Friday, November 06, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Another meeting
Another chance arose to meet with a Native American Indian. The public television station of Penn state University interviewed Sonya French-Begay of the Three Rivers American Indian Center. She was trying to raise awareness to the desecration of Indian land by Mining companies strip mining for Uranium. Their methods have caused tremendous environmental and health hardships to the land and the Native People.
We connected deeply and she gave me all her contact information in which I hope that we will create a beautiful friendship with many opportunities to share our mutual spiritual understandings! (Angela Reininger)
more on Angela's new blog
Friday, March 06, 2009
Native People's Grandmothers
We just returned from a public meeting with one of the Native People's Grandmothers, Agnes Baker Pilgrim from the Takelma nation, who is touring the world with their message of peace and hope. She spoke about the Mother Earth and the need to respect her, and about water how we all come from it and that it is sacred and has a spirit. She stressed the importance of not only respecting our elders but also that we should grow into respectable elders.
Afterwards I went to speak to her and asked her if she ever heard of self realization. She said no and I told her that my Mother taught me about this very energy she had been speaking to us about and that my Mother taught me to feel the earth's heartbeat and to recognize the spirit in the water, the air and the fire. I thanked her for going all over the world with her beautiful message and asked her if I could share with her this gift of self realization. She said yes, and upon touching her Sahasrara I told her that from now on we would be one and she embraced me.
Here is an idea: we should try to give realization to all 13 Grandmothers that are touring the world now. Look at their website http://www.grandmotherscouncil.com and see if they are coming to your town and try to give realization to them. If they are able to recognize the Grandmother of all the grandmothers what an impact this will have on the seekers of the world! (Angela Reininger)
Wikipedia: Takelma
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
Australian Indigenous Health Expo
It has long been the desire of many yogis in the Australian collective that the divine gift of realisation be shared with our Aboriginal brothers and sisters. This wish materialised last Friday at the Lilydale Showgrounds as Sahaja Yoga was invited to give realisation at the Yarra Valley Indigenous Health Expo.
This unique opportunity was brought to fruition through the special efforts of Yarra Valley family worker and dedicated yogini, Detchema, whose pure love and desire to spread Sahaj resulted in a breakthrough achieved via contacts she has cultivated from her work caring for the disadvantaged members of her community. Thank you also to the Melbourne collective, who put their love and attention on the issue with many bandhans.
The event itself was the first of its kind and it's fair to say that it could have been a little better organised and advertised. This factor in combination with some heavy afternoon rain resulted in a relatively smaller turn out than hoped for. However, in spite of this, over fifty people received their realisation, many among them being members of the local Aboriginal community. Some of these are actively involved with Indigenous community organisations with contacts to Elders and other representatives of Indigenous Victoria.
All who received their realiation thoroughly enjoyed the experience and strongly related to the concept of spiritual healing, something we all agree, is much needed between indigenous and non indigenous Australia, and i particularly relevant following the long awaited Apology offered by the Federal Government.
Many thanks to the irrepressible Birsen, the always dapper Amara, John Noyce and of course Detchema, by whose dedicated efforts this event was made possible.
Some small seeds were planted in the Indigenous soil of the Yarra Valley and in the words of Aboriginal singer/song writer Archie Roach - "From little things, big things grow." (Simon)
This unique opportunity was brought to fruition through the special efforts of Yarra Valley family worker and dedicated yogini, Detchema, whose pure love and desire to spread Sahaj resulted in a breakthrough achieved via contacts she has cultivated from her work caring for the disadvantaged members of her community. Thank you also to the Melbourne collective, who put their love and attention on the issue with many bandhans.
The event itself was the first of its kind and it's fair to say that it could have been a little better organised and advertised. This factor in combination with some heavy afternoon rain resulted in a relatively smaller turn out than hoped for. However, in spite of this, over fifty people received their realisation, many among them being members of the local Aboriginal community. Some of these are actively involved with Indigenous community organisations with contacts to Elders and other representatives of Indigenous Victoria.
All who received their realiation thoroughly enjoyed the experience and strongly related to the concept of spiritual healing, something we all agree, is much needed between indigenous and non indigenous Australia, and i particularly relevant following the long awaited Apology offered by the Federal Government.
Many thanks to the irrepressible Birsen, the always dapper Amara, John Noyce and of course Detchema, by whose dedicated efforts this event was made possible.
Some small seeds were planted in the Indigenous soil of the Yarra Valley and in the words of Aboriginal singer/song writer Archie Roach - "From little things, big things grow." (Simon)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Maori culture and Sahaja Yoga
There are many things in maori culture and also of every culture, that are Truth, and it has been an interesting sometimes difficult journey sifting through the conditionings to find the truths of maori culture. I initially saw all the negative aspects of maoridom and it has only been through Sahaja meditation,that I have been able to learn the depth of knowledge and history of Maori culture. It has been enlightening to find that the truths in maori culture are the same as those of every other culture! The love, the truth and the Peace of God. I know this sounds quite profound but I sometimes cant believe how Shri Mataji has brought us all together albeit we have different cultures, languages, creed, and colour and yet we are still one!!! Jai Shri Mataji!
full interview with Meri Marshall
Friday, January 18, 2008
Hopi Prophecies
This video shows how the prophecies of the Hopi Elders are open to interpretation. See for yourself!
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Tashunca-Uitco's Vision
The Teton Sioux Chief Tashunca-Uitco (Crazy Horse) had a final vision in which
He saw his people being driven into spiritual darkness and poverty while the white people prospered in a material way all around them. But even in the darkest times, he saw that the eyes of a few of his people kept the light of dawn and the wisdom of the earth, which they passed on to some of their grandchildren. He saw the coming of automobiles and airplanes, and twice he saw the great darkness and heard the screams and explosions when millions of people died in two great world wars.
But he saw, after the second great war passed, a time come when his people began to awaken, not all at once, but a few here and there, and then more and more, and he saw that they were dancing in a beautiful light of the Spirit World under the Sacred Tree even while still on Earth. Then he was amazed to see that dancing under the tree were representatives of all races who had become brothers, and he realized that the world would be made new again and in peace and harmony not just by his people, but by members of all races of mankind.
The Chief also stated:
I see a time of seven generations when all the colours of mankind will gather under the sacred tree of Life and the whole earth will become one circle again.
and
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that centre within you, and I am at that place within me, we shall be as one.
He saw his people being driven into spiritual darkness and poverty while the white people prospered in a material way all around them. But even in the darkest times, he saw that the eyes of a few of his people kept the light of dawn and the wisdom of the earth, which they passed on to some of their grandchildren. He saw the coming of automobiles and airplanes, and twice he saw the great darkness and heard the screams and explosions when millions of people died in two great world wars.
But he saw, after the second great war passed, a time come when his people began to awaken, not all at once, but a few here and there, and then more and more, and he saw that they were dancing in a beautiful light of the Spirit World under the Sacred Tree even while still on Earth. Then he was amazed to see that dancing under the tree were representatives of all races who had become brothers, and he realized that the world would be made new again and in peace and harmony not just by his people, but by members of all races of mankind.
The Chief also stated:
I see a time of seven generations when all the colours of mankind will gather under the sacred tree of Life and the whole earth will become one circle again.
and
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that centre within you, and I am at that place within me, we shall be as one.
Monday, April 02, 2007
The Mother of our songs
The Kagaba (Kogi) people of Columbia in South America have a belief in Aluna, ‘my Mother’, as creator.
The mother of our songs, the mother of our seed, bore us in the begining of things and so she is the mother of all types of men, the mother of all nations. She is mother of the thunder, the mother of the streams, the mother of the trees and of all things. She is the mother of the world and of the older brothers, the stone-people. She is the mother of the fruits of the earth and of all things. She is the mother of our youngest brothers, the French and the strangers. She is the mother of our dance paraphernalia, of all temples and she is the only mother we possess. She alone is mother of the fire and the Sun and the Milky Way. . . . She is the mother of the rain and the only mother we possess. And she has left us a token in all the temples . . . a token in the form of songs and dances.
She has no cult, and no prayers are really directed to her, but when the fields are sown and the priests chant their incantations the Kagaba say, 'And then we think of the one and only mother of the growing things, of the mother of all things.'
One prayer was recorded: 'Our mother of the growing fields, our mother of the streams, will have pity upon us. For whom do we belong? Whose seeds are we? To our mother alone do we belong.'
from: Visions and Prophecies of the Divine Feminine: a sourcebook of historical texts
http://historye.blogspot.com
The mother of our songs, the mother of our seed, bore us in the begining of things and so she is the mother of all types of men, the mother of all nations. She is mother of the thunder, the mother of the streams, the mother of the trees and of all things. She is the mother of the world and of the older brothers, the stone-people. She is the mother of the fruits of the earth and of all things. She is the mother of our youngest brothers, the French and the strangers. She is the mother of our dance paraphernalia, of all temples and she is the only mother we possess. She alone is mother of the fire and the Sun and the Milky Way. . . . She is the mother of the rain and the only mother we possess. And she has left us a token in all the temples . . . a token in the form of songs and dances.
She has no cult, and no prayers are really directed to her, but when the fields are sown and the priests chant their incantations the Kagaba say, 'And then we think of the one and only mother of the growing things, of the mother of all things.'
One prayer was recorded: 'Our mother of the growing fields, our mother of the streams, will have pity upon us. For whom do we belong? Whose seeds are we? To our mother alone do we belong.'
from: Visions and Prophecies of the Divine Feminine: a sourcebook of historical texts
http://historye.blogspot.com
Friday, November 10, 2006
Yothu Yindi
This is a kinship term of the Yolngu, a coastal people of the north-eastern part of the land now known as Australia. Mandawuy Yunupingu, a Yolngu elder, has written:
Yolngu culture in north-east Arnhem Land is among the oldest living cultures on earth. We live by codes of behaviour laid down by our totemic ancestors at the beginning of time, laws that are embedded in the land itself. The main kinship term we use to describe ourselves is Yothu Yindi, meaning child and mother. It encompasses the two sides of our world which we keep in balance. A balance between people and land ensuring our survival for tens of thousands of years.
In his song Baywara, Mandawuy Yunupingu sings of the Great One:
Maker of the land
Maker of the songs
Maker of the constitution (chorus)
The journey of the Great One
Starts from the east
Where the mighty ocean meets the land
Then the population came
She walked with the Law in Her hands
Singing children of the earth
Praise the journey of the songlines
Find the sign and follow the sun … (chorus)
Lightening She spoke
The power of One
Into the sea
Where the splinters fell
Her mind at its best
She did create.
Baywara Baywara (chorus)
[from Yothu Yindi: One blood (Sydney: Mushroom Records, 1999. MUSH33229.2)]
Yolngu culture in north-east Arnhem Land is among the oldest living cultures on earth. We live by codes of behaviour laid down by our totemic ancestors at the beginning of time, laws that are embedded in the land itself. The main kinship term we use to describe ourselves is Yothu Yindi, meaning child and mother. It encompasses the two sides of our world which we keep in balance. A balance between people and land ensuring our survival for tens of thousands of years.
In his song Baywara, Mandawuy Yunupingu sings of the Great One:
Maker of the land
Maker of the songs
Maker of the constitution (chorus)
The journey of the Great One
Starts from the east
Where the mighty ocean meets the land
Then the population came
She walked with the Law in Her hands
Singing children of the earth
Praise the journey of the songlines
Find the sign and follow the sun … (chorus)
Lightening She spoke
The power of One
Into the sea
Where the splinters fell
Her mind at its best
She did create.
Baywara Baywara (chorus)
[from Yothu Yindi: One blood (Sydney: Mushroom Records, 1999. MUSH33229.2)]
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
South American reflections
Hello warriors!
My husband Miguel and I just went to Peru for vacation - and I wanted to share a few things with you.
Through a maya that happened to us (too long to write here) we ended up staying with some wonderful Sahaja yoginis in Peru for longer than we expected. The extra time we spent there corresponded with their presidential election which was VERY dramatic - one of the candidates claimed he wanted "Indian" rights. It is a popular movement in South America these days - Bolivia's current president is an Indian and won claiming his fight for "Indian rights" as well... he is socialising everything, so we'll see if it really benefits the Indians or not.
In Peru, the Indian candidate lost - but only by a few percentage points. The point, though, is the huge movement happening there - Indians are demanding more and more of what was stolen from them. It was a remarkable and eye-opening trip... I really think we should keep our eyes (i.e. attention) on South America. We might learn something from them.
The poverty and living situations for the South American Indians is horrendous (as bad or worse than in North America) but they somehow have managed to keep their language (Ron in Pine Ridge was telling us of the terrible impact of losing the Lakota language) - and now they are uniting in a way never before seen in South American history. Most of their religion is gone - smashed by the Catholic Church - but their soft, deep spirit remains...
Miguel and I meditated in the Andies Mountains (the Ida Nadhi of the world) and listened to the beautiful pan flutes that the Indians play... truely they are divine beings...Let us keep them in our attention.
Love,
Alia (Sharmila)
(first posted to e-w yahoogroup, June 19, 2006)
Friday, June 16, 2006
Indigenous Britons
Dear Warriors,
Ever since Liallyn bought up the issue of bringing Sahaja to the indigenous peoples of the world, Bernard has been curious to find out who, what and where the indigenous British are?
Well it has been interesting, but the bottom line is history is a highly ambiguous subject and you soon realise that unless you were there you will never really know. So whats new, we should all be in the present anyway?
A program on the TV last night about the Barbarians by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame), showed that through excavation in France, the 'Celts' (a term not used apparently in Britain until the 17th centuary) or North Western Europeans were far more civilised than Roman history has had us believing all these years, since the Romans wrote it all down and the Celts as we shall call them did not. We had gold, handsome clothing in comparison to the rather drab Roman clothing, roads which meant trade, and most surprisingly, rich powerful women! Boadicea was not unique. It was not just Mr.Paul in Rome who kept women in the background, their way of life has meant women in Europe have taken a back seat for centuries.
What Bernard also discovered previously was that some genealogical research has showed that we in the south of England are indigenous to these islands. Up until then we always assumed that the 'Celts' had been ethnically cleansed from lowland Britain by the invading hoards (Romans, Vikings, Saxons, Normans, etc).
So we are still here, only our culture has been swept away! This may explain that by going deep within ourselves, we find an empathy with our brothers and sisters who are comparatively newcomers to the imposition of an alien culture.
Much love to you all, Bernard.
(first posted to e-w yahoo group, May 27, 2006)
Ever since Liallyn bought up the issue of bringing Sahaja to the indigenous peoples of the world, Bernard has been curious to find out who, what and where the indigenous British are?
Well it has been interesting, but the bottom line is history is a highly ambiguous subject and you soon realise that unless you were there you will never really know. So whats new, we should all be in the present anyway?
A program on the TV last night about the Barbarians by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame), showed that through excavation in France, the 'Celts' (a term not used apparently in Britain until the 17th centuary) or North Western Europeans were far more civilised than Roman history has had us believing all these years, since the Romans wrote it all down and the Celts as we shall call them did not. We had gold, handsome clothing in comparison to the rather drab Roman clothing, roads which meant trade, and most surprisingly, rich powerful women! Boadicea was not unique. It was not just Mr.Paul in Rome who kept women in the background, their way of life has meant women in Europe have taken a back seat for centuries.
What Bernard also discovered previously was that some genealogical research has showed that we in the south of England are indigenous to these islands. Up until then we always assumed that the 'Celts' had been ethnically cleansed from lowland Britain by the invading hoards (Romans, Vikings, Saxons, Normans, etc).
So we are still here, only our culture has been swept away! This may explain that by going deep within ourselves, we find an empathy with our brothers and sisters who are comparatively newcomers to the imposition of an alien culture.
Much love to you all, Bernard.
(first posted to e-w yahoo group, May 27, 2006)
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