I signed into StumbleUpon to see what kind of good stuff I could write about today, and the very first page I "Stumbled" onto was a site about something called "G Breath." A sound file plays automatically when you first see the page, and in the center of the page there is a "Wheel of Life" that, once you push the "play" button, spins around and around at ever faster speeds, creating different patterns with color and the design of the wheel...
So what does one have to do to interact with the site?
Follow the instructions of the voice in the sound file, breathe calmly and look at the spinning wheel while listening to the recorded affirmation statements which follow the breathing instructions...
I did just that. It's a similar experience to watching a Windows Media Player visualization and listening to shamanic drumming at the same time, which I have done, mostly with the Kitaro CD called "Dream."
The best way I can describe both experiences?
"Trippy!" :-D And that's without ingesting peyote or 'shrooms, which, of course, are illegal, sadly enough. (Leave it to fearful power-play-machine governments to ban something which occurs naturally and is a spiritual experience for many.)
And speaking of things like peyote and trance experiences...it reminds me of what's been haunting my thoughts lately: Carlos Castaneda's writings of what Don Juan Matus called the "Second Attention." From what I understand, the phrase is chiefly used to describe living beyond just paying attention to what we receive via our regular five senses, and taking time enough to see the divine beauty in everything. I am sure that definition simplifies the concept too much, but that's the overall gist of the thing.
I'll see what I can do to read more Castaneda's stuff more seriously. Something tells me I still have much to learn from the books. Scoff if you want, but the fact that people scoff at something as deep as what both Castaneda and Don Juan have to teach us (even after the fact that they're both departed from this plane of existence) tells ME that ALL of us have yet to learn and remember how precious our natural Divinity really is and that we're all a part of Life, the Universe and Everything.
Which is one of the points of the site I went to. It reminds us we are all part of everything...
BB,
Rev. Kat ^.^
P.S. Click here to find out about "G breath!"
So what does one have to do to interact with the site?
Follow the instructions of the voice in the sound file, breathe calmly and look at the spinning wheel while listening to the recorded affirmation statements which follow the breathing instructions...
I did just that. It's a similar experience to watching a Windows Media Player visualization and listening to shamanic drumming at the same time, which I have done, mostly with the Kitaro CD called "Dream."
The best way I can describe both experiences?
"Trippy!" :-D And that's without ingesting peyote or 'shrooms, which, of course, are illegal, sadly enough. (Leave it to fearful power-play-machine governments to ban something which occurs naturally and is a spiritual experience for many.)
And speaking of things like peyote and trance experiences...it reminds me of what's been haunting my thoughts lately: Carlos Castaneda's writings of what Don Juan Matus called the "Second Attention." From what I understand, the phrase is chiefly used to describe living beyond just paying attention to what we receive via our regular five senses, and taking time enough to see the divine beauty in everything. I am sure that definition simplifies the concept too much, but that's the overall gist of the thing.
I'll see what I can do to read more Castaneda's stuff more seriously. Something tells me I still have much to learn from the books. Scoff if you want, but the fact that people scoff at something as deep as what both Castaneda and Don Juan have to teach us (even after the fact that they're both departed from this plane of existence) tells ME that ALL of us have yet to learn and remember how precious our natural Divinity really is and that we're all a part of Life, the Universe and Everything.
Which is one of the points of the site I went to. It reminds us we are all part of everything...
BB,
Rev. Kat ^.^
P.S. Click here to find out about "G breath!"
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