Meetings with Remarkable Men

A Brilliant Movie based upon George Ivanovich Gurdjieff's book Meetings with Remarkable Men that is basically a recounting of his early life and influences as a child and later adventures in Central Asia in search for secret esoteric schools and enlightenment. Directed by Peter Brook.

How To Live From The Heart? (Ask Teal Episode on Living From Your Heart Instead of Your Head)

Astral Quest

Coming and going...

When you want something to happen in your life you have to be open to the change... There will be changes that have to happen for the things you want to come into your life and the situations will come up to change you. Be open to the changes after all your asking for the them. You can fight it and make it more painful or go with the changes life is giving you understanding what and why it's happening. If your wanting something, your asking for a change to happen and change means something is coming and going from your life...

Each soul is different...

The shape of each soul is different. There is a secret destiny for each person. We need to return to the solitude within to find again the dream that lives at the hearth of the soul. ~ John O'Donohue

Gods gifts of will...

As you say prayers or affirmations, always believe that you are using your own but God-given powers to heal yourself or others. Ask Gods aid, but realize that you yourself, as His beloved child, are employing Gods gifts of will, emotion, and reason to solve all difficult problems problems of life....

It is time to stop...

“It is time to stop deluding ourselves by thinking that it is possible to be independent. It is not. This is an interdependent universe. So, instead of forcing yourself to do everything alone (especially the things that you don’t like doing) let people who love to do those things, do those things! This society will become much more functional when we are only doing what we love to do. Some of us love accounting. Some of us hate accounting. Some of us love counseling people; some of us hate counseling people. So let those who love accounting, do the accounting. Let those who love counseling people do the counseling. It’s time to let yourself off the hook!”
-Teal Scott-

ASTRAL QUEST

The Great Work Begins Here...Our Way into the Future!

 Every human being participates in alchemy, whether in a conscious manner (through the intentional perfection and manifesting of one's higher nature) or through the tumult and suffering of worldly experiences that finally lead to increased spiritual awareness. 

"It is not the object of these pages to furnish proof to the skeptic of the truth of alchemy, nor to offer arguments so the incredulous may believe in its possibility. To force belief in a thing of which one has no knowledge or experience would be of little real benefit. But those who have had a mystical experience or witnessed the processes of alchemy in their own lives may receive real benefit from working with this material."(Franz Hartmann in Alchemy)

Modern archeologists have proven that the holy temples of Egypt and the cathedrals of the Middle Ages were based on human proportions and designed to symbolically represent man. In fact, the human form embodied in sacred architecture is symbolic of the Perfected Man...

Choose “Life”!

From the www.peacefulself.com

  
“Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.

Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you’ve got heroin?” (Trainspotting)

Does the the opium of your Buddhist philosophy maintain your comfort zone and keep you in good cheer and positive spirit? Does your Zazen provide you a sense of well-being through neurochemical whiz-bangs? Does your Advaita make you feel special and raise you above the quiet desperation of the ignorant masses? Does your meditation, meticulously scheduled-in twice daily, help medicate you from the meaningless rigors of your mindless middle class, status-quo existence? Does your particular brand of Christianity help cope with your continued participation in vacuous and insipid social games that you sometimes sense are absurd and pointless? Are your spiritual retreats sprinkled with love and camaraderie?

As the beloved guru was claiming that we must “serenely mirror the divine love of the universe,” and that we must “engage the world exclusively through universal compassion and unconditional love,” I looked out the side window to observe a cat shred a bird to pieces, devouring each piece then vomiting up the bones and feathers, only to lightly prance off into the trees, tra la la la la….

Does the cat not know of this "divine love"? Where is its “compassion” and “unconditional love”? Nature couldn’t give a rat’s ass about your dreams, goals and desires. Nature essentially shits on your spiritual aspirations and practices. Nature doesn’t care if you’re satisfied, discontent or kumbaya happy. Nature doesn’t give a spit about “you” and you are an integral part of it, regardless of silly ideas and activities you employ to generate a belief of extracting your “self.”

If you are not nauseatingly depressed and morose. If you’re not discouraged, disgusted and disenchanted with every choice you have made, thus realizing every future choice can only mirror that same fucking generic futility, then you’re still hypnotized by the invisible jewels of your egocentric conditioning and aren’t even close to the truth of your confinement.

Therefore, you can only choose “life."

It does seem that when you finally reach a point in which nothing gives relief, then you can count on breaking through. Unfortunately, egocentrics struggle mightily against this natural current and it may take years to get to that point, if you get it at all. But that doesn’t matter because it’s not something you choose. Mostly, though, you will choose “life” in an attempt to find a way out of the massive sinkhole of despair you have serendipitously dropped into, but when no further ropes are available for which to climb out, then be of good cheer, for you are almost “’there” (from which you learn you’ve gottin’ nowhere at all and what a “happy” day that’ll be).

Alas, until then, egocentrics MUST choose “life” for no reason at all, except that its really no different than heroin.

Or you can choose something else…

…and very few will ever do that.

Artwork by Sean Donaldson - "Clyde The Evil Cat"