Archive for the ‘Videos to challenge your perceptions’ Category
Eckhart Tolle on YouTube
It’s been a while since i posted any Eckhart Tolle videos, so I thought as I’m working on a blog about the Ego which is really not flowing for me, I would side step that for a few days and just post some videos which you may enjoy as I have.
Gangaji
I post this as i do all videos in the knowing that someone somewhere will find it helpful even maybe life changing. I will avoid wasting lines of text on Gangaji, if you are ready for her, she will be like a breath of fresh air and will confirm what you already know as true, if you are not you will stop watching in seconds uninspired. The truth is within us all, but seldom do we discover it without a signpost that points back to ourselves. Could Gangaji be such a signpost for you?
‘The absurd notion of one’
As I go around the country showing, selling and talking about my Visionary art, I like to infuse people to find out about as many different spiritual and philosophical subjects as possible. One of the people i recommend checking out is Author Timothy Freke, I did post something on him in earlier blogs but i thought i would mention his name again for lots of reasons.
The video below by Nic Askew starring Timothy Freke www.timothyfreke.com
Is a very powerful and eloquent six minutes, it embraces much of what I believe and ponder on daily. It is 100% woo-woo free. Enjoy…
I’m really hoping to finally get to meet Timothy Freke as we are both at the
Quest Natural health show .
2nd to 5th July
Quest Natural Health Show
Newton Abbot Racecourse
Devon
http://www.questuk.co.uk/
I will be in the exhibition area stand 43
Spiritual Soup
I know that those who follow all kinds of ‘new/old age spiritualities’ can at times feel a little alienated and alone, having nothing like the support networks organized religion enjoys. That said I personally believe that is as it should be, as self discovery by its very name is not a group activity. Learning to embrace solitude and silence even within a domestic setting is all a part of the journey to inner truth.
As I have observed what tends to happen at the start of a spiritual awakening is people become totally obsessed with seeking answers for the human dilemma. Overwhelmed by questions, these people soon find a teacher that they resonate with who can feed their needs. Then over the following weeks, months, years they turn into mini me’s of their chosen guru, spouting chapter and verse of their latest books and teachings.
During this time of awakening we can all intellectually learn a great deal. Sadly we often fail to feel or act on what we have discovered. Many times all that happens in a spiritual awakening is a person simply ends up replacing their traditional thought systems with something more exotic and perplexing. While there is nothing wrong with this, it does seem a bit like over looking the ocean in favour of another rock pool.
I believe the only way to truly develop spiritually is to avoid becoming too transfixed with any particular ways of thinking. It is important to keep your mind open, trying to reduce ones need to judge people and situations. Ultimately this is the complete opposite to what we are taught by a society which requires we have an opinion on everything. We have been raised to see the world through a dualistic lens of good and bad, right and wrong. It is thought often too much of it that stunts our expansion into wholeness. It is only when we can empty our brain (not in a zombie like fashion) that we can maybe begin to understand. I’m afraid this is where my ability to explain what I mean in words hits a road block so forgive me if this is unclear.
Let me try an analogy: -
You are sitting at the foot of a huge dam one day. You see water trickling through a hole. This is a little worrying but you manage to plug it. Then you see another one you plug that. Then another and another, you are becoming more and more frantic, not to mention tired. Eventually the realisation dawns that despite all you best efforts this dam is coming down and there is not a damn thing (sorry) you can do about it. Despite what you may intellectually believe reading this at this point and maybe for just a few seconds the fear will subside, you will relinquish your need to try to fix the situation: – you will simply be. You will blend into the fabric of life. You will experience the way life is non-dualistic, not judgementally and without a care. At this point you will become enlightened (free from the weight of life).
What does that have to do with immersing your self in spiritual information?
Well, at first, every bit of information you come by you will try to make sense of: – you will judge it, reject or embrace it. As more and more information comes to you, the less you will be able to comfortably process. Contradictions may appear, concepts that you can’t even understand will frustrate you. How can you judge what you don’t understand? Slowly it will become clear, the more you learn the less you know. You probably believed to ‘win’ at life you had to wrestle the vastness of time, space and everything into a small and manageable concept. It will become apparent sooner or later that this is not possible. Your mind is the dam, life is the water.
As you learn more and more, you puncher your minds concepts until the reality of the situations dawn. You can’t control life, it controls you and as for comprehending everything, trying to ‘fix it’ is just totally pointless. It is at this realisation a deep fear many take hold, even anger. You stand in the field of life waving your fist at the sky tossing profanity after profanity at the universe, despairing at the believed realization that in the vastness of space is nothing.
Finally you may shut up, fall to your knees and have a flash of insight. (For we know all truth lies within) You are not a no-thing, you are apart of everything, life is non-dualistic not judgementally and without a care.
Below is the spiritual soup that I offer up for you. It consists of as many different views of life as I could fit on a page. You could spend hours here so take as much as you like, whenever you like and don’t panic it’s 100% fat free.
Gangaji Spiritual Traps
Gangaji Unraveling the Knot of Suffering
Alan Watts – The Middle Way
Eckhart Tolle The Flowering of Human Consciousness
James Ray going three for three
Many of you in the UK will still not have heard of James Ray, if you’re looking for a soft cuddly spiritual teacher then James is not your man. He has a refreshing tell it like it is approach that is always teetering on the edge of just being yet another money making business guru in a suit. I have listened to a number of his audio books and his vocal delivery is fast, passionate and to the point. I have to be honest and say that after about 20 minutes I often have to just switch him off. Why? He gets me in a bad mood, why? Because what he says is often what you don’t want to hear, but ultimately need to, it’s kind of like bad medicine it tastes foul but will do you good in the long run.
I have to say if I didn’t ultimately resonate with James I would not be even talking about him here. I enjoy listening and talking about metaphysical/philosophical subjects and so I engage with his work on that level.
There are so many spiritual teachers out there that if you wait long enough, your find someone saying something you really like or fits in with your world view. I believe to grow spiritually we should be listening to all kinds of views even those we don’t always agree with, those who do get our backs up and challenge our perceptions.
Spiritual messages and messengers come in all shapes and sizes, you can here as much truth from a homeless man as you can a stadium packing guru of love. Let’s face it most of this stuff you already know, it is the inner wisdom we all carry with us. If you reject that notion, If you think any teacher is going to complete you or ultimately change you, then I think your in for a big disappointment. All the books, cd’s, dvd’s retreats and seminars won’t enlighten the soul that can’t recognize the fact everything they seek ultimately lies within them.
Many people in the world would be far happier if someone would just come along and live their life for them. If reincarnation does really exist (which I believe it does on some level) then they are going to keep coming back here, until they learn to start living their life, and stop giving their power away to other people.
Watch the clip below, see what emotions and feelings stir in you, then question why you feel that way.
I think watching the audience in this video is very interesting, as you can see how some people are just not getting it, or have simply disconnected. I think that maybe because James is asking them to do things for themselves, not just giving them some great answer to their life’s problems. Doh! you mean I’ve got to start thinking for myself ? I didn’t come all this way to hear that, I want to be thin, rich and famous, right now damn it, fix me fix me now James. Sorry every now and them my sarcastic side breaks free.
I very much ‘enjoyed?’ James Rays challenging book ‘Practical Spirituality’ which you can get also as audio book from itunes. Check out James Rays helpful and informative sites below. He may be just the right guy to tell you what you didn’t want to hear.
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An Idea worth spreading
I would ask you if you have never seen it to watch the whole of the following video of Jill Bolte Taylor, insight into the human brain and how it feels to have a stroke. That may not sound very inspiring, but I’m sure as you watch the video you will being to see why I have posted it and why everyone in the world should take 20 minutes to view it . While you may find jills way of talking hard to listen to (for UK ears) I ask you to stick with it and if you don’t have a swelling of emotion in you by the end of the video, I would suggest you question if your still alive.
Find out more about jill at http://drjilltaylor.com/
Find out more about the inspirational and informative videos of Ted TV at http://www.ted.com/
If you live in the UK and have Sky TV you can watch more videos like this every day of the week at channel 200 edge media TV http://www.edgemediatv.com/
Celebrate What’s Right With The World
A great video to start your day or your new life
