It is my nature to nurture my own and other people's growth.
I am so grateful to all who have signed up to be a part of my new The Aware Life Teleseminar series.
If choosing just one teleseminar this season, let it be this one. Accept no substitutes! I have spent the last 12 years developing deep relationships with many of the guests appearing on the teleseminar.
Taking these conversations to the next level is the best reason to participate. These conversations are building blocks to grow. This is real-time information, not pre-recorded messages.
We will be taking your live calls, so have your questions ready. Sign up and watch your email for a big Wayne Dyer announcement! He i giving The Aware Show audience a very special gift at the end of his call on Monday.
Listen in for a very special bonus at the end of the call! If you have already signed up, watch your email for call-in instructions on how to tune in.
Lisa will be interviewing two dozen transformational
leaders about how to manifest a life we deserve. Just signing up for this
series is already making positive changes in your life. Here are the luminaries in the series:
Wayne Dyer, Donna Eden, Gregg Braden, Jean Houston, Bruce Lipton, Lynne McTaggart, David
Wolfe, Caroline Myss, Jim Kwik, Doreen Virtue, Mahendra Trivedim, Jennifer McLean, John and Ocean Robbins, Dr. Hyla Cass, Howard Martin, Amy Ahlers, Dr. Norm Shealy, Aurora Winters, Alex Loyd, Marcia Wieder, Nick Ortner, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Christopher Howard, Donna Gates, Brent Phillips, and Pam Oslie.
Oslie can be heard on June 22, 2012 at 1:00 pm PST. Everyone will
be sharing amazing information about how to live "The Aware Life" getting the best
out of every moment by turning intentions into actions.
Wisdom Quarterly reporting from the October 2010 Conscious Life Expo
Channeling the Light Dr. Judy Satori Today's Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles will feature a unique workshop (additional entrance fee). At this energy activation event Dr. Judy Satori will be overshadowed by and transmit the energies of the Buddhist Goddess White Tara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan Yin, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene.
The lotus and the rose are flowers known for their beauty and strength. The lotus is a symbol of creation, the rose a symbol of love. This event will energetically instill and enhance in participants seven qualities of mind: Love, Compassion, Courage, Strength, Tenacity of Purpose, and the capacity to "Be" the Light. The blessing of the Divine Feminine presence will accelerate each person's own path of evolution and spiritual unfoldment. Suitable for both men and women.
Dr. Judy Satori has been trained by the Elohim to transmit Light Language codes. She holds a doctorate in Religious Studies. She has a weekly program on World Puja Radio, worldpuja.org and many free tools and treasures on her website, TheSoundOfLight.com.
2010: The Year We Make Contact Richard C. Hoagland
Hoagland presents startling new evidence that John F. Kennedy knew of the existence of “ancient ruins on the moon” when he dramatically announced the Apollo lunar program in 1961.
Hoagland’s illustrated presentation of “ancient solar system artifacts” includes leaked, formerly top secret spy satellite photography (not from NASA) taken as part of this nation’s early military reconnaissance satellite program.
These newly-leaked images prove that even first-generation CIA/Air Force recon satellites were, in fact, looking UP at the moon from Earth orbit. We are told they were of course looking down keeping an eye on the Soviet Union’s war-making potential.
Hoagland argues that it is these “primitive reconnaissance satellite images” -- secretly confirming “ancient ET ruins on the moon” -- that impelled Kennedy to suddenly announce an all-out NASA effort to send American astronauts to the lunar surface. He intended for them to return with physical samples of this “ancient, extraordinarily advanced ET technology.”
Kennedy tried to convince Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who headed the Soviet Union, to go to the Moon together. Twelve days after Khrushchev and Kennedy finally reached agreement on a joint US/USSR joint mission to the moon, Kennedy was murdered for attempting to bring about UFO “disclosure” 50 years too soon.
As an added Conscious Life Expo bonus, Hoagland provides recently revealed official testimony from a former member of the pre-Kennedy, Eisenhower National Security Team, Col. Phillip Corso, who attests that in the 1950s he gave an official government assessment about the artificial “spaceship nature” of the inner Mars moon, Phobos. Corso’s official recommendation to Pres. Eisenhower was to destroy this “alien forward Martian base” with a thermonuclear weapon.
Hoagland concludes with a review of the groundbreaking NBC television show, “The Ev3nt,” showing that disclosure has begun with a unique Enterprise Mission “decoding” of a message about 2010.
Richard C. Hoagland is a former NASA consultant, Apollo (first man on the moon) program participant, former science advisor to CBS News and Walter Cronkite’s coverage of the Apollo lunar landings, and principle investigator of the Enterprise Mission, a public policy and research think tank.
Mayan Calendar and Talking to Trees Kaitlyn Keyt, author of Trees Talking Truth, presents new big picture information on 2012. The information was recently revealed to her to overlay the Mayan Calendar onto an expanding Merkaba. What was the source of this information? Surprisingly, Oscar, a heritage Oak Tree.
Keyt has been asking questions of nature and getting commonsense answers to the big questions. Watch as the ancient mystery puzzle pieces come together into a simple, clear, big picture explanation of the human experience. This is information you can apply to your life now. Learn the importance of resetting your vibration to be in alignment with the planet. A vibrationally uplifting garnet bracelet attuned to the frequency of love will be gifted to all who attend.
Kaitlyn Keyt is the founder of VibesUP, a resource for the upliftment of humans and our planet.
Dattatreya Siva Baba gave the "Ahh" meditation to Wayne Dyer over ten years ago. This is the revised and advanced version. Baba talks about the transformation of procreative energy to become energy to create anything you want.
We may have been looking at this illusion our entire lives unable to "see" it! This (snarky) short video shows you the best optical illusion in the world! For more information:
And remember to pray daily to Jug Almighty. Available at supermarkets everywhere. (Now also in Soy for Buddhists!)
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Buddhists Praying?
The Buddha explained that there are five very desirable things -- longevity, beauty, fame, happiness, and rebirth in better worlds [to which we might add such things as health, wealth, and influence] -- and that individuals frequently resort to "praying" [petitioning to and/or bargaining with God or devas] for these things (Numerical Discourses, Book of Fives, 43).
But he explained, if all it took were prayer, Who would not have them? Who would not pray for them if that's all it took?
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Rather than praying, or at least in addition to praying, one would be wise to follow a course of action (karma) that resulted in these things! These things are the result of deeds. Therefore, whoever desires them can obtain them through right intention, right speech, and right actions.
What is "right" (samma)? Action that is ethical, harmonious, and leads to a pleasant result. Why does it lead to such a result? It does. It accords with the truth. You can argue about what "it" is, but whatever it is, then that is called "right." If praying were "right" and effective, there would be no problem calling it so. In fact, purifying one's mind is a form of mental action. It's also a form of prayer. That's right action. There are the Five Precepts:
Restraint in terms of not taking life
Restraint in terms of not taking what is not given
Restraint in terms of not taking liberties with those involved in committed relationships
Restraint in terms of not taking liberties with the truth
Restraint in terms of not taking intoxicants that result in careless behavior
A simpler way of putting these five ethical forms of conduct would be to say that one avoids all behavior (mental, verbal, or physical) stemming from the Three Unwholesome Roots:
Greed
Hatred
Delusion
An even simpler way of putting all eight of these things is to sum them up in a single word:
Ahimsa (harmlessness or non-harming).
Focusing on a loftier ideal -- first seen (or conceived of) and then moved towards -- is a form of meditation (mental cultivation) just as it is a form of prayer.
But what is prayer? Almost everyone today, and this video in particular, thinks it is merely petitioning. But as Gregg Braden points out in The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer, there are missing modes of prayer. The most powerful of these modes is "praying" by giving thanks and feeling the feelings as if the desired end had already come to pass. This idea was exploited by the movie The Secret and the wave of self-help gurus, books, and seminars hawking a Universe-as-ATM mentality. The movie left out the initial impetus for its "secret," Esther (Abraham) and Jerry Hicks' Ask And It Is Given interviews on the Law of Attraction.
The next wave of sales will come from "The Shift," a movie by author and PBS-staple Wayne Dyer, and the many copycats waiting to jump on a new bandwagon.
Even this form of mental activity is karma (action, deeds, those things willed and carried out either mentally, verbally, or physically). Therefore, it has the potential to work. But it certainly does not work for the asking. If one wishes to live longer, for example, that is obtained by performing deeds that lead to long life: helping others (and oneself), feeding others, promoting the health of others. Then EVEN WITHOUT WISHING IT, it comes to pass that one becomes long-lived here and now (or, more frequently, hereafter because action takes time to ripen).
Karma, then, is much like the "God-idea" in other religious traditions.
However, in Buddhism it is impersonal and unbiased. Even a "bad person" having done a good thing reaps a positive (and pleasant) result. There is, in fact, no such thing as someone who is ALL bad. It may be said that there are people who are all good, but this is only because they became that way (arhats, "enlightened individuals" no longer capable of falling into unethical ways, purposely harming, liable to be reborn in unfortunate destinations).
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