Comments on: The Veil Momentarily Drops Again

By: Ariel Bravy

Ariel Bravy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:49:45 +0000

Does surrendering lead to enlightenment or does enlightenment imply surrender? Ack, they’re not separate. This question is based in time and really doesn’t make much sense to me right now, though I do get what you’re asking. There’s just being. It’s simple. Don’t worry about figuring it out or trying so hard.

Enlightenment is always here. It doesn’t come and go. Surrender is being that.

Being in the now is another way of saying being more of who you really are. Healing yourself emotionally is another way of saying being more of who you really are. It’s not either/or. Just be yourself in whatever way feels most appropriate for you in the moment.

Emotional healing can help you replace one belief system with another more healthy belief system. Wonderful.

Awakening shows you that you are beyond all belief systems and that no belief system is actually true in the first place.

You can have any emotional experience, and all are acceptable because none of that is who you really are anyways and who you are is untouched by any belief system.

By: BINNOY

BINNOY — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:57:19 +0000

Dear Ariel

I just had a doubt about something.
It is said that enlightment is all about seeing the world as it is.But isnt this an effect that one experiences only after enlightment(i.e once one gets enlightened, automatically he/she surrenders to the now moment) or is it that surrendering and accepting the now moment without resistance is also one of the fastest way to enlightment(or may be a meditative state that leads to growth of conciousness).

I had been following a bit different approach for so long. In every given moment, i used to track back any belief i had about anything or any subject, stay with the sensation corresponding to that belief and then sit with it until and unless it was released.Do you feel that in this approach i am taking my awareness to a past issue and thus resisting the now moment.I would have to say that though i take my awareness to a belief formed due to an unresolved past issue,i dont get entangled in the thinking process.I just remain with the feeling of it.

How different is witnessing the now moment as it is different from emotional healing since even emotional healing can take place only in the now moment.

Now would witnessing the now moment as it is give me the same results as emotional healing.Wont the trapped in emotions inside come out to the surface since now when the mind is atlast silent(which happened as an effect of witnessing the now moment as it is)there is nothing to stop these emotions from releasing out.
Isnt it true that many of the people who attain enlightment hardly know anything about emotional healing.They do this through meditation which is nothing else than witnessing the moment without resistance.

I often get confused on how to apprach the current moment after knowing about these two wonderful ways.
Would be waiting patiently for your answer.
With Love ALWAYS
BINNOY

By: Ariel Bravy

Ariel Bravy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:48:08 +0000

Thank you very much, Ella!

By: Ella Moss

Ella Moss — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:16:26 +0000

Dear Ariel, I am honored to include your post into Walking with God carnival, and I am also listing your blog on my blog roll. Keep these posts coming! Ella Mosss last blog post..THE GREAT VARIABLE OF FREE WILL

By: TJones

TJones — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:11:41 +0000

One day about a year ago I was sitting in my room very still and quiet, and all of a sudden I realized I was in eternity, and I went up to the kitchen and heard my dad pouring a bowl of cereal, which sounded enormously rich and beautiful, like the cereal was Niagara Falls. All of my senses were exaggerated.

This also happened a month ago, believe it or not, while I was shopping at Walmart. There was no time at all, and I walked around, so fully present, and a smile of joy automatically came upon my face. As I was walking around, I was amazed at how much the other people resembled zombies or sleepwalkers, somehow not even present at all. I accidentally locked eyes with another customer once, and I could tell she recognized how present I was, and I think that automatically invited her more into the present moment, too.

By: Ismaelia

Ismaelia — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:54:54 +0000

“…you’re not gonna have another kundalini are you?” That is hysterical!!! :-))Love it!

By: Scarface

Scarface — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:07:17 +0000

I also remembered from the first experience I was surprissed it didn’t last. I always thought one gets into Oneness and that it would be a continuous experience.
Then after a few experiences I realized that was not the case. And even though the experiences for the time being were nice, and I was thinking “this is the biggest revelation I ever had”. I figured it was more important to me, of how much of the distortions (in perception) had cleared up by this experience. Which i could “enjoy” in my every day life, instead of just that momentairely experience, however nice.

By: Fadi Zeitoune

Fadi Zeitoune — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:24:01 +0000

Peace to all aspects of ONE, I recently had another kundalini while at a visit to a family friends house, I could feel it coming, and I didnt want it to be public, so I rushed out to the car, and sat in the car, and then the energy rose very quickly, the crying the laughing, the ‘knowing’ but then I got out of the car, and I was saying very loudly “i am”, “i am”, then i gave some other parts of me a hug, and told everyone i loved them, inturn totally freaking them out, but I didnt care, I absolutely knew they were/are ME… all in all for me a positive experience, but very negative to the other ‘aspects’ of ME (now they joke around ‘your not gonna have another kundalini are you?)

My experience…

NAMASTE

By: Ariel Bravy

Ariel Bravy — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:57:42 +0000

That’s beautiful Adrianne.

It’s not really anything mystical or woowoo, this whole Oneness thing.

It’s the natural state when you really dive into the moment without all the mind stuff getting in the way.

Same energy, different expressions. That’s a perfect way of putting it.

By: Adrianne

Adrianne — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:25:23 +0000

Hi Ariel, I enjoyed reading about your experience of oneness above. It reminded me of a beautiful experience I had a couple years ago while at a kundalini yoga retreat. We were doing tantric yoga - yoga with a partner. In the middle of a meditation where my partner and I were to look in each other's eyes continuously for about an hour while doing some coordinated arm movements and chanting back and forth to each other, I reached a point of awareness of oneness with my partner which felt so light, playful and actually really funny. I started laughing joyfully with the realization of it. It was like I was really appreciating the act of our separateness- the individual roles that we were playing in all of their intricate uniqueness - and it was like I was appreciating it from the perspective of both of us at the same time. So I knew we were the same energy - different expressions. It led me to feel then like you described in the fifth thing you noticed above - like there was absolutely no reason to take anything very seriously at all - anything except the enjoyment of the experience. In love and light, Adrianne Adriannes last blog post..First, Love Where You are Right Now, Part Three