he end of the false self spells the end of fear, and the desperate need for power that fearful people cannot help. Power is a form of self-protection, and when fear is gone, there is no need for protection.

The true self is love, and being able to love all the time is the most one could want. The clash between love and power then has no meaning. As Tagore so decisively wrote, “Love is not a mere impulse; it must contain truth, which is law.”

How hard we try to protect ourselves from being hurt emotionally, not realizing the intensity of life we have walled out in the process. It is necessary to defend the heart when it is too weak and frightened to love, yet at some point all that can change. It becomes possible to let love flow when and where it wants. You are able to welcome others, without defenses, without fear, into the expanded space of your own being.

As my friend Chris says, “I was driving down the highway looking for the exit when I noticed an unusual sensation in my chest. It began as a warm or tingling feeling, which I recognized from meditation. Generally the feeling is pleasant but temporary. Now it began to intensify, and instead of physical warmth, wave after wave of emotion started to sweep over me.”

“It was love, but much purer and more concentrated love than I had ever felt…my heart was unfolding like a flower…I was having the most wonderful experience of my life.”

I felt the tender affection of someone who has not torn down the walls of pain but flown over them.

Adapted from Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams, by Deepak Chopra (A Bantam Book, 1991).

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We all know something about our conscious mind. At least we can make certain presumptions about our consciousness. Consciousness for most of us is the fact of the awareness of our thinking, feeling, and doing. Although, the reactions to the stimuli may differ from person to person, or even in the same person from time to time, the fact that everyone is capable of reacting is taken as a sign of consciousness. These conscious acts are sometimes termed as conscious mind.

Similarly, certain acts are performed reflexively or without conscious awareness. For instance, mind goes on thinking bad thoughts despite attempts to control them. From where such thoughts as of anger, lust, jealousy, hatred, and even desire to harm others, come? Same is the case with good or noble thoughts also. Selflessness predominates in some persons to the extent that these persons give up everything and start working for the welfare of world. From where do such thoughts arise?

They arise from the subconscious mind. Subconscious mind is the sum total of our past experiences. What we feel, think, or do forms the basis of our experience. These experiences are stored in the form of subtle impressions in our subconscious mind. These impressions interact with one another and give birth to tendencies. We become prone to react in a particular way to a particular situation or stimulus depending upon the tendencies in our subconscious mind. The resultant of these tendencies determines our character. Depending on the strength and nature of their character people respond to the same stimuli or the situation in differing ways. The reaction varies according to the character of the individual.

Let us explain the concept with one example. The hot summer dries up everything, including the weeds, in a farm, and the field appears barren. Apparently there is nothing but black soil. Soon the rains soak the land and the imbedded seeds sprout up and fill the field with unwanted weeds again. The farmer never desired to have them, but when certain conditions were fulfilled the weed came to life. The rain water, the weather, and the seeds were sufficient to cause the weed to appear above the ground. However, the weed did not come with rain-water or from sky, or somewhere else; the weed was always present in the seed form in the soil itself!

Same is the case with us. There are impressions in the subtle form in our subconscious mind. On coming with contact with certain external factors the necessary conditions are fulfilled and these subtle impressions surface in their manifest form.

For instance, suppose there is silent unseen and unknown tendency to take alcohol, or to smoke, in our subconscious mind. Necessary conditions in the form of a friend, a bar, a cigarette vendor, etc. would bring forth the desire to drink or to smoke; and we are in there!

Another person has a latent or dormant tendency to seek God. The necessary external stimuli in the form of a scriptural text, meeting a Holy person, visiting a temple (or Church,) etc. attracts him/her, and what a wonder! the person is totally immersed in various spiritual practices, he becomes God centered.
There never was any conscious effort or desire or thought to drink, to smoke, or to seek God. But fulfillment of necessary conditions was responsible for activating impressions in subconscious mind, and thus followed a particular behaviour.

But what about free will? Can we not choose the way we will react to a given condition or circumstance? Yes, we can choose; but the will is not absolutely free. The will, by which I make choices, behaves in accordance with my character, that sum total of all past deeds, thoughts, and feelings: The impressions not only from the present life, but also the whole record of many past lives that the subconscious mind carries.

Then is there no way out? There is. It is to follow the 'psychology of spiritual science'. We have to empty the mind of all unwanted subconscious impressions and tendencies: the weeds. It is almost an impossible task; almost but not totally impossible. It is possible to change the contents of mind (just as it is possible to sow groundnut seed so as to start replacing the weed). And as we have seen that the conscious experiences get stored up as subconscious impressions, we have to control and handle both conscious and subconscious mind. Our actions, thinking, and feeling should be such that the subconscious mind is cleansed of its dirty contents.

The Method

Suppose you have the problem of cleaning a dirty ink bottle that is fastened to the table. You can't pick it up and empty the ink out. What will you do? You pour clean water in the bottle, and the ink and the dirt will come out. You keep pouring in the clean water until all the ink and the dirt have been washed out and the bottle contains nothing but clean water. In the same way, although it is not possible to empty the mind by throwing out the contents of consciousness and making it blank; what one can do is to keep pouring clean water of pure thoughts of God, divinity, spirituality; virtues like love, selflessness, altruism, etc. into the mind until all the dirt of past impressions spills out.

During spilling out of this dirt, our character may appear miserable and suspect, but that is natural during the cleaning operation. The dirt of hundreds of past births may take quite some time to clear. Therefore, patience and perseverance are essential. One may feel dejected and depressed, and therefore, a Teacher, and Holy company is necessary. Sympathetic friends and attachment to a spiritual group are helpful.

Purer the mind better is the reflection of Divine/Truth therein. And to the degree the impressions on the mind are reduced, to that extent purer it becomes. Restlessness of mind and the number of desires have direct relation. Therefore, we have to reduce and control our desires. But this may create vacuum. And hence, it is better to desire for Grace of God, or for ability to discriminate and to have dispassion. In short, to tackle the subconscious mind, one should start filling the mind with noble thoughts by way of practice of meditation and yoga, discrimination and renunciation, selfless work and devotion.
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c s shah

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Egyptian Mythology

The Egyptian people left their faith up to the various Egyptian Gods. Like many mythological religions, the Egyptian faith was handled by several different gods.

The names of the Egyptian gods varied by location, but for the most part, below there is a list of the Egyptian gods.

Atum

Egyptian Gods

· Aker- guardian of the rising and setting sun

· Amon- Theban king of the gods

· Ammut- demon

· Anqet- water goddess of Elephantine

· Anubis- god of mummification

· Apep- serpant who tried to destroy the sun on a daily basis

· Aten- disk of the sun

· Atum- god of the setting sun

· Bastet- goddess of the hom and sunlight

· Bat- ancient celestial cow (goddess)

· Bes- god of music and warfare

· Buto- goddess of Lower Egypt

· Duamutef- protector of the stomach of the deceased

· Geb- god of earth

· Hapi god of the Nile

· Hapy- protector of the lungs of the deceased

· Hathr- goddess of love, music, and women

· Heh- god of infinity

· Horus- god of the sun and the pharaohs

Osiris

· Imsety- protector of the liver of the deceased

· Isis- goddess of magic

· Khepera- god of the rising sun

· Khnemu- god of the Nile and the Inundation

· Khonso- Theban god of the moon

· Ma'at- goddess of truth and order

· Meretseger- goddess of the Valley of Kings

· Meshkhent- goddess of children

· Mihos- son of Bastet

· Min- god of the male fertility

· Montu- god of war

· Mut- Theban mother- goddess

· Nefertem- Memphis god of the lotus

· Neith- goddess of war and weaving

· Nekhebet- goddess of Upper Egypt

· Nephthys

· Nun- god of the primordial water of chaos

· Nut- goddess of the sky

· Onuris- warrior and the sky god of Abydos

· Osiris- Lord of the Afterlife

Tefnut

· Ptah- creator god of Memphis

· Qebehsenuef- protector of the intestines of the deceased

· Qetesh- Semetic goddess of nature

· Re- creator god of the sun

· Satet- goddess of the Nile floods and fertility

· Sekhmet- goddess of war and destruction

· Selket- goddess of magic

· Serapis- Hellenistic god of sun and the Afterlife

· Seshat- goddess of writing and measurement

· Set- god of storm and chaos

· Shu- god of the air

· Sobek- god of crocodiles

· Sokar- god of the Memphis Necropolis

· Sopdet- goddess of the star "Sirius"

· Tauret- goddess of women and home

· Tefnut- goddess of moisture and rain

· Thoth- god of widom and the moon

· Wepwawet- Usher of the dead

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OTHER STRANGE FEATURES

• William Lynch is invited from the “West Indies” (with no specific country indicated) to give only a short eight-paragraph speech. The cost of such a trip would have been considerable, and for the invited speaker to give only general remarks would have been highly unlikely.

• Lynch never thanked the specific host of his speech, he only thanked “the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here.” Here, he is rude and shows a lack of etiquette. Also, no specific location for the speech was stated, only that he was speaking “on the bank [sic] of the James River.”

• Lynch claims that on his journey to give the speech he saw “a dead slave hanging from a tree.” This is highly unlikely because lynching African Americans from trees did not become common until the late 19^th century.

• Lynch claims that his method of control will work for “at least 300 hundred years [sic].” First, it has gone unnoticed that the modern writer of the “speech” wrote three hundred twice (“300 hundred years”), which makes no grammatical sense. It should be “300 years” or “three hundred years.” Second, the arbitrary choice of 300 years is interesting because it happens to conveniently bring us to the present time.

• Lynch claims that his method of control “will work throughout the South.” This statement clearly shows the modern writer’s historical ignorance. In 1712, there was no region in the current-day U.S. identified as the “South.” The geographical region of the “South” did not become distinct until a century after the alleged speech. Before the American Revolutionary War vs. Britain (1775-1783) the 13 original U.S. colonies were all slaveholding regions, and most of these colonies were in what later became the North, not the “South.” In fact, the region with the second largest slave population during the time of the alleged William Lynch speech was the northern city of New York, where there were a significant number of slave revolts including the rebellion in 1712.

• Lynch fails to give “an outline of action” for control as he promised in his speech. He only gives a “simple little list of differences” among “Black slaves.”

• Lynch lists his differences by alphabetical order, he states: “On top of my list is ‘Age’, but it is there only because it starts with an ‘A’. “ Yet, after the first two differences (“age” and “color”), Lynch’s list is anything but alphabetical.

• Lynch spells “color” in the American form instead of the British form (“colour”). We are led to believe that Lynch was a British slaveowner in the “West Indies,” yet he does not write in British style.

• Lastly, the name Willie Lynch is interesting, as it may be a simple play on words: “Will Lynch,” or “Will he Lynch.” This may be a modern psychological game being played on unsuspecting believers?