by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | Spirituality |
Duality is separation. Separation is painful.
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Union is bliss. Love unifies.
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If we feel separate from someone or something, it’s unsettling. We might look up at the star-filled sky at night and feel melancholy, as though we are incredibly far away from someone.
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Connection, on the other hand, is blissful. We might talk with someone and feel as though we really joined up with that person, and there’s a joy and fulfillment involved.
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The natural tendency of life is to move back to oneness.
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We long to unite, we want to feel a communion with our fellow humans, we long to understand, and we want to merge with life.
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The force that propels us takes the duality that we’re functioning in and brings us back to oneness.
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This force, which brings duality back to oneness, is love—it’s God’s love flowing through us.
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The force that pulls duality back to unity is called love. It is the driving force behind everything we do.
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Love makes the grass grow – it makes the birds sing.
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Love is the only force that exists in the entire universe.
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It is the energy of healing. It makes the galaxies move and it makes our hearts beat. God’s love is your love.
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It’s the only force in the universe.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, March 20, 2011 | Mount Soma, Personal Growth, Spirituality, World View |
A number of questions have come in lately that will be addressed here.
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Some people have been attending classes for years and others are new to the school and only know of it by the website. That is all great. I would like to provide as much information as I can on the website so that even people without the time, money, or inclination to travel to classes can still receive the knowledge.
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The challenge is to write in a manner that is understood by those who are new to the school, while still saying things that are engaging to the long-term students.
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I welcome the challenge and appreciate your emails asking for clarification if concepts and terms are used that you are not familiar with. This will help make the website user friendly for everyone. Some of the concepts are as subtle as they are important so please bear with me as the information is provided over time.
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Several such questions will be addressed below. However, understand that each is a lecture or series of lectures in itself. More thorough explanations help insure that the words are not misunderstood. Let’s move forward together in that spirit, understanding that each answer may well create a number of additional questions. I will address all these things in more depth in future articles, blogs, and videos on the website.
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One question asked why Mount Soma is safer than other places during these times of earth change.
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It is important to understand the interconnection of all things. The environment affects your consciousness and your consciousness affects the environment.
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The transcendent is a field of pure conscious (is-ness, being, the unified field, God…these and other terms are used for the transcendent) underlying and radiating harmony and coherence into your awareness and through you, to the environment. As you do a meditation through which you transcend, this becomes stronger.
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As you do this in a location where others are also doing this mediation, the effect becomes exponentially stronger.
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At Mount Soma, additional technologies are employed to enhance this even more such as vastu, Sri Somesvara (see SriSomesvara.org), etc. This harmony, radiating out to the environment, has a stabilizing and healing effect on the environment. It becomes a solid ground that supports life.
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Research has shown this sort of phenomenon to be true. At Mount Soma, we take great care to implement this with precision and purity. Cultural and personal biases make that a very rare thing on the planet. The knowledge is profoundly subtle and therefore quite elusive.
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A second question refers to a previous blog where I stated that to perceive something is to heal it, asking how that is so.
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This involves the concept I have discussed at length called “Being, Merging, Knowing, and Doing.” In a nutshell: Today when something is to be accomplished, the first question is, “What do I do? How do I DO it?” In other words, the ‘doing’ comes first. This is a superficial and I would have to say upside down approach. Doing comes last. How to do it, comes last.
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True knowledge of anything starts with Being. Become established in your being (the transcendent) or at least in the short term, settle down and rest into yourself… get ‘centered.’
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From there if you have something to deal with, Merge with it. On the level of being, you are one with everything. Find that thing within youself and merge with it. That is what true perception is all about.
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From that ‘Knowing’ naturally follows. Once you have merged with something, you come to truly know it.
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After that, the proper Doing is clear and spontaneous. You know what to do, because you have clearly perceived from the deepest level of your being. To perceive is to heal.
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Third question: “How do we tell our children about the upcoming earth changes?”
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Every person is unique. Therefore what is best said depends on the individual child. To know what to say comes from the same principle as above… being, merging knowing, and doing.
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Take the time to understand your child and then you will know what to do/say.
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To my experience, children are often satisfied with short responses that bottom line the subject. They often go deep within naturally and receive your words on that level. They are capable of filling in many details deep within their own hearts.
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With respect to earth changes, simply saying that the world is purifying and as it does so, it naturally lets off steam here and there may be enough.
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Regarding their safety, it is important for them to know that they derive a great deal of support in life quite naturally (Many adults would do well to understand that better).
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By resting in your arms, they rest in the arms of Mother Nature and thereby receive the support of nature. That is simply how life works and kids drink up the energy they receive from that quite naturally.
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The unrest in the tectonic plates is born of the fear and negativity in people’s hearts. By resting in your own being, your children will learn how to rest into there’s.
As a result, Nature will hold and support them and you.
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Living from that place within your own being will be to best way of communicating all this to your children.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, March 13, 2011 | Spirituality, World View |
Certainly my heartbreak over the tragedy in Japan renders my thoughts about the situation insignificant.
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Yet I have been asked to share my thoughts.
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Well, of course the mechanics of the karma comes to mind. However, we must be most humble regarding this. The mechanics of creation are subtle and complex to the point of unfathomability.
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Though the sadness in my heart dominated my experience, the interconnectedness of life has been foremost in my mind regarding this tragedy.
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Speaking openly and sincerely, I would have to say that it seems like we felt it coming here at Mount Soma. For several days prior to the earthquake, it seemed like a pressure or turbulence was building just under the surface.
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When news of the earthquake arrived, it felt like, “Oh, so now we know what that was really about.” Our lives are all so interconnected. The pulse of the planet courses through the channels of global consciousness. The more we feel our connection to all that is, the more we experience the pulse of that global state. Eras in time have characteristic pulses. I remember clearly realizing and experiencing that during the Carter presidency era.
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Imagine if we could work with that interconnection as a vehicle to heal global consciousness.
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From my years of experience in the healing arts, I concluded that if you could feel it, you could heal it. The idea being that if you can get a ‘handle’ on something, you can then begin to work with it.
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Feeling is the gateway. So much of life is just about feeling what is right in your hands – innocently, purely, unbiased – without judgment, preconceptions, or conditions.
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To look upon the world and see it as it is.
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Notions of what is preclude ones ability to see what is.
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Everything is right there before you.
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To perceive, is to feel without bias, is to heal. The potential is infinite.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, March 6, 2011 | Spirituality |
The very name, Henry David Thoreau, elicits a fine sense of nostalgia within me. Not only do I enjoy his thoughts, but also his writing skills. He said something to the effect that there is only one right word that makes a sentence work.
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In the quote below, the word ‘hard’ does not quite work for me. Perhaps ‘elusive’ would be a better choice.
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Life is a house of mirrors within a labyrinth of caverns and mazes. Reflections of truth, echoes of truth… all inverting, convoluting and permuting one’s perceptions of truth and Self.
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A jacket, turned inside out, still looks and acts very much the same. Life affords a limitless number of inside out, upside down, inverted reflections of itself, each consistent within its own self, loaded with more than ample ammunition to overshadow the true Self.
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When the Self is finally seen it says nothing, yet everything within that silence. It never goes away and lands with an all-consuming punch.
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Only then can the awesome beauty of its overt, yet elusive, omnipresence be consumed. And this at the price of the viewer’s own dissolution into something so far-reaching and grand as to overwhelm all that was, while evading any possibility or inclination of being grasped.
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‘Hard’ is not the word I would choose. Hard is living a life lost to the permutations and convolutions… and trying to view the Self by holding on to those echoes.
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The awakening is not hard at all. Nothing could be easier. It just simply, suddenly, unexpectedly, shockingly, quietly… happens.
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“It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.”
– Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, March 5, 2011 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
The following is an interesting quote.
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Its validity depends on the depth of the understanding the word trust.
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Do you trust your issues and distorted convictions about life? Or do you trust the Divinity that lies deep within.
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Can you tell the difference between trust with a small or capital “T”?
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At first glance, they can feel remarkably similar.
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, March 4, 2011 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
“The plan is nothing. Planning is everything.”
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I’m not sure on the source but I like this quote.
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Planning is alive. Planning is fluid and dynamic.
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The plan does not know what changed – what happened next. Think of tacking a sailboat. The plan is how the sail and rudder were set. Planning keeps your eye on what is now and next.
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When people work with me, they sometimes have a hard time with the rapid pace of change that I set.
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I believe this explains my approach to life nicely.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, March 1, 2011 | Spirituality
Great accomplishments would not have been great if they at first did not seem unimaginable.
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Early on in my life, I decided to dedicate my life to understanding life.
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My dreams are just the natural conclusion of that investigation.
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“To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream,
not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 | Spirituality |
“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.” – James Thurber
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It is my intent to change this.
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I see no other reasonable path to take. What else would make sense?
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First get your house in order. Then live in it.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, February 21, 2011 | Spirituality
Consciousness is the ultimate reality.
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In the final analysis, consciousness is the only thing that really is. This entire universe is based on a mistaken notion: consciousness looked at itself and thought it was seeing something other than itself. This is called Cosmic Transference. It is the big bang!
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At the level of the Transcendent, even though it hasn’t lost the awareness of oneness, consciousness sees itself as other. There is a quality of wholeness and perfection in the transference because it isn’t lost to identity.
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Relative existence is based on transference—the projection of a notion onto something else.
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However, the quality of the transference changes as it is experienced from different levels of existence.
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Thus, the key to life is not about getting rid of transference. It is about being aware of our transference and knowing that what is beyond that world of transference, is Transcendental Oneness.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, February 12, 2011 | Spirituality
I enjoy quotes: Below are a few with my comments:
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand – Kurt Vonnegut
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I smiled when I read this. Taken on face value it is a fun quote. However, the problem I have with a statement like this one is that it clouds the situation with nothing more than clever words.. We do well not to use rhetoric to deflect, bury, or otherwise undermine truth.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. – Walter Bagehot
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This is true for many of us. How easy it is to self compromise in the name of peace. Of course others self aggrandize in the name of poor self esteem compensation. One of each type, living under the same roof, is called codependency. Confrontation without conflict is a laudable, but not easily attainable goal. Wise, thoughtful, sensitive confrontation, though it may feel like you are traversing a mine field, can bring about splendid transformation.
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You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. – Cecil Baxter
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There is a good point to this. However, it is fortunately not always true. We can purify ourselves and our planet through transformation from one state of being to another, not through transportation of dirt from one place to another.
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