Guys in shorts =)

I recall some moments from great old days in Holland when I just got acquainted with Owen and heard someone say "ah, that Canadian guy in shorts" =) Living in a northern country, although with a very mild climate, he wore shorts 3/4 of the year (right, Owen? how is it now, in Spain?) That looked weird to me, as in Russia parents tell children to wrap up and the vast majority of kids are wrapped up sooo well that we get used to it and put on a lot of clothes when we grow up.

Now I'm leaving off the habit of wrapping up and I need less clothes to feel fine in the Moscow winter. But I'm far from wearing shorts in a -20C frost. And there are people who do that!

For example, Алексей Мартынов, a raw foodist, singer and animal advocate (in RU), or Jericho Sunfire, now a breatharian, personal trainer (in EN) (well, Jericho hasn't been exposed to such low temperatures, but still he wears shorts when there's snow)

~ Reincarnation

In the book I'm reading the author highlights the difference between reincarnation and transmigration of the soul. By the former he means returning to earth being reborn in human form. By the latter he means returning to earth in the form of trees, animals, birds, rocks, or human. Well, there're other definitions of these terms, but the important thing for me here is that Dr. Newton says he hasn't come across transmigration in his practice, which has been a good one!, and he was told that human souls live separately and reincarnate in human form only.

According to Edgar Cayce, humans are not reborn as animals.

However, according to many ancient beliefs and religions, we are.

From the http://animalcommunicatorforum.com/ I learnt that animals do change species when they return to earth. But I haven't found info about humans born as animals. Maybe I'll ask somebody on that forum.

I'm a bit confused now :) Nevertheless, it doesn't change cosiness of my reality=)

~Learning to respect

I want to learn to respect, especially my parents. All religions say parents must be respected, but I just don't feel the respect. I look at my parents like at people who gave birth to me this time and who know more about me than the others, and yet they don't know me, and there's nothing special, no that love I felt in my childhood, and I notice all their drawbacks and weaknesses.

~ 2 in 1: shame and gratitude

I feel pity and care for our planet, animals and plants, even stones and rocks! And I've already overcome that stage when I hated people for what they do to the world and themselves, although I still feel ashamed sometimes because of belonging to this group (humans). And many times I ask our planet, and animals, and trees to forgive us, humans, for what we've done, we've been doing, and are going to do, and will do, and thank the Earth for letting us live here.

Food/Thoughts/Interests

~ My current food habits

I eat once or twice a day, but I 1)overeat and 2) I eat very late, after 23, when I come home.

The body needs some rest, it sleeps at night, it doesn't work, thus all that undigested food, no good.

~My current food preferences

bananas !!!

tangerines !!!

parsley !!!

apples !

red pepper

green onion !!!

lettuce

buckwheat

No juice. It's not that I'm against it, no. But somehow I don't need it now.

~ Water: OK, 2 l a day

As I eat in the evening or at night, I can drink water whenever I want during the day, and I do.

~ Bronnikov

*This week, 8.02-12.02.10, I took part in a training to improve my sensitivity to energies, to give an impulse to developing the right side of my brain. It's a very short training, 4 hours a day, 5 days in a row, but even in this very short period I've experienced so much and I'm so grateful for that!

*Of course, I want to be able to see without eyes as can children in the video, to control my energy fields, to heal, but my current abilities are very far from these powers. The other trainees were more sensitive than me in the majority of exercises, my energy channels are seriously blocked :(. I'm happy I started to feel something, but with the help of visualisation while the exercise is on mere feeling. A lot to work on.

~ Physical exercise

I want to do something! Not that I know I should, I want to do it! A qualitative change.

~ Death

*I'm reading a book by Dr. Michael Newton on the life of souls after death of the physical body. He hypnotically regressed his clients to a point between lives--after death, but before birth. He shares the knowledge he got from years of research, i.e. of his hypnotherapy practice, in several books. Maybe they're popular in the US, but it's the first time I've come across them. Very interesting. And one of his patients told him an old but simple truth - the only important thing in this "material" world is our way of life and how we treat each other. Our social status, our circumstances don't matter at all, what matters is compassion and acceptance of others.

*According to the Vedic beliefs, everything natural has a soul - a human; an animal, a reptile etc.; a flower etc.; a stone etc. And depending on the 'sins' and necessities of each soul's development, the next time it's on Earth it chooses the right type of body. Well advanced souls don't return to the Earth. In Buddhism an advanced, enlightened soul frees from the Saṃsāra wheel of suffering (i.e. frees from being born on Earth again). So there's a goal in life - to become enlightened.

I believe in reincarnation, and so Newton's book is lying onto a well-prepared ground =).

~ 2012

I'm really interested in the "mystery of 2012", but I'm not afraid because I share the view about the qualitative change in (human) consciousness and appearance of a new human (the next level of our evolution, so to speak), which actually is a gradual process and is already happening (all the indigo and crystal children, more people awakening etc.). I hope there won't be any planetary alignment-specific natural disasters etc. on our planet, but I like the idea of the survival of people with higher levels of consciousness. Thus, spiritual growth is the path.

~ Animals and animal communication

*My dad read some books by Blavatsky 10-15 years ago, and I read several pages. It was very interesting but hard to understand. Later I was trying to understand the differences between man and animal (in all aspects) and found her essay "Have Animals Souls?". Much later I read different theories/beliefs, and now I believe everybody has soul.

*I've just learnt about animal communicators. It's amazing. The story about horses impressed me a lot. I'd love to be able to communicate with animals!

~ Dreams, sleeping, visualisation

*I've read a lot about the essence of dreams and the potential of using dreaming to change one's life. There're different theories and different ideas on that. Nevertheless many psychologists, psychiatrists, modern brain researchers, astral travellers, healers agree on the fact that something's going on there when we sleep, not just resting.

*Well, the body needs rest, of course. Those who experienced different unfavourable life conditions say hunger and thirst are not comparable with sleep deprivation. My personal record of staying awake is about 36 hours, and I felt really bad then.

*However, there's another important function of sleep. [B]est current hypothesis is that human require sleep to properly accumulate and apply what we learn. We need it to process all the new information we receive during the day. And information isn't just numbers or words, it's virtually everything - sounds/noises, movements, gestures... - all the signals from the world that we notice.

*Many say when you sleep your soul/astral body travels to different places or even different worlds, and one can learn to do it. I've read a book on how to start but I'm afraid to do it without personal assistance and support from somebody experienced. So I leave it for now.

*Then, they say it's the period of time when you can plan your future, receive answers, solve problems. If you want to learn a poem by heart, do it before you go to bed. If you're thinking over a problem all day long, you might get an answer/a solution in your dream or next morning or at one of the many microsleeps we have during the day. It works.

*Recently I've learnt one nice technique - instead of repeating affirmations (which don't work under many conditions) simply make a special why-question out of this affirmation and ask it yourself before falling asleep. For example, I am healthy becomes Why am I healthy? Our subconscious part will find its reasons and as a result you will become healthy with due time. I'm going to practise this one.

*One morning last week I woke up with a clear understanding of how to call myself when I want to communicate with the real I. Olen'ka. That's so sweet =) (it's a pet name for Olga)

*I haven't learnt to meditate yet, but when I close my eyes I start seeing many vivid pictures, one after another, or films or cartoons, in bright colours. I like it very much. But as I learnt at the Bronnikov centre training, there's a problem - I don't usually control it, it just starts. So I'm going to learn to give orders myself and stop it if I don't have a full control.

~ Aims and goals

The importance of having a goal in life has been talked over here and there, but still not everybody understands what he really wants to achieve - it's really hard to hear what your soul wants! I haven't realised what they are by now, but I have invented some nice goals for me =) and I'm happy about that =) But 1) I forget to think about them regularly and don't have a plan of how to achieve them, so the steps I'm taking may not coincide with my optimal path. 2) My goals are in the field of spiritual and physical development, I don't want to think about money while I have to.

get prepared to give birth =)

saint

Mimi Kirk

~11.01.10 Ekadashi. I drank 3l of water! And I didn't make myself do it, I was thirsty =)

~ Meet a 70+ y.o. vegan raw foodist Mimi Kirk.

In this interview she doesn't talk about eating raw, only about being vegan:

Here she talks about her raw diet:

Возрадуйся, душа

Только что первый раз в сознательной жизни столкнулась со смертью знакомого человека. Позвонил лучший школьный друг и сказал, что умерла его мама. Она страдала от рака, прошла часть химиотерапии. Но информация о сыроедении и методе Бройса дала ей надежду. Моя мама говорит, она держалась, не то чтобы с ярковыраженным оптимизмом, но не унывала. У неё была уже очень запущенная стадия рака, с серьёзными метостазами в лёгких. И вот в 18 часов сегодня её не стало среди нас. Аминь.

А что со мной? Сколько раз я читала и сама думала, что смерть - это не грустно, наоборот, душа встречается с Богом, испытывает чувство единения, бесконечности, Любви. Значит, и на Земле мы должны радоваться, что душа вернулась домой. Но я не испытываю радости. Пустота. И эмоциональная тяжесть в районе солнечного сплетения. Очень неприятная тяжесть. Хочется сложить руки, как ученики за партой, хочется ладонь держать в районе этой чакры. Когда ладонь убираю, становится тяжелее.

У меня появилось чувство вины. Вдруг, это я приблизила её уход? Вдруг, на химических лекарствах она прожила бы дольше? Я не знаю. Никто не знает, естественно. Другие скажут: "Да и что это за жизнь, когда всё болит?" Но меня эта мысль о возможности моей вины угнетает.

Слушаю мантры, православные молитвы, поставлю классическую музыку. Надеюсь, полегчает. Надеюсь, это только моя первая неправильная реакция, и сейчас я соберусь духом и смогу радоваться за неё и молиться. Я не умею молиться, но теперь есть повод научиться.

~My second birthday with my raw foodism ideas. I'm more tolerant than a year ago. Last year it was friends at my place with only raw food (salads etc.), this time it was in a café, I invited them to fresh juice (it was a must :D ) and to whatever they would choose. The only exception was alcohol.

~Parcel from Uzbekistan received (dried apricots, almonds in shells)

~I'm more sensitive to noises and music. In my everyday metro journeys a pair of good headphones Sennheiser is an absolutely necessary thing due to the fact that I really need noise insulation... It's all too loud for me. Even at the cinema! o_O Among all the pieces of music I've got my preferences currently lie in music for the piano and/or symphony orchestra.

~There's a new yoga place not far from where I live! Want to pass by and learn the prices and timetable.

Service to others

I have found an organisation I trust enough to transfer some 10% of my wages. Celebrity endorsement works! Well, it wasn't an advertising campaign, I was looking for information myself, but I found their website through a LiveJournal account of a famous Russian media person. Thanks, Татьяна Лазарева!
The fact that I already contribute somehow (very little, but better than nothing) to the society invigorates me to pass by beggars in the streets light-heartedly.

Breatharians Baranova and Jasmuheen

Jasmuheen (talk) and Kailash (music)

Not about food

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that I didn't feel the need to talk about food any more. I don't initiate a conversation on "healthy lifestyles". Despite being absolutely sure about the necessity of switching to raw diet when fighting cancer, among other things, I don't promote raw foodism. It's actually quite hard to stay calm and not to react sometimes, because one of the people with cancer I know is mom of my best school friend, and at the same time my mom's good acquaintances are orthodox doctors who work with cancer patients every day and try to help them with chemotherapy. I don't even start talking about my views on cancer and treatment and what human beings shouldn't consume with them as they wouldn't want to see me or my mom again after that. I do answer questions though.
So food is not an issue any more. I think I got used to this diet =) although still only on my way to proper mono raw diet + drinking water. I'd need a couple of years of that way of life to see my physical body and health improve.
Now I'm focused on the part of myself which is not the physical body. I can't find the right words for it. It's not "psychic", it's not "soul", it's not "thoughts"... Non-material part of me, maybe?
One author who influences me most now is Wayne Dyer. Many of the ideas similar to those he touches upon or discusses in his books are not new to me, but somehow I tend to forget them and need to be reminded time and again. I am grateful to him =)

Why not Economics any longer

Listen to yourself. What is it what you really want to do in life? Not those goals imposed by the society or even very caring relatives. I'm still struggling with my mum, she has her own vision of my life, she still thinks I belong to her when I can belong to myself only. My university mates are buying flats in Moscow and good Japanese cars, and my mum wants me to make a lot of money as well. But my view of the world is different, I don't want to be striving for money all my life, I am grateful to and for what I have now.
Do I want to be an office rat? Work long hours inside concrete buildings with poor ventilation stare at a PC? Or work for a company that is one of the leaders in doing harm to the Earth? No. The first step is to realise what I don't want. Done. The next step is to realise what I do want. I started to move in this direction. I believe that doing something with languages (translating, teaching) will minimise my own negative impact on the environment.
There're many books by those who realised 1) how beautiful the world is 2)that we human beings are (supposed to be) its co-creators 3) that abundance is here, we must only see it 4) that the power of our thoughts is limitless, and dreams&wishes do come true, with a lag in time 5) that love and gratitude do miracles 6) that giving (love) is better than taking (love) 7) that we are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience, etc etc etc ........ Many authors are of the late XXth century, still alive and writing more. Many cite Bhagavad Gita, the Torah, the Bible, the Qur'an. Many cite other modern authors, usually healers, naturopats, psychologists. I've read quite a few. Many books are very interesting, well-structured and the ideas are so simple and I've heard them so many times, that it's surprising how come I've never really processed, so to say, those thoughts myself.
It takes time and effort to become aware of the negativism of our thoughts, the many stereotypes we automatically absorb while growing up. But once you start tidying up your mind :) you find it very exciting! You gain that independence in thoughts that many of us really dream of. In my life only the last couple of years brought me this new perception of myself, so I am quite new to this self-improvement field. But those several gleams I've had so far were really amazing! I absolutely agree with somebody who said that if you recall only one prayer a day let it be "thank you". Being grateful not only in words, but really feeling it is a marvellous inner experience which opens doors to abundance in the physical facet of our world as well.
Economics is about decisions on allocation of limited resources. In Microeconomía by Michael Parkin (I have a Spanish edition) I read: "Todas las preguntas de la economía surgen de un hecho sencillo e ineludible: no siempre se puede obtener lo que uno quiere. Vivimos en un mundo de escasez". And this is exactly the idea I don't support any more. The universe has everything a human being might need, and it's a matter of time to receive it (let's not think of what time is for now). How much time is needed depends on the person's qualities, openness to the abundance etc. But beware! Be careful in wishing something! You will get it, and what will you do then? ;)

What do you think about the decision of the court in the case of Daniel Hauser?