God/Wound Exercise

by | Monday, November 29, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality | 1 comment

This exercise is taken from the Unconditioned Spirit Workbook.  It will help you see the divinity in yourself and others.  It’s fun and you can easily do it throughout the day—in line at the bank, the grocery store, at the airport or anyplace where you can watch people and you have some time to spare.

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  1. Feel into your physical body.  How does it feel?  Allow yourself to rest in your body.

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  1. Now feel more deeply into yourself, into what some may call the soul.  Feel into the part that is exquisite, of pure intent, and divine.   Allow that part to well up and permeate your being.  Fully innocent.

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  1. Look at others and feel that part of them that is exquisite, of pure intent, and divine.  Fully innocent.  See it in their faces, their eyes, and how they hold their body.

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  1. Now feel your sadness and your fears, your frustration and disappointment.   Feel how it has affected your body—tight, weary, or agitated.  Feel into this aspect of yourself that may be referred to as the wound.

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  1. Look at others and see their sadness and their fears, their frustration and disappointment.  See how it has affected their body—tight, weary, or agitated.  Feel into this aspect of them that may be referred to as the wound.  See it in their faces and their eyes and how they hold their body.

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  1. Now go back to feeling your divinity—the part that is exquisite, of pure intent, and fully innocent.  And now look at others.  See the divinity in them.

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  1. Notice that you can shift back and forth at will between seeing your and others’ divinity and seeing everyone’s wound.

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Your conditioning determines your perspective.  What you see in others is more about you, than about them.  Adhering to any one perspective is limiting.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

The Ego

by | Saturday, November 27, 2010 | Spirituality | 2 comments

I was recently asked to comment on a document regarding the ego, to which I respond:

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I would love to reply to your request regarding the document, however to do it justice is a matter of hours of lectures.  Any brief response, I feel would be a betrayal of the subtlety, depth and breadth of the knowledge of the ego, etc.

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Having said that, I will say the following: Contrary to what is popularly believed, the ego is not destroyed.  It is expanded… transformed to ultimately include all that is.

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As per the Vedic tradition, one could argue that any change entails a destruction of the former, but that begs the point and I feel in this case is more misleading than enlightening.

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Admittedly, the experience does feel at times like a destruction of the self/ego.  But again, that description said so briefly is really more misleading than helpful.

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There may be some articles or lectures on this website or newsletter that discuss this which you would, I believe, find interesting.  If you ever come for a free lecture or a class, please do introduce yourself and feel free to ask me to talk in more depth on the subject.

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Warm Wishes,

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Michael

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emails

by | Friday, November 26, 2010 | Mount Soma, Spirituality | 2 comments

I am receiving an ever-increasing numbers of emails in response to my blogs.

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I read them all and am often moved by them.

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They are important to me and very much appreciated. You are very important to me.  Your evolution is important to me and certainly, of course, to the whole world.

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Even if you are one who does not travel and we never meet in the physical, I will continue to offer all I can through this website to facilitate your evolution.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Giving Thanks

by | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | Spirituality, World View | 2 comments

One day, sitting on our front porch, I asked my wife, “Can you imagine a hostile army [either foreign or domestic] marching down this street someday?”

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“No, I can’t,” she honestly responded.

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Then I said, “For so long we have taken for granted what thousands have died for, that we no longer fully appreciate it.  Because of that, we risk losing it.  That’s the nature of time.  We forget.”

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Freedom… no sovereign nation holds a more precious gift, nor a more delicate one.

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This Thanksgiving, may we all express our humble gratitude.

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May we once again proclaim our dedication to creating a more enlightened world.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

The Road to Joy

by | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 | World View | 1 comment

As most of you know, I have been warning of the current financial situation for years.  Yet few understood what I was saying and most just wondered why a ‘spiritual teacher’ was talking about such things.  John Adams put it well in the quote below.

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All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. – John Adams

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The irony is that this global crisis could be healed overnight if the world would just listen to his words and act upon them, but that is not likely to happen.  Is it?

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How difficult it is to see a tragedy coming, reach out and warn about it, and then watch the world in synchronized step march down that road into oblivion.  How perplexing to see someone holding a gun to his foot, and in spite of all my pleading, the trigger is pulled anyway.  How completely mind boggling that after that is done, the next foot is targeted and in spite of all my pleading, the trigger is pulled again.

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Yet we are making progress, particularly in the group consciousness of our Surya family.  I know that in time, the world will wake up.  The only question is how long it will take and how much unnecessary suffering will occur in the meantime.

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All we can do is our best, and that is what I am doing.  The technology to heal this world on all levels (not just economically) is there.  How difficult to have that knowledge in a world so committed to the road to oblivion.  Yet we will not stop.

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In time, the road to joy will become the main traveled path for the people of this world.

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