The grandeur of the universe inspires in us the feeling of the unlimitedness of consciousness and the grandeur of the soul. An Indian friend sent me this morning the link to this exceptionally beautiful video from the American Museum of Natural History: “The Known Universe” takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang and back to earth. Enjoy the journey.

A friend just sent me the link to a video of Ani Choying Drolma, a Buddhist nun from Nepal, singing a beautiful mantra of Compassion Buddha, to develop one’s own compassion qualities to heal oneself and to heal others. Ani Choying uses the income from her songs to finance a school in Nepal. Another beautiful song is the Ganesha Mantram.

Photo from the video

A friend just sent me the link to the following video narrated by two male North-American aboriginal leaders, with beautiful pictures. There is a website for supporting this initiative. Enjoy the video.

I just got an extremely beautiful powerpoint presentation in Spanish (4 MB) about Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”. I made a quick translation of the intro with the help of automatic translation. Enjoy.

Photo of a friend

One week ago a beautiful thrilling seminar with our spiritual teacher, K. Parvathi Kumar, ended. About 500 group members from many countries all over the world assembled in the beautiful village of Engelberg (Angel Mountains) for the celebration of the 100th May Call Day (see the blogpost about the preparation). Nearly 130 members had come from India, most of them for the first time leaving their country.

For four days there were celebrations, lectures, concerts and presentations, and of course a lot of talks with friends. The common meditations created a strong energy field uplifting all. It was astonishing how smooth everything went. Our team of organizers at first had not thought that so many people would come, and more and more hotels had to be included. We had transformed a huge curling hall into the seminar place, so that there were no problems having enough space for all.

The lectures of our teacher were very inspiring. The main celebration on May 29th was a gorgeous feast with many presents brought by groups for the groups, a mutual exchange of joy. Next day there were a number of musical presentations. In the evening I had a special highlight for which I had worked a long time. I had prepared a presentation, “The Song of Fire. A Journey through Macrocosm and Microcosm” (now also on the website), with texts from the wisdom teachings and pictures I had painted over 2 decades ago and later destroyed. I had recovered the pictures from photos and presented them for the first time to a public. I was deeply moved of this occasion. Many people afterwards told me that the presentation had profoundly touched them. Also after the seminar I got quite a lot of feedbacks. For me it was like crossing a threshold, though I don’t know yet where it is leading to.

Path of Light, March 1982

Dawn over Engelberg

There are quite a lot of electronic gifts showing up at the moment. Here are some link miscellanea:

1. A friend from Houston Theosophical Society sent the link to a new page of the site of Theosophy Watch, where you find a number of photos of new crop circles from 2009, and a “Crop Circle Documentary 2009″ video, from YouTube:

2. The photographer and environmental artist Chris Jordan does a fascinating work of sensitizing people for environmental concerns in a very aesthetic way (I have already before blogged about Chris’ work). You find new series of photo mandalas about “Portraits of Global Mass Culture” (-> Running the Numbers, 1 & II) and a new large scale mandala. It is depicting the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture. He has taken the names from Paul Hawken’s “Blessed Unrest” project. The mandala is called “E Pluribus Unum”, meaning “The Many become One”.

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3. Freydoun Rassouli: a beautiful flash intro to the fascinating paintings of the Iranian artist living in California. There are some e-cards of him on the Good-Will website.

4. And another interesting flash on “Awaken Visions” by Daniel B. Holeman. On his site you find a section about animated art.

Iris – Photo of a friend

Today I came across two beautiful videos about the majestic beauty of the Himalayas. The first is showing impressions of a flight over an unaccessible mountain range with a sublime music (3:00):

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The second (2:50) is about “Himalaya – The Live God”. Though you don’t understand the text (it is, I suppose, in Hindi), you will understand the pictures – giving short impressions of saints and sacred places.

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And here is a short story playing in the Himalayas, by Master EK, from the end of the book “Occult Anatomy”:

“In the Tantra books, it opens like this: Siva and Sakti sit on the high cliffs of the mountains of the Himalayas. Always, it starts like this. There is no one in the vicinity, proximity. They can talk nonsense, they want. (Master said this as a joke, to the laugh of the students). Siva was a bit grim, serious. Sakti looked at Him and smiled. Then Siva smiled, because He is also a male fellow, tempted by female. (Laugh). His smile was captured as reflection in the eyes of the Mother-Goddess. This created the whole world. That means creation came as the solar energy called Siva reflects on the moon and comes down as the Moon’s Light called the smile. Then Siva said, “My darling”, (because there were two fellows. There was no third fellow). He said, “Some people in the creation worship you and get liberation. Some people worship Me and get liberation. So let us divide the worship into two, so that there may not be any disputes. The disciples may be divided into two”. He said these words. So there are two types of devotees. Some are the devotees who worship God as ‘You’ and some others are the devotees who worship God as ‘I AM’. So some people meditate ‘ I AM’ and some people meditate “You are”. So with this conversation, the wonderful fellow Siva started the Creation, when Himself and His darling were lonely. That is how the Tantra books start. So may these two parents bless you in every way, before we meet again and even after. “

I today got the link to the short YouTube-video “Bodhisattva in Metro“. It is a fantistic film without words, showing the contagious influence of a radiant good mood. Enjoy!

From the video

I today got an e-mail from Spain with a link to a YouTube video about a lecture given by Hira Ratan Manek at Sant Vicens de Montalt in Spain (English with Spanish translation). Hira Ratan Manek (HRM) was born on 12th of September 1937 in Bodhavad, India, and since June 18th, 1995, HRM has and continues to live only on sun energy and water. He has been examined by medical teams in India and the States for very long periods. He explains that more than 3000 people world are subsisting on light. A friend of mine tried it for a while, but stopped again. I doubt whether I will go into that kind of a diet, but it is fascinating to see this demonstration of living with the energy of prana by sun gazing, leaving the materialistic scientists perplexed.

Sunrise, photo of a friend

A friend sent me some days ago an impressive video about a chameleon changing colours, which I also found on YouTube, tought the music there is not my style… I then came across the following passage of my spiritual teacher, Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar from a seminar last year in Iguazú, giving us a lesson of the chameleon:

“You may play the role of a human, but you are consciousness. Our real identity is that we are units of consciousness. Each one is a column of consciousness playing different roles. So many different roles, so many false identities. Your original identity is lost. We generally believe what we are not by repeated information and repeated action. That is identifying with an objective situation and becoming that, like a chameleon. Depending on the colours if the surrounding, it loses its colours. You have lost the original identity through the many modifications…. . The purpose of yoga is to gain original identity. That is what is called self-realisation. That is the purpose, and then there is a process of transformation from the present state. We have to transform many states to regain our original state of consciousness.”

Photo from the video (c)