"Songs of Clear Light" devotional chants
Priority request: Last night Boris Grebenshchikov sang a few songs at a Krishna Das performance, and Boris's music moved the audience to tears
By request
“Disregard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen..."
"...and you need not search for truth; truth will find you” -- Nisargadatta Maharaj.
crying as a spiritual practice
Request: Letting yourself cry can feel wonderful. Let it all out!
feeling constrained by having parents
Request: Is it nonintegrous to feel like one can't live truly freely because one's parents are alive, monitor one's life and place expectations on one?
Trump assassination attempt (10 calibrations)
"Former President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A shooter opened fire, injuring Trump's right ear. One spectator was killed and another two were injured" -- nbcnews.com.
Peaceful Gregorian Chants - Dan Gibson
Album is on YouTube and embedded, here.
performing a medical autopsy
Priority request: I will be performing autopsies as part of my medical training and am feeling a certain degree of apprehension about it.
Hermann Hesse
"His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality" -- wikipedia.
jihad (meaning)
"In Islam, a meritorious struggle or effort. Although in the West it is sometimes erroneously translated as ‘holy war’ and understood as referring exclusively to military combat, Islamic texts yield a broader array of meanings connected to moral and ethical struggles" -- britannica.com.
From Suffering to Joy: The Path of the Heart
"a method of self-discovery that can help bring harmony to your life and help you build truly intimate relationships." by Prem Baba, 2013.
Robert Smalley
Claim: Robert is fully acknowledged and empowered as a true teacher of natural spiritual truth by his own spiritual attainment, rather than by external authority. He is a model of spiritual achievement through spiritual self-cultivation.
wanting something but also not wanting it at the same time
Request: For all of my adult life, I have wanted an intimate relationship, yet also been terrified at the prospect of being that close with someone.
fluoride in toothpaste for children
Request: For many years I have avoided consuming poisonous substances and as such have been avoiding fluoride toothpaste. Naturally, therefore, I have never given either of my two children fluoridated toothpaste.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order, by David Bohm
Bohm "described and delineated the implicit/explicit and
enfolded/unfolded paradigms of reality. (The consciousness
level of Bohm’s work is 505.)" -- Truth vs. Falsehood.
"soli Deo gloria"
a Latin term for Glory to God alone... As a doctrine, it means that everything is done for God's glory to the exclusion of mankind's self-glorification and pride. Christians are to be motivated and inspired by God's glory and not their own -- wikipedia.