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Jane Sanford Harrison interviewed by Merry Song
Jane Sanford Harrison was interviewed by Merry Song in February 2023. They discussed Jane's life and wisdom, including her insights into gratitude and leaning into uncertainty.
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Beautiful Dreamer - The Importance of Dreams on the Spiritual Path, by Merry Song
Просмотров 57День назад
What does it serve to remember dreams when you wake up from a night's sleep? Is there any spiritual value in tuning into what some call The Cosmic Dreamer? Have you had significant dreams that seem to guide you? In this talk, Merry Song discusses cultivating dreams on the spiritual path and noticing how the mind dreams night and day. Recorded 27 Oct 2024 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eug...
Nondual Awakening and Alzheimer’s Disease: An Interview with David Cunningham
Просмотров 286День назад
In this one-hour interview, Merry Song asks David to elaborate on his spiritual path and to comment on his recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and how it impacts his life as a Gnostic and as a spiritual teacher. David says: “The Mystical path can put us in the best possible context for dealing with such truths.” David grew up in Pasadena, California. At an early age, he experienced a family...
The Paths of Negation, Affirmation, and Transformation
Просмотров 56День назад
Joel Morwood, Spiritual Director at the Center for Sacred Sciences, discusses the path of negation or denial (neti neti or via negativa), the path of affirmation or inclusion (iti iti or via positiva), and a third way, which might be called the path of transformation. In the path of negation, we discriminate between changeless pure Awareness and the impermanent phenomena that come and go within...
Finding God in Your Heart, by Joel Morwood
Просмотров 344Месяц назад
In this talk and guided meditation, Joel Morwood presents contemplative teachings from various religious traditions related to finding God, or ultimate Reality, in the radiant spiritual heart of being. Joel Morwood is spiritual director at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon USA. This talk was recorded 25 Dec. 2024 in Eugene, Oregon USA.
Maps of Consciousness in Kashmir Shaivism: The 3 facets, 5 actions, and 36 levels of Consciousness
Просмотров 6938 месяцев назад
This presentation will guide participants through recognizing Trika - the Shiva, Shakti and Anu facets of consciousness; the 5 fundamental activities of consciousness - creation, sustenance, dissolution, concealment, and revelation; and the 36 levels by which transcendent consciousness immanently manifests itself as this tangibly experienced universe. This is the third of a three-part series of...
Aging and the Spiritual Path by Merry Song
Просмотров 1039 месяцев назад
Have you suffered when approaching a certain age? Have you cast off birthdays altogether? Have you observed others suffering over the notion of aging? What are the common stories we tell ourselves about aging? And how does this relate to the spiritual path? In this talk, Merry Song explores what she experienced spiritually by the age of 7 and how her relationship to aging unfolded on the spirit...
Awakening~Together interview with Merry Song
Просмотров 5210 месяцев назад
Merry Song was invited to be a guest of Awakening~Together at their monthly Satsang meeting on March 17, 2024. In this recording, Laura 'Joy' Bedford interviewed Merry Song about her spiritual journey, her teachers, and her unique method of teaching through spiritual writing workshops. Merry Song is a teacher at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon.
Sitaram Dass: Kirtan and the Path of Devotion
Просмотров 20410 месяцев назад
Guest speaker Sitaram Dass spent several years serving his beloved teacher Ram Dass on Maui, where he was shown the path of Bhakti, the yoga of service and devotion to God. In this presentation he leads us in the practice of kirtan and shares some of his personal experiences of his path and time with Ram Dass. Sitaram Dass is an author, teacher, kirtan singer, therapist, and director of the Sac...
Kashmir Shaivism: Nondual Devotion - Jim and Kimberly Carson
Просмотров 81810 месяцев назад
Guest speakers Jim and Kimberly Carson, members of the CSS community based in Portland present the second of a three-part series of talks about Kashmir Shaivism, a very influential Shaiva-Shakta Tantra nondual tradition originated in Kashmir c. 850 CE. This talk delved into the devotional aspects of the tradition, including chanting and meditation. The Carsons have studied, practiced, and taugh...
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 3
Просмотров 53Год назад
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 3
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 2
Просмотров 79Год назад
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 2
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 4
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 4
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 1
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The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop, Episode 1
The Needy Beggar, a talk by Merry Song
Просмотров 56Год назад
Do you ever find yourself longing for love? Praying for approval? Wishing to hear some applause for your efforts? Have you noticed that even if you receive approval, it is never enough? Join Merry Song for a talk about The Needy Beggar. Merry Song will tell her own experiences with metaphorically begging on the side of the road and then ask for others to share their stories of being trapped in ...
Love Poems: Light of Love 2023
Просмотров 56Год назад
Love Poems: Light of Love 2023
Faced and Embraced, a talk by Merry Song
Просмотров 72Год назад
Faced and Embraced, a talk by Merry Song
I Loved You Before I Was Born
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I Loved You Before I Was Born
An Account of Awakening - Matthew Lowes
Просмотров 396Год назад
An Account of Awakening - Matthew Lowes
Kashmir Shaivism: Tantric Intimacy with the Play of Consciousness - Jim Carson
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Kashmir Shaivism: Tantric Intimacy with the Play of Consciousness - Jim Carson
Longing for the Truth, a talk by Merry Song at the TAT Foundation
Просмотров 174Год назад
Longing for the Truth, a talk by Merry Song at the TAT Foundation
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop - Intro Trailer
Просмотров 181Год назад
The Go As Nothing Writing Workshop - Intro Trailer
Guided Awareness Meditation with Andrea Pucci
Просмотров 89Год назад
Guided Awareness Meditation with Andrea Pucci
Wholesome Discrimination and Guided Meditation, with Andrea Pucci
Просмотров 85Год назад
Wholesome Discrimination and Guided Meditation, with Andrea Pucci
The Four Seals of Reality, talk and meditation with Andrea Pucci
Просмотров 89Год назад
The Four Seals of Reality, talk and meditation with Andrea Pucci
Joel's Favorite Accounts of Awakening
Просмотров 271Год назад
Joel's Favorite Accounts of Awakening
Merry Song reads "I know the way you can get" - a rendering of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
Просмотров 1072 года назад
Merry Song reads "I know the way you can get" - a rendering of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky
Stewardship of the Earth: A Spiritual Perspective on the Climate Crisis
Просмотров 1532 года назад
Stewardship of the Earth: A Spiritual Perspective on the Climate Crisis
Time, Space, Separation, and Knowingness
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Time, Space, Separation, and Knowingness
Returning to the Space of Awareness
Просмотров 1462 года назад
Returning to the Space of Awareness

Комментарии

  • @toriajustice605
    @toriajustice605 3 дня назад

    ❤🙏🏻

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Месяц назад

    Following you from the ciberspace. Blessings.

  • @NeytsMore
    @NeytsMore Месяц назад

    Thanks. Especially for not limiting God to one tradition, like many would like to. One can listen of hEAR with hEARt.

  • @jorganjorgan6847
    @jorganjorgan6847 Месяц назад

    Thanks 🙏 Joel ! As usual a very precise and concise expression of the pure formless essence of our true nature. Have an awesome 🤩 New Year. Ed J . 🙏🤗💥✨

  • @ClearLight369
    @ClearLight369 Месяц назад

    Why does Tim keep conspiring with the left in their misrepresentation of Jan 6?

  • @bongwonsa
    @bongwonsa 3 месяца назад

    I read Joel's spiritual journey -Naked through the Gate - as honest and clear a description of spirituality as anything I've read all rooted in his first hand experiences- Thanks for sharing

  • @Karoltos
    @Karoltos 4 месяца назад

    what a fantastic talk

  • @BohemianKitsch
    @BohemianKitsch 4 месяца назад

    why do so many white guys call it SHAY-vism? they don't call the Vishnu traditions VAYshnavism.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 4 месяца назад

    Remember you almost everyday

  • @paulsloan7140
    @paulsloan7140 6 месяцев назад

    Do you have a link for the first talk and do the 2 people doing the talk have a website

  • @beingfrank40
    @beingfrank40 6 месяцев назад

    Wonderful talk and explanation!

  • @beingfrank40
    @beingfrank40 6 месяцев назад

    Great interview about Swami Muktananda !!! The explanations were just great, the emotion shown elucidated and emphasized the essential. Thank you.🙏

  • @vasukinagabhushan
    @vasukinagabhushan 7 месяцев назад

    In Nepal, they say that Shiva is where Shakti is. 🙏🏽

  • @vasukinagabhushan
    @vasukinagabhushan 7 месяцев назад

    Kashmiri Shaivism is life affirmative philosophy. Eti, Eti, Eti ... 🙏🏽

  • @rhvandergaag4823
    @rhvandergaag4823 7 месяцев назад

    It seems strange that a jnani should be concerned with death.

  • @ooocha1
    @ooocha1 7 месяцев назад

    Clown boy and clown girl.

  • @zephyrdaz
    @zephyrdaz 7 месяцев назад

    Really interesting, thank you.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 7 месяцев назад

    Glad to know that the two of you together helped Franklin in his closing years. My respects to you all.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 7 месяцев назад

    Glad to find this tape with the two of you together with franklin merrell-wolff (yogi)

  • @grantlawrence611
    @grantlawrence611 8 месяцев назад

    This was quite interesting

  • @danielholman7225
    @danielholman7225 8 месяцев назад

    Jim, thank you so much for your presentation on K/S. We have something in common. I’am also a Baba devotee, Yeah, I recall when Baba unfolded K/S by writing some books on it. However, it didn’t seem like my fellow devotee liked it nearly as much as I did. They were all happy w Vedanta and, yes, it’s ok but there were some things I didn’t like about it. It seemed that Vedanta was a bit out of step when it came to women. Then too, there is the thing about the reflection. I don think our intellect can take the reflection. It’s Shakti, the universe, which takes the reflection. I also like, “There is nothing that is not Lord Shiva” Thanks again, Om!

  • @SkyLikeMind639
    @SkyLikeMind639 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you for posting this. I have been studying this for a while now and to hear your take on it is priceless!

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 8 месяцев назад

    Me? Still riding a not so merry go arrond. Send you love. Franklin and You are always in my heart.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 8 месяцев назад

    Long time thinking about your pressence in Lone Pine during the 80's. Maybe you belong to an old lineage of knowledge. Perhaps there was a soundless call. My respects.

  • @jkdhar
    @jkdhar 9 месяцев назад

    Lovely

  • @sacredcommunityproject
    @sacredcommunityproject 11 месяцев назад

    <3 Thank you for sharing <3

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair Год назад

    excellent. Franklin the OG Gandolph

  • @andreasrylander
    @andreasrylander Год назад

    "Playfully, you hid from me. All day I looked. Then I discovered I was you, and the celebration of That began." - Lalleshwari

  • @TheSoteriologist
    @TheSoteriologist Год назад

    26:29 - 27:37 This is an incomplete heterodoxography of the view of vedanta in tantric propaganda because the full view is contained in 1. Brahman alone is real. 2. The world is an appearance (illusion). 3. Brahman is the world. Your heterodoxography leaves out the all-important step 3. for which 1. and 2. _(in either sequence)_ are preparations. So in fact, the tantric view, namely that appearances are the divine, is just the highest level of vedantic pedagogy and not in contrast or contradiction to it at all. Abhinavagupta's formulation at 27:54 _"cooped up in its concentrated singleness"_ obviously is incommensurable with Brahman which even literally means expansive, uncontained and uncontainable. So one has no choice but to assume either incompetence or polemics here. Why ?

    • @TheSoteriologist
      @TheSoteriologist Год назад

      @Buddhism4Happiness The metaphor of _"being static"_ refers to unchanging objects within time. This cannot apply to brahman because the word _does not_ refer to something within time _(which is one reason why the whole buddhist analysis fails to refute brahman)_ and it is for the same reason that brahman also isn't changing and hence is unchanging. But in fact even to use "brahman" as a grammatical subject in a sentence involving subject, object and predicate, such as _"Brahman is unchanging"_ is inherently false and hence only a symbolic or metaphoric pointer. As regards the vedantic view inclusive of the tantric one, it should fall within _"3. Brahman is the world"_ which in that system has a prior integration of the discrimination indicated by 1. and 2. for a prerequisite. The practice of disciminating between subject and object belongs to the latter, preparatory phase or otherwise to a purely conventional way of communicating with ordinary people.

  • @amosburr2175
    @amosburr2175 Год назад

    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing 🤍

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Год назад

    Yogui rides again?

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Год назад

    It's all so thrut.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Год назад

    Joel Morwood III

  • @Chase_Myles
    @Chase_Myles Год назад

    Proud Kashmiri Pandit here....

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair Год назад

    Excellent report ❤

  • @jorganjorgan6847
    @jorganjorgan6847 Год назад

    Hello Joel this is Ed Jorgenson. I shared time and space with you back in the eighties at Franklin Woolf’s retreat center in Lone 🌲 Pine CA . I’m living on the island of Kauai Hawaii. Just resting in Being. I’m now eighty eight and I see you have put on some years. ❤Love your teachings . Good to see your face on U-Tube and hear your words of wisdom. Love you 🥰 🙏🤗

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Год назад

    Hello Joel. You are invited to come to the Titicaca Lake in Perú. To the "Isla del Sol" where the "Keepers of the ancient knowledge" guard their thousand years secret Knowledge and wait for the new generation of Sages to share with them their misterious and sacred knowledge . The Old Inca knowledge are but a part or IT.

  • @brightchange6065
    @brightchange6065 Год назад

    This woman is SPOT ON ... "the mind is where the soul goes to hide from the heart" --- stay in NOW, as she said, stay in breathing, presence. The mind is an addiction, a prideful one! Her teachings are similar to those of Michael Singer, "The Untethered Soul". She's right on it ... thank you!

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick5403 Год назад

    Pleased to find this! Wish, wish I could visit this wonderous place ❤

  • @condottiero3466
    @condottiero3466 Год назад

    Good presentation. Thanks for uploading.

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Год назад

    I hope everything goes well send you my Best wishes

    • @antonionunez4310
      @antonionunez4310 Год назад

      When I was a teenage I read the Zen Masters and they live in total awareness. One of them lived in the forest and used to go to Town mounted on a tiger. I love the way of these great Masters.

    • @antonionunez4310
      @antonionunez4310 Год назад

      Joel. I am taking Dr. Wolff's Aphorisms as a set of Koans and I have long used the Koans to meditate upon them. There's something transcendental in them. Vedanta and Zen are my stepping stones to Freedom and Peace. The book I read was "Zen doctrine of no-mind" by D. T. Zusuki. My respects to you.

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick5403 Год назад

    So pleased to find this vid 🙌🏽🎆

  • @aprilturk1559
    @aprilturk1559 Год назад

    ohm so hum

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair Год назад

    ❤ Joel. Thx

  • @antonionunez4310
    @antonionunez4310 Год назад

    Is that you joel? Did you live in Lone Pine in 1983? I am Antonio Núñez. How difficult it is to find you. Greetings. Send you a few comentaries at the end of Dr. Wolff's video "inducción". Thanks for everything. Hope to hear from you. My Best wishes.

  • @staticchair
    @staticchair Год назад

    ❤ Joel. Real Gem

  • @mondomonkey8581
    @mondomonkey8581 2 года назад

    My hero.

  • @genieharden612
    @genieharden612 2 года назад

    I appreciate you saying there's no words for this, but I'm very grateful to everyone's attempts, even if less than perfect. I utilize my imagination at the point of proximal development and say: what if this were true? And I let it sink into my heart (curiosity followed by courage and surrender.). These pointings have taken me far on my path to clarity. Thank you!

  • @louiseadvaita
    @louiseadvaita 2 года назад

    Very clear pointing out - thank you Todd

  • @ActionFigure10
    @ActionFigure10 2 года назад

    Great talk, thanks Todd!