Talks given from 1970 to 1971 Miscellaneous
1 Flight of the alone to the alone2 Dynamic Meditation3 Yoga: A spontaneous happening4 LSD: A shortcut to false samadhi5 The vital balance6 Religion: The last luxury7 The secrets of discipleship8 God is existence itself9 The unknown life of Jesus10 Out of nothing11 Remaining closed to the lower: A technique for transformation12 A personal seeking, an individual quest13 Between Death and Rebirth
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Flight of the alone to the alone 16 August 1970 pm Question 1 PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY YOGA, THE YOGI, AND MEDITATION. The first thing to be remembered about meditation is that it is not something that can be done. Throughout the world people have the notion that meditation means doing something. It is not a doing, it is not an act, it is something that happens....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 10 Out of nothing WERE ALL SOULS CREATED TOGETHER, AS PAUL BRUNTON THEORIZES, OR WERE THEY CREATED AT SEPARATE STAGES? IS THIS DIFFERENCE – THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR STAGES – DUE TO THEIR OWN CHOICE OR IS IT THEIR DESTINY? WHAT DEGREE OF CHOICE DO WE HAVE AS FAR AS REINCARNATION IS CONCERNED? Before I can answer this question, two or three things must be understood....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 11 Remaining closed to the lower: A technique for transformation IN THIS DESPERATE SPIRITUAL SITUATION, HOW CAN WE GET HELP FROM ADVANCED SOULS IN THE ASTRAL WORLD? HOW CAN WE BECOME OPEN TO THE HIGHER? There is an old saying: “When the disciple is ready, the teacher appears.” The disciple cannot find the teacher; it is impossible. Only the teacher can find the disciple....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 12 A personal seeking, an individual quest DOES GOD EXIST? Something about right inquiryBefore you ask something, it will be good to know what is meant by right questioning. Every question is not a right inquiry, because as far as the inner dimension is concerned you can ask many, many, questions that appear to be meaningful but are not; they are nonsense....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 13 Between Death and Rebirth YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU REMEMBER YOUR FORMER LIFE SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO. CAN YOU REMEMBER YOUR NAME AT THAT TIME AND THE OCCASION OF YOUR DEATH? WHAT I AM INTERESTED IN IS WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN YOUR LAST LIFE AND YOUR PRESENT LIFE. The question seems meaningful, but it is not. Life means that something is happening, and between two lives, there is nothing happening....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 Dynamic Meditation 29 July 1970 pm Question 1 WHAT IS DYNAMIC MEDITATION? The first thing to be understood about Dynamic Meditation is that it is a method of creating a situation through tension in which meditation can happen. If your total being is completely tense, the only possibility that remains is relaxation. Ordinarily one cannot go directly into relaxation, but if your whole being is at a peak of total tension then the second step comes automatically, spontaneously: silence is created....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 Yoga: A spontaneous happening 27 October 1970 pm Question 1 IS THE PRACTICING OF TRADITIONAL ASANAS HELPFUL FOR MEDITATION? Man’s personality is neither solely physical nor solely mental but both simultaneously. Rather, it would be correct to say that it is psychosomatic. There is no gap between the two, so anything that happens on the physical plane vibrates on the mental plane and vice versa....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 LSD: A shortcut to false samadhi 25 October 1970 pm Question 1 IN EXPERIMENTING WITH LSD I HAVE EXPERIENCED STATES WHICH SEEM TO BE SIMILAR TO DESCRIPTIONS I HAVE READ OF SAMADHI. I COULD FEEL MY KUNDALINI RISING AND MY CHAKRAS OPENING UP. I FELT A ONENESS WITH THE WHOLE COSMOS. WERE THESE GENUINE EXPERIENCES OF SAMADHI? IS PERMANENT SELF-REALIZATION POSSIBLE THROUGH THE USE OF LSD?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 The vital balance 6 January 1971 pm Question 1 IN OUR CIVILIZATION, PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE LIKE ME HAVE A PARTICULAR PROBLEM: WE MAKE TOO MUCH USE OF OUR INTELLIGENCE, SO MUCH SO THAT WE TEND TO VIEW LIFE THROUGH THE INTELLECT ONLY, THUS NEGATING ALL OTHER MEANS OF DOING SO. THIS TENDS TO MAKE LIFE BORING AND DULL, AND ROBS IT OF ITS LUSTER....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 Religion: The last luxury WHY IS IT THAT WESTERN SOCIETIES ARE BECOMING SO INTERESTED IN INDIAN RELIGION NOW? I consider religion to be the last luxury. Only when a society becomes affluent does religion become meaningful. And now, for the first time, a greater part of the world is not poor. America in particular is the first society in human history to reach such affluence....