Shamanic Living Today: G.O.D. - According to Yogi Bhajan

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What is a SHAMAN?

MAYAN: "a technichian of the Holy, a lover of the Sacred." CELTIC: "Empower the people...by changing the way we think." MEXICAN APACHE: "Someone who has simply learned to give freely of themselves..." AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL: "...a teacher or healer, a wisdom keeper of knowledge... (who) takes people to a door and encourages them to enter." W. AFRICAN DIAGRA: "views every event in life within a spiritual context." HAWAIIAN: "...human bridges to the spiritual world and its laws and the material world and its trials..." QUECHUA INDIAN: "embodies all experience." AMAZON: "...willing to engage the forces of the Universe...in a beneficial end for self, people, and for life in general."

-- from Travelers, Magicians and Shamans (Danny Paradise)

Friday, March 21, 2008

G.O.D. - According to Yogi Bhajan

At the top of the Ladder of BEing there exists only pure consciousness - the One, or G.O.D. (That force which is always Generating, Organizing, and Destroying).

"God is not living on the seventh story, and no lift goes to Him. God is you. He is your expression. He is your identity in existence. That is why God is everywhere. Because wherever you are, God is. Because wherever you generate, organize, and destroy, it is a fraction of the same that is already prevailing in the universal human. Therefore, we can conclude that the human is the image, or the finite activity, of the universal activity in operation." Yogi Bhajan, The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan.

(G.O.D. is also referred to as the One who Generates, Organizes, and Destroys or Delivers)

On a personal note, I was quickly drawn to this reading at the conclusion of our conference call.