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The Creation of a Consciousness Shift

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Music for Meditation: Loop Guru – The Third Chamber

Loop Guru - The Third Chamber
Some music has the intention of stirring up higher emotional states in us on a purely sensational level (being appealing to the basic senses). Other music however, wants to stimulate our minds and higher states of awareness within this existential Reality where we are being and becoming. Loop Guru chooses to do the latter. The worldbeat music artists that make up Loop Guru have an incredible way of telling a story that is so deep, so vast, and so intricately beautiful in the form of musical harmonies. It is both fascinating and hypnotizing.

When listening to The Third Chamber close your eyes, turn off the lights, and prepare to be taken on a journey into a reality where the term organic reality takes on a full sense of actuality. Personally, when I hear this incredible musical masterpiece, I am reminded of The Wingmakers and specifically The Third Chamber that is one of several chambers from which incredibly philosophical and spiritual guidance and wisdom comes from that is shrouded in incredible mystery and wonderment that is something worth exploring.

Let yourself be taken where the music leads you to and through. Stream into your consciousness the tranquility, serenity, and peace that wishes to flow inwards, filling you with a mystical wisdom encoded within musical harmonies. To quote the Third Chamber transmissions directly, “Throughout the cosmos there is life — the expression of First Source in individuated form. These are the divine fragments that are always in the process of separating to experience individual expression of self, and congealing to experience universal expression of First Source. We are born from the very womb of the cosmos, and it is here that all will return in time. It matters not when or how. It only matters why. “

You are What You’ve Been Looking For

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You are what you’ve been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

Robert Adams

Lightning in a Bottle Music & Art Festival


Out in the beautiful landscapes of California there is a festival that brings together positive intention and musical revelry in a harmonic balance and calls it Lightning in a Bottle. Many who are attracted to conscious evolution, meditation, yoga, EDM, and harmonic living are attracted to this amazing life-changing festival. LIB has so much to offer in so many different ways and keeping with the theme of Peace and Loveism we’re going to look at what it has to offer in spiritual living and social transformation.

Lightning in a Bottle is a celebration of Art, Music, Performance, Sustainability, and Life. It takes place annually on May 24th-28th at the Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, CA. It is produced by The Do LaB who specialize in interactive environments, event production and creative lighting design. These elements collectively shape The Do LaB’s mission: creating experience as an art form while bringing communities together. Taking an organic approach to designs, The Do LaB brings imaginative visions to life with natural materials, recycled objects and sustainable resources. When producing events and festivals or building an installation for an international tour, The Do LaB is committed to the highest levels of art, production and aesthetics. Its work has been showcased at Coachella, Virgin Music Festival, Global Gathering, Boom and many more. For more information about The Do LaB, visit them here, or follow The Do LaB on Facebook and Twitter.

The 7th annual Lightning in a Bottle International Music and Arts Festival presents the lineup for Lucent Temple of Consciousness, a sanctuary for all participants to enrich the soul and inspire the spirit. The 2012 schedule inside the Lucent Temple, built out of recycled and found objects by Brent ‘Shrine’ Spears, will include over 300 different experiences in yoga, workshops, speakers and exotic world music. The temple will be a sanctuary for all participants to energize and balance the mind and body through spirituality, meditation, yoga and the art of natural healing.

The Lucent Temple of Consciousness workshops will teach a variety of sustainability practices and life skills for participants to bring home and share with their community.

Urban permaculture workshops will teach participants how to create an ecological, sustainable garden and human settlement.

Grow your own spirulina, microalgae that are taken as a supplement or whole food.

Workshops about herbal tonics will show how they can help restore, tone and invigorate the body and promote health and well-being.

Amazon Myco-Renewal Project builds partnerships with local people to remediate their lands using mycelium while growing edible and medicinal mushrooms for consumption and income generation.

For more than 30 more workshops with fun and educational activities, visit http://lightninginabottle.org/workshops


Inspiring speakers will share their stories and guidance throughout the four-day weekend event. These include:

Reverend Michael Beckwith is a humanitarian, co-founder of the Association for Global Thought, an organization dedicated to planetary healing and transformation, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center. He’s the author of Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace. He has participated on international panels with Dr. T. Ariyarante of Sri Lanka and Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi. He is the originator of the Life Visioning Process and facilitates retreats, workshops and seminars around the world.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is the author of Becoming a Universal Species, a visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker and educator, producer, narrator, co-producer and co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

Mirabai Devi is a spiritual teacher and healer who has led numerous humanitarian projects in Africa.

Also More than 30 more world renowned teachers, adventures, and givers of enlightening information will participate. See http://lightninginabottle.org/speakers for a full lineup.


There’s also plenty of invigorating yoga classes that will help you create balance and harmony to an awakened spirit.

Los Angeles-based Micheline Berry is the founder of Liquid Asana vinyasa yoga, founder of Zen Dancing® and creative director and co-founder of Red Musette and Shaman’s Dream.

Ashley Turner’s vinyasa yoga integrates wisdom from the roots of Yoga Psychology. She co-wrote Aroma Yoga®: A Guide to Using Essential Oils in Your Practice and Your Life with Tracy Griffiths and is an adjunct faculty member at Kripalu and Loyola Marymount University’s Yoga Philosophy program.

Mark Whitwell’s yoga is based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. He is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar’s book The Heart of Yoga and author of Yoga of Heart: The Healing Power of Intimate Connection and Hridayasutra.

Jo Tastula teaches vinyasa flow style who specializes in seasonal sequencing and breath work. She integrates her own inspirational connection to spirit and the creative sacred forces of the divine feminine.

Anusara teacher Tony Guiliano and soulful singer and prana teacher Steve Gold will bring love, light and inner peace.

For more than 20 more yoga and movement classes in a variety of styles and difficulty levels, visit http://lightninginabottle.org/yoga for a full lineup.

World Temple Music will be performed between classes and speakers, encompassing indigenous sounds from cultures around the world. For a complete Temple music lineup, visit http://lightninginabottle.org/temple-music/. For a complete list of speakers, yogis, workshops and world music artists, visit http://lightninginabottle.org/mind-body/.

For more information about Lightning in a Bottle and the music lineup, visit http://lightninginabottle.org. To view the official 2011 Lightning in a Bottle video, visit http://vimeo.com/34799577. Tickets are available at http://lightninginabottle.org/buy-tickets.

The Way to Success

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

We Are at the Dawning of the Unknowing

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In order to be able to find solutions to some of the present day’s most difficult problems and crises, there has to be a positive shift in consciousness within the human race. Our collective consciousness must make the transition from being egodominated and boundary-enforcing to selfless-natured and empathy-oriented. Although there is significant progress being made by humanity, there is still much room for positive transformation and improvement. One can see that the self-centered egoistic mode of existence and operation is still programmed and operating within many people. The results of this egoistic consciousness position can be seen everywhere from the declarations of war to the disharmonious attitude towards the environment.

Thanks to the present and continuous evolution of consciousness, this old autonomous ego-centered mentality is losing its power and giving way to the interconnected transpersonal mindset. It is as if people are realizing that the old way of doing things simply is not working. There seems to be a search and intense yearning for the discovery of something different and of something brighter. Many refreshing positions of awareness are being experienced by people all over the world, young and old, male and female.

There is a move towards seeking to live in harmony with nature, as was once the case, and not to treat the natural world as an enemy or something to be exploited. There is a shift to an integrated, holistic, interconnected, and transpersonal way of living, and away from the individualistic mentality that stems from a belief in separateness. There is transformation from the self-centered and ego-dominant individual to the selfless and unity-oriented being. There is a shift from the competition-based mode of operating in society to the cooperative-minded means of operation. All these shifts are occurring right now and will continue to occur if consciousness continues down its current path of positive progression into the higher echelons of beingness.

Humanity is at a defining point in its history and it has the choice to shift its collective consciousness away from the egocentric ways of old towards the unifying and selfless ways of the possible future. If such a definitive shift does not occur, we may not be able to reverse the presently occurring problems within the environment, global economies, and world cultures. If humanity chooses to collectively come together to work cooperatively so that these problems are averted and rectified, the future will indeed be a bright one. There is not much time left to make the choice that will define whether we survive and thrive, or degrade and disappear.

The choice is a serious one, but a lighthearted approach can be taken towards it. Staying positive overall is the main aspect of this shift that should be remembered. With an overall positive outlook on life and reality, this positivity will be magnified and radiated throughout the collective transpersonal consciousness of humanity in a butterfly effect of epic proportions. This shift is for the benefit not only of the individual localized field of consciousness of each person on the planet, but of the collective and unified whole of humanity.

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It is worth mentioning that our overall level of consciousness, as experienced on a day-to-day basis, is a significant factor in how we perceive reality. A person whose overall consciousness state is that of anger may view the world as a terrible and dangerous place and the people in it as deceptive and malicious, whereas someone who experiences the consciousness state of love on a daily basis may see the world and all that it encompasses as being beautiful, caring, and good.

Whatever the objective reality may be, each person focusses on certain aspects of reality and chooses to interpret experiences, occurrences, and data as defined by his or her own position of awareness. The higher the level of consciousness a person experiences, the more positive everything within one’s awareness becomes. Through this positivity, positive change can occur in the world, thanks to the elevated level of consciousness now being experienced.

There may be a perception by some that in order to have a massive consciousness shift to the point where a person becomes
Self-realized, there has to be a great deal of knowledge and information concerning concepts and ideas of higher levels of reality.
Fortunately, this is not the case and attaining higher states of consciousness permanently involves only a few basic things that a person has to do. These include the open-minded awareness of infinite possibilities, the kind treatment of oneself and others,
and the expression and experiencing of love, happiness, compassion, will, determination, and peace.

With this mental framework in place, the doors to Self-realization and even the enlightenment experience are able to be opened. If one were to read and study for hours on end each and every day, one may begin to feel a sense of pride that one knows something or understands more than someone else, and in doing so, the ego would emerge to become a dominant force within that person’s life. This is not to say that learning various subjects and matters is detrimental or something not to be done, but rather, this is stated to illustrate how knowledge does not bring about a consciousness shift; embodying the qualities of love and empathy do.

As consciousness shifts into higher and higher states, the world and the reality around us become viewed in more macroscopic terms, where the specifics simply do not matter as much as the over-arching central aspects. It is as if a person is taking away all the various components of reality and reaching into the core mechanisms that operate within it. This is the natural direction of shifts into higher states of consciousness, since specifics are seen as muddling reality and usually just creating more strife and opposition amongst people.

Concepts, ideas and thought forms that are universally understood to be real are focussed on within one’s awareness. If we are
confronted with an aspect of reality that is of a specific nature, such as the verbal legitimacy of a certain political official, it does
not even come into one’s mind to attempt to confront the other person concerning such a relatively trivial matter. A consciousness shift begins when you allow for the possibility of such an occurrence. The will and determination has to exist before such an achievement takes place. It is my hope that you will be able to expedite your own personal consciousness shift so that not only will you benefit from it, but so will the collective consciousness of the human race.

Experience the shift from fear to love. Experience the shift from anxiety to serenity. Experience these shifts and others like them, and become convinced that such a change on a global level is indeed possible.

This is an excerpt from The Creation of a Consciousness Shift by self-realization coach & author Paul Lenda out now and available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers.

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