Yesterday’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day” of the NASA showed a new rock slab that is growing at more than one meter a day on the Mt. St. Helens volcano in Washington, USA and now extends about 100 meters out from one of the volcano’s craters. A fascinating sight of a birth from the womb of Mother Earth. Earth is quite lively.
An American friend of mine sent me yesterday a photo from a visit in Yosemite National Park, showing a bubbling geysir in function.
Yesterday’s headlines in the news here showed pictures of the volcano Merapi in Indonesia, where the people and the reporters are waiting for its eruption. There are a lot of websites just dedicated to the eruption of volcanos.
Some days ago the news said that a big part of southern Italy is rising and falling in a rhythm of about 1-2 cm a year….
For most of us these phenomena of earth’s pulsation are hardly going below the sensational kick. It is below the consciousness line. Earth seems to be stable, reliable, and its unshaken existence is take for granted. Fact that it is running with high speed through the cosmosbut this is not perceived at all. Also the reports or legends about the rise and fall of islands, even continents, don’t touch us unless something like a Tsunami happens.
However, with many people the awareness that our Mother, the Earth, is a living being, with a life cycle and an evolution is growing. It demands another awareness: Though of another level Earth is a conscious being, a unique individuality, giving us the basis for our journey of lives and of experiencing. With this awareness a feeling of gratitude and thoughtfulness arises, which expresses in an ecological sensitive attitude. The materialistic mind sees in our Mother just matter, a heap of stones, and in man an intelligent device of nature made for no higher purpose or or maybe business making.
But the awareness of the greater life into which we are integrated is slowly rising.

Yesterday was the White Lotus Day, the day for the commemoration of the passing-over of Helena P. Blavatsky (H.P.B.1831 – 1891). Since many years I have been fascinated by this extraordinary women so much disputed until today. In 1996 I wrote a little report about her and published it last year: “H.P.B. – Trailblazer for the Aquarian Age” (Engl./Ger./Span./Fre., you can download it as a pdf). I have read several times her major work the Secret Doctrine, and also other writings, and done 2/3 of the German translation of her fascinating and volumenous travel reports “From the Caves and Jungles of Hindoustan“. The biography of Sylvia Cranston about “H. P. B.: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky” gives a very good insight.
Through her work, H.P. B. caused violent reactions, which ranged from fervent admiration to libel and slander. Her most resolute enemies were from circles of the church as well as of spiritualists, who both felt questioned to their very foundations by the teachings of Blavatsky. The goal of Blavatsky was nothing less than to deliver the death blow to the prevailing scientific materialism and religious dogmatism by pointing to the spiritual truths of the immortal wisdom teachings and by making them available to a larger public.
I don’t know of any cinema film made about her life, I think it would be a most thrilling subject, not only because of her adventurous life, but also because she is a living example of the spiritual awakening of humanity, which today has greatly increased and of which she was a vanguard.

We yesterday had our monthly Mithila-meeting with our youngsters and those of a close friend (age 13 – 17). To impart our children a spiritual education is very important to us. Since neither the education system nor the churches are doing this, we started some years ago with regular sunday morning meetings with our children and to speak about spiritual topics, inspired by the book “Mithila – A New Age School Syllabus” of Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar. We do a short meditation, speak about basics of spiritual life, or some experience-related topics. We have also read some books together, such as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, or now a renarration of the Ramayana.
Though the youngsters are still participating with interest, it is not easy to cope with the strong currents coming from the society in which they are growing up. They are intend not to be regarded as “strange” by their comrades, and they lead a very normal life. They won’t follow our footsteps in their lives, but we feel they have the strength to follow their own paths into a good direction.
Friends of us are running a website called “Jugendforum Mithila“. It is a good impulse of giving children access to spiritual values via the web.
We observe with our children and their collegues, that again new qualities are ripening in them. They will unfold with time and start shaping the next generation’s wave.

Two days ago I got an e-mail from a friend from Minnesota, USA. She is a graduate student in the English program of St. Cloud State University studying creative writing. Since several months she is doing the English translations of the Good-Will “Lunar Messenger” and cooperating with the editing of the Paracelsus- Health and Healing magazine.
She now wrote that she is just celebrating her first publication as a managing editor with the Kaleidoscope, a literary arts publication with a multicultural theme It is annually published through the Write Place at St. Cloud State University, and now for the first time in print and hyper-text. Each year, a graduate student takes charge of the publication, and this year it was her turn. She has contributed some poems and the editorial.
Though German by birth, a few years ago she went to the States. Her shamanist affinity and her reflects her deep inner bond with nature and in part of her poems or the editorial – echos from previous incarnations?
She is an intense searcher and worker, striving towards a sensitive, soul-filled attitude in life. For a long time she has been working to overcome shadows of the past – this motives are also echoing in other poems. On the spiritual path, when the light of the soul is growing, these graffiti-like imprints on the walls of the inner nature are slowly being washed off, so that the pureness of the original state can start shining forth.

Yesterday I got an e-mail from a friend telling me that he will lose his job in some months. He is a professor of psychology at a university in the south-west of the United States and had moved there last autumn from another university in the north-east. He already had told me before that the situation was difficult, since part of the collegues, who hadn’t favored his employment had intensely been mobbing against him.
We first had met each other through a contact via the web 2.5 years ago, later we had shared a room at a seminar of our spiritual teacher in India and again met at three occasions in Europe. From the beginning there was a feeling of a deep connection, for we had been walking a very similar spiritual path over many years. It was a feeling of meeting a brother. It is more profound than physical relatives. Spiritual brotherhood comes out of a similarity of inner alignment to the soul, a striving towards the same pole, a convergence of ideas.
This convergence keeps souls together, to my belief and according to the wisdom teachings over lives. It is deeper than superficial emotional or mental affinities. I have experienced that there exist groups of people following the same quality of attunement, sharing similar attitudes towards the inner purpose. The people with whom I experience this kind of connection are physically dispersed over the globe. With the web it is more easy to keep in contact or even co-operate in a project.
My American brother has a lot of skills and resources. I am sure that, though he is no longer the youngest that he will find a good way out of this professional crisis, bringing him to a new field of experience.

My wife is a piano teacher. Yesterday evening she told me that one of her students just had been very fascinated. The student had experienced that she was using different faculties in playing – imagination, hearing, sense of touch – and my wife had explained her how there is an interplay of these. The student was very grateful and told my wife: “You are always giving me so much.” My wife answered: “I give what I have, and in giving it starts flowing. When you keep it to you, the flow is stopped, and also when you just keep on receiving without giving.” And she told me: “It is like a lying 8, the sign of infinity. It keeps in motion, when you give, without expectation to receive something in return. It is an energy circulation.”
In the “Spiritual Psychology” meditations by Dr. Ekkirala Krishnamacharya, one meditation says: “Bliss lies in giving, not in taking…” It is a deep principle and only little understood today. Many are craving for getting and taking – money, power, love, ideas, emotional affection… In this attitude the free flow is absorbed by you. And when you give out of an expectation to get something in return, you get frustrated, when it doesn’t happen and feel burnt out.
Some time ago I had issued a number of the Good Will in Action on Giving and Taking, where you find some more thoughts about it.

The last weeks when I am going to work I come across a series of road works. Shovel excavators are digging up the roads. Even in a park next to my office all the paths are are closed and are being redone.
What about the inner roads? It seems that there is also need for some repair work from time to time. I feel that I am getting sometimes into habits, which, though subtle, need a repair. When there is too much “business” in the mind, the mindfulness for what is essential and what is just a side-road. The last days my wife and I had observed with some friend, who seems to have a so-called heavy load to carry with her family and social situation. However, with a closer look the situation seems to be self-chosen, and there is no will to do repair work with the roads. The wisdom teachings tell us, that from a larger perspective encompassing the soul’s experience over many incarnations all our life situations are self-chosen. I have come across a lot of people who prefer staying in a situation which for me seemed to be unbearable. But at a closer look a change in the style of living appears to cause more fear for them than to remain stuck in their situation.
Let some road repair work go on from time to time

Yesterday a friend from Argentina sent me a link to a yahoo posting showing satellite photos of a partly submerged land-bridge between India and Sri Lanka. A modern proof of an old story?
The great epic Ramayana tells a story the time of which the wisdom teaching locate at the transition time between the Atlantean and the post-Atlantean race, i.e. nearly a million years ago, though modern writers give it a much shorter past or totally doubt the historic autheticity.
A major sequence of the epic tells the story of building a bridge over the ocean between India and Lanka by a group of Vanaras and other mythological beings. From the wisdom teachings I know that the mythological ape-shaped figures of the Vanaras are forms of high beings who, not conditioned by forms, decided to live in these seemingly animal bodies. There are many details in the Ramayana which a so-called scientific thinking would never except as authentic. But maybe there are more research results ahead like those of the satellite photos proving the historic truth of seeming mythologies.
For the symboligy of bridges see also my posting on Building Brigdes.

The noble and straightforward main character of the epic, Sri Rama, is a great example of a man following the path of moral law through all the vicissitudes of life. It has deeply impregnated Eastern thought – but who of our Westerners has ever gone into it? About three weeks ago I finished reading a detailed renarration of the epic, which was fascinating to me, and I have also read with my children a modern Indian comic strips retelling the story. Though they are not much interested in stories, they were enthousiastic about the “action story”, which can easily keep up with modern superman-stories.

Two days ago I got an e-mail from a Canadian friend with a link to an article on an American website called “Death made in America”, with photos of freak embryos allegedly caused by the Americans using uranium weapons in Afghanistan, where an author said he writes he took them during a journey to Afghanistan from Pakistan.
I don’t put a link to that site, for it is not my intention to increase sensational agitation or get into the trap of political propaganda. Some time ago I had seem fake pictures which were circling in European muslim communities about an alleged transformation of a girl into a freak because of her refusal to follow the Quran.
Images can be used and misused. The images of the freak creatures create a sensation of a terrible horror, of unbelievable depths of individuals or groups fighting against people with other beliefs. The wisdom teachings say that here not humans are at work, but demons incarnated in human bodies. This makes sense to me, for a human, humanitarian attitude can never accept causing such deep hurts to others.
There is an intense fight going on on earth between the different ideologies, often fighting in the name of God. It is an increadibly strong glamour, holding in sway millions of people. The wisdom teachings say we are living in the dark age, in certain strata and cycles of consciousness evolution. 12 years ago I translated a book by Dr. E. Krishnamacharya, Man Sacrifice, the German version of it will be published end of this month. In this book events of a time 5000 years ago are reported, which are also mentioned in the ancient Indian Puranas, about the beginning of the dark age, and that freak creatures because of living against the cosmic laws are described. At the same time you see there how to keep inwardly aligned to the divine in spite of all horrors. Not by closing one’s eyes, but by seeing the deeper causes and by attuning to the divine you can transform the evil, at least the one in yourself.

Some days are flowing smooth, some at high speed. Yesterday was a high speed day. Many different items and situations showed up – phone calls, coordination, e-mailing, driving. But just like when driving in a car, the car is running and you are sitting at the wheel and not running on the highway. I felt that I had to keep in the driver’s position and not to let the busy manager-mind take things over so as not to lose the awareness and get into the feeling of activity. The feeling of the busy mind is clouding it. When I remain centered, things keep in a flow, even at high speed. On such days for me it is all the more important to have my periods of silence in the morning and evening meditations. They help me to keep the inner alignment. In such a balance driving at high speed remains joyful. I like such driving.