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Meanwhile a lot of people have been talking about the swine flu and its consequences. Countries were ordering millions of vaccines and spending billions of euros for “ensuring” the public health! And people felt good because they like to know that someone is taking care of them.
But the whole hysteria is now reaching some strange tones and the latest news shows once again (maybe this time in an amazingly clear way!) that the reality of this world, as we are told about it, is only an image meant to conceal some hidden agendas that have nothing to do with public interest and the good of the citizens!
The facts that are revealed in this interview are astonishing: an entire world is lead to believe something that is not real, even in the conditions that several specialists were showing that this is wrong. If this can happen with the full support of authorities from several countries then WHAT NEXT???
WHAT GUARANTEE ONE CAN HAVE THAT ONE DAY THE SAME SCHEME WILL NOT CREATE ANOTHER SMOKE SCREEN MUCH BIGGER AND MORE DEVASTATING?
In reality this was just an example of what can happen with the support of some circles of power that are just simulating the transparency and democracy, but in reality they are elitist groups of interests that don’t care about life and people. We are talking here about people that for some bucks are ready to create mass disasters, and have the position to do it. And they always hide behind the guise of “national interest”!
As in many more cases before, the hidden agenda hits the news in the ugliest way, revealing the unscrupulous behavior of the people who have both the power and the “arrogance of power”. We can encounter this display of power because the ones involved in this scam also consider that “people are stupid” and that nobody dares to challenge and question the system itself. And ‘they’ are hiding within the system! It is like in the Middle Ages when the biggest bloodthirsty criminals hid in the churches and became the ‘inquisitors’, because nobody would dare to stand up and ask questions. It is clear that nowadays in the structure of power there has been infiltrated an entire network of masonic lodges and other structures that operate for benefits that are foreign to the interests of the majority.
When officials of the EU are making such statements as Mr. Wolfgang Wodrag does in the following interview, only a lost case of gullible people could still believe that the whole scam was perpetrated without the participation of some high ranking people and even a part of authorities. How can such a scam go through all the state apparatus in so many countries without anyone saying STOP? The answer is very simple: there are a lot of people in the administration involved in all these trans-national and corporate businesses who are violating the interest of people. And the way such influence can take place is not only through lobbying and networking on a special project, but it is a result of this intricate network that the masonic and other occult structures nowadays create in the high levels of power in the world. These networks are the solid base for all these influences and constructions that serve the interest of few in the ‘loss of many’.
But the interesting fact is that now, due to the internet and information circulating very quickly, some of these plans are disclosed and those that are attentive can see the ugly face of the “spiritual dwarfs” that mastermind such cynical plans.
Reading this interview makes you wonder how far they will go with their “arrogance of power” ; they count only on their secret “brotherhood” which is already placed in good positions of power and they care nothing for human life. I am sure we will see and hear more about them…
At least now is more clear for those that want proof about this occult structure, which exists out there and is making a lot of money from taking advantage of the position their members occupy in the administrations of different countries. And throughspreading the word and disclosing any of these plans, the person become important!
DON’T FORGET THAT THE ONLY ASPECT THAT OCCULT POWER CANNOT STAND IS DISCLOSURE!
INTERVIEW WITH WOLFGANG WODARG IN L’HUMANITE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Swine flu: “They organized the panic”
New Development: The German President of the Health Committee of the Council of Europe, Wolfgang Wodarg, is issuing accusations against the pharmaceutical lobbies and the governments. He has intitiated the start of an investigation by that body concerning therole played by the pharmaceutical in the campaign of panic about the virus.
A straight forward interview.
Ex-member of the SPD, Wolfgang Wodarg is a doctor and epidemiologist. His request for a commission of inquiry into the role of pharmaceutical companies in the management of swine flu outbreak by WHO and the nation states was granted unanimously by the members of the Health Committee of the Council of Europe…
What made you suspicious about the influence of pharmaceutical companies had on the decisions being taken in respect of swine flu?
Wolfgang Wodarg. We are facing a major failure of national institutions responsible for warning about risks and responding in case a pandemic occurs. In April when the first alarm came from Mexico I was very surprised at the figures furnished by the World Health Organization (WHO) to justify the declaration of a pandemic. I was immediately suspicious: the numbers were very low and the alarm level very high. There were not even in a thousand patients when there was already talk of the pandemic of the century. And the alert was decreed extreme based on the fact that the virus was new. But the characteristic of influenza disease is to develop very quickly with viruses which take on new forms each time, by dwelling in new hosts, animal, human etc.
There was nothing new in itself to that. Each year a new virus of this “flu”type appears. In reality there was no reason to sound the alarm at this level. This was only possible because in early May the WHO changed its definition of a pandemic. Before that date there had to be not only a disease which had broke out in several countries at once but also one that had very serious consequences with the number of deaths above the usual average. This aspect was removed from the new definition, to retain the rate of spread of disease as the only criteria. And they claimed that the virus was dangerous because people had not been able to develop immunity against it. Which was false for this virus. Because it was observed that people aged over 60 years already had antibodies. That is to say they had already been in contact with similar viruses. That is why also there are virtually no people aged over 60 who have developed the disease. Yet those were the people who were recommended to be vaccinated quickly.
Among the things that aroused my suspicions there was therefore on one side this determination to sound the alarm. And on the other side, some curious facts. Such as, for example, the recommendation by WHO to carry out two injections for vaccines. That had never been done before. There was no scientific justification for this. There was also the recommendation to use only special patented vaccines. There was however no reason for not adding, as it is done every year, specific antiviral particles of this new H1N1 virus, “completing” the vaccine used for seasonal influenza. This was not done because they preferred to use patented vaccine materials that major laboratories had designed and manufactured to be ready in case of a pandemic developing. And by proceeding in this way they did not hesitate to endanger the persons vaccinated.
What danger?
Wolfgang Wodarg. To provide products rapidly, adjuvants were used in some vaccines, whose effects have not been adequately tested. In other words, they wanted absolutely to use these new patented products instead of developing vaccines according to traditional methods of production which are much simpler, more reliable and less costly. There was no medical reason for this. It was only for marketing purposes.
How could anyone justify that?
Wolfgang Wodarg. To understand we must return to the episode of avian influenza from 2005 to 2006. It was then that new international plans were defined for dealing with a pandemic alarm. These plans were officially developed to ensure rapid manufacturing of vaccines in case of an alert. This led to negotiations between pharmaceutical companies and governments. On the one hand the labs committed themselves to keep ready to develop the preparations, on the other hand, states assured them they would buy them all. After this strange deal the pharmaceutical industry took no economic risk by engaging in new fabrications. And it was sure to touch the jack pot in the case of a pandemic outbreak.
Do you disagree with the diagnoses and even the potential severity of influenza A?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Yes, it’s just a normal kind of flu. It does not cause a tenth of deaths caused by the classic seasonal flu. All that mattered and that led to the great campaign of panic which we have seen was that it was a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared.
Those are very serious accusations you’re making. How was such a process made possible within the WHO?
Wolfgang Wodarg. A group of people in the WHO is associated very closely with the pharmaceutical industry.
Will the investigation by the Council of Europe also work in this direction?
Wolfgang Wodarg. We want to clarify everything that brought about this massive operation of disinformation. We want to know who made decisions, on the basis of what evidence and precisely how the influence of the pharmaceutical industry came to bear on the decision-making. And the time has come at last for us to make demands on governments. The purpose of the inquiry is so that there are no more false alarms of this type in the future. So that the people may rely on the analysis and the expertise of national and international public institutions. The latter are now discredited, because millions of people have been vaccinated with products with inherent possible health risks. This was not necessary. It has also led to a considerable mismanagement of public money.
Do you have any concrete figures on the extent of this mismanagement?
Wolfgang Wodarg. In Germany it comes to 700 million euros. But it is very difficult to know the exact figures because we are talking on one side about vaccines resold to foreign countries and most firms do not communicate due to the principle of respect for “business secret” regarding the amounts in contracts concluded with States and any indemnification clauses contained therein.
Will the work of “lobbying” by pharma companies on the National Institutes of Health also be dealt with by the investigation of the Council of Europe?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Yes we will examine the attitude of institutions like the Robert Koch Institute in Germany or Pasteur in France who should in fact have advised their governments from a critical standpoint. In some countries certain institutions have done so. In Finland and Poland, for example, critical voices were raised to say: “we do not need that.”
Has the tremendous global operation of disinformation also been possible because the pharmaceutical industry had “representatives” even within the governments of the most powerful countries?
Wolfgang Wodarg. As regards the ministries, that seems to me to be obvious. I can not explain how specialists, very smart people who know the problems of the influenza disease by heart, did not notice what was happening.
So what happened?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Without going as far as saying direct corruption, which I am certain does exist, there were many ways for labs to exercise their influence over decisions. A very concrete example, is how Klaus Stöhr, who was the head of the epidemiological department of the WHO at the time of bird flu, and who therefore prepared the plans to cope with a pandemic that I mentioned above, in the meantime had become a top executive of the company Novartis. And similar links between Glaxo and Baxter, etc. and influential members of the WHO. These large firms have “their people” in the cogs and then they pull strings so that the right policy decisions are taken. That is to say, the ones that will allow them to pump as much money from taxpayers.
But if your survey succeeds, will it not be a support for citizens to insist their governments demand accountability from these large groups?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Yes, you’re right, this is one of the major issues related to this investigation. States could indeed take advantage of this to contest contracts drawn up in, let us say, improper conditions. If it can be shown that it was under the influence of firms that the process was initiated then they will have to be push to ask for reimbursement. But that’s just the financial side, there is also the human side, persons who were vaccinated with products that were inadequately tested.
So what kind of risk have these healthy people unknowingly taken by getting vaccinated?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Again, the vaccines were developed too quickly, some adjuvants were insufficiently tested. But there is worse to come. The vaccine developed by Novartis was produced in a bioreactor from cancerous cells. A technique that had never been used until now.
Why, I’m obviously not an expert, but how can one claim to make a vaccine from diseased cells?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Normally one uses chicken eggs on which viruses are grown. We need in fact to work on living cells. Because
viruses can only multiply in this way and so do, by definition, the virus preparations that go with it. But this process has a big flaw, it is slow and it takes a lot of eggs. And it is long and complex technically. Another potentially excellent technique is to grow the virus in living cells in bioreactors. This requires cells which grow and divide very quickly. It’s a bit like the method used to culture yogurt, which is also produced in a bio-reactor. but in this context the cell was so upset in its environment and its growth that it grows like a cancer cell. And it is on these rapidly multiplying cells that they grow the virus. But to manufacture the vaccine the virus must be re-extracted from these cells on which they were implanted. And it can therefore happen that during the manufacturing process of the vaccine, residue of cancerous cells remain in the preparation. In the same way as it happens in conventional manufacturing with eggs. Thus we know that in the case of a classic influenza vaccination, side effects can occur in people who are allergic to egg albumin found in egg white. It can not be excluded that proteins, remains of a cancer cell present in a vaccine produced by bio-reactor, may generate a tumour on the person vaccinated. According to a true principle of precaution, before such a product is allowed on the market, there should therefore be 100% certainty that such effects are actually excluded.
And wasn’t this done?
Wolfgang Wodarg. It was not. The EMEA (European Medicines Agency), an institution under the responsibility of the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, based in London, which gives permission to release vaccines on the market in Europe, gave the green light for commercializing this product arguing, namely, that this mode of manufacture was not a “significant” risk. This was very differently appreciated by many experts here in Germany and by an independent drug institution, which instead sounded the alert and voiced their objections. I took these warnings seriously. I studied the case and intervened in the context of the Bundestag health committee of which I was a member so that the vaccine would not be used in Germany. I made it known that I was certainly not opposed to the development of vaccines with this technique. But first it had to have a total guarantee of innocuousness. The product has therefore not been used in Germany where the government terminated the contract with Novartis.
What is the name of this vaccine?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Obta flu.
But that means that in other European countries like France the product can be marketed without any problem?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Yes, it obtained permission from EMEA and can be used anywhere in the EU.
What alternative do you intend to propose so that further scandals of this type are avoided?
Wolfgang Wodarg. The WHO should be more transparent, so we know clearly who decides and what type of relationship exists between participants in the organization. It should also be flanked by at least one elected chamber, which should be able to react very critically and where everyone can express themselves. This enhanced public scrutiny is essential.
Isn’t the question of another system capable of handling a matter which is in fact a common good for citizens across the planet coming to the surface?
Wolfgang Wodarg. Can we go on allowing the production of vaccines and the conduct of these productions to organizations whose goal is to win as much money as possible? Or is the production of vaccines not something that States must absolutely monitor and implement themselves? That’s why I think we should abandon the system of patents on vaccines. That is to say, the possibility of monopolization of vaccine production by a large group. For this option requires that we sacrifice thousands of lives, simply in the name of respect for these monopoly rights. You’re right, that particular claim has become evident for me.
Some time ago on Christmas eve i was with my spiritual guide Grieg and a lot of other people and He was presenting this below story. Inspired by His presence and the story, i wrote a “continuation” of the story on a christmas card to Adina (they were three cards in fact ). Since there are a lot of people that can use this story today, here it is in both parts.
Enjoy!
THE COW IN PINK SHOES
An allegorical story
First part by Gregorian Bivolaru
Once upon a time, there was a marvellous cow, with a great udder; there was no other cow like her in the whole world. We may say that she was a unique cow. She offered a great amount of good and delightful milk everyday. Therefore her fame spread and many people came from all over the world to admire her. Some people were so impressed with her gifts they praised her in hymns. Parents would talk to their children about this marvellous cow as an exceptional model of devotion, for she fulfilled all her tasks. Some priests would encourage the believers to pay attention to her way of being and to behave like her. Many artists considered her being a delightful model and they were convinced that she can inspire them in producing genius works. Countless people wanted to benefit from the many advantages brought by the existence of this extraordinary animal. Beyond this, the cow displayed a mysterious feature, which most of the people missed, being caught in rapture with her incredible qualities. This wonderful cow, beside the fact that her pink shoes were often dirty with dung, had a strange bad habit. Whenever she was milked, she would watch attentively how the bucket was filling up with delicious milk and exactly when it was full she would kick it with an extraordinary skill. From experience our cow had this strange skill and exquisite precision in toppling the bucket.
This bizarre story repeated every day, over and over. If amongst the human being’s attentively reading this story one discovers or feels a surprising similarity with this cow, he or she has to be certain that this is not by chance. Undoubtedly the similarity is deeply significant.
THE SURPRISING CONTINUATION OF THE MEANINGFUL STORY ABOUT ”THE COW WHO WORE PINK SHOES”
Second Part
by Mihai Stoian
Due to a series of not at all random coincidences the lovely cow finally found out that people were disappointed with her. This was a great challenge for her ego and in the beginning she became very sad, thinking, due to her ignorance, that people did not appreciate her for what she was. While she was being milked she dived in these melancholic thoughts, and thus to everyone´s great amazement she forgot to deliver the skillful kick with which she would usually spill her fresh good milk from the bucket. This way people, many of them for the first time, had the chance to taste the wonderful milk. Filled with delight many gained hope and decided to give a second chance to the charming cow even if she had disappointed them so many times before. The cow could feel, in a mysteriously paranormal way, their renewed hope, and thus her self confidence was restored as if by magic, because now she knew the reason for the wonderful improvement in the people around her.
While pondering and reflecting on how she could intensify the state of contentment and happiness which had awakened within her, the lovely cow forgot once again to kick the bucket with the fresh milk. Seeing this the people were even more amazed, especially since now she gave even more milk due to the state of happiness which she experienced. The people immediately started praising her a lot, as much as they had done in the beginning. After this the lovely cow was no longer fooled by the bad old habit of spilling her own milk and instead continued to search for that new element, completely different from everything she had experienced before, which had triggered such an amazing transformation within her. The only clue she had in the beginning was the fact that she had already started to have profound and intense thoughts of sublime and elevating ideals exactly in the very pleasant moments of the milking. ”It must be that my very good and abundant milk collects in it the immense mysterious energy of my oceanic happiness”, the lovely cow thought at a certain point. ”This is why the people changed their attitude. If I will always act like this, from now on, I am sure that the people will transform their attitude towards me completely and while savoring with delight my happiness giving milk they will also be influenced for their own good and will even become happy” she told herself, greatly encouraged by this revelation. ”I will always act the same way because I have an intuition this is the secret”, she then said enthusiastically.
The next day, while she was milked, the lovely cow felt an intense, profound and overwhelming happiness which triggered an amazing state of ECSTASY within her. Her bad old habit gradually disappeared while her milk became a true elixir filling many people with a mysterious happiness. And even more amazing was the fact that many of those who drank it also entered a profound state of ECSTASY, being thus directly ”spiritually contaminated” with the overwhelming beneficial energies and resonances which had been impregnated in the milk by the profound and intense states of happiness experienced by the lovely cow during the whole time she was milked.
After some time the fame of the lovely cow grew extraordinarily much, becoming even greater than it had been in the beginning. Since she wanted to give people the best milk, which at the same time would grant intense happiness and ECSTASY, the lovely cow oriented all her attention almost constantly towards ecstatic experiences and higher and higher states of ECSTASY.
After a while the lovely cow felt that even if those overwhelming ecstatic states were extremely interesting and even though meditation had become her second nature, filling her almost continuously with an immense happiness, still something ETERNAL and essential was missing and she had the intuition that this something existed forever beyond all the ecstatic experiences.
Shortly after, taking one step at a time, the lovely cow realized that there exists something SUPREME and IMMORTAL which is present in all those wonderful experiences and in order to truly discover that something ETERNAL she must first find out who SHE REALLY WAS.
Thus the lovely cow began her intense and frantic inquiry of the Divine Self ATMAN which exists forever beyond any experience, being the silent and eternal witness of the existence of each individual and of THE WHOLE.
Through intense meditation, the lovely cow realized that in reality she is just the silent and detached WITNESS contemplating how the ETERNAL AND UNIVERSAL SPIRIT offers the milk through her. The lovely cow gradually transformed into a channel for light and endless love manifested as an extraordinarily good, regenerating, ecstatic and nourishing milk. Those who savored the amazing milk were at the same time granted the GRACE OF GOD manifesting now fully through the liberated and wise cow who, full of endless love, continued to give milk.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY: When even a cow could do all this, what are we waiting for?
I was recently in Iceland for a Silent Retreat that has been organized by the Icelandic branch of NATHA YOGA CENTER in Reykjavik. This event took place from the 16th until the 23rd of January and ended with a spiral meditation in the new yoga center in Reykjavik. For further information see – http://www.natha.dk/en/events/silent-retreat-with-mihai-stoian-in-iceland.html
‘Welcome signs from “Minniborgir”Iceland – A rainbow appeared following the first meditation in the morning’
Our meeting with the country of the four fighting elements was very warm … it is the warmest temperature in Europe now in Iceland!
Moreover we were taken from the airport directly to the Blue Lagoon, the most famous Icelandic resort for travelers. Being placed near a geothermal power unit, the Blue Lagoon is the result of the interaction between human activity of harvesting the inner power of the earth and the lava field that exist everywhere in Iceland. As a result you have surreal blue water that contains amazingly many minerals and salts, placed in the bed of lava field.
We were spoilt for a few hours in the hot highly mineralized water before reaching the yoga center in Reykjavik. This was a very warm reception in the country where ice and fire are molding the land and sea.
Softened by the Blue Lagoon we were hosted for a night in the NATHA headquarters and we took the chance to visit the new center on Boltholt 4, street (very near the center of Reykjavik).
Serafim and Magdalena (the heart-full coordinators of the yoga school in Iceland) are wonderful hosts, organizing this retreat with Danish-Icelandic precision ensuring that everyone from abroad was collected from the airport and hosted in the facilities they prepared. The yoga center is just finished and shares the same warm and beautiful simplicity that you can observe throughout Reykjavik and Iceland.
Since the last time I was in Iceland the activity of the yoga school has rapidly developed and now NATHA YOGA CENTER is an important spiritual center of the country. See http://natha.is/
At this time of year the daylight lasts only a little more than five hours a day and it is only rarely you will get the chance to see a glimpse of the sun.
You can see the picture taken 10 am when we were embarking on the silent retreat site.
This is an excellent time of the year to begin the journey into the inner world.Interestingly, not far from the Retreat site is the place where Professor Lindenbrock and the other heroes from Jules Verne’s famous “Journey to the center of the earth” began their adventure, inside of a volcano. For us today, we will begin the journey to the center of our being, theSupreme Self ATMAN in similar conditions of austerity and silence.
The barren landscape and the lava field covered with moss, marked by the chain of volcanoes is the simplest view one can hope in order to slow down the mind in its search for the outer excitement and deepen the inner experience.
The place were the retreat is being held is called “Minniborgir” and it is a small hut village just finished and made ready to receive tourists, it’s placed in the middle of a lava field that reaches for many miles around without any neighbors
At the line of horizon we have a direct view of Europe’s most active volcano HEKLA that is predicted to erupt this year 2010.
This we were told when arriving at the Retreat site!
After a short administrative meeting where everyone is informed about the retreat rules and the way it is organized everyone is ready to begin this journey.
Here are more pictures from this place and from the retreat…
From the solitude of Iceland I wish all of you Love and Peace
The second day of the retreat, another rainbow!
For the second day in the lunch time we have a big clear rainbow on top of our retreat site. At this time of the year, rainbows are an extremely rare phenomenon and to have them repeatedly is definitely an amazing sign. This is also the whole atmosphere in the retreat: an amazing silence full of Grace.
More pictures…
The daily program is the following:
9.00 – 11.00 Meditation: The revelation of the Divine Self ATMAN
11.00 – 12.30 Hatha Yoga performed in Unison. It mainly consists of those techniques that facilitate the revelation of the Divine Self ATMAN.
12.30 – 13.00 Meditation: The Revelation of the divine Self ATMAN
13.00 – 16.00 Lunch and break
16.00 – 19.00 Meditation: The Revelation of the Divine Self ATMAN
19.00 – 20.00 Hatha Yoga at the yoga hall but the techniques are performed individually (the personal tapas)
20.00 – 21.30 Dinner
21.30 – 22.00 Meditation: The Revelation of the Divine Self ATMAN
22.00 – 23.00 Conference
23.00 – 23.45 Meditation in telepathic communion with Grieg, our spiritual master
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates Christmas, and a Happy New Year to everybody. Here is a modest gift with Love.
This is one of the most special times of the year, there is a buzz and an excitement in the air, a sense of anticipation everywhere, something magical is about to happen,…It is the time of year where families and friends unite, we take time (the time we couldn’t find during the rest of the year) to meet one another…to exchange gifts, sing songs… and sometimes to have a deeper communion with God. However, during this time of the year we are also under attack from the material/consumer world, with advertising campaigns tempting us with all kinds of goods… The age of consumerism is still ripe, and even in the current financial situation credit cards continue to be hammered and the debt is perpetuated. We cannot go far without having our senses bombarded by advertising encouraging us to buy the ‘latest’ gadgets, toys, electrical devices, cars, perfumes, accessories…and the list is endless! ..Amid the frantic present buying, late night shopping, indulgent eating/drinking and Christmas parties… the spirit of Christmas has somehow become lost or so deeply hidden amongst the wrapping paper and festivities that we have to be very attentive to be able to re-locate its essence, (the one you may recall from when you were a child!
People are so consumed with their problems and activities and forget, or do not even consider, the most precious gift that can be given or received, the gift which is without price, the ‘gift of Love’. We can also take the opportunity to reflect here and now the ultimate gift of Love that God gave to us when he gave us his Son, Jesus Christ, to the world.
The following article is an attempt to shed light upon the gift of Love we permanently receive and sometimes give. At the end of the article is a meditation that exemplifies “Love as a gift from God”. I invite you to do the meditation while listening to the music. Enjoy and Love!
Love as a gift from GOD – the initiation into the art of communion with God by realizing the very nature of Love. This presentation refers to a certain understanding about Love, and how we can very easily and almost spontaneously be in a state of communion with God by consciously realizing this aspect of Love.
Many spiritual traditions say that the ultimate source of Love in the universe is God, and this is not a very big mystery, most people seem to understand this. Since Love is a vibration it will have its source in God (the ultimate source of all vibrations) and from there it expands throughout the Universe through the mysterious process of occult resonance.
We can therefore say that everybody who has Love, shares Love or gives Love, receives this Love from God by a process of occult resonance (that takes place consciously or not). Furthermore, by loving and being Loved, we have the immense opportunity to become aware of the fact that the Love we have and the Love we give is a gift that has been given to us. This simple awareness will place us in a state of ineffable and intimate communion with God every time we give or receive Love; it will transform Love in our “communication channel” with God.
It might seem very simple, but if we look around we can see that very often people are not very good in receiving gifts, especially receiving gifts from God.Often people have the attitude of a spoilt child who receives a gift from their parents and without even saying the smallest “thank you”, takes the gift , unwraps it and sometimes even criticizes it for its characteristics.
Sometimes they say, “Oh, it’s again Love with all its complications and the mess of attachments, jealousy, concerns, and emotional vulnerability that comes with it! You got me the same thing last year and you have given it to me ever since I was born!” This kind of superficial attitude goes well with the attitude of consuming the fruits of the actions, without caring about the action itself, the so called “consumerism” that we have nowadays. This makes us also consume the gifts that we have received without actually really noticing them and their value. We can see this for example in the way that people use the gifts they receive from nature: sometimes we can see an extremely intelligent person using their intelligence for diabolical achievements or for banal reasons, and this is only possible because the person is unaware of this natural gift. Similarly, some people have a precious intuition which they use to find out if their Lover is cheating on them or not, instead of using such an amazing gift for the higher purposes for which they have received the gift! All these situations arise because we do not know, or we are unaware of the gifts we have received.
To return to the example of the spoilt child, sometimes a child who is spoiled gets a gift and destroys it before he starts to know that gift and when he starts to understand the value of that gift it is usually too late because it is broken, he “consumed” it before getting the chance to learn how to use it. Of course, by having this kind of attitude in life we can also very often ruin the chances to properly use the lessons we are given as a gift.
In days of yore, there was a game that was played by two good friends in order to become more aware about the act of receiving. Nowadays, it is known in some places as “the wishbone game” because it is played by each holding the Y shaped bone from the chest of a chicken on one end and then breaking it. The one who gets the bigger part will give it to the one with the smaller part and this is how the game begins. The winner of this game was the one who managed to give a gift to the other one without the first one noticing it, but just taking it and using it directly. The rule was that every time you received an object from the other friend you have to say “I know”!
The profound meaning of this game is in fact very close to the tantric teachings that encourage people to increase the state of permanent awareness that will eventually take them out of this robotic attitude that destroys our life by making us become unaware of the gifts we constantly receive from life, from the environment and from people, while ultimately becoming unaware of life itself. Therefore, this ancient game was played in order to extend our awareness of the things we take in unconsciously. This phenomenon of taking in the entire stimulus, all the gifts from life, and all our attitudes in an unconscious manner leads us deeper and deeper into a state of ignorance and enhances our own limitations. All that comes to us is transformed into a limitation because we just “engulf” it without awareness.
On the contrary, when we cut off these mechanisms by starting to be aware of everything that comes to us we gradually begin to cut off the chains of our ignorance and to become freer. All that we receive becomes many reasons for freedom and happiness that do not enchain us, but instead support our freedom.
In a similar way we can play this game with Love.
People who are unaware that Love is a gift, (in fact the most precious gift that we receive in this life and actually that which links us to God) consume Love, they misuse it instead of just contemplating it and appreciating it for its right value. Having Love and consuming Love is not the same thing. People usually use Love in a very primitive way, “squeezing” the Love feeling in order to get as much pleasant emotions, sentimental comfort, and good time together with the object of our Love, and so on.
We often do that instead of developing this extraordinary energy that will give our soul wings to fly to the sky.
We tend to use Love for very few effects which we can see from the first sight. We take Love from God for granted, together with all that comes with it like joy, pleasure, the happiness to have it, and the facilities which Love offers to the soul. However, by taking it unconsciously, we just jump on it and start to consume it unconsciously, searching only for its effects, and by misusing it we lose it!
The reason we fall into this mistake is the very simple mechanism of our mind that runs the “show” of our life most of the time. The mind is usually unaware of some causes just because of the effects those causes generate – for example, if you look out through the window of your room you cannot see the air, but you will see the effects of the air moving, because you will see the trees and the leaves moving – in this way we sometimes perceive the causes only by perceiving the effects of those causes. Due to this, the effects are often “covering” the cause and we cannot see it. This attitude, or this habit of our mind, together with the consumer attitude blinds us from perceiving the real sources of the things we receive in our life and that we take for granted.
We don’t care where the food comes from, or how it is made, we just care if it satisfies our desires. We don’t care where everything that is given to us comes from and what it generates, we just care about our own needs. We are no longer amazed by the fact that we exist, that we have this amazing body that is the most sophisticated “toy” we have ever received (and probably will ever do). We are not amazed by the fact that we are given the capacity to feel pleasure and to enjoy this experience in life, and we are not fascinated by the experience of Love. All of this is because we are too busy considering the effects of all these Divine Gifts!
Because of this attitude we don’t have time to perceive Love itself, but we are always focusing on the effects Love has upon us and as a consequence when we think about Love we think about the tears we shed, the joy we have, the pleasure we get when we are in Love. We don’t speak about Love itself, and because of this we are pushed forward towards the status of that little spoilt ungrateful child.
In doing so, we don’t even have time to wonder “who gave this amazing gift to us?” Otherwise we would have the chance to “meet” God at least on every occasion in which Love was present in our hearts as a gift from Him.
By not knowing and not caring where Love comes from, we don’t know who to ask for more, we just start to suffer and cry when it is gone, like the stupid spoilt child who jumps on the floor screaming with unhappiness when his toys are taken away.
Due to this attitude in front of God’s precious gift of Love people often look like the dumb child in front of the Divine eyes. Yet the Divine eyes can see the Divine nature deep inside the dumb child.
There is another surprising aspect in realizing the fact that Love is a gift from God: this is the clearest and most simple proof we can have that God exists! How can you receive a present from someone that doesn’t exist? To realize that Love is a gift from God means to realize in fact a very important secret of our life. The aim is not only to feel Love, but also to look at it as a precious gift and then we will be able and free to lift our spiritual eyes in order to see the One who gave us this gift. In this way, we have a chance to rise above this consumer attitude, above this stage of “homo economicus” that we have reached nowadays, and to perceive the SOURCE of the most precious gift in this life.
If in this life we have permanently ignored the fact that Love is a gift from God, we live a life which is somehow ungrateful, a life which is given and not appreciated, we cannot understand it therefore we go through it without even living it.
Instead of just trying to devour all the benefits that come from Love by perceiving Love only through its effects, we will now aim to perceive Love as a Divine gift, and this should not take much practice since we are already able to Love.
However, when we aim to perceive Love as a Divine gift then we will perceive Love itself, the substance of Love and what is revealed in our hearts. We will then have the amazing chance to discover what all the saints have said in the moment of their enlightenment: we will realize that Love is God!
When we manage to perceive Love as a gift from God we have the amazing revelation that God is giving Himself to us in the shape of Love so that in this way we will always accept Him in our hearts. But only when we realize this consciously will we be able to enjoy His presence and not only the effects of His presence in our hearts. This is one of the most important steps we can make for meeting God in this life.
Sometimes we say that we have to open our hearts for God, but in fact God always comes into our hearts by the Love He gives to us. In the moments we fall in Love, in the moments we feel Love, we have already accepted God into our heart. However, only when we are able to receive this Present consciously will we be able to become aware of the Divine Presence.
This represents a genuine initiation into this mystery of the Heart. We realize that the Heart is the receptacle of this Divine Present.
We can practice this awareness in any moment of the day, in any moment of the night, and at any time in our life, and when we forget about it we just miss the chance to meet the One who gave us this present. When we remember, then again we get this amazing chance! It is always up to us to live up to this revelation or to forget it and to live in this attitude of using Love or seeing Love only for its effects.
For this initiation everyone who was ever in Love is qualified. Even for those who are skeptical, Love is an undeniable truth and it can be experienced as a Present and this will open up another perspective.
I invite you all to meditate upon Love as a Gift from God.
Begin to play the music (that you will find in the below link) and with your eyes closed, focus your attention in the chest area, in the middle of it. Feel pleasant vibrations at this level, expanding and radiating the feeling of Love without any object. Aim to realize gradually that this is a process of resonance and that these Love vibrations are coming from a Macrocosmic source that is GOD’s Heart with which you are now in a state of communion. Realize the nature of Present that these Love vibrations have…
The new CD covers a large spectrum or resonances in the sphere of power of KALI, the Great Cosmic Power of TIME.
I was amazed to see how much the final version of the CD had improved from the demo versions that I had listened to! (and these were already very good!).
The CD itself is a piece of art; the combination of the visual artwork and the text creates a ’complete experience’ that is in the same resonance with the music. It really is a collectors item!
CONGRATULATIONS IBIS FOR A GREAT JOB!
IBIS MUSIC is one of the most amazing projects that i have come across. The musicians Mariah and Hans are very talented artists, but above this, after many years of individual practice of yoga and Tantra they hold the knowledge of genuine spirituality.
This aspect makes IBIS an almost unique band in the very messy musical “landscape” of modern time. Their spiritual experience transfers into their music the ‘power’ to induce pure resonances with cosmic aspects of a very high refinement, allowing the prepared listener to easily follow them in spiritual journeys on heights that are only usually accessible for advanced practitioners of meditation and tantra techniques. Without the pretence they can induce evolution in people (as many “new ager’s” superficially pretend), IBIS are opening the horizon to search for more, and to awaken the evolving genuine spiritual aspiration in the one who is open. This is a rare gift that only those that have a deep understanding of the spiritual path combined with a certain artistic talent can have. The one who allows IBIS’S message to enter inside their heart will discover for a while a vaster perspective from where they can see where their path is leading next.
Being very dedicated to their spiritual ideals, Hans and Mariah (IBIS) are not making any compromises, that often artists today make for the sake of marketing. Their music is first a spiritual tool and only after this it becomes a “good” that can be marketed, only serving some spiritual purposes. It is a pure precious stone that is polished not only to shine beautifully, but also to light the darkness with its shine or to mark the path.
For IBIS art is not a reason to affirm their personality but more a tool of a genuine spiritual practice, and what you can receive from them is the result of their constant personal effort for perfection. This fact gives their art a very special flavor of INITIATION. In a way they are becoming genuine initiators for all those that are open to receive this message.
The experience one has from listening to their music is similar to a trancelike state of a very high and refined nature, opening the listener to inner dimensions that usually are sealed by the superficial mental agitation.
Being genuine tantric initiates (I know them personally), IBIS have been able to make the design of the whole concept assigned to a coherent spiritual message that one can receive, starting from the cover of the CD, the booklet inside and the music on the CD. All is made in perfect accordance with the concept and the spiritual message they wish to transmit to the one who is following them in this spiritual journey. Everything is carefully conceived and nothing is there only for the sake of ‘nicety’. All that is produced is a result of an art work that fulfills one of the highest meanings of art: to lead the soul to its divine heights. This coherence of the message is also another rarity today when often the artwork is a mixture of inspirations, personal experiences (many times negative or strange, the only merit of the artist being to be able to express these inferior resonances in the specific language of a certain form of art), symbols that are all together telling something interesting but nothing useful for the receiver. IBIS art is enchanting the soul but in the same time this enchantment is precisely designed to propel the soul further on the path of evolution. They are producing a travel “map” that they paint with the talent of a great painter.
Now that they are preparing the NEW ALBUM I wish them to continue without compromise this spiritual journey and to remain always the sign of the spiritual awakening.
You can find the excellent website of IBIS here and you can listen some samples of music and even download some tracks:
Drops of love is a new chapter where I want to share with you beautiful quotations, inspirations and feelings.
I invite you all to post your heart’s contributions to make here a place for the soul to blossom.
I was inspired to write the following poem by the wonderful manifestation of Shakti in all the women who participated in the Summer Tantra Camp 2009 in Denmark.
As I said before, laughter has the power to heal us from the excess of seriousness, from the ugly combination between self-importance and lack of self-confidence, to exorcise from us the dictatorial combination between the sense of justice for the others and the sense of self-pity, to eliminate the temptation of believing that we are too smart and that we are not exposed to mistakes even when we are criticizing others. Ultimately it is teaching us that having the last word doesn’t mean that we are right because sometimes after a good laugh there is nothing you can add.
In healthy societies people know how to laugh at the mistakes not at the people who make them, to underline the wrong attitudes of a person through a joke but not to hate the person. They use different forms of laughter to protect themselves from the insidious but ridiculous influence of the ego.
I think that we can always find room (especially in such a serious blog as this one! ) for humour and laughter.
I invite you all to participate with humour to this collection, with jokes, drawings, clips, that you consider significant for their meaning or just funny.
FROM HERE COMES THE JOKES…..
1. THE ETERNAL JOKE… WITH JOHN
(Here one of my all time favorites…)
A guy is sitting quietly in a bar drinking his carrot .juice when another guy runs into the bar and shouts to him:
“Come quick John, your car has been stolen”.
The guy at the bar jumps up, runs out the bar into the street and there he realizes: “Hey, wait a minute, I don’t have a car”. So he goes back in the bar to finish his carrot juice.
After only few minutes, another guy runs into the bar shouting at him: “John come quick, your house is on fire! You must do something.”
The guy at the bar jumps up , leaves his carrots juice and runs out the door .. once he is out on the street he is stricken by the revelation: “Hey hold on, I don’t have a house”.
So he goes back into the bar and gets himself another juice.
Soon after another comes into the bar crying and saying “ I am sorry John, I just heard your father died!”
With tears in his eyes the guy at the bar runs to the door, and when he is outside.. he realizes with amazement … “Hang on … I am not John!!!”
2. AMAZING CARICATURES!!! (on the subject of: “ridiculous “enemies” of NATHA”)
i just received some amazing caricatures from a very talented person! i will not yet reveal his name but maybe i will open a gallery with this theme (and then i will tell you his name). i think that laughing about the mistakes that were done in this campaign will help them to be understood and in the future we will avoid such situations.
here they are! THANK YOU and i hope you will send more.
1. Gollum was hunting the hobbits because he considered that they stole his property (his “precious”). he was trying all the time to make them regret having his property…. the author of the drawing is a genius! (only for those that know the bhoga case )
2. in the last month there were a lot of information coming out from the people that were initially just victims of these three people that i was calling in the end: the ridiculous “enemies” of NATHA. again this genius, collecting all the information, did this:
3. IN THE SAME DAY THE ABOVE DRAWINGS WERE PUBLISHED, SCHMOLLUM BROUGHT THE ORCS TO BHOGA ASHRAM, PROVING ONCE AGAIN THE PROPHETIC VALUE OF THESE DRAWINGS. THE ATTITUDE SHOWN BY SCHMOLLUM WAS EXACTLY THE SAME JUST MORE VIOLENT THAN THE PATHETIC CHARACTER GOLLUM. THE NEW ELEMENT IS THE “ALL SEEING EYE” THAT STARTS TO APPEAR CLEARER BEHIND THE WHOLE ACTION. HERE IS ONE MORE DRAWING FROM THE SAME AUTHOR:
A blonde is driving a sports car on a mountain road, listening to the radio at full volume while paying little attention to the road. At a point she tries to overtake a truck and by manoeuvring strangely she almost forces it off the road. The truck driver goes mad and starts to follow the sports car until he sees it in a carpark. The truck driver pulls in and asks the blonde to get out of her car. He then draws a circle on the ground, puts the blonde inside it and yells: “do not move out of the circle or you are in trouble!”.
Then the truck driver takes a knife from the truck and scratches the leather upholstered driver’s seat of the sports car. When he turns and looks at the blonde, he sees that she is smiling. His anger mounting, he runs to the truck and takes out a baseball bat. He then smashes the windscreen of the sport car, but when he looks at the blonde she is laughing. Seeing red, the truck driver takes the knife and slashes all the car’s tyres, but when he turns to the blonde she is laughing hysterically. Almost suffocating with anger the truck driver ask the blonde: “what’s the matter? Why are you laughing so much???!”. After catching her breath the blonde replies with an innocent style: “every time you turned away I was stepping out of the circle!”
It is midnight and a drunk is resting against a wall looking as though he needs to make a decision. A police car that is passing by stops and the officer says to the man:
“Where are you going?”
“I am heading to a lecture about the noxious effects of alcohol upon the health.” The drunk replies without any heart.
Exploring a deep forest, a team formed by an American, a German, a Jew and a black guy are carefully advancing through the thick vegetation. A caterpillar falls from a tree onto the American. He is immediately takes it and throws it and it lands on the German. The German carefully looks at it and decide to threw it over his shoulder and it is falls on the Jew.
The jew takes it and after a short evaluation is throws it back and it lands on the black guy. The last one takes the caterpillar and eats it.
Going further in the forest, another caterpillar falls from the tree on the american, he is throwing it on the german, the german throw it over his shoulder and the jew catch it and turning to the black is asking:
A driver is laterally hitting lightly with the car a guy that is crossing the street, after few meters the car stop and the driver shout through the window:
“The following is an excellent joke about the way some people are joining the spiritual school and stay on the path. The answer his guru gave was also brilliant. If you think you are on the spiritual path, make sure you will not end up after many years with a mind full of complaints and void of anything else!“
Four men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large raging, violent river. Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed:
“God, please give me the strength to cross the river.”
Poof! … God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about 2 hours, having almost drowned twice.
After witnessing that, the second man prayed: “God, please give me strength and the tools to cross the river”
Poof! …. God gave him a rowing boat,strong arms and strong legs and he was able to row across in about an hour after almost capsizing once.
Seeing what happened to the first two men, the third man prayed:
“God, please give me the strength, the tools and the intelligence to cross the river”
Poof! … He was turned into a woman. She checked the map, walked 1km upstream and walked across the bridge.
and the fourth one who was wise and learned from the others mistakes prayed: “God please take me across the river”
13. YOU CAN’T HIDE WHAT YOU ARE, BECAUSE WHAT YOU ARE GOES WITH YOUR ACTIONS!
There once was a blonde who was very tired of blonde jokes and insults directed at her intelligence.
So, she cut and dyed her hair, got a make-over, got in her car, and began driving around in the country.
Suddenly, she came to a herd of sheep in the road. She stopped her car and went over to the shepherd who was tending to them.”If I can guess the exact number of sheep here, will you let me have one?” she asked.
The shepherd, thinking this was a pretty safe bet, agreed. ”You have 171 sheep,” said the blonde in triumph.
Surprised, the shepherd told her to pick out a sheep of her choice.She looked around for a while and finally found one that she really liked.She looked around for a while and finally found one that she really liked.
She picked it up and was petting it when the shepherd walked over to her and asked, “if I can guess your real hair color, will you give me my sheep back?”
The blonde thought it was only fair to let him try. “You’re a blonde! Now give me back my dog.”
She picked it up and was petting it when the shepherd walked over to her and asked, “if I can guess your real hair color, will you give me my sheep back?”
The blonde thought it was only fair to let him try. “You’re a blonde! Now give me back my dog.”
“The wife of an old prisoner is very distressed and asks to have a meeting with the prison chief.
She meets the prison chief and says to him” I am very concerned about my husband, he works very hard, he is constantly tired and is hardly sleeping, I think you should give him an easier job..”
the chief replies “But mam , your husbands task is very simple , he sticks labels on bottles, would you say this is hard work?”
and she exclaims loudly, ” The old liar, he told me he is digging a tunnel…”
19. Once upon a time there was a young man that wanted to become the greatest writer. When asked to define “greatest”, he said:
I want to write things that everybody reads, things to which everybody has an emotional reaction, things that make them shout, cry, scream, struggle and torment themselves for hours…days…!
Now he works for Microsoft and he writes the error messages!
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20. IT IS BETTER TO PREVENT THAN TO ASK TOO LATE FOR HELP.
21. A Spanish Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English,
nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine..
‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’
A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?' Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class
into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer’ should be a masculine
or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should definitely be of the feminine gender (‘la computadora’), because:
1 No one but their creator understands their internal logic
2. The native language they use to communicate with other
computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term
memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find
yourself spending half your paycheque on accessories for it.
(THIS GETS BETTER!)
The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine (‘el computador’), because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them
on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better
model.
24. THE WOMAN’S WAY IN DEALING WITH LIFE’S PROBLEMS IS OFTEN SURPRISINGLY SIMPLE AND WISE.
THIS IS WHY SHE IS SUCH A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. TAKE THIS FOR EXAMPLE….
A man and a woman are sitting beside each other on airplane. The woman sneezes, takes out a tissue, and gently wipes her nose and starts to shake, and then she smiles to herself and continues to read her book. A few minutes later, she sneezes again. Once more, she takes a tissue, wipes her nose and then starts to shiver and shake. A few more minutes pass before the woman sneezes and starts to shiver and shake again, this continues throughout the flight. Eventually, the man says, “I can’t help noticing that you keep sneezing and shaking. Are you OK?” “I’m so sorry if I’m disturbing you,” says the woman. “I’m suffering from a very rare medical condition. Whenever I sneeze, I have an orgasm.” “Are you taking anything for it?” he asks.
The shortest road between two points is constantly under construction.
There are three types of people: those who can count and those who cannot.
Stealing ideas from one person is called a plagiary. Stealing ideas from more people is called research.
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Women who want to be equal to men are not ambitious.
I prayed God to give me a bike, but I found out that God does not put things in your pocket. So, I stole a bike and I prayed for forgiveness.
Women will never be equal to men until they will be able to feel sexy despite the bold head and the big belly.
God alone loves stupid people. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have created so many.
We live in a society where pizza reaches a location faster then the police.
A man in love is not complete until he gets married. After that, he is finished.
You know that the world has turned upside down when the best rapper is white, the best golf player is black and the tallest basketball player in NBA is Chinese.
A new governmental study financed through European funds and lasting for a period of 10 years concluded that three quarters of Romania’s population means 75% of the population.
I intend to live forever. So far I’m in the scheme.
The psychiatrist told me I was crazy. I said I need a second opinion. He said that I am also ugly.
The bank is the place where you can borrow money as long as you prove you do not need it.
28. An American journalist interviews an old Texan, over the age of 100.
At one point the journalist asks:
“Sir, do you know that for the first time in the history USA has a colored president?”
“You must be kidding, it is impossible…”
“No, seriously”
“Come on, leave me alone, we leave in America, this is impossible!”
“Look at the news paper titles: New York Times – “Barack Obama – The first colored president at the White House”, Washington Post – “For the first time colored citizen becomes president”…
“Extraordinary … it is incredible, his owner must be very proud..”.
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29. “Business Time”
This video shows the brilliant way in which couple relationships can end up when a couple doesn’t know anything about sexual continence, and when the polarity disappears and routine comes in they don’t know how to counterbalance this….
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30. There were some children queuing for their lunch in the canteen of a Catholic School.
A pile of apples was placed on a table with the following message written by the nuns:
“Only take one apple each, God is watching you!”.
At the other side of the table there was a pile of chocolate. One of the kids wrote:
“Take as much chocolate as you like, God is watching the apples!”
32. A cruise liner was approaching a remote island, the passengers were startled to see a bearded, half naked, bare footed guy jumping up and down on the beach waving his arms in the air..
A passenger asked the capain “What on earth is wrong with that guy?”
And the captain answers “I have not got a clue, but he goes crazy everytime we pass by here” .
33. The son of a sheik was studying in Bucharest. When his parents asked him how he felt, he said that he was generally good, but felt embarrassed arriving at school in his Mercedes 500, when he sees his teacher arriving in a tram.
After a few days he received a 1 million dollars cheque and a telegram: “Don’t ruin our family name! Get yourself a tram also!…”
A blonde, out of money and down on her luck after buying air at a real bargain, needed money desperately. To raise cash, she decided to kidnap a child and hold him for ransom.
She went to the local playground, grabbed a kid randomly, took her behind a building, and told her, “I’ve kidnapped you.”
She then wrote a big note saying, “I’ve kidnapped your kid. Tomorrow morning, put $10,000 in a paper bag and leave it under the apple tree next to the slides on the south side of the playground. Signed, A blonde.”
The blonde then pinned the note to the kid’s shirt and sent him home to show it to his parents. The next morning the blonde checked, and sure enough, a paper bag was sitting beneath the apple tree.
The blonde looked in the bag and found the $10,000 with a note that said, “How could you do this to a fellow blonde?”
37. A new supermarket is opening in the forest. All the animals cue over night excitedly waiting for it to open.
Suddenly a little rabbit shows up and wants to get to the front of the cue .. he says politely “Excuse me, can i please pass”
The bear growls angrily and says “No you may not , we have been waiting here all night ” He promptly picks the rabbit up by his ears and throws him to the back of the cue…
The rabbit bruised and dazed stands up and tries again to get through the crowd of animals.. When the wolf sees the rabbit , he goes crazy and says “ Who do you think you are? “ and kicks the rabbits butt, so he flies to the back of the cue…
But again the rabbit gets up and persistently tries to make his way through..
When the fox sees him he is very angry and pushes him so he rolls down the hill…
Then, the rabbit, full of bruises and very upset, stands up and starts shouting:
“That’s it, I am fed up and very upset and I will not be opening the shop today!”
38. Moses, Jesus and an old man were playing golf. It’s Moses turn first, he hits the ball and it lands in a lake. Seeing this Moses hits the ground with his staff and miraculously the water parts, he walks in and hits the ball again, it rolls into the hole.
Next it’s Jesus’s turn. He hits the ball, the balls flies in the air almost landing in the lake. Before it falls the ball slows down and Jesus walks quickly over the water, he hits the ball again and he scores.
Now it is the old mans turn. He hits the ball very relaxed, paying little attention. The ball falls into the lake and a frog eats it. A big stork picks the frog up in his beak and flies away. Immediately a hunter shoots the stork , who falls to the ground, dropping the frog and the ball rolls nicely into the hole.
Seeing this Moses turns to Jesus quite annoyed and says: “That’s it I had enough, I am not playing golf with your father ever again!”
After getting all of his luggage loaded into the limo, the driver notices that the Pope is still standing on the curb.
“Excuse me, your Eminence, “says the driver, “Would you please take your seat so we can leave?”
“Well, to tell you the truth,” says the Pope, “they never let me drive at the Vatican, and I’d really like to drive today.”
“I’m sorry, but I cannot let you do that. I’d lose my job! And what if something should happen?” protests the driver.
”Oh please. It would make me very happy.”
The driver didn’t want to disappoint the Pope, so he climbed in the back of the car and let the Pope take the steering wheel!
However on exiting the airport, with a wide grin on his face the Pope accelerates the car and quickly goes well above the speed limit to one hundred and eighty kilometers per hour.
The driver is very nervous and pleads with the Pope to slow down.
Within minutes they hear the police sirens.
“Oh, dear God, I’m gonna lose my license,” moans the driver.
The Pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the policeman approaches, but the policeman takes one look at him, and returns to his motorcycle, and gets on the radio.
“I need to talk to the Chief,” he says to the dispatcher.
The Chief gets on the radio and the policeman tells him that he’s stopped a limo going at one hundred and eighty kilometers per hour.
“So bust him,” said the Chief.
“I don’t think we want to do that, he’s really important,” said the policeman.
Chief exclaimed, “All the more reason!”
“No, I mean really important,”
The Chief then asked, “Who is it, the Mayor?”
Policeman: “Bigger.”
Chief: “Governor?”
Policeman: “Bigger.”
“Well,” said the Chief, “Who is it?”
Policeman: “I think it’s God!”
Chief: “What makes you think it’s God?”
Policeman: “Well, he’s got the Pope as His chauffeur!!”
40. Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous. They are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved.
The boy’s mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The preacher agreed, but he asked to see them individually. So the mother sent the 8-year-old first thing in the morning, and the older boy to see the preacher in the afternoon.
The preacher, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, “Do you know where God is, son?”
The boy’s mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there wide-eyed with his mouth hanging open. So the preacher repeated the question in an even sterner tone, “Where is God?!”
Again, the boy made no attempt to answer. The preacher raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy’s face and bellowed, “WHERE IS GOD?!”
The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him.
When his older brother found him in the closet, he asked, “What happened?”
The younger brother, gasping for breath, replied, “We are in BIG trouble this time. God is missing, and they think we did it!”
42. A man entered a restaurant and sat at the only open table. As he sat
down, he knocked the spoon off the table with his elbow. A nearby waiter
reached into his shirt pocket, pulled out a clean spoon, and set it on
the table. The diner was impressed.
“Do all the waiters carry spoons in their pockets?”
The waiter replied, “Yes. Ever since we had that efficiency consultant
out; he determined that 17.8% of our diners knock the spoon off the
table. By carrying clean spoons with us, we save trips to the kitchen.”
The diner ate his meal. As he was paying the waiter, he commented,
“Forgive the intrusion, but do you know that you have a string hanging
from your fly?”
The waiter replied, “Yes, we all do. Seems that the same consultant
determined that we spend too much time washing our hands after using the
men’s room. So, the other end of that string is tied to my penis. When I
need to go, I simply pull the string, go, and return to work. Having
never touched myself, there is no need to wash my hands. Saves a lot of
time.”
“Wait a minute,” said the diner, “how do you get your penis back in your
pants?”
“Well, I don’t know about the other guys, but I use the spoon.”
43. In the middle of the jungle a man takes out his violin and starts to play the most divine music, and one by one the wild animals are drawn to the divine melodies… the lions are the last to hear and slowly they move towards the man after circulating around him they sit down in perfect peace and stillness enraptured by the beauty…after a while the oldest lion of the pack arrives and he promptly eats the violinist.. On a branch nearby two eagles are speaking .. “I told you that the music would end when the deaf lion arrives!!!”
44. A guy is arrested and taken to the police station for selling ‘the elixir of immortality’ . His charges were ‘fraud and deception’ and his punishment was more severe because he was a known re offender – he had committed the same crimes in 1794, 1856, 1928 2009….
45. I woman goes to her priest and says to him ” I have just bought two parrots, they used to live in a brothel and all they can say is ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?’”
“That is a problem,” the priest says, “but I have a solution!”
I have two male parrots whom I’ve taught to pray and read the Bible. If we put your parrots with mine, I believe yours will transform quickly in their presence.”
The next day, the woman takes her parrots to the priest’s house and puts them in the same cage as the male parrots, who are holding rosary beads and praying.
“Hi, we’re prostitutes.” say the females. “Do you want to have some fun?”
The parrots look at one another and start to squawk!! “Thank God!! Our prayers have been answered at last!!!!”
46. Jim a young Scottish lad decides to have a change of scenery and moves to LA, he rents a room in an apartment block.After a few months he speaks to his mother on the phone , and she asks him how he is and if he has made any friends… Jim tells her he is very well, but he has some very strange neighbors.. The guy next door is constantly banging his head on the wall, the woman the other side is screaming all day and the guy above gets into fits of temper and stamps his feet on the floor so much that he makes the ceiling and light fittings shake. His mother is very worried and says “Oh Jim, with people like that around you better keep out of their way!” He replies ” Don’t worry about me Ma, I stay in doors all day and I try to ignore them by playing my bag pipes!”
47. A man goes into a bookstore, and asks where he can find the book titled “The superiority of the man over the woman”.
The bookseller told him to search for it on the top floor of the store, and to look under the utopia or science fiction section.
48. THE TYPICAL CHAIN OF RESPONSIBILITY IN A KARMA YOGA TEAM! 1. What went wrong? This is the story of four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody’s got angry, because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought that Somebody would do it
But Nobody asked Anybody.
It ended up that the job wasn’t done, and Everybody blamed Somebody,
when actually Nobody asked Anybody!
49. A student comes to a young professor’s office hours.
She glances down the hall, closes his door, kneels pleadingly.
‘I would do anything to pass this exam.’
She leans closer to him, flips back her hair, gazes meaningfully into his eyes.
‘I mean…’ she whispers, ‘…I would do…
**anything**!!!’
He returns her gaze. ‘Anything???’
‘Yes,… Anything!!!’
His voice turns to a whisper. ‘Would you…… study???’
50. A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and asmile, gave him a broom and said, “Your first job will be to sweep out the store.”
“But I’m a college graduate,” the young man replied indignantly.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that,” said the manager. “Here, give me the broom – I’ll show you how.”
52. Little Janice was not the best student in Sunday school. Usually she slept through class. One day the teacher called on her while she was napping, “Tell me Janice, who created the universe?” When Janice didn’t stir, little Johnny, a boy seated in the chair behind her, took a pin and jabbed her in the rear.
“God Almighty!” shouted Janice and the teacher said, “Very good” and Janice fell back asleep.
A while later the teacher asked Janice, “Who is our Lord and Saviour.” But, Janice didn’t even stir from her slumber. Once again, Johnny came to the rescue and stuck her again.
“Jesus Christ!” shouted Janice and the teacher said, “Very good,” and Janice fell back asleep.
Then the teacher asked Janice a third question. “What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?” and again, Johnny jabbed her with the pin.
This time Janice jumped up and shouted, “If you stick me with that thing one more time, I’ll break it in half and stick it up your ass!”
A blonde goes to her local pet store in search of an ‘exotic’ pet. As she looks about the store, she notices a box FULL of live frogs.
The sign says:
“SEX FROGS”
Only $20 each!
Comes with ‘complete’ instructions.
The girl excitedly looks around to see if anybody’s watching her. She whispers softly to the man behind the counter, “I’ll TAKE one!”
As the man packages the frog, he quietly says to her, “Just follow the instructions!
The blonde nods, grabs the box, and is quickly on her way home.As soon as she closes the door to her apartment, she opens the instructions and reads them very carefully. She does EXACTLY what is specified:
1. Take a shower.
2. Splash on some nice perfume.
3. Slip into a very sexy nightie.
4. Crawl into bed and place the frog down beside you, and allow the frog to do what he has been trained to do.
She then quickly gets into bed with the frog and to her surprise . . . NOTHING happens! The blonde is very disappointed and quite upset at this point. She re-reads the instructions and notices at the bottom of the paper it says, “If you have any problems or questions … please call the pet store.”
So, she calls the pet store. The man says, “I’ll be right over.”
Within minutes, the man is ringing her doorbell. The blonde welcomes him in and says, “See, I’ve done everything according to the instructions. The damn frog just SITS there!”
The man . . . looking very concerned, picks up the frog, stares ‘directly into its eyes’ and STERNLY says:
“LISTEN TO ME!!
I’m only going to show you how to do this ONE .. MORE … TIME!!!”
54. This joke illustrates the law of relativity in …. real life.
Banta Singh walks into a bar in London, orders 3 glasses of beer and sits in the backyard of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes, he comes back to the bar counter and orders 3 more.
The bartender asks him, “You know, beer goes flat after I fill it in the glass; it would taste better if you buy one at a time.”
Banta Singh replies, “Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Dubai , the other in Canada and I’m here in London . When they left home, we promised that we’ll drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.”
The bartender admits this is a nice custom and leaves it there.
Banta Singh became a regular in the bar and would always drink the same way. He’d order 3 Beers and drink them in turn.
One day, he came in and ordered only 2 Beers. All the other regulars notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bar tender says,” I don’t want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my sincere condolences on your great loss.”
Banta Singh looked confused for a moment, and then he laughs…. “Oh, no,”
He said, “Everyone’s fine; both my brothers are alive. The only thing is……………..
55. A virile middle aged Italian gentlemen named Guido was relaxing at his favorite bar in Rome when he managed to attract a spectacular young blond woman. Things progressed to the point where he led her back to his apartment and, after some small talk, they retired to his bed room where he rattled her senseless.
After a pleasant interlude, he asked with a smile, ‘So, you finish?’ She paused for a second, frowned, and replied, ‘No.’
Surprised, Guido reached for her and the rattling resumed. This time she thrashed about wildly and there were screams of passion. The sex finally ended and, again, Guido smiled and asked, ‘You finish?’
Again, after a short pause, she returned his smile, cuddled closer to him and softly said, ‘No.’ Stunned, but damned if he was going to leave this woman unsatisfied, Guido reached for the woman yet again. Using the last of his strength, he barely managed it, but they ended together screaming, bucking, clawing and ripping the bed sheets.
Exhausted, Guido fell onto his back, gasping. Barely able to turn his head, he looked into her eyes, smiled proudly and asked again, ‘You finish?’
Barely able to speak, the beautiful blond whispered in his ear, ‘No, I Norwegian.’
56. A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home, so he prayed:
“Dear Lord: I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through, so please allow her body to switch with mine for a day. Amen.”
God, in His infinite wisdom, granted the man’s wish. The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a his wife, and she as him.
He arose, cooked breakfast for his mate, awakened the kids, fed them breakfast, taught them English and Math, put them all in the car and picked up the dry cleaning, took it to the cleaners and stopped at the bank to make a deposit, went grocery shopping, then drove home to put away the groceries, pay the bills and balance the check book.
He cleaned the cat’s litter box and bathed the dog. Then it was already 1:00 p.m. and he hurried to make the beds, do the laundry, vacuum, dust, and sweep and mop the kitchen floor. Taught the kids Science and Social Studies.
At 3:30 p.m. he dropped one child off at a scout meeting, another at soccer practice and the third at piano lessons, then went home and set up the ironing board and watched TV while he did the ironing.
At 6:30 p.m. he began peeling potatoes and washing vegetables for salad, breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper. After supper he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the kids, and put them to bed.
At 9:00 p.m. he was exhausted and, though his daily chores weren’t finished, he went to bed where he was expected to make love, which he managed to get through without complaint.
The next morning he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said, “Lord, I don’t know what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my wife’s being able to stay home all day. Please, oh please, let us trade back.”
The Lord, in His infinite wisdom, replied, “My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the way they were. You’ll just have to wait nine months, though…
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, ‘Mom, that lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!’
2) OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, ‘The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.’
3) KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle, the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. ‘Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now. She’s hitting the bottle.’
4) MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the womens’ locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, ‘What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?’
5) POLICE # 1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, ‘Are you a cop? ‘Yes,’ I answered and continued writing the report. ‘My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?’ ‘Yes, that’s right,’ I told her. ‘Well, then,’ she said as she extended her foot toward me, ‘would you please tie my shoe?’
6) POLICE # 2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. ‘Is that a dog you got back there?’ he asked.
‘It sure is,’ I replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, ‘What did he do?’
7) ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, ‘The tooth fairy will never believe this!’ DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, ‘Daddy, you shouldn’t wear that suit.’
‘And why not, darling?’
‘You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.’
9) DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The ministers’ son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and into the hole he goes.’ (I want this line used at my funeral!)
10) SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. ‘I’m just wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!’
11) BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called out.
‘What have you got there, dear?’
With astonishment in the young boys’ voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adams’ underwear!’
59. Once a rich man gave a big donation following this God appeared to him in a revelation. The rich man asked him if he could take some of his objects with him when he dies. God told him that it wasn’t possible to take things from this life to the afterlife. Yet our man insisted and prayed and in the end God said: “Ok, you can take one suitcase with you when you die”
After some years, when our man got sick and felt he was about to die, he filled a suitcase with gold bars and placed it close beside himself. Within a few hours he died. He found himself standing in front of the pearly gates, carrying his suitcase. At the gate the angel on duty told him that he could not past the gates with the suitcase. The man replied that he had a special agreement with God to take the suitcase with him,
The angel called for St Peter (the chief guardian of Heaven) to check this unusual request.
St Peter came and asked the man again, on hearing the story he asked to look in the case. When the man opened it St Peter exclaimed: “Paving stones? This is what you wanted to bring here???”
61. The state of innocence of the child, in comparison with the rigid minds of the grown ups…
A first-grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She had twenty four students in her class and she presented each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It’s hard to believe these were actually done by six-year-olds! Their insight may surprise you.
1. Don’t change horses……….. until they stop running.
On 16th of August 2009 from 18.30 in ANANDA hall in NATHA YOGA CENTER the lecture:
“WHO IS “JESPER”? The facts behind the ridiculous group of “enemies ” of NATHA and the anatomy of a media lynching!”
The lecture was a success, a lot of people attended in NATHA. There were people from Denmark and Sweden. In an atmosphere that was very positive, the lecture was taking all the points of the press campaign and until the end we were able to disclose many of its mechanisms and even who is behind the “smoke screen”. From the feedback I got after the lecture, even those that were familiar with this topic have some surprises during the presentation.
“JESPER” was finally disclosed! For those of you that are curious to see the lecture, we have a good recording.
The recording has been separated into parts, and will be published in installments.
PART ONE: contains
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER 2: PRESENTATION OF THE FACTS AND ARGUMENTS THAT REVEAL THE REAL REASONS BEHIND THE “WITNESSES”
A: KIM SCHMOCK. (In this part Kim Schmock is introduced and we can see the real character of the schmuck.)
CHAPTER 2: PRESENTATION OF THE FACTS AND ARGUMENTS THAT REVEAL THE REAL REASONS BEHIND THE “WITNESSES”
B: Celia Clausen “Carlsen”. The second part continues with the second chapter: here we introduce Celia Clausen “Carlsen” and we see the amazing TRUTH that is behind the “drama queen” she plays in front of the media. This part is not for those with a “sensible” heart … it contains blunt disclosure of some “sentimental blackmail” and reveals that inside “Barbie-doll” (Celia) was hiding “THE HULK”.
CHAPTER 3: SURPRISING ELEMENTS OF MANIPULATION PROVEN TO BE DELIBERATELY INSERTED IN THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN AGAINST NATHA, WITH CLEAR EXAMPLES AND SCIENTIFIC DEFINITIONS.
CHAPTER 4:THE BIGGER PICTURE THAT WILL ALLOW THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE REASONS AND CONNECTIONS BEHIND THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN IN THE NEWSPAPERS. (This part is based on facts and some personal experiences that will be for the first time publicly disclosed.)
A. The Romanian Story
B. The Danish Link
CHAPTER 5: FINAL CONCLUSIONS AND PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS
I have not written on my blog for a while, as we have been very busy with moving and renovating our new yoga center. This has been an intensive and wonderful experience and as the final touches are being made I will share with you some of the experiences in the process and future plans.
The new center: Concordia ‘The Heart’
Three years ago some of our colleagues began the search for a new yoga center; as we were outgrowing our previous center and needed to find a larger place that would be better suited to the growing needs of our school.
For two years we viewed many buildings, searching the length and breadth of Copenhagen for the perfect place – not knowing then that we would follow a trail that would magically bring us back to where we started!
Many significant synchronicities occurred in the search for the new place. Thus our new center that we now call ‘Concordia’ was actually the first building we went to see, however when we arrived at the building in Nodre Fasanvej, the estate agent hadn’t brought the key and we were unable to enter. We took this as a sign that it was not the right moment to see the place and continued our search. There were a few places we were close to buying, but the contracts fell through in the last moments, we even considered building our own spiritual center on the site of Prema (one of our ashrams).All the roads we went down eventually led to seemingly dead ends, but in reality they brought us closer to the actual location. One year ago the building in Nodre Fasanvej again came to our attention; we went to view it, this time successfully entering the door!
Even in its unused state we realised within moments that it would be the perfect place for our expanding school. It fitted all our needs, the size, the potential for expansion, the location and the name!
(The top picture was taken when we first visited the building and the bottom picture is now)
Another synchronicity came immediately after signing the contract and was a further confirmation of the choice we had made, as three months before finding this location (in fact coming back to it without knowing) we had started to create a new internet forum with the name Concordia. After we signed the contract for the new center I went out of the building to look at it again from across the street and in that moment I noticed the name CONCORDIA on its façade – it had been written at the beginning of the 20th century. For this reason we decided to name the new center ‘Concordia’ – and this means ‘with heart’, harmony, union and peace. A perfect name for the building which was to become the new home of Natha, and a sign of things to come.
We signed the contract for the building and began the massive renovation work in January 2008.
When we first started the work on Concordia the building was grey and pink, and had an air of loneliness. Over the past year it has been radically transformed both physically and energetically, grey rooms have been converted into colourful yoga halls, “Shambala” ashram, a library, reception area and offices. Life has been breathed into the building which now radiates energy and colour.
(One of the rooms before the renovation……. and now as a yoga hall)
In keeping with the concept of our spiritual school, it is not only the building that has radically transformed; all those who have been involved in the remaking of the new center have been remodelled and transformed in one way or another.Many have participated in the construction of the center, meaning not only the physical framework of the building, each one of them have contributed with their hearts and souls to the life of the center, whatever their task may have been: erecting walls, raising the roof, pressing 20 litres of fresh natural juice for the team every day, cooking for the hungry workers, washing up, answering the phone.
This is something unique in this day and age where the majority of people only know how to take and have lost the ability to ‘give’, paying with the price of feeling lonely and weak. Re-learning the true joy and fulfilment of giving is a pathway to ‘opening the heart’, and gives the knowledge that “the more we give the more we receive in abundance”
Concordia is much more than bricks and mortar, Concordia is more than the sum of each individual who has been involved here, as by giving their hearts to the work they have created a living entity, a HEART, the central point that will radiate for generations to come as the ‘spiritual home’ of Natha Yoga center.
Yoga center
The new center has five yoga halls, two large halls and three medium sized. The halls will be used for workshops, yoga classes, and many other activities such as retreats, camps, spirals, lectures, meditations. There is also a small cinema hall, library, offices, and reception area.
The garden is being renovated and will soon be a place for contemplation and silence.
(Hall before renovation…….. and now as Ananda yoga hall)
On the roof of the new building there will soon be a terrace where people will be able to practice yoga in the sun during the summer months.
The Teams – The backbone behind the renovation of the center
The construction team and the cooking team have worked side by side over the past year. The builders have worked hard in the remaking of the center – reconstructing an entire new storey, converting rooms, installing a staircase, converting the attic, building a new floor and a new roof. Many of the team were novices at the beginning, but now they have learnt new skills that will last them a lifetime.
(Mihai and Arthur developing their carpentry skills)
As their female counterparts, the kitchen team – or the ‘angels of the kitchen’ have provided constant nourishment and support for the construction team, ceaselessly working with enthusiasm and devotion.
(Some of the angels from the kitchen)
The best part of this “adventure” was the spirit of KARMA YOGA that constantly impregnated all the activities of the team. The work in different areas of the construction was constantly a lesson of communion with the universe and with the Spirit of God, this also brought joy and happiness within the team, even in the most difficult moments. It proved that it is possible in a world in crisis and tormented with suffering and difficulties to gain serenity and peace within yourself, by acting in a detached way and by opening your Heart in the act of giving.
This the opinion of the team leader of the construction team – Florin
I came from Romania to Denmark to teach Ayurveda (I’m an educated physician and Ayurveda lecturer). At least this is what I use to believe in the beginning. Since I mentioned my previous experience in construction (I had my own business in construction in Romania), Mihai, with his angelic smile, told me “well, if you really want to teach Ayurveda here, first you will have to build the halls you need for teaching”. And thus the most challenging and transformative experience of my life has started. I’ve always had to deal with big projects, but this one is really BIG. It has requested my entire presence almost day and night for many months. I felt my whole being reconstructed in the same rhythm with the New Center. I found the Spiritual Guide of my dreams. I made the best friends of my life, or I’d better say that God bestowed his Grace upon me bringing into my life a bunch of real spiritual brothers and sisters. I felt The Divine Absolute manifested in and through me every second. I felt the Divine Will and Power moving everything around in order to fulfil this necessity – The New Center. I’ve understood deeply a lot of spiritual aspects due to the explicit presentations of Mihai. And all these took place in less than one year. I keep thinking that most of the people nowadays hardly experience something like this during one life, so I’m grateful to God for this Divine Gift.
The Vira Camp – “Vira” – Spiritual man / hero / warrior
From boys to men.
In order to integrate all the activity of the team in a spiritual way, emphasizing on the specificity of a male team, we decided to organize the whole activity as a spiritual camp, having as the main objective the awakening and amplifying of the state of spiritual Hero – Vira.
The Vira camp has been ongoing for 31 weeks and is now the longest camp in the history of our yoga school. It still continues…
(The Vira Team performing)
It is a unique and powerful experience to have the teams (men and women) separated during the week days by the specifics of their activity and then for them to come together over the weekend in combined relaxing activities. The separation creates a bigger polarity between the men and women, and in this way the men become more masculine and the women more feminine.
Being part of the karma yoga construction team, even for one day, is a powerful experience that induces in any man the state of Vira. The combination of the physical work and being together as part of a group with a high common goal has had the effect of bonding the men, creating a ‘spiritual brotherhood’ which gives the feeling of unity and oneness, where the members support, care, encourage and protect one other. In the beginning there were some difficulties with the cultural and communication differences, however in time minor problems were overcome and the team began to function as a single entity. Working as ‘one being’ was a secret key to the construction work, as the harmony and discipline generated by this way of working led to efficient actions and integrated solutions as well to a spiritual view upon the daily activities.
Over the past few weeks we worked intensely to finish the center. Students and friends joined forces to help the teams here. It was a wonderful atmosphere and a lot of fun. I want to thank all who have offered a piece of their heart in the creation of this new center – Concordia, ‘The Heart’
I will come with more details and pictures about the Grand Opening in Natha…
More pictures will be available soon in the picture gallery….
). Since there are a lot of people that can use this story today, here it is in both parts.
) for humour and laughter.
DRESS-UP
