RETURNING< TO SOULAND A MOLTING OF ALL.... "Intercourse with God" “...let go lightly.” Milestone 12/9/18

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∞Ram Dass
https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-ep-131-navigating-the-journey/ 

My body is 87, with all its aches and pains.
I don’t identify with my body. I’m inside and I am infinite.
I’m a soul and I watch the whole drama of my body,
my personality and my ego.
The witness, which is part of the soul,
​ I identify with that rather than all the drama.
– Ram Dass
https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-ep-131-navigating-the-journey/ ​

Love compassion, wisdom, peace and joy are all in you.
When you sit down and identify with your being,
not your doing,
you will find all these things in you
and you will radiate joy and love.
Then those who have been hard to relate to,
​you will mirror their souls and they will just be souls.” 
– Ram Dass
https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-ep-131-navigating-the-journey/ ​​

These bodies we live in,
and the ego that identifies with it,
are just like the old family car.
They are functional entities in which our Soul
travels through our incarnation.
But when they are used up, they die.
The most graceful thing to do
is to just allow them to die peacefully and naturally –
to “let go lightly.”
Through it all,
​who we are is Soul . 
Ram Dass
https://www.ramdass.org/dying-is-absolutely-safe/

Below is exerpt from the story of
Ram Dass and the Guru who was NOT changed by taking LSD
​
At the end of an hour it was obvious nothing had happened.
His reactions had been a total put-on.
And then he asked, “Have you got anything stronger?”
I didn’t. Then he said, 
"These medicines were used in Kullu Valley long ago.
But yogis have lost that knowledge.
They were used with fasting.
Nobody knows now.
To take them with no effect, your mind must be firmly fixed on God.
Others would be afraid to take.
Many saints would not take this.” And he left it at that.
When I asked him if I should take LSD again, he said,
“It should not be taken in a hot climate.
If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful,
and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God,
then you may take the yogi medicine.” 
Ram Dass

See Read more for full story
or
this link
https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/

    Intend to cast off the shackles of your habitual manifestations.
  Nanci L. Danison
Backwards: Returning to Our Source for Answers

​AFTERNOON

The seeming death of the body
​is the real birth of the soul.
Bowl of Saki, December 9,
by Hazrat Inayat Khan  
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_new.php
https://wahiduddin.net/

The soul is our real being,
through which we realize and are conscious of our life.

​When the body,
owing to loss of strength and magnetism,
has lost its grip upon the mind,
the seeming death comes;
that which everybody calls death.

​Then the soul's experience of life remains only with one vehicle,
that is the mind, which contains within itself a world of its own,
photographed from one's experience on earth
on the physical plane.
This is heaven if it is full of joy,
and it is hell if it is filled with sorrow. ...

...But the soul is alive.
It is the spirit of the eternal Being,
and it has no death.
​It is everlasting.

   from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/V/V_45.htm

Rather than trying to define our self-worth with judgments and evaluations,
what if our  positive feelings toward ourselves 
came from a totally different source?
What if they came from our hearts,
​ rather than our minds?

Self-compassion does not try to capture and define
the worth or essence of who we are.
​It is not thought or a label, a judgment or an evaluation.

Instead, self-compassion is a way of relating
to the mystery of who we are.
Rather than managing our self-image
so that it is always palatable,
self-compassion honors the fact
that all human beings have both
​ strengths and weaknesses.

Rather than getting lost in thoughts of being good or bad,
we become mindful of our present moment experience,
realizing that it is ever changing and impermanent.

Our successes and failures come and go-
they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness.
They are merely part of the process of being alive.
Our minds may try to convince us otherwise,
but our hearts know that our true value lies
in the core experience of being
​ a conscious being
​who feels and perceives.
~Kristin Neff
​https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/12/09/28414/

isn't it refreshing to know that imperfection is
exciting, surprising, and true......
inquiry for today~  
may your day be as unique
​as your most unpredictable moods.....
.​https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/12/09/28414/

There are parts of me that will always remain
​ untamable, messy, and reckless,
but I refuse to apologize for it anymore.
~Kaitlin Foster
​https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/12/09/28414/

See Read More Below
Full Story of Ram Dass, Guru & LSD
Additional Afternoon Photos

 
"from https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/

Ram Dass Gives Maharaji the “Yogi Medicine”Posted February 19, 2014

Ram Dass reflects on conscientiously dosing Maharaji with LSD


In 1967 when I first came to India, I brought with me a supply of LSD,
hoping to find someone who might understand
more about these substances than we did in the West.
When I had met Maharajji (Neem Karoli Baba),
after some days the thought had crossed my mind
that he would be a perfect person to ask.
The next day after having that thought,
I was called to him and he asked me immediately,
“Do you have a question?”
Of course, being before him was such a powerful experience
that I had completely forgotten the question
I had had in my mind the night before.
So I looked stupid and said,
“No, Maharajji, I have no question.”
He appeared irritated and said,
“Where is the medicine?”

I was confused but Bhagavan Dass suggested,
” Maybe he means the LSD.”
I asked and Maharajji nodded.
The bottle of LSD was in the car and I was sent to fetch it.
When I returned I emptied the vial of pills into my hand.
In addition to the LSD there were a number of other pills
for this and that–diarrhea, fever, a sleeping pill, and so forth.
He asked about each of these.

He asked if they gave powers.
I didn’t understand at the time and thought that by “powers”
perhaps he meant physical strength.
I said, “No.”
Later, of course, I came to understand
that the word he had used, “siddhis,” means psychic powers.
Then he held out his hand for the LSD.
I put one pill on his palm.
Each of these pills was about three hundred micrograms
of very pure LSD–a solid dose for an adult.
He beckoned for more,
so I put a second pill in his hand–six hundred micrograms.
Again he beckoned and I added yet another,
making the total dosage nine hundred micrograms–
certainly not a dose for beginners.
Then he threw all the pills into his mouth.

My reaction was one of shock mixed with fascination
of a social scientist eager to see what would happen.
He allowed me to stay for an hour– and nothing happened.
Nothing whatsoever.
He just laughed at me.
The whole thing had happened very fast and unexpectedly.
When I returned to the United States in 1968
I told many people about this acid feat.
But there had remained in me a gnawing doubt
that perhaps he had been putting me on and had thrown the pills
over his shoulder or palmed them,
because I hadn’t actually seen them go into his mouth.

Three years later, when I was back in India,
he asked me one day,
“Did you give me medicine when you were in India last time?”
“Yes.”
“Did I take it?” he asked. (Ah, there was my doubt made manifest!)
“I think you did.”
“What happened?
“Nothing.”
“Oh! Jao!” and he sent me off for the evening.

The next morning I was called over to the porch in front of his room,
where he sat in the mornings on a tucket.
He asked, “Have you got any more of that medicine?”
It just so happened that I was carrying a small supply of LSD for “just in case,”
and this was obviously it.
“Yes.”
“Get it,” he said.
So I did. In the bottle were five pills of three hundred micrograms each.
One of the pills was broken. I placed them on my palm and held them out to him.
He took the four unbroken pills.
Then, one by one, very obviously and very deliberately,
he placed each one in his mouth and swallowed it–
another unspoken thought of mine now answered.
As soon as he had swallowed the last one, he asked,
“Can I take water?”
“Yes.”
“Hot or cold?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
He started yelling for water and drank a cup when it was brought.
Then he asked, “How long will it take to act?”
“Anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour.”
He called for an older man, a long -time devotee who had a watch,
and Maharajji held the man’s wrist, often pulling it up to him to peer at the watch.
Then he asked,” Will it make me crazy?”
That seemed so bizarre to me that I could only go along
with what seemed to be a gag.
So I said, “Probably.”

And then we waited.
After some time he pulled the blanket over his face,
and when he came out after a moment his eyes were rolling
and his mouth was ajar and he looked totally mad.
I got upset.
What was happening? Had I misjudged his powers?
After all, he was an old man (though how old I had no idea),
and I had let him take twelve hundred micrograms.
Maybe last time he had thrown them away and then he read my mind
and was trying to prove to me he could do it,
not realizing how strong the “medicine” really was.
Guilt and anxiety poured through me.
But when I looked at him again
he was perfectly normal and looking at the watch.

At the end of an hour it was obvious nothing had happened.
His reactions had been a total put-on.
And then he asked, “Have you got anything stronger?”
I didn’t.

Then he said,
“These medicines were used in Kullu Valley long ago.
But yogis have lost that knowledge.
They were used with fasting.
Nobody knows now.
To take them with no effect,
​your mind must be firmly fixed on God.
Others would be afraid to take.
Many saints would not take this.”
And he left it at that.

When I asked him if I should take LSD again, he said,
“It should not be taken in a hot climate.
If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and
you are alone and your mind is turned toward God,
then you may take the yogi medicine.”
Ram Dass
https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/


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you are alone and your mind is turned toward God
​https://www.ramdass.org/episode-60-reaching-god/

This audio is 36:25 minutes
Actual Ram Dass sharing begins after excellent intro...
...at 16:16 min.
"INTERCOURSE WITH GOD"
( is in THE PART WITH RAM DASS)

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