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[ACIM] body and mind
It should be emphasized again that the body does not learn any more than it creates. As a learning device it merely follows the learner, but if it is falsely endowed with self-initiative, it becomes a serious obstruction to the very learning it should facilitate. Only the mind is capable of illumination. Spirit is already illuminated and the body in itself is too dense. The mind, however, can bring its illumination to the body by recognizing that it is not the learner, and is therefore un-amenable to learning. The body is, however, easily brought into alignment with a mind that has learned to look beyond it toward the light.
ACIM – T.2.5.6
[ACIM] body and mind
healing as release from fear
Only the mind can create because spirit has already been created, and the body is a learning device for the mind. Learning devices are not lessons in themselves. Their purpose is merely to facilitate learning. The worst a faulty use of a learning device can do is to fail to facilitate learning. It has no power in itself to introduce actual learning errors. The body, if properly understood, shares the invulnerability of the Atonement to two-edged application. This is not because the body is a miracle, but because it is not inherently open to misinterpretation. The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. Its abilities can be and frequently are over evaluated. However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world. Those who do so are engaging in a particularly unworthy form of denial. The term “unworthy” here implies only that it is not necessary to protect the mind by denying the unmindful. If one denies this unfortunate aspect of the mind’s power, one is also denying the power itself.
ACIM – T.2.4.3
fear and conflict
Everyone experiences fear. Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs.Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
ACIM – T.2.7.9
Anastasia on goddesses <3
How can I not believe in all the women, Vladimir, since I know that Divine essence is present in every woman living on Earth today? So let it reveal itself in all its resplendent array! Goddesses! Women of the Divine Earth! Reveal in yourselves your own Divine essence. Show yourselves to the whole Universe in all the beauty of your original pristine presence. You are a perfect creation, you are created from the Divine dream. Each of you is capable of taming the diverse energies of the Universe – dear women, goddesses of all the Universe and the Earth.
<3
Excerpt from the Book Co-Creation (book four of the Ringing Cedars series), by Vladimir Megre
in a nutshell, from Anastasia [book] “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre
“So everything starts with a clean-up, eh? And how do you suppose that’s all going to happen?”
“Conscious awareness is the point of departure for any venture. The aspiration of one’s thought finds the most effective path, just like a stream in Nature.”
chapter 21 – Should we all go to the forest?
“And just how the Creator created everything? And what instrument did he gave to Man for creativity?”
“Thought is the chief instrument of the Great Creator. And thought has been given to Man. Creations are true when thought is brought to fruition through the soul and intuition and feelings, and the main factor here is and will always be: the purity of one’s awareness.”
chapter 23 – Re-creating Shambala
excerpts from “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre, book 3 from Anastasia / Ringing Cedars series
there it is, yoga or vipassana in a nutshell, from Anastasia.
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what you offer in return? [book] Anastasia – “The Space of Love”
these days I am any times (with, in) my darkness…
also with how this touches the people around me, the people I care for… the ones who are in my heart…
Perhaps Anastasia was right when she said:
“In trying to gain the grace of a holy place, think what you might offer in return. And if you have not learnt to emit light yourself, then why take it and bury it in yourself, as though in a grave?”
excerpt from book “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre, third book of “Anastasia” / “Ringing Cedars” books series.
I feel what Anastasia says it applies for persons too, as we are all holy and made of light and a person is a place, a center, a Universe in itself.
when I am the darkness inside me, I reach out for the holy persons next to me… asking for light, for attention, full of drama…
[Anastasia] Mikhail Petrovich Shchetinin – Kin’s School – Lycee School at Tekos
I’ve always dreams of a forest kindergarden / school. Just days ago, we smiled again with Carmen and Oana about our common dream about this…
Since Bhudeva is home and since I was gifted with Pearl, I knew our kids will come into that kind of environment… and they will be home in THAT environment: in direct contact with Mother Nature, the greatest teachers of all.
Now, in Anastasia’s book “The Space of Love” I discovered something beyond the “forest school”!
Mikhail Petrovich Shchetinin developed a model school in alignment with Anastasia’s Dream of Forest Schools of the Future, where ordinary pupils acquire official bachelor’s and master’s degrees from accredited universities by the time they are seventeen. The pupils cover the whole 11-year curriculum of the compulsory school system in just two years, having designed, built and decorated their campus all by themselves. A ten-year-old girl, for example, can build a house, draw beautifully, cook meals, dance ballroom dance steps and master the fundamentals of Russian martial arts.
Some words about this on loveforlife.com.au.
Shchentinin himself says:
…Years are behind us now. I have held on to the conviction that Man can do everything! It is precisely through making sense of this saying that our multifunctional school, the whole school complex, the whole school-Man, has been developed. Our purpose is not ‘knowledge-know-how-habits’. It is not endless drilling and rote-learning, or the spoon-feeding of information. Rather, it is the raising of Man to live harmoniously, to act in harmony with society – a Man who, when he sees and analyses the phenomena of life which surround him, can feel their interconnection, can perceive the world as a whole. And no matter what he becomes – an engineer, physicist, chemist, builder, teacher etc. – he will understand that he is going out into a whole, complete, unified world!
We are in the process of shaping Man’s ability to get along in this whole, unified world from a very young age. Right from childhood Man must be raised beginning with his roots, with his very essence. And the essence of Man is his humanity. And this consists in re-uniting, one way or another, his life-forces in the struggle against the forces of chaos and disintegration. But the development of Man’s essence is not only the goal – it is at the same time the means to achieving this goal.
After all, why is the idea of the harmony of the individual so attractive and so productive? Because it alone is capable of appreciating the harmony of the world as the most valuable treasure, capable of preserving this integrity, this very harmony that has been in the making over millions of years of evolution…
full article by Shchentinin on thisisenergy.com
A video with the kids in Tekos school:
Forest school in Tekos – a model of the bright future from Yuri Smirnov on Vimeo.
Pictures from the school here, by Yuri Smirnov.
Tekos village, where the school is here on the map… who knows?!…it’s quite near, on the other side of the Black Sea!! 🙂 😉
My heart and mind are blown away by what I discover from Anastasia’s books!
<3
Sunni, there are no words to thank you for bringing Anastasia into my life <3… and I had just a small taste. it feels, SOOOO… familiar, natural, full of love, as a birth right… all that’s in there!
singing… with the elements – [book] “The Space of Love”
Aniuta dear, just try singing without words, try to imitate the birds when you heard them sing, or the water when it burbles, or the rustling of the leaves and the wind when it is strong and whistles through the branches. And there are a lot of sounds in the grass. You will hear many pure sounds around you if you are willing to listen. Try imitate them with your voice. They will be your best teachers…
excerpt from “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre (the third book from Anastasia – The Ringing Cedars series)
less then a woMan – from [book] The Space of Love
Do not blame yourself, do not torture your soul. It was not a parter in what you did. You acted out of instinct. You were trained to protect whatever you were ordered to, without thinking about the situation. And your instinct took its course. It is not good for instinct to gain supremacy in Man. When instinct takes first place, then Man takes second place. The result is something less than a Man. Think about it – perhaps it would be better to return to yourself – to the Man that you are.
excerpt from “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre (third book from Anastasia – The Ringing Cedars series).
creating a Space of Love
Every Man* must create around himself his own Space of Love and offer it to his child. Bearing children without preparing a Space of Love for them is criminal. Every Man must create around himself a small Space of Love. And if everyone understood this and acted upon. then the whole Earth would become the brightest focus of Love in the Universe. This is the way He wanted it, and this is Man’s purpose. For only Man is capable of creating such Space.
*Man – throughout the Ringing Cedars, the word Man with a capital M is used as the equivalent of the Russian word chelovek, including both male and female, as for example, the word man is used in Genesis I:27.
excerpt from “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre
(Anastasia books – The Ringing Cedars of Russia series, 3rd book)
[book] Why I Sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 6, last one)
This is the last excerpt from “Why I Sit” booklet by Paul Fleischman.
IX
Those ten days of nothing but focusing on the moment by moment reality of body and mind, with awareness and equanimity, gave me the opportunity ironically both to be more absolutely alone and isolated than I had ever been before […]
Everything I am springs from the universally human. I cause myself, I express myself, as the conditions of the world roll through me. I see this fact, as I sit, as clearly as I see the impact of history and the inspiration of vision. I sit in clear confrontation with everything that has impinged on me and caused me to react, and in reacting, I mould myself.
Life begins in a welter of conditions; mere reactions to these conditions forge limitations; awareness of and conscious response to conditions produces freedom. This clarity regarding my choices enables me to return from sitting to action as a more focused, concentrated vector of knowing, empathic life.
[…]
Sitting itself transforms my motives for sitting. I started in my own historical circumstances, but I was given a technique that has been useful in millions of circumstances over thousands of years. I started with personal issues, and I have been given timeless perspectives to broaden my viewpoint. My search is particular, but not unique. The transmission of this tool has made my work possible. Because others have launched the quest for a fully human life, because others will follow, my own frailty, or villainy, can become meaningful, because these are the soil which I must use to grow. And my own efforts, however great they feel to me, are in the shadow of the much greater efforts of others. I can flower as one shrub in a limitless forest of unending cycles of life. To flower, for a human being, is to work on the science of honest observation that enables a true picture of humanity to be born. […]
In response to the overwhelming sense of evil, fear, meaninglessness, and paranoid privatism of my times, and in response to the hope, idealism, and pregnant sense of eternity of my youth, I learned to sit, to better stand for what I found most true. This helps me live out
what had before been an unconscious faith. It helps me express something healing, useful (in both my personal and professional life), and meaningful to me despite apparently absurd conditions, because it is a link to the universal. It puts me in touch with the fundamentally human that is present in every gesture of mine, and every action of other people, in each immediacy. This in turn has enabled me to join with the generative dance of nature. I practice
knowing myself, and make that the workshop of the day. I refrain from measuring events by my own inchworm life. I frequently forget time, and so join history.X
[…]
I sit in solitude to lose my isolation. What is least noble in me rises up to the surface of my mind, and this drives me on to be more than I was. When I am most shut into my dark self I find the real source of my belonging. […]
Sitting helps me overcome my deepest fears. I become freer to live from my heart, and to face the consequences, but also to reap the rewards of this authenticity. Much of what I called pain was really loneliness and fear. It passes, dissolves, with that observation. The vibrations of my body are humming the song that can be heard only when dawn and dusk are simultaneous, instantaneous, continuous. I feel a burst of stern effort is a small price to pay to hear this inner
music—fertile music from the heart of life itself.XII
I sit to anchor my life in certain moods, organize my life around my heart and mind, and to radiate out to others what I find. Though I shake in strong winds, I return to this basic way of living. I can’t throw away my boy’s ideals and my old man’s smile. The easy, soothing comfort and deep relaxation that accompany intense awareness in stillness, peel my life like an onion to deeper layers of truth, which in turn are scoured and soothed until the next layer opens. I sit to discipline my life by what is clear, simple, self—fulfilling, and universal in my heart. There is no end to this job. I have failed to really live many days of my life, but I dive again and again into the plain guidance of self-containment and loving receipt. I sit to find and express simple human love and common decency.
