by Michael Mamas | Friday, May 17, 2013 | Mount Soma, Spirituality |
Imagine being so caught up in a television program that you forget it is just a projection on a screen and believe it is real. That is exactly what you have done.
The ‘screen’ is consciousness. It is the silent witness. It has no opinion. .. no comments… no shades or hues. It is crisp… clean… all wise and all knowing. It is profound in it simplicity… in its very nature. This is the Shiva value… transcendental.
It cannot be enlivened because it is eternally awake. Yet your awareness of it can be enlivened. That awareness changes everything, yet changes nothing. Existence remains exactly the same, just totally different. It is pure consciousness. It birthed everything. It is God’s consciousness.
Trying to ‘fix’ your life, or another’s life, by rearranging the surface is futile… temporary at best lest that rearrangement enlivens your awareness of It. Doing personal process or self-help without that understanding is sweeping the dust under the rug in an attempt to make your house clean.
This is not so difficult to understand intellectually, but to really know this is quite another matter. Do you really know it? Just take a look at how you live your life. There, you will find the answer to that question.
My purpose is to awaken you to It. I am creating a place that is so enlivened with that value that to live there is to just naturally come to know It over time. Yet your addiction to the images on the surface, on the ‘screen’, have so overtaken you, that you cling to the images and continue to look for Truth there… on the surface… as fleeting as time itself. That is your habit, your addiction. You are lost in the illusion, in the mirage. You continue to insist that it offers what you long for, what you need, what the world needs. You are lost to the illusion of time.
To awaken to ‘It’ is to awaken to that which exists beyond time. Time stands still there. Nothing is happening there. It is within ‘It’ where your life comes together. It is the water that feeds the root of life… the fountainhead, the source. It is the foundation you long for… the unification of all that is. To find it, you must go beyond the illusion of time. Yet to go beyond time, you must go through time. To vanquish the dragon of a dream, you need the sword of a dream. You must use time wisely to free yourself from the bindings of time… to see beyond time. Only then will you find what you long for.
It is called ‘Bliss’.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Announcements, Mount Soma |
People here at Mount Soma’s Community Center and Student Union have been telling me they are receiving a lot of questions about the Bliss Course, previously known as the Awakening Course. We have renamed it the ‘Bliss Course’, as people have been referring to it that way. Some Ashram participants wrote the following and asked me to post it.
After receiving inquiries about the Bliss Course, as students of Dr. Mamas, we wanted to give you a sense of what a long-term course at Mount Soma is like.
Michael Mamas shapes all programs and courses for the evolution of individuals, the group, and the greater good. He is always responsive to the group consciousness and the flow of the moment, which gives variation and flex to everything. Courses are usually designed in harmony with the Ashram Program.
Here is a typical ashram day:
We begin with meditation at 7 AM. Afterwards, we have breakfast and then begin our morning projects. When he feels it is indicated, Dr. Mamas meets with everyone. Midday, we have a delicious homemade vegetarian meal. Over lunchtime, we often take a walk and enjoy the mountain air. We have a little more activity in the afternoon and then meditate again. In the evening, there are activities in the temple we can attend. After dinner, we often enjoy relaxing together and personal time before lights out at 10 PM.
This daily schedule of meditation, activity, and sleep supports our well being and promotes the integration of the Transcendent into our physiology and daily life.
The motivation for the Bliss Course is to support people’s evolution. All activities and projects are designed to help you catch the flow of the Cosmic Stream. When you’re at Mount Soma, there is a palpable feeling that is beyond description. It resonates with the deepest part of us and over time, the bliss wells up more and more…
Over the next week, we are hoping to put out some more information about the Bliss Course and possibly some videos of Michael Mamas discussing it.
Stay tuned!
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, May 5, 2013 | Announcements, Mount Soma |
Course Fee
Six Weeks: $1500
Three Months: $900 (This is not a typo.)
Start date is any day in June 2013 you would like.
In today’s world, bliss is often thought of as an intense experience on the surface of life. However, True Bliss is a sublime experience that exists at the depth of your being.
The group consciousness at Mount Soma offers the opportunity to touch into the field of True Bliss. We have been working for years to cultivate this place so you could enjoy such benefits. The purpose of the Awakening Course is to provide you with a taste of True Bliss.
Attaining enlightenment can be viewed as nothing more than breaking a bad habit. The habit is looking for bliss in ”all the wrong places.” That habit comes in many forms. Preconceived notions of what bliss means perpetuates the habit. It amounts to lifetimes of chasing one mirage after another. This summer, awaken to True Bliss!
Even when true bliss begins to dawn from within, at first it goes unnoticed. The habit keeps you distracted by things more superficial. It takes time to break the habit. This course offers you the opportunity to do just that.
We understand people are busy and it is hard to take time away. We are offering a shorter program to accommodate those who are unable to commit to the full three months. Of course, it is best to do the full program. We have made the full course an absurdly low price because we want to share this experience with as many people as possible.
Give us three months of openness to a new understanding, and we will introduce you to the universe of True Bliss.
Our motivation for the fee structure is to give you incentive to take maximum advantage of this opportunity. Your commitment is of the utmost importance.
If you register for the full course at $900 and decide to leave early for any reason, you will be expected to pay the additional $600.
If you sign up for the shorter course and decide to extend your stay, you will be required to pay an additional course fee of $900.
A new and deeper experience, understanding, and appreciation of bliss will transform your entire life. We are thrilled to share this opportunity with you!
Register Now!
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Mount Soma, Spirituality, World View |
A comment including the question, “How do you fix a nation that doesn’t want to fix itself?” was posted in my last blog. My answer is below.
The solution to not only this but all problems is the same one thing: Awakening of world consciousness to pure consciousness.
By infusing pure consciousness (the Unified Field) into relative existence, all is healed. It is like watering the root of a plant to feed all aspects of the plant.
Pure consciousness is the underlying basis of all existence. It is the source of infinite harmony, peace, intelligence, awareness, health, divinity, wisdom, truth, etc.
It is as if a whirlpool of identity with that which is more superficial than pure consciousness has overtaken the world.
You too are pulled in that direction. To live better, humanity must look deeper. “Heat” is generated by the friction created when identity is too superficial… lost to relativity. To cool the planet is to move group consciousness more deeply. Otherwise we are merely rearranging the same old furniture in our home, hoping it will make the furniture new.
To answer directly your question, I say, Awaken world consciousness to pure consciousness, the Unified Field. The fastest and best way to do this is to build Unified Field Generators, i.e. Enlightened Cities. They will radiate the light of life to all existence. We are starting with one, Mount Soma. It will serve as a guiding light for humanity.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, April 15, 2013 | Mount Soma |
My family and I have been moving into our new house at Mount Soma so please excuse that I have not written a blog for a little while.
Also, I have become aware that I have not been receiving all the emails I have been sent. We expect to get back on track soon. Thanks for your patience.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | Mount Soma |
Pamla took this picture of my truck. The tire tracks were not planned at all!
I think there must be some good quotes to go along with it. Please feel free to offer your suggestion.
I thought of:
Nature organizes best.
Or
I’d rather be lucky than good.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, December 17, 2012 | Mount Soma |
Krishna in his Chariot
The atmosphere was delightful as people gathered in the Community Center, many with their own family recipe for frosting in hand. Carols played. Creativity overflowed. Sugar ruled. The day culminated in a trip to the movies for a group viewing of ‘The Hobbit.’
Watch below to see the real cookie monster in action!
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, December 10, 2012 | Mount Soma, Spirituality |
I do not consider myself to be a big animal lover in the conventional sense. What I mean by that is that though I do like animals very much, I do not have my pets sit all over the furniture or be a pivotal part of my life. I recall when I was young a saint once said, “People are people and animals are animals and they should live separately.” My pets have their own world. I honor that. My relationship with them, I would describe as respectfully loving.
Our cat, Ollie, was with us for around 9 years. He was several years old when we got him. He became a great friend. When I would return home late at night from California classes, he seemed to be waiting for me… somehow knowing I would return when I did. He would escort me as I carried my bags into the house. It seemed natural enough at the time, but is now fond memories that somehow defined the nature of our friendship. I rarely called him Ollie… usually just ‘Boy’ or ‘Boy Cat.’
Over the past six months he aged rapidly… kidneys went as is typical of older cats. Toward the end he was skin and bones with a distended abdomen. Though he lived outside, the last weeks feeling he was not up to weathering the elements, I kept him in. He just sat on the bench in our foyer… all day and all night… staring off… seemed comfortable but only half there. We softly play a Ram chant in our foyer 24/7. It was good for him to hear it in those last days. I would carry him out to go to the bathroom and he would sit there for a while and then come back in the house [not his normal routine at all], get back on the bench, and sit until I took him out again. It was quite clear that he was dying with only a few days left. I know he felt like I was his old friend who spent those last weeks serving him. It was really quite touching. Finally, one day, he went outside and disappeared. I knew I would not see him again.
It is a wonder how animals seem to know when their time in the body is up. Or is that what they know? Maybe it is more just a sense of needing to go off and curl up in their secret hiding place and have a mahasleep… just as they instinctively know to eat, sleep, etc. At any rate, it was a most honorable and dignified way to go. He was like that.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, December 5, 2012 | Mount Soma |
Message from Barbara at Mount Soma.
We have received our Certificate of Occupancy for the Student Union!
Obstacles from ever-changing county regulations have brought us many unforeseeable expenses. Those overages are an astounding 41.6% above the cost of the original, county approved, plans for the Student Union. As a result, we are in need of funds for outstanding construction invoices and costs involved in setting up the Student Union so that it can be fully up and running.
This is typically the time of year when people make donations to non-profit organizations. If most people can donate $500 by January 12, we can keep things moving forward. For those donating $500 or more, your name will be included in a special havan for health, wealth, and enlightenment. You will also receive a rudraksha bead blessed during that ceremony, mounted on gold-filled wire as a pendant for personal jewelry, meditation, or a home altar.
Please let your family and friends know how to contribute. Click here to donate, and select Student Union.
This Student Union building will make it possible for the ashram to grow in numbers. The ashram is the core work force for achieving our goals: raising the consciousness of humanity and bringing peace on earth. What better cause is there?
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | Mount Soma |
Moon and Jupiter in Rohini are absolutely beautiful tonight.
They side by side rose in the east over Mount Soma while Aarthi at the temple resonated and radiated through the mountains so exquisitely.
It was a fantastic moment in time.
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