability to see a more omnipotent perspective of life and the universe, he is able to see that ever since he came into the physical plane as a being human, he wanted to get back to the spirit plane. In past lives he knows that he was around Jesus and was a sage. It has been his life’s purpose for many lifetimes.

With the upgrade comes powerful detoxing

As mentioned in our first Meniscus article about Mas, detoxing is an important part of the healing process. Now after the upgrade, people are detoxing more rapidly, more intensely than before. Because of the more powerful frequencies Mas is bringing down now, it facilitates shifting from A to Z a lot faster.

To stay in that space, you have to let go of all the heaviness all the frequencies that can not exist in that space. You have to let go on emotional, spiritual, physical levels. Now the healing that used to take place over 1 ½ hours, now takes 5 minutes.

Awakening the spirit

Even beyond our physical existence, the spirit comes with ideological and habitual baggage like we do on this plane of existence and that is what the detox is—awakening the spirit to its truer form, where you let go of everything to be at that level.

Among other areas of your life, the detox can play out in relationships. If the people around you can not handle the higher vibration you are at, they will disappear from your life. It could be your best friend or your spouse if there is not a good frequency match. However others who are vibrating on a similar level will come into your life.

You will let go of old notions and ideologies, and there will be newer thoughts and people in your life to help you ascend higher.

Experience your upgrade

Mas Sajady came back from two near death experiences to share a gift, a new frequency for those of us who choose to venture towards their higher path. It is not an easy journey, it requires letting go of issues that are too heavy for the higher realms of physical consciousness. But the more people who venture out as pioneers with Mas, to face their issues, and accept the detoxing that comes with it, they will pave the way for the planet to move further towards a kinder, brighter future.

If you are near New York City, you have the opportunity to experience the energy of Mas Sajady in person at the New Life Expo on October 17-20th where you can listen to Mas and other intelligent experts on how we got here and where we are going, and also see if this man can change your life in 30 minutes or less.

If you ask me, I’d vote for yes, with my own life being a testament of a massive transformation since I originally experienced Mas and his upgrade in June of 2014. I invite you to join us to continue the transformation whether joining in person or remotely in NYC next week. Or as Mas says: “Change your frequency, change your life!”

-by Jon Heinrich

massajadyevents.com/nyc-oct/

Walking into a workshop with Damien you will find this powerful yet grounded soul has set up a beautiful energetic environment before the arrival of the guests. As the workshop commences, he scans the room to see where everyone is at, then brings everyone to what he calls the zero point and the agenda is set by what is needed in that room.

Right now in this highly transformative, energetic time, many people are working through similar issues. Over many lifetimes, our perceptions of reality and our own power have been “programmed” by society and by the power structure in place. As we move into this new era of consciousness, many of those programs are being cleared, and Damien helps not only energetically, but psychologically to work through them.

We all have issues, and he helps in a profound way to “break the habit of being yourself”. As each of us bring our own vibration up to a higher level, we open up the Field for the rest of the planet to follow. In this way, those energetic pioneers who willingly face their own issues pave the way for the rest of the collective consciousness to grow.

Expansion Topics

While his work is constantly evolving, topics he has covered in workshops include:

- Work with issues around sexual abuse, criticism, blame and guilt. We have all lived many, many lifetimes and if any of those involved sexual abuse (giving and/or receiving), a residue remains on your soul that causes feelings to linger from lifetime to lifetime. Damien helps release those energetically and by talking through it.

- Damien accesses our ancestors and brings them back into the correct genetic “seat” of the family to clear the DNA. For example, maybe the mother is trying in the wife seat. Sometimes the roles as male and female in a relationship are mixed up. Other times you have a grandparent who has moved into an genetic role that is not appropriate, even if they have passed on. Damien helps participants connect with their ancestors through their own heightened intuition and brings alignment back to family genetics.

- He helps participants give back heavy emotions inherited from our parents. We often take on topics from our parents that do not belong to us and weighs us down. For example: “Mother, Father, all the feelings of anger, frustration and resentment you felt from being unappreciated and unaccepted by your parents, I give those feelings back to you with love and respect. They are too heavy for me. They do not belong to me. I give them back.” Through this process it allows the proper ownership of issues and helps to clear them both from your field and also the field of your parents.

- In the workshops, Damien works with deceased ancestors to help them ascend to the light instead of lingering around in a purgatory that will be unhealthy for everyone.

Breathe

Damien’s presence and method is very powerful. He brings light to issues common among our collective programing. He moves the topics from the head to the heart, then helps us to breathe through them and cleanse the cells in our body. He brings attention to the cleaning of the blood and brings space between the cells in the body. He is truly a loveable character, his Irish accent, his wisdom from traveling all over the planet doing his work and helps people find their true potential.

Damien’s home is currently in Berlin, Germany but he travels all over the world to help people do what they need for themselves. He reminds us to always say to our higher self “please take care of me.” He teaches us not to try and change people if they don’t ask for help, but rather to support them. “I am here to support you. I am here for you.” Because in the end, we can not work on anyone but ourselves.

I would highly recommend going to one of Damien Wynne’s workshops if he is in your area. You can find out more about him on his website here: damien-wynne.de/
or his Facebook page as well: www.facebook.com/LightGridsHealing
If you are in the New York City area, you can find out about his events at www.sacredgatheringsandevents.com/

In the end, the most powerful statement you can make is: “I Am that I Am.” Collect the fragments of your soul that have been misplaced, own what is in you and you will transform.

Done!

- by Jon Heinrich

Mas Sajady has a gift. Not only does he have his life back—again—with his beautiful family, he brought back a divine wisdom from the moments when his heart stopped beating, and the ability to see and alter frequencies in people, frequencies that have been holding us back from our true potential.

Gratefully Alive

When Mas was 22 he was in a horrible accident at his job loading merchandise. When a freight door suddenly shifted, Mas was crushed, and at that moment he saw his body from above as he floated up into the sky towards the light. But for some reason he was not meant to die then and came back to life to go on and live a blessed life, eventually meeting his wife and having a beautiful family.

Then about 20 years later, it happened again. On a family vacation in the Caribbean, a fun river rafting activity turned deadly when Mas was pulled into a sink hole under the currents, pinned, unable to escape, until he could struggle no more and let go. He saw himself float up through the rocks and water and up to the light. When he opened his eyes, he had been miraculously pulled ashore and was again spared from his second near death experience (NDE).

In that state between life and death he gained the most powerful perspective anyone could imagine, one that he explains as the ocean of love and a Oneness with God. He learned that while it is elusive here on this planet, it is all around us if we choose to tap into it. What Mas came back with, is a gift to help people tap into that Pure Source, and the ability to help clear distortions and negativity from people’s vibrations to help them be better aligned with this life journey.

Medi-healing with Mas

When Mas starts a meditation you can immediately feel it, your head gets drowsy as you start to go into a trance state, but Mas continually brings you back into the present, focused on being in your body. In his 21-day meditation for example, he brings your awareness around to different parts of your body, brings the breath up from deep within the earth, up into your body and around to different areas to tap into the awareness of this vessel that your spirit occupies in this lifetime.

In this way, you become more aware of how your body interacts in this reality. And through that, you begin to understand what other realities are also around us.

Mas brings the awareness deep through time as well, (which of course does not exist…) One of his meditations brings you back through different aspects of your youth, to the moment of your birth, what was happening in the room at that moment that may have affected your life, then back even before your birth into the deep history of cosmological time. It is hard to comprehend, but the meditation is very powerful.

In comparison to other energy workers / healers I’ve seen, I appreciated how down to earth and humble he is. The first night I saw him on his New York City visit he was wearing a suit, which I thought was nice. The hands on work is very physical in that you naturally move your body around, almost involuntarily. Then his energy work is different because he goes into your field and deletes distortions that prevent you from tapping your highest potential. I can’t speak to whether that is what actually happens, but what I can say is I’ve seen a lot of healers from the US to India and Mas is very very powerful in a truly unique way.

Detoxing: pushing out the junk

One way participants know its happening is the amount of “detoxing” that occurs after sessions with Mas. Detoxing in this sense means when life becomes bumpy because you are in the process of working out some of your inner blocks. It could just be a matter of having a bad day where everything seems to be going wrong for you.

One day for me, after his big weekend event in NYC, I found my head buzzing hard like there was a loud annoying noise constantly at my ears. Everything was annoying to me, I was sensitive to sounds, and people seemed to rub me the wrong way and it was “one of those days.” But because of that, I knew it was working. This is an important process to go through in order to move past current patterns and grow.

Think of it like a garden hose. If there is a clod of mud stuck in that particular “channel”, it could not operate to its greatest potential. The way to get that clod out, is to rout it out and push it through. And through that process, the water is going to be very muddy and eventually you are going to see this big clod of dirt that has been stuck in the channel. Maybe you didn’t even realize the channel was clogged. But when it is gone the hose will operate at a much greater capacity. Much the same goes for energy work. (This is my analogy, not Mas’.)

Experiential wisdom? Yes. Guru? No.

While he does have divine knowledge to impart to people, Mas is not a guru and actively tells his students not to “follow” him. He is very humble in saying that everyone has their own connection to Pure Source, and he simply helps you connect on your own. He teaches how to feel the spirit space of your body, which extends about an arm’s length all around us. This process brings us a higher perspective.

Mas helps release old frequencies and distortions in our energy field, and everyone I have talked to that experienced his work said it was truly exceptional. It is a very grounded, rapidly transformative practice.

In the grand scheme, he teaches us to see more realities. And he does that by showing us this one first.

Check out his site for more information and stay tuned for Mas stopping by your town! www.Massajady.com And check back to Meniscus Magazine next week when we’ll be discussing the energetic upgrade Mas received during his Seven Deadly Sins workshop in New York City in July.

- by Jon Heinrich

When speaking of powerful healers of our age, one can not overlook Paramahansa Jagadish, American-raised, Eastern-trained yogi. Jagadish has dedicated his life to spreading spiritual wellness by awakening others’ hearts to experience Divine Grace, the source of all transformation, healing and release from undesired patterns. His level of self-realization, combined with a lifetime of study and service, distinguishes him from other healers and truly makes him a “healer’s healer.”

In fact I have heard from other powerful healers that he is one of the most powerful healers on the planet. From my experience, as a lay person, I have had my own powerful experiences with Jagadish.

In one session I attended, I closed my eyes and through my eyelids I perceived a swirling vortex of energy, like a tube sitting where Jagadish sat. From above I intuited a flow of energy coming in from the cosmos above, and where this cylinder hit the earth, I felt a deep grounding. In the center of the cylinder something magical was happening and that is what you have to experience yourself.

Jagadish’s body of work is grounded in clearing karmic energy that has accumulated in his clients’ psycho-physical field (body, mind, and soul).

He believes that “Karma Clearing” is the first step in creating harmony and untold attunement for oneself, one’s progeny and for our future generations. Medical doctors and Holistic health-care professionals seek him out for his ability to heighten their patients’ energy and remove deep-seated blocks, allowing extraordinary healing to occur.

Today, he is active in relieving others of their Karmic burdens – purifying the body, mind, soul complex – in readiness to hold the Realization of Self, leading to the blessed attainment of direct, intimate loving communion with God.

If you are in the New York City area, come see Jagadish in person at one of these dates.

Thur. March 20, 2014 – Spring Equinox Rejuvenation and Rebirth
Sun. March 23, 2014 – Divine Father Divine Mother Intensive
Tue. March 25, 2014 – Sri Ganesha Mini Intensive
Thur. March 27, 2014 – Dousing Training: A Truth Finding System
Fri.-Sat. March 28-30, 2014 – Liberation in Divine Love Training, Level One

See Sacred Gathering and Events for more details and to register for the events.

Otherwise check out his website here for more information on when he is near your town: www.evolvetheplanet.org

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Today, March 15th, 2014 is the second anniversary of Swami Sri Kaleshwar taking his mahasamadhi, meaning he ceased to be in his body and ascended to the infinite. I have been involved in his work since May 2010 and traveled to his ashram near Bangalore India that July. Most westerners have not heard of Kaleshwar—yet. I wanted to explain my experience with him for the benefit of my Facebook friends who see me posting odd pictures of these Indian gurus. So first of all, some basics:

Sri Kaleshwar’s mission “to bring a new kind of spirituality that creates happiness in every person’s heart, to change the world’s belief system and the way spirituality is practiced in the world, to make your life a divine message to this planet and to create spiritual masters, not students.”

You can’t mention Sri Kaleshwar without mentioning the Divine Lineage that he is the latest incarnation from, including Shirdi Sai Baba, Jesus Christ, Mother Divine, Mother Mary, Ramakrishna Pramahansa and Babaji among others.

Swami was born in 1973 and had thousands of Indian devotees as he was very well known in India as early as the age of 23 when he began to display divine healings and miracles that only a true Saint could exhibit. At the age of 24 he had already started talking about an early samadhi.

Kaleshwar’s mission was his students, specifically his western students. He said there would be peace on the planet when every city had 50 powerful healers. He taught from ancient palm leaf manuscripts, through powerful japa meditation techniques (mantras), processes and yogas (energetic yogas, not physical yoga.)

He incorporated teachings from the Vedas and was very connected to Jesus Christ whom he considered to be the most powerful Saint that had every walked the planet. Among the wealth of knowledge he left the planet with was a book, The Real Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ. Kaleshwar describes the mysteries of Jesus Christ’s life that have been known only to the divine saints of India until now.

Jesus Christ was quite an amazing and powerful person. I knew him personally. He was an avadhut, a fierce, gentle soul with a beautiful look and a face like a flower blooming. His look was so full of pure love. He was a flower blooming in the darkness.
- Sri Kaleshwar

Swami took his mahashamadi in March of 2012 at the age of 39. He was a living saint that built and occupied the Shiva Sai Mandier in Penukunda, India. I had “tasted the mango” prior to that at the weekly satsangs hosted by the Soul Mastery Foundation of NY.

My Experience with the Cosmic Energy

Sri Kaleshwar’s ashram, Shiva Sai Mandir in Penukonda, India

During Guru Purnima 2010, I was sitting on the steps of the Dwarkmi with my group of about 18 students waiting to go into the ceremony that we were about to partake in, an abhishek with one of the sacred power objects of Swami’s.

(An abhisheka is sanskrit for a ritual where you pour liquid such as water, milk and rose water over an object to “wash” your karmas and to pass the teachings from master to student.)

The Emerald Lingam is one of Swami’s power objects that he manifested, from what I understand. It resides in the Dwarkami with several of the higest power objects of Swami’s, including the walking staff that his ascended Guruji, Shirdi Sai Baba passed to him during a darshan. Kaleshwar connected through Baba to the greater Divine Lineage, most powerfully with the kinship of Jesus, Ramakrishna Pramahansa and Babaji.

I am standing in the hallway walking in next to another lingham, which has to be under water because it carries so much energy. I was trying to pay attention and be present in the moment as we were shuffled into the core room of the Dwarkmi for the process. (Dwarkmi is a high energy chamber that holds high divine power objects and would ultimately become the final resting place for Kaleshwar, with his body being the final power object.)

In the room we quietly sit down on the marble floor, and ultimately basically sitting on the space that Swami will finally be buried after he took his mahashmaidi. It was a powerful space.

Following the senior students, we began chanting out loud the Sky mantra. Meanwhile in a conveyour belt style production line, we fed water to the center of the room where we would take turns pouring water over the Shiva Shakti Emerald Lingam. Everyone kept their eyes afixed on the water pouring down in a divine abhishek.

The Sky mantra is a powerful Shiva mantra which invites angels to come and is used in many of Swami’s high divine ceremonies. It is a beautiful mantra, used to power up the high divine energy. I always naturally chant it when on my mountaineering trips in the high peaks of Colorado. The energy is high, clean and calm. When ever I chant it to myself in New York City, I see people looking at me, they are attracted to something going on, as it opens up the hearts of people around you.

Chanting and chanting, going higher in our voices to raise to the sky, we sat there and kept pouring the water on the lingam, cleansing and cleansing. I could feel the energy building. I started to get dizzy and nauseous. I found it difficult to continue sitting up even though I had a nice pad to sit on, I wanted to lay down and pass out! I kept looking around at all the images around me, the power objects around me and I could feel the lineage for the first time.

Ramakrishna Pramahansa. Wow. Ok. I get it.

I could see the reason I came to India, the roadmap of my life up to this point. The retrospective of seeing my upbringing and dynamics that led me to moving to New York, to finding this satsang to attend, to goad my curiosity into signing up to a trip to India 2 months later for Guru Purnima—everything leading me up to this moment right now! My mind swirled in a philosophical trance.

And then BAM we stopped chanting. At that point I had forgotten we were even chanting.

When the silence took over, my body was still but everything around me shifted into action. The marble walls of the Dwarkmi began pulsing in waves like in a scene from The Matrix. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced. It was incomprehensible, other worldly. I was holding on to the live wire of spirituality, electrifying myself and facade of the world shook wildly around me.

I was dizzy, the laws of physics were skewed, solid marble was fluctuating like waves. I was nauseous, I felt like I was spinning upside down, like the first time you got too drunk and were spinning in your bed. Except I was more aware and sober than I had ever been in my life. The energy of this Emerald Lingam and the Sky mantra raged through reality around me in utter silence. Shirdi Sai Baba was there. Swami was there, as with a whole lot of other characters that I did not officially meet until that day. That was the day that I met the Divine Lineage.

The Work

When Sri Kaleshwar took off from the planet on March 15th 2012, he became a million times more powerful than when he was in his body. The dwarkmi where I was sitting now serves as the final resting place of his body, buried beneath, and serves as a temple for his followers.

The Dwarkami’s modern state, Sri Kaleshwar’s final resting place.

Many of us continue to carry the traditions onward. I stay active in the group by participating in conference calls, joining in certain processes, and over YouStream, where we energetically take part in fire pujas and abhisheks. We also abhishek our statues of Sai Baba and Ganesha on special occasions, and continue to do mantras every day.

If you are interested in learning more, the American group is leading the way to bring these teachings to the planet from our ashram in Laytonville, northern California at divinelineage.org. You can also connect to the Indian group on www.kaleshwar.org. There are also local groups across the country in Colorado, Ohio and Santa Cruz among others. The cool thing is there is now the technology to take part no matter where you are.

Today over YouStream we watched the fire puja in Laytonville and the actual Dwarkmi ceremony simultaneously. Ancient knowledge, modern technology : )

The work of Swami Sri Kaleshwar is the most powerful work I have experienced in my spiritual exploration. If you resonate with the work, I highly encourage you to explore further. Let me know if I can help.

Blessings and love,

by Jon Heinrich