It has been quite some time since
I have penned down my thoughts in this blog. It is not that I have not been
spiritually connected all this while. The last few years have taken me evermore
into the deep jungles of the discovery of one’s self. As I reflect on this
journey, I am inclined to think what really started it. I remember I used to be
quite religious when I was much younger. I always used to pray to God for good
grades in school and apologize to him for when I thought I had committed a
mistake. Years rolled on and I had started to get more entrenched in worldly
affairs learning incorrect life principles and moving far and far away from the
source, so much so that for a good length of bout three years I had doubted the
existence of anything supernatural (a directing force).
Then while working at my first
job after MBA back in 2014, a colleague of mine (spiritually inclined himself)
had predicted that I would someday walk the path of spirituality and progress
on it quite satisfactorily. He had asked me to read the book “Many masters many
lives” by Brian L. Weiss who many people believe was the premier authority on
past life regression therapy continuing up to this day. For starters, past life
regression in like hypnosis therapy albeit more intense in which you are put
into a deep state of relaxation which helps you access your deep states of consciousness,
several instances of which are from lives before this present life of yours.
The fact that the writer was himself a non-believer in past lives but through
clinically designed methods was able to help his patients undergo these deep
states revealing information which led to their healing led me into believing
into the super natural once again. How else would you make sense of lives
beyond your present material self? There has got to be something “non-material”
to carry consciousness from one life into another. I would encourage all to buy
a copy of this book. It is quite a read. Enthralling and making you question
your deep seated believes about materialism.
I am a slow reader so it took me
some time to finish the book (a few weeks, I think) but it really helped open
my mind up to possibilities other than what we experience in our day to day
live. I wanted to read more books of this kind. A few from the same author such
as “Only Love is real” and “Same Soul many bodies”. As I read these, I became
more and more disenchanted with the belief I held that the life we live
presently is the only one and that everything comes to an end after death. More
so, it resurrected by belief that Love is the essence of life and is the only
reality. Since then I joined Maitribodh (a socio-spiritual organization) (www.maitribodh.org) under the guidance of Guruji “Dadashreeji” and
it has been a lovely journey. I will write more about this journey of mine in
another post. For those that have tumbled upon this post accidentally or
because I sent you the link for it 😊, I would like to share the names of a few
more books that have been excellent reads while starting or reinforcing your
belief in spirituality. Note my words “reinforcing”; the material world and our
set patterns of living will always make you question the spiritual path that
you plan to take
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“Three waves of volunteers and the new Earth” by
Dolores Cannon
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“The laws of the spirit world” by Khorshed
Bhavnagri
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“An autobiography of a Yogi” by Swami Paramhansa
Yogananda
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“Love is not an emotion” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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“Silence” by Thich Naht Hanh
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“The Holy Science” by Sri Yukteswar Giri
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“Dying to
be me” by Anita Moorjani
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“Coming home to Lemuria” by Charmian Redwood
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“Memories of heaven” by Dr. Wayne W Dyer
