Definitions of ecstasy, consequences of modern ecstasy deprivation, connection between ecstasy and wisdom, introduction to a spiritual practice based on ancient human art which balances our brain hemispheres, quickens our neurology, releases endorphins, expands imagination and creativity and integrates the bodymind. Good medicine for our modern malaise.
Emotional attachment - Buddhism & Business, emtions, ethics and suffering. Extract from Opportunity, Strategy & Entreprneurship: A Meta-Theory, Volume 1, New York, Nova Scientific.
The Mind Body Connection How Does It Really Worksvjarvis
Ever sense there is "more" to who you are? This presentation integrates common physiological experiences with Science and Eastern philosophy to show how our bodies, emotions and mind are integrated and why it is important to know!
#Barkatt_E_Magazine #May2020
After receiving the great response for our First Issue of Our #Barkatt_E_Magazine , we are delighted to introduce you to the Second Issue of Barkatt E-Magazine.
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Emotional attachment - Buddhism & Business, emtions, ethics and suffering. Extract from Opportunity, Strategy & Entreprneurship: A Meta-Theory, Volume 1, New York, Nova Scientific.
The Mind Body Connection How Does It Really Worksvjarvis
Ever sense there is "more" to who you are? This presentation integrates common physiological experiences with Science and Eastern philosophy to show how our bodies, emotions and mind are integrated and why it is important to know!
#Barkatt_E_Magazine #May2020
After receiving the great response for our First Issue of Our #Barkatt_E_Magazine , we are delighted to introduce you to the Second Issue of Barkatt E-Magazine.
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This issue features several #articles. Every article speaks to challenge, opportunity, and the transformative power of hope. We hope you will find it interesting and useful.
Maybe you have a family member or friend who may benefit from the information in our E- Magazine so feel free to share…
Enjoy Reading!
THE CHALLENGE FOR MODERN-DAY UNITARIANS AND UNIVERSALISTS: RECLAIMING THE SAC...Dr Ian Ellis-Jones
An Address Delivered on 4 October 2009 at the Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association (ANZUUA) held at The Centre, Randwick, New South Wales - Copyright Ian Ellis-Jones 2009 - All Rights Reserved.
Saint John of the Cross & Mortification
#John-of-the-Cross #Mortification #Mortify #mortifying #John-Cross #John-ofCross #Mortification-flesh #John-Cross
https://bittube.tv/post/6f01d961-fa0b-4e13-b830-3089998c3c07 - Part 1
https://bittube.tv/post/77c4e63d-aae2-4d41-b769-2127ef45d7e3 - Part 2
https://odysee.com/@periodic-reset-of-civilizations:c/Saint-John-of-the-Cross---Mortification:4
https://tube.midov.pl/w/4rN2GyaQWTjWd6zFBKz3q6
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8iEf0DaGq8RS/
All the platforms I Am on:
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https://periodic-reset.creator-spring.com
Slides from Dan Phillips' presentation at L.I.F.E. Recovery International's 2015 Embracing the Journey Training Seminar.
Seminar audio is available on www.freedomeveryday.org.
Family Origins of addiction presentation slides by Micki Lauren from the Embracing the Journey training seminar.
Seminar audio available on www.freedomeveryday.org.
Natural Contentment And Brain Evolution - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
With the power of modern neuroscience, informed by ancient contemplative wisdom, you can use your mind alone to change your brain for the better. Self-directed neuroplasticity involves steadying the mind (key to both worldly success and spiritual practice), cooling the fires of stress reactivity, weaving positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and self, and taking life less personally.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Paper Tiger Paranoia - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
How the brain’s “negativity bias” makes clients overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate inner and outer resources, leading to anxiety, anger, depression, and conflicts with others – and how to help clients overcome that bias, see the good facts about the others, the world, and themselves, and build resilience for happiness, healthy relationships, and occupational success.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Virtually all yoga science and philosophy states that a
human being is but a fragment of an enormous universe,
and when this human being learns to “communion” with this
vastness, then he/she attains union with something that is
bigger
than him/her. This attachment or
tapping into
something bigger
thus enables one to walk the true path of
happiness. By flowing along with the force, the individual is
able to discover truth.
The Neurodharma of Love and Power - Rick Hanson - Openground, AustraliaRick Hanson
Practical Tools for Empathy, Kindness and Assertiveness.
On the whole, we experience our greatest joys and sorrows in our relationships. Supported by both Buddhism and Western psychology, the keys to healthy relationships include empathy, compassion, and kindness. These states of mind are based on underlying states of your brain. The emerging integration of modern neuroscience and ancient contemplative wisdom offers increasingly skillful means for activating those brain states – and thus for cultivating an open and caring heart, and more fulfilling relationships.
This is a simple presentation on Human Thoughts and Values we bother to care.
Our mind works in the reference created by the awareness of the things that we consistently bother. We should be able to visualize both scaled up or scaled down dimensions of our existence in this world we live in.
THE CHALLENGE FOR MODERN-DAY UNITARIANS AND UNIVERSALISTS: RECLAIMING THE SAC...Dr Ian Ellis-Jones
An Address Delivered on 4 October 2009 at the Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association (ANZUUA) held at The Centre, Randwick, New South Wales - Copyright Ian Ellis-Jones 2009 - All Rights Reserved.
Saint John of the Cross & Mortification
#John-of-the-Cross #Mortification #Mortify #mortifying #John-Cross #John-ofCross #Mortification-flesh #John-Cross
https://bittube.tv/post/6f01d961-fa0b-4e13-b830-3089998c3c07 - Part 1
https://bittube.tv/post/77c4e63d-aae2-4d41-b769-2127ef45d7e3 - Part 2
https://odysee.com/@periodic-reset-of-civilizations:c/Saint-John-of-the-Cross---Mortification:4
https://tube.midov.pl/w/4rN2GyaQWTjWd6zFBKz3q6
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8iEf0DaGq8RS/
All the platforms I Am on:
https://steemit.com/links/@resetciviliz/link-s
▶ BITCOIN
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▶ ETHEREUM
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▶ TEESPRING
https://periodic-reset.creator-spring.com
Slides from Dan Phillips' presentation at L.I.F.E. Recovery International's 2015 Embracing the Journey Training Seminar.
Seminar audio is available on www.freedomeveryday.org.
Family Origins of addiction presentation slides by Micki Lauren from the Embracing the Journey training seminar.
Seminar audio available on www.freedomeveryday.org.
Natural Contentment And Brain Evolution - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
With the power of modern neuroscience, informed by ancient contemplative wisdom, you can use your mind alone to change your brain for the better. Self-directed neuroplasticity involves steadying the mind (key to both worldly success and spiritual practice), cooling the fires of stress reactivity, weaving positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and self, and taking life less personally.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Paper Tiger Paranoia - Rick Hanson, PhDRick Hanson
How the brain’s “negativity bias” makes clients overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate inner and outer resources, leading to anxiety, anger, depression, and conflicts with others – and how to help clients overcome that bias, see the good facts about the others, the world, and themselves, and build resilience for happiness, healthy relationships, and occupational success.
More resources are freely offered at http://www.rickhanson.net.
Virtually all yoga science and philosophy states that a
human being is but a fragment of an enormous universe,
and when this human being learns to “communion” with this
vastness, then he/she attains union with something that is
bigger
than him/her. This attachment or
tapping into
something bigger
thus enables one to walk the true path of
happiness. By flowing along with the force, the individual is
able to discover truth.
The Neurodharma of Love and Power - Rick Hanson - Openground, AustraliaRick Hanson
Practical Tools for Empathy, Kindness and Assertiveness.
On the whole, we experience our greatest joys and sorrows in our relationships. Supported by both Buddhism and Western psychology, the keys to healthy relationships include empathy, compassion, and kindness. These states of mind are based on underlying states of your brain. The emerging integration of modern neuroscience and ancient contemplative wisdom offers increasingly skillful means for activating those brain states – and thus for cultivating an open and caring heart, and more fulfilling relationships.
This is a simple presentation on Human Thoughts and Values we bother to care.
Our mind works in the reference created by the awareness of the things that we consistently bother. We should be able to visualize both scaled up or scaled down dimensions of our existence in this world we live in.
The Shared World of Religion, Meditation, Alcohol, Drugs and Sex
A paper to be presented at the Annual Conference for Association of Transpersonal Psychology at Atherton on Feb 14th.
Spirituality in Action : Bringing Transpersonal Psychology to a World in Crisis
The Shared World of Religion, Meditation, Alcohol, Drugs and Sex
A paper to be presented at the Annual Conference for Association of Transpersonal Psychology, Atherton, on Feb 14.
Spirituality in Action: Bringing Transpersonal Psychology to the World in Crisis
The Loving Brain - Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions and Related Disord...Rick Hanson
Over millions of years, social abilities – such as bonding, empathy, compassion, language, and cooperative planning – really aided survival. Love, broadly defined, has profoundly shaped the evolution of the human brain.
When mind is oriented to material world, you are one with modern world. When it dies and gets oriented to the inner consciousness you enter a new world. The one who lives in material world hears the voices of the outer world and for him the world of consciousness appears as illusions. The same is true for the one who lives in conscious world and hears the inner voice. Only time will judge which voice is true. What if the inner voice reveals the cutting edge question of the outer world in all simplicity and proves its superiority? Will anyone ever be able to leave it to compromise with material world? Is this what Christ said take your cross and follow, when is the liberation for such people?
What is Healing: At What Level of Human Existence Does Healing Begin?David Grinstead, MA
At what level of human existence does healing begin? "There is no sharp line of line of demarcation between the religious, spiritual, emotional, and physical—between the body and the psyche." (Morton Kelsey, Healing and Christianity, 232)
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
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Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
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The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
2. A global spiritual practice based on ancient artifacts,
Felicitas D.
Goodman, PhD, anthropologist, developed the
system in late 1970's and called it Ritual Body
Postures and Ecstatic Trance.
3. I discovered her
book, Where the Spirits
Ride the Wind in
February 1993
and renamed the practice
Ecstatic Wisdom Postures
because it seemed more
descriptive.
4. Why ecstatic wisdom?
First we need to examine that state called
ecstasy.
In modern times, ecstasy has become confused
with sexuality, depravity and a host of other
behaviors that are frowned upon.
5. Consequently, our modern culture is
ecstasy deprived and we humans are
hungry.
Ecstasy deprivation
is a major source
of modern addiction.
7. Here are some symptoms:
"being on the pause button"
feeling apathetic, numb, stiff, unfeeling, helpless,
alienated, disengaged from living
feeling a nameless dread
feeling mired by confusion
feeling powerless to change anything including
yourself
9. Take a deep breath - we're in the throes of major
cultural transformation and unprecedented
demands on human evolution.
AND happily, we're in the soup together. Out of
this crisis the creative brilliance of humanity can
emerge.
Ecstatic Wisdom Postures can help us midwife this
new human story as well as rekindle our own
aliveness.
11. Ecstasy is the
“condition that
occurs when the
body transcends the
mind without the
loss of
consciousness.”
Belinda Gore, PhD,
The Ecstatic Experience
12. In his book, Wild Hunger -
the Primal Roots of Modern
Addiction, Bruce
Wilshire, points out that: “In
Greek
ek-stasis means standing out
from the points in space one‟s
body occupies. To stand out
into the surrounding world
and to be caught up and
possessed by it. The world
owns me and, in a strange
sense, I own it.”
13. We modern humans have
broken that “participatory
bond…with regenerative
source, with wild
nature…kinship with plants and
animals, with rocks, trees, and
horizons. Even terror is a
bond with what terrifies.
In such moments we are „out of
ourselves,‟
ecstatic, spontaneous, full of the
swelling presences of things.”
14. My experience of ecstasy
includes:
a felt sense of
communion
awe and profound
gratitude
being energized and
informed by the
invisible life force
streaming through
me
being fully engaged
with living
15. Feeling energized and engaged sounds healthy, doesn't it?
But you still may be asking…
18. What a relief!
Our ego can let
go.
That poor ego of
ours is exhausted by
trying to control the
uncontrollable.
19. When we hold an
Ecstatic Wisdom
Posture the ego
steps back,
changes jobs,
becomes
a “side-by” to the
Soul,
a helpmate to the
Self.
20. This frees our energy.
We feel as if we belong
to something larger than
ourselves alone.
Addictions lose their
hold.
We find easier ways to
negotiate life's surprises.
And we fall in love with
life!
21. Why do I use the term
Ecstatic Wisdom Postures?
Ecstatic Postures provide a felt-sense
of aliveness
and
the bone-deep truth beyond facts.
22. Ecstatic Wisdom Postures
cultivate mystery
and inspire awe…
and that provides an
eco-centric awareness,
a well-spring for wisdom.
23. We discover then that
ecstasy and wisdom
are
inseparable,
regenerative,
and bone deep.
24. So why are postures called
ecstatic?
The Body holds the key.
25. The practice relies on the body not the intellect.
Our nervous system is hardwired to respond to the
rhythmic stimulation and the posture itself
provides the doorway to a specific neighborhood
of the world beyond our typical senses.
The combination of pose and rhythm is the key
which opens the door.
31. balances our brain, integrates our
body/mind, rejuvenates our nervous system,
releases endorphins for that signature feeling
of well-being,
inspires imagination and helps us remember
the vastness of our own inner landscape,
nourishes community,
and provides direct experience of Source.
33. live fully so we have no regrets when our time
here is done,
experience life-affirming ecstasy on a regular
basis,
nourish community, co-creativity, collaboration,
inspire artistic expression and imaginative
solutions,
live with love, trust and gratitude, which helps
us embrace chaos with courage and equanimity.
34. We enrich our living today …
. . .at the same time we feel better about the legacy we leave
behind for our kids and their kids and their kids…
35. I hope all that inspires you to sample
Ecstatic Wisdom Postures for yourself.
Please join me for an
introduction on February 21st, 2012,
in Hansville, WA,
or on February 27th on Bainbridge Island.
Intros can also be "commissioned" by interested
groups, as an Astrology Group is doing in Poulsbo.
A six session Foundation Course
is always available after an Intro.
36. Please check my blogsite -
The Wisdom of Not Knowing Everything
for current offerings and more information
about Ecstatic Wisdom Postures:
www.awakeningstorylines.com
deborahmltn@gmail.com
Cuyamungue, the Felicitas D. Goodman Institute, is located near
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
www.cuyamungueinstitute.com
37. Brief Biography
Deborah J. Milton has a Ph.D.
in Human Development
from Bryn Mawr College.
She has facilitated groups for thirty years. An eco-
psychologist, artist, teacher, adventurer, mother of
four and grandmother of eight, Deborah was
certified to teach Postures in 1996 by the
Cuyamungue Institute. In 2001, she founded
Athanor Arts - a Haven for the Creative Spirit just
north of Missoula, MT, and gave the practice the
name: Ecstatic Wisdom Postures.
In 2009, in response to the call of our time, she
moved to Bainbridge Island, WA, to deepen her
work in the world.
As her relationship to EWP has evolved over the
years, she finds them infinitely adaptable, always
surprising, and an inspiration for Sacred Activism.
They nourish her with community,
life-giving ecstasy and soul-centric wisdom.
38. Acknowledgements
Text and artwork by Deborah J. Milton, Ph.D.
with gratitude to Marianne Carroll and Frances Wilson
for the slides' background design.
This program was written in 2012 using PowerPoint 2003.
Milton photo taken by Barbara Fontaine.
Photo slide 29 from the book by Nana Nauwald.
Photo in slide 11 from an old Institute brochure.
All images of artifacts and portrait of Goodman are from the collection of the
Cuyamungue Institute or articles written by Gore.
39. Here are a few of my favorite books relating to non-ordinary
reality, ecstatic experience and the conscious evolution of the human:
Ecstatic Body Postures – an Alternate Reality Workbook, Belinda Gore, Ph.D.
Where the Spirits Ride the Wind - Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic
Experiences, Felicitas D.Goodman, Ph.D.
The Ecstatic Experience, Belinda Gore, Ph.D.
The Salmon in the Spring – the Ecology of Celtic Spirituality, Jason Kirkey
Becoming Animal – An Earthly Cosmology, David Abram
Shaking Medicine – The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement, Bradford
Keeney, Ph.D.
Wild Hunger – Primal Roots of Modern Addiction, Bruce Wilshire, Ph.D.
Voices of the First Day, Robert Lawlor
The Cosmic Serpent – DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, Jeremy Narby,
Ph.D.
Nature and the Human Soul – Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a
Fragmented World, Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
The Universe is a Green Dragon, Brian Swimme, Ph.D.