So while I think all the flowers, hearts, and candy can be a nuisance at best the fact remains that for a great number of people Valentine’s Day is the only time they think to show the one they are supposed to care the most about that they are still special…

© 2012 Vic Jones

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Third Eye Chakra is a powerful tool that lies inside all of us but can remain dormant. The power that a human mind possesses is vaster than an entire universe and the Third Eye Chakra is a storehouse for that unused power that can change a human’s course of life. This indigo chakra opens you up to vibrant, positive thoughts. It extends your capabilities and your internal powers to such an extent that there are no limitations. It awakens the sub-conscious mind of a human – one that has hidden within it all the hopes, dreams, fears, power, and knowledge required to walk through the frightening realm of the unknown. 

Many people live in ignorance of the seven chakras and their available benefits. Indeed this is only half-living; the extent of the benefits that an individual can reap through awareness of the seven chakras and their extraordinary powers is unlimited. Each and every person has their own unique set of problems and each person tries to fight those problems in their own way – but often the occurrence of difficulty feels never-ending. What can a person do when they feel they have exhausted every option? Without an awareness of the third eye chakra it is impossible to truly know the power one can possess. Our problems can limit us and result in a surplus of negative thoughts, preventing us from moving forward in a positive direction. When our thoughts are limited in such a way it limits our capabilities, and stifles our personality. Everything that we think, ask, or talk about – it’s all registered in the universe, and those thoughts come alive in front of us in the form of our actions. The universe works in a way that is mysterious and puzzling, for example the very day we say that “I hope I’m not late today” – we are bound to be late for reasons beyond our control. If we open our third eye chakra we can begin to realize and understand the language spoken by the universe. Instead of focusing on negativity, we can try to speak the language of the universe by saying “I will be on time today,” and finding the path unfolding for us to do as we desire.

Ignorance of third eye chakra limits us and forces us to retreat to negative qualities that we have struggled to get rid of for years. This lack of knowledge limits the possibilities available to us, leaving us with no choice but to accept what comes along. This is a debilitating cycle of existence that affects our ability to cope with the events in our lives. As it gains momentum, it forces a person in the wrong direction and takes them further from happiness and from those that they love. Luckily, the cycle can be interrupted by focusing one’s attention on the Third Eye Chakra and learning to embrace the power of your own intuition.

“What lies behind and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Third Eye Chakra is a powerful tool that lies inside all of us but can remain dormant. The power that a human mind possesses is vaster than an entire universe and the Third Eye Chakra is a storehouse for that unused power that can change a human’s course of life. This indigo chakra opens you up to vibrant, positive thoughts. It extends your capabilities and your internal powers to such an extent that there are no limitations. It awakens the sub-conscious mind of a human – one that has hidden within it all the hopes, dreams, fears, power, and knowledge required to walk through the frightening realm of the unknown. 

Many people live in ignorance of the seven chakras and their available benefits. Indeed this is only half-living; the extent of the benefits that an individual can reap through awareness of the seven chakras and their extraordinary powers is unlimited. Each and every person has their own unique set of problems and each person tries to fight those problems in their own way – but often the occurrence of difficulty feels never-ending. What can a person do when they feel they have exhausted every option? Without an awareness of the third eye chakra it is impossible to truly know the power one can possess. Our problems can limit us and result in a surplus of negative thoughts, preventing us from moving forward in a positive direction. When our thoughts are limited in such a way it limits our capabilities, and stifles our personality. Everything that we think, ask, or talk about – it’s all registered in the universe, and those thoughts come alive in front of us in the form of our actions. The universe works in a way that is mysterious and puzzling, for example the very day we say that “I hope I’m not late today” – we are bound to be late for reasons beyond our control. If we open our third eye chakra we can begin to realize and understand the language spoken by the universe. Instead of focusing on negativity, we can try to speak the language of the universe by saying “I will be on time today,” and finding the path unfolding for us to do as we desire.

Ignorance of third eye chakra limits us and forces us to retreat to negative qualities that we have struggled to get rid of for years. This lack of knowledge limits the possibilities available to us, leaving us with no choice but to accept what comes along. This is a debilitating cycle of existence that affects our ability to cope with the events in our lives. As it gains momentum, it forces a person in the wrong direction and takes them further from happiness and from those that they love. Luckily, the cycle can be interrupted by focusing one’s attention on the Third Eye Chakra and learning to embrace the power of your own intuition.

The first thing one will need to become skilled at is a method or practice of respite and relaxation of the total mind and body.  This process of learning to clear your mind and totally relax the body is much more difficult than one might think, but once this aspect of astral projecting is learned, bringing about a trance type of state can be initiated fairly easily.  The methodical procedures for achieving astral projection are much too lengthy for this article, but there are a few techniques out there.  There is a technique by Charles Webster Leadbeater in his book called “Astral Plane” as well as a technique by Robert Monroe that can both be downloaded as free ebooks. 

Before going to sleep at night, try mentally planting an idea or a place you would like to visit in the back of the mind.  It can be anything really.  Perhaps, try one of the techniques mentioned above, and remember, concentration is the key to astral projection.

Basically, what this thing is is an electroencephalograph machine that doesn’t take up an entire laboratory. The function of an EEG machine is to record the total electrical activity of the brain and then determine the wearers mood and levels of concentration. That is a big claim for such a small device, I was sceptical at first. But after playing this thing for almost a month now, I do not doubt it’s authenticity. 

Mind controlled video gaming sounds like something only future generations will enjoy, but the technology exists today. The Mindwave comes with 10 free apps, some of which are ‘mind trainers’ others are simple games. Unfortunately, there is not a great variety of these complementary apps and additional apps from Neurosky’s website are not cheap. To their credit though, Neurosky do seem to support and encourage third party development of new apps for their product. I hope in the near future we see more creative programmers deciding to have a crack at making and releasing new free apps for the Mindwave. 

This thing is a lot of fun and holds a lot of yet to be fulfilled potential. I believe the Mindwave would make a great gift for anyone with a computer and some spare time, regardless of age, gender or interests. Thanks to Neurosky (and other emerging brain-computer-interface-tech companies) the future is within our grasp, at least when it comes to gaming. 

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The Way of Love

Love is not a choice; it is a state of being. Love is not a prerrogative of the human condition; love is inherent in our being, as it is justice or mercy and faith, which are all manifestations of love. Because love is the completion of being, and it is said it is the fulfillement of all law. You cannot choose love as much as you cannot choose to have brown or blue eyes; it all comes with the package. Love is particularly the highest manifestation of virtue and wisdom.

If love were considered a choice, life would be a problem, and so it is, because we think we must pick and choose love, or reject it. The difficult questions of life, those that arise with every human flaw, have their root in our choices as human beings. No matter how long a time we get to make our choice, we would always miss the mark, because between love and hate, there is a miryad of lesser, incipient feelings. And what is less than love is double mindedness. And so we are, unless we become aware of the problematic, and go to the roots.

Going to the roots of the problem is going to the depths of humility, where we have our being.

There is in the human being three known states of being: conscious, subconscious and unconscious. Solving a problem doesn’t finish it, because we have simply arrived to the conclusion, after so and so experiences, that we have a problem where it is difficult for us to love in deed and truth. This, precisely, allows us to remain looking at the problem from different angles; and this looking, just this turning the problem around, will not allow the problem to be relegated to the subconscious.

 As soon as we –who have an unsolved problem– allow it to fall into the subconscious, we are relegating it to our history of unsolvable problems. On the other hand, there was never a problem that went for long without a solution if we just kept an abstract looking at it without thought, without valuing its pros and cons, or seeking to bring any solutions. We need to have the intention to relax in it as much as possible. And we shall see, eventually, what happens. We should want to do it daily.

Because any problem that becomes subconcious is half way to become obliterated by the deluge of our past, unsolved problems, due to our incapacity to pay attention without our history of complains about the issue at hand. We so much choose to do something more convincing, something more akin to our ego necessities that feelings of love and justice and mercy do not fit in the picture. We usually want to judge others without a clear mind and heart, and that is counterproductive to our mental sanity.

But love is so persistent and enormously powerful that from time to time, as we find a moment of respite, of anonimity, of peace and quiet, it will find a way to appear, sporadically so, quietly, so quietly that it will go unnoticed at first. 

But with all our greed, anger and fear in which we live nowadays, usually it is quite natural that our unobservant ways of love, will become a simple dramatism we will flash at the soap opera, or the movie, where we can shed a tear or two. And those feelings will be short of love; they will be tainted instead with all the gamut of selfish desires and lower passions the soap opera personages will flare up in our subconscious.

As the lack of love in our lives aggravate this way, the problem is relegated to the universal unconscious. It is in this unconscious where all the good, and the bad and the ugly reside. Without enough help, without a guide, any human being that might dare to go into the deep and dark waters of the unconscious, would easily get lost, forever.

Nevertheless, there is help. Meditation provides the necessary help to go into the unconscious and bring up the power of love in our lives. For there is a Spirit in man –and woman–, resilient, immensely powerful enough to rescue us from the unsconcious every time we go in meditation. The purpose of this Spirit of Christ is to help us learn to remain conscious in the depths of the unconscious. Every time we would get paralyzed by the fear, or by the anger or by the greed we might encounter during our meditation, when we go deep into the “waters” of the unconscious, we would come up instead with new insight, new and renovated equanimity, and of course new frontiers, for we have been expanding our dominions during meditation. Remember: we are learning to remain conscious even in the depths of the universal unconscious.

Moreover, our guide on the path of meditation, who has been the Spirit of Christ, or the Spirit of God, has been marking the terrain, as ours. For everytime we would go into meditation, we will find that we can remain conscious and in equilibrium whenever we get to face the problem that used to bother us in the beginning.

Nevertheless, we won’t solve any problems by striving to find a solution; but by accepting the riddle or problem as part of life. It is when we stop just “seeking” for solutions, and instead we become accepting the Spirit of Christ in our lives, accepting the will of God. It is only then, that we have become a human being in all the essential, pure meaning of what that signifies, truly.

It is only then that we might have enough “presence” to act without attachments, and even though the outcome would not be what we may have expected, still we would be able to see the problematic without any suffering on our part. That doesn’t mean we would become indifferent to people and things, but we would be able to relax in the face of adversity, and without any self pity or personal suffering.

Of course, we will keep our feelings intact –love is a feeling too–, and we would still be able to care and feel love and compassion for others, even though without any undue dramatism.

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When you feel strongly about something without logical basis to it, that’s called intuition. It comes in three impressions: clairvoyance or “the third eye”, sensing clearly and feeling through listening. 

Clairvoyance is when your eye goes beyond what it can see. This is when you know what is happening somewhere.

Sensing clearly is basically what we refer to as “hunch” or “gut feel.” This is the time when you are overwhelmed with a feeling and you can’t explain it and all you can say is “I just know.”

On the other hand, feeling through listening or clairaudience is being able to “listen” between the lines. Intuition also happens at times when a certain sound, whatever it is – be it a car’s honk or a bird’s twitting – ushers in an intense feeling.

They say only a number of people are gifted with intuition. Astrologers even insist that people born under the Scorpio or Pisces signs are naturally intuitive it almost borders on E.S.P. But studies have been sprouting left and right that proclaim that anyone can develop intuition.

Why the need to develop intuition, you ask? Why not let your emotional and psychological state as it is? First and foremost, intuition promotes good communication. It makes you more sensitive to the people around you; it often keeps you from hurting those you love because you are intuitive enough to understand them. Intuition also makes you far more creative than ever. Intuition means releasing more creative juices for any means of expression. Lastly, intuition has a healing power. This healing power is not in the physical sense, but in delving deep into your soul to eradicate some negative energy buried in it.

With that being said, are you ready to develop your intuition? Here are some ways to unlock this gift:

1. Hypnosis

Oh yes, get yourself hypnotized. Hypnosis is not limited to watching a pendulum move back and forth. Perform self-hypnosis or you can avail of hypnotic programs that can strengthen your intuition.

2. Meditation

Meditating means finding peace in yourself. If your mind and heart are cluttered with too many baggage and hurt,  you wouldn’t be able to quiet down that part of you that could eventually initiate intuition. There are so many ways to meditate: take a yoga class, or just simply practice some breathing that could bring you straight to Zen.

3. Think positive!

A worry-free, fear-free state could do so much to improve your intuitive ability. By staying positive, you attract good energy that would be able to easily recognize imminent feelings and events.

4.  Just let go.

What does this mean? If you are on the brink of making a huge decision, let go of all the inhibitions and head to a quiet place where you could find out where the letting go has brought you. Sometimes you just have to listen to the voice within you, and that voice wouldn’t come out unless you let go.

5. Never expect.

After letting go of the inhibitions and all those things that stop you from thinking and feeling clearly, never expect for an answer right away. Never expect that the “hunch” would fall on your lap immediately. Give it a little time then you’d just get surprised that — wham! — now you have your answer.

6. Believe in your first impressions.

When you see someone for the first time and think that he is a bit too arrogant for your taste, chances are that impression actually holds true. Most of the time, first impressions are brought by intuition.

7. Stay happy!

See? All you need to be intuitive is to stay happy! Happiness attracts immense power and such power includes intuition. In tapping your intuition, your motivation must be happiness and contentment. Given that premise, intuition will fall to you easily. 

Intuition is helpful, because sometimes it leads you to something that cannot be achieved otherwise. A lot of lives have been saved by intuition alone. Decisions are easier done if armed by this gift. Develop intuition now and reap benefits you have never imagined. 

Belief is Borrowed and Trust is Intrinsic

Dictionaries present belief and trust as synonyms but there is a vast difference. Belief is always borrowed and it comes from outside, generally imposed upon you. On the other hand trust is intrinsic and it happens on its own. When trust takes birth in your existence, you are suddenly a transformed person, a better human being, and a winner who does not want to achieve anything. You are a part of the existence you trust and you begin to see new meanings in life and everything seems to be smiling towards you.

There is a basic difference between the static philosophy and moving philosophy, static God and moving God, static science and moving science, static tradition and moving tradition. One of the spiritual persons Basavanna once said, “There is destruction for what stands but not for that which moves”.

Whenever nature gives birth to new wonders in the world, be it in science, religion, tradition, or in something else it represents a moving character. Nevertheless, this moving character will not last for a long time because of our own static way of thinking. Whenever new research emerged in the history of humanity, it has maintained moving character in the beginning, but slowly it has lost the beauty of the moving character because of the orthodox interaction of our own finite mind. Nevertheless, the transformation of moving character to static character occurs only in human mind, not in nature.

In the western world, now there is a spiritual madness to dig out all the static philosophies of the ancient history. Some are talking on Tantra, some are talking on Yoga, some are talking on Vastu, and some are talking on mediation and so on. In fact, they are searching for the static shelter to compensate or to define their own lethargic way of life. Nevertheless, our ancient Sages, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Rama, Prophet and other prominent spiritual personalities emerged with moving philosophy; not with a static one, but who made it static? Ask yourself! Which philosophy, science, religion, culture, god and tradition you are representing? Is it a static one or a moving one? Vivekananda says, “Faith is not a belief; it is the grasp of the ultimate as illumination”.

In nature, there is no perfect philosophy, perfect science, perfect religion, perfect knowledge, perfect human or a perfect plan. Nothing can be perfect in this man-made finite world. Everything in the universe is moving, expanding and changing. Irrespective of good and bad every movement is the cause for further development.

When we realize that nothing can be perfect, we will be completely integrated with nature. For example, during the Tsunami attack in South East Asia on December 26, 2004, the wild animals had already moved to safer zones of habitat. They instinctively sensed danger. The question is how did they decode the signs of the impending danger sent by nature, when the entire scientific world failed to warn about the imminent threat of Tsunami? The reason is simple. We, unlike the animals, have disconnected ourselves from nature and travelled far in to the world of materialistic pleasure. We have long lost the power to decode the sensitive vibrations of nature. Whenever vibrations reach us we are busy adding our selfish meaning to it, but the animals have remained far more receptive to the natural science of creation. The animals do not question nature or impose selfish thinking to such an event, they merely accept it, and survive.

When you cradle yourself in the bosom of nature, it takes care of you. Learning is not a process of abandoning nature. Somewhere in the process of building our own egocentric world, we have fatally forgotten the source we come from. Nevertheless, nature neither forgets nor forgives. It just balances its own creation.

Is Life Logical or Dialectical?

If you try to understand existence, you will find that there is nothing which can be called single, one, unique on its own. It can be unique and single only because there is an opposite of it. The entire existence is paradoxical and this very thing is the most significant. Everything has been balanced very methodically and beautifully: day is there because there is night, light is there because there is absence of light or darkness, height is there because there is depth, and if you able to learn how to balance the opposites, you gradually become capable of knowing the mysteries of life, existence, and godliness. The art of balancing is to be understood and adopted in this life. Existence is infinite, Universe is infinite, god is infinite, but the things which make this existence are there in paradoxes. This is the most beautiful thing of the existence. You give importance to breathing in but you take breathing out for granted.

Shed Comparisons to Gamble with Life

In the journey of your life, you will come across many points where the same question “Are you ready to gamble?” will be facing you. Life is without any kind of insurance; it is simply an opening, a wild opening, a chaotic opening. You can make a small house around you, secure, but then that will prove to be your grave. Live with life.

He could not believe that Harvey Firestone, Thomas A. Edison, John Burroughs and Henry Ford were all traveling in one car. They were all friends and they used to travel together.
We know that they were great inventors but the poor man at the service station had no idea about them. He was so lost in his work that he did not even stop to ask them. In the same way, if you are living your life, you won’t even stop for a while to listen to all those who tell you this is god and that is goddess. You are god in your own existence and you don’t need any external god or goddesses. Just be happy that you are divine and you are important. Shed comparisons, shed securities, shed your ego, shed all that confines you, and you will be a transformed person. You will have to be very courageous to do all this, so be courageous and enjoy your life. Don’t ever come back to me to ask for more because I have nothing more to offer to you. In fact, I have not given you anything.