If one could consider Yoga a “martial art”, Bikram Yoga would be “Cobra Kai” school from the Karate Kid.

Dear lady, one is right to say that it is difficult to find a living human in modern society today that lives in pureness. It is not evolution’s goal to live in purity; evolution is just mother to infinite possibilities.
But it is spirituality’s goal to become ethereal (spiritual) even to a point we presume there is no separation at all. In this state of mind we come to experience oneness and oneness alone by actually being nothing/everything.The ultimate state of ether.

I am not here to lecture nor preach. I am a simple man with a simple life.
Preaching has never been a successful way of making one aware.
I do on the other hand have the gift of remembrance and of understanding that spirit flows through all that is created.
I also believe yoga teaching comes from the spirit and can be learned in infinite ways. A tree could become your teacher, an animal and even the raw elements of life could show you how we unite with the spirit.

The root chakra of man was created in this realm of existence by the separation of the ether in 4 levels. We call these the 4 elements and ether the 5th. (There are other creation patterns but I will use this one, feel free to comment me on this). Our whole human existence is based on separation from this source which never is or was an evil or bad thing.
Good and bad were values set at the root (gateway in the medulla oblongata) of the tree which created the left and right hemispheres of upper modern man’s brain (the tree of knowledge). These values became only malevolent by those who didn’t cultivate their heart chakra enough to understand oneness, but who sought to become Gods from knowledge alone. (Science without love).

These 5 elements distinguish themselves as basic geometric expressions in a globe genesis and can be registered with our senses. Through separation of the one into different vibrations they create the experience we call our reality. At the beginning there are no separations at all, but in this manifestation (genesis) separation becomes real. It creates the (square) root of our reality.
This was long before money was introduced.

The 5 elements can be channeled directly from the natural source by the skilled yoga master.
In the 3rd degree of spiritual evolution the neophyte becomes the philosopher begins to learn that everything is one, where in the 2nd degree he or she or it learned to use the power of division or to multiply itself through dividing (the creation of separation and the sexes (polarities). After this the philosopher comes to a point of understanding that none is simply good or bad, but everything is, which is true in that state of mind.
After a period of transformation, which could takes several human lifetimes, the 3rd degree aspirant takes up the full path of ahimsa and experiences that even if there is separation everything is one at the same time. The experience of “Oneness in many” and the understanding that we are one with the source.

The pupil becomes a scholar of the heart and lives in pure bliss.
After mastering this stage, the Christ is born and ascends to a more ethereal plane. The 5th degree.

But many of the Ascended masters return to a stage where all lower forms are also manifest.
In that way the Ascended master returns to a ‘fallen’ state without really being fallen but learns to descend into the dense realms with the full or partial experience of the ethereal realms (the return of the Christ/Bodhisatva/Mannuah).
He, she or it understands the higher meaning of the spirit but has taken a life in which not everything is spiritual, and understands that it is part of the nature of our reality.

By now one becomes a master of the 6th degree and learns to use the mind in ways to empower matter with the spirit. Here is where the Elohims come in, the co-creators of our reality.
Some of these Elohims chose to live in service of life and love itself (like our spiritual teachers and Mahatmas) where other chose to become supreme rulers and claimed themselves to be the one and only God(s) (false prophet$).

In the time of “the garden” which predated all the times you’ve stated before, there was no barter, no cattle, no cowrie shells, no metal money and coins, no modern coinage, no leather money, no slitting of noses (!) of those who were remiss in paying tax, no paper currency, no potlatch, no wampum, no gold standards and no electronic money. But there was abundance, happiness, no diseases that were permanent, no jealousy, no crime, no spiritual merchandise or barter.
We simply had no need of money because we lived in harmony with spirit and matter, and we were natural yogis for we lived in union. I know modern man has found evidence of this time and some have classified it into mythology and called it the golden age, the time of the Gods.

If someone can’t earn money or feel like it is in conflict with spirituality it might come from the fact they still do have remembrance of this ‘golden age’.
Since the beginning of the iron-age (kali-yuga) the reign of fear has taken over the root chakras of many inhabitants of the earth, therefore many have not been able to channel the elements that came directly from their natural source, instead they had to do this through sub-systems that sometimes weren’t meant benevolent or spiritual at all. It is difficult for modern man to oversee such matters for he has no real evidence about history that long ago.

I do agree everything can be seen as energy! But I do not agree that all manifestations are just simply energy, for they have value, form and expression in our world and were set with certain intention.

Example: if I was to say that an atomic bomb is just simply energy and I could use it for good, means it could be true but it has not been made with spiritual intentions.
I believe money could be used in a good way but it hasn’t been introduced with spiritual intent. Nor was the capture of animals that became cattle, nor was the raising of taxes. (and especially not the slitting of noses to force humans to pay such).

I do not pretend to be fully spiritual manifested (I couldn’t for I wouldn’t be able to live in human form), I know that my nature as a man has destructive sides, but I do not state that money is simply energy, for it is not, simply energy is simply energy and has no value or form .I call that pure prana, not the way we use it, but in its most simple form or no form at all. (Pure prana would not hurt anyone for it has no value yet!)

I am not constantly free of anger and hate, for the same facts stated above, nor do you.
We are human, we get angry whether we like it or not. But by learning yoga of the heart we overcome our anger and learn to master negative thoughts and transmute them into positive energy.
(Like you are helping me to do so now )

I do not like the causes of systems that introduced money. Even though we all are part of one big flow, we as conscious living beings have certain choices, and we have the right to judge within our momentary point of view and accept the karma that these actions cause.

Like I said manifestations of money were not made with spiritual intent. When someone gives us something with love we don’t have to barter. We can share, give, donate or even deny without expectations, the more freedom a system gives us the more the spirit will flow. Whether we see that as good or bad is a just an opinion.

This discussion was meant as a tool for self-reflection and not meant to preach or to lecture about spirituality. I gladly share my thoughts, even if they are derived from collective thoughts, and I am always open to learn from doing so.
I would encourage you to find some time to take up a small survival pack and try to live for a while (a month, two or maybe three) without the use of money. It will help on the deeper spiritual path of yoga and learn your chakras how to channel into the elements of natural sources, independent of a system which uses money and which never been the basis for our existence.
In other words if one is to manifest spirituality one has to connect its roots to a system that is free in its nature.

Love and blessings!
May the spirit guide you!

LuX

I do understand that in these time most of us are forced to live in this way, most of us do not live with mother nature anymore.We learn about her from so called organic- or some kind of new age philosophy (work)shops, but most of us lost contact with her long time ago. Simply because we are not allowed by the reign of fear to live freely with nature or because we fell into an other state of mind (the Fall).
Instead ‘civilized’ people learn form mother’s tribes the knowledge of herbalism,yoga and energy and then enslave those innocent systems and hereafter sell the crap out of their knowledge, wisdom and resources to the people of the so called civilization.

Money can not be fed to a plant, animal or human, it is therefore not simply energy! It has a value set by a capitalistic system, which is expressed by symbols of the aristocrat society which introduced money in the first place.
There are pictures and symbols and cunning texts of imperialists, secret societies and other dominators that are set into precious metals, which should have stayed in the soil in the first place to enrich the soul of mother earth, or pressed on paper that comes from cutting trees. These resources should be left alone or could be used for far better things, things and ways that are in harmony with mother’s ecology and organic systems and her inhabitants.
Not to mention the use of gold bars in safe houses, the mining of diamonds for which people die every day in places that are hidden from society, and such.

DO NOT TELL ME MONEY IS JUST ENERGY! That is simply an excuse for the state of mind ‘modern’ man has fallen into and which is destructive to the human soul and the soul of our planet.

Money could therefore be used as a temporary survival method along the path of one who seeks spirituality!

Dharma’s are collective thoughts and therefore not possessions.
The goal of yoga is to meet with the pure spirit, which is connected to the matrix of pure prana and has nothing to do with money at all! The TRUE SPIRIT is free, as is LOVE which connects it with MATTER (Mother)!
We are on our way to become true spiritual beings and we have to find the strength to look within ourselves and to admit we somehow lost being it along our path of evolution. But never give up to find that true union with the pure spirit, which is YOGA!

LuX

Please see below shakti’s response in red

S: Interesting. I just want to mention that a recent (and now former) boyfriend commented on observing “a mild version of multiple personality syndrome” in me after I returned from a visit to my hometown to our rustic mountain home.

We all have multi personalities as different people, different. Sometimes different stimulants such as food etc may form different personalities in us. Some people internalize their different personality projecting only a chosen one. Some people dance with more then one of theirs at the same time.

S: I would not use such terminology myself, but he has a psychology background

Psychologist can be some times “dangerous” to seeing reality objectively as their classifications can often be rigid. On top of it psychologists measure and categorize conditions in relation to the so called “normal” benchmark. The further you are from the “norm”, the more severe is your “condition”. Norm is the state where the individual fit in an appropriate and useful way into society’s structure and customs.

S: A question that comes up around this issue is: What of the “noise” of the mind? The more active my mind is, the more easy it is for me to become swept up in what’s going on around me. And the more meditation I practice, the more difficult my mind seems to act. It feels like taming a 2 year old child who has temper tantrums every time I say “No!” to it!

The aim of meditation is to connect with the inner silence that is burried below our mind’s noise. Our “ears” are so used to the low frequency of our mind’s noise they can not grasp on the high frequency of internal silence. It takes practice to develop, in some people, or awake in others, the inner ears so they can experience the internal silence. When you get familiar with your inner silence you will bypass your mind noise that will remain in the background of your consciousness. The best place to start connecting with your inner silence is in nature and the best practice is on a daily basis to have a time where you do nothing but observe, without any identification with what you observe. Find a garden or a quiet place near the water and sit and observe and simply be without any definition. Don’t even call it meditation just be it and you will hear your inner silence that will reveal your inner stillness and in this moment you wont need to see yourself through anyone else eyes or definitions any more.

S: the more meditation I practice, the more difficult my mind seems to act…Very frustrating process

Frustration, aggravation, hesitations, doubts, confusions and many more, are all part of the mind noise. In your silence you will find the famous state we call “peace of mind”.

Love,
shakti

I loved what you said at the very end here: that silence “speaks in volumes”. I am chatty and I will humbly admit that sometimes this comes out in my classes. Thank you for the ego check!

You are well missed!
Joanne

I appreciate your comments about the observer. They are reminisent of the words of the great teacher j krishnmirti.

This is my first visit to your site it is very elevated and helpful.
Shanti Judith

love chris