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<p><a name="__RefHeading__363_1634597763"></a>GATHERING IpEACE FAMILY</p>
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<p><a name="__RefHeading__365_1634597763"></a>Jouni Sakari Kemppinen</p>
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<p>GPI - General Processing Information…</p>
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<p><a name="__RefHeading__363_1634597763"></a>GATHERING IpEACE FAMILY</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__363_1634597763">GATHERING IpEACE FAMILY 1</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__365_1634597763">Jouni Sakari Kemppinen 1</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__367_1634597763">GPI - General Processing Information 1</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__211_1634597763">Name of process : 3</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__213_1634597763"><br/>Happened previously : 3</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__215_1634597763"><br/>Obstacle : 3</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__217_1634597763"><br/>Details : ( who evaluates 3</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__219_1634597763"><br/>(A1) Perceptions of the situation ( WHAT ) 6</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__221_1634597763"><br/>(B2) Thoughts that the perceptions awoke ( WHY'S and other CRITICAL ALLOWED ) 7</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__223_1634597763"><br/>(C3) Emotions / Feelings induced , the needs of life ( FOR WHOM WITH LOVE ) 8</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__225_1634597763">IMAGE #1 9</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__227_1634597763"><br/>(D4) Beliefs / believing / faith / trust related things towards others , and to one self ( GUIDE ) 10</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__229_1634597763"><br/>(E5) Wonders / Ideas / insights / visions ... Possibilities of HOW TO ( CREATIVE PROCESS ) 11</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__231_1634597763">(F6) Common wishes for what is the perfect outcome ? 12</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__233_1634597763">IMAGE #2 13</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__235_1634597763"><br/>(G7) My individual process , my learning process ( REST and MEDITATION , PRAYERS ) 14</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__237_1634597763"><br/>(H8) What I am going to do next , to make progress ( SHARE WITH OTHERS , TO MOTIVATE ) 15</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__239_1634597763"><br/>(I9) Some expression ( artistic ? , music ? , image ? ) , that gathers the process to "one image" 16</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__241_1634597763">IMAGE #3 17</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__243_1634597763">Name of matrix : 18</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__245_1634597763">PROJECTED NEXT STEPS 20</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__247_1634597763"><br/><br/>Opportunity : ( 21</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__249_1634597763">define the solution expression , 22</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__251_1634597763">turning the obstacle to an opportunity , 23</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__253_1634597763">positive 24</a></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__369_1634597763">Details : ( when finished , and other important message ) 25</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="#__RefHeading__257_1634597763">A, : " Oo;, . PO% . " 26</a></p>
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<p><font size="5"><b>Gathering iPeace Family</b></font></p>
<h1 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__213_1634597763"></a><br/>Happened previously :</h1>
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<p><font size="5"><b>* I joined , I was suspended , I joined back , I left .</b></font></p>
<p><font size="5"><b>* I learned lot of things</b></font></p>
<p><font size="5"><b>* I made many good friends</b></font></p>
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<h2 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__215_1634597763"></a><br/>Obstacle :</h2>
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<p><font size="5"><b>VIRTUALITY</b></font></p>
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<h2 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__217_1634597763"></a><br/>Details : ( who evaluates</h2>
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<p><font size="5"><b>I am , ( <i>for all iPeace community</i> ) .</b></font></p>
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<p><font size="5"><b><u>JSK , Thu May 3 , 2012 @21:16 Finnish Time ( + 2GMT )</u></b></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__219_1634597763"></a> <br/>(A1) Perceptions of the situation ( WHAT )</h2>
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<p><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #ffff00;">I am in a situation of teaching , for I had learn , and it is my time to show what I have to offer . I have taken "leadership" because I volunteered in this .</span></b></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__221_1634597763"></a> <br/>(B2) Thoughts that the perceptions awoke ( WHY'S and other CRITICAL ALLOWED )</h2>
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<p><font color="#0000FF"><font style="font-size: 15pt;" size="4"><b>Why am I making a count down ? Am I offending people ? Why do they stay that distant ? Am I distant ? ? ?</b></font></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__223_1634597763"></a> <br/>(C3) Emotions / Feelings induced , the needs of life ( FOR WHOM WITH LOVE )</h2>
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<p><font color="#FF3366"><font size="5"><b>I do this process because of the future generations , and I do have two children , and I love you all !!!</b></font></font></p>
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<h3 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__225_1634597763"></a>IMAGE #1</h3>
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<h2 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__227_1634597763"></a><br/>(D4) Beliefs / believing / faith / trust related things towards others , and to one self ( GUIDE )</h2>
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<p><font color="#FF00FF"><font size="5"><b>I BELIEVE IN THE GOODNESS OF HUMANS , THEIR GOOD HEART , THEIR SENSITIVITY , SENSIBILITY , SENSES</b></font></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__229_1634597763"></a> <br/>(E5) Wonders / Ideas / insights / visions ... Possibilities of HOW TO ( CREATIVE PROCESS )</h2>
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<p><font color="#FF420E"><font size="5"><b>CREATIVITY IS WHAT MAKES ANYTHING POSSIBLE , SO I INVENTED CO-CREATIVE METHODS FOR VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES , TO ENABLE FINDING SOUTIONS</b></font></font></p>
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<h2 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__231_1634597763"></a>(F6) Common wishes for what is the perfect outcome ?</h2>
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<p><font color="#23FF23"><font size="5"><b>TO APPRECIATE , RESPECT , AND HONOR THIS PLANET THAT ROLLS AROUND THE SUN IN THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE AND PROVIDES LIFE</b></font></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__233_1634597763"></a> IMAGE #2</h2>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__235_1634597763"></a> <br/>(G7) My individual process , my learning process ( REST and MEDITATION , PRAYERS )</h2>
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<p><font color="#00FFFF"><font size="5"><b>I HAVE HEALING PRAYER FOR ANYBODY , IT'S A LIVING PRAYER , TO AWAKEN THE PUREST CORE , LETTING THE BEAUTIFUL SOUL , AND THE CLEAR SPIRIT , "TAKE CONTROL "</b></font></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__237_1634597763"></a> <br/>(H8) What I am going to do next , to make progress ( SHARE WITH OTHERS , TO MOTIVATE )</h2>
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<p><font color="#00AE00"><font size="5"><b>I AM GOING TO SHARE MY PROCESS , AND ASK THE PEOPLE , ARE THEY READY FOR TAKING SIMPLE STEPS , THAT I HAVE SHOWN THEM , WITH THIS METHOD , THAT I HAVE DEVELOPED ALL MY LIFE</b></font></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__239_1634597763"></a> <br/>(I9) Some expression ( artistic ? , music ? , image ? ) , that gathers the process to "one image"</h2>
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<p><font size="5"><b>I ALREADY MADE THE IMAGE ONCE , BUT I NEED TO MAKE IT ONCE AGAIN , TO GET THE THIRD , AND THEN I WILL TELL ANOTHER STORY ALREADY :) <3 _(iIi)_ { warm laughter }</b></font> <br/><br/><br/></p>
<h3 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__241_1634597763"></a> IMAGE #3</h3>
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<h1 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__243_1634597763"></a> Name of matrix :</h1>
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<p><font size="5"><b>GENERAL PROCESSING INSTRUCTION for Gathering iPeace Family</b></font> <br/><br/>Details : ( <font size="4"><b>I did this processing on 3rd May , 2012 in Imatra , Finland , on 21:30pm</b></font> )</p>
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<p style="page-break-before: always;">> > ></p>
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<h1 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__245_1634597763"></a> PROJECTED NEXT STEPS</h1>
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<li><p><font size="5"><b>I will share this document with iPeace Family today</b></font></p>
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<li><p><font size="5"><b>I will ask to questions , if there are any in the Chat Main Room</b></font></p>
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<li><p><font size="5"><b>I will close my account in iPeace , unless people ask me to stay .</b></font></p>
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<h2 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__247_1634597763"></a> <br/><br/>Opportunity : (</h2>
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<p><font color="#00FF00"><font size="5"><b>REALITY</b></font></font></p>
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<h3 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__249_1634597763"></a>define the solution expression ,</h3>
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<p><font size="5"><b>" <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #ffff00;">Perceive the situation now</span> , <font color="#0000FF">think of what makes it difficult</font> , <font color="#FF3366">and then touch your emotions with some good music</font> , <font color="#000000"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #9999ff;">and feel that you are sentient being (</span></font> <font color="#000000"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #99ccff;">~</span></font> <font color="#FFFF00"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #000000;">C</span></font> <font color="#FF3366"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #0000ff;">R</span></font> <font color="#000000"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #9999ff;">Y</span></font> <font color="#000000"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #99ccff;">~</span></font> <font color="#000000"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #9999ff;">)</span></font> "</b></font></p>
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<h3 class="western" style="page-break-before: always;"><a name="__RefHeading__251_1634597763"></a> turning the obstacle to an opportunity ,</h3>
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<p><font size="5"><b>" <font color="#FF00FF">Gather</font> your memory , your faith , your good spirits , and enter in <font color="#FF6309">creative process</font> , with open ends , trusting your ability to find new solutions , and this you do because the nearest tree needs your attention ! Oo,. / <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #23ff23;">Peace Out</span> / "</b></font></p>
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<h3 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__253_1634597763"></a>positive</h3>
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<p><font size="5"><b>" <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #00ffff;">I pray and meditate , I sing and praise ( aloud )</span> , that my own personal process <font color="#008000">joins in</font> the greater whole , and heals the situation on this planet , and my <font color="#FFFF00"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">n</font></font><font color="#FF6309"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">e</font></font><font color="#FF3366"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">x</font></font><font color="#9999FF"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">t</font></font> <font color="#0000FF"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">s</font></font><font color="#00B8FF"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">t</font></font><font color="#00FF00"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">e</font></font><font color="#008000"><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6">p</font></font><font style="font-size: 28pt;" size="6"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #ffff00;">s</span></font> bring clarity for all , and that anybody enjoy and feel relief for knowing , that it's '<u>all gonna be all right</u> ' "</b></font></p>
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<h3 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__369_1634597763"></a>Details : ( when finished , and other important message )</h3>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>I have made this process knowing , that I am showing my way .</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>I hope you have learned something and I beg you for forgiveness , if I ever have hurt you , or made you feel bad emotions .</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>"Don't bother , you don't need to forgive me , and I am not sorry , because I am in gratitude ( what ever you want to thank for ) , and I do love you all , with some conditions , except one " .</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>I AM {{{ SCR - ILO }}} *P* ~ AN*DI*EL*MO*HUM ~ ~ ANIEMOH ~ @ Jouni Sakari Hannu Pekka Pellervonpoika Kemppinen</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>COMMANDER OF THE WHEELS IN CHERUBIM ORDER OPHANIM</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>Imatra , Finland</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="5"><b>3rd May , 2012 @ 21:43pm (+ 2GMT )</b></font></p>
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<h1 class="western"><a name="__RefHeading__257_1634597763"></a>A, : " Oo;, . PO% . "</h1>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="5"><b>~ ( O ) ~ _()_ Namasté _()_ ~ ( O ) ~</b></font></p>
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<br/> BLESSINGS FROM MY HEART TO YOUR HEART AND ALL THOSE CLOSE TO YOUR HEART ,<br/>
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<p style="text-align: center;">IN GRATITUDE . IN WISH TO COME BACK ON 10TH MAY , 2012 WITH SOMETHING NEW , I HOPE IT WOULD BE RE'IN'NO'E'MO'TI'VA'TI'O'NA'LI'ZING THEN ~</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">YOURS TRULY , LOVINGLY AND SINCERELY ,</p>
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Divine Message - 10-10-10
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2010-10-10T06:29:35.239Z
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<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Dear All,<br></br>
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Good Morning to all of you and have a divine blessed day ahead,<br></br>
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A good thought is thrice blessed. First, it benefits the thinker by improving his mental body. <br></br>
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Secondly, it benefits the person about whom it is entertained.<br></br>
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Lastly, it benefits all mankind by improving the general mental atmosphere.<br></br>
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----Swami Sivananda<br></br>
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Chant the Mahamantra Nama…</font>
<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">Dear All,<br/>
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Good Morning to all of you and have a divine blessed day ahead,<br/>
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A good thought is thrice blessed. First, it benefits the thinker by improving his mental body. <br/>
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Secondly, it benefits the person about whom it is entertained.<br/>
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Lastly, it benefits all mankind by improving the general mental atmosphere.<br/>
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----Swami Sivananda<br/>
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Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :<br/>
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare <br/>
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare</font>
Efforts - Good one - Author Unknown
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<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Dear All,<br></br>
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Good evening to all of you and have a divine blessed day ahead.... <br></br>
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A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. <br></br>
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Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was young. He carried a large bag of tools with him and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He…</font>
<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">Dear All,<br/>
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Good evening to all of you and have a divine blessed day ahead.... <br/>
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A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. <br/>
<br/>
Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was young. He carried a large bag of tools with him and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully top to bottom.<br/>
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Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer<br/>
away. The engine was fixed! <br/>
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A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. <br/>
<br/>
"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!" <br/>
<br/>
So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill." <br/>
<br/>
The man sent a bill that read: <br/>
Tapping with a hammer...... ........ ......... $ 2.00 <br/>
Knowing where to tap......... ........ ........ $ 9, 998.00 <br/>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference!</span><br/>
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Regards & Chant the Mahamantra: <br/>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);">Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);"/><span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);">Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare</span></font>
THE SPIRAL
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2010-09-09T10:01:26.544Z
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The Symbolism of the Spiral<br />
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The visual motif of the spiral is one of the oldest and most enigmatic sacred images known. It is, in fact, among the very earliest examples of human creative expression, first appearing some 24,000 years ago. As millennia passed, this curious image found its way into the spiritual iconography of nearly every society in the ancient world: from Ireland to Japan, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. We see the sacred spiral in the totemic carvings of…
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The Symbolism of the Spiral<br />
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The visual motif of the spiral is one of the oldest and most enigmatic sacred images known. It is, in fact, among the very earliest examples of human creative expression, first appearing some 24,000 years ago. As millennia passed, this curious image found its way into the spiritual iconography of nearly every society in the ancient world: from Ireland to Japan, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. We see the sacred spiral in the totemic carvings of the Haida, the vast ground drawings of the Nazca, the megalithic monuments of western Europe, the classical architecture of the Mediterranean, Arabic calligraphy, Persian carpets, yogic diagrams from India, decorative Chinese porcelain, and Shinto rock gardens. It's ubiquity endures to our modern day, where we see at least some examples of it in literally every category of thing that has been decorated by man.<br />
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The spiral has a universal appeal, and this fact is a sure indication of some mysterious resonance with the human psyche. What does the spiral mean to us? Its early association with the Mother Goddess (it is often found with, or on, small stone carvings of the Goddess ) suggests some kind of connection to the mysterious and miraculous process of life which is embodied in the Feminine - the door through which life enters this world. But why a spiral and not some other image? Anthropologists are still unsure about the origin of its use, but there are speculations:<br />
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1) It echos the shape of animal viscera. Perhaps these early hunters saw the shapes found within living beings, and formalized this "animating force" as a spiral.<br />
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2) In an abstract sense, it is indicative of time. For early people, the passage of things was always around and around: day becomes night becomes day; the seasons come and go, but always return once again; lives come into being, and go out of being, but there is always new life coming into being.<br />
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A circle - movement revolving back on itself - is a common, and useful, symbol for time. But a circle - tracing the same arc again and again - is a static thing and doesn't really describe how we perceive time. We remember what happened last year, and the year before that; those past tracings of the arc are not erased by new tracings. The seasons come back upon themselves as they do, but all the ancient seasons are somehow still here...inside the new season. The cyclical rotations of time seem to wind around all the previous cycles, on an infinite journey to...whenever, or wherever, time is going.<br />
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So perhaps the first people saw in the dynamic movement of a spiral, the image of time: time being understood by them as that direction of events that brings into being all things, beckons out of being all things, and then regenerates new being again. Just like the moon that comes into and goes out of being, but is always reborn again; just like the plant which dies, but in the dying yields a seed to be planted in the womb of the earth for regeneration - a source of nourishment for our regeneration. It was this regenerative aspect of the spiral of time that suggested the association with the Feminine.<br />
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3) It is an early Mandala, or meditative aid. The spiral certainly has a meditative quality. The ancient Eurasian variety of these early spirals had three interesting qualities: they were all associated with the Goddess, they often had seven winds or cycles, and they usually possessed a pronounced dot to mark "the center."<br />
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The winding passage to the center - sometimes called the "labyrinth motif" - is a prominent theme in sacred stories everywhere. In the concrete sense, the labyrinth spiral is like the caves in which early people lived. Those caves - sanctuaries from predators and ice-age weather - must have been revered, holy places. It is quite likely that the only peace and rest those early humans ever knew was found in the mysterious, winding recesses of those precious caves. It was there that food was prepared and eaten, there that clothes were made, there that the forces of nature were honored in ritual, there that new human life was brought into the world. Paleolithic man lived in the womb of the Mother Earth Goddess: caves of regeneration and transformation.<br />
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But there is another, abstract sense of the labyrinth spiral that is important. It is evocative of the bewildering choices we must make to find our way in the world "out there", and the equally bewildering choices we must make to find our way "in here" - in the tangled maze of our own inscrutable psyches. And the "Mystical Center" (known by many names - Axis Mundi, Immovable Spot, World Tree, Cosmic Pillar, etc.) is understood to represent a still and silent place (or state of being); it is the motionless heart, the focal nucleus around which spirals the whirling hurricane of space and time. It is the source from which all things come, and to which they endeavor to return for regeneration. The Mandala Spiral is a symbolic representation of a spiritual journey to a place beyond the visible world...<br />
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The Symbolism of the Serpent<br />
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There is another ancient symbol as old in the human imagination as the spiral: the serpent. And like the sacred images of the Goddess and the spiral, the serpent has found its way into every spiritual tradition in the world. (There are islands in Oceania which possess no snakes, and thus no serpents in their traditions; curiously, they are replaced by the best local approximation: eels.)<br />
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The symbolism of the serpent operates at several levels, but perhaps the most obvious characteristic of the snake to ancient peoples was its curious ability to shed its skin. From the dried and cracking grey husk of its former self, the snake emerges moist, colorful, youthful, revived...regenerated. It is known that on certain occasions the emerging snake will actually consume the skin he leaves behind - it is an excellent source of protein. What an extraordinary image that is: the old and withered is transformed into the young and vigorous by the act of consuming itself. This image is known as the Ouroboros - the self-consuming serpent.<br />
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In this way the serpent is exactly akin to Life itself: lives perpetually come into being, they consume and are eventually consumed, and from this process of consumption new lives come again into being. Nature regenerates itself by a perpetual act of self-consumption. So the serpent is a symbol of the primal, regenerating energy of nature; a suggestion of the sex and violence nature requires for such regeneration; a reminder of our own instinctual need to participate in this Eternal Ritual of regeneration.<br />
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The old world (still alive in the beliefs of the East) and the new world (characterized by the Christian West) have differing views on the serpent. What one thinks of the serpent (the primal, regenerating energy of nature) depends upon what one thinks of nature.<br />
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Civilization provides an isolating barrier between us and the harsh realities of the world outside. The old world was far more intimate with nature than we. To know Nature was survival: they knew it, honored it, feared it. Any other philosophy was inconceivable - and suicidal. The primal, regenerating energy of nature was, to them, Divine Power incarnate in the animals, in the plants, in the soil of the earth, in the swirling wind of the sky, in the swirling water of the rivers. Nature was a sacred, life-bestowing Goddess, and we can scarcely imagine the magnitude of love early people felt for Her, and the cyclical periodicity of Her Will: something begins, endures briefly, and ends...only to begin again in new form. This is the Wheel of Time. It is the annual flood or monsoon, the rotation of the seasons, alternating night and day, the phases of the moon, the rhythm of a woman and its relation to birth and new life. It is the sun spiraling around the galaxy, the galaxy spiraling around the universe, and the universe spiraling around the Infinite Creatress who sustains it all through the aeons.<br />
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The dominance of this "Cycles of Nature" religion lasted for thousands of years, until an early Jew (tradition identifies this man as Abraham) imagined an alternative view of time, and consequently, of nature and divinity. What if time doesn't go around and around, with things rising and falling, only to rise and fall again? What if the apparent cycles are actually contained within a larger linear motion of time? Time is not a wheel, but a direction the wheel is traveling: this is the Arrow of Time.<br />
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The world-shaking import of this idea can hardly be overstated, for it is now the philosophy of the entire modern world; the world which it - and it alone - invented. Abraham's revolutionary idea is basically this: If the consumptive phase of the cycle is not inevitable, then perhaps we have the capacity - through discipline, effort, and piety - to change our destinies. Perhaps our fate is not in the hands of nature, but is, rather, our own to determine. So if nature is not in control of us, and we are now in control of it, then divinity cannot reside in nature. Divinity must reside external to nature, external to space and time, in a transcendent domain. Through aspiration and achievement we might share in the glory of this Transcendent Paradise. And we will achieve our objectives by the conquest and subordination of that which is between us and the Place of God: nature.<br />
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And so, in the western tradition, the serpent became the architect of The Fall - primal nature luring us from the transcendent domain into the immanent. But that's another archetype, for another essay...<br />
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We should not quickly dismiss these ancient reckonings of things. There is no question that we know more about the mechanics of the world than they did, but even now we seek to find meaning and purpose in things. Meaning and purpose are spiritual questions, and every living faith on earth has its origins in a time well before recorded history. Christianity is an extension of Judaism, Judaism is an extension (in motif if not philosophy) of Mesopotamian spirituality, and the origins of Sumerian and Babylonian belief disappear into the impenetrable mists of distant antiquity.<br />
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Right or wrong, by virtue of our indefatigable persistence in spiritual longing, we remain intimately connected to the paleolithic shamans who invented this uniquely human quest. It is only the material component of the human experience that has changed in the last 24,000 years; the ethereal dimension of life is no different: The ancient reckoning of the mysterium tremendum, is our reckoning too...<br />
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As I indicated earlier, there are many dimensions to serpent symbolism, most of which are not germane to this essay. I have just one final observation to offer on the serpent: when snakes rest, they coil up into a spiral.<br />
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A few words on the Symbolism of the Dove<br />
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Along with the Goddess, the spiral, and the serpent, there is one final element found on the earliest examples of human expression: the bird.<br />
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Early people must have looked skyward and wondered: "All things here are pain and suffering; all things here are challenge and strife; all things here are change and flow. Yet the stars do not change; if there is a quiet place of sanctuary from the violence of the world, surely it is there. If only I could be there, flying on the wind like a bird, up into the starry womb of night. I know I could find safety and refuge there. I know I could find peace..."<br />
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The bird is an obvious symbol for liberation; a breaking of the shackles that bind us to the sorrows of life. Wings are the vehicle by which we might transcend this world, and attain new vistas, in new dimensions of existence. In time, the bird most often chosen to represent this longing came to be a white dove. White is the color of all light together, all the colors of the rainbow singing in one sublime symphony of Celestial Glory. White is undivided and undistorted by the colors of nature. It is purity, serenity, Divinity.<br />
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The ubiquity of this image in the modern world clearly demonstrates the enduring power of this symbol in the human imagination.<br />
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A Brief History of how these symbols came together...<br />
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22,000 B.C. - In the region that would one day become known as Landes, in France, a paleolithic hunter carves a beautiful little head of a woman, known as the "Head of Goddess." This is believed to be the very earliest example of purely decorative object-making - the first piece of art.<br />
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20,000 B.C. - The practice of sculpting stylized women has spread across Western Europe. One sculpture (known as the "Goddess of Laussel" - also from France) shows an obviously pregnant woman standing. In her left hand she holds a crescent moon, upon which are incised thirteen notches. (Thirteen is the number of days the moon waxes to full, and the number of days it wanes to new. With the addition of the three days of new moon, one achieves the duration of one lunar month: 29 days.) With her right hand she gestures to her swollen belly, demonstrating a knowledge of the association between the lunar cycle and a woman's reproductive cycle - of the association between the self-recreating moon and the self-recreating womb of life.<br />
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18,000 B.C. - Sculptures of the Goddess start to appear in Eastern Europe. The famous "Goddess of Willendorf" is carved in Austria. This profoundly pregnant female figure has upon her head seven circles - six concentric rings around a single central nodule. This is, perhaps, the first appearance of what could be called the "Six around One" motif.<br />
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16,000 B.C. - Hunters on the planes of Siberia build a sacred site and decorate it with at least twenty Goddess figurines. With these figurines are small carved plaques. On one side is a seven-whorled spiral; on the other, three undulating serpents - two of which possess seven curves. In the millennia that follow, the spiral motif moves directly onto the little Goddess figures that feature so prominently in the sacred rituals spreading across the entire Eurasian land mass.<br />
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4500 B.C. - The Goddess of Life, Death, and Regeneration is first represented in neolithic Crete. She is shown standing straight, arms apart; in each hand She holds an undulating serpent.<br />
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3000 B.C. - With the invention of writing come the first stories of the Goddess, and the first names: Isis, Ishtar, Asherah, Cybele, Inanna...<br />
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2500 B.C. - Small bronze plaques start to appear in Mesopotamia, upon which is seen the Tree of Life - the motionless axis of the revolving universe. The Tree has seven branches. On either side are two Deities - one Masculine (the active, positive, pushing out force) and one Feminine (the passive, negative, pulling in force). And framing the composition are two serpents, each with seven nodal points, or bends.<br />
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2000 B.C. - A ceremonial cup of bronze is made for the King of Lagash, one of the most important cities in ancient Sumer - the birthplace of civilization. For the first time the image of the undulating serpents, and the image of the spiral come together in one image: two intertwining serpents wind around the Axis Mundi, and cross at seven nodal points - Six around One. This new icon is soon associated with the God who cures all illness. This same image appears simultaneously in India.<br />
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1200 B.C. - The Feathered Serpent - Master of Life, Death, and Regeneration - appears in Olmec civilization. This image evolves over the next 2000 years of Central American history to become, in Aztec civilization, two feathered serpents winding around a vertical axis - again with seven nodal points.<br />
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1000 B.C. - With the addition of wings at the top of the World Axis, the image of intertwining serpents is adopted by Greece, and subsequently, the entire classical world: Rome, Europe, the Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa. It is known as the Caduceus, the Staff of Hermes/Mercury: guide of souls to the underworld, and messenger of the knowledge of Eternal Life.<br />
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200 B.C. - The Yoga Sutras appear in India, and the teachings therein spread across the sub-continent and into China and Japan. The spiritual philosophy in these sacred books is called Kundalini Yoga - coiled serpent power. Kundalini describes, in elaborate detail, a subtle substance of body - in addition to the gross substance of flesh and bone - that coils around the spine in two separate "filaments". These two filaments - one of feminine Yin energy and one of masculine Yang energy - cross at seven nodal points, or energy bundles, which are known as Chakras. Three lower chakras represent a "penetrating" energy, three higher chakras represent a "receiving" energy, and these 6 chakras are balanced by a mediating "heart" chakra between them - Six around One. The objective of the yogi is to awaken the "primal serpent energy" dormant in the base of the spine, and bring it up - employing a complex process of meditations - through the seven successive Chakras to achieve spiritual enlightenment and knowledge of eternal life.<br />
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1600 A.D. In Europe, one complete rotation of a spiral helix becomes the symbol for infinity and eternity. It is quickly adopted by mathematicians, alchemists, tarot readers, Qabbalists, Rosicrucians, Masons, and other esoteric disciplines.<br />
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1800 A.D. The medical profession adopts the Caduceus - and the closely related single-twining-serpent symbol of the Staff of Aesculapius - as its official emblem. This paleolithic symbol of health and well-being, of nature and eternity, of life and regeneration, is universally recognized as the definitive choice.<br />
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1953 A.D. At a medical lab in the United States, Nobel Laureates James Watson and Francis Crick discover the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the fundamental molecular building blocks of all life on earth: the spiraling double helix is not a symbol of Life and Regeneration, it IS Life and Regeneration. Furthermore, DNA consists of four primary nitrogenous bases (adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine), a sugar (2-deoxy-D-ribose), and phosphoric acid. That is, DNA is composed of six molecules, which are joined by the essential seventh component - a single, axial spine of hydrogen bonds - into a spiralling molecule of stupifyingly vast genetic potential - a potential that is perhaps infinite, like the symbol it so resembles. Six around One. And in silhouette profile, the DNA molecule looks very much like an undulating serpent...<br />
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The Lunar Connection<br />
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There seems to be a tendency in nature to subdivide wholes into four parts. The are four Cardinal Directions, which corresponds, not only to our own anatomy (front and back, left and right), but to the geometric reality of life on a two-dimensional plane such as the kind we experience on the surface of the earth. There are Four Seasons, which corresponds to four - and only four - nodal points generated by the tilt of the earth's axis, and its revolution around the sun: Spring equinox (literally, equal night) - day and night are of equal duration; Summer solstice (literally, sun stops) - day of longest duration when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky (in Northern hemisphere); Autumn equinox - day and night are again of equal duration; Winter solstice - night of longest duration when the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky. The ancients saw four kinds of phenomena which they called the Four Elements: earth, water, air, and fire. This corresponds perfectly with the scientific reckoning of the Four States of Matter: solid (base matter), liquid (super-heated solid), gas (super-heated liquid), and plasma (super-heated gas). The ancients saw four personality types which they called the Four Temperaments: sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic. This corresponds perfectly with the modern medical reckoning of the Four Functions of Psyche (one of which will be dominant): sensation, intellect, emotion, and intuition.<br />
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Such divisions into four are not artificial, but real aspects of the world. It is, no doubt, because of this prevalent "fourness" in nature that we have chosen on many occasions to manufacture somewhat arbitrary four part divisions of a whole. Think of four-fold divisions like the four times of day: morning, afternoon, evening, and night; or the four periods of life: childhood, youth, maturity, and old age.<br />
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The first cycle understood by man was of course day and night, but at the dawn of the paleolithic era (22,000 B.C.), an awareness of the lunar cycle is demonstrated by the first appearance of lunar tabulation on little sculptures of the Goddess. In some pivotal moment in that distant epoch, a simple hunter had what must have been the world's first genuinely religious experience: "The regenerative cycle of the moon, and the regenerative cycle of the woman are of equal duration. The two are connected, somehow the same... as though the moon was a Divine Woman - a Goddess of Regeneration."<br />
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Just as a year consists of four seasons, the lunar cycle consists of Four Phases: coming into being (first quarter), being (full moon), going out of being (last quarter), not being (new moon). And the length of each phase? Seven days.<br />
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Mysterious Number 7<br />
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Babylonian Ziggurats had seven steps, as did the Temple of Solomon. The angle of the Great Pyramid is that of a seven-sided polygon. Rome was built on seven hills. The Tree of Life has seven branches, Six around One trunk that is the axis of the universe. The ancient symbol of the Trinity, Borromean Rings (three rings which mutually interlock precisely through their centers), has seven sections - Six around One in the center. There are seven stars in the celestial crown of the Virgin Mary, like the seven rays of Justice that shine from the head of Liberty. In Persia there were seven gates that lead to Glory of Mithras. Ishtar in Babylon and Isis in Egypt both passed through seven gates in the underworld to effect the resurrections of their slain husband-deities. Buddha seeks salvation for seven years before circling the Bodhi Tree seven times, thereby achieving enlightenment. The world Mountain has seven sides, each one facing one of the seven continents. In Tibet and Japan, the souls of the dead are said to tarry for 7 x 7 days before departing to distant, unknown realms. The constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper), by which early navigators found the north star - and thus their way home - consists of seven stars.<br />
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The ancients had a different, less-informed view of the structure of our solar-system. Their geocentric view reckoned seven worlds revolving around the earth: Mercury, Venus, Luna, Sol, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. We now know of course that they were entirely mistaken - nine planets, revolve around the sun - but this celestial appearance of seven was of enormous significance. From this perception of Seven Celestial Spheres came the idea of Seven Heavens (six outer heavens with the creator God in the center), and our reckoning of the week (six days of work around the Sabbath). Six around One.<br />
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There are Seven Pillars of Wisdom, seven Wonders of the Ancient world, seven circumambulations around the Ka'ba in Mecca, seven Liberal Arts, etc., etc., etc... This is but a tiny sampling of the available list; surely there is no more venerated number than seven. But what is the origin of our fascination with this number? Numerology and Sacred Geometry are endeavors most arcane; much of it is quite arbitrary, and therefore not relevant to an investigation into the biology of spiritual insight. But are there genuine examples of religious intuition that have been subsequently validated by scientific inquiry? Are all our "lucky seven" inclinations - the most ubiquitous sacred number - really just a function of the seven day phase of the Moon? Or is there something else at work here...something biological?<br />
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There are six colors in the spectrum, and in union they generate the master seventh color, white. Six around One. There are seven tones in one octave of the diatonic musical scale (do-re-me...), and when the Pythagorean "spiral of fifths" (a method of dividing a musical string in successive 1/3 - 2/3 steps, by which the musical scale was first discovered) is extended for seven octaves, the full chromatic scale of twelve tones is revealed. We have five senses. And while the taste of a fine Bordeaux, the smell forest meadow, or the touch of a woman's breast may all be sublime, we do not call such expressions of perfection art. It is only through the senses of sight and sound that we experience art. And all the art we shall ever see or hear is a product of these two seven-fold realities: the spectrum of light and the octave of sound.<br />
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It is the mathematical and geometric properties of seven that are perhaps the most interesting. The ancients believed there were only 10 numbers (as does our modern decimal system, for that matter); everything else is a mere repetition of the "true" numbers, but at a higher plane. And they knew that polygons of number contained within the "dekad" could be constructed with only three simple geometers tools: stylus, compass, and straightedge. By using the geometry of the Vesica Pisces ( two equal circles which pass through each others' centers), the triangle (angle - 120 degrees), square (angle - 90 degrees), pentagon (angle - 72 degrees), hexagon (angle - 60 degrees), octagon (angle - 45 degrees), nonagon (angle - 40 degrees), and decagon (angle - 36 degrees), could all be drafted with perfect precision without protractor measurement of any kind. The conspicuous exception was the heptagon. The angle that specifies its construction is 51.42857142857... This infinitely repeating decimal means that only an approximation of this polygon is possible; it cannot exist with precision in the real world. Its infinite quality places it external to the world, in the transcendent domain of idea.<br />
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This Six around One motif is also our own personal experience of the 3-dimensional universe in which we live, a cosmos consisting of seven domains: six directions (up, down, forward, backward, left, right - as defined by three and only three coordinates at right angles to each other) and the center...where one stands and observes the world beyond. And this is a reflection of a simple geometric, and thus eternal, Truth: six circles of equal size arranged in a perfect circle exactly circumscribe a seventh circle of equal size in the center. The center circle functions like the master template for the six-fold, external domains beyond. The center is simultaneously the circumference, and the circumference is made in the image of the center...<br />
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The Seven-Year Cycle<br />
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It is said that the cycle of events in a human life runs 7 years, in accord with the duration of time nature requires to replace every atomic particle in the human body. (This is apparently true: by the end of a seven year cycle, every electron and proton in your body has been replaced by another particle, and nothing of your former self remains; even the brain is entirely remade, and so where is the "me" that lives behind my eyes, if it is not in the material of which I am composed?) Each new 7-year period of life will present different challenges than the preceding one. I'm certain that many lives are not in accord with this mysterious 7-year cycle.
Inner Transformation Series – 2 - It’s a Perfect World - Last Part
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2010-08-01T01:45:52.748Z
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<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Dear All, <br></br>
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Good evening to all of u and have a divine blessed day ahead …..<br></br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">contd....</span><br></br>
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These are the people who transformed themselves and others too. A thousand years later we are still talking about them. Such people looked at themselves and first made the change within; then the transformation that happened around them was automatic. Once we make…</font>
<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">Dear All, <br/>
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Good evening to all of u and have a divine blessed day ahead …..<br/>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">contd....</span><br/>
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These are the people who transformed themselves and others too. A thousand years later we are still talking about them. Such people looked at themselves and first made the change within; then the transformation that happened around them was automatic. Once we make the change<br/>
within, the ego “I” does not come into play anymore. That is the beauty of it.<br/>
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Then things begin to happen miraculously. Then we understand that things always happen miraculously; only we thought all this while that we were doing it. It is a wonderful dawn of something higher. <br/>
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The whole world is the Lord’s creation. The Lord is perfect, so the world is perfect. The only thing that appears to be imperfect seems to be our view of the world. Fundamentally things are perfect as they are! <br/>
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So when we 'see' imperfection, our 'seeing' should be less than perfect. So we need to work on cleaning our vision. It is as simple as that!<br/>
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From a lecture series – ‘Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times’ by Sri M.K.Ramanujamji (<a href="http://us.mc320.mail.yahoo.com/mc/contact@namadwaar.org">contact@namadwaar.org</a>) at Houston, TX, USA, inspired by teachings his Master - H.H.Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji. <br/>
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For more details: <a href="http://us.mc320.mail.yahoo.com/mc/www.namadwaar.org">www.namadwaar.org</a> ; <a href="http://us.mc320.mail.yahoo.com/mc/www.godivinity.org">www.godivinity.org</a> <br/><br/></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :<br/>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);">Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare <br/>
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare</span><br style=""/><br style=""/></span><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3"> <br/>
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Inner Transformation Series – 2 - It’s a Perfect World - Part-2
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2010-08-01T01:42:18.798Z
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<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Dear All, <br></br>
<br></br>
Good evening to all of u and have a divine blessed day ahead …..<br></br><br></br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">contd...</span>.<br></br>
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When we truly grasp the import of this sentence, it is like a great secret has been revealed to us. The moment we see something wrong with others, it means immediately that there is something wrong with us. We seem to project what is within us as issues onto…</font>
<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">Dear All, <br/>
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Good evening to all of u and have a divine blessed day ahead …..<br/><br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">contd...</span>.<br/>
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When we truly grasp the import of this sentence, it is like a great secret has been revealed to us. The moment we see something wrong with others, it means immediately that there is something wrong with us. We seem to project what is within us as issues onto others—we focus on the<br/>
most 'repulsive' aspects of another’s personality that actually reflects our own challenges.<br/>
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But in truth, there is never anyone to be changed but “me”. And once we absorb this, and start observing ourselves—our thoughts and how we view others—then a dramatic change starts to take place within us. Like we saw in the previous article, transformation means going from firm ground to quicksand. To truly transform ourselves we need to step where we have never gone before. <br/>
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Albert Einstein termed as insanity the act of doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. That is why inner transformation means letting go of the big past and trying to bring in fresh thinking; to work out what we are doing with life. This will make a tremendously different, caring person out of us and even inspire people around us. <br/>
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Once when the great 11th century teacher and philosopher, Sri Ramanujacharya, went to the holy Tirumala hill (Tirupathi. South Of India) , the abode of Lord Venkateshwara, the Acharya’s aged uncle, Sri Periya Tirumala Nambi, came all the way down the hill to invite and receive him. Sri Ramanujacharya was moved and told him that he could have sent some little boy to<br/>
invite him instead of undertaking the difficult trip himself. But the aged saint said, “I looked around but couldn’t find anyone as little as me. So I had to come myself.”<br/>
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!!! Will Continue !!!<br/>
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Inner Transformation Series – 2 - It’s a Perfect World - Part-1
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2010-08-01T01:37:21.590Z
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<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Dear All,</font> <br></br>
<br></br>
<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">In the first article in this series we saw how, in order to change the world, we first have to change ourselves; <i>for the world is only the way we are</i>. Only what is inside us manifests itself on the outside.</font><font size="3"><br></br> …</font>
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<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">Dear All,</font> <br/>
<br/>
<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">In the first article in this series we saw how, in order to change the world, we first have to change ourselves; <i>for the world is only the way we are</i>. Only what is inside us manifests itself on the outside.</font><font size="3"><br/> </font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3">A kind, caring person sees a world that is compassionate and loving. But a perpetual liar believes that everyone around him is dishonest. A devious person sees a devious world that is out to get him.</font><br/>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3">When Lord Sri Krishna told the Gopas of Vrindavan to refrain from worshipping Indra, the god of rain, but instead worship the holy Govardhana Mountain, they immediately agreed to do His bidding. But when he heard this, the proud Indra, his ego hurt, was furious. The moment he<br/>
was proud, he thought Krishna had become proud.<span style=""> </span> <span style="">In his mad rage, he raved that the Gopas were audacious because of their prosperity; that their action was like trying to cross the ocean of Samsara (Mundane Life) <span style=""> </span>by resorting to mere ritualism instead of meditation and philosophical reflection; he even called Krishna names, including calling him “an ignoramus, a pretentious pseudo-scholar, a silly boy and a braggart”.</span></font><br/>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3">But in truth, was not Indra the one who was audacious because of his prosperity? Was he not the one tied to ritualism as he waited in anticipation for the Gopas’ worship offerings? Wasn’t he the one ignorant (of who Krishna really was), the braggart, the pseudo-scholar who talked glibly about crossing Samsara through meditation while at the same time succumbing to the desire for material offerings?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3"><b style="">The qualities we see in others are actually right within us.</b></font></p>
<font size="3"> </font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3">!!! Will Continue !!!<br/></font></p>
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Inner Transformation Series – 1 - Making a Difference by Being Different
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2010-05-27T14:58:17.763Z
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<font size="3" style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Dear All, <br></br> <br></br>This
is adopted from the lecture series by Mr. Sri M.K.Ramanujam from the topic 'Ancient wisdom for Modern Times' at Houston , TX , USA . <br></br> <br></br>1. Why can’t things ever be smooth for me? <br></br>2. Why do I always land a cussed deal in everything? <br></br>3. Why is the world such a tough place to live in? <br></br> <br></br>Does this rant sound familiar? <br></br> <br></br>We
are often dissatisfied or frustrated…</font>
<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3">Dear All, <br/> <br/>This
is adopted from the lecture series by Mr. Sri M.K.Ramanujam from the topic 'Ancient wisdom for Modern Times' at Houston , TX , USA . <br/> <br/>1. Why can’t things ever be smooth for me? <br/>2. Why do I always land a cussed deal in everything? <br/>3. Why is the world such a tough place to live in? <br/> <br/>Does this rant sound familiar? <br/> <br/>We
are often dissatisfied or frustrated with our situation and the people around us, and wish that they would change. In fact, almost everyone wishes that others would change. <br/> <br/>Parents want children to
stop rebelling and do as they say, while children want parents to stop<br/>
forcing things on them; wives want their husbands to be more attentive, husbands wish wives would be less nagging; employers want employees to work harder, while employees wish their bosses would be less demanding.<br/> <br/>There
is a simple solution to making the world a better place and actually making a difference in this world, something that all of us inherently wish to do. <br/> <br/>Make a difference to yourself. <br/>` <br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Any change has to start with "me". In fact, the truth is that the major thing that ever needs changing is "me".</span> <br/> <br/>We define the world. We don’t see the world as it is; we see it as we are! <br/> <br/>There
is an interesting legend which is based on the great Indian epic, Mahabharata. Duryodhana, a cruel and arrogant prince, and Yudhishtira, an honest and kind prince, were both sent together, by Lord Krishna, on a tour of their kingdom’s capital city. <br/><br/>When they came back, Krishna took Duryodhana aside
and asked, "What is the state of the city? How are the people?" <br/><br/>Duryodhana
replied, "This city is full of arrogant people and cheats. There is not a shred of goodness anywhere. I don't know how we are going to manage and bring these people under control!" <br/><br/>Krishna let Duryodhana go and called Yudhishtira and asked him the same question. <br/><br/>Yudhishtira said, "This is such a beautiful city, Krishna . Everybody is so loving, caring and helpful." <br/><br/>Vidura,
a minister, who stood by Krishna listening to these utterly contradicting reports was confused. When he asked for an explanation, Krishna said, "Yudhishtira saw goodness outside because he had goodness inside him. Duryodhana was arrogant and wicked inside, and hence saw the same wickedness outside." <br/> <br/>We don't see the world as it is; we see it as we are! <br/> <br/>The moment we truly realize this, transformation happens within us. So to change
the world, we first have to look within. <br/> <br/>To
make this world a better place, it has to start and end with "I". Rather, it has to start with the 'I' and end the ego 'I' – that which taints and distorts the truth. <br/> <br/>But one should remember,
transformation means going from firm ground to quicksand. To truly<br/>
transform ourselves we need to step where we have never gone before. <br/> <br/>There
was once a simpleton who was walking home late one night. He was absent-mindedly playing with a gold ring on his finger and dropped it on the road. He was not too far from his house, and so he ran home and frantically called his wife. <br/><br/>He told her, "I have dropped my ring. Search under this street light." When
she couldn't find it, he asked her to look under another street light. This went on for a while until finally the wife asked him, "Are you sure you dropped it under a street light?"<br/><br/>The man said, "Oh stupid lady,
I don't know where I dropped it, but don't you know that we can search only where there is light?" <br/> <br/>This
is what many of us have been doing with most of our lives. The problem is in the 'dark' – unknown, yet to be explored. But we are afraid of the dark, so we search for a solution in the light where no solution may exist! <br/> <br/>That is why Inner Transformation means letting go
of the past and trying to bring in fresh thinking; to work out what we are doing with life and to doing what we are passionate about. This<br/>
will make us a tremendously different and caring person, and shall inspire people around us. Let's start with us. <br/> <br/><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">We can make a difference in this world only by Inner Transformation! </span> <br/><br/>From
more details Pl contact Sri M.K.Ramanujamji (contact@namadwaar.org) inspired by teachings from his Master - H.H.Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji. <br/>----------------------------- <br/>Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :<br/><span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);">Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);"/><span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);">Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare</span> <br/>-------------------------------------------------------- <br/>You can also browse our similar websites for more details: <a rel="nofollow">www.namadwaar.org</a> ; <a rel="nofollow">www.godivinity.org</a> <br/> <br/> </font>
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In Greek myths, Chiron was the wisest of the Centaurs and the archetype of the Wounded Healer<br></br>
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He was accidentally wounded by an arrow that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra<br></br>
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In his search for his own cure, he discovered how to heal others<br></br>
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In teaching others the healing arts, he found a measure of solace from his own pain<br></br>
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The Wounded Healer understands what the patient feels because he has gone…
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In Greek myths, Chiron was the wisest of the Centaurs and the archetype of the Wounded Healer<br/>
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He was accidentally wounded by an arrow that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra<br/>
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In his search for his own cure, he discovered how to heal others<br/>
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In teaching others the healing arts, he found a measure of solace from his own pain<br/>
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The Wounded Healer understands what the patient feels because he has gone through the same pain<br/>
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The suffering patient can be cared for by the Healer and be instrumental in the Healers own healing<br/>
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Each encounter between Healer and patient can be transforming for both<br/>
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The lesson of Chiron teaches us is that we can overcome pain and transcend into knowledge<br/>
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That each of us can become a Wounded Healer<br/>
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