Sunday Wonders

Last night Carl and I had dinner with our friends, Keri & Ken. Just a relaxed evening of bbq, conversation and a quick dunk in the pool (so nice in this 95+ weather and smoke-filled skies). It amazes me these days how often conversation turns to the universe and our role in it. Ken has done some camera work for the series The Universe and loves to think about the vast and endless possibilities.

As for me, I love to think about the endless possibilities all within the universe that is you.

Learn Vedic Meditation

Saturday, August 29 at 12 noon, you're invited to an Introduction to Vedic Meditation. You can find the details of the event on my website. If you're interested in attending, just fill out my RSVP form and show up. The benefits of Vedic Meditation are extensive so here are just a few:

• Reduction of biological aging (studies show actual reversal of aging)
  
• Improved memory, energy, creativity, intelligence
• Relief from depression and anxiety
• Relief from migraine headaches
  
• Relief from insomnia and fatigue
  
• Faster reaction times & improved sports performance
  
• Normalization of blood pressure & reduced risk of heart disease
  
• Relief from "writer's block" (or any other creative block)
  
• Normalization of weight

I look forward to seeing you!

Vedic Movies

When I was at Initiator Training this past spring, my fellow teachers and I began to compile a list of "vedic" books and movies. Most of them had a science or other worldly theme: physics, alternate universes/worlds, etc. On Monday night, I finally saw Lars and the Real Girl. Such a beautiful movie. The thing that was remarkable to me is that he created his own world and the rest of the town went along with it; at first, in order to support him, but then something happened. They wanted to support the "relationship" he created and they were truly sad and in mourning when Bianca "died" (sorry about the spoil). After her death, true to himself, Lars continues to create his world, the rules again based on love.

We create our own universe and whatever that universe is, whatever the reality, if it is born of love, the community will support it. That is the vedic view, love at the base, we create the universe, because we are the universe.

The only thing consistant in this universe is change...

I just caught the end of Elizabeth: The Golden Age which I actually saw on big screen on October 19, 2007. Why do I remember that date? Because that night I was supposed to be at a friend's wedding. That's another story for another time, but it's funny how a shift in status creates a shift in consciousness. I am living that reality and wondering what it means and how it will change things. No fear....change is just evolution at work.

Roles

It doesn't really matter how much you believe you have changed, there are always going to be people in your life who remember how you were at a certain time period in your life and will possibly forever cast you in that light. You just have to live your life evolving and growing and knowing that all perception is truth - your perception and their perception. Truth is relative to the knower. One thing that is not relative is Being. Pure Consciousness. From which the knower, the knowing and the known emerge and converge. Pure Consciousness simply is. With Vedic Meditation we tap into it twice a day to experience the silent witness.

I am.

Label me friend, sister, ex-wife, love - I am that also.

Minneapolis

Went out for Thai food last night and then for a walk around the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Many cool things but I think my favorite wasn't a sculpture at all. It was the dozens of large wind chimes hung in a row of small pine trees. The pines capture the vibration of the metal causing a long sustained tone that you can only hear if you are walking directly under the canopy of branches. Walk off of the path underneath and the sound fades. I can only describe it as other worldly.

Joyce

She has been my host for this Iowa Vedic Meditation course and I have been blessed with abundance, lack of obstacles and the gentle grace of elephantine strength. She is an amazing spirit and everything one looks for in an evolved meditating being. Thank you, Joyce.

Teaching

We cognize as inquiry is made. We learn from the answers bubbling up from Being, where all questions and answers reside. Worthy students increase the wisdom of the teacher.

I love this living, breathing knowledge.

Iowa Initiations

Today was a full day of initiations and teaching Vedic Meditation. Before I came, I asked for a thunder and lightning storm while I was here (don't have many of those in Los Angeles) and nature complied, accompanying me all day with her low rumbling and brilliant flashes of light.

IOWA

Today I drove from Minneapolis to Des Moines - beautiful green rolling hills. I forgot how windy it was in the midwest. I forgot the humidity in August. I forgot about the mosquitos. I forgot how much I loved it here.

Evolution

As I allow Nature to do its job, I realize that as I grow and change, not everyone sees my growth as evolution. I suppose suddenly sprouting wings and flying can not only be liberating but also isolating.

I don't want to live in isolation. That's why I teach Vedic Meditation. I want everyone to recognize that they have wings sprouting ... I want them to know that change is evolution. It is unable to be anything else.

Nature

Nature's only job is evolution - my job is to allow Nature to be the boss. Pretty simple really.

August

This month is going to be great - starting with an Intro Talk tomorrow night and then teaching meditation all week and taking off for Iowa on Friday. I'm psyched to be going to the midwest - hoping for a thunder storm while I'm there.