Sacred Sex For further contact with others who are interested in sacred sexuality, you might enjoy subscribing to the usenet newsgroup alt.magick.tantra. It is a low-traffic group where long-time practitioners and newcomers can frankly discuss everything from meditational Hindu Tantra Yoga and Asatru sex worship to karezza and Crowleyian sex-magick. If the theories and techniques of classical Indian Tantra Yoga are your interest, you might enjoy subscribing to alt.religion.tantra, which deals exclusively with those subjects. If you are looking for a tantra yoga guru or a teacher of Westernized neo-tantra techniques, please do not contact me; i am not a tantra yoga or neo-tantra teacher and i keep no database of such teachers.
7 Qualities of Uber-Productive People Some people get more done than others--a lot more. Sure, they work hard. And they work smart. They do the work in spite of disapproval or ridicule. Work too hard, strive too hard, appear to be too ambitious, try to stand out from the crowd. Pleasing the (average-performing) crowd is something remarkably productive people don't worry about. They hear the criticism, they take the potshots, they endure the laughter or derision or even hostility--and they keep on measuring themselves and their efforts by their own standards. And, in the process, they achieve what they want to achieve. They see fear the same way other people view lunch. One of my clients is an outstanding--and outstandingly successful--comic. Yet he still has panic attacks before he walks onstage. So, just before he goes onstage, he takes a quick shower, puts on fresh clothes, drinks a bottle of water, jumps up and down and does a little shadowboxing, and out he goes. He's still scared. Most people wait for an idea. They start...
Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' Following on the idea of the procrastination dash and Jeff’s progressive dash, I’ve been experimenting with a squirelly new system to pound through my procrastinated to-do list. Brace yourself, because it is a bit more byzantine than is Merlin 2005’s newly stripped-down habit. It’s called (10+2)*5, and today it will save your ass. Who it’s for procrastinatorsthe easily distractedcompulsive web-surferspeople with a long list of very short tasks (a/k/a “mosquitos”) people having trouble chipping away at very large tasks What you’ll need a timermust be easy to resetelectronic kitchen timer is particularly good (pref. with multiple alarm memories), oran app like Minuteur (get the newest version—several cool new features)a reduced subset of your to-do list tasks that can be worked on (not necessarily completed) in blocks of 10 minutes or lessGTD people: next actions only, pleasean hour of your time (less is potentially okay, but it’s non-canonical)your sorry, procrastinating ass How it works
THE FOURTH MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION THE FOURTH MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION by BV Bhagavat Maharaja & Isa das www.equalsouls.org Which religion is that? You may ask, and rightly so. Most academic and news articles usually talk about the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Even though these three religions share a common theological precept that there is one GOD ([1]El Kana) and no other, they are anything but unified in describing the path that the devotee must take to reach that one and only GOD. Today we have attempts by all three religions to create interfaith harmony through theological fiats at ecumenical conferences that draw people's attention to the things that unify these three religions as opposed to their differences. Hinduism (Vedic Religion, Sanatan Dharma) would like to join this dialog and be recognized as Monotheistic. "After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. a. b. [10]Shiva (Judaism)
MacGyver 19 of the best iOS apps from May 2015 We’ve looked at a lot of new and updated iOS apps this month, with the usual healthy smattering of ones dedicated to messaging and photo organization /optimization. Some big names – like The New York Times and Flickr – also have revamped apps worth revisiting. All you need to do is peruse the list below and pick your own favorites. Kwilt Kwilt isn’t a new app – it first launched in November – but it did undergo a reasonably significant visual overhaul in May to make it easier to use. Alongside a tweaked UI, the multi-platform photo organizer also got a revamped collage option – now called KwiltSnaps. The update also added support for streaming images from a few new Network Attached Storage drives too. ➤ Kwilt QuizUp QuizUp shot to popularity at the end of 2013, but it took until this month for the company to significantly revamp the platform to put more emphasis on social interaction around gaming. The update also ushered in support for playing QuizUp on the desktop for the first time. ➤ QuizUp
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. He is a Midianite, a tribe descending from the sons of Keturah who were sent by Abraham to the East. 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. Even on esoteric points, sheiks would surprise us with parallels between Vedic and Druze understandings. By Dr.
Baraka Institute | Transformation through spiritual experience… Simple Living Institute - News Scriptorium - The Wheel of Changes At first glance there seems to be little to connect the major festivals of the pagan calendar with the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes" or I Ching. Both systems are ancient and venerable, but there seems no reason for any fundamental connection between their underlying philosophies. Yet think for a moment of the bases of these two apparently disparate systems. By considering together the "Book of Changes" and the "Wheel of the Year" composed by the festivals, valuable new insights into each are obtained through knowledge of the other. The I Ching is a Chinese book of wisdom and oracles whose precise age is open to debate, though its origins are certainly several thousand years old, dating back to pre-Confucian times. The I Ching itself is primarily concerned with the 64 hexagrams obtained from all possible combinations of six yin/yang lines. The clickable figure above shows the festivals arranged in sunwise order in a circle, the "Wheel of the Year."