Breaking Free For one who is truly ready to leave, to give up everything, to do anything to achieve full awareness in this lifetime…always radical means are essential in order to break free from this illusion in this lifetime. I am Gourasana, and I make a very bold statement when I say I can guide you […]
Blogtalk Radio – Experience-Strength-Hope with Host Elaine Crocker Please check out my first Blogtalk radio appearance by clicking here.
Health and a New Kind of Hope I hear from practically everyone I meet how good I look, how radiant and healthy my skin tone is (as opposed to that ghastly grey pallor that took over my face during chemo and radiation). Now, with my doctors’ seal of approval on my good health and health […]
Part I: Coming Back to Life I am happy to report that I’m doing very well and am ready to fly full-steam ahead on publicizing my book. It has been three years and three months since the brain tumor was diagnosed and my chemo treatments began with Dr. Arenson at Swedish Medical Center in […]
Back on the Blogging Trail I’m back on the blogging trail after having fallen off the blog wagon for a few months. My apologies to my readers for the lapse in my posting since the summer began but I was busy having a spectacular summer travelling to Europe with my daughter and to St. John […]
Avatar Meher Baba (1894-1969) When I first became aware of the existence of a fully enlightened Avatar – Meher Baba – I was hungry to read his books and go see any video I could find about him. What most fascinated me is that he lived in silence for the vast majority of his lifetime […]
Quotes from Maharshi: See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness. There is no mind to control if you […]
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1872–1949) Seminal spiritual figure, introduced to the West an ancient yet unknown esoteric teaching of development and awakening, one that teaches how to creatively use the diverse impressions of ordinary life to come to real life. Humanity, Gurdjieff realized, had entered a precarious new period in its evolution. The world would be destroyed, Gurdjieff warned, unless the ‘wisdom’ of the East and […]
Osho In 1991, I moved to Marin County, California, ‘sannyas’ *capitol of the West Coast At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about Rajneesh except that he was the guru with all the Rolls Royces. I didn’t pay much attention to stories about Rajneesh until I ended up with a broken back (a whole other story […]
J. Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 1895 – February 17, 1986) was an Indian speaker and writer on philosophical and spiritual subjects. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and disbanded the organisation behind it [the Order of the Star]. . . . He claimed allegiance to no […]