Terry Patten
Join Us at 6pm PDT this Tuesday, October 26th for “Inner Engineering” with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Mark you calendars, and be prepared to join us for what’s set to be an exciting conversation with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.
Sadhguru is a genuine Indian yogi and mystic in the tradition of the ancient Rishis, but he has translated his spiritual understanding and transmission into accessible contemporary terms. Spontaneously eloquent in English,Tamil, and Hindi, Sadhguru is able to speak with playful wisdom and profound insight to mundane and pragmatic matters as well as inner experience and wisdom.
Sadhguru translates the esoteric wisdom of the ancients into an “Inner Engineering” or “science” of self-transformation. Belonging to no particular tradition, Sadhguru incorporates and presents what is most valid for the contemporary life from the yogic sciences. A visionary humanitarian, Sadhguru works tirelessly towards the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of all. His mastery of the mechanisms of life, an outcome of his profound experience of the Self, guides in exploring the subtler dimensions of life.
Sadhguru regularly speaks at major international conferences such as the World Economic Forum, the UN and TED, addressing issues as diverse as human rights, business values, social, environmental and existential issues.
He founded Isha Foundation, a non-religious, nonprofit organization that is operated by over 1 million volunteers from more than 200 city-based centers spread worldwide. Under Sadhguru’s guidance, Isha Foundation has launched several large-scale projects to support individual growth, revitalize the human spirit, rebuild communities, and restore the environment. One of their current projects is to plant 1 million trees in India.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Tuesday, October 26th @ 6:00pm Pacific
“Inner Engineering” with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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We look forward to your attendance!
Sincerely,
The Beyond Awakening Team
The subject of positive and negative energy being powerful and creative has been briefly mentioned but the positive energy gets almost all the attention. The negative energy is viewed as something bad, wrong or to be overpowered by positive energy.
In my experience a negative often creates a positive and vice versa. The whole of the human condition requires full awareness and full integration. If we cannot learn to utilize the negative as well as the positive, nothing will change. No amount of practise can change the natural life process.
It is the natural life process that we need to understand through a new perspective.
I am certain that the deepest desire of humanity is to feel safe, secure, free and to love and be loved. We have to see why it is not.
I believe there is a synchonicity and without the negative it could not exist. It is in understanding, accepting, fully experiencing and integrating the negative that effects the greatest changes when it is honoured.
We will get there. regards Paula Rose
Hi,
I totally agree with you.
love,
Bye,
amba
You are not getting the point. Sadhguru is talking about reality, just not spiritual reality.
I love this teacher! His wisdom is profound and he takes his spirituality and quite logicly puts it to work in the world! Native Americans would call it walking his talk….if we all did so this world would be a better place.
What a wonderful discourse.
I have been practicing Isha Yoga and it has changed my life. This is so indescribably real! No matter how many times I listen to Sadhguru, I still derive something new each time.
Firstly, can I record my heartfelt thanks to Terry for creating and managing such a fantastic international forum for like-minded spiritual enthusiast. I confess to being an ardent fan of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev who appeared and reappears in my life thru various channels, despite my initial resistance, I’m now fully sold on his profound teachings. My next goal is to advance further beyond his Inner Engineering Program, which despite my sporadic practice has changed my inner world and with it my outer experiences quite dramatically. To Sadhguru, my deepest gratitude.
What i’d like to bring to this Forum is the question of collective consciousness which seem to be a preoccupation with many. My understanding is that you can’t unsettle the minds of those who are not ready for a spiritual experience or expanded consciousness. The only way is to focus on ones own internal growth and as the flower blooms, the fragrance will become irresistible and many will be drawn to take a whif of its perfume and from there the expansion of the collective consciousness can occur. The spark or triggers will naturally occur in the presence of an enlightened being or elevated conscious presence.
Thus instead of focussing on collective consciousness shouldn’t we be just intensifying our own inner flowering, so that there will be sufficient mass of individuals who truly begin to experience the other dimension beyond the limitations of the physical world – and allow the natural evolutionary progression of one enlightened being to bring light to many more around him/her. My point is, it must begin with our own selves first and we must not dilute the intensity of our practice with the preoccupation with “saving others”. It appears almost as an ego-driven need to focus externally on the collective consciousness instead of intensifying on ones own internal spiritual practice and resolve. That mass of collective consciousness must begin one person at a time, and involve true sincere seekers. A cry for collective conciousness is to risk attracting spiritual intellectuals, and pedllers out to be part of a pop culture with suspect intent. Shouldn’t this be a journey of “how can i be?” rather than “what can i do?”
For me collective conciousness is the effect of many individuals focusing on “how can i be” and that affecting the entire population’s conciousness when a critical mass is reached in terms of the numbers in a group, I think.
I have undergone inner engineering program and I have to admit this, its a life transforming event for me, one has to experience what I am saying. It has touched me in that dimension that I have never experienced before.
My deepest gratitude to Sadhguru.
Like Terry i was a seeker and activist for many decades and now found myself in a very busy householder role in my later decades. I also like to work on trees like Sadhguru–hybrid hazelnuts, sea buckthorn (not the invasive weed tree most people know here but a fabulous berry probably engineered in the Himalyas by higher consciousness), siberian pea shrub, maple, apples, and plums.
However, as I look around at the 19% real unemployment rate, the boomers retiring, the great numbers in prison, the aimless young, and the diminished material expectations of us all–not to mention the challenges of climate change and social clash–what a fabulous spiritual opportunity for us all.
What i think is needed is the flower of home grown technologies going hand in hand with consciousness. Some are clearly problematic. Not all of us can fly off to South America to do ayahausca. The empire has made psychedics illegal. The Egyptians used natron in their love feasts, Rachel and Leah in Genesis 30 14-16 exchange mandrake root for sexual rights to Jacob, and icons of the Middle Ages clearly reveal monastics were using psychedic mushrooms but these all have limitations.
Another technology used from ancient times was to concentrate on a reflective surface which would be either a jar of dyed water or mirrored surface. Raymond Moody, the near death pioneer, is also re-inventing this from ancient days. He re-fitted an old grain mill setting it up with a mirror blackened on the back which you stare into with a flickering candle at your back. Eventually the eyes tire from the flicker on the reflective surface and subconscious images come up. It seems to work good for his clients as a good way to meet dead relatives.
This is an ancient technology. It is well described in the Leyden papyrus from 3rd C. CE in Egypt. It was also used in First Century Palestine. The Gospel of Philip–which is entirely mis-named. It should be entitled ‘Sermon on the Mirrored Bridaled Chamber’–reveals this.About halfway through it you find a paragraph on “God is a dyer…his dyes are immortal, they become immortal by means of his colors”. Farther on: “The Lord went into the dye works of Levi. He took seventy-two different colors and through them into the vat. He took them all out white.” (or light).
Farther on: “none can see himself either in water or a mirror without light. Nor again can you see in light without water or mirror.” Later on is a reference to the ‘mirrored bridal chamber’.
The earliest rabbinic tradition says that Jesus was crucified for practicing magic. The ‘dye in water’ method would have been much more practical for Jesus and disciples since mirrors were expensive and cumbersome to carry around, but you have to bend over them. The mirror method would have been more preferable in settled Syria for the authors of the Gospel of Thomas and Philip.
The cave of John the Baptist in Suba which goes back 700 years before him also reflects this mystery school tradition.
Peter Levenda in ‘Stairway to heaven’ also documents a practice from cultures from Palestine to China of meditating on the Big Dipper, internalizing the stars, and apparenting flipping into an out of the body experience with a lot of cultural encoding from Jewish Kabbala to Chinese esoterics.
John
Sathguru is a real person in the world.very simple ,deepest look,high confidence with people for awakening them.
I did the Inner Engineering course more that 4 years ago, and also most of the follow-up courses. It has really changed me deeply. Not just on the surface level but right to the core. People all have different levels of awareness and ability. It has made me aware of so much around me that I was not aware of before. I was mainly always seeking some sort of gratification externally. Now I realise happiness comes from within and can be constant. This course is just amazing.
Pierre
Sadhguru tells us that our logic, intelligence, and competence could lead to our destruction. Realizing that we are a part of a unified whole and serving something larger than our self could lead to our survival. Let’s pray that it is the later that occurs.
Being with teachers like Sadhguru and practicing selfless karma yoga could be a good start. Perhaps at our integral events like our Integral Spiritual Experiences we could include some of this service to those less fortunate then our self.