J.K. Rowling on the benefits of failure and importance of imagination / Дж. К. Роулинг говори за ползата от провала и важността на въображението

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

I'm stunned by the wisdom of her words. Enjoy!

Силно съм впечатлен от мъдростта й. Непременно го изгледайте.

The meaning of life

I'd like to share a fragment of Lecture 11 of the 3rd year of the Youth occult class, held by the Master on 30.12.1923 in Sofia

"... Someone says: I want to resolve the meaning of life. The meaning of life is resolved. It can not be resolved as you think, for one, two or more days, a year or two, a hundred or more. Its resolution stands outside of time and space. Never try to resolve the meaning of life. I walk by the way, meet a man who broke his leg. The meaning of life at this moment is to bind his leg. I meet a student somewhere who wants to study, but has no book. I have this book, give it to him. In this case, the meaning of life is to borrow him this book. Further the way, I see a widow who has a child who wants to go to school to learn, but has no money. I take this child, bring it to school, pay for it. Here is de meaning of life in this case. Then I meet a musician who wants to play, but there's nobody to inspire him and asks me: Can you sit down with me to listen to me for half an hour? I sit, listen to him carefully. He is playing and inspired. In this particular case, this is the meaning of life for him and for me. ..."

Thoughts after "Avatar" Movie

I was deeply impressed by "Avatar" movie. Amazingly beautiful and stimulating all senses (I watched it in IMAX). But here I will not discuss the technical realization or even the story. Rather I would like to share my thoughts on certain ideas and concepts found in the movie, which illustrated some thoughts of mine in an exceptional way. It was a bit of awakening to me this film.

On that planet organisms are evolved to a stage in which they can connect to each other by a universal physical, mental and emotional communication. Not only organisms by the way. Some mountains can do it too.

I believe that if there is enough time, the life on each planet could reach this phase - all creatures dancing in harmony.

They say "Thank you" to their food for its sacrifice and promise it to continue its life in their body. And the expression "I see you" is their deepest greeting and has the meaning of "I understand you, I'm imbued with you, I am in your feet". All these things come to me at the right time and place because I make efforts to live this way.
There are gigantic trees and there is light everywhere and all creatures emit light during at nighttime.

When you walk the plants beneath you become in light. And the Tree of souls (who keeps the memories of generations of plants, animals and humans) appears to be made mostly of light.

The light is really important there. It is the vector of information and life after all.

And the planet itself appears to be a satellite of a bigger planet very similar to Jupiter. By the way, some think there could be life on some of Jupiter's moons.

Every creature has a tassel-like organ which emit light and has ability to connect to the corresponding organ of another creature from the same species or any other species, including plants and thus the whole planet. For example you can connect with your horse that way while you ride in a perfect oneness. By this connection when certain conditions are met, a transition of a soul from one body to another could be accomplished.

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I believe that the spirit comes to our young Earth aiming to spiritualize it. Matter is still not fully compatible with the spirit, it cannot merge with the spirit, cannot convert into spirit. That's why small pieces of spirit comes to the Earth and form individuals (humans, animals, plants, etc.) and these individuals in their life are constantly communicating with the other pieces of spirit through the medium of the matter. And so, bit by bit they transform the material units into parts of the Whole, just like the planet Pandora of "Avatar" consists of organisms interconnected into a whole, or at least any creature there has the ability to physically connect to the others using their tassel-like organs. I assume in the spirit worlds the individuals can communicate very easily when they merge and pervade into one another.

So, we are here to help the matter into its evolutional development. As far as I know, most symbiotic interactions started as parasitic ones. I think all interactions in nature eventually reach the level of symbiosis or even creation of a new organism. Just like when an animal cell decides not to eat a bunch of blue-green algae but to let them move in to live inside, a plant cell is created.

All the images in this post originates from the official interactive trailer of Avatar movie.

Living Earth

I live in age when a lot of secrets and unexpected facts are revealing. Each day I'm being surprised by a new thing. Every day I understand that fairytales may become reality someday when certain conditions are available, or are reality now, or have been reality some time ago. And maybe some assumptions and fantasies of mine are reality at this moment. I allow them to exist, to be reality in my life!

When I was a little boy I was told on Earth there are living and non-living nature. Organisms are the living part and the stones are non-living. Later, when I studied soils things got somewhat stirred because it happened that the soil belt is both living and non-living. But if you are tenacious enough, you may succeed in separating the living components (microbes, algae, roots) from died components (decayed organisms or parts of them) and non living (sand). However it became clear to me that it is a complex, system, aggregate - the soil, as well as the whole ecosystem.

There is no doubt that human is living part. In his body however there are tissues that are quite static and non-changeable in time. After they grow, the bone cells don't grow anymore, they just exist. Teeth either. They are solid. They sleep. They are deeply asleep and wouldn't wake up. Other cells are pretty active. Skin cells are awake, never ceasing to reproduce. Red blood cells even live only a month or two. So, the man consists of many active parts that lasts short time and a number of inactive parts that lasts much longer. And there was times that nobody knew that or nobody thought about that.

I'm leaving the human world for a while. My mind fly up. I'm not a man anymore. I look towards the Earth. The outer parts are quite awake and active. I can see that some of her cells live about 70-80 years, some live only 20 minutes, some remains unchanged for ages. I can see some moving with a speed of 1000 kilometers per hour, but some moves only 5 centimeters per year. I can see some liquids are cold and diluted and flows on the surface, but I can see hot and thick liquids beneath the surface.

The Earth is one living organism. Nothing in our world is dead. There is only degrees of sleep and awake. Lowlands are deeply in sleep. Mountains are slightly awake compared to them as they are risen a bit. And humans are just erythrocytes living only a month, submerged in blood, witnessing only the blood system, not allowed to get out of it for now. But as the human is not only a blood system, so the Earth is living and full of wonderful things that we are not able to be first hand witnesses of...

These thoughts are inspired by the song "The Joy of the Earth", part of the PanEuRhythmy (my translation is quite poor and un-poetic, sorry!):

Whole Earth jubilates

and rejoice inside her heart

and runs on her way

like a beloved virgin.

She is longing for the Sun

and strives towards him,

He caresses her from far away

and kisses her with beams.

She is delighted and sings to him:

"O, Sun of my life,

I'm flying, flying towards you

on and on and full of joy.

Rivers flow, springs are gushing clean,

peaks white of snow,

in pink radiance,

you are pouring over abundantly with loving endearments."

All PanEuRhythmy songs in Bulgarian can be heard on this page.

Fruitful being

Ancient plants only growed, without giving fruits. Even now some higher plants when placed in perfect environmental conditions give less fruits and prefer to reproduce vegetatievly.

The fruit evolves later and usually the plant blossoms and gives fruit after a period of resting, as it only hibernates then. The fruit is a part of the plant, but this part is special, with transformed form and content because it is dedicated to very different beings that need them - animals.

Thus our resources and finances shouldn't just heap and accumulates, but it is a good idea part of it to be given away, transformed into another form for the purpose of other humans, creatures, ideas. These would be our fruits which we give after a period of rest. If we jsut grow and vegetate without bringing fruits, we resemble some lower plants like moss, algae or fern at best.

This young world of ours

I think our world we live in is a new world. Being new and fresh it still haven't learned to live in harmony with itself and the other intelligent worlds. Our world still hasn't got used of itself, haven't got master of it. Every world have passed this stage. After that the world develops more and more connections with the other intelligent worlds, until the new world merges with the others or maybe just allow its creatures to travel easily into the other worlds. One day when our matherial world overcomes itself and realize all its qualities, and reasonability and conscousness infiltrates all its elements, it will join the rest of the wolds and the boundaries will melt.

Thoughts on astrology, numerology and other systems of symbols with meanings

All these sciences operates with certain elements. All the elements together form a complete and fully accomplished system. The elements are charged with intelligence and meaning. A characteristic of these elements is that tye are moving or revealing themselves of transforming one into another in a precise and cyclic recurrence. And this recurrence is often beyond human control. This way, the plantes, the numbers and all other elements of intelligence becomes symbols. Their status at the moment of birth and their motion afterwards helps and contributes to the human uniqueness. Nature's esteem to unique things is great and as well as her esteem to the cycles, pulsation, undulation. When we accept the symbols behind these reasonable elements (numbers, celestial objects, etc.), we enter some unique cycle and we get closer to nature and intelligence. We enter some unique harmony.

Every symbolic piece of data in these sciences should bear at least two meanings as alternaties and one must mean progress and the other - decline. The human either by his conscious choice or his unconscious choice make one of the options reality. I fancy the zoroastrian horoscope with its totem-antitotem structure very much. Those are your two options - one is great in certain respect and the other is bad in this same respect.

I'm not sure if above writings works with everybody, but I believe they works for me at least. Perhaps it's easier for me to see the world from the CHOICE point of view and I'm very free to do it. Perhaps the rest of people has more limited choice than me. If that's the reason, I hope this will change some day.

I think that every system of elements which (the system) holds completeness and cyclic recurrences, posesses intelligence and shoud be studied. The systems has different number of elements depending on the remoteness from the Source and the complexity of information encoded in it, or will be encoded in it once the humans start to explore it. These systems are like alphabets of many languages who strive to describe same things. That's why the sytems do not contradict each other. The tricky part is to find a dictionary which can adequately translate the interrelations and the meanings between them.

I'm going to describe some systems below. I will expand it when something more appears. This shoud be put into a table or scheme, but I have no time... I admint that I'm incompetent in most of the fields of knowledge:

• Zero of Ininity or Emptiness or the First reason, or God - one element or rather zero elements because the element here is equal to the whole system and there is no differentiation of the information.
• +,-; Yin and Yang (2 elements)
• Fire, Air, Water, Earth (3 elements)
• Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, Wood (5 elements)
• The seven days of week
• The seven musical tones, but maybe 12 (with the intermediate ones)
• The colors - may be they are 7, 12 or maybe defined otherways.
• The nine arabic numbers (I don't count the Zero, because it's only in the beginning of the row and later the 9 has most of the features of the 0)
• Planets of the Solar system
• The 12 months, 12 signs of the zodiac, Chinese signs too.
• The 12 houses of Astronomy, the 8 zones in Feng Shui
• The zoroastrian zodiac - 32 signs if I'm not wrong.
• Alphabets of all the languages - after reducing letters to numbers, but there are some direct interpretations too.
• Homeopathic remedies
• Chemical elements
• Minerals
• Plants
• Animals

Human Body - User Manual

Humans are spiritual creatures indeed. The body is definitely given to us to use it, take care of it for a certain period of time. It was created by another One, not by us. He gave it to dwell in this form, in this environment.

I realized that recently when I had a cold and performed some hot water treatment to myself. If I was a body, I would know and understand its principles without the need to learn about them from here and there. I would be able to control and direct the processes in myself with my thoughts since my day of birth. However since the birth day it is auto-piloted and we don't know it. In time we become aware of it, learning to work on/with it just like learning to use a complicated machine with lots of functions. And if we learn hard from the user manual, we will really reach the point of taking control and swith the auto-pilot off. Probably this is a task of our earthly existence - to discover the functions and abilities of our bodies and to use and apply them in our living. And we, the spiritual beings, to really fuse with our bodies, to feel perfectly comfortable inside, to spiritualize them too. To spiritualize the matter.

If we succeed in transforming this rough and thick matter into a spirit, we would be made a great thing in this life.

Solar gazing / Да гледаш към Слънцето

Last saturday I attended a lecture of Hira Ratan Manek who is practicing a very intriguing method of using the mild sunlight of sunrise and sunset. I made a voice recording which was permitted and would like to share it.

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Миналата събота присъствах на лекция на Хира Ратан Манек, който практикува интересен метод за използване на меката слънчева светлина при изгрев и залез. Направих аудиозапис, тъй като беше разрешено, и бих искал да го споделя с вас.

Elements of love

Elements of love:
- Light
- Warmth
- Thought
- Conditions of growth
- Conditions of flowering
- Conditions of fruit-bearing

How are the elements of love manifested in me?

Light is the Word. Its purpose is to bring the information to us. Every object refracts and reflects the same light differently and so we receive information about the surroundings. And we can decide what to do next. The same is with the Word - the letters and words are arranged and sent to us differently by the various knowledges and sciences. I have invited the Light and the Word to accompany me in my life. It shine on my way, I can see and feel it clearly and everything around me is beautiful. I've got loads of Word and information next to me, and I will go upwards slowly, confidently and nicely.

Warmth is the thing that contains and carries the motion. This is the energy that gives me strength. Once illuminated and understood the reality, I need strenght to realize my decision. The warmth and strenght is inside me. I'm warm and strong person. And I'm getting warmer and stronger, because the Source is inside me. Or rather I'm inside Him. I myself do not produce warmth and strenght, but I carry them inside me like a pipe. I don't oppose being a channel for warmth and strenght in their movement towards all the people needing them.

Thought is my decision, my choice. The choice how to apply the knowledge and the strenght available to me. Thought is direction. I chose my direction. I tried everything else and I like most of all to be with God. I want to walk on the path of harmony with myself, with nature and with God. On the way of reasonablility, intelligence, beauty and nobility. A road that most people consider both difficult and pointless. But in fact it's the easiest one. Because only decision is needed and it's the only direction I can develop.

Condition of growth - in this particular period God created the best conditions for my life. Nothing at all can disturb me from flowering and fruit-bearing. I have no obstacle. I decide how fast to grow. I try make it balanced because the overgrowing is a tumour. I must grow by passing each stair step because it not only bring you up, but you are being acclimatized to the life overhead.

To bloom means to become open to the new, to another's pollen, to create something beautiful for enjoyment to others. Flourishing begins after I have grown to a certain extent. For some areas I'm already blooming, for others I'm still too small and for third I'm only a sprouting seed (music for example).

To bring fruit means to accept the pollen and to give it the opportunity to fuse with me. If the result of this fusion is good, I will bring fruit. If it's not good, my strenght will redirect to something else. Some people do flourish but are so incompatible with the new and the different that they don't produce fruit. And according to me we have to try combining the things as much as possible. Because that's the way to create diversity and richness in the universe. I think I allow many things to penetrate and fertilize me. And wisdom is needed here too.

Written on 16.09.2007

The answer is inside me

I am important, really important, because the answer to all my questions is inside me.

Doctrine and principles show me examples, imaginery world. It's not exactly my world. But as a result of studying, I will learn how to produce answers to the questions of my world. And what desires to nourish and follow. Because my decisions, choices and desires are the answers to my questions.

I live in wonderful times now. I'm a minion of fortune, drinking from the spring, feeding on the pure milk of the word, growing an getting stronger. Running forward, achieving goals. One day this might change. One day hardship may come. One day the bliss may disappear. One day I may become abandoned. One day I may lose everything and transform into ashes. From all my heart I pray for not loosing the spark, the tiny seed that binds me to God. Because if I have it, I have all I need.

I believe that in fact I'm that seed. And that I will never lose myself. And that all the beauty around me is a gift, donation to me with the purpose to bless and shine on the others, not me. I believe I don't need anything more than being such a seed. And let the rest of my world be of use to the other - all of them. This seed contains the whole happines on earth.

The answer is inside me.

No regrets about the past

The past life, a life of satiety, sin, suffering, mistakes and trials, can surely be precious and useful to us. Could we be the ones we are now if we didn't come from there? Jesus came to this world coming not from the world of sin, but He also was acquainted with the sin, He had the information about the sin. And surely He experienced it on the cross althought not guilty.

And now we must not despise the time when we were in sin. Jesus also don't regret about those three days. We should remember these times and learn from them. To remember that we had already been there, passed by that path and there is no point to experience it again anymore. Not if we are souls who seek the new, the diverse, the harmony, the perfection. If we remember the sin, it won't attract us ever, because we had experienced it.

Sin is the past.

Why beginning is always like a seed

Why the beginning of everything must be small, insignificant, like a seed?

Because in order to embrace this particualar soil where we landed, in order to spread in the world we belong and which we must seize and change, we have to utilize it step by step, bit by bit. And while we grow to change it and the substrate to change us, to give us some directions what to do to be fit for it. To guide our roots towards the moisture, to go round the stones.

This cannot happen if I come here already grown, formed. I couldn't be useful. If you grow and have the desire to grow, God or Nature will make you grow, will supply the necessary conditions for slow, gradual, secure and complete penetration into your task and purpose. And it will happen in the way that at the end nothing will remain of the initial substrate. You will finally change and cultivate it. One will see only a beauty and perfection, a God's masterpiece.

Purifying

How do you remove the dirt on a generally neat object. You need a solvent - a substance that is clean in its nature, but has the ability to mix well with the unclean substances. So you apply the solvent on the spot and then use water to wash away everything, and the dirt is gone. But you haven't destroyed the dirt. It is only removed, transfered into the drain. The soap only remove the unclean but do not transform it. You become clean by replacing the dirt with something more pure (the soap) and then wash away everything with clean water which don't leave traces behind. The dirt itself is destroyed by the microorganisms and plants which use it as a food and really process it into a biomass - which is good and clean substance. For this process they use the energy of the Sun and the Earth.

Indeed I can not destroy evil, only I can replace it with good in my life. Evil can be transformed into good by certain organisms or creatures and they don't do it by fighting. Rather they absorb it and use it as a raw material for their development. With the help of the noble energies they process it into good things that are useful for others. If only I can consciously transfer the evil to the creatures that need it for their progress, I would be very happy. To this day I don't know how to do that...

You are the Key

In order a process to be started, some prerequisites are needed. It depends on the nature of the process if these preconditions will be more or less. To have a fire some conditions must be met and first of all - fuel. But another important premise is needed - someone to light it, to start it, to ignite it, to provide the first spark. Every reaction, even the exothermic has some barrier to be jumped over in order to start and after that the reaction will go by itself until the fuel is finished. That is very good news, because without this barrier the processes would start before all is prepared and no accumulation and preparation of the conditions would take place. And no intelligence would be able to control them.

So, if God decide that somewhere something must happen, when the situation matures, when everything is ready to begin, He needs just a match, a spark, nothing more. He took care of the dry twigs. You can't take care and collect all necessary conditions for this to happen. Your role is to be the intelligent being, the reasonable igniter who will let the process begin. And then you will only look at the fire and be thankful of it.

The truth about modern economy / Истината за съвременната икономика

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

by

Tides Foundation

Funders workgroup for sustainable production and consumption

and

Free Range Studios

The purpose of my life

Through my life I have to import even more diversity in the universe. If I manage to comprehend what is the width and length and depth and height (Ephesians 3:18), if I experience something new... all this wouldn't be lived for myself, nor anything will remain for me. Everything will go upwards, where the rest is. Through me new things will be born - and each of them will have the purpose for the glory of the One who created them.

Distinctive features of good and evil

Good and evil are the two paths from which I have to choose one. For me good is the thing I have to choose. It is the thing I'm facing, it's my future. Evil is the thing I come from, it's the direction that faces my back. Evil is the past, the initial point of my journey, the place where I started my independent moving. Evil is the old, the place where I have already been and it makes no sense to go back again. Good and evil are here to give directions in our lives. They are embedded in us as a compass with which we can verify our direction and are able to understand where exactly we are heading.

The white color

It is typical for the white light that it contains all the other colors in a perfect proportion - their quantities are strictly determined. The white represents the absolute reflection of the light - the same as the light which came to the surface. White colored substances do not absorb any rays from the spectrum, they don't miss any rays, they are complete and perfect. Red things for example needs all the rays but red ones and that's why the red are those they reflect and we are seeing them after this reflection. All the other part of the spectrum is absorbed because the red substances need it. However as white don't need any rays and can reflect everything, everything is forwarded and don't keep for them anything. Probably at the end all things will become white.

Changing the past: A thought for those who like transmigration

Today you can not change the past of your former or present life.

Today you can change the past of your future life.