Clingless Development, Transmutation & Progression
Randi Green and I converse on starting some of the awakening processes, especially those of the heart
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In this seventeenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we talk meditative environments and spaces — mostly external via showing images of them — for one’s “personal” (formal) meditation space, group spaces, etc
References and related links:
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*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or just showing to type/ask live.*
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a few months thereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
Past chats with Wendy:
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Some images and links of meditation spaces for inspiration and for the 17th “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” (and others added afterward/since):
also: https://farkaskutvolgy.hu
https://www.decoist.com/meditation-rooms-spaces/
https://www.hillcottageretreats.co.uk
Well here goes. This January 11, 2024 Julia Marie conversation sees the launch of the Catalysts For Awakening & Change Podcast Series looking at awakening and what it takes to catalyze meaningful change.
Some of the topics we cover:
Biography
Julia Marie was just like you: driven and goal-oriented with a plan for her life. A series of Spiritually Transformative Events (STEs) changed everything.
More than three decades later, she is ready to share what she’s learned so that you can benefit from her hard-earned insight and accelerate your spiritual growth.
She tells the story of her awakening and how she learned to live guided by the Voice within in her book Signals from My Soul: A Spiritual Memoir of Awakening.
Julia Marie is a gifted trans-dimensional healer, intuitive medium, and experienced spiritual teacher. She founded the Academy for the Intuitive Arts in 1997, and the courses and coaching help sensitive women and men as they take the next step in unlocking their Spiritual potential.
She provides spiritual consultations to a global clientele, and looks forward to bringing her grounded, practical approach to spirituality.
About Julia Marie
Julia Marie has over three decades’ worth of stories and interactions with the Unseen World, and the time has come to share what she’s learned.
Julia speaks confidently on topics as diverse as: Past lives and past life regression, Mediums and mediumship, Intuition and intuitive development, Energy healing, Spirit guides and practical ways to integrate more Spirit into your life. (A list of training and experience is below)
Her mission is to help sensitive seekers understand that we are all wired the same, and that the Teacher lives within each of us.
Everything she shares she learned through direct experience, and she wants people to know they have the same capacity to access the Field as she does, they simply need to learn how their unique connection works.
It’s possible to survive, even thrive after a spiritual awakening and that one can have their spiritual path and live a 3D life. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
Her book Signals from My Soul: A Spiritual Memoir of Awakening details her journey from the series of STEs that changed her life to the high points of the next three decades. She tells the stories from the POV of her consciousness at the time she had the experience, and adds her current understanding of those events from the place of hindsight and an expanded awareness of how the Unseen Realm works. This approach provides the reader with actionable suggestions and encouragement on their personal journey of Soul discovery.
Training and Experience:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08JF3752S
https://www.evolvinghumanspodcast.com
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This is a clip of my comments to Tony Bernhard about not needing to believe nor disbelieve fantastical accounts from the suttas during “Engaging the Abhidhamma” live event. But most of this is actually my newly recorded follow-up to musings to Tony on the “neither pleasant nor unpleasant” portion of vedanā (hedonic/feeling tone) not seeming to get much mention in Buddhist circles recently
Watch the full Sati Center event “Engaging The Abhidhamma With Tony Bernhard”:
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Randi and I look at various perceptions and the other dimensional elements of the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect
The HAL Academy offers Self-Study Courses as well as Psychic-energetic Counseling. https://toveje.dk
Other Links:
The Mandala Effect Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandela_Effect_(film)
A New Reality – the HAL Academy Approach https://toveje.dk/hal-new-reality/
About Randi:
Over the years, from 2007 until 2016 Randi went into explorative and psychic-energetic processes without any forms of mind-altering substances, to find new techniques to amplify my higher order psychic-energetic abilities.
She did so in self-reconstructive energy work, altered state meditation and deep contemplation processes reconstructed from the memories she had of these and added this to her studies of the different techniques described and handed over in the ancient teaching systems
In fact, there are people out there who are reporting small differences in this reality and the one they remember before 2012. This is a phenomenon often referred to as the Mandela Effect. Below is one of the most famous ’ME’s. pic.twitter.com/GlstZ7o7RM
— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) July 25, 2019
On December 29, 2023 June Edwards and I spoke a lot about relationships including how she sees the framing of soul mates, twin flames and karmic relationships; the lessons of self-worth, trust and communication, unconditional love, money and balance, and patience. We go deeper into growth, self-love, purpose, effective communication in relationships, and relationship lessons learned. We also get into: growth, plans, service to others, letting go, non-clinging, and more
About June Edward
I was a life long entrepreneur who was born with a lot of psychic abilities. Once they opened fully, I had no choice but to get training to control them. I have worked with several famous paranormal groups and authors. I have assisted on several missing person cases, and am the author of several books, and the Relationship Mastery Program, that helps people understand how energy works, get in touch with their own soul, and change by seeing life from a higher perspective.
Biography
June Edward has been psychic since a child; however she didn’t realize she was also a medium until later in life. Some of her gifts have been passed on, since her mother was also a medium. She also passed to the other side herself when she was 27 years old, and came back to this side by choice. She can offer firsthand experience that Life after Life does exist! She has a 100% success rate in bringing through souls from the other side, to give closure and help loved ones heal on both sides. Her sold out group readings can help give insight as to what’s going on in your life, and help to see what the Universe has in store.
June’s special gifts include working directly with the Angels, Guides and departed Souls. Combined these tools have made her a very strong and accurate psychic and trance medium, able to bring through validating details to prove the connection and messages from the other side.
June believes that her job as a psychic medium is not only to help those connect with their loved ones, and heal both sides, but to help encourage others to embrace this life, and be thankful for all the gifts they receive in their life every day!
https://www.facebook.com/JuneEdward111
https://instagram.com/juneedwardmassmedium
https://www.youtube.com/@juneedward3760
https://www.linkedin.com/in/june-edward-0a6981a
https://twitter.com/junemassmedium
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In this sixteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we chat about what it’s like maintaining a consistent formal (international) mediation practice in/given sometimes significantly fluctuating and uncertain conditions. We also touch on some everyday meditative techniques possible outside of more formal sitting practice including various types of laying down, standing, and walking meditations as well as mindfulness of seeing (and looking). We emphasize how helpful it is sometimes, especially in certain conditions and circumstances, to change the view and relationship to our challenges. Safety, retreat, gender are a few more topics amongst others we weave, or stray into
Related blog posts:
(Or other ways to) join these Q & A’s when they happen live:
*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or just showing to type/ask live.*
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a few months thereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
Past chats with Wendy:
Or listen via Insight Timer (app or website)
On December 19, 2023 John Lawyer and I talked about approaches to healing from various forms of trauma, time, the nature of reality, beliefs, awakening, purpose, spiritual community, intelligence, discernment, the complexity of war and violence, changing ourselves to change the world, and more
Biography
From desert combat zones to a battle within, John Lawyer transformed from soldier to spiritual seeker. He acts as one of several guides for Kishar, a non-profit online spiritual community for people to share their journey and explore their own unique spiritual path. John is an Omnist and believes in the validity of great human thought from around the world and across time. He offers individual spiritual coaching and guidance services as part of the Kishar Spiritual Community.
About John Lawyer
My story is somewhat unique and I tell it fairly well. The transition from a warrior in Kuwait, Baghdad and Kandahar over many years to a spiritualist and universalist is a powerful narrative.
I was a counterintelligence special agent when I was in the Army and also an asymmetric warfare specialist responsible for coordinating various operations for a special USAF unit in Afghanistan for six years.
So I’ve gone from receiving a bronze star for counterterrorism operations to walking through a swamp of sadness to an amazing path of spiritual healing and awareness.
https://www.facebook.com/KisharSpiritual
https://www.instagram.com/kisharspiritual
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlawyergreenvets
https://www.youtube.com/@PeaceOnYourJourney
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Cultivate, Develop, Train And Progress Discernment
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If remembering correctly the only text the legendary Bodhidharma took with him to the East was the Lankavatara Sutra. That in itself ought be enough to read it. So after urging of a Dharma friend; the perception were it seems Chan has moved away from [amazon affiliate program link]: The Lankavatara Sutra — Translation and Commentary and more towards the Diamond Sutra; and after attending a Red Pine San Francisco Zen Center (online) event on his translation of “the Lanka” I finally read the thing. And still feeling I know very little about Mahayana, I can still ask questions (as a contribution) with somewhat of a beginners mind right?
Mahamati, what is meant by forsaking good roots? This refers to slandering the bodhisattva canon247 and falsely claiming it is not in accord with the teachings of liberation in the sutras or in the vinaya.
Pine, Red. The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (p. 101). Counterpoint. Kindle Edition.
5. Cessation is unceasing / one thought follows another / before they focus on form / on what do they depend to arise
6. Because this arises from that / arising from what isn’t real / how could something be momentary / if it was never complete
Selection from part LXXXVII of The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary by Red Pine (p. 259). Counterpoint. Kindle Edition.
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