by Michael Mamas | Friday, November 6, 2015 | Spirituality |
On the news this morning, they did a little piece about Billy Graham. He is from the Asheville area and so his influence here is seen around town. It’s really fascinating to see excerpts of his sermons. He talks about God and heaven, being forgiven of your sins, being saved, and all those sorts of things. It’s all beautifully heartfelt and touching. He was obviously coming from a very deep place inside his soul. I’m sure that everybody senses that same place within themselves. Yet different people relate to it differently, to the point where everybody has their own unique relationship with it.
With the knowledge that I’ve given to people reading these blogs, I think it is easy to see what Billy Graham was getting at, what he was trying to say. I think it’s also easy to see how having an understanding of the nature and structure of existence from a rather scientific or rational perspective provides a deeper insight into what that is really all about. It also provides insight into how, without that scientific or rational understanding, the Knowledge easily becomes obscured.
Spiritual growth is about clarification, not just intellectually, not just emotionally, but also viscerally, physiologically, and directly experientially. Every religion has its foundation, that deep sense within all beings. It is often referred to as one’s sense of divinity within.
It is my purpose to provide people, regardless of their religion, with ever increasing levels of clarity in their understanding of this very nature of life and existence.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | Announcements, Spirituality |
In case you missed it, my new Vedic Knowledge Blog was recently launched on DrMichaelMamas.com.
This blog will help bring the reader to a level of understanding that few are willing to take the time to comprehend. Comments on blog posts are welcome.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, November 3, 2015 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Someone sent the following rather cynical quote to me:
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
I do not know how accurate those percentages are. However, I do believe that of the people that actually do think, only one in a thousand actually discern. Combine that with the fact that Adi Shankara said that the spiritual path is the path of discernment and the state of humanity becomes clear.
Discernment is not only the path, but also the goal… integration of all levels and aspects of your being… integration of thoughts and emotions with what lies deeper.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, October 31, 2015 | Announcements, Health |
I’m honored that an article I wrote about how to fix the healthcare system was just published on the Elephant Journal website. The article explains four simple steps to easily solve the problems.
Please help us get the most traction out of this article by:
- Reading the article, 4 Steps to Healthier Healthcare.
- Comment! It’s very easy to comment on the article (just requires a name and email address). Once you comment, you can choose to receive updates via email when more comments are posted.
- Help us spread the word about the article on social media. Here is the Facebook post.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | Personal Growth |
Are you on a roll? Are you in a rut? Is it hard for you to get going with your life? Consider the perspective that your life is all about your relationship with momentum.
Long term and short term, your life has momentum. Your ability to get that momentum going, or to shift that momentum, determines the nature of your life. Create a healthy relationship with momentum and you will have a good life. However, that is not so easy to do. In the short term, you may know you need to get off the couch and get to the gym, but making that momentum shift can be difficult. Long term, you may not like your job, but overcoming the momentum of your current routine requires overcoming a great deal of momentum. You may be in a bad relationship. You may have an unhealthy circle of friends. These things can be difficult to shift. Momentum can be your greatest enemy in life.
On the other hand, you can be on a roll with your life. You may have a great relationship, great job, great friends, healthy and evolutionary lifestyle, etc. Perhaps you are meditating twice daily and have a healthy routine. In the areas where your life is working, momentum is your friend.
You can also look at your world view in terms of momentum. How open are you to evolving your world view? Perhaps you feel your current world view is what life is all about and you have all the answers you need. Whatever the case, the quality of your relationship with momentum determines the quality of your life. Evolving your relationship with momentum is what the path of evolution is all about.
Over the next few days, take a look at your life in terms of momentum. What is your relationship with momentum? How easy is it for you to make needed changes? How much of your life is on a positive roll? Where are you in a rut and where are you riding a wave? It’s all about your relationship with momentum. You may want to reflect on Aristotle’s words:
“You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit”.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, October 25, 2015 | Announcements, Spirituality |
An introductory lecture I gave in Walnut Creek a while back has been posted on SoundCloud. I’m told that people really enjoy this lecture, and the sound quality is great.
SoundCloud is an online platform for sharing audio. If you create a free account, you can follow me to receive notifications of future audio uploads. You can also "Like" audio posts and share them on social media.
Also, there are free SoundCloud apps on the Apple Store and Google Play that allow you to listen to SoundCloud on your phone.
The lecture is in two parts. Enjoy!
Awakening to Your True Nature
Part 1: The Fundamentals
Part 2: The Process of Spiritual Evolution
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, October 24, 2015 | Announcements, Social Media |
New SlideShare Slideshow
View my latest slideshow, “Manifestation of Existence“, on SlideShare.
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New LinkedIn Article
Read my new LinkedIn article, “Healthy Stress Management“.
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New Article on Medium.com
Read my new Medium article, "Giving Thanks for Nothing".
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 | Spirituality |
When asked a question, to really know the answer means to find it deep within yourself. But what does that mean?
There is a big difference between feeling as deeply within as you are capable of feeling and feeling all the way to the depth. Commonly, people are taught that the depth of their being is an emotional level. That is not correct. Others believe that it is an intellectual level of clarity, which is also incorrect.
The depth of your being is generally a highly elusive thing. Why? Because of what I call ‘astral echoes’. When you drop a pebble in a pond, rings ripple out in concentric circles. Each circle corresponds to the circle closer to the center. All existence, including your being and your psyche, is like that. For example, when someone says they feel their oneness with everything, it means different things on different levels. New Agers may hold hands and emotionally feel they are one with everything. Many religions incite this emotional response with music and pomp. I remember when I would lecture about oneness in the early 1970s, hippies would say they took LSD and had the experience of Oneness, or God, and therefore, knew everything I was talking about. Even intellectuals reflect on modern physics theories of Oneness and decide that they ‘get it’. Spiritual leaders also decide that they ‘get it’ and promote their perspective. I call that the ‘I Get It Syndrome’. Due to astral echoes, everything has a corresponding meaning on all levels (concentric rings around the pebble in the pond) and the listener is certain they know exactly what you are talking about. This is why spiritual knowledge is so highly elusive.
Memorizing spiritual teachings and texts is not the solution. Why? Because they are read from the level of understanding of the reader and are thusly interpreted. That is why so many spiritually oriented people think they are ‘enlightened’. After all, they totally ‘get it’. Right?
To truly under-stand is to look deeper, to see deeper, to experience deeper and deeper levels until the very depth of your being is known.
The depth of your being lies beyond the reach of thoughts… beyond the reach of emotions. It transcends relativity. To attain it is to refine, refine, refine, your awareness. The most powerful tool to do that is PROPER MEDITATION. The cultivation of discernment is also essential. Otherwise, you lose yourself to echoes of Truth, perceived as Truth, which then holds Truth at bay.
Indeed, the path to Truth is highly elusive. Of course, that is actually a good thing. If not so elusive, everyone would have figured it all out long ago and the game would be over!
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, October 19, 2015 | Spirituality |
Truth is often viewed as something that can be acquired by reading the right book or hearing the right speech. Books and speeches are readily available, but only the wise know truth when they hear it. The question of how to pursue truth then is not where to find truth, but how to know it when you hear it.
Truth already dwells deep within every individual. However, if ones life is encrusted with stresses, strains, and impurities, that truth will not well up throughout the physiology and conscious awareness. In such a state, even if truth is offered, the individual will not resonate with it. It will not feel right. It will not ring true. It may even be experienced as offensive. The lower vibration that one is accustomed to will not resonate with the higher vibration of truth. Just as the pristine lotus flower rises up through the murky waters, to hear truth one must rise up through the quagmire of small egocentricity, separateness, polarization, and indoctrination.
Through proper meditation, one awakens to the absolute truth that dwells within. As this is done, one’s understanding of kindness, love, integrity, honor, nobility, beauty, justice, etc. raises to a higher level. Understanding deepens and is transformed as one evolves.
Hearing and knowing truth is simply a matter of innocence and purity – and their meanings too transform as one evolves.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 | Announcements, Spirituality |
View my latest slideshow, “The Evolution of Consciousness“, on SlideShare.
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