March - April 2020 bi-monthly New Age Magazine Volume : 11 Issue : 2

Spiritual Science
INDIAN FEDERATION OF SPIRITUAL SCIENTISTS
Cover Page : Ken Wilber

CONTENTS
Ken Wilber www.integralworld.net 2

Ever-Present Awareness Ken Wilber 4

Brahmarshi Patriji Padmasri D.R. Kaarthikeyan
CHAIRMAN .. IFSS CHIEF ADVISER .. IFSS Going Inside Joseph Goldstein 6

God is the Breath of Life Will Johnson 8

Science of Soul Brahmarshi Patriji 11

S.K. Rajan M. Swarnalatha Fasting the Mind Jason Gregory 13

VICE CHAIRMAN - IFSS SECRETARY GENERAL - IFSS

Spiritual Science Anatomy of Your Vital.. Debra Greene 18

Trustees - IFSS
Understanding the Power.. Kayt Sukel 22

Work as joy.. Dr II Will M. Tuttle 24

D.L.N. Shastri Dr. P.S. Gopala Krishna

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 “ Ken Wilber ”
Ken Wilber was born in the year 1949 in
Oklahoma City. Wilber lived in many places
during his school years, due to his father
being in the Air Force. He completed high
school in Bellevue, Nebraska, and started
medicine at Duke University.
However, during his first year he lost all
interest in pursuing a career in science, and
started to read in psychology and
philosophy, both West and East.
He went back to Nebraska to study
biochemistry, but after a few years dropped
out of the academic world (with a major in
biochemistry) to devote all his time to studying
his own curriculum and writing books.
With 22 books on spirituality and
science, and translations in more than 25
countries, Wilber is now the most translated
writer on consciousness studies in the United
States. He is seen as an important
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representative of transpersonal psychology,
which emerged in the sixties from humanistic
psychology, and which concerns itself
explicitly with spirituality. For the
fundamental and pioneering nature of his
insights, he has been called “ Einstein of
Consciousness Research ”.

Wilber’s debut, “ The Spectrum of
Consciousness  (1977) ” established his
reputation as an original thinker, who seeks
to integrate Western and Eastern
psychology. “ No Boundary  (1979) ”, which
summarizes this work, is one of his most
popular books. His core works “ The Atman
Project (1980) ” and “ Up from Eden  (1981) ”
cover the territories of developmental
psychology and cultural history respectively.
Wilber is an internationally
acknowledged leader, founder of Integral
Institute, and co-founder of Integral Life.
 Wilber is the originator of the world’s
first truly comprehensive or integrative
philosophy, aptly named “ Integral Theory. ”
As Wilber himself puts it: “ I’d like to think
of it as one of the first believable world philosophies ”
.. something that is becoming increasingly
necessary in order to navigate and thrive in
today’s world.
Incorporating cultural studies,
anthropology, systems theory, developmental
psychology, biology, and spirituality,
Integral Theory has been applied in fields
as diverse as ecology, sustainability,
psychotherapy, psychiatry, education,
business, medicine, politics, sports, and art.

Wilber explains the need for an Integral
Approach in the following way:
In our current post-modern world, we
possess an abundance of methodologies and
practices belonging to a multitude of fields
and knowledge traditions. What is utterly
lacking however, is a coherent organization,
and coordination of all these various
practices, as well as their respective data-sets.
What is needed is an approach that moves
beyond this indiscriminate eclectic-
pluralism, to an “ Integral Methodological
Pluralism ” .. driving toward a genuine
Source : www.integralworld.net .. www.integrallife.com
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“ Theory of Everything ” that helps to enrich
and deepen every field through an
understanding of exactly how and where
each one fits in relation to all the others.
In short, the Integral Approach is the
coherent organization, coordination, and
harmonization of all of the relevant practices,
methodologies, and experiences available to
human beings. Through the Integral
approach, we reveal the previously unseen
possibilities for a better, more
compassionate and more sustainable future
for all of us.

Wilber is also the founder of the
“ Integral Institute ”, which is the first
organization fully dedicated to advancement
and application of the Integral Approach in
relation to contemporary global issues. It was
formed in collaboration with over 200
scholars and experts, specializing in
education, politics, business, medicine,
psychology, spirituality, as well as, law and
criminal justice.
In the year 2007 Wilber co-founded
“ Integral Life ”, a social media-hub dedicated
to sharing the integral vision with the world
wide community, as well as documenting
and catalyzing the progress of the integral
movement.
pg 3
 Ken Wilber
“ Ever-Present Awareness ”
This primordial recognition of One Taste
.. not the creation but the recognition of the
fact that you and the Cosmos are One Spirit
.. One Taste .. One Gesture is the great gift of
the Non-dual traditions. And in simplified
form, this recognition goes like this:
We begin with the realization that the
pure “ Self ” or “ Transpersonal Witness ” is
an ever-present consciousness, even when
we doubt its existence. You are right now
aware of, say, this book .. the room .. a
window .. the sky .. the cloud .. you can sit
back and simply notice that you are aware
of all those objects floating by. Clouds float
through the sky, thoughts float through the
mind, and when you notice them, you are
effortlessly aware of them. There is a simple,
effortless, spontaneous witnessing of
whatever happens to be present.
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In that simple witnessing awareness,
you might notice:
“ I am aware of my body, and therefore I am
not just my body; ”
“ I am aware of my mind, and therefore I am
not just my mind; ”
“ I am aware of myself, and therefore I am not
just that self; ”
“ Rather, I seem somehow to be the Witness
of my body, my mind, myself. ”
This is truly fascinating. I can see my
thoughts, so I am not those thoughts. I am
aware of bodily sensations, so I am not those
sensations. I am aware of my emotions, so I
am not merely those emotions. I am
somehow the Witness of all of that!

But what is this Witness itself? Who or
What is it that witnesses all of these objects,
that watches the clouds float by, and
thoughts float by, and objects float by? Who
or What is this true Seer, this pure Witness,
which is at the very core of what I am?
That simple witnessing awareness, the
traditions maintain, is “ Spirit Itself ” .. is the
enlightened mind itself .. is Buddha-nature itself
.. is “ God Itself ” .. in its entirety.
Thus, according to the traditions, getting
in touch with Spirit or God or the enlightened
mind is not something difficult to achieve. It
is your own simple witnessing awareness in
exactly this moment. If you see this page,
you already have that awareness .. all of it ..
right now.
A very famous text from Dzogchen or
Maha-Ati Buddhism (one of the very greatest
of the Nondual traditions) puts it like this:
“ At times it happens that some meditators say
that it is difficult to recognize the nature of the
mind ” .. in Dzogchen, “ the nature of the mind ”
means primordial Purity or radical
emptiness .. it means non-dual Spirit by
whatever name. The point is that this “ nature
of the mind ” is ever-present witnessing
awareness, and some meditators, find this
hard to believe. They imagine it is difficult
or even impossible to recognize this ever-
present awareness, and that they have to
work very hard and meditate very long in
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order to attain this enlightened mind ..
whereas it is simply their own ever-present
witnessing awareness, fully functioning right
now.
In other words, the ultimate reality is not
something seen, but rather the ever-present
Seer. Things that are seen come and go are:
happy or sad, pleasant or painful, but the
Seer is none of those things, and it does not
come and go.
The Witness does not waver, does not
wobble, does not enter that stream of time.
The Witness is not an object, not a thing seen,
but the ever-present Seer of all things, the
simple Witness that is the ‘ I ’ of Spirit .. the
Center of the cyclone .. the Opening that is
God .. the Clearing that is pure Emptiness.

There is never a time that you do not
have access to this Witnessing Awareness.
At every single moment, there is a
spontaneous awareness of whatever happens
to be present .. and that simple, spontaneous,
effortless awareness is ever-present Spirit
itself. Even if you think you don’t see it, that
very awareness is it.
And thus, the ultimate state of
consciousness .. intrinsic Spirit itself .. is not
hard to reach but impossible to avoid.
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 Joseph Goldstein

““ Going
Going Inside”
Inside”
“ Establish a Regular, Daily Meditation Practice ”
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness
meditation retreats worldwide since the year 1974. After studying
philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Joseph
Goldstein joined the Peace Corps in the year 1965 to spend two years in
Thailand; it was there that he took an interest in Buddhism and began to
explore meditation practice. .

In the year 1976, with Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield, Goldstein cofounded
the “ Insight Meditation Society (IMS) ”, in Barre, Massachusetts. IMS is now one of the
largest and most influential Buddhist meditation retreat centers in the West. A few excerpts
from his book “ A Heart Full of Peace ”
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In our busy lives in this complex and Regularity of practice is what effects a
often confusing world, what practical steps transformation. If we do it, it begins to
can we take to train our minds?  happen; if we don’t do it, we continue acting

The first step is to establish a regular,
daily meditation practice. This takes
discipline.
It’s not always easy to set aside time each
day for meditation; so many other things call
to us. But as with any training, if we practice
regularly we begin to enjoy the fruits. Of
course, not every sitting will be concentrated.
Sometimes we’ll be feeling bored or restless.
These are the inevitable ups and downs of
practice. It’s the commitment and regularity
of practice that is important, not how any one
sitting feels.
This training will only happen through
your own effort. No one can do it for you.
out the various patterns of our conditioning.

The second step is to train ourselves in
staying mindful and aware of the body
throughout the day. As we go through our
daily activities, we frequently get lost in
thoughts of past and future, not staying
grounded in the awareness of our bodies.
For simple, useful feedback when we’re
lost in thought, we can use the very common
feeling of rushing. Rushing is a feeling of
toppling forward. Our minds run ahead of
us, focusing on where we want to go, instead
of settling into our bodies where we are.

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 Learn to pay attention to this feeling of
rushing .. which does not particularly have
to do with how fast we are going. We can
feel rushed while moving slowly, and we can
be moving quickly and still be settled in our
bodies.
The feeling of rushing simply reminds
us that we’re not present. If you can, notice
what thought or emotion has captured the
attention. Then, just for a moment, stop and
settle back into the body: feel the foot on the
ground, feel the next step.

The Buddha made a very powerful
statement about this practice: “ Mindfulness
of the body leads to nirvana. ” This is not a
superficial practice. Mindfulness of body
keeps us present .. and therefore, we know
what’s going on. The practice is difficult to
remember, but not difficult to do. It’s all in
the training: sitting regularly and being
mindful of the body during the day.
To develop deeper concentration and
mindfulness, to be more present in our
bodies, and to have a skillful relationship
with thoughts and emotions, we need not
only daily training, but also time for retreat.
It’s very helpful, at times, to disengage from
the busyness of our lives, for intensive
spiritual practice.
material excerpted from the book " A Heart Full of Peace " by Goldstein (Wisdom Publications)
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
Retreat time is not a luxury. If we are
genuinely and deeply committed to
awakening, to freedom .. to whatever words
express the highest value you hold .. a retreat
is an essential part of the path.
We need to create a rhythm in our lives,
establishing a balance between times when
we are engaged, active, and relating in the
world and times when we turn inward.
Pascal, the French philosopher and
mathematician, very aptly noted, “ Most of
the problems in the world would be solved if people
spent time sitting quietly in their room. ”
At first this “ going inside ” could be for a
day, a weekend, or for ten days. At our
meditation center we offer a three-month
retreat every year; and at the new Forest
Refuge, people have come for as long as a
year. In the Tibetan tradition, there are three-
year retreats.
We can do whatever feels appropriate
and possible to find some balanced rhythm
between our lives in the world and the inner
silence of a retreat. In this way we develop
concentration and mindfulness on deeper
and deeper levels, which then makes it
possible to be in the world in a more loving
and compassionate way.
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 Will Johnson

“ God is the Breath of Life ”

“ God is what happens to you
when you submit to your breath. ”
Will Johnson has been a Buddist practitioner since the year 1972 and a
Certified Rolfer since the year 1976. He is the Director of the Institute for
“ Embodiment Training ” and teaches a deeply body-oriented approch to
sitting meditation at Buddist centers around the world. He is the author
of a number of books, including “ Breathing as Spiritual Practice ” ,
“ Breathing through Whole Body ”, “ The Spiritual Practices of Rumi ”,
“ Eyes Wide Open ”, and “ Cannabis in Spiritual Practice ”. He lives in Costa Rica. A few
excerpts from his book “ Breathing as Spiritual Practice ”.
edit-team

Several years ago, while surveying the
participants at a Buddhist Meditation
Retreat I was teaching in Victoria, British
Columbia, I became aware of something that
struck me as unusual.
In addition to what I playfully refer to
as “ the usual Buddhist suspects ” who regularly
attend my retreats .. largely middle-class,
educated, big-hearted folks, most of whom
had been raised as Christian, Muslim, or Jew
but had left the fold of the religion of their
birth to probe the interior space of their
bodies and minds through Buddhist
Meditational Practices .. there were also a
number of people from the Christian
Contemplative Movement in attendance.
This was new for me, and I found the
presence of this group .. and the suggestion
of an intersection between belief and direct
experience .. both intriguing and
exhilarating, if a bit puzzling at first.
Over the course of the retreat I came to
understand that these folks, deeply and
traditionally Christian in their faith and
outlook, were .. much like their Buddhist
brothers and sisters .. exploring breath as
their primary vehicle for coming closer to a
direct experience of what they used the word

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‘ God ’ to represent. Still very much drawn richer, and frankly far more satisfying, than
to the story and teachings of Christ, they had the more conventional condition of
apparently become dissatisfied with faith consciousness .. primarily lost in thought and
and belief alone and wanted to experience unaware of bodily presence and the cyclic
God in a more visceral, direct way, and they motions of breath .. that passes as normal in
spoke of how becoming more acutely aware the world at large and from where I began
of the eternal cycle of breath created in them my inquiry so many decades ago.
glimmerings of the
I’ve mostly used
palpable, felt presence of
terms like the Great Wide
God.
Open .. the ground of
I very much enjoyed being, the source of all
the participation of these things .. to describe the
people, and by the end of transformation that would
the retreat, I’d befriended
occur. I have even, on
an Anglican minister
occasion, echoed his
among them. A few weeks
words almost exactly
after the retreat ended,
through such statements
I went to visit him, and
as, “ The Great Wide Open is
over coffee at a
what happens to you when
neighborhood shop, we
you surrender completely to
dove into a fascinating
your breath. ”
conversation about the connection between
‘ God ’ and ‘ Breath ’. As we continued our conversation,
I thought back to a passage from “ Book of
“ God is the breath of life ” he would say
Genesis (2:7) ” that had always fascinated me
“ God is what happens to you when you submit to
as a child:
your breath. ”
“ And the Lord God formed man of the
Becoming aware of the breath, and then
dust of the ground, and breathed into his
surrendering to its impulse, the primal
nostrils the breath of life, and man became a
urgency to breathe, has always led me into a
living being. ”
dimension of experience that feels so much

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 ‘ Dust ’ and ‘ Breath ’. I remember as a
child pondering the relationship between
these two qualities that couldn’t be more
different from each other: the one visible and
concrete, the other invisible and formless.
Although we’re made from the elements of
Earth, we’re also clearly different from the
dust and particles of our planet and solar
system.
Life comes from somewhere, and the
explanation that God blew that life into us
has always held a good deal of appeal to me,
and this was especially true once I’d
experienced in the world of Buddhist
meditation how the initial awareness of the
breath and the subsequent surrender to it can
slowly, but radically, alter consciousness
over time in a way that leaves me feeling so
refreshed as to feel reborn.
We’re like caged animals who’ve been
kept captive for so long that they’ve forgotten
material excerpted from the book “ Breathing as Spiritual Practice ” by Will Johnosn
.. published by Inner Traditions .. grateful acknowledgments .. edit-team
pg 10
that the door to their cage has actually always
been open. If the winds of breath, the agent
of the healing power of God, might have the
power literally to blow away the pain and
suffering we so often feel in our body, our
mind, our emotions, why not surrender to
its highest potential?
To engage the practice of Breathing God,
we first have to become aware of the breath,
and even though breath is with us every
moment of our lives, we take it so for granted
that we’re rarely ever aware of its constant,
cyclical phases of breathing in, breathing out.
Could not the same be said of God, who’s
with us every moment of our lives, but whom
we take so for granted and whose presence
we’re so rarely ever aware of?
Becoming aware of the breath is to begin
the journey back to becoming aware of the
presence of God.
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 Brahmarshi Patriji

Basis of all Religions Basis of Spirituality

is is
“ Spirituality ” “ Soul Science ”

Basis of Soul Science Basis of Meditation

is is
“ Meditation ” “ Being one with the Breath ”

“ breath-energy ” But, how to know the BREATH-ENERGY ?

BREATH is our life.
There is no life without BREATH.
BREATH-ENERGY is the supreme energy.
Everyone requires this energy .. like
plants, trees, animals, birds, humans .. all
require this energy. This BREATH-ENERGY is,
How to feel its greatness ? The way is to
become one with the essence of the BREATH.
“ easy, soft breath ”
To experience BREATH-ENERGY, we have
to be with the BREATH. But how ? Here is the
methodology : Don’t take ‘ long ’ or ‘ short ’

however, more spiritually essential for the BREATH. Keep only to natural, normal, soft

humans. and easy BREATH.

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 When we become one with this natural
and easy BREATH, automatically our mind
becomes empty. When the mind becomes
empty, we get abundant cosmic energy.
Soon, something called as the ‘ third-eye ’ gets
activated, activating our SOUL POTENTIAL.
“ science of meditation ”
Similar to our two physical eyes, we also
have a ‘ third-eye ’ and like our physical body,
we also have an ‘ astral body ’. All this is
understood only through BREATH.
When we regularly place our attention
on BREATH, it is called ‘ meditation ’. And with
more and more practice of meditation, we
understand the total scope of the SCIENCE OF
MEDITATION.
“ soul science ”
Through MEDITATION we can see our
past and future. Knowing our past .. we come
to understand that we have changed many
bodies and passed through many varied
experiences.
Finally, we realize that we are not body
.. We are Soul. “ Ayamatma Brahma ” .. “ Aham
Brahmasmi ” .. “ Tatwamasi ”. That means we
begin to understand concepts like “ We are
Everything ” .. “ We are Eternal ” etc., etc.
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This whole subject is called as “ SOUL
SCIENCE ”.
“ spirituality ”
Through BREATH we understand
“ dhyana shastra ” and through “ dhyana shastra ”
alone we understand “ atma shastra ”.
Only after having a firm grasp of “ SOUL
SCIENCE ” can we begin to understand how
to speak, how to eat .. how to feel, how to
touch, how to walk .. in fact each and every
point of our life, one by one. This is nothing
but “ Enlightenment ” .. also called
“ Spirituality ”.
“ religion ”
“ RELIGION ” means “ re-ligate ” .. that is
to “ re-unite ” . Now, we understand the
magnificence of all religions. Now, we
become one with all the world’s religions.
Every religion has been based upon the same
truth of “ SOUL SCIENCE ”.
With SOUL EXPERIENCE, we understand
that we don’t have any limitations or any
type of boundaries.
To experience our SOUL-HOOD, we have
to become one with our BREATH-HOOD. That’s
the absolute central point.
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 Jason Gregory

“ Fasting the Mind ”

Jason Gregory is an author, philosopher, and spiritual teacher
specializing in Eastern and Western philosophy, comparative religion,
psychology, cognitive science, metaphysics, and ancient cultures. Jason
is the author of “ Effortless Living ” , “ Fasting the Mind ”, “ Enlightenment
Now ”, and “ The Science and Practice of Humility ”. For many years
Jason has lived in Asia studying the spiritual traditions and meditative
practices of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, visiting some of the most remote places
in the world.

For over a decade Jason has been teaching the philosophy of the East and their
meditative practices, expounding the benefits of their importance in the modern world
and, as a result, how they will transform our lives to live more optimally and peacefully.
Jason travels worldwide lecturing about the East, its science of mind, and the methods
and practices that define the East, and how its philosophy is a cure not only for the
individual’s mind but also for the cultural, social, and religious problems in the world
today. A few excerpts from his book “ Fasting the Mind ”.

edit-team

The epidemic of our times is not a war
on terror or a war among nations and
religions, nor is it any conflict between
opposites that we can conceive of.
It is a war so subtle that we are not even
conscious of the battle being waged. It is a
psychological war: a war against our mind,
a war on consciousness. But this war is not
being waged upon us from the outside world
.. at least not entirely so. The deep-down
truth is that you have waged war upon
yourself.
We are not even conscious of this fact
because we are asleep at the wheel of our
own life. We often play the victim card, as if
the world is against us. In truth this mentality
eclipses the real problem, which is that you
are against yourself .. not intentionally, but
rather due to your inability to be your true
and authentic self.

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 This true and authentic self should not
be confused with who you think you are as
a personality. On the contrary, to be your
true self means to reside in that deep place
within your mind and heart where thoughts,
feelings, and emotions are observed as
temporary phenomena, like rising and
crashing waves of the great ocean of
consciousness.

We lose consciousness of our true Self
( Atman/Purusha ) when we begin to believe we
are the waves ( personality ) rather than the
ocean ( Brahman ).
The war we wage upon ourselves is from
riding these waves of thoughts, feelings, and
emotions, and ultimately the notion of
separation. We believe these waves that we
ride are permanent and lasting. Actually
thoughts, feelings, and emotions are not
really the problem because they are what
color the world, making it beautiful or
dramatic, bringing inspiration into the world
when they are recognized in their truest
context.
So the real problem exists when we
begin to identify with our thoughts, feelings,
and emotions as if they are permanent and
something that we can hold on to. We suffer
as a result of this process. This suffering was
one of the key aspects of human life that
Gautama the Buddha realized.
pg 14
Buddha discovered that when we try to
cling to our passing experiences, whether
pleasurable or painful, we suffer.

Armenian mystic George Ivanovich
Gurdjieff had an interesting perspective and
meditation on this matter of suffering:
“ The sole means now for the saving of the
beings of the planet Earth would be to implant again
into their presences a new organ .. of such
properties that every one of these unfortunates
during the process of existence should constantly
sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his
own death as well as the death of everyone upon
whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a
sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy
the egoism completely crystallized in them. ”
This is not to be thought of fatalistically.
The real intention behind Gurdjieff’s words
is to liberate you from the impermanence of
life and the illusion of this permanent ego,
which you believe you are and which
supposedly suffers from the impermanent
roller coaster of life.
People believe they are this “ I, ” “ me, ”
“ mine, ” and so on. As a result we become
excessively self-interested. We try to sustain
and maintain this permanent sense of “ I, ”
which in truth changes like the wind from
moment to moment, with no permanent
state.
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 
Many people believe they are in control
of their lives, believing they are this
permanent EGO, containing all the dramas
playing out within their thoughts, feelings,
and emotions. As this tendency becomes
stronger and stronger in our modern world,
we see an exponential increase in mental
health issues and psychological diseases.
The medical industry doesn’t seem to
have any sort of cure for these problems other
than medication like antidepressants, which
only suppress the symptoms without
addressing the root of the problem. As a
result of how we orient ourselves towards
the world, we believe the cure is something
we acquire from the outside world. We
need to reorient our attention to where the
cure really is.
You possess the cure within yourself.
But it is not some form of magic, hypnosis,
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or trickery. It is actually a natural away of
life that we must come back into resonance
with. This is much easier said than done,
because it requires discipline to resist what
stimulates us. None of these problems are
new; we’ve had them since the dawn of
human civilization.
And, they were more recognizable in
ancient times because the world was not as
complex as it is today. This simplicity in
ancient times is what allowed a cure for our
mind and all of its acquired issues to arise.
The ancient ultimate cure was born in the
East, and it is a method of discipline and
practice that we fear in our modern world.

The method and practice born in the East
is known as mind-fasting or fasting the
mind. Mind-fasting directly impacts the
habits and tendencies of our subconscious,
which in turn affects our lifestyle.
pg 15
 Mind-fasting put people’s anxieties at
ease back in those ancient times so they
could see with clarity the way forward, not
only individually, but also collectively. This
is why this ancient method of healing is
imperative for us to rediscover in our
modern era.

In ancient times, and some what still in
the modren era, when a physician would
examine a sick individual and realize that
their lifestyle chocies were leading to bad
eating habits centered around momentary
pleasures, they would offer the radical
prescription of physically fasting the body
so that all of the internal organs could finally
be given the time to rest and repair from the
damage done by such excess.
Fasting the body helps it repair itself,
and we begin to correct our bad eating habits.
As a result we cultivate new, healthy habits
that contribute to well-being and longevity.
And so we change a part of our lifestyle, but
only a part.
The great sages of the East realized that.
They understood that fasting the body is
great and can have a wonderful effect on our
mind and life. But bodily fasting in no way
ceases the mind’s excessive need to do, to
achieve, to strive, and to be a person who is
pg 16
self-interested, all of which lead to the
psychological bad habits that drive our
suffering, including our diets. The great
sages of the East, then, were not concerned
with fasting the body; instead they were
concerned with fasting the mind.

Mind-fasting has a direct impact on the
root cause of all our suffering.
Fasting the mind is the process of
eliminating all the content that stimulates
our mind and refraining from the habit of
trying to stimulate it out of fear of boredom.
The sage’s secret is that if we can starve
the mind .. fast the mind .. then we will begin to
feel a state of equanimity that is not
dependent on excessive stimulation. By
dealing with our boredom through fasting
the mind we begin to feel that sense of unity
within .. the Atman and Purusha .. which the
agitation of boredom eclipses. Fasting the
mind means we don’t respond to any
sensations like boredom.

Fasting the mind is the ultimate cure to
suffering because, as with fasting the body,
we have given the mind time to truly relax
from any sort of stimulation so it can repair
itself and come back into equilibrium. In
fasting the mind we come back to our
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original true nature, not as individual
persons, but instead as the entire universe
as it exists deep within Atman and Purusha
that is eclipsed by mental activity.
From this deep nature within we begin
to act authentically and carry out the
spontaneous functions of the universe that
exist in our unconscious and manifest as our
dharma. This is what will lead to real world
peace, because the individual has come into
resonance with the actuality of the universe.
Individual, social and cultural harmony
comes into being as a result, and a real
spirituality is recognized.

The only thing that stops this from
becoming our reality is you.
material excerpted from the book “ Fasting the Mind ” by Jason Gregory
.. published by Inner Traditions .. grateful acknowledgments .. edit-team
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If you don’t take fasting the mind
seriously you will continue to distract your
mind with whatever frivolous nonsense is
available while you continue to complain
about your suffering and the suffering of the
world.
We truly cannot complain if we do not
take responsibility for what our mind
consumes. Likewise with our diet, if we do
not take responsibility for what we eat then
we cannot complain about being fat. Only
you can help yourself, which inadvertently
changes the world.
A thorough examination of your
habitual patterns and lifestyle is required on
your behalf. The time to refrain from all
distractions and begin the great fast is now.
pg 17
 Debra Greene

“ Anatomy of Your Vital Body ”

Debra Greene, Ph.D., is a frequently quoted expert in the field of
energy medicine and mind-body integration. Debra combines the best
of leading-edge approaches with modern science in her clinical practice,
writings, lectures, and nationwide media appearances. Debra is author
of the acclaimed book, “ Endless Energy: The Essential Guide to Energy
Health ”. Along with Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, J. K. Rowling, and
other notable women, Debra has a chapter in the award winning book, “ Goddess Shift:
Women Leading for a Change ”. Debra is the founder of Inner Clarity (IC) and the Energy
Mastery program. Having worked with thousands of clients and taught hundreds of
workshops, Debra is known for her ability to get to the core of psychoenergetic imbalances
and facilitate lasting improvement. Debra is a holistic therapist and frequently quoted
expert in the field of energy medicine and mind-body integration. A few excerpts from her
book “ Endless Energy: The Essential Guide to Energy Health ”.
edit-team

A complete science of inergy anatomy physical body functioning, yet we attend to

is found in health systems from cultures that
devoted thousands of years to studying and
working directly with the vital body.
I have condensed a vast amount of
information and over-simplified to give a
very basic understanding, enough to
provide a working knowledge for energy
health purposes. In similar fashion, few of
us know the mechanisms behind our
it every day.
Independent research done mostly in
India and China contains a storehouse of
wisdom about the inner workings of the vital
body.
In India vital energy is called ‘ prana ’.
In China it is referred to as ‘ chi ’. The
discoveries of long ago, upon which entire
successful medical systems were built, are

pg 18 Spiritual Science - March - April 2020

being increasingly validated by Western called ‘ meridians ’ in Chinese medicine and
scientific methods. Although the US medical have been validated by a number of
world has been resistant to recognizing the methods, including MRI.
vital body, mainstream culture has embraced
The centers are often referred to as
its ancient methods.
“ chakra ”, a Sanskrit word that means round
You don’t have to look far today to see or wheel. These, as well, have been
the popularity of yoga, acupuncture, and the experimentally verified. Those who are able
martial arts. These practices emerged from
to see inergies have discribed these centers
cultures dedicated to complex and systematic
as looking like spinning wheels are vortices
study of the vital body. When combining
that range in size from about two inches in
their contributions a comprehensive,
diameter to several inches, depending on
detailed picture of human inergy anatomy
their stage of developement.
is formed.
It’s likely the ancients had the capacity

to see these wheel-like inergy centers and
Your vital body interpenetrates and
named them accordingly. As evidence of the
powers your physical body through a
Interface Effect, the centers and meridians
sophisticated network of inergy centers and
have been empirically linked to physical,
distribution lines that branch into smaller and
emotional, and mental health.
smaller inergy capillaries. The lines are

Spiritual Science - March - April 2020 pg 19

 The centers are like electrical power
plants where high voltage inergy is
transformed and distributed through a
convergence of power lines. Your vital body
interfaces with your physical body through
these power distribution lines. This inergy
network corresponds to your physical
nervous system. When several of these
“ power lines ” intersect, which happens at
the major never centers in your body, they
become even more potent.

There are seven places in your body
where multiple lines cross over, forming a
major power center. These centers are
positioned at the intersection of 21 power
lines, which represents a high concentration
of inergy. The seven major centers focalize
into inergy channels that, in turn, feed into
smaller centers, 21 minor and 49 mini
centers. The minor centers occur where 14
lines cross over and the mini centers are
located where seven lines converge.
 21 lines intersect = 7 major centers
 14 lines intersect = 21 minor centers
 7 lines intersect = 49 mini centers
The seven centers correspond to the
major nerve plexus and endocrine glands of
your physical body. The centers are funnel
pg 20
shaped. With the exception of the crown and
base, the major centers have a smaller
receiving end on the back of the body and a
wider distribution end on the front. The
centers are named for their corresponding
locations in the physical body. Approximate
locations are:
 Crown Center – Top of your head
 Brow Center – Your forehead
 Throat Center – Your throat
 Heart Center – Middle of your chest
 Solar Plexus Center – Your solar
plexus
 Sacral Center – Your lower torso
 Base Center – The base of your spine
The centers supply the inergy necessary
for optimal functioning of the organs, glands
and nerves nearby their locations. The seven
major centers govern specific physical
aspects:
 Crown – Right eye, upper brain,
pineal gland
 Brow – Left eye, lower brain, pituitary
gland
 Throat – Vocal apparatus, lungs,
alimentary canal, thyroid, parathyroid
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  Heart – Heart, circulation, blood,
vagus nerve, thymus gland, immune system
 Solar Plexus – Stomach, liver, gall
bladder, pancreas, intestines, nervous system
 Sacral – Sex organs, reproductive
system
The 21 minor centers are positioned
throughout your body but are especially
concentrated in your digestive areas, on your
chest, and on your head. There are also minor
centers in the palm of each hand, on the
bottom of each foot, at the gonads and at each
knee.

 Base – Hips, kidneys, adrenal glands, The centers and their power lines form
spinal column an invisible network of energies that flow

Although these seven centers are at throughout your physical body in a complex

various phases of development, all seven are and intricate distribution system. Inergy

functioning to a certain flows into lines of ever

degree at all times. decreasing size. There

They play such a vital are 14 major lines of

role in bringing life- force that feed into

sustaining inergy to the about 200-400 smaller

physical organs that lines. These lines, in

without even one of turn, branch out into

them we cannot tiny thread-like inergy

survive. The seven capillaries, called nadis.

major centers never Your vital body is

close down but they are comprised of

at varying stages of approximately 72,000 of

health, most of which these. To borrow a term

are determined by the from Star Trek, you are

condition of your not a carbon unit. You

emotional, mental, and are, in fact, a living,

universal bodies. moving inergy being!

material excerpted from the book “ Endless Energy: The Essential Guide to Energy Health ” by
Debra Greene .. published by MetaComm Media .. grateful acknowledgments .. edit-team

Spiritual Science - March - April 2020 pg 21

 Kayt Sukel
“ Understanding
the Power of Meditation ”
Tibetan monks meditate for hours upon
hours each week.
Their devotion to their religious
traditions makes them experts in the practice
of meditation. Turns out those experts have
a lot to teach us about how sustained
mindfulness affects the brain.
Meditation and Mindfulness induce a
heightened state of awareness and focused
attention. Various studies demonstrate the
practice can help relieve stress, as well as
manage anxiety, reduce inflammation, and
improve memory and attention to boot. Such
striking results have many doctors, across
specialties, prescribing meditation just as
they would an anti-depressant or blood
pressure medication. But it remains unclear
just how meditation confers so many health
benefits.
That’s why Bin He, a neuroengineer at
Carnegie Mellon University, decided to look
at the brains of Tibetan monks. In a previous
study, He and colleagues saw that
individuals with meditation experience were
pg 22
better able to control a computer cursor with
their mind than those without it. Since
Tibetan monks spend years of their lives
engaged in the practice of meditation, He was
curious to see if there might be any
significant differences in brain activation that
might offer a hint into how meditation leads
to so many beneficial effects.
“We went to Tibet and measured activity
in the brains of monks who had, on average,
15 years of meditation experience .. between
5 and 35 years,” He said. “We then compared
those results to native Tibetans who had
never meditated before.”
Using Electro Encephalo Graphy (EEG),
a series of electrodes placed on the scalp to
measure brain activity, He and his colleagues
found that long-term, active meditative
practice decreases activity in the default
network. This is the brain network associated
with the brain at rest .. just letting your mind
wander with no particular goal in mind .. and
includes brain areas like the
medial Prefrontal Cortex and the
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Posterior Cingulate Cortex. What’s more, the
longer a monk had been practicing, the
bigger the reduction in activity the
researchers observed.
“ It seems the longer you do meditation,
the better your brain will be at self-
regulation, ” said He. “You don’t have to
consume as much energy at rest and you can
more easily get yourself into a more relaxed
state.”
He suggests that meditative practice
helps to “optimize” how the brain uses
resources. Pioneering neuropsychologist
Michael Posner from the University of
Oregon, who first outlined how the brain’s
attention systems work, says that makes
sense. His own work, with Yi-Yuan Tang,
has shown distinct changes to the white
matter, or the nerve fibers that allow different
brain regions to more efficiently
communicate with one another, surrounding
the Anterior Cingulate, a part of the brain
heavily involved with managing attention,
with meditation practice.
Using diffusion tensor imaging, a
special kind of neuroimaging technique,
Posner and colleagues found increased
levels of myelin, sometimes referred to as
brain “insulation,” after only a few weeks of
regular meditation practice .. and that
increased insulation helps improve
connectivity by letting different brain
Source : www.brainfacts.org
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regions communicate faster and more
efficiently.
“ This is a major node of attention in the
brain .. and we can see these changes after
only two to four weeks of practice, ” He said.
“ Those changes are linked to improved
attention in different tasks. And as the
Anterior Cingulate has vast connections to
the limbic system, or emotional system, it
helps us understand why meditation can help
improve mood and reduce anxiety, too. ”
Such results are especially promising
considering the participants in Posner’s
study didn’t have to join an order of Tibetan
monks in order to gain a variety of benefits.
Participants improved on tasks measuring
attention and problem solving in as little as
five days. They also showed reductions in
“ Cortisol ”, a hormone commonly used to
measure a person’s stress level, Posner said.
Improved cognitive skills and lower stress
levels are certainly nothing to sneeze at.
Richard Davidson, founder of the
Center for Healthy Minds at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, says he is not
surprised that so many neuroscience studies
are elucidating the neural mechanisms
underlying meditation’s beneficial effects. He
says, taken together, there is strong evidence
that a regular, consistent meditative practice
offers a lot of direct benefits to the brain ..
and, by extension, to your psychological and
emotional well-being.
pg 23
 Dr II Will Tuttle

“ Work as Joy ” Vs “ Work as Burden ”

Dr II Will M. Tuttle is an American writer, speaker, musician, educator,
and author of the best-selling book “ The World Peace Diet ”.
Tuttle is the co-founder, with Judy Carman, of the Circle of
Compassion and the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals. He has
lectured through Unity Church and other New Thought and progressive
centers throughout North America since the Year 1990, and was the first
guest of Animal Rights Zone in the Year 2010. Tuttle made international debut in August
1995 at the “ 8 th International Vegan Festival ” in San Diego, where he performed
inspirational classical music and spoke about inner and outer peace and harmony in the
context of a vegan diet. Tuttle is a former Zen monk who studied in Korea.
Tuttle is a frequent speaker at Vegetarian, Spiritual, and Animal Rights conferences
and at local vegetarian societies. A few excerpts from his book “ The World Peace Diet ”.
edit-team

We universally condemn supremacism, it is but a short and unavoidable step to

elitism, and exclusivism for destroying peace justifying and inflicting the same kind of
and social justice, yet we unquestioningly suffering on other humans in our own
and even proudly adopt precisely these interest while likewise proclaiming our
attitudes when it comes to animals. supremacy or specialness.

The lesson is plain: when we harden The unremitting conflict and oppression
ourselves to the suffering we inflict on of history are inevitable by-products of
animals in our own interest, and justify it by confining and killing animals for food, as is
proclaiming our superiority or specialness, the male role model of macho toughness that

pg 24 Spiritual Science - March - April 2020

is required of both the professional animal
killer (herder) and the soldier. If we desire to
eat animal foods, this suffering is the price
we must pay.
The progressive voices of the left, while
often criticizing conventional science and
religion, and even questioning our rampant
exploitation of nature and domination of the
feminine, have so far almost completely
failed to see the connection between the core
ritual of our herding culture .. eating animals
.. and our destructive values and institutions.
Whether we’re of the right, left, or in
between, we all agree to ignore this basic
causal root of our problems. For example, in
his book “ The Reinvention of Work ”,
progressive theologian and priest Matthew
Fox probes deeply into the values and beliefs
that underlie our experience of work and our
attitudes toward it. Drawing upon a wide
range of scriptures including the Bible, the
Bhagavad-Gita, and the Tao Te Ching, as well
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as writings by illumined poets and saints
like Kabir, Rumi, Rilke, St. Francis,
Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart and the
more modern voices of Thomas Berry, E. F.
Schumacher, and Theodore Roszak, he
passionately argues that work is
fundamentally spiritual.

If we look around us, he says, to the
cosmos, to our Earth, and to nature and
animals, we find an infinity of action
unfolding continually, with every part
playing its assigned and vital role. Every
part, every cell, plant, animal, planet, and
star, has a function to fulfill in the larger
unfolding, and this is its work.
Fox argues that to do this work is to
participate in the becoming of the infinite
universe, and that this is thus both sacred and
ecstatic. “ [A]ll of creation, ” he writes,
“ exists because of the ‘ sheer joy ’ of God.
The work of creation was a work of joy whose
pg 25
whole purpose was to bring more joy into
existence. This not only gives us permission
to find joy in work but charges us with a
responsibility to do so. Joy is an essential
source of motivation in our work. ”

Fox recognizes, however, that there is a
big problem with work for us humans, noting
that over one billion of us are actually
other, and to “ reinvent ” work as the joy it
is meant to be as the expression of our heart’s
purpose.
What he does not articulate is that the
fundamental and defining work of our
herding culture is the brutal confining,
mutilating, and killing of sensitive creatures.
This is hardly a motivation for joy in
working! This is the obvious but

unemployed. If we look about us in nature, unrecognized and unarticulated

inconsistency at the
we see that every
root of our
being is working
d i l e m m a s .
and fulfilling its
Thousands of us
purpose, and it is
starve to death
only humans who
daily, millions of us
are unemployed,
labor like slaves for
und er empl oy ed ,
pennies a day in
overworked, or
toxic factories
unable or unwilling
p r o d u c i n g
to work.
consumerist junk, millions more of us work
We are the only species to enslave other as soldiers and agents of violence and fear ..
species for food, to drink milk as adults, and and it’s rooted in our plates.
to view work as disagreeable and try to The commodifying, confining, and
avoid it. Why is this? killing of animals is a complete perversion
Predictably, Fox blames our of the word “work” as defined by Fox. Until
dissatisfaction with work on the our defining work is transformed from

disconnection from nature and spirituality
caused by the scientific and industrial
revolutions and urges us to become more
creative, more loving, and more joyful in our
work, to care more for the Earth and each
killing animals for food to protecting and
caring for life, we will never “ reinvent ” work
in our culture.
We will only make technological
progress that gives us the means to exploit

pg 26 Spiritual Science - March - April 2020

animals, nature, and each other more
efficiently and cruelly, and to eat more
animal flesh, eggs, and dairy products than
ever in recorded history.
World peace and harmony require those
of us in positions of power and affluence in
the global village to stop dominating people,
animals, and nature through our craving for
animal foods. It’s easy to forget that if we’re
reading these words we are actually among
the richest and most powerful people on this
planet. Because of our relative wealth and
power, our example, our voice, and our
lifestyle can impact many people, either
positively or negatively. We are thus obliged
to honor this responsibility to our brothers
and sisters.
Because of the fundamentally violent
nature of its defining work .. herding and
killing animals .. our culture has a basic
distaste for work itself. We all hear that
working less is better than working more,
and not working at all is best of all.

The story we all learned in Genesis, of
being cast out of the garden, is significant,
for it was then that God punished us with
enforced hard labor while we live on this
Earth.
This metaphor, part of the herding
mythos, is revealing, for it depicts work as a
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distasteful burden and attributes it to a
divine edict that came with being thrown out
of the garden. In the garden, we ate a
completely plant-based diet, and there was
no concept of work as a separate activity.
We lived in harmony with animals, the
Earth, and each other, not killing them for
food or competing with each other. Our
work was our life, and it was joy, and all was
“ very good. ” There was no work as separate
activity, nor any concept of being saved, for
we had not committed the original sin of
seeing others as objects to be manipulated,
used, and killed.

The fall from grace, innocence, freedom,
and mercy began when we ate of the fruit of
the illusion of dualistic separatism and
stopped showing mercy to those at our
mercy. The fall came when we began
commodifying animals. We can resurrect
our work from defiling slavery to joyous
participation.
The path simply requires that we give
the same opportunities to the animals who
are at our mercy: release them from slavery
and grant them freedom to once again fully
participate in the unfolding of their unique
purpose and consciousness. What we would
wish for ourselves we must first give to
others: this is, it seems, an everlasting
spiritual principle.
pg 27
 To resurrect work from the depths of the
trivialization, dissatisfaction,
exploitation into which it has fallen, we’ll
need a cultural shift far more radical than any
currently proposed by the left or the right.
We’ll need a positive transformation of
our relationship to those at our mercy, which
means shifting from animal foods to plant
foods, and from a mythos of death and
domination to a mythos of life and cocreative
participation. Anything less is mere irony
and hypocrisy.
As individuals, as a culture, and as a
human family, we pay a remarkably steep
price for work that is demeaning or
destructive to others or ourselves. When we
work primarily for money, we transgress
against our spiritual purpose, and sell our
material excerpted from the book “ The World Peace Diet ” by Will Tuttle
.. published by Lantern Books .. grateful acknowledgments .. edit-team
pg 28
life energy and time, which is unfathomably
and precious.
Spiritual traditions and teachings have
all emphasized that each one of us has a
unique purpose and mission in this life to
unfold and fulfill, and that this is our work.
Our work has to do with purifying and
awakening our consciousness, contributing
creatively to our community, and being the
voice and hands that confer blessings on
others.
As we discover our calling, and live it
as fully as we can, we discover joy and
meaning, and our life becomes precious and
filled with blessings.
Evolving and growing as individuals,
we can authentically contribute to the
evolution of our species, and there is
enormous satisfaction in these efforts.
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