Keep growing

As a part of nature we are subject to her laws like all other animals.

However unlike other animals we have a self-reflective consciousness.

Because they are not self-reflective animals are not responsible for their behaviour.

And because we are self-reflective we are.

Behaviour stems from our health and this includes the health of our minds.

Our minds are healthy when they are exercised

Exercised yours recently?

Vegetating doesn't do it, watching all that TV will not keep your mind healthy.

Keep learning, keep growing. keep learning.

Your mind is a muscle like all the others so use it.

Sadly it's only when its too late that you understand how important some things were.

So exercise that mind!

Influenza

It would seem that the causes that produce influenza are cosmical and not bacterial.

Why?

Because the tasteless, colorless and in-odorous gas known as oxygen - the life supporter of all that lives and breathes - when it gets heavier than usual in volume and weight then it becomes ozone.

Descending and spreading on earth with an extraordinary rapidity, ozone would of course produce a still greater combustion; hence the terrible heat in the patent's body, and the paralysis of rather weak lungs.

The quantity of ozone in the air at any time is a function of meteorological conditions and a certain amount is necessary for breathing purposes.

However too much ozone irritates and burns the respiratory organs and an excess of more than 1% of ozone in the air kills him who breathes it.

This we are saying is the real origin of influenza - oxygen becoming ozone, from which the virus is then activated by the ozone fluctuation.

HPB – CW - Vol XII

No caves please

Many people who aspire to what they believe to be the spiritual life think that they must go away and live in an ashram or closed community.

Not so!

The true ascetic is he who lives in the world, surrounded by its temptations; he in whose soul the animal elements are still active, craving for the gratification of their desires and possessing the means for such gratification, but who by the superior power of his will conquers his animal self.

Having attained that state he may retire from the world................He expects no further reward in heaven; for what could heaven offer him except happiness which he already possesses?

He desires no other good, but to create good for the world.

The truth is inside yourself not in some physical place.

Sensitive people

Many people report to having felt iffy and negative over the Christmas period.

Sometimes when we feel iffy we assume that it is us alone who experiences this feeling.

Wrong!

Sometimes all over the planet people are feeling bad at the same time.

Other times it is just those around us.

Trouble is we seldom ask each other how we feel.

Sensitive people often anticipate earthquakes or other natural disasters with negative, iffy feelings.

As these feelings are unpleasant and difficult to shift we recommend that you

a) acknowledge to feeling iffy.
b) try to be busy and active.
c) stay in the moment do not let your thoughts and emotions take you into self-pity.

In fact try always to stay in the moment.

Left brain, right brain

In simple language our brain has two hemispheres left and right.

The left is logic and the right feeling.

Modern man generally uses his left hemisphere more than his right.

This is fine for many actions in the modern world but not so fine for a harmonious life.

Bringing the two hemispheres into better balance encourages more objectivity in our decisions.

How to do this?

Start by learning which hemisphere you favour as a person.

If you do not know yourself ask your partner or friends are you reductionist or creative emotional?

When this clear to you then it is time to strengthen the weaker hemisphere.

If the weaker is the left then logic and reductionism must be improved, your literal side if you will.

If it is the right hemisphere then creative actions such as meditation, emotional development are then in need of attention.

Worth the effort, start today!

Mmmmm - 12

Ignorance

How to rid the world of ignorance?

Learn from those who know more than we do.

Then share with those who know less.

Now it is just a question of velocity.

This can be exponential if what you share is the truth.

Sex and spirituality

Sounds like a conflict and it is the two don't mix.

Sex is sex or simple animal passion if you will.

Spirituality is beyond the animal into the realm of spirit.

So what to do?

If you are at that point in life where sex is important then enjoy life, but understand that there is no free experience.

When we have sex we mix energies with that other person so be aware of this and be selective with your partners.

As and when you want to evolve and this becomes more important than sex then understand that the sexual urge does not disappear immediately, we just learn to place it in the context of something more important, our consciousness evolution.

When you feel the desire for sex then look at the potential partner as a total being and not just as a sex object, usually when you do this you will feel that you do not need or want to pay the price in terms of effort or involvement with this person.

You will not feel comfortable with moving beyond sex unless you are clear about how to evolve spiritually so make sure you understand what this entails and how to move ahead otherwise the sexual urge will prevail.

Note well that there is nothing wrong with having sexual relations with your life partner.

Sex is only a problem when it is the main preocupation in your life.

As you experience vertical growth so the sexual urge quite naturally becomes less and less important.

Your focus in life has shifted, moved on if you will.

Mmmmm - 11

What is that which always is, which you cannot imagine as not being, do what you may?

The answer is - SPACE.

For there may not be a single man in the universe to think of it, not a single eye to perceive it, nor a single brain to sense it, but still Space is, ever was, and ever will be, and you cannot make away with it.

Try, if you can think of anything with Space excluded and you will soon find out the impossibility of such a conception.

Space exists where there is nothing else, and must so exist whether the Universe is one absolute vacuum or a full Pleroma.

TBL

Mobile phones

Cell phones if you prefer, whatever you call them they affect your brain.

Industries that sell or support them say they cause no harm.

Uninvolved scientists say they cause damage.

Who to believe?

It is hard to believe that electrical currents passing through your brain do no damage - over time that is - and there's the rub.

We cannot know today nor can anyone else whatever they might pretend.

Look at our world and the increase in electrical and electronic devices.

Whatever you believe it makes sense to minimise the risks to your health

Protect yourself as best you can.

Try not to talk more than you need for longer than you need.

Which isn't such a bad idea anyway.

Be smart hedge your bets!

Intuition

"Everyone of us possesses the faculty, the interior sense known as intuition, but how rare are those who know how to develop it!

It is however the only faculty by means of which men and things are seen in their true colours.

It is an instinct of the soul, which grows in us in proportion to the use we make of it, and which helps us to perceive and understand real and absolute facts with far more certainty than can the simple use of our senses and the exercise of our reason.

What are called good sense and logic enable us to see the appearance of things, that which is evident to everyone.

The instinct of which I speak, being a projection of our perceptive consciousness, a projection which acts from the subjective to the objective, and not vice versa, awakens the spiritual senses in us and the power to act;

these senses assimilate to themselves the essence of the object or of the action under examination, and represent them to us as they really are, not as they appear to our physical senses and to our cold reason".

We begin with instinct, we end with omniscience.

Prof A. Wilder