Jesus in India

I watched a documentary by this name, and I was awestruck and encouraged and inspired, and I came to love Jesus more, believing that he did explore the east and their meditative and puja practices. There were 18 missing years (from age 13 to 30)! Some say he just lived with his family and learned the craft of carpentry with Joseph... but we all know deep inside that a boy who at the age of 12 was discussing cosmology and God with the elders in the temple is not going to be making furniture with his dad all those years. Even my devout catholic mother does not belive this and is open to the idea that he explored and traveled east.

What did he come here for? To spread the good news, as I learned in catholic catechism classes. So it would make sense that when be became an older teenager, and suffered the societal pressure to get married and have a family, he would go in search of other people to talk to. He would want to explore the human race, especially those people with deep spiritual lives, right? The silk road provided the route, it was well traveled at this time. He went to some hindu temples, and stayed at one for quite a while. He learned meditation, tantra, mantra, bahkti, but also practiced some of these things naturally from his own gnosis of how to be with his own inner light!

In the bible it says Abraham sent his younger children "east to the East" Perhaps they went to Kashhmir? Are these the lost tribes of Israel? It is known and accepted that St. Thomas the apostle lived, preached and died in India. A pope went to visit his shrine and church in India this century. So it makes it likely that Jesus would also have gone.

This website does a great job of tracking the evidence that Jesus spent time in India and Tibet, so read it here:

This illustration from an old Tibetan thangka shows Jesus talking to Tibetan monks (19th century).

I experienced the catholic church as a body with dogma that to have a relationship with God, you must go to church every sunday, you must repent your sins, you must confess those sins with a priest and you must participate in all the other priest-mediated sacraments of the church. There is no catholic practice that I know of that encourages a search within oneself for divinity and light. Prayer is more about asking for things, and asking forgiveness from a forgiving compassionate God that will decide if you will go to heaven or not.

But there are words that reflect the meditative aspects of hindu and buddhist practices. "Search for the divine within yourrself." "The Kingdom of God is within you." "Within a man of light, there is light."

Jesus was known in India as Issa. There is a tomb there with the name: Yosesaf (Youza Asouph) meaning the son of Joseph. The tomb is in the East-West direction, in jewish burial style. The Sarcophagus and scrolls were removed some years ago. The people of that town insist it is a prophet from Egypt who is there and are insulted by suggestions that it is Jesus of Nazareth.

The film suggests that Jesus survived the crucifixion, and went back to India with Mary to escape persecution and live in peace and to spread good news to people there. There is a tomb that is in an islamic region, that is believed to be Mary's tomb.

see also http://gnosisseeker.com/movies/jesus-in-india/

Diet and Inflammation

Women in my family before me have suffered osteoarthritis so I am looking at how to improve my habits to avoid the onset. Osteoarthritis is the breaking down of cartilage in the joints. Why would they breaking down? Age, genetics, overuse, they say. I thought inflammation was a major factor, but WebMD says that is a major factor in rheumatoid, but not osteo. I was disappointed as I can't change genetics or reduce the use of my joints but realized that degenerating joints would cause inflammation. Andrew Weil says that inflammation is the "cornerstone of the body's healing response, bringing more nourishment and more immune activity to a site of injury or infection. But when inflammation persists or serves no purpose, it damages the body and causes illness. Stress, lack of exercise, genetic predisposition, and exposure to toxins (like secondhand tobacco smoke) can all contribute to chronic inflammation."

I read a book about inflammation a few years ago to learn about rheumatoid arthritis as my niece has this. I learned that many diseases in our society today are caused by inflammation. According to arthritistoday.org, heart disease, cancer and obesity are all linked to inflammation problems.

Chamomile is credited with reducing inflmmation. Caffeine, sugars and refined foods, of course, cause inflammation.
Scientists know that the enzymes cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and 2 (COX-2) are major causes of joint inflammation. According to a study, chamomile works similarly to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs due to inhibition of COX-2 enzyme activity! We are advised to take in more omega-3 fatty acids relative to omega-6 fatty acids (3:1 or 5:1).

According to The Juicing Bible, people with arthritis (rheumatoid or osteo) should maximize:

chamomile, lemon balm, and peppermint should be used to improve absorption of nutrients during digestion

oily fish which are anti-inflammatory - herring, salmon, tuna, sardines

anti-inflammatory herbs such as chamomile, ginger, licorice, meadowsweet

herbal circulatory stimulants like stinging nettle and ginger to get blood and nutrients to the joints

and a few other things...

Chamomile is listed as being
1. analgesic
2. anti-inflammatory
3. and improving digestion

The Juicing Bible also says to eliminate sugar, corn products, meat, citrus, vinegar (except cider vinegar), alcohol, processed foods, and to minimize caffeine, salt and acidic fruits and vegetables.

Today is day 1 of a juicing fast... see my other blog entry on juice fasting. I felt inspired since I have 4 days off with the house to myself, and I just came back from a visit with my family over Christmas which included a few cookies and crackers. I am juicing carrots, celery, daikon, beets, pomegranate and ginger wrapped in mustard greens, apples and zuchinni. I also am making chamomile and kleri-tea (contains senna leaf, peppermint and chamomile) to assist in some cleansing of the system.

What about turmeric? This is well-known anti-inflammatory spice used so much in Indian cooking. One herbalist recommends a teaspoon a day of turmeric honey. The recipe is
9 parts dried turmeric powder
1/2 part freshly ground black pepper (grind it finely)
1/2 part dried ginger powder
(A pound of turmeric added to runny honey will fill a 20 oz. jar.)
So I will just mix a teaspoon of turmeric to a teaspoon or so of honey, and add a dash of salt and dash of powdered ginger!

Most of us have heard that it is good to alkalinize our bodies. An acidic body has more inflammation, so I should avoid dairy products and red meats, eggs, saturated fats, refined and processed foods, sugar, caffeine, alcohol and foods that are high in gluten (bread, pasta and pastry). Our bodies should be between 7.36 and 7.44 pH! Meats acidify because of nitrogen by-products when digested. Alkaline sources of protein include lentils, almonds, brazil nuts and grains like quinoa and spelt.

I found charts of acid-forming and alkalininzing foods! Not sure what is right, there are some conflicting listings: http://www.alkaline-alkaline.com/ph_food_chart.html

I plan to:
1. eat turmeric honey every day (it's tasty)
2. drink chamomile tea every day
3. avoid coffee (ouch!) and have green tea instead
4. eat more herring (I love kippered snacks!) and salmon for omega 3's
5. avoid gluteny bread; maybe have sprouted grain bread sometimes
6. have more lemon in my water
7. eat almonds and brazil nuts while avoiding walnuts and peanuts
8. eat more parsley, raw spinach, asparagus, broccoli, celery
9. eat amaranth, millet, wild rice, quinoa
10. avoid oats (ouch!), rice (ack!), pasta
11. avoid dairy except goat cheese and goat milk see my blog on goat milk
12. eat more grapefruit, mangoes (yes!), papayas (yipee!)
13. plant lemon balm and papaya plants in the spring

Here is a photo taken today of my baby papaya trees that I will plant in the spring:

Musa 1

Vertical rustling,
dry by my ears
as I swing
down,
so the water-blood of the musa bursts forth, the life
that keeps growing
up and green, high out of that compost,
the sentries of stalks,
solid life like thighs,
keeping watch for the heart
that longs to hang,
red, heavy, luscious,
softly in the air,
given space

as a beacon of truth
to it’s purpose
of opening red curtains
bearing an orchestra of fingers
that play
the heartstrings of the apis
that harmonizes the keys
to unfolding and creation.
I love the banana.

#poems #poetry #banana #musa #bananaflower #bananatree

Making Millet Beer, Malwa

I was going through my Uganda trip notes, and found the recipe I wrote down for Malwa, the millet beer people make behind their house. Luckily, this man had the beer prep process in multiple stages at once (so as not to ever run out) and showed us the process and instrumentation involved in making and drinking with his buddies!

The word for millet is bulo.

1. they dry it in the sun
2. remove the husks by beating it with a stick and winnowing.
3. when clean, grind it using a grinding stone
4. ferment for 1 week
4a. dig a hole
4b. put in banana leaves
4c. put in soil
4d. add the millet
4e. add more soil
4f. cover with banana leaves
5. roast it
6. dry it in the sun
7. put in water and yeast
8. next day, add more yeast and water
9. third day, it is ready!
10. make a long straw (see photos)
11. drink with your buddies standing around the pot together, who bring their own straws!

Apparently they make their own yeast too:

Take clean millet after drying and put in water. Put in a cloth sack to drain. It will start to germinate. Turn it and turn it for 4 days. 5th day dry in the sun. Grind. Now this is yeasty millet flour to use in the malwa!

Just read a news story online, a guy got caught stealing his neighbor's malwa pot! As punishment, they made him drink the whole pot, but he vomitted before he was halfway through! http://allafrica.com/stories/201107180396.html

Sng'oi Way of Being

I just finished a book called "Original Wisdom. Stories of an ancient way of knowing." Robert Wolff writes about his experiences in Malaysian aboriginal settlements with the Sng'oi (Senoi) people that he visited for days at a time over years during the 60s and 70s. (This photo I lifted from a photographer's website).

He was married with 4 kids and they lived in the capital, while he did his anthropological studies and wanderings. "I learned early on to be in two different realities." One reality was oriented around the clock, efficiency, technology, and harsh realism. The other was fluid, timeless, almost dreamlike - a world in which "people touched each other," a world in which "we knew animals and plants intimately."

He visited these people that speak softly, minimally, don't compete for attention, don't talk about future and past.. just have a single tense in their language! They are always being, living now. They are gatherers, mostly, living in settlements, until the tropical forest around them has been foraged and they move on. They don't have discrete family units, but the settlement, the kampong, moves together, a mix of relatives. They construct bamboo shelters 6 feet off the ground, and eat as they go along during the day, no big meals together. They find a root, chew on it a while, and if satisfied, leave it in the crook of a tree for someone else to find and chew on. They get mangos from the tree, but do not bring extra home. If a child wants a mango, he or she will go to the mango tree herself to find it.

They spend much of the day away from the huts... just walking around the forest, being social, finding food, but having no agenda. They might laugh at a little monkey sucking on a mango, or admire a beautiful flower. "Each day was a blank page, to be written on as they were living it."

When the author would speak to the group, there would be a long pause. No body would answer him right away. There would be some sort of group mind-meld, and one person would speak for the group, and everyone else would smile.

People would sleep close together at night, touching each other. Different people in different huts each night. One night after a discussion with everyone, he said he slept with at least 8 arms touching him. Sometimes people slept very huddled together, in a ball. These people touched and groomed each other often when awake. Touching people I am connected to feels right and healthy to me.

After sleeping, people would wake and sit together in the hut discussing dreams. They would help each other remember dreams, and would co-dream. He dreamt about the settlement dog barking, a cough-sound bark; he felt darkness and fear in the dream, but he did not see the dog in the dream. An older woman said not seeing the dog was a warning of some kind. A girl who had slept next to him said she heard the same sound, but it was a tiger in her dream. He realized, yes, it might have been a tiger in his dream. The woman told him he needed to go to his family, that they needed him. He went out of the settlement to call and found out his kid had been taken to the hospital.

He experienced a trance during a ceremony with a smoking charcoal and some high-pitched singing and rhythmic dancing. During his trance he spoke in another language and told them some things... but he didn't remember this. He thought he had slept. The 'see-er' of the village then invited him to come back and learn with him. He accepted.

The learning consisted simply of taking long walks together in the woods together without talking, eating or drinking. Just seeing and hearing and feeling and sensing. The author was frustrated by the lack of instruction, lack of imparting of knowledge. Why just walking in silence together? He had other duties to his job and his family, was this all a waste of time? He attained some endurance, walking longer, needing less food and water. He took a hiatus from the settlement for a month or two, and returned, decided to not have expectations. Just go and 'be' with his friend who was happy for him to learn during the walks. On the next walk, his friend told him to stop, and be very quiet. A few minutes later, a very huge yellow snake (14 feet), crossed the path in front of them. This almost never happens. They are usually in the trees. The snake was the helper animal of the see-er. The see-er person knew the snake was coming. He did not hear him, but felt his presence. The snake was always with him.

Soon after, Wolff experienced his 'awakening.' He never called it that, but he suddenly stopped, sensing suddenly that the jungle was dense with sounds, smells, little puffs of air, here and there. He felt someone "had suddenly washed his dirty eyeglasses." He could suddenly smell things he had no name for. He heard new sounds that could be anything. He saw a leaf shivering... He had been ignoring his thirst. He suddenly zoomed his attention toward a leaf that was holding half a cup of water on a vine. He thought, maybe he could suddenly sense water? Maybe he could smell it. He realized that water was inside his heart. His see-er friend said in a Sng'oi way, that 'water was in his heart.' All was in his heart, he was now discovering.

He was in awe of everything, and suddenly sensed that the leaf was connected to the vine that connected to the tree that connected to the soil that connected to the Kampong, that connected to his see-er friend, that connected to him that connected to all on earth and he had an overwhelming sense of one-ness. He felt more alive than ever before.

No plants or drugs were used. He looked up, and his see-er was gone. He was alone in the forest after hours of walking from the settlement, no trails. His fear was quickly replaced by a sense of confidence is new awareness and knowing. He also heard a sound that was familiar from a previous dream. A dream about a tiger. He went toward the settlement, which was toward the sound. He felt at home, and safe, and slowly made his way back, the sound in front and to his right. The sound was a tiger, his helper animal. His see-er friend told him not to tell anyone about his helper animal. The Sng'oi were private about their real names. And also about helper animals. It was something only revealed if necessary when helping others.

As he experienced his feeling of one-ness he started realizing that he started knowing what plants were good for what medicine. He started knowing when someone might arrive for a visit... he didn't have to do some exhaustive memorization exercise as we are used to doing in the West with our schools and information addictions.

This book, has readjusted my view. There were things that I had heard before, but they arrived at a new time. It is like peeking my head out of the cave and seeing what should be real for all of us, and realizing that the cave can envelope me too easily. I have stress and I believe it is from having the 9 to 5 job and the schedule and pressure to pay bills, write research papers, sell wallets, go to the gym or yoga, go to the social gatherings, mow the lawn, recycle everything...

I feel I have experienced a different way of knowing at times when I am quiet and paying attention to my attention. It is a big challenge to balance a 'being' life where I can take the time to listen, feel and hear with the american-society-work-life that I have put myself into.

Bee Colony Collapse

Last night watched a great movie about honeybee colony collapse disorder, Vanishing of the Bees. I learned that colony collapse happens when the worker/foraging bees leave the hive and don't come back to the poor abandoned queen... she has some workers and nurse bees left, and works frantically to lay more eggs, but with thousands of bees missing, there is not enough food to feed the babies. The nurse bees go out for food, but alas, it is fruitless... Often the bees experiencing the collapse are being rented out to pollinate big orchards of almonds, blueberries, apples, oranges... and move around the country to go to different monocultures. These are often being treated, or next to other crops that are treated, with systemic pesticides such that the pollen the bees experience give them sublethal doses of toxins that mess up their nervous system, and their navigation skills.

In 1993, Bayer Corp. started selling systemic pesticides that farmers started using on their crops. The beekeepers witnessed major hive abandonments and realized it came at the same time as the use of the new pesticides. They staged protests in Paris and at Bayer factory offices! The pesticide Gaucho was to blame (containing Imidacloprid which becomes available in the pollen and nectar). Certain metabolites of Imidacloprid were found to be more toxic than the original molecule.

The French minister of Agriculture agreed, and banned some of the systemic pesticides from being used on sunflowers, because he said, his job was to protect the environment. Unfortunately, many beehive collapses were observed for subsequent years because of the contamination of soils, and beacause of it's continued use on corn neighboring some of the crops bees were brought in to pollinate.

And just this April, in Germany, people protested in front of the Bayer annual meeting about their use of nicotine-based systemic pesticides (that render the entire plant, stem, leaves, roots, nectar and pollen toxic). Those pesticides are widespread as seed-coatings on most corn sold worldwide through Bayer's partnership with Monsanto. These seeds are almost always both Genetically Modified (GMO) and coated with a systemic nicotine pesticide - and sometimes also a fungicide or other pesticide.

Cartoon above is from this site.

The almond groves of California use 80% of the commercial bees to get pollinated, said Charlie Lybrand, of Gainesville Florida, last night. He said they are aiming to plant 1 million more acres of almonds in CA. They are also trying to develop a new olive bush and punch a hole in the expensive olive market, and it will need millions of commercial bees for pollinating.

Bees need variety and multiple plants blooming at different times of year to be healthy. Giant expanses of one crop are not good for bees. Buy your food from smaller organic farms that don't use pesticides and offer a variety of plants for bees to forage throughout the year to have happy lives.

Whole Day

There is a lot of beauty in
someone who has intention
to spend the whole day with you
expecting to enjoy you
and shared experiences
and leaving it open
to whatever may happen.
I give thanks for this love.

Adrenals and Stress

Watching my kundalini dvd with Maya Fiennes, she talks about expelling the toxins from our adrenals and our kidneys because in our western lifestyle, we are constantly overworking them with our hectic oversheduled lifestyle. I plead guilty. I want to squeeze in two errands and laundry before going to see a friend a little over an hour from now. I often wake up feeling the need for the flight reaction. Is this genetic? is this my job? is this my morning coffee habit? is this my need to do so many things to make life feel ordered and duties fulfilled?

Adrenal glands sit atop (I usually think that word should be reserved for vittles and viand, but today I make an exception since they do sit right atop of the kidneys) the kidneys and release adrenaline and cortisol.

adrenals cannot tell the difference between physical, mental or emotional stress they just keep pumping out the cortisol.

Kundalini yoga kriyas help balance chakras that are connected to endocrine glands. The main endocrine glands include the pituitary gland, pancreas, ovaries, testes, thyroid gland, and adrenal glands. The hypothalamus is a neuroendocrine organ...

What about coffee that I drink every day, what does that do to my endocrine system?

oh boy, I just learned that caffeine increases the secretion of betaendorphin (no wonder I like coffee) and yes, ding ding ding, it is said to increase cortisol levels in the blood...

I learned that exhausted adrenals result in symptoms of underactive thyroid like fatigue, which I only experience at night... sometimes at 8pm it feels like it's 1am.

The adrenals secrete hormones in a cycle with the highest value in the morning and the lowest value at night... circadian rhythm. Maybe my levels drop down faster than normal.

Though meditation and yoga are awesome for calming, the caffeine is counteracting some of the benficial effects.

I only drink coffee in the morning (before 11), but my acupuncturists can detect it in my system at 5pm, no problem. One said, 'Kathleen, caffeine is not your friend.'

Let's see what I can do this week to give my adrenals a break.

San Rafael Reef

Only called a reef because travelers with horses and wagons found these formations rising like shark's new set of teeth out of the ground, had such a hard time navigating around them to get to some wetter place, I guess. Did they notice the paleo-man's art on the slick-rock sandstone? I did as I drove by after driving through this cut in the reef that had a dirt road built on it for off-road recreationists which took me by temple mountain (with old abadoned uranium mines in them). I had been watching out for the reddish cubular drawings anytime shiny vertical rocks whisked by my window. Oh lucky day, my 4th set of pictographs in 2 days (petroglyphs are made by carving into the rock). Red is my route driving through the reef just north of the Goblin Valley state park, not far from Capitol Reef National park. Blue is the pictograph discovery & amazement!

Here is the art, painted a couple thousand years ago maybe? These are on the South Temple Wash and were painted with paint made from uranium laden carnotite ore! They used to mine uranium etc in Temple Mountain during the cold war, after WWII. See this cool Emery County Archive site about that.

Midpoint bee hill sit

Midpoint of a long steep hill perfect for a proper sit,
on rabbit-nibbled, robin-hopped grass
intercepting the southwesterly of honeysuckle aspiration and pleasant din of I-70,
free of human eyes as truck drivers and warehouse stockers are gone after the bell.

Warm yellow bricks hold my gaze cozily; bees explore thistle.

I explore the windowless well...

Colorado Butte Poem

Cottonwoods winding and slumbering with streams
(ribbons on grassland wrap),
festooning round butte outcrop gifts,

where hunters received their buffalo vantage,
and settlers received a view of their claim.

The mother, she rose up with clay
and with shale....

She gave and is giving still.

by Kathleen McKee 



Credit: Annie Griffiths, National Geographic


Credit: AirPhoto.com


Credit: Royce Bair


#poem #poetry #butte #cottonwoods #west

Quantum Activisit

A few weeks ago, I watched the famed movie (I found out recently how popular it was) "What the Bleep do we Know?" I was not impressed by the movie-making nor by the communication of messages they were trying to convey. I was very impressed with the computer animation, especially that hypothalamus which was a bit scary actually.

Amit Goswami is a physicist teaching quantum physics and this was a documentary about him and the science of quantum physics as it relates to the power of choice we have in our lives and the idea of god. Here are my notes:

We have trained generations to believe that everything is material. He says we must create a new science… based on the primacy of consciousness… the new sciennce must contain a subjective portion. To reduce our internal experience to movement of molecules and atoms, the physical explanations don’t go far enough to explain internal subtle phenomena. When subtle something (intuition, e.g.) is happening at same time with material we assume material causes the subtle.

He was raised with a father who was a Brahman guru. He played in the fruit orchard, like a jungle to him, that was his backyard and felt so much bliss there. The sense of separateness lifted. He says what is bliss but the feeling of continuity with the whole?

How do religions look at god? They all say there is a downward causation. We claim the upward causation by matter explained by science. We humans can develop consensus to the external (physical world, e.g.) but not the internal. But subtle is as much part of reality as the gross!
Essence of quantum physics is the physics of possibility. Each object is not a determined thing but consists of possibilities. Possibilities of consciousness to choose from. Waves of possibilities.
Feelings and intuition. Consciousness chooses from set of possibilities. We can convert waves of possibility into experiences. Possible elementary particles making possible atoms making possible molecules making possible neurons making possible brain giving you a possible consciousness. Can possible consciousness convert possibility of elementary particles into actual events? Possibility coupled with possibility can only give us possibility not actuality.
How does consciousness interact with matter? 2 opposites, they can’t interact… like oil and water? Dualism! Need a mediator. What is consciousness and how does it relate to matter? How does it choose from material possibilities. Think radically: consciousness, not matter, is the basis of being. Brain is made of consciousness. Consciousness is not made of brain. No longer is there dualism with this switch in thinking.

Which one of us gets to choose if all choices can’t be met because they conflict? Like we all want 20 story buildings in the same place for ourselves… that would not be physically possible. So how does the choice happen? Who gets the choice? Nonlocal consciousness… what mystics call god. An interpolated consciousness, connected consciousness. Mystics say nonlocal consciousness is subject and object. We are positing that the brain and observer are essential to convert selves into an actual event.

Another way of thinking of this whole thing that quantum physics forces us to think about: unity behind us, we are all connected in some place, so a cosmic consciousness is engulfing everything. So if choice happens in that cosmic consciousness, it can be unbiased.

Feelings are based in organs, the chakras - vital energies. I am in love with you if you are acceptable to my immune system (heart chakra). Approach all relationships with open heart chakra. We can approach conflict in a new way! Problem: we get conditioned to limited set of possibilities.

Moment of satori, lucid experience of present moment (samadhi in hinduism)… enlightenment? Similar to Christians experiencing holy spirite speaking through them. It’s the moment of being connected to the whole world.

Idea of how to explore compartments beyond conditioning: creativity:
1. Get familiar with what you already know. Doing.
2. Uncubation. Sit on the egg. Being just as important as doing. Here, possibilities grow. Better chance to solve the problem. Need time between episodes of doing… not too much or you will forget what you were doing.

We are so used to do do do do do. But we can’t always be be be be be. We need to do be do be do be do be. Ha ha, lots of laughs from the audience.

Does electron have free will? No but we do. When an electron jumps to an orbit, it does not traverse the space between orbits! Similarly we can jump to a new thought! Mental creativity. Phrase in the 70s. “we create our own reality.” The choice is not choice of individual egos.

If we can manifest collective consciousness, nonlocal conscious. If our intention resonates with nonlocal consciousness, then our intentions can come true. Wow, I think that is the big message of this documentary and how we can actually be activists!! When we pray, we notice that we surrender to god… they know that it is not the individual will. It must resonate with the collective whole for it to manifest.

Ego loves the old, only god can process the new. When we entertain new possibilities, we are inviting god. Between doing times, we are being, and god comes in a creative quantum leap of insight and we become better than before. ‘Aha’ insight. We can use that conviction to make changes in our lives that will ‘stick.’

Nonviolent events of change: S. Africa, Gandhi, MLK, e.g. These changes supported by quantum physics. We must begin to use quantum physics en masse. Society could develop new capacity for new brain circuits. We could all be oriented with positive emotions and evaluate all problems with love.

Supramental. He started to talk about evolution and lost me… this web page might do a good job of explaining: http://wisdomsplendour.org/catalogue/dvds/supramentalconsciousness

Heaven will literally manifested on earth. Joel Moorwood filmmaker. Is brain before consciousness, or is consciousness before brain? Joel said consciousness is first. He used phrase from Sufism, there is nothing but god! Consciousness is the ground of all being, not matter. Matter is made of consciousness! So again dualism gone.

We must change society. But must understand what caused separateness from earth and whole consciousness. If we see unity, we see we must protect environment. We must change materialistic society. We must admit we first need to change.

Have an open heart and approach things with love and others will pick it up. Teachers like Jesus said repeatedly, love your enemy. Can’t solve all problems with rationality, it is not enough. Quantum activism. Start with yourself.

Crestone Energy

In Dec/Jan, I spent 2 weeks at a Tibetan buddhist retreat in Crestone, CO...

On the second night during a Pele fire practice with drumming to call the 'unseen world,' I experienced overwhelming presence of native american spirits: shaman, chiefs, matriarchs and even some young mothers... those who were interested in humanity's success, elevation, enlightenment... as many of them had achieved their own enlightenment, I felt. I felt grief at their lost knowledge and lost sacred intentions for the earth and humanity.
I also experienced daily grief (and grounding) in front of this shrine to indigenous north americans with the photo of chief Joseph. He is Nez Perce, born in northeast Oregon. His name is Hinmuttuu-yalatlat which means Thunder Rolling down the Mountain who fought for his people and lands in the Wallowa Valley... This valley first drew human settlers nearly 12,000 years ago and has been home to Ute, Navajo, Apache, Tiwa, Tewa, Comanche, Kiowa and Arapaho tribes. I guess the photo of Chief Joseph represents all as he is a famous humanitarian and defender of sacred ways and sacred lands where the bones of his family are buried.

Apparently, bones of many are on these lands, as some retreatants told me of a massacre that happened nearby causing dreams of dead babies and feelings of death for people who have stayed here.

I was told that many tribes came here because of the sacred energy here, and it was a sacred visiting place, not a settling place. The area was compared to Sedona and Santa Fe maybe all being "Energy Vortexes."

The Dharma Ocean retreat center where I stayed was neighbored by 5 or 6 other retreat/ashram type places in those foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountines. Back in the 70s or 80s, the Strong family purchased a lot of land and decided to sell it only to retreat nonprofit organizations.

I found these popular articles: http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/travel/escapes/11crestone.html and http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-01-25/travel-tours/crestone-colorados-spiritual-crossroads-for-myriad-believers

This one is most helpful about the energy and feeling of Crestone: http://www.crestonecolorado.com/shambala.html

Excerpt:
According to sacred sites expert John Milton, there's also an ancient spiritual-scientific reason that the land is so sacred, so powerful in Crestone. Crestone sits at the convergence of ley lines, part of the Earth's electromagnetic energy system. Like in Sedona and Mt. Shasta, this creates vortexes of powerful energies available for healing and higher states of consciousness.

Milton first came to Crestone in 1979 and "fell in love with the place. I was drawn by the special feel, the extraordinary quality of the energy here," he said.

When he acquired land north of town, he discovered that the ancients had created structures to enhance the energetic experience available at Crestone. They are "meditation seats" made of stone, and there are thousands of them located throughout the area. There are also stone alignments. He believes they are Native American in origin, "unlike anything I've seen anywhere, and I've been around."

After this discovery, Milton decided to scrap his plans for developing an intentional community on the 200 to 300 acres he was actively acquiring. Instead, his organization - the Way of Nature Fellowship - created the Sacred Land Trust "for the protection and preservation of those who have been here before and what they have left us."

The fellowship has taken a different approach than some of the other spiritual organizations. Rather than building temples and shrines, Milton believes it's "the natural land that's inherently sacred." So he keeps the structures to a minimum.

"Nature is the temple," he said. "The Earth itself is sacred." Crestone past, present, future. Crestone is situated about halfway between Santa Fe and Denver, 13 miles east of the tiny town of Moffat.'

Crestone was originally home to Ute and Comanche Indians. According to Milton, members of nearly all indigenous tribes around the world, and especially those in North America, used to venture to Crestone for the healing and meditative qualities of the area. The southernmost point of the mountain range - Blanca Peak - is considered one of the four sacred mountains to the Navajo and Hopi. The entire range, extending from Blanca to an area north of Crestone, is considered to be the eastern gateway for these people.

"This was a zone of peace and harmony," Milton said. "Tribes had to drop their disagreements and warlike behavior when they entered the area and come in a spirit of peace."
Milton has met Native elders from as far away as the Yucatan to the south and the Cherokee and Iroquois Federation to the east whose ancestors frequented this sacred land for meditation, to commune with Great Mystery. All of that changed when the Europeans arrived in 1540 and began forcing out the Native Americans. They came to settle the land, to mine the mountains and to soak in the nearby mineral hot springs. The town was officially settled in 1880 with mining as its primary purpose.

Allison Rae is a metaphysical writer and spiritual counselor living in Crestone, Colorado. Her web site, www.TheStarCenter.org, features a variety of articles on star alignments, metaphysics, personal and planetary transformation, spiritual prophecy and more.