I Am Dude wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:37am: I've been watching the above video. Some thoughts related to same: Our inner intentions and motivations are far more powerful than form. What does that mean? If your heart is in the right place, and you're attuning to and expressing Love in various expressions (positive service to others, kind, helpful interactions, etc), you can be involved with various different kinds of modalities and forms, and still grow spiritually. It's not a black and white process of one has to convert to Christianity to grow.
A lot of one's growth relates to ones primary and inner ideal(s), and how we live in relation to this and how we interact with others and creation at large. Do people really think that there wasn't spiritual growth before the entrance of Yeshua, or before the formulation of Judaism and Christianity? What about the far past humans that Bob Monroe met, whom were all full of Light and Love? Or was that a "lie" of Satan where Satan was deceiving Bob Monroe? How far down this rabbit hole does one need to go? The truth is, the Light has always existed and has always sought to guide people towards growth back to the Light. The various different religions are various different expressions of degrees of that. Yes, there is corruption involved in all of them now, but when they first started, with the original founders, there was much Light in almost all of them.
The difference with Yeshua is that Yeshua as a teacher and messenger, attuned to the Creator to the nth degree that is possible, and thus became the perfect example. He became like the personality of God in the flesh, which is why Isaiah saw and labeled him as Immanuel, though his literal name ended up being Yeshua. In that sense, his name is above every other, which is something that Cayce's guidance stressed time and time again.
Regarding the young ladies experiences--particularly with getting very sick--there are some practical considerations and factors involved. There are very few born Americans that go to India for extended periods whom do not get sick at some point. The place is LADEN and rife with parasites and pathogenic microbes of various sorts, and our much more sterile, less tropical environment does not get us ready for such exposure. The people who were born in and lived in India their entire lives can deal much better with it, as their systems are much better adapted through constant exposure to these.
When in India, as someone born in America or a similar country, you have to be very careful about the food you eat, the water you drink, etc, and even then, it's easy to pick up some really nasty pathogenic parasites,
and one of the main areas that they infect and affect, is the digestive. I doubt her getting sick had anything to do with Yoga practice specifically. If anything, it probably kept her better and healthier for longer than she would have been normally. Most Americans, Euros, etc that go to India, get pretty sick within days of being there.
Now, I'm am SO not a fan of the Guru system that is so common and prevalent in India. This often is very harmful, because often the "guru's" are not particularly intune, evolved, or loved based. I'm sure some are, but it seems that many aren't. And yes, many of these false guru's are aligned with lacking in Light forces.
But let's separate the wheat from the chaff here and use our discrimination in a balanced way. There is a big difference between pathogenic parasites making one sick and demonic forces making one sick.
Also, it sounds like what some of what she was experiencing was raising her kundalini. It is true that this is not wise to try before it's time. One should let it happen naturally, OR only do so if one receives definite guidance that one is ready for such. Otherwise, people should avoid certain breathing exercises etc that can initialize it. One needs a certain amount of purification and balance before raising the Kundalini in only a helpful, positive, constructive manner. One needs a certain amount of attunement to PUL. If Kundalini is raised prematurely in a person not particularly attuned to Love within, then it can really amp up the lower, slower vibratory glands/centers such as the sex glands or solar plexus, which can lead to a lot of problems, such as a crazy sex drive, increased selfishness, increased materialism, increased psychological urges to control of others, increased personality magnetism, etc. Actually, if you look at many gurus and their lives, you'll understand that some of these obviously raised Kundalini before they should have and were over amplifying their lower centers.
Sigh, "chants" aren't necessarily negative or hindering in and of themselves. Edgar Cayce was a devout Christian, a Sunday school bible teacher for many years, always remained focused on Yeshua and his teachings, but even his guidance indicated that certain vowel sounds and sound combos, when uttered in a meditative and prayerful state of mind, can have beneficial affects on one's endocrine glandular system. The Eastern versions of same and their effects, are in reality, not much different than Gregorian chant and their effects.
It's about a combo of the spiritual mood/state of expectancy, combined with the actual effects of sound on the body physical and etheric. The endocrine glands are the materialization of what some call "Chakras". Each Endocrine Gland, relates to a specific major consciousness/dimensional state, with the Pituitary corresponding to the full at Onement with the Creator and Creative Force within.
Besides Cayce's guidance: Much of the Gateway program at The Monroe Institute was based on the guidance sessions of Rosalind McKnight. I think it's clear that Rosalind had some very wise, helpful, and loving guidance. One of the practices that Rosie's guides taught her was chanting, or what TMI calls "toning", aka gutterally voicing certain sounds in the throat--especially and primarily the vowel sounds. This practice became a part of the Gateway Voyage program, and other programs subsequently. It is both an energy charging and balancing technique, and based on my experience, I would say it very much works.
Neither Cayce nor Rosie's guidance indicated that one should think of or open self up to Hindu gods while chanting. It wasn't about any involved belief system or gods, it's about the effects of sound and vibration on the body physical and etheric. Cayce's guidance always, always recommended only opening self up under the Christ/Love Consciousness, and always to seek to be led by the highest, most helpful, creative-constructive there is.
I've recently started reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis on Rondele's recommendations. First, I will say, it's good to be aware that there are hindering forces and beings involved with this world, but like anything in life, it can be taken too far. When you start seeing Satan and his "helpers" everywhere, all the time, then it's time to take a step back. It can become like reading ACIM and then starting to see the big EGO monster everywhere, all the time, which is exactly what happened to this self.
Or, to quote C.S. Lewis in the preface, "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall into about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors..."
Wise words, though somewhat ironic coming from a man writing an entire book focusing on them. The point though is, balance is key here, like it is in many areas of life. Focus on hindering forces can be over done both within self and in expression/interaction with others.