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- How Many People Have Psychic Powers Misdiagnosed as Psychotic Disorders? - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn the movie Sixth Sense, a psychiatrist meets up with a young boy who claims to see dead people and interact with them. The psychiatrist spends the better part of the film trying to understand the boy and bring him out of his delusion. In the end, it turns out that the psychiatrist gains the ...
Views: 254 - How The 5 Second Rule Helps Change Your Life - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2017 from Inez BracyUsing the 5 second rule helps change your life because it is the time between a thought and taking action. Using this rule helps to keep self-doubt at bay while building confidence to change your life. Most every morning at 8AM EDT I join a Mastermind Call that helps me to remind myself of ...
Views: 1751 - How the Akashic Records Help You Focus and Find Your Purpose - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2020 from Lisa BarnettWhen you exert a ton of energy but don’t get a lot back, it’s easy to feel frustrated and confused. Instead of spinning your wheels, let the Akashic Records help you focus your efforts in a way that gives you what you really want. Be forewarned, though – it just may not look the way you ...
Views: 1627 - How the non-dualistic vision of reality can change your life - by Submitted on May 21, 2019 from Eugenio VignaliWhat will change in our daily life, if we expand our vision of the true nature of reality towards a non-dualistic paradigm, thus overcoming our strong belief of each existing as a separate entity? The world around us will remain mostly the same, but our reading of all events and thus our ...
Views: 965 - How the Practitioner Can Identify the Action of Hostile Forces - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2021 from santosh krinskyWhenever the discussion turns to unseen powers and forces, the rational intellect of the mind tends to shut down. That is one reason why there has been an argument, in the West, between Science and Religion. Yet, at some point, even the reasoning intellect needs to begin to reflect upon and ...
Views: 665 - How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives - by Submitted on May 15, 2024 from santosh krinskySince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital ...
Views: 318 - How to avoid becoming servants… and the mystery of lost socks. - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2020 from Valeria TariAs women, we may often think, that by completing all the chores at home, we are embodying the essence of femininity, and in spite of all the running around, we receive no appreciation, and still lack happiness. The answer is very simple. A positive opinion of a woman does not correlate to ...
Views: 894 - How to Be at Home in the Moment - by Submitted on May 30, 2019 from Parvati DeviI have been quite nomadic for most of my adult life—traveled extensively, seen the world, and enjoyed many varied cultures. I have learned to find home wherever I may be. At first, home was literally my backpack in which I carried my necessities. But I have learned to put my pack down now and ...
Views: 889 - How to buy tassel necklaces from a wholesaler - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2020 from Wajahat AliTassel necklaces are simple necklaces that you can easily make at home. While there are many types of tassel necklaces, beaded tassel necklaces are the most beautiful and you can easily make them at home. Guide on how to make necklaces. To make the necklace, you must have a variety of ...
Views: 653 - How to Change Human Nature - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyMany people are skeptical about the possibility of true change to human nature. This skepticism is supported by the long experience humanity has had in trying various ways of changing and overcoming habits, atavisms and what are considered to be the ‘natural’ forms of expression and action of ...
Views: 536 - How to Change Human Nature - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyHuman beings have struggled in their attempts to make changes to human nature throughout human history. Many approaches have been tried, including adopting tough disciplines, isolating oneself from society to avoid the impulses and temptations, as well as harsh tortures to which the body has ...
Views: 95 - How to Change One’s Character - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2023 from santosh krinskyHumanity has struggled with the idea of an individual changing his character and becoming something more, or different, than what he was before. Numerous methods have been tried, and at the end of the day, almost everyone agrees that human nature and the individual character that expresses that ...
Views: 367 - How To Change One’s Consciousness, Part 1: The Initial Experience - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2022 from santosh krinskyThrough long habit and through a process of socialisation, we desire and expect that a specific path of development can be placed in front of us to guide us systematically along a pre-determined track, and that this path is suitable for everyone. We therefore believe that our accepted form of ...
Views: 462 - How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 2: Following the Clues to Spiritual Awakening Within - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe rightly recognise that memory is not the same as a living experience. Yet, the power of memory holds a key for those who wish to undertake spiritual development. We see this in the context of religious and spiritual pursuits that rely on the power of memory in some form to renew and actualise ...
Views: 422 - How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 3: Observing and Being Attentive - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2022 from santosh krinskySpirituality is not about having an intellectual understanding. There are methods described in various paths of spiritual growth, in books, or in other forms of instruction which have their potential benefit, but they are not a replacement for an actual inward experience that changes the texture ...
Views: 458 - How to Change One’s Nature - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2022 from santosh krinskyAs the awareness develops of the influences that have shaped our character and active nature from our ancestors, our parents, as well as the influences from our peers and from the society at large, we begin to develop a respect for the complexity of the task and the reasons why we cannot simply ...
Views: 578 - How to Connect with Your Guardian Angels Part II - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2021 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMost of the world’s population believes in the concept of guardian angels in some way or another; everyone has at least one invisible spiritual helper looking out for his or her best interests. You can make the most of your guardian angels by following the advice below. “The angels as the ...
Views: 626 - How to Convert Mental Seeking into Living Spiritual Experience - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2023 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo describes the first step to move from a mental seeking to a living spiritual experience as “the practice of concentration of your consciousness within yourself.” We ask what this means exactly. Some observation of our mental state discloses what we normally consider to be ...
Views: 443 - How to Cultivate and Utilize the Faculty of Intuition: Part 1 - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to treat intuition as something amorphous and difficult to define. We want to somehow fit it into the framework of a mental process, possibly one that is very fast, but nevertheless works through the logical steps to arrive from a set of facts to a decision. At the same time, we try to ...
Views: 470 - How to Cultivate and Utilize the Faculty of Intuition: Part 2 - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs we have noted, there are some who believe that intuition is simply a very fast reasoning process that moves directly to a determination. This is clearly not intuition as the Mother explains below. It is a separate mental process that still follows the laws of the mental plane in its ...
Views: 483 - How to Deal With Anger and Other Strong Vital Reactions - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2022 from santosh krinskyThere is an idea, prevalent in some aspects of Western psychology, both mainstream and ‘pop’ psychology, that it is unhealthy to internalize and hold in strong reactions or emotions such as anger. They counsel letting it out and thereby saving oneself from the psychological and physical effects ...
Views: 686 - How To Deal With Hostile Forces - by Submitted on May 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyForces at work in the world try to effectuate themselves and perpetuate their action. They seek for receptive vessels to manifest and carry out their line of action. As these waves of energy, these vibrations move out into the world, they naturally come across elements and beings that are not ...
Views: 182 - How to Deal With the Feeling of Unfitness for Spiritual Progress When It Arises in the Sadhana - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is perhaps a virtually universal experience. An individual takes up a spiritual practice, and for a time, particularly when Sattwa is in the forefront, he has unique insights, experiences and a sense of progress. At some point, however, these experiences tend to recede and the individual is ...
Views: 119 - How To Deal With Vampirism When Confronted With It - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual is confronted with a possible, or likely, case of vampirism, several questions arise. The first is how the individual can be safe from the negative effects of such activity impacting them or their family, friends or associates directly; the second is the possibility and ...
Views: 341 - How to Develop and Utilize the Power of Intuition in Oneself - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyThose who wish to develop and utilize the power of intuition in their own lives have to address their active mental process, so as to open up the receptivity to the higher intuitive force, and allow it to modify the action of the mentality itself. There is a parable out of the teachings of Jesus ...
Views: 248 - How to Develop New Powers of Action - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the ways we tend to limit ourselves is to decide, in advance, that we cannot succeed at something, that we don’t have the education, the experience, the skill or the necessary training to accomplish that task. We imprison ourselves within our narrow range by this type of mental ...
Views: 286 - How to Distinguish The Divine Force from the Habitual Action of the Lower as well as from the Hostile Forces - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2021 from santosh krinskyTrying to change human nature, the basic physical-vital-mental makeup that we accept as the predominant mode of being in the world today, is hard. The actions and reactions of the body, the senses, the vital energy, the organ systems, the emotional system, the hormonal responses, and the mental ...
Views: 537 - How To Effect Permanent Change in the Subconscient Nature - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is often said that ‘you can’t change human nature’. One of the major obstacles turns out to be the seeds of all past habits, actions, behaviors, reactions and instincts that reside in the subconscious levels of the being. An individual may spend his life culturing his mind, his emotions and ...
Views: 396 - How to Eliminate Desire Without Suppression - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2022 from santosh krinskyHow do we experience desire? For some, it comes as a drive to possess something we experience in the world, whether something seen, heard, felt, etc. In other words, desire begins with something perceptible by our senses. In the past, this was therefore something close at hand. Nowadays, with ...
Views: 601 - How to End The Quest for Enlightenment - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2021 from Charles HeinekeFor years, after I became disillusioned with "Christianity" as I knew it, and learned of other, more ancient teachings, teachings which, in fact, were embedded within Christian teachings, I fervently "sought enlightenment." Once we come to know what we don't want, we then go searching for what ...
Views: 1374 - How to Ensure Psychological Empowerment of the Young Minds - by Submitted on May 30, 2020 from Saurabh Gupta“I can be changed by what happened to me. But I refuse to let it reduce me.”- Maya Angelou The purpose of education never lies in merely making a child academically perfect, but to nourish the mind of a kid to morph him/her into a person ofstrong moral character and high spirits. If ...
Views: 773 - How to Establish Unity in the Being - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe Mother advises that the way to establish unity in the being is to treat the psychic being or the central aspiration as the guiding principle, and then observe and manage the mind, the life-energy and the body to conform to the intentions expressed by that central guiding principle. It is ...
Views: 350 - How to Experience the Influx of Universal Forces Directly Through the Experience of a Wider Consciousness - by Submitted on May 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis described a change in conscious awareness as representing satyam, rtam, brihat, the truth, the right, the vast. It is difficult for most people living in the modern world to gain a conception of the vastness of existence. We may know intellectually that the universe is large, we ...
Views: 335 - How to Find the Soul - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyPhilosophers, scientists and religious leaders argue about the existence of the soul. Some say the soul does not exist. Some scientists have tried to conduct measurements by weighing the person immediately before and after death to determine if any difference in weight, representing the soul, ...
Views: 378 - How to Gain a True Understanding of Another Person’s Viewpoint - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we are met with ideas or understanding propounded by others that we do not agree with we tend to create a mental barrier as a defense and then develop our mental arguments to contradict or overturn the proposed ideas. There is very little, if any, true understanding that comes out of such ...
Views: 221 - How to Gain Control Over the Subconscient Impact on the External Being - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyIdeally we want some kind of a pill we can take, some kind of an instant solution, some magic formula that will instantly resolve some difficulty we face when a subconsicent formation has been triggered. We react without any advance warning when this occurs. it is also the source of many ...
Views: 406 - How to Get Rid of Anger with the Akashic Records - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2020 from Lisa BarnettHave you ever been angry and not known how to let it go? Research has shown anger can make you more vulnerable to heart attack or stroke and increase your odds for anxiety, high blood pressure and many other physical issues. Fortunately, the Akashic records can help. What is Anger? Anger ...
Views: 1359 - How to Know God - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Taittiriya Upanishad speaks of the unified field of the conscious universe: “The Spirit who is here in a man and the Spirit who is there in the Sun, it is one Spirit and there is no other.” [Taittiriya Upanishad, Brahmanandavalli, Chapter 8, translated by Sri Aurobindo in The ...
Views: 228 - How to Know if Your Phone is Bugged? - by Submitted on May 12, 2012 from Peter WendtA bugged phone can be a challenging issue for many people. While technology has evolved significantly over the past 50 years, people bug telephones today for the same reasons they did in 1960. Phone bugs are used by the government to monitor criminals, spies, subversives and other undesirable ...
Views: 1384 - How to Learn English Language - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2012 from Maysaa Bazbouz5 Ideas on How to Learn English Language Some techniques for how to learn English language are difficult; others are simple and even fun. Never before has it been so easy and enriching to reach out and communicate with people from various lands and cultures. As the English language ...
Views: 1935 - How To Let Go Of The Past And Forgive Yourself - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2016 from Mitra Shahidi“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” ~ Deepak Chopra There is no life without emotional scars; no one escapes flawless; no one can claim perfection without committing mockery upon himself. Jesus, the great example of humility for ...
Views: 1738 - How to Make Progress in the Practice of Karma Yoga - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe tend to be carried away by the external focus in the work we are doing, and thus, the presence of mind needed to remember and offer is set in the background of our awareness. If we reflect on the state of consciousness we experience when focused on some external work, we soon find that we can ...
Views: 429 - How to Make Sleep Conscious - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2022 from santosh krinskyMuch research has been done to monitor the various stages of sleep and to try to determine what is taking place during each stage. People have been experimenting with learning during sleep, and some people actively ‘program’ their minds before they go to sleep to solve certain problems they are ...
Views: 610 - How to Maximize the Worship in the last 10 Days of Ramadan - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2018 from saad sheikhThird Ashra of Ramadan starts from 21st Ramadan and ends 29th or 30th Ramadan. The last 10 days of Ramadan are blessed and superior as Laila tul Qadr falls in these days and Muslims also practice I’tikaf and try to maximize their prayers. The last Ashra of Ramadan helps us to get rid of the ...
Views: 1356 - How to Overcome the Obstructions of the Vital Being - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2021 from santosh krinskyAs has been shown time and again when individuals have attempted to change the vital nature, the attempt is doomed to only partial success, if not ultimate failure, if the struggle is carried out under the conditions of the vital being. Almost any method, process, technique, control mechanism or ...
Views: 550 - How to Prepare Oneself for the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we find human beings innocent and acting out of their natural instincts, predilections, and their basic intelligence as human beings. They have no social setting or training to which they need to conform. They are essentially ignorant ...
Views: 539 - How to Quiet the Mind - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2022 from santosh krinskyIt is a virtually universal experience. One sits for meditation, trying to quiet the mind, and the thoughts keep surging and seem to have more intensity than before! Every sensation seems to provoke some activity in the mind, pent up issues or concerns take that time to come to the fore, ...
Views: 558 - How to Recall Tawheed While Performing Hajj? - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2018 from Marghoob Bin SafdarThe holy worship Hajj is one the greatest acts in the religion Islam. The reward of Hajj E Mabroor is double and great for Muslim Ummah. The person who performed Hajj with sincerity and completed all rituals according to Sunnah, Allah will forgive his or her past sins definitely. Similarly, ...
Views: 1561 - How to Recognise and Respond to the Higher Guidance in Work - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2021 from santosh krinskyWe are trained to think and act from the viewpoint of the ego-personality. When we take up the practice of integral yoga, however, we understand that the standpoint of action must shift so that we can become true instruments of the higher action of the divine force which is working to transform ...
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