Showing posts with label the secret. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 31, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
1st book by a woman: Juliana of Norwich
God as the Substance of All Being - Julian of Norwich: Anchorite (Anchoress) mystic and first female author in English Mother Juliana
God as the Substance of All Being - Julian of Norwich
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| 1st English book by female |
This video explores her revolutionary insight that "God" is not a distant judge but the very essence of being—present in every breath, every tree, and even the smallest hazelnut.
Journey through Juliana’s mystical revelations that unveil divine love as the foundation of reality, embracing suffering as transformation and highlighting God’s maternal nature.
- 00:00:00 The Vision in the Stillness
- 00:01:06 A Mystic in a Time of Collapse
- 00:02:19 The Ground of Being
- 00:03:22 The Divine in All Things
- 00:04:32 Sin, Suffering, and Divine Love
- 00:05:34 Feminine Mysticism and the Motherhood of God
- 00:06:35 The Mirror of Consciousness
- 00:07:37 The Whole Story is Love
Perfect for spiritual seekers, this contemplative narrative blends medieval wisdom with modern philosophy, inviting us to experience unity, non-duality, and radical love (metta).
Let's immerse ourselves in this timeless story with serene cosmic visuals and a calming Northern English narration. Like and share if this message of hope and divine presence resonates.
#JulianOfNorwich #Mysticism #DivineLove #Spirituality #NonDuality #Panentheism #Consciousness #DivinePresence
Mother Juliana
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| Mother Juliana, Julian of Norwich (wiki) |
Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. (One might surmise that the poems of Sappho from the Island of Sappho in ancient Greece wrote works earlier and was credited for doing so before Mother Juliana).
They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress. Julian(a) lived in the English city of Norwich, an important center for commerce which also had a vibrant religious life.
During her lifetime, the city suffered the devastating effects of the Black Death (plague) of 1348–1350, the Peasants' Revolt (which affected large parts of England in 1381), and the suppression of the Lollards.
In 1373, aged 30 and so seriously ill that she thought she was on her deathbed, she received a series of visions or "shewings" (showings) of the Passion (Suffering) of Christ.
She recovered from her illness and wrote two versions of her experiences, the earlier one being completed soon after her recovery. A much longer version, today known as the Long Text, was written many years later. More
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Is it the 'New Age' yet? What is that?
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| Hey, Penelope Cruz, take a selfie with me for my company GOOP! - Okay, Gwenyth Paltrow! |
- Religion for Breakfast, 2024; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Chant for stuff: Soka Gakkai Buddhist CULT
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| Namu myōhō renge kyō (南無妙法蓮華経): Devotion to Mystic Dharma of Lotus Flower Sutra |
Pseudo-spirituality books like The Secret, Passion for Profits (Family Guy's Brian writes a bestseller
Dharma Vlog: Cults and weird Buddhism
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How to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo | English
- Other power over self-power (tariki over jiriki)
- Who made up the magic Lotus Sutra?
The Soka Gakkai is a global community-based Buddhist[-ish] organization that promotes peace, culture, and education centered on [faith, not asking questions, and suspending critical thinking, but you get stuff] respect for the dignity of life.
The CULT of Soka Gakkai
(Prophet of Nonsense) The Many Cults of Japan: Soka Gakkai
The Many Cults of Japan: Soka Gakkai
Its members in 192 countries and territories study and put into practice the humanistic philosophy of [blind faith-based] Nichiren Buddhism.
Soka Gakkai members strive to [make money and material riches by magic and] actualize their inherent potential while contributing [tithing it to the cult and] to their local communities and responding to the shared issues facing humankind.
No wonder Japan hates religions
The conviction that individual happiness and the realization of peace are inextricably linked is central to the Soka Gakkai, as is a commitment to dialogue and nonviolence.
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- Doug Smith (secularbuddhism.org), Aug. 10, 2017; Prophet of Nonsense, Oct. 31, 2020; Let's Ask Shogo, Nov. 1, 2023; CC Liu, Sheldon S., Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Attract anything into your life: Bashar
Channeled Wisdom: Bashar's Manifestation Formula: ATTRACT anything into your life | Darryl Anka
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| Anything, Bashar? What about love, happiness? |
This is a fascinating journey as he talks about how he channels Bashar, an extraterrestrial consciousness from the Sassani civilization.
For over three decades, Anka has been sharing Bashar's wisdom and insights, offering practical guidance for personal growth and spiritual evolution.
This interview is a deep dive into the origins of his connection with Bashar and explores the profound impact it has had on countless lives around the world.
Unravel the mystery behind Anka's journey as he recounts his first encounter with Bashar and how it led to a life dedicated to sharing his profound teachings.
What does Hinduism/Ayurveda have to say about success?
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| If I were you, I'd start with the money then... |
This conversation covers a wide range of topics, from Anka's early experiences and the development of his channeling abilities to the philosophy behind Bashar's teachings and the practical applications for everyday life.
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| I'll start with love, then money, then happiness! |
Throughout this enlightening discussion, Anka candidly shares his personal experiences and the insights he's gained from his unique connection with Bashar.
This rare opportunity to explore the mind of one of the most influential channelers of our time provides viewers with a greater understanding of the significance of his work and its potential to catalyze profound transformations in those who embrace its message.
Whether one is a longtime follower of Darryl Anka and Bashar or new to the world of channeling and extraterrestrial consciousness, this interview is a must-watch.
Viewers are invited to open their minds to new possibilities and embark on a journey of self-discovery with the guidance of Darryl Anka and Bashar's illuminating wisdom.
- FULL INTERVIEW: TURNING POINT: Bashar's Urgent Message
WATCH full interviews on the main Next Level Soul channel: @nextlevelsoul.
DISCLAIMER:
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Next Level Soul, its subsidiaries, or any entities they represent.
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#nextlevelsoul #spirituality #mindfulness #consciousness #Bashar
- Darryl Anka, voice of Bashar, Next Level Soul, May 31, 2023; Crystal Q., Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, January 27, 2025
Who controls mind, Dr. Joe Dispenza?
Dr. Joe Dispenza
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| Buddhist monk gets strapped in to sit |
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:52 Is our life programmed [by others]?
- 07:03 Can we change our behavior patterns and heal our bodies?
- 13:55 Sharing the science with people to transform themselves
- 22:40 Why can't we apply that knowledge to ourselves?
- 30:36 Being the creator of our lives
- 33:20 Why are we addicted to things?
- 39:20 Biological changes
- 42:41 How can we be better at helping our loved ones?
- 47:37 Is the world getting better or worse?
- 51:02 Stress: if your thoughts can make you sick, can they make you well?
- 57:37 Why are we addicted to negative emotions?
- 59:20 Does manifesting work?
- 01:05:45 What causes a relapse and how to revert it?
- 01:11:48 How do we put all of this into practice?
- 01:20:17 What's your morning routine?
- 01:22:05 Meditation
- 01:25:50 What do you struggle with?
- 01:33:31 The accident that changed my life
- 01:36:06 Your companies and research
- 01:39:20 If it were your last day, what message would you tell people?
- 01:41:08 What do you want to achieve in the next 10 years?
- 01:46:19 Walk For The World: bringing people together
- 01:50:51 What are the beliefs you're scared to share?
- 01:52:58 Do psychedelics help us?
- 01:55:36 The last guest's question
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- Dr. Joe Dispenza, Aug. 14, 2023; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Bashar: Reincarnation, Manifestation
Bashar exposes the Reincarnation Myth! | Channeled by Darryl Anka
We already are manifesting; we just don't know it.
In this thought-provoking video, "Bashar" shares his unique perspective on the concept of reincarnation, exposing the myths and misconceptions that have been perpetuated for centuries. It is an illusion; it exists, but it is nonetheless an illusion (like most things in life).
Let's get ready to have our minds blown as Bashar sheds light on the truth behind this age-old topic with a New Age twist. Whether skeptic or believer, this video is sure to leave one questioning everything one thought one knew about reincarnation (rebirth, samsara, maya). Sit back, relax, and get ready to have an attitude adjustment and mental expansion.
For more of Bashar's exclusive meditations, consider joining a membership: @messengerofgoodnews1111
What's The Secret, Abraham?
Esther Hicks channels spirit collective "Abraham" (abraham-hicks.com)
- "The Universe [Source energy] knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you" -- excerpted from Atlanta, Georgia, on 9/13/98. With love from Esther (Abraham and Jerry) Hicks.
- Darryl Anka as "Bashar," YouTube.com, Nov. 25, 2024; Esther Hicks, Abraham; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, February 29, 2024
This could be The Year of Inner Wisdom
Tami Simon (soundstrue.com); Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
What does Sounds True One think I can learn for Inner Wisdom? And who would teach me but me?
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| Diana Winston (MARC UCLA) |
Life is unpredictable, but our path to fulfillment doesn’t have to be. Sounds True has worked with some of the leading wisdom teachers of our time to craft a journey of transformational programming to stay centered, listen to our inner voice, and awaken our full potential. Activate this inner wisdom with Sounds True this year.
Meet the Teachers
- Pema Chödrön, author, American Buddhist nun, teacher
- Dr. Gabor Maté, MD, author, speaker, addiction medicine specialist, physician
- Tara Brach American Buddhist meditation teacher, bestselling author
- Jack Kornfield American Buddhist teacher, Bay Area therapist, author, activist
- Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith author and spiritual teacher from The Secret
- Michael A. Singer bestselling author and spiritual teacher
- Dr. Peter Levine, Ph.D. bestselling author, developer of Somatic Experiencing®
- Caroline Myss bestselling author, speaker
- Lama Rod Owens Black Buddhist Southern Queen
- Dr. Richard Davidson, Ph.D., neuroscientist, bestselling author
- Donna Eden energy medicine practitioner, author, teacher [WQ's favorite healer!]
- Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth Episcopal priest, artist, author, public speaker
- Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. author, founder of Internal Family Systems
- Wim Hof author, Western pranayama (breath control) extreme athlete, global health leader
- Robert Peng Qigong Master, author, teacher
- Deb Dana author, Polyvagal Theory expert
- Tami Simon founder and voice of Sounds True
- Justin Michael Williams artist, author, activist
- john a. powell author, professor of law and ethnic studies
- Shiva Rea author, yoga teacher
- Yung Pueblo bestselling author
- Eckhart Tolle spiritual teacher, bestselling author of The Power of Now More
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| Sounds True Founder Tami Simon |
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| What if American Buddhist teacher Shinzen Young had something important to say? |
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Strange Secret to Success: right thinking?
After Skool, 6/20/23; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Fake Buddha quote? No, an elaborated mistranslation of what the Buddha teaches in the opening lines of the Dhammapada: "Mind is the forerunner of all conditions." Thinking (intention) precedes acting (karma) and colors it, thereby molding the result. Skillful actions will yield fortunate results (vipaka, phala), unskillful actions (akusala karma) will bring woeful results. |
The Strange Secret to Success: Earl Nightingale
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| The Strangest Secret |
Earl Nightingale V (March 12, 1921–March 25, 1989) claims "everyone" was in agreement on this point. It's so famous a saying that it has become a fake Buddha quote.
What did the Buddha actually say? "Things [life circumstances] are preceded by the mind (heart), ruled by the mind, made by the mind. If one speaks or acts [i.e., performs karma] with a corrupted mind then suffering follows — just as the wheel of the ox cart follows the ox that pulls it" (Dhp. 1). "Mind is the forerunner of all conditions; they are preceded by mind, ruled by mind, made by mind. If one speaks or acts with a calm and bright mind then happiness follows just as one's shadow that never departs" (Dhp. 2).
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| Earl Nightingale at the mic, bloviating. |
Nightingale was an American radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, psychology, motivation, and meaningful existence.
He was the voice, during the early 1950s, of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series. He was also a WGN radio program host from 1950 to 1956. He was the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has termed "one of the great[est] motivational books of all time."
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| The goal is not to end thinking. Stay calm. |
- *"Right thought," one of the factors of Buddhism's Noble Eightfold Path (noble = aryan = "ennobling" = enlightening), means thinking thoughts of renunciation (letting go, non-clinging, non-lust rather than the usual sensual craving that overtakes one), thoughts of non-harming (ahimsa) or non-ill-will, thoughts of non-cruelty. "Right thought" is usually defined as right intention or right resolve, referring to the underlying motivation for an action or deed (karma). The resultants to be expected are called the vipaka (karmic resultant) and the phala (karmic fruit).
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Friday, June 9, 2023
One Secret to Enlightenment
Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
"Meditation" is bringing attention (mind, focus, directed awareness) to something. Are all things equal so that anything is just as good as anything else to bring it to? NO.
When we place the mind on the breath -- bright, happy, interested (not bored, not averse) -- it meets the Five Hindrances.
American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi long ago showed that nirvana is unique, peaceful, not a composite like all "things" are. It alone is the deathless (amata). It alone is the unconditioned element (dhatu), the conditions being composite factors and supports of things. It stands alone and is so subtle an object that the ordinary mind cannot discern or hold it.
A story of this exact thing happening is told by Buddhist teacher Beth Upton who knows of someone this happened to. This would seem to suggest that all the insight-meditation that makes this attainment is systematic endeavor is not 100% necessary. Even long ago in proto-India, when hermits and recluses as well as wandering ascetics kept the teaching of samadhi alive, some found the ultimate goal, the highest bliss. The Buddha was not the only one to rediscover nirvana. Other humans known as pacceka-buddhas or "non-teaching supremely enlightened beings" existed as well.
Some things are better. What things? Subtle ones.
The secret to "meditation" (jhayanti) is directing attention toward an increasingly subtle object. This is because it is subtle then subtler, so the mind has to become increasingly attentive, aware, and focused (which is purifying).
The Buddha recommended focusing on the in-and-out breath for this very reason. We carry it everywhere, and it grows calmer the calmer the mind becomes.
The Five Hindrances
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| Who will be the Future Buddha? |
Overcoming those hindrances, the mind settles as the breath thins out and eventually disappears.
- sensual craving (desire, greed, lust)
- aversion (ill-will, anger, annoyance, boredom)
- sleepiness (sloth and torpor, tired mind or body)
- restlessness (discontent, worry, flurry)
- skeptical doubt (lack of confidence and conviction, faithlessness, excessive questioning and investigation).
The breath brings one to the first meditation (the first jhana, the first meditative absorption). The Five Hindrances have fallen away, and the Five Factors of Absorption (jhana-anga) have arisen. One of those factors is joy.
Joy is wonderful, joy is blissful, joy is rapturous (uplifting, effervescent, a kind of elation). This is good at first, but it comes to seem gross and coarse compared to more peaceful sustained-happiness (sukha and abhirati or contentment).
By removing the coarser, the mind turns to the more subtler and thereby enters the second meditation, the second meditative absorption.
This keeps happening by emerging and reflecting on the disadvantages or defects of each of the absorptions, moving one to the next more subtle absorption. This goes from the first access to first absorption, first absorption to second and so forth. This is samma-samadhi, "right concentration" or stillness.
The mind is growing more coherent, more integrated, more whole and wholesome. This is all accompanied by wholesome states -- leaving abandoned the unwholesome, the many manifestations of greed, hatred, and delusion (lobha, dosa, moha). Cultivating those wholesome states is one way to advance the process when nothing else can speed it up.
What is more subtle than the first four form-absorptions? The four formless absorptions, so named because the take as their object increasingly subtle objects: unbounded consciousness, unbounded space, nothingness, then neither-perception-nor-non-perception. What could be more subtle than that, than a state of conscious awareness so subtle that it is not possible to call it "perception," but it is not "non-perception," not unconsciousness, not non-perceiving (non-percipience).
One thing is more subtle. And that thing is not a "thing" at all but it is certainly not nothingness. It is the greatest thing of all: nirvana. It is a mistake to think that it is nothingness on the one hand or merely the end of all suffering on the other.
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| American Bhikkhu Bodhi |
The mind grown pure by the increasingly subtle absorptions becomes intensified, still, and so powerful that it is able to glimpse it. And by glimpsing it, the mind (heart) is freed.
Because nirvana is real and even more subtle than "the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception," it is possible to attain that level of samadhi, the eighth jhana, and persist in that absorption for so long that the mind will then wish for something even more subtle. And it may at that point move to nirvana by simply willing for something less coarse/more subtle.
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| British Buddhist teacher Beth Upton (right) |
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Secret that solves all problems: Magic (TED)
Collins Key, TEDx Santa Barbara, 12/18/17; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Hoo-hoo, Collins, magic is Key! Dont'cha know it's all about misdirection and perception? |
The surprising secret that solves your problems quickly | Collins Key | TEDxSantaBarbara
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| Hi, I'm Collins. I have the Key! |
(TEDx Talks) The answer to EVERY problem is hiding in plain sight. This is an education and entertainment focused TEDx Talk by Collins Key.
He gained national notoriety for becoming the first magician to become a finalist on America’s Got Talent and is currently one the world’s biggest family and kid friendly comedy YouTube influencers with over 8 million subscribers.
He uploads viral videos and teaches his millions of fans how to make fun comedy and humor DIY food experiments/technology life hacks.
In this engaging performance Collins Key breaks down learning the surprising secret that solves our problems quickly by using the art form of magic. He explains that the answer to every problem is hiding in plain sight: It's a matter of perception, that is, of avoiding misperception.
The only question left to learn in this TED talk is, Do you see it?
ABOUT: Collins Key, with 6.5M+subscribers, is one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube, having gone from 1M to 6M subscribers in less than a year. His unique blend of viral trends and family-friendly content makes his channel unlike any other with over 100M views in the last 30 days.
At the age of 17, he was the first magician to be voted into the finals in eight seasons of America’s Got Talent.
On the show, he completely changed the perception people had of magic with his innovative style and mind-blowing performances. Soon after, he embarked on a 30-city tour opening for Demi Lovato in front of 12,000 to 15,000 screaming fans a night, something a magician had never done before.
His record-breaking and award-winning scripted series with AT&T, The Disappearing Girl, showcased his brilliant innovation and a new way to partner with brands. And recently Collins and his brother have been featured on the newly perverse Disney Channel.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx.
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