So, speaking as a guy, I hope this is relevant. Your video inspired a number of reflections on my experience of many different cycles in my life
THE CYCLE OF THE DAY
From 1974 to 1984, I practiced meditation with a teacher who encouraged us to sit at sunrise and sunset. We kept 5 AM throughout the year, but we changed our 2nd meditation time all through the year, from the earliest sittings in the winter to the latest in the summer. It gave me a sense of the cycle of morning through night, the cycle of the sun, moon and stars, which I never had before. Our teacher also brought in Ayurvedic knowledge and wisdom, which gave a far deeper sense of how food, moods, various kinds of activities and even the depth of the deepest awareness related to the cycles of the day
THE CYCLE OF THE YEAR
I never knew the Catholic Church had yearly cycles until I was choir director (through the 1980s) at a Spanish Catholic Church. I was astonished to see how it shaped one’s sense of flow, of undulating through different phases of devotion and self giving.
THE CYCLE OF LIFETIMES
When I read Satprem’s “Adventure of Consciousness,” a biography of Sri Aurobindo that I came across in 1976, somewhere around the 3rd page of the 5th chapter, I “knew” this represented a project I had been working on in India in the 1930s and 1940s (having been “born” as “Don” in 1952). There was a powerful sense of freedom and liberation, as prior to that there was a sense of pressure at having to get something done, yet knowing that I had been working on this integral psychology over a cycle of lifetimes suddenly released the sense of a separate me with “My” project.
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CYCLE OF AEONS
I have had a sense since my early teens of the world going through a shift at least as great as that of the Axial age of 2500 years ago, and possibly even one as great or greater than the shift into Homo sapiens 250,000 years ago. I have never known how it might be possible to express this to someone who has not felt it, but I’ve also seen over 50 years that an astonishing, exponential increase in awareness of this shift has occurred.
I’d love to hear how you (and others) apply this recognition of these wonderful, juicy, delicious, grounded, overlapping cycles can inspire radical positive change in the world.
So, speaking as a guy, I hope this is relevant. Your video inspired a number of reflections on my experience of many different cycles in my life
THE CYCLE OF THE DAY
From 1974 to 1984, I practiced meditation with a teacher who encouraged us to sit at sunrise and sunset. We kept 5 AM throughout the year, but we changed our 2nd meditation time all through the year, from the earliest sittings in the winter to the latest in the summer. It gave me a sense of the cycle of morning through night, the cycle of the sun, moon and stars, which I never had before. Our teacher also brought in Ayurvedic knowledge and wisdom, which gave a far deeper sense of how food, moods, various kinds of activities and even the depth of the deepest awareness related to the cycles of the day
THE CYCLE OF THE YEAR
I never knew the Catholic Church had yearly cycles until I was choir director (through the 1980s) at a Spanish Catholic Church. I was astonished to see how it shaped one’s sense of flow, of undulating through different phases of devotion and self giving.
THE CYCLE OF LIFETIMES
When I read Satprem’s “Adventure of Consciousness,” a biography of Sri Aurobindo that I came across in 1976, somewhere around the 3rd page of the 5th chapter, I “knew” this represented a project I had been working on in India in the 1930s and 1940s (having been “born” as “Don” in 1952). There was a powerful sense of freedom and liberation, as prior to that there was a sense of pressure at having to get something done, yet knowing that I had been working on this integral psychology over a cycle of lifetimes suddenly released the sense of a separate me with “My” project.
****
CYCLE OF AEONS
I have had a sense since my early teens of the world going through a shift at least as great as that of the Axial age of 2500 years ago, and possibly even one as great or greater than the shift into Homo sapiens 250,000 years ago. I have never known how it might be possible to express this to someone who has not felt it, but I’ve also seen over 50 years that an astonishing, exponential increase in awareness of this shift has occurred.
I’d love to hear how you (and others) apply this recognition of these wonderful, juicy, delicious, grounded, overlapping cycles can inspire radical positive change in the world.