I AM FAIR TODAY + BOOK FINDS AND HISTORY

Like I blogged before, today is the day. The Minä Olen Fair, the I Am Fair in Espoo!
It's only 5:40 am so I still slightly sleepy but I should be awake nicely by ten.

Doors open at 10, but I'll head for 11 so I have few things I get to see before the first lecture I'm going to starts at noon, the "Healing Powers of Light and Vibration" by Cosme Castanieto, followed by "Healing Energies of Angels" by Maria Zavou, and then  "Introduction to Astrology for Enlightenment" by Michelle Karén.
 
I love the energy of this place, and the people, I mostly go just to see the lectures but I usually end up spending about fifty euros there everytime, small amount, but then again I don't need that much.

I do need some real Sandalwood Incense as it is hard to find the shops near me. As well as the new book on the Forgotten Kingdom of Finland. :) I hope there is copies of that left!
 
I have been obsessing over this book series lately, unable to set the books down, The Oulander Series. All seven books are luckily over thousand page bricks. I read book three of the series first and am now over haldway through book one. I would not get them if I were you unless you like romance and medieval history, and well-- time travel.
If I have vices it might be historical novels, I absolutely love them, I miss the period somehow I imagine, the simplicity of it, not so much the grimy parts - bit romantic view isn't it. ;) Taking into consideration I know very well how hard the other side of the time was, well we all have our little escapes, mine is reading.

Now having picked up the next book on the series from the library I also picked up three other items.
The Keys to the Universe which I haven't even had a change to skim through yet but by few exceprt my husband read to me when he picked it up it seem the Cooper standars. "Isn't Megatron a Transformer?" He quizzed me. "What?" "I'm sure of it Megatrons a Transformer!" He repeated. "Gimme that." I read sentance. "It says Metatron... not Megatron." "Oh." "That's the voice of god not a transformer...."

I also picked up 2010 collection of Rumi's poems... now these I really enjoyed my husband quoting me, I told him to finds a love poem and read that one.

"Intellectuals try not to drown,

while the whole purpose of love is drowning."

His poems are something else, I've only read them online so it'll be a pleasure to read them from a book without squinting at the bright computer screen.
Perhaps it will inspire me to write a poem again.
I very rarely write poems but perhaps there will be an occasion now.

And the last but not the least a DVD of Deepak Chopra's called Happiness Perscription - I watched the first chapter, What is Happiness? and I really liked it. I haven't seen him lecture, speak before so it was a nice suprise to see him walk about instead of just sitting put.
I'm sure when I have a moment I'll watch all of them in a row but as mentioned above I am all booked for today with Fair!

I'll hope to see you there!

Love, Light and Joy!

Niina

HEART AND HAPPINESS

Deepak Chopra talks about the Heart, it's neuro-cardio cells and how they change their structure when consciouness is in either fear or love.
He talks about Contemplation ( hold the idea in your consciouness and keeping it in your heart ) and how when we contemplate Joy, Love or Peace we align our whole body throught this generation of eletronic field from heart to mind to body.

DHARMA

"This Universal Force is called Dharma in Sanskrit. The path of action is summed up in a phrase: Karma gives way to Dharma. In other words, personal attachment to your own actions is turned to nonattachment through performing god's actions."

-Deepak Chopra "The Book of Secrets"

Remember that World is projection of our consciousness - You are not in the World - You Are the World. You are god.

PODCASTS

http://www.chopra.com/

I'm downloading podcasts at Deepak Chopra Center at the moment - I'm putting them on my Nokia 5800 so I can listen to them on my way to work and back home - and during the time when the kids are a sleep and I have time to "unwind" - and then be refreshed for the rest of the day.

http://www.chopra.com/search/ - with keyword: podcast

BOOKS AND DVDS OF NOW

I took a trip to the East Centres Library and this is what got caught in my bag.

"The Book of Secrets" - Deepak Chopra (I am Really waiting to sink my teeth into this!)
"Your Erroneous Zones" - Wayne W. Dyer (Accept yourself and dare to live)
"The Michael Teachings: The Structures of the Local Universe" - José Stevens
"Tao Te Ching" - Laotse (this will be the source of my daily posts starting tomorrow)
"Life After Death" -Deepak Chopra (another must read to all who will die)

also DVDs

"Religion of the World: Native Religions of Americas" - Narr. Ben Kingsley
"Naked Sciense: The Pyramids" - Bonnier Publications
"New World" - NewLine Cinema (Colin Farrell & Q'orianka Kilcher)
"Kundun" - Dir. Martin Scorsese

I have the Pyramids in the player right now. I will share what these bring up.

THE BOOK OF SECRETS

From "The Book of Secrets" by Deepak Chopra. Copyright c 2004 by Deepak Chopra. Excerpted by permission of Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

~*~

Seeking is a word often applied to the spiritual path, and many people are proud to call themselves seekers. Often, they are the same people who once chased too hard after money, sex, alcohol, or work. With the same addictive intensity they now hope to find God, the soul, the higher self. The problem is that seeking begins with a false assumption. I don't mean the assumption that materialism is corrupt and spirituality is pure. Yes, materialism can become all-consuming, but that's not the really important point. Seeking is doomed because it is a chase that takes you outside yourself.

Whether the object is God or money makes no real difference. Productive seeking requires that you throw out all assumptions that there is a prize to be won. This means acting without hope of rising to some ideal self, hope being a wish that you'll get somewhere better than the place you started from. You are starting from yourself, and it's the self that contains all the answers. So you have to give up on the idea that you must go from A to B. There is no linear path when the goal isn't somewhere else. You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane. The one reality includes everything in its tangle of experiences, and what we are trying to find is the experiencer who is present no matter what experience you are having.

Looking at the people who race around trying to be models of goodness, someone coined the apt phrase "spiritual materialism," the transfer of values that work in the material world over to the spiritual world.

Spiritual Materialism

Pitfalls of the Seeker:

Knowing where you're going.
Struggling to get there.
Using someone else's map.
Working to improve yourself.
Setting a timetable.
Waiting for a miracle.

There's no better way to be a genuine seeker than to avoid these pitfalls.

• Don't know where you're going. Spiritual growth is spontaneous. The big events come along unexpectedly, and so do the small ones. A single word can open your heart; a single glance can tell you who you really are. Awakening doesn't happen according to the plan. It's much more like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing the finished picture in advance. The Buddhists have a saying, "If you meet the Buddha on the path, kill him," which means if you're following a spiritual script written in advance, bury it. All you can imagine in advance are images, and images are never the same as the goal.

• Don't struggle to get there. If there were a spiritual payoff at the end of the trail, like a pot of gold or the key to heaven, everyone would work as hard as possible for the reward. Any struggle would be worth it. But does it help a two-year-old to struggle to become three? No, because the process of child development unfolds from within. You don't get a paycheck; you turn into a new person. The same is true for spiritual unfolding. It happens just as naturally as childhood development, but on the plane of awareness rather than in the realm of physiology.

• Don't follow someone else's map. There was a time when I was certain that deep meditation using one specific mantra for the rest of my life was the key to reaching enlightenment. I was following a map laid down thousands of years ago by venerable sages who belonged to India's greatest spiritual tradition. But caution is always required: If you follow someone else's map, you could be training yourself in a fixed way of thinking. Fixed ways, even those devoted to spirit, are not the same as being free. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

• Don't make this a self-improvement project. Self-improvement is real. People get stuck in bad places that they can learn to get out of. Depression, loneliness, and insecurity are tangible experiences that can be improved. But if you seek to reach God or enlightenment because you want to stop being depressed or anxious, if you want greater self-esteem or less loneliness, your search may never end. This area of understanding isn't cut-and-dried. Some people feel tremendously self-improved as their awareness expands; but it takes a strong sense of self to confront the many obstacles and challenges that lie on the path. If you feel weak or fragile, you may feel weaker and more fragile when you confront the shadow energies within. Expanded awareness comes at a price-you have to give up your limitations-and for anyone who feels victimized, that limitation is often so stubborn that spiritual progress becomes very slow. To the extent that you feel any deep conflict inside yourself, a large hurdle stands before you on the path. The wise thing is to seek help at the level where the problem exist.

• Don't set yourself a timetable. I've met countless people who gave up on spirituality because they didn't reach their goals fast enough. "I gave it ten years. What can I do? Life is only so long. I'm moving on." More likely they devoted just one year or a month to being on the path, and then the weekend warriors fell away, discouraged by lack of results. The best way to avoid disappointment is not to set a deadline in the first place, although many people find this difficult to do without losing motivation. But motivation was never going to get them there in the first place. Discipline is involved, no doubt, in remembering to meditate regularly, to keep up Yoga class, to read inspiring texts, and to keep your vision before you. Getting into the spiritual habit requires a sense of dedication. But unless the vision is unfolding every day, you will inevitably get distracted. Rather than a timetable, give yourself support for spiritual growth. This can be in the form of a personal teacher, a discussion group, a partner who shares the path with you, regular retreats, and keeping a daily journal. You will be much less likely to fall prey to disappointment.

• Don't wait for a miracle. It really doesn't matter how you define miracle-whether it is the sudden appearance of perfect love, a cure for a life-threatening disease, anointment from a great spiritual leader, or permanent and everlasting bliss. A miracle is letting God do all the work; it separates the supernatural world from this world, with the expectation that one day the supernatural world will notice you. Since there is only one reality, your task is to break through boundaries of division and separation. Watching and waiting for a miracle keeps the boundaries up. You are ever at a remove from God, connected to him by wishful thinking.

If you can avoid these pitfalls of spiritual materialism, you will be much less tempted to chase after an impossible goal. The chase began because people came to believe that God, disapproving of what he sees in us, expects us to adopt a certain ideal. It seems impossible to imagine a God, however loving, who doesn't get disappointed, angry, vengeful, or disgusted with us when we fall short. The most spiritual figures in history were not totally good, however, but totally human. They accepted and forgave; they lacked judgment. I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given some outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can't get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up. The only thing that will ever be pure and pristine is your own awareness, once you sort it out.

It's much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges-a world you feel at home in. The ego did you a terrible disservice by throwing you into a world of opposites. Opposites always conflict-that's the only way they know-and who can feel at home in the middle of a fight? Awareness offers an alternative beyond the fray.

~*~

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PHYSICS AND DEEPAK CHOPRA

I absolutely love quantum physics, here's some Deepak Chopra on the matter:

Tästä pääsemmekin hyvin erääseen Chopran lempiaiheista, nimittäin tietoisuuden salaperäiseen maailmaan. Hänen mukaansa me voimme muuttaa kollektiivista tietoisuutta ainoastaan muuttamalla omaamme. Eli tietoisuutemme luo todellisuutemme.
- Jotkut ihmiset haluavat muuttaa maailmaa. Meidän on kuitenkin lähdettävä liikkeelle itsestämme, sillä me olemme maailma - ja maailma on meissä, ei ulkopuolellamme. Mielestäni paras tapa ymmärtää kollektiivista tietoisuutta on epäjatkuvuuden käsite, koska vaikka maailmankaikkeus näyttää havaintotodellisuudesta käsin olevan jatkuva, se on kuitenkin on-off -ilmiö.
Tämä on-off, päällä-pois päältä -ilmiö, löytyy Chopran mukaan jokaiselta tasolta, aliatomaariselta, kvanttimekaaniselta, jopa mikroskooppiselta tasolta.
- Niinpä kysymys kuuluukin: mitä on off-tilassa? Me tiedämme on-tilan, se on energiaa, informaatiota. Entä sitten off-tila? Luullakseni lähes jokainen tätä tutkinut on nykyään sitä mieltä, että ensinnäkin se on kenttä, mutta ei informatiivisesta energiasta koostunut. Se on mahdollisuuksien kenttä.
- Toisekseen tässä kentässä on jotain, jota voimme kutsua ei-paikalliseksi korrelaatioksi. Jotain missä kaikki välittömästi korreloi kaiken muun kanssa. Ei-paikalliset korrelaatiot ovat luonnon aktiivisuuden kaikkein vaikuttavimmat ja hallitsevimmat aspektit.
Chopran mukaan tähän vihjasi ensimmäisenä itse Einstein. Hän kutsui sitä Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen -yhtälöksi, mutta tunsi kuitenkin olonsa sen kanssa epämukavaksi, koska se rikkoi suhteellisuusteorian lainalaisuuksia ja oli aika-avaruuden ja kausaliteetin tuolla puolen.
- Suhteellisuusteorian mukaan mikään ei tapahdu valoa nopeammin. Mutta jos on olemassa välitön korrelaatio, on olemassa myös samanaikaisuus. Tässä on kiistan ydin: suhteellisuusteorian mukaan valonnopeus on kattonopeus, kun taas absoluutissa kaikki korreloi välittömästi kaiken muun kanssa, joten puhumme tässä kahdesta eri ulottuvuudesta. Absoluutti, puhdas tietoisuus, on transsendentti, suhteellisen tuolla puolen. Se on välitön. Tämä on kentän toinen ominaisuus.
- Kentän kolmas ominaisuus on, että se laajenee nopeasti epävarmuuden tilassa. Ja mitä enemmän on epävarmuutta, sitä enemmän on myös luovuutta. Neljäs ominaisuus on juuri luovuus ja viides on se, mitä kutsumme tarkkailijavaikutukseksi. Eli kenttä pysyy kenttänä, ennen kuin on olemassa tietoinen tarkkailija. Kenttä ei silloin manifestoidu.
Chopra lisää, että tarvitaan tietoinen tarkkailija muuntamaan kenttä avaruudeksi, ajaksi, energiaksi, informaatioksi ja aineeksi. Universumi ei ole muuta kuin kvanttisoppaa, ennen kuin tarkkailija tekee siitä havaintoja. Nämä ovat hyvin mielenkiintoisia näkemyksiä hengen luonteesta, koska henki on juuri epäjatkuvuus.
Jokainen ajatusimpulssimme vaikuttaa tähän kenttään. Mutta kenttä on vuorovaikutuksessa itsensä kanssa luodakseen sen, mitä ajattelet. Maailmankaikkeus ajattelee kauttamme, ja me olemme koko universumin hologrammeja tai fraktaaleja. Chopran mielestä on illuusio ajatella, että on olemassa jokin pysyvä persoona. Sellaista ei ole.
Jo 1940-luvulla tiedemiehet saivat selville, että tarkkailijan odotukset voivat vaikuttaa yksittäiseen partikkeliin. Suuri yleisö on tästä täysin tietämätön, mutta on yhtä kaikki totta, että ajatukset vaikuttavat aliatomaarisiin partikkeleihin. Niinpä ajattelumme muokkauttaa kenttää tai - niin kuin jotkut sitä kutsuvat - kaikkiallista eetteriä.

Brilliant, isn't it!?