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Tag Archives: mysticism
Meet Elaine Pagels
Meet Elaine Pagels, preeminent scholar and author on religion and the gnostic gospels. Here she is giving an interview at the New York Society Library. Acknowledgment to The New York Society Library for posting the above video on YouTube. Read … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism
Tagged Elaine Pagels, gnostic, gnostic gospel, Gnosticism, mysticism, Pagels, religion
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Mysticism in the Tarot
The Tarot cards are more than a deck of playing cards for human entertainment! The Tarot cards actually constitute a book of mystical wisdom teachings and profound spiritually transformative messages coded or hidden in visual graphic symbolism and allegorical imagery. … Continue reading
A Satsang Invocation
The San Jose BMCM Satsang Invocation Leader’s CALL: “Krishna said: …you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me.” Group RESPONSE: “We come to your presence, Krishna. Bring us now into your light and wisdom.” … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism, Transformation
Tagged adhan, awareness, Bhagavad Gita, chronos, consciousness, divine promise, enlightenment, experience, human condition, illumination, invocation, kairos, Krishna, light, mysticism, promise, sacred space, sacred time, sacred time and space, satsang, spiritual practice, spirituality
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Joel S. Goldsmith, Mystic and Writer
The New York Times Dateline: June 18, 1964, Page 35 From the 1964 Archives. Joel S. Goldsmith of Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, a writer and lecturer on mysticism, died yesterday in London, where he had gone recently on a lecture tour. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1964, Infinite Way, Joel Goldsmith, joel s goldsmith, mysticism, The Infinite Way
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The Moment of Awakened Awareness
The ineffable, unmanifest, undifferentiated Consciousness, that journeys to the universe of its manifestations through its mirror-mind, individuates infinitely as the Self. Is is this Self as the subject knower that becomes increasingly aware in the manifest dimension of object forms … Continue reading
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Tagged awakened awareness, awakening, awareness, consciousness, Dzogchen, emptiness, enlightenment, experience, human condition, illumination, Khandro Rinpoche, liberation, mysticism, nirvana, nothingness, release, samsara, self, self-awareness, spiritual journey, sunyata, transformation, Void
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Develop Your Awareness of God-Presence
Whether for the purpose of a contemplation sitting or at any other time, remember to acknowledge, invoke and invite the Spirit of God within you to come forth from within to fill your awareness and life with the experience of … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, consciousness, contemplation, contemplative meditation, emptiness, experience, Fr. Keating, Fr. Thomas Keating, God, God-presence, Infinite Way, Joel Goldsmith, life, meditation, mysticism, presence, presence of God, selfhood, soul, Spirit, spiritual journey, spiritual practice, spirituality, The Infinite Way, The Mystical Life, transformation
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Why Bother with Self-Realization?
Responding to a recently posted blog, Stephen messaged us the following three wonderful questions. QUESTION NO. 1 Since God has always been and will always be the Perfect Absolute Infinite Consciousness and this has never been and will never be … Continue reading
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Tagged Atman, awareness, Becoming, being, bhakti, blind, blind men, Brahman, chronos, consciousness, cosmic, cross-culture, Doubting Thomas, eating, enlightenment, God, God the Father, God the Son, illumination, immanent, individual, individual nature, Individuation, Infinite Way, Joel Goldsmith, journey, kairos, love, mystical experience, mystical path, mysticism, nondualism, nondualist, Oneness, Oprah Winfrey, perception, Prodigal Son, proof, pudding, pure subjectivity, self-awareness, self-realization, selfhood, space, spiritual journey, subject-object, subjectivity, Thomas, time, transcendent, Truth, unconditional love, Uroborus
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From the Head to the Heart
In response to a recent blog we posted, the following question was raised by Bob as a comment which he posted on 05 June 2018. QUESTION “Hello, Marc! I have a question: How do I move from understanding and thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged bhakti, consciousness, contemplation, contemplative meditation, darshan, devotion, divine, divine state, garce, God-realization, grease, greasing, human, human state, journey, lubricant, lubricating, meditation, mysticism, Oneness, paradigm, paradigm shift, path, question, receptivity, shift, soul, spiritual journey, spiritual path, spiritual transmission, teacher, teaching, transfiguration, understanding
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The Mystery That Gives of Itself
“The spiritual journey is a process that happens to us. We don’t do it. The Mystery unfolds of itself. The Christian mystical tradition is a process that is appropriate for those devoting themselves to seeking the Mystery that is at … Continue reading
True Withinness
This class lecture by Joel S. Goldsmith is a profound talk about our relationship of oneness with God, on why we study and contemplate scripture passages and mystical writings by teachers and mystics, how to contemplate the mystical (Truth) principles … Continue reading
