A Ride through Indra's Net

Portland, Oregon- Sept. 2017

On a rare day off from carpentry work, I was enjoying meditating in the red lazy-boy chair in the corner of our small but pleasant apartment on NE Fremont and Mississippi St. I began to practice the compassion technique of the Ishayas’ Ascension meditation. I had used this technique faithfully for 15 years, and while I was mostly sure that it had been a positive part of the mix, it was among the techniques that never gave me any kind of fancy bells and whistles experiences.

As soon as I thought the technique, I found myself exiting my body through a kind of transparent tube from the base of my spine. I shot through the wall of my apartment building, noting the lathe and plaster and the bricks. Moving through the wall and into the field, I felt myself connected through my root chakra with the life force and consciousness of the grasses and the giant tree, and in the birds on the branches. I felt that I was in a kind of geometrically organized energetic web with countless nodes. I was in a squirrel, and the laurel hedges. I could feel myself as all of the children playing outside 3 blocks away, and in the hipsters at the coffee house down the block.

I was the rooted Silence under the suffering and joy of all life, living in a hundred places at once. And then the streams converged, and shot my awareness back into my physical body and it was clearly time for a walk and some Thai food. MSI wrote of the compassion technique that it’s full mastery would heal one’s relationship with humanity. I would amend that statement to, “it heals one’s relationship with sentient beings, and it turns out that sentience is in many more places than we think, and includes trees, grasses, bricks, and damned near everything.” And, where does this healing take us? It taps us into a primordial unity that already exists among all beings and all things. We are all the same Ocean, emanating into countless waves.

Offerings and Events

Meditation, Magic, Prayer, and Manifestation- a 5-Week Class, meeting Sundays from July 5th until August 2nd- 6pm to 8pm UK time.

Within this class, we’ll be immersing in practices of meditation and prayer from both the Hindu and mystical Christian traditions, using mantras and prayer-forms in an effortless way, in addition to practicing with malas/rosaries. We will also delve into the ways in which meditation practice strongly dovetails with magic, synchronicity, and manifestation. This facet of the course will be informed by the experiences of my life, the great mystics I have known, and insights mined from the lives and teachings of such figures as Hildegard of Bingen, Neville Goddard, Carl Jung, and Paramahansa Yogananda.

If you enter the class without a solid meditation practice, you will certainly gain at least one or two everyday practices during the five weeks.

The early bird rate is $175 USD, which is open until June 30th. After that, the regular course fee will be $200.00. There is also a sliding scale option in which you pick a price that works for you, as we never turn people away for a lack of funds. If you’d like to pay on the sliding scale, whether less or more, that can be done through PayPal, Zelle, or direct bank transfer.

Here is the sign-up link.

Open Circle Gathering- July 11th- 10am to 12pm Pacific Time

I once again have the joy of presenting to the online Open Circle community.

When the mind settles into Silence, the heart opens to the great mystery hidden everywhere in plain sight. The formless takes the form of Love, melting the barrier between self and world, reconnecting us to primordial Wholeness. This Wholeness is like a song that is already playing within. Every moment of life- sublime or awful- can be experienced as a flowing wholeness.

We’ll practice an effortless way of melting into wholeness: easeful mantra practice. Instead of using mantras like cudgels and performing meditation as chore, effortless practice opens into the natural delightfulness of meditation. Using Shakti Bija mantras in a gentle manner is a means of letting Presence move through us like a song; praying until we become the prayer. Woven into shared practice will be time for questions, answers, and conversation.

Here is the link for registration.

About Me

I am a gardener, meditation teacher, and an astrologer. You can find more information about my vocations through my websites: www.ascension-meditation.com and www.awakenedlightastrology.com. I also have a youtube channel, which is currently getting less attention than the garden.