by Michael Mamas | Friday, November 30, 2012 | World View |
Every economic situation is a great opportunity for success for those who know what is coming. You know what is coming. I have been telling you for years what is now clear to everyone who is willing to look. It is only for you to seize the opportunity. It’s simple: just do not behave like a deer in the headlights.
All we need to do is keep a steady hand on the rudder and we will be fine. Mount Soma is moving along. Hanuman is coming soon (i.e. Hanuman Park).
The Age of Enlightenment is coming. My concern is with the world. Our work is to make the transition as comfortable as possible for the world. We have the technology. If we just all stick together, we can make it happen.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, November 30, 2012 | World View |
We are in the time of a great phase transition. Whether or not this nation catapults forward or, like the Roman Empire, collapses under its own weight, is up to us.
The family of nations is so intertwined that the prosperity of the entire globe is at stake. I choose to live a life dedicated to catapulting the world forward. We have the technology to make it so. Either we regenerate our world, or we allow it to succumb to fate.
The following quotes provide some historical perspective on the matter:
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
– John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. – Albert Einstein
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
– Noël Coward (1899-1973)
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage.
– Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)
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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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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | Spirituality |
I had a conversation with my daughters (ages just 10 and almost 14) last night about what I do. I said, “In a nutshell, I help people with their inner worlds.”
Though we all live ‘in there’ very few tend to it well. For most, it is what it is and that is where and how they live. To evolve it is a subtle craft.
Your inner world is just that… a world that lies within you. It requires proper attention.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, November 23, 2012 | Spirituality |
It always annoys me to hear theologians on television debate things like creationism. I just saw this again.
When will the world understand the notion of multiple realities?! There are an infinite number of equally valid slices through the same one pie. Each tells its own story. Western science, Yin/yang theory, 5 elements…. there is no end to it.
This is not to say that all perspectives are correct. It is possible to be just plain wrong. But the interconnected nature of existence affords an infinite number of angles of approach. You are you and I am me. We are separate. at the same time, we are both the same one thing, The Unified Field. We are One. Two valid realities. Newton, Einstein, on and on.
If people took a step back to understand the big picture first, they would stop fighting to defend their little picture.
We live in a reality continuum. Why is that so difficult to grasp?
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, November 22, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Everyone has idealized notions. This is a good time to ask yourself what your notions of the ideal Thanksgiving look like. And then remember that it is different for everyone.
For some, it is family joining around the kitchen table, preparing the feast, with loved ones in the other room playing scrabble. For others, it is a day at the football game or watching television.
It is no wonder that it is a time when some feel melancholy. No one seems to have the exact same ideal notion as you. It seems everyone’s notion is that everyone else fits perfectly into his own personal ideal notion. Then they are disappointed.
Look deeper.
Thanksgiving is a time to let go and relax into the depth of your being… that which is pure satisfaction, and that which loves unconditionally. We all share the same one humanity. Your friends and loved ones join you on a level that transcends idealized notions. It is the level of universality. The power of Thanksgiving dwells there. With the attention of so many on that level, Thanksgiving becomes a profoundly healing and evolutionary time for all. Having your attention on that level assures a beautiful Thanksgiving.
Get the depth right, and all else takes care of itself.
This one day each year is set aside to be thankful for all the good that is. It is a day to count your blessings and release your cares. Do not underestimate the powerful blessing we all receive by joining in the national group consciousness of that gratitude.
Resting into that, you will most assuredly have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let us all be thankful for our lives and for one and other.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | World View |
I do enjoy communicating with Clif. I emailed the following to him:
I didn’t read this, but the headline is fascinating…. and maybe all we need to know…
http://news.yahoo.com/farthest-known-galaxy-universe-discovered-201051161.html
To which he responded:
So there are three interesting things about this article:
1. The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. This galaxy is 13.3 billion years since the big bang.
2. The only reason we can see this galaxy is because of a gravitational lens effect of nearby galaxies theorized by Einstein. The lens magnifies the galaxy to the point we can see it.
3. As a young galaxy it’s quite a bit smaller than the Milky Way (600 light years across vs. 150,000 light years across)
Clif
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, November 19, 2012 | Spirituality |
My daughter drew a picture of a dragon and asked me how I liked it. I told her I felt it was very good, but the proportions were not natural. I told her about the Golden Proportions in nature. I told her it is not necessary to know the math to draw it if she can feel it.
The following seems to be a pretty good website on the subject. Even if you do not want to get into the math details, surfing this site and looking at the pics for a few minutes will likely provide some feeling and insight.
http://www.goldennumber.net/category/phi-basics/
Attuning yourself to nature comes along many paths. Finding the one that is uniquely yours requires humility concurrent with inner knowing. It is the razors edge… the eye of the needle.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, November 10, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
False dignity is pride
True dignity is humble integrity
True Integrity is alignment with the True Self
True Humility is rooted in abstraction… which lies beyond rules, codes, laws…
yet proper use of rules, codes, and laws can help light the way to True Integrity and True Humility.
Improper use of rules, codes, and laws clouds, inhibits, or even attacks The Way.
False integrity is alignment with dogma.
When the Master speaks, it immediately ceases to be what the Master said and, in time, becomes what dogma dictates.
Jesus was judged harshly by the ‘spiritual elders’ of His time.
Today is no different than then.
Reflect, learn and become great.
Truth lies within you as You.
Do not rely upon smallness. Who you are is great, grand, beyond smallness, beyond dogma, beyond simplistic… yet it is very simple.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Personal Growth |
To ‘know all about’ is one thing. To embody is quite another. This is true of everything from cooking, to psychology, to hard science, to spirituality and more.
True knowledge is structured in consciousness. Superficial knowledge is about facts and techniques. Such superficiality most often shrouds the deeper meaning and knowing.
As Benjamin Franklin put it:
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
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