THE DRUZE AND VEDIC ORIGINS Abstract by Dr. David Wolf A serendipitous, though intensive, case study of Israeli Druze reveals striking similarities between Vedic and Druze philosophy and culture. This article uses these congruities as a springboard for researching Druze origins. Jethro, commonly known as the father-in-law of Moses, is the greatest saint in the pantheon of Druze prophets. In 1988 I went to northern Israel, not as a student of religious history, but as a book distributor. On several occasions we met with the late Sheik Tarif Amin, former world spiritual leader of the Druze. Salman Falach, Druze Minister of Education in Israel, purchased hundreds of Srila Prabhupada's books for Druze schools and libraries. We spoke with many Druze sheiks and intellectuals, and they shared deeply with us. Kamal Jumbalat, the late Druze political hero and renowned spiritualist, often extolled Krsna, the Bhagavad-gita, the Ramayana, and other Vedic books and personalities in his writings (Dasa, 1994, p. 219). By Dr.
Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy 1. The Meaning of the Term Zen The designation of this school of the Buddha-Way as Zen, which means sitting meditation, is derived from a transliteration of the Chinese word Chán. Because the Chinese term is in turn a transliteration of the Sanskrit term dhyāna, however, Zen owes its historical origin to early Indian Buddhism, where a deepened state of meditation, called samādhi, was singled out as one of the three components of study a Buddhist was required to master, the other two being an observation of ethical precepts (sīla) and an embodiment of nondiscriminatory wisdom (prajñā). Meditation was picked as the name for this school because the historical Buddha achieved enlightenment (nirvāna) through the practice of meditation. In the context of Zen Buddhism, the perfection of nondiscriminatory wisdom (Jpn.: hannya haramitsu; Skrt.: prajñāpāramitā) designates practical, experiential knowledge. 2. 3. 3.1 The Adjustment of the Body 3.2 The Adjustment of Breathing 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
The White Goddess - Pagan Portal Signs And Symptoms Of A Spiritual Awakening by Natalia Ria Worldwide, political, economical, environmental and social events are taking place that are changing the way we think, feel and perceive our world as well as relate to one another. Change is in the air, on a collective and an individual level, both of which mirror one another. A mass spiritual awakening is at hand, as a 26,000-thousand year planetary calendar cycle draws to an end, expanding human consciousness in unprecedented ways. On a collective level, a paradigm shift is under way as we unplug from a fear-based paradigm rooted in separation, control, disempowerment and worthlessness to one of love, integrity and connection with all of life. A spiritual awakening is accompanied by great internal change. Your Body Physical manifestation of illness, aches, pains and disease are on the rise and signal where you are resisting your true self and holding on to emotions and beliefs that do not serve you. Eating habits are changing. Energy centers (chakras) are opening up.
Alexander Jacob, "The Origins of Indo-European Religion" 7,320 words Horned god in quasi-lotus position with animals from Gundestrup Cauldron, Celtic, 100 B.C.E. Editor’s Note: The following text is a lecture delivered by Dr. In the thirties of the last century, National Socialism sought to combat the economic regimes of Capitalism and Communism with doctrines of the primacy of race, and of the Germanic race in particular. Horned god in lotus position with animals, Indus Valley Civilization, steatite seal, 2500-1500 B.C.E The recent comparative linguistic and mythological studies of scholars such as Giovanni Semerano[1] and M.L. Indus Valley horned god/yogi seal As regards the original home of the people who developed the cosmological insights shared by the most ancient religions of the region, the major evidence we have is that of the so-called “Flood” story. Since the earliest centres of high culture are those of the Canaanites, Hatti, Elamites, Sumerians, and Egyptians, it is possible that the region around Mt. Indus Valley elephant
51 Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening - How Many Do You Have? Annarita, GuestWaking Times 1. Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet, waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day. Advice: Get used to it. 2. Tingling, itching, prickly, crawling sensations along the scalp and/or down the spine. A sense of energy vibrating on top of the head, as if energy is erupting from the head in a shower. Advice: This is nothing to be alarmed about. 3. Advice: Accept your feelings as they come up and let them go. 4. Advice: Same as #3. 5. Advice: Don’t freak out, but just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. 6. Advice: Don’t deny what your body tells you it needs. 7. Advice: An acupuncturist told me that this film can be removed by sloshing 2 tablespoons of cold-pressed olive oil in your mouth for 10-15 minutes (don’t swallow, whatever you do), then spitting it out into the toilet — not the sink, for you just removed toxins from your body and don’t want them in the sink. 8. 8a.
Proto-Indo-European Religion Kemetic Eclectic & Empathic Spirituality Article 'Genius' dans le dictionnaire Daremberg et Saglio (1877) Les premiers témoignages relatifs au culte du Genius dans la religion romaine ne remontent pas au delà de la seconde guerre Punique ; et il n'en est point où l'on ne sente l'influence des idées helléniques sur le Daemon et bientôt celle des doctrines stoïciennes. Il n'en est pas moins incontestable que le genius a fait partie avec les Lares, les Pénates et les Mânes des plus anciennes divinités du Latium. Souvent confondu avec ces esprits d'essence latine et romaine, il semble désigner un genre dont ils sont les espèces, la notion générale dont ils détaillent les aspects divers. Etymologiquement, les anciens ont rattaché le nom de genius à gens, geno ou gigno quelquefois, par une erreur de linguistique qui n'est pas sans intérêt pour l'explication du rôle de genius, à gero. Il est la force qui engendre au point de départ et qui conserve dans leur individualité propre jusqu'à leur destruction et l'être de l'homme et les êtres de raison que l'homme s'est forgés à sa propre image.