Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the multiversity).
A new scientific theory – called -Biocentrism – refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the “I” feeling is just a fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn’t just go away at death.
All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?
According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.
Death does not exist in a timeless, space less world. Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether. -Robert Lanza MD –
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Yoga and sex scandals
The New York Times report that stated that Yoga was fundamentally a Tantric practice with sexual connotations has opened up a Pandora’s Box amongst practitioners and preachers alike.
With the shift of the movie theater generation to internet, people are no longer interested in the sex Scandals of movie stars, but the sex and sleeze in spirituality and religion coming out of the closet is a hot topic for debates.
The Yoga guru scandal that erupted in USA with sex, money, marijuana, videotapes and lies has tongues wagging overtime 24/7. The Anusara yoga edifice with 20000 followers scattered all over the globe was exposed when John Friend the founder was exposed as a serial adulterer, sex maniac and drug dealer.
The original roots of Yoga was to spiritualize the mundane existence, but now it is multibillion dollar business and the west has distorted it beyond recognition of its original frame work. It is using spirituality to cloak the guilt feelings of having sex whenever and with whomsoever. The paradox is that Yoga as enumerated in the Bhagavad Gita , is about Karma and Siddhi or developing the latent energies and understanding - which also comes from the loins and moves upwards, but people who have no control of the sexual impulse use it for respectability.
Pulitzer Prize winning science writer William Broad (pun in name unintended) further eroded the purity of Yoga practice when he wrote, that yoga discipline has its roots as a sex cult to stir the sexual hormones. With glamorous practitioners like Sting, Robert Downey Junior it has become a cult act in the USA, hordes of young people flocks to enroll for the wrong reasons.
This has given rise to unauthorized fly by night yoga guru’s and charlatans, who have seized this opportunity to make a fast buck and fuck, with a self defeating eclectic cocktail of spiritual mumbo – jumbo, sex and sleaze, attracting clients looking for libidinal secrets.
Hatha yoga is the purified offspring of Tantra which is different from the practice of Tantra. People in the West think Indian spirituality is about pot and chillum smoking sages, orgies and asanas are mistaken for erotic positions depicted in Kama Sutra, forgetting that all the original teachers of yoga were celibates, and it was used to heighten the senses for a higher purpose.
Forget trying to get esoteric because the confusion is caused by alliteration of sorts of the asanas. The true aim of the Tantric sex act is to transcend frictional orgasm, but it cannot be misconstrued as nirvana. Yoga in to purest form has no connection to the rites of Tantra. –Vinay- cocktail gossip.-
With the shift of the movie theater generation to internet, people are no longer interested in the sex Scandals of movie stars, but the sex and sleeze in spirituality and religion coming out of the closet is a hot topic for debates.
The Yoga guru scandal that erupted in USA with sex, money, marijuana, videotapes and lies has tongues wagging overtime 24/7. The Anusara yoga edifice with 20000 followers scattered all over the globe was exposed when John Friend the founder was exposed as a serial adulterer, sex maniac and drug dealer.
The original roots of Yoga was to spiritualize the mundane existence, but now it is multibillion dollar business and the west has distorted it beyond recognition of its original frame work. It is using spirituality to cloak the guilt feelings of having sex whenever and with whomsoever. The paradox is that Yoga as enumerated in the Bhagavad Gita , is about Karma and Siddhi or developing the latent energies and understanding - which also comes from the loins and moves upwards, but people who have no control of the sexual impulse use it for respectability.
Pulitzer Prize winning science writer William Broad (pun in name unintended) further eroded the purity of Yoga practice when he wrote, that yoga discipline has its roots as a sex cult to stir the sexual hormones. With glamorous practitioners like Sting, Robert Downey Junior it has become a cult act in the USA, hordes of young people flocks to enroll for the wrong reasons.
This has given rise to unauthorized fly by night yoga guru’s and charlatans, who have seized this opportunity to make a fast buck and fuck, with a self defeating eclectic cocktail of spiritual mumbo – jumbo, sex and sleaze, attracting clients looking for libidinal secrets.
Hatha yoga is the purified offspring of Tantra which is different from the practice of Tantra. People in the West think Indian spirituality is about pot and chillum smoking sages, orgies and asanas are mistaken for erotic positions depicted in Kama Sutra, forgetting that all the original teachers of yoga were celibates, and it was used to heighten the senses for a higher purpose.
Forget trying to get esoteric because the confusion is caused by alliteration of sorts of the asanas. The true aim of the Tantric sex act is to transcend frictional orgasm, but it cannot be misconstrued as nirvana. Yoga in to purest form has no connection to the rites of Tantra. –Vinay- cocktail gossip.-
The power of Thought!
Literature, poetry and prose have been instruments of human expression and creativity, loosely termed as philosophy it is prevalent in all cultures. The world has witnessed an age when literature in all these forms occupied pride of place similar to the ones enjoyed by religion, science and technology.
I seek inspiration from what I see around me, events in my life, what I read how I feel. It is like building on a perception, when you read an article, prose or poetry you tend to buy the vision. There is no piracy or pliagrasim involved, as thoughts belong to no one. You are not seeing other people’s works or their design ideas, but interpretations of the thought process distilled in your own mind.
If you do not borrow the thoughts of others, it will only vegetate there – in that brilliant mind, of no use to humanity and it must be snatched for the sake of posterity. It is like taking away happiness strife or sorrow from someone else’s house and that is not stealing.
The ideas can be conveyed without being physically present; but their presence can be felt like a beam of energy from a torch – and can be interpreted in myriad ways to torch a chord or just set you thinking. It could trigger a vibe of happiness or even confusion. It would be like visiting someone else’s house, painstakingly translating his ideas of what constitutes life’s reality; into a thought specific post, placing ideas inside the mind space.
Thoughts converted to words are like the deep ocean currents; they have to float on the minds surface on their own impulse and cannot be forced from within or without ….. Vinay Kumar
I seek inspiration from what I see around me, events in my life, what I read how I feel. It is like building on a perception, when you read an article, prose or poetry you tend to buy the vision. There is no piracy or pliagrasim involved, as thoughts belong to no one. You are not seeing other people’s works or their design ideas, but interpretations of the thought process distilled in your own mind.
If you do not borrow the thoughts of others, it will only vegetate there – in that brilliant mind, of no use to humanity and it must be snatched for the sake of posterity. It is like taking away happiness strife or sorrow from someone else’s house and that is not stealing.
The ideas can be conveyed without being physically present; but their presence can be felt like a beam of energy from a torch – and can be interpreted in myriad ways to torch a chord or just set you thinking. It could trigger a vibe of happiness or even confusion. It would be like visiting someone else’s house, painstakingly translating his ideas of what constitutes life’s reality; into a thought specific post, placing ideas inside the mind space.
Thoughts converted to words are like the deep ocean currents; they have to float on the minds surface on their own impulse and cannot be forced from within or without ….. Vinay Kumar
Poets, Philosophers and Penny Posts no more.
A child of our time is what we call the internet, irrespective of its source. At the very heart of modernity, it belonged to a briskly different age and almost perfectly reflected it. Its matter-of-fact brevity did its sense of urgency, its glimpsing manner, its stab of truth. The penny post or letter overshadowed by the riches and delights of the E-mail, Twitter and Face books novelty was regarded by everyone as little more than a poor relation living on the crumbs scattered by the rural population, senile old folks and the computer illiterate. Success of the Internet, SMS,MMS that flourished as technology never had before.
But these humbly gathered crumbs were more wholesome than they might have been. They nourished a modest art, and in modesty the letter and penny post eventually found itself. It discovered the value of a quiet voice and acquired, in time, a quality it since has made its own: distinctive, spare and unfussy. All that was waiting for the ink pen, who gratefully reached out for it, prized it and indelibly left its mark on it.
Poets and philosophers are men, with unease and doubt and guilt, and an awakened curiosity. They tapped their fantasies, relished imagination's freedom, but still did not neglect the ordinariness of the everyday, or lives that were considered unimportant by those who lived them, or the small events and half-forgotten moments that made lives everywhere what they were.
The unusual as a human quality appealed to them, as mild eccentricity did, and the capriciousness that enlivens the monotony of convention. The poet and philosopher are a doomed species – divided by the march of technology and science like falling in love with a woman who scorns them and their unrequited love ; nothing to do with intellect verbal beauty or accepted definitions of tragedy. What move them are the hurt and the pain which is almost unbearable. They seemed not to be watching a great drama by/ but eavesdropping on life itself.
Truth, somewhere, has got in the way, pushing politeness and pretense aside. -Vinay-(Poets Encyclopedia)
But these humbly gathered crumbs were more wholesome than they might have been. They nourished a modest art, and in modesty the letter and penny post eventually found itself. It discovered the value of a quiet voice and acquired, in time, a quality it since has made its own: distinctive, spare and unfussy. All that was waiting for the ink pen, who gratefully reached out for it, prized it and indelibly left its mark on it.
Poets and philosophers are men, with unease and doubt and guilt, and an awakened curiosity. They tapped their fantasies, relished imagination's freedom, but still did not neglect the ordinariness of the everyday, or lives that were considered unimportant by those who lived them, or the small events and half-forgotten moments that made lives everywhere what they were.
The unusual as a human quality appealed to them, as mild eccentricity did, and the capriciousness that enlivens the monotony of convention. The poet and philosopher are a doomed species – divided by the march of technology and science like falling in love with a woman who scorns them and their unrequited love ; nothing to do with intellect verbal beauty or accepted definitions of tragedy. What move them are the hurt and the pain which is almost unbearable. They seemed not to be watching a great drama by/ but eavesdropping on life itself.
Truth, somewhere, has got in the way, pushing politeness and pretense aside. -Vinay-(Poets Encyclopedia)
Stained glass window of life.
None of us has time to live the true dramas of the life that we are destined for. This is what ages us – this and nothing else. The wrinkles and creases on our faces are the registration of the great passions, vices, insights that called on us; but we, the masters, were not at home.
In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause. The implication, again, is that a human life would last for ever if we didn’t intervene –
Let’s think no more and talk no more about it. The broken stained glass will merely be what it is in the temple – the symbol of an indissoluble union between man and nature.-
In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause. The implication, again, is that a human life would last for ever if we didn’t intervene –
Let’s think no more and talk no more about it. The broken stained glass will merely be what it is in the temple – the symbol of an indissoluble union between man and nature.-
Each era shapes generations responses.
In the fifties we respected elders never discussed personal matters, scheduled time for meeting to ask favors. Saved up money to buy houses and send our children to College. Reality was a harsh teacher for a generation that worked with their sleeves rolled up, so that their children could have a better life. They had to sing for their supper, and had a desire for certainty and stability in their lives.
In the sixties the pop culture rebelled against parents and authority visited people on impulse without prior intimation. The flower children and hippie generation believed children should develop their personalities in a free, unstructured atmosphere. And the parents mostly hung out on the second floor of the building, smoking dope and enjoying sex, while downstairs the big kids tormented the little kids. For a long time this generation acted as if only moral, political and religious obstacles prevented love from flourishing in its entire splendor.
Seventies and Eighties bombarded by T.V ads says you owe me a favor, personal matters discussed in public. Disillusionment with the ethos of their own generation, like their equivalents in half a dozen other countries in the world, nourished the dream of an absolute break with the past. Their jobs were a mixture of consultancy, hard sell, event planning and wearing fancy clothes for all night parties around town.
We come to the 21st century! IT savvy youths serious by 20, lived their entire lives with antennae growing out of their ears. They require money for everything, no time to enjoy life; MBAs plug ‘n’ play people want to start careers as Vice presidents, they tweet, they share, they stay in touch with FB and their heads are in the clouds. They send pictures of their body parts, have short attention spans, no loyalty to employer or family, divorces are faster than the time it took to make wedding plans.
They suspect elders; endless upheavals and disappointments, great waves of anger, still find their place within the realm of this century. They wanted a grander, more elevated life, just as before, it can take humans to the depth of existence as well as the heights. That emotion could surely be considered a matter of history in this virtual era.
Compensation and how much money they can make in the shortest possible period is the holy grail~ first to know of fancy changes in technology and think all people who lived in this planet before them were stupid, because they did not know how to Google. B- Schools are churning them out by the millions, they are even willing to outsource their epitaph writing to third parties. These geeks will inherit the earth.-Vinay-
In the sixties the pop culture rebelled against parents and authority visited people on impulse without prior intimation. The flower children and hippie generation believed children should develop their personalities in a free, unstructured atmosphere. And the parents mostly hung out on the second floor of the building, smoking dope and enjoying sex, while downstairs the big kids tormented the little kids. For a long time this generation acted as if only moral, political and religious obstacles prevented love from flourishing in its entire splendor.
Seventies and Eighties bombarded by T.V ads says you owe me a favor, personal matters discussed in public. Disillusionment with the ethos of their own generation, like their equivalents in half a dozen other countries in the world, nourished the dream of an absolute break with the past. Their jobs were a mixture of consultancy, hard sell, event planning and wearing fancy clothes for all night parties around town.
We come to the 21st century! IT savvy youths serious by 20, lived their entire lives with antennae growing out of their ears. They require money for everything, no time to enjoy life; MBAs plug ‘n’ play people want to start careers as Vice presidents, they tweet, they share, they stay in touch with FB and their heads are in the clouds. They send pictures of their body parts, have short attention spans, no loyalty to employer or family, divorces are faster than the time it took to make wedding plans.
They suspect elders; endless upheavals and disappointments, great waves of anger, still find their place within the realm of this century. They wanted a grander, more elevated life, just as before, it can take humans to the depth of existence as well as the heights. That emotion could surely be considered a matter of history in this virtual era.
Compensation and how much money they can make in the shortest possible period is the holy grail~ first to know of fancy changes in technology and think all people who lived in this planet before them were stupid, because they did not know how to Google. B- Schools are churning them out by the millions, they are even willing to outsource their epitaph writing to third parties. These geeks will inherit the earth.-Vinay-
The Pope and the revolutionary Dictator!
“The time has come” the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax –
Of Cabbages and Kings.
The poem flashed across my mind when Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro had a meeting like the Walrus and the Carpenter.
In an era of interconnectedness and interdependence it is all the more imperative that the Church and state come together to formulize strategy. These two eponymous and predatory leaders discussed world matters which are a paradox by itself seeing that they are different as chalk and cheese.
The case for a non religions moral sensibility is now gaining momentum & resonance especially when backed by Dalai Lama, Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and others who endorse the movement. Religion is a bundle of contradiction even in the scriptures causing confusion in the minds of the single minded zealots and crusading missionaries.
In Mathew 5:39 you exhort followers to “turn to him the other cheek” and in the same vein you use les talions- “An eye for an eye” in retribution.
The poem by Lewis Carrol was brilliantly interpreted by J B Priestly and is viewed as an indictment against organized religion and dictatorship – Jesus depicted as the carpenter representing Religion and Castro the political dictator. Religion and politics cleverly lures its followers and subjects to certain destruction. It is possible to lead a moral and ethical life without the crutches of religion or state as all of us have a moral compass that shows as how to differentiate between right and wrong, and there is no need for special guidance.
Religion has become a sort of aggressive fanaticism whereas many non-believers, atheists do a lot of good for the down trodden, and help people who have been subjugated and exploited in the name of religion and state. One need not pray 5 times or recite anthems in rapture of the lord, to be seen as ennobled, while the atheist tries to give relief to those who suffer. History is full of people who have done wrong and oppression in the name of religion and state.
The real joke was when Fidel Castro asked Pope Benedict “what does a Pontiff do” and he replied that he too had his own ministries. Religion and the church have their own Catechism of things you have to repeat in lockstep; kind of like Fidel’s old Communist party, both of them deny free will.
The Cleric and the Communist dictator hunts the same quarry “man “and one wants to control his body into obedience, whilst the other wants to control his mind…. –Vinay-
To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax –
Of Cabbages and Kings.
The poem flashed across my mind when Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro had a meeting like the Walrus and the Carpenter.
In an era of interconnectedness and interdependence it is all the more imperative that the Church and state come together to formulize strategy. These two eponymous and predatory leaders discussed world matters which are a paradox by itself seeing that they are different as chalk and cheese.
The case for a non religions moral sensibility is now gaining momentum & resonance especially when backed by Dalai Lama, Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and others who endorse the movement. Religion is a bundle of contradiction even in the scriptures causing confusion in the minds of the single minded zealots and crusading missionaries.
In Mathew 5:39 you exhort followers to “turn to him the other cheek” and in the same vein you use les talions- “An eye for an eye” in retribution.
The poem by Lewis Carrol was brilliantly interpreted by J B Priestly and is viewed as an indictment against organized religion and dictatorship – Jesus depicted as the carpenter representing Religion and Castro the political dictator. Religion and politics cleverly lures its followers and subjects to certain destruction. It is possible to lead a moral and ethical life without the crutches of religion or state as all of us have a moral compass that shows as how to differentiate between right and wrong, and there is no need for special guidance.
Religion has become a sort of aggressive fanaticism whereas many non-believers, atheists do a lot of good for the down trodden, and help people who have been subjugated and exploited in the name of religion and state. One need not pray 5 times or recite anthems in rapture of the lord, to be seen as ennobled, while the atheist tries to give relief to those who suffer. History is full of people who have done wrong and oppression in the name of religion and state.
The real joke was when Fidel Castro asked Pope Benedict “what does a Pontiff do” and he replied that he too had his own ministries. Religion and the church have their own Catechism of things you have to repeat in lockstep; kind of like Fidel’s old Communist party, both of them deny free will.
The Cleric and the Communist dictator hunts the same quarry “man “and one wants to control his body into obedience, whilst the other wants to control his mind…. –Vinay-
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