The Fall of Lucifer, Atlantis (Robert Sepehr)

Lucifer was the most beautiful of all the angels (celestial devas). What happened?

Buddhist "Lucifer": Vepacitti (Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia)

The Fall of Lucifer with Robert Sepehr

(Atlantean Gardens) April 24, 2020. Lucifer means "Light-Bringer" or "the morning star," and is the Latin name for the planet Venus in its morning appearance, often used for mythological and religious figures and goddesses associated with the planet. Due to the unique movements and discontinuous appearances of Venus in the sky, mythology surrounding these figures often involved a fall from the heavens to earth or to the underworld.

[In Buddhism this happens as well with a titan chieftain (asura) named Vepacitti. He is the equivalent of Christianity's Lucifer-cum-Satan figure tossed out of a celestial world by a St. Michael figure named Sakka, King of the Devas. Devas are "shining ones" or "light beings" inhabiting that world, called "the Heaven of the Thirty-Three" (Tavatimsa deva loka). Deva is a general name for many more glorious light beings living on higher planes of existence, similar to angels, archangels, deities, and divinities of higher orders.]

• European Pre-History and the Oera Linda Book
• Legend and Mystery of the Holy Grail
• God of Wisdom, Thief of Fire
• An old Irish legend about an ancient Egyptian princess

One of the symbols associated with the goddess is called the rose or the pentagram of Venus, because every 8 years it makes a pentagram shape in the sky with its orbit. For every 8 Earth years, Venus goes around the sun 13 times, and the number 13 is also associated to the lunar cycle. The word Satan means adversary...

• Sacred Bloodlines and Mysteries of the Goddess

ABOUT: Robert Sepehr is an anthropologist and author (amazon.com). Interview excerpt: Tau Tia L Dauglass Radio program: Nightwatch. Robert Sepehr links: linktr.ee/RobertSepehr. Thanks for supporting Atlantean Gardens: patreon.com/AtlanteanGardens

Breatharianism: "Light" documentary (video)

LightDocumentary.com; Eliza Darcey, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Light: a free food source humans can consume

Can we live without eating any food or taking any drink? Yes. But, but, but...

Whatever we may want to say about it or however much doubt we bring to the topic, some people are already living without food and drink.

The Bodhisatta (Buddha-to-be) almost did it once with the help of devas, who wanted to pour deva food into his pores. But he did not want to mislead people who widely knew that he was fasting and/or living on very little food.

There are documented cases of people who are alive today without taking in calories or liquids, just breath (prana, chi, qi, kyi, spiritus).

It is possible to live on sunlight like plants and to produce sustenance in the form of the nectar of the devas, amrita, from under the tongue with yogic exercises and pranayama or "breath control." More

Anyone inspired by "In the Beginning There Was Light” and its message or by the articles on breatharianism (subsisting by "eating" only breath) on the lightdocumentary.com site may share information with the community via website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...
 

"10 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND 5 YEARS OF FILMING"

Director P.A. Straubinger did ten years of research on the controversial topic of inediam a.k.a. "breatharianism." He writes in his extensive director's statement about the scientific and philosophical background of "Light," its message, possible misunderstandings, and unpublished research material. 

As I write this statement in the background section I will allow myself to answer the tagline of my film right away because it creates so much misunderstanding. This is a "spoiler." So if you have not seen the film and want to be surprised, please STOP reading! More

Floating in meditation

Dhr. Seven, Kelly Yanni, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly; Mara Carrico (YogaJournal.com)

Levitation: "Escape Artist (Green and Red)" by Sam Taylor Johnson (artsy.net)

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Meditation in flight gets a meditator high

(WQ) Sometimes when you close your eyes, you get a pleasant floating sensation, a kind of levitation or lightness, the uplift of joy and rapture. It does not always happen, and one need not cling to it and miss it when it fails to appear. It is just transient phenomena. It may feel like the head or consciousness is expanding in the universe, in space, in distant celestial worlds. Neither cling nor set up expectations that will surely disappoint and perhaps ruin one's practice. Stay "mindful" (dispassionately observant, acting as the witness of the mind and emotions rather than as the architect or actor). Meditation is about letting go, so to cling to a good feeling in meditation would be to learn a means of escape and then cling to the means without actually escaping.

 
What Is Meditation?
Mara Carrico (YogaJournal.com) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

An exquisite methodology exists within the yoga tradition that is designed to reveal the interconnectedness of every thing.

This fundamental unity (nonduality) is referred to as advaita in Hinduism. Meditation can be the actual experience of this union.

 

In The Yoga Sutras (better described as aphorisms), Patanjali gives instructions on how to meditate and describes what factors constitute a meditation practice.
 

The second sutra (not a discourse but one line, one sentence, one saying) in the first chapter states that yoga (union) happens when the mind becomes quiet. This mental stillness is created by bringing the body, mind, and senses into balance which, in turn, relaxes the nervous system.
 

Patanjali goes on to explain that meditation begins when we discover that our never-ending quest to possess things and our continual craving for pleasure and security can never be satisfied. When we finally realize this, our external quest turns inward, and we have shifted into the realm of meditation.
 

Is it? Does meditation feed our craving?

By English dictionary definition meditation (a poor catchall translation of various Sanskrit terms) means "to reflect upon, ponder, or contemplate, to revolve in mind." Most initial meditation is not about thinking or pondering.

It is instead about mindfully experiencing. That is to say, one silently watches, remains unbiased, unmoved, calm, dispassionate rather than doing what we usually do, which is to take everything as personal, as self, as ego.

• Ultimately speaking, things are impersonal. What things?

It can also denote a devotional exercise of contemplation or a contemplative discourse of a religious or philosophical nature. The English word "meditate" comes from the Latin meditari, which means to think about or consider [to revolve in mind or intellect].
 

Med is the root of this word and means "to take appropriate measures." In our culture, to meditate can be interpreted several ways. For instance, you might meditate on or consider a course of action... More

• American Buddhist monastics explain meditation details
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• Unlimited Yoga for 30 days (Yoga International)
• Kundalini Yoga (kundinyasa.com)

KOAN: Ummon's Farm Rice-Cake

Roshi Jeff Albrizee, Seven, PasaDharma.org, The Book of Equanimity, Case 78

Yum, now they're hemp-a-licious! Lundberg brand rice cakes are not as bad as popcorn.

PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY

When you seek the cost all over heaven, you’ll be paid the price all over the Earth.

To seek after 100 schemes is just a shame.

Isn't there some one who knows to advance and retreat, and who recognizes the duality?

MAIN CASE

Eat or fast, but mindfully with clear comprehension

Attention!

Master Ummon spoke to the assembly of monastics: “Even if a single word instantaneously puts the 10,000 differences in the same groove, including the minutest particle, it is still an expression of teaching. What is a patch-robe monastic to say? If you argue about the words of the ancestors and the buddhas, the unique way of Zen will be destroyed. Is there any one here who can put it right? If you can speak, come forward.”

Then a monk asked, “What is speech that transcends the buddhas and goes beyond the ancestors?”

Ummon replied, “Farm rice-cake.”

Then the monk asked, “What connection is there between the farm rice-cake and the speech that transcends the buddhas and ancestors?”

Master Ummon replied, “Exactly! What’s the connection? What are you calling buddhas and what are you calling ancestors?”

 

Eat like a wise vegetarian monastic -- healthy, tasty, and kindly (3D-pictures.feedio.net)

 

Ummon further explained, “Right now, is anything the matter? If you really don’t have any clue, then for a time go into yourself and investigate thoroughly on your own. In the 24 hours of the day, when you are wearing a robe, eating, defecating, and urinating, even including the flies in the latrine, is there still any speech that transcends buddhas and ancestors?”

APPRECIATORY VERSE

“Farm rice-cake” is speech that transcends buddhas and ancestors.

In this phrase there’s no flavor.

How can you penetrate it?

Zen monastics who one day know satisfaction will see no shame on Ummon’s face.

Obligate carnivores appreciate and trust kind vegetarians (3D-pictures.feedio.net)

"Enlighten Up" (Film)

"All Things Considered," National Public Radio (4/4/09)

• Film Asks If Nirvana Through Yoga Is Possible

The new film "Enlighten Up" takes a look at whether yoga really is the spiritual experience it's cracked up to be. All Things Considered host Robert Smith talks to the maker and star, a regular guy who travels yoga studios in America and India...

• Listen Now [5 min 54 sec]

"Enlighten Up" the Movie

A filmmaker is determined to prove that yoga can transform anyone. Her plan?

• Select a subject.
• Immerse him in yoga.
• Follow him until he finds a practice that transforms him.

Her subject? Nick Rosen -- a skeptical, 29 year-old journalist living in New York City.

Before he can say OM, Nick finds himself twisted up like a pretzel surrounded by celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks, and entrepreneurs. The more he investigates yoga the more contradictions he discovers, straying further from the filmmaker's plan.

They circle the globe talking to mystics, gurus, mad men, and saints searching for the true meaning of "yoga," encountering things they never could have imagined. They not only find answers to their questions, they find much more.

• enlightenupthefilm.com
• OPENS APRIL 17, 2009