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- Observing the Dance of Vibrations - by Submitted on May 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur normal human view of things is limited by the restraining effect of our senses, as well as our ability to consciously receive and interpret what we perceive through the senses. We do not generally experience the living, breathing life of plants or trees, for instance. We do not ordinarily ...
Views: 222 - Perceiving the Vibrations That Create Conditions of Illness and Counteracting Them - by Submitted on May 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt turns out that dogs can be trained to identify an imminent diabetic reaction in an individual, or to determine the presence of cancer. If we reflect on the implications of this for a moment, it becomes clear that there are indications that can be picked up by the dog’s senses, even if most ...
Views: 291 - The Process of Illness Invading the Body and the Means to Reject It - by Submitted on May 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital envelope sends us signals if we are able to perceive them. Sometimes we begin to feel run down, tired, exhausted, or stressed out. We may begin to feel a little feverish or feel the beginning of what we might call a cold or sore throat occurring. This is prior to the full expression of ...
Views: 294 - Fear: Its Effect on the Vital Sheath and As a Cause of Illness - by Submitted on May 01, 2024 from santosh krinskySeveral years ago there was a world-wide pandemic that affected many tens of millions of people, which was called the covid-19 pandemic. It provided us a clear opportunity to see the impact of fear on the reactions of people. Panic ensued. Stores closed, public access was shut down in many ...
Views: 197 - Illness and the Vital Sheath - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are historical examples of individuals who were caught in the middle of a major epidemic, such as the plague, who worked daily among the infected populace, yet failed to become ill. Invariably we can see that they maintained a strong vital envelope, or aura, around themselves and never ...
Views: 196 - Illness and the Power of Suggestion - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe body consciousness responds to suggestions whether they come through the mind, the vital or directly act upon the physical level, whether consciously noted or not. This has the potential to cause illness in the body if it happens to be a negative suggestion, or to cure illness if it is a ...
Views: 292 - Understanding the Meaning of Vital Formations and Beings That Arise During Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen people take up the practice of meditation, they generally do not know much about it. They follow a set of guidelines on ‘how to meditate’ and just let things happen. The result is very much dependent, then, on their state of conscious awareness, and their focus of attention. Meditation is ...
Views: 228 - Mental Formations Mixing With Vital Forces - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyAn incident was observed and reported by several people which illustrates how mental formations can create entities on the vital plane which become visible to those who have eyes to see. The incident occurred in 1981 in California. An individual had come to the West and took the role of a guru ...
Views: 234 - Unconscious and Automatic Action of Thought Forms and Formations in Daily Life - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyA story was related by an individual in business which. at the time, seemed somewhat unusual, but now, in context, makes a lot of sense. He indicated that he had a customer who would think about him when she needed to place an order for goods for her store. They seemed to have a very tight ...
Views: 208 - Thought-Forms - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we examine the question of thought-forms, we recognise that people usually want to imply that a thought is able to turn into some kind of physical reality, purely through the power of thought. This, however, is one element of the question, but not the only element. Thought-forms have a ...
Views: 217 - Thought-Forms - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we examine the question of thought-forms, we recognise that people usually want to imply that a thought is able to turn into some kind of physical reality, purely through the power of thought. This, however, is one element of the question, but not the only element. Thought-forms have a ...
Views: 239 - Becoming Aware of and Distinguishing the Source of Vibrations Impacting our Lives - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur consciousness tends to be so fluid and so mixed that it is difficult, if not practically impossible, to distinguish what represents our own internal process and what is coming to us from outside, from our interaction with others, from environmental influences. None of these things remains ...
Views: 208 - Solving the Existential Crisis of Our Lives Through the Evolution of Consciousness: My Personal Journey in the Adventure of Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe struggle with finding meaning in our lives. There is so much strife, so much confusion, so many issues that threaten our very existence as a species. We view enormous changes to the environment, the ever-dwindling supply of fresh water, the imminent collapse of the ocean fisheries, ...
Views: 303 - Transmission of Vibrational Patterns in the Physical World - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe transmission from one individual to another, or from an atmosphere created by a number of individuals together upon others entering that environment, is both a matter for vibration and a matter for actual physical carriers of those vibrations. The body exudes these particles as it vibrates ...
Views: 223 - The Subtle Energetic Interchange That Accompanies All Interaction in the World - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the reasons that spiritual seekers have traditionally been advised to seek solitude and not engage in society is that there is a constant, subliminal interchange that takes place between all human beings. We generally do not notice it, but on an energetic, a vibrational level, we are ...
Views: 187 - Wise words from Claude Monet - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloClaude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a French painter and originator of impressionist painting. The term “Impressionism” stems from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant. His early works of seascapes, landscapes, and portraits didn’t attract much attention, but ...
Views: 276 - Influence of the Supramental Principle on Earth - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe supramental consciousness, as the next evolutionary stage, will eventually resolve the difficulties of the transitional period and establish itself on earth. The question then arises, what is the relationship between the gnostic beings and the existing organisation of beings rooted in body, ...
Views: 206 - Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot ...
Views: 227 - The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyUnder the influence of the gnostic consciousness, the entire framework of the mental organisation of life, which we accept as assumed and given, would necessarily be modified. The very basis of viewing and understanding things would have to shift from one of division and separation to one of ...
Views: 218 - Physical Senses Beyond the Five We Ordinarily Recognise - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskySight, sound, smell, taste and touch. We all recognise the input we receive from the five physical senses. These perceptions form the basis for much of our interpretation of our reality and our decision processes. Most people never consider that there are other senses possible, or available, to ...
Views: 247 - Close Observation Can Identify the Influence of Vital Beings and Forces - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the key points in any attempt to change one’s actions or reactions, one’s behaviour or characteristic ways of responding to situations, is to determine, through careful observation, that these things are not an essential part of oneself or one’s character; rather, that they are external ...
Views: 230 - Suggestions Coming from the Vital World Also Impact Our Responses - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital worlds are generally unseen and unrecognised by us, as they do not take physical forms in the same way as our external world within which we live and act. This does not imply, however, that they do not have interaction with our world and the beings, including ourselves, that inhabit ...
Views: 203 - The Power of Suggestion Working Through Personal Connections - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is a serious rationale behind the many spiritual paths that counsel the true seeker to abandon his family, his friends, his social life, and live secluded in a cave, in the forest, in the desert, to practice his spiritual discipline. All of these connections and social interactions bring ...
Views: 211 - The Unseen Societal Conditions That Frame Our Response to Events in Our Lives - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyEach society, each religion, each culture in the world has its own characteristic ideas and responses to the questions that arise during an individual’s life. Many of these are programmed into the individual in childhood, starting with prenatal conditioning based on the energies of the mother. ...
Views: 223 - Our Physical, Vital and Mental Sheathes Are Impacted by Energetic Forces in a Constant State of Interchange - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to live with an illusion of the separateness of our individual being from all others. We treat the physical body as a distinct, self-standing unit that is free and independent, has its own integrity and is essentially isolated in its separateness. This however is not quite the actuality ...
Views: 306 - Distinguishing Will From Willings - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2024 from santosh krinsky“The integral yoga, which involves a deep understanding of the normal psychology of the human being, as well as the impact of the descent of the higher spiritual force to manifest the Divine Will in the manifestation, has to develop its own terminology and specific definitions so as to ensure ...
Views: 224 - The Nature and Action of the Power of Suggestion - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many forms of suggestion, some more subtle than others. Peer pressure is one form that everyone experiences at some point in time. Our friends and acquaintances do something and encourage us to participate and do it also. In some cases, this can lead to life-long consequences, such as ...
Views: 211 - Occult Forces Surround Us and Can Act Upon Us - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human range of perception is bounded on both sides and thus, forces that are active in ranges above or below our own field of perceptions are able to act without our ability to direct know what they are doing, or interact with them consciously. To the extent that they wield influence on our ...
Views: 259 - The Power of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen most people think of ‘power’ , it is within the context of some overt ability to accomplish something in the setting of the external world within which we live and act. This may be political power, economic power, physical power, moral power, the power to persuade, the power of an idea, the ...
Views: 252 - The Direction of the Psychic in Our Lives: Determinism Joined With Free Will - by Submitted on Apr 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human mind likes to have nice, neat categories. “Either/Or”, “Black/White”. It has a hard time dealing with mixed actions or anything that partakes of various allegedly competing or conflicting principles. Thus, the debate over free will and determinism rages on, and eventually comes down to ...
Views: 218 - The Soul’s Connection to the Divine and Its Role in the Divine Manifestation - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany spiritual practitioners have realized that the external life we customarily lead is a life of ‘illusion’, and that it is based in a flawed view of reality. This does not mean that our life, existence and action has no real significance; rather, that the way we define our lives, based on the ...
Views: 208 - The Growth and Maturation of the Psychic Being Brings Increasing Power and Influence on the External Being - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe experience a growth of consciousness during the maturation process starting with birth and continuing as the infant becomes a school-age child, then grows into teenage years and passes through puberty and the hormonal changes that come with that period, then into young adulthood and ...
Views: 319 - The Limiting and Diluting Effect of the External Instruments on the Intimations of the Soul - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyDuring the evolutionary development of the ascending powers of consciousness, the action of the soul is to provide an influence from behind, while the primary attention is fixated on the needed development of the powers of the external being, body, life and mind. This severely limits the direct ...
Views: 225 - Recognising the Emergence of the Soul in Our Being - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many things in the world which we know exist, not because we can directly perceive them, but because we can experience their effects. Thus, we cannot see ‘gravity’ but we know it exists. We cannot see radiation, but again, we know it exists. As we continue to develop powers of the ...
Views: 230 - The Cycle of Development in Nature and the Focus of Attention - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe everywhere that Nature has a development cycle, with focus of attention on what needs to take place at each stage of that cycle, rather than simply jumping ahead to an 'end result' of the development. Thus, we see that plants undergo a stage of sprouting from seed, and the first focus ...
Views: 233 - The Soul, the Psychic Being and the External Nature - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhy do we not immediately recognise the existence and centrality of the soul? We tend to set our standpoint in the external consciousness which is directed outwards, and which is constantly receiving sense impressions and pressures impinging on our body-life-mind complex. The sense organs, ...
Views: 244 - The Action of the Superconscient in Our External Lives - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyJust as forces and vibrations act upon us that vibrate below our normal human level of perceptive range, and bring in much of the past, subconscient, dark and ignorant reactions that drive much of our human life, so also there are forces and vibrations that enter us from above our perceptible ...
Views: 311 - The Subliminal Level of Consciousness and Our Waking State - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhat we actively perceive and pay attention to with our waking consciousness is a very small portion of the entire pattern of energetic forces we are constantly subjected to, and which act upon us, unseen and unrecognised. Whether it is physical radiation, vital forces, or mental thought-forms, ...
Views: 302 - The Subconscient Is the Repository of Habits and Atavistic Behaviour That Must Be Cleared During the Yogic Process - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe bring into this life many propensities as well as genetic tendencies, which are compounded and accentuated by early learning that takes place in the family and in the society. Prenatal influences as well as learning that takes place after the birth process and in the very early childhood ...
Views: 346 - How to Gain Control Over the Subconscient Impact on the External Being - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyIdeally we want some kind of a pill we can take, some kind of an instant solution, some magic formula that will instantly resolve some difficulty we face when a subconsicent formation has been triggered. We react without any advance warning when this occurs. it is also the source of many ...
Views: 282 - The Mechanism of Action Of the Subconscient in Relation to the External Being - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we respond to a vibration, either at the physical level, the vital level or the mental level, we open a pathway for that vibration to impact us in some way, and, having once been accepted for admittance, it creates a propensity for us to admit it the next time it comes our way. In this way, ...
Views: 248 - Habitual Responses and the Process of Auto-Suggestion Arising from the Action of the Subconscious Level - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is a complex interaction between the external mind-life-body complex and the subconscious level of our existence. As we experience various things in our lives, including illness, accidents or various circumstances, our mind tries to build a pattern of recognition and develops a memory. ...
Views: 347 - Understanding the Action of the Subconscient - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe field of psychology in the West has developed over the last couple of centuries with a focus on the influence of the subconscious levels on our external lives, fixating on trauma, past events and their effect on the way we respond to circumstances in our lives. This has led to techniques ...
Views: 221 - The Nature of the Subconscient Level of Consciousness in Man - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyEuropean culture takes credit for ‘discoveries’ that it makes despite the fact that societies in other parts of the world have long known about these things. Thus, Europeans ‘discovered’ America while disregarding the fact that it was already populated with numerous tribes of indigenous people, ...
Views: 260 - Our Surface Personality Is Only a Small Representation of Our Complete and True Being - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe construct a personality that we present to the world and organize our expression and actions around this chosen construct. In doing so, we pick and choose elements that are present in our conscious mind, heart, life-force and physical body and create for ourselves the ego-personality that ...
Views: 213 - The Power of the Inconscient and Subconscient Levels in Our Lives - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur physical bodies operate complex functions without active oversight or intervention of the mind. We are essentially in the dark as our organs function, as our immune system automatically responds to pressures, as breathing, brain function and much more go on absent our supervision or control, ...
Views: 228 - The Expanded Field of Consciousness Beyond the External Awareness - by Submitted on Mar 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyConsider that we remove ourselves from active participation in the external world and its activities for some 30% of our lifetimes while we are asleep. Sleep provides the physical body-life-mind complex with the opportunity to undertake basic ‘maintenance’, repair the body, soothe the life ...
Views: 278 - The Subliminal, the Subconscient, the Superconscient and the Circumconscient Forces That Impact Our Responses to Life - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur surface awareness is basically the ‘tip of the iceberg’. Most of what takes place in our being occurs outside of the range of our active external perception of the senses and mental awareness. Even the interactions with the external reality we experience represent only a small fraction of ...
Views: 337 - Determinism in the Exercise of Free Will — Free Will in the Carrying Out of Determinism - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe generally jump to extremes in our way of looking at things from our normal, mental viewpoint. Thus, we either want to accept that everything is absolutely determined and thus, every move we make, every action, every reaction, is choreographed down to the slightest detail; or else, we want to ...
Views: 205 - The Transcendent Divine, the Cosmic or Universal Plane of Consciousness and Material Existence - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe seer of the Taittiriya Upanishad identified various planes of ever more subtle and powerful consciousness, with the most subtle and powerful being the ultimate causative agent of the denser and lower formations of Matter, Life and Mind. If we look at the experience of the vedic seers, we ...
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