Have you ever wondered why do we get so exited around this time of the year, dress into skeletons and run around streets in a search of red lanterns and hollow pumpkins, screaming seeing dead men walking, witches laughing, demons trembling and the sick bleeding.
The dead, the sick, the ghosts symbolically exit their graves and enter the world of living in the shape of masks walking aimless through the streets. All the cultures at all ages gave their due respect to death, to ancestors, or are scared of the consequences if they do not.
Both early Buddhists and the Indians burn the bodies of their dead so that the soul does not linger around the body for too long. After death, preparing the dead for the funeral fire, the Lamas (monks) chant for hours to help the soul leave the body. It is believed that for the first 4 days the dead person is not even aware that he or she is dead. During the ‘departure’, the person sees and feels all that they have ever done during their life time. It is believed that a spiritual practitioner will have no fear nor regrets at the time of death and will die in a state of peace.
A wand with two serpents twined around it, surmounted by two small wings. the caduceus or magic wand of the Greek god HermesRoman Mercury, messenger of gods, protector of alchemy. The wand represents power and the two snakes wisdom. The Greek Hermes found his analogue in Egypt as the ancient Wisdom God Thoth, as Taaut of the Phoenicians, all linked with the magic rod with twin snakes.
The mindfulness crowd, people practicing meditation, working with alternative healing methods, practicing massages, yoga, tai-chi, spiritual dances, chanting mantras, various mind, body and soul practitioners, all work with the eternal promise of: More Love, More Peace, More Happiness on Earth. Mostly against any injustice, they are the first to fight against outbreaks of violence or wars all around the Planet. The Mindfulness Teachers encourage us to work on our own perfection, towards more love within our lives, more peace within the society, more consciousnessin all spheres of Life. This type work and the outlook on life is called ‘New Consciousness’.
Nuit the Author of conscious_parenting Book talks about Conscious Parenting and Kids Happiness. A single mother of two adopted kids from Ethiopia, a Manager, a Yogi, and a Poet re-calls difficulties of her Conscious Parenting Journey and how she learned to respect an amazing matrix of choices within the Art of Parenting.
Q. You say that the parenting is the most difficult job in the world. You worked as a Management Consultant, a Trainer, a Yogi, you organised a dozen of Spiritual Festivals and yet you've chosen Parenting as the most difficult. How come?
Conscious and subconscious learnings within the parenting world are immense. There are so many variables that influence our kids growth and no matter how much we prepare, how hard we try, no matter how many baby-sitting nights we spent with our sister's kids, our children constantly surprise us. Unlike with any other job, with parenting, we have no time for costly experiments, and our little ones are too precious for mistakes. We are guided by various teachers, society guesses, pushed into the arms of new technology, shaken by norms that are ancient, fighting the subconscious patterns of huge strength walking towards conscious behaviour, conscious living, conscious parenting. With the generation gap this task becomes even more difficult.
Mario Johns Buzzfeed Interview with Nataša Pantović
Author Nataša Pantović has told Buzzfeed that her latest Mindfulness Training books are about how ‘consciousness transforms into its golden possibilities’.
While sitting and awaiting Nuit at the dawn of this wintry day, mid March, a ginger cat jumped onto my lap purring for attention. A lucky one really, doesn’t need to worry about what to eat and how. We on the other hand spend endless hours thinking and talking about healthy food, conscious diets, the alternatives to junk we continuously chose to digest.
