"CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY ACORN MEDIA" "HELLO." "I'M SUSAN SARANDON." "IN THE PREVIOUS PROGRAM OF "MYTHOS"," "JOE CAMPBELL TOLD US THAT THE CHRIST IDEA" "AND THE BUDDHA IDEA WERE EQUIVALENT MYTHOLOGICAL SYMBOLS." "THE GODS ARE PROJECTIONS OF POWERS WITHIN US," "NOT SOMEWHERE OUT THERE." "ONE DAY, WHEN JOE WAS ON HIS WAY TO LUNCH" "IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN," "HE WAS STOPPED ON THE STREET BY A MAN" "HANDING OUT RELIGIOUS PAMPHLETS." "THE MAN ASKED SUDDENLY, "DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?"" "STEPPING BACK TO CONSIDER HIS QUESTIONER, CAMPBELL RESPONDED," ""I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TIME FOR MY ANSWER."" "FOR JOE, TO REDUCE THE IDEA OF GOD TO A QUESTION OF BELIEF" "IS TO MISS THE POINT." "THE SINGLE GOD OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION" "OR THE MANY GODS OF HINDUISM" "ARE PERSONIFICATIONS OF WHAT HE CALLS" ""TRANSCENDENT ENERGY CONSCIOUSNESS."" "IN THIS PROGRAM, JOE USES THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE OF YOGA" "TO EXPLAIN WHAT THIS" "TRANSCENDENT ENERGY CONSCIOUSNESS IS." "HE BEGINS WITH THE POPULAR HINDU STORY TO SET THE STAGE." "LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY." "IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY," "AND IT COMES IN ONE OF THE UPANISHADS" "THE BRAHMA [INDISTINCT] UPANISHAD." "INDRA, THE KING OF THE VEDIC PANTHEON," "HAD JUST SLAIN A MONSTER SERPENT CALLED VRITRA "THE ENCLOSER"" "WHO HAD ENCLOSED ALL THE WATERS OF THE EARTH" "AND CREATED A DROUGHT," "AND THIS DROUGHT LASTED FOR MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS." "SO THINGS WERE IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE." "WHEN INDRA, WHO APPARENTLY THOUGHT SLOWLY IN THOSE DAYS," "SUDDENLY THOUGHT, "WHY DON'T I JUST THROW A THUNDERBOLT" "INTO THIS CHAP AND BLOW HIM UP?"" "SO INDRA REACHES INTO HIS THUNDERBOLT BOX," "THROWS THE THUNDERBOLT--BOOM, THAT'S THE END OF VRITRA," "AND THE WATERS FLOW BACK TO THE EARTH," "AND INDRA THINKS "WHAT A GREAT BOY AM I?"" "SO HE GOES UP ONTO THE TOP OF THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN" "ON WHICH THE GODS HAVE THEIR PALACES," "AND HE SEES THE PALACES, AND THEY'RE IN PRETTY BAD DISREPAIR." "SO HE DECIDES HE'LL GO TO WORK" "AND BUILD A PALACE WORTHY OF HIS GREAT DIGNITY." "SO HE GETS VISHWAKARMA, THE CARPENTER OF THE GODS," "THE GREAT CRAFTSMAN," "AND HE SAYS, "NOW, I'D LIKE SOME LOTUS PONDS OVER HERE" ""AND THIS KIND OF TOWER THERE," "AND PILLOWS OVER HERE," AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS." "IT WAS GRAND, GRAND EFFECT." "AND EVERY TIME HE CAME BACK TO LOOK AT HOW THINGS WERE GOING," "HE HAD MORE IDEAS," "UNTIL VISHWAKARMA THOUGHT, "MY GOD," ""I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO SATISFY THIS CHAP." "AND WE'RE BOTH IMMORTAL, SO THIS IS GONNA GO ON A LONG TIME."" "AND SO IN GREAT DISTRESS, HE WENT TO BRAHMA." "NOW, BRAHMA IS THE GOD WITH 4 FACES THAT" "SENDS THE LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS OUT OVER THE WORLD" "THAT VISHNU HAS DREAMED." "AND BRAHMA SITS ON THE LOTUS, PADMA, THE GODDESS LOTUS," "WHICH IS VISHNU'S DREAM." "AND VISHNU, AS I SAY, IS ASLEEP ON THE COSMIC SERPENT" "OUT THERE ON THE COSMIC WATERS." "SO VISHWAKARMA COMES TO THE SHORE, AND HE PRAYS TO BRAHMA" "UP THERE ON THE LOTUS AND TELLS HIM A STORY." "BRAHMA SAYS, "OK, I'LL FIX THIS UP."" "SO BRAHMA GETS OFF HIS LOTUS AND PRAYS TO VISHNU" "AND TELLS VISHNU WHAT'S GOING ON HERE." "AND VISHNU, ASLEEP, JUST SAYS ..." "SO NEXT MORNING, THE PORTER AT THE GATE OF THE PALACE" "THAT'S BEING BUILT" "SEES A BEAUTIFUL BLUE-BLACK BOY," "KIND OF A KRISHNA TYPE," "SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN WHO ARE AMAZED AT THE BEAUTY" "OF THIS YOUTH." "AND THE PORTER RUNS BACK TO INDRA WHO'S ON HIS THRONE" "AND SAYS TO INDRA," ""IT'S AUSPICIOUS TO INVITE THIS BEAUTIFUL BOY IN," "AND I SUGGEST YOU DO SO."" "INDRA SAYS, "ALL RIGHT, SHOW HIM IN." "SO THE BOY IS INVITED IN," "AND HE COMES AND STANDS BEFORE INDRA'S THRONE." "HOSPITALITY IS OFFERED IN THE WAY OF FRUITS" "AND SO FORTH AND SO ON." "AND THEN INDRA ASKS, "YOUNG MAN, WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE?"" "AND WITH A VOICE LIKE THUNDER ROLLING ON THE HORIZON," "THE BOY REPLIES, "I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT YOU'RE BUILDING" ""A GREATER PALACE" "THAN ANY PALACE THAT WAS EVER BUILT BY ANY INDRA BEFORE YOU." "I'VE COME TO GIVE IT A ONCE-OVER." "AND INDEED, THIS IS SO."" "AND INDRA'S SITTING THERE, AND HE SAYS," ""INDRAS BEFORE ME, YOUNG MAN?" "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"" "AND THE BOY SAYS, "JUST CONSIDER," ""VISHNU LIES ON THE SURFACE." ""THE LOTUS OF OUR UNIVERSE RISES." ""ON THE LOTUS SITS A BRAHMA." ""AND EVERY TIME BRAHMA OPENS HIS EYES," ""A WORLD AGE COMES INTO BEING," ""GOVERNED BY AN INDRA." ""HE CLOSES HIS EYES." ""HE OPENS HIS EYES, ANOTHER WORLD AGE." ""HE CLOSES HIS EYES." ""THIS GOES ON FOR 360 DIVINE YEARS," ""EYES OPENING AND CLOSING," ""AND THEN THE LOTUS DISSOLVES," ""AND IT GOES BACK." ""ANOTHER LOTUS, ANOTHER BRAHMA," "OPENING, CLOSING."" "AND THEN HE SAYS, "CONSIDER THE GALAXIES" ""IN THE INFINITUDES OF SPACE," ""EACH WITH ITS LOTUS, WITH ITS BRAHMA," ""EYES OPENING, EYES CLOSING," ""THERE MAY BE THOSE IN YOUR COURT" ""WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO COUNT THE SANDS," ""THE GRAINS OF SAND ON THE BEACHES OF THE WORLD" ""OR THE DROPS OF WATER IN THE OCEAN," "BUT WHO WOULD COUNT THOSE BRAHMAS, LET ALONE INDRAS?"" "AND AS HE'S TALKING," "A PARADE OF ANTS IS COMING ACROSS THE FLOOR" "IN PERFECT RANK." "AND WHEN THE BOY SEES THEM, HE LAUGHS." "AND INDRA'S WHISKERS GO UP, AND HE SAYS," ""WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?"" "THE BOY SAYS, "DON'T ASK UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE HURT."" "AND INDRA SAYS, "I ASK."" "THE BOY SAYS, "FORMER INDRAS ALL."" "[LAUGHTER]" "THROUGH MANY INCARNATIONS," "THEY HAVE CLIMBED THE SCALE OF VIRTUE." "AND THEY HAVE GAINED THE POINT OF BECOMING AN INDRA," "SITTING IN THE ROLE OF INDRA." "THEN THEY KILLED VRITRA, THE SERPENT." "AND THEY THINK, "WHAT A GREAT BOY AM I?"" "AND ZOOM, THEY GO DOWN TO THE BOTTOM." "THEY START UP AGAIN." "WELL, WHILE HE'S TALKING, A CROCHETY OLD YOGI COMES IN," "WEARING A LOINCLOTH, CARRYING AN UMBRELLA OF BANANA LEAVES." "AND ON HIS CHEST IS A CIRCLE OF HAIRS." "AND ALL THE HAIRS HAVE GONE OUT OF THE MIDDLE," "SO IT'S JUST A KIND OF RING." "AND THE BOY ASKED THE QUESTIONS WHICH ARE IN INDRA'S MIND." ""WHO ARE YOU?" "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" ""WHERE DO YOU LIVE?" "WHERE'S YOUR FAMILY?" ""WHY DO YOU CARRY THAT PARASOL?" ""AND WHAT'S THE MEANING" "OF THIS CURIOUS CIRCLE OF HAIR ON YOUR CHEST?"" ""WELL," SAYS THE OLD FELLA," ""HARRY'S MY NAME." "I DON'T HAVE A HOUSE." "LIFE'S SHORT." "THIS UMBRELLA IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME."" ""I SIMPLY SPEND MY DAYS IN THE WORSHIP OF VISHNU'S LOTUS FEET." ""AND AS FOR THESE HAIRS..." "CURIOUS." ""EVERY TIME AN INDRA DIES, ONE HAIR DROPS OUT." ""HALF OF THEM ARE GONE." "PRETTY SOON, THEY'LL ALL BE GONE." "LIFE'S SHORT." "WHY BUILD A HOUSE?"" "[LAUGHTER]" "WELL, INDRA IS PRETTY SMITTEN BY THIS," "AND THE TWO OF THEM GO OUT." "AND HE THINKS, "I'M GONNA QUIT THIS THRONE." ""I'M GONNA QUIT THE WHOLE THING." ""I'M GOING OUT." "I'M GONNA BECOME A YOGI." "I'M GONNA WORSHIP VISHNU'S LOTUS FEET."" "AND HE TELLS HIS WIFE THIS-- INDRANI." "YOU'VE SEEN HER PICTURE, SITTING ON THE LIONS." "GREAT GAL." "AND SHE KNOWS THIS IS RIDICULOUS." "SO SHE GOES TO THE PRIEST OF THE GODS AND SAYS," ""NOW, LOOK, HE'S GOT THIS IDEA IN HIS HEAD." "HE'S GOING OUT TO BE A YOGI."" "AND HE SAYS, "OH, COME ON, DARLING, WE'LL GO IN" "AND WE'LL TALK WITH HIM."" "SO TAKING INDRANI BY THE HAND, PRIEST GOES IN, SITS DOWN," "AND HE BEGINS TO TALK TO VISHNU--TO INDRA." "AND HE TELLS HIM," ""THERE ARE 2 ASPECTS" ""THERE'S THE ASPECT OF INFINITY," ""AND THERE'S THE ASPECT OF THE REVELATION OF INFINITY" ""IN THE FORMS OF THE WORLD." ""AND HERE YOU ARE ON THE THRONE" ""AS THE HIGHEST MANIFESTATION IN THE SOCIAL WORLD" ""OF THIS MIRACLE OF BEING." ""AND IN KNOWING YOUR ROLE AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING," ""YOU CAN AT THE SAME TIME BE WORSHIPING THE FEET OF VISHNU." ""NOW," HE SAYS, "I'VE WRITTEN YOU A BOOK ALREADY" "ON THE ART OF WAR."" "THIS IS THE "ARTHASHASTRA," AND BELIEVE ME," "MAKES, UH..." "MACHIAVELLI LOOK LIKE A KINDERGARTEN BOOK." ""AND NOW I WRITE ONE ON THE ART OF LOVE." ""SO THAT IN BOTH ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE," ""AS THE TEACHER AND RULER OF MEN" ""AND AS THE LOVER OF YOUR WIFE" ""YOU WILL BE EXPERIENCING THE RAPTURE" "OF THE DIVINE ETERNAL ..." "THROUGH YOU."" "SO THAT'S GOOD INDIAN STUFF." "THERE ARE THESE MANY WAYS AND IN THE WAYS OF BEING IN THE WORLD," "OR IN THE WAYS OF LEAVING THE WORLD" "THAT THE RAPTURE CAN SHOW THROUGH." "NOW WHO ARE THE 2 PREACHERS THAT CAME INTO THE PALACE?" "OF COURSE, THE BOY WAS VISHNU AND THE OLD YOGI WAS SHIVA," "AND THEY CAME IN TO INSTRUCT THIS OLD VEDIC GOD INDRA." "IT'S CALLED "THE HUMBLING OF INDRA."" "WELL, HERE'S VISHNU, THIS GRAND DEITY," "WHO IS THE COUNTERPLAYER TO SHIVA." "NOW IN THE POPULAR WAY OF TALKING ABOUT INDIAN GODS," "WE SAY BRAHMA, VISHNU, SHIVA" "BRAHMA, THE CREATOR..." "VISHNU, THE PRESERVER..." "SHIVA, THE DESTROYER." "BUT ACTUALLY, THE 2 GREAT GODS ARE VISHNU AND SHIVA." "SHIVA, THE WORLD DANCER." "HE'S DANCING ON A LITTLE DWARF," "WHOSE NAME IS FORGETFULNESS." "THAT'S OURSELVES, FORGETFUL OF OUR ETERNAL IDENTITY WITH SHIVA." "THIS RIGHT HAND HOLDS A LITTLE DRUM," "AND THE DRUM GOES, "TICK, TICK, TICK, TICK."" "THAT IS THE TICK OF TIME, WHICH CREATES THE WORLD OF TIME." "AND THE WORLD OF TIME IS AS A VEIL" "THROWN ACROSS THE FACE OF ETERNITY," "AND WE CANNOT PENETRATE IT." "ETERNITY IS NOT A LONG TIME." "IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TIME." "IT IS THE DIMENSION THAT IS OCCLUDED FROM OUR EXPERIENCE" "BY THE VEIL OF TIME." "THIS HAND HOLDS A FLAME, AND THAT IS THE FLAME" "THAT IS TO BURN AWAY THE VEIL OF TIME." "THIS HAND SAYS, "DO NOT BE AFRAID."" "THIS HAND IS CALLED "THE ELEPHANT HAND"" "OR "TEACHING HAND."" "IT POINTS TO THE LIFTED LEFT FOOT," "WHICH MEANS "RELEASE"." "THE RIGHT FOOT DOWN ON THE BACK OF FORGETFULNESS." "AND SO THIS DANCE OF CREATION, DESTRUCTION," "AND PASSING TIME" "HOLDS IN THE CENTER THE STILL POINT OF THE HEAD." "AND THIS IS WHAT LIVES IN US." "WE DO NOT FEEL THE WEIGHT OF SHIVA, HIS FOOT," "ON OUR BACK ANY MORE THAN THE LITTLE DWARF DOES," "BUT HE'S THERE." "AND HIS DANCE IS TO CALL US TO THAT KNOWLEDGE." "NOW WE'VE GOT VISHNU." "VISHNU IS THE OTHER GREAT DEITY OF THE TRADITIONAL PANTHEON." "THIS IS HIS INCARNATION AS A BOAR." "THERE WAS A FLOOD." "THE WHOLE WORLD WAS DROWNED IN A FLOOD." "THERE ARE MANY FLOODS IN THE ..." "TRADITION." "AND HERE IS THE GODDESS EARTH," "WHO IS DOWN IN THE ABYSS OF THE WATERS." "AND VISHNU TURNS HIMSELF INTO A BOAR," "A GIGANTIC BOAR," "WHICH PLUNGES THEM TO THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER" "AND TAKES THE GODDESS AND CARRIES HER BACK TO LIGHT." "SOMETIMES SHE HANGS ONTO HIS TUSK THERE." "AND IT'S A GRAND, GRAND STORY OF HIM GOING DOWN." "AND SHE, IN THE ABYSS, SEEING THIS LIGHT COME DOWN TO HER," "AND THEN CARRY HER BACK AGAIN." "AND AS HE'S CARRYING HER BACK, HE SAYS," ""EVERY TIME I CARRY YOU THIS WAY..."" "THAT MEANS EVERY 90 BILLION YEARS THIS THING HAPPENS." "AND THE WONDERFUL THING IS THE EXPANSION OF THE NOTION OF TIME," "WHICH DIMINISHES OUR NOTION OF THE IMPORTANCE" "OF THE PRESENT MOMENT AND MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO SEE IT" "AS BUT A FLASH ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATERS OF ETERNITY." "THIS IS ANOTHER APPEARANCE OF VISHNU AS THE MAN-LION," "NARASIMHA." "THIS WAS AN ATHEIST, AND LIKE MANY ATHEISTS," "HE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A VERY RELIGIOUS SON." "AND HE WAS SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING HIS SON" "TALK ABOUT VISHNU." "SO ONE DAY, HE SAID, "WOW." "IF VISHNU'S EVERYWHERE," "LET HIM COME OUT OF THAT COLUMN."" "THE COLUMN SPLIT." "OUT COMES VISHNU AS A LION," "GRABS THIS CHAP WHOSE NAME IS GOLDEN GARMENT," "RIPS UP HIS BELLY, LAYS HIM ON HIS KNEE," "AND BEGINS EATING HIS GUTS LIKE SPAGHETTI." "AND THIS IS A FAVORITE STORY IN THE POPULAR THEATER." "I MEAN, WHEN VISHNU'S EATING THOSE GUTS, EVERYBODY LOVES IT." "[LAUGHTER]" "IN THE STORY, "THE HUMBLING OF INDRA,"" "SHIVA TELLS INDRA THAT THERE ARE 2 ASPECTS OF LIFE:" "THE ETERNAL, AND THE REVELATION OF THE ETERNAL" "THROUGH OUR EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD." "WHAT EXACTLY IS THE REVELATION?" "WHAT IS THE ETERNAL THAT SHIVA SPEAKS OF?" "HE IS SPEAKING OF" "THE TRANSCENDENT ENERGY CONSCIOUSNESS" "THAT JOE TALKS ABOUT." "THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS TO DEFINE IT," "ALL DIFFICULT AND ALL JUST APPROXIMATIONS," "BECAUSE, AS JOE SAYS, THESE IDEAS ARE BEYOND WORDS." "BUT TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THEM," "WE MUST TAKE OUR OWN IDEAS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND GOD" "AND TURN THEM ON THEIR HEAD." "JOE DOES JUST THIS AS HE EXPLORES THE SPIRITUAL TRADITION" "OF YOGA, AS IT HAS BEEN PRACTICED AND REFINED" "FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN INDIA." "NOW WHAT I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS MORNING IS YOGA." "AND THE IDEA OF YOGA IS ALREADY GIVEN IN THE NAME "YOGA"." "IT COMES FROM A ROOT "YUJ", THAT MEANS TO YOKE." "YOKE SOMETHING TO SOMETHING ELSE." "AND WHAT IS BEING YOKED IS OUR EGO CONSCIOUSNESS," "THE ..." "CONSCIOUSNESS," "TO THE SOURCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS." "NOW JUST AS THE IDEA OF DEITY IN THESE PERENNIAL TRADITIONS" "GREATLY DIFFERS FROM OUR IDEA OF DEITY," "SO DOES THE IDEA OF CONSCIOUSNESS." "IN, UH..." "SPEAKING OF DEITIES IN THE TERMS THAT ARE PROPER" "TO THESE MYTHOLOGICALLY GROUNDED CONDITIONS," "I SAY THAT THE DEITY IS A PERSONIFICATION" "OF THE ENERGY." "IT'S A PERSONIFICATION OF AN ENERGY THAT INFORMS LIFE." "ALL LIFE, YOUR LIFE, THE WORLD'S LIFE." "THE NATURE OF THE PERSONIFICATION" "WILL BE DETERMINED BY HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES." "THE PERSONIFICATION IS FOLK." "THE ENERGY IS HUMAN." "AND SO DEITIES PROCEED FROM THE ENERGIES," "AND THEY ARE THE MESSENGERS AND VEHICLES," "SO TO SAY, OF THE ENERGIES." "WHEREAS OUR IDEA OF DEITY IS THAT DEITY IS A FACT," "AND IT'S FROM THAT FACT THAT THE ENERGIES PROCEED..." "TOPSY-TURVY, ROUNDABOUT." "LIKEWISE, WITH RESPECT TO CONSCIOUSNESS," "OUR NOTION IS THAT THE BRAIN IS THE SOURCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS," "SOMETHING OF THAT SORT." "THE TRADITIONAL IDEA IS THAT THE BRAIN" "IS A FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS." "CONSCIOUSNESS IS FIRST, AND THE BRAIN IS AN ORGAN" "THAT ENCAPSULATES CONSCIOUSNESS" "AND FOCUSES IT IN A CERTAIN DIRECTION" "ON THE DIRECTION OF TIME AND SPACE KNOWLEDGE," "WHICH IS SECONDARY KNOWLEDGE." "AND THE NOTION THAT WE ARE ALL MANIFESTATIONS" "OF THAT TRANSCENDENT CONSCIOUSNESS," "WHICH GOES BEYOND ALL OUR POWERS TO THINK AND TO NAME," "IS THE BASIC IDEA OF ALL OF THIS." "NOW IN OUR WESTERN THINKING," "THERE HAVE BEEN MOMENTS WHEN THIS HAS COME IN." "AGAINST WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED THE MAINSTREAM PHILOSOPHY" "OR THE SCHOOL PHILOSOPHERS." "IN THE MIDDLE AGE--LONG BEFORE THE TIME OF THE MIDDLE AGES," "WE HAVE DIONYSUS, THE AREOPAGITE," "WHO IS A MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHER." "AND HIS PHILOSOPHY IS PICKED UP IN THE 8th AND 9th CENTURIES" "BY SCOTUS ERIGENA IN IRELAND," "THIS IS A GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHER OF MAGNIFICENT CONCEPTS." "IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES," "MEISTER ECKHART-- HE USES THE COMPLICATED," "COMPUTIZING LANGUAGE OF CHRISTIANITY," "BUT HE BLOWS IT APART," "AND YOU HAVE THE RECOGNITION" "OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEITY" "TO THE KNOWER OF THE DEITY." "AND THEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE LIKE GIORDANO BRUNO," "WHO WAS BURNED IN THE MAIN PLAZA OF ROME IN THE 1600s" "FOR SAYING THESE THINGS." "BUT THEN A GREAT MOMENT HAPPENED" "IN THE RENAISSANCE, ITALY." "COSOMO DE MEDICI INVITED MARSILIO FACINO" "TO TRANSLATE A TEXT THAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT FROM BYZANTIUM" "BY A BYZANTINE MONK." "AND THIS WAS THE GREEK TEXT OF THE "CORPUS HERMETICUM,"" "THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY OF THE 1st CENTURY A.D." "CONTEMPORARY WITH EARLY CHRISTIANITY," "BUT IN THE PAGAN TERMINOLOGY." "AND WHEN THIS WAS COMPLETED," "THE EXCITEMENT IN THE WHOLE WORLD OF THE ARTS WAS ENORMOUS." "BOTTICELLI'S FULL OF ALL THIS." "AND THIS WONDERFUL FLOWERING OF RENAISSANCE ART IS ELOQUENT" "OF THESE VERY IDEAS THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT." "THEN IN LATER TIMES, WE HAVE IMMANUEL KANT." "THERE ARE 2 KINDS OF PHILOSOPHIES IN THE WORLD:" "THERE'S ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY WHERE NOBODY REALLY UNDERSTOOD" "WHAT KANT WAS SAYING," "AND THERE'S THE PHILOSOPHIES THAT WE FIND JUST IMPLICIT," "FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPEAN SYSTEMS." "WHAT KANT RECOGNIZED IN HIS CRITIQUE OF "PURE REASON"" "WAS THAT ALL OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, ALL OF OUR EXPERIENCE" "IS CONDITIONED BY THE ORGANS OF EXPERIENCE" "AND THE ORGANS OF KNOWLEDGE." "AND OUR PRIORITY, PRIMARY," "ANTECEDENT TO OUR EXPERIENCE OF ANYTHING" "IS OUR KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE." "EVERYTHING COMES TO US IN THE FIELD OF TIME AND SPACE." "AND IN THAT WONDERFUL PAPER OF HIS CALLED THE, UH..." ""FOUNDATION OF METAPHYSICS"," "HE ASKS THIS QUESTION." "HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN MAKE DETERMINATIONS" "FOR RELATIONSHIPS IN SPACE HERE" "AND KNOW THAT THESE WILL WORK IN SPACE THERE." "HE SAYS IT'S BECAUSE THE LAWS OF SPACE" "ARE RIGHT IN OUR OWN MIND." "WELL, THIS STRUCK ME LIKE DYNAMITE." "THE FLIGHT AROUND THE MOON, BUT JUST BEFORE THE ONE" "WHERE ARMSTRONG'S FOOT CAME DOWN ON THE MOON..." "GROUND CONTROL, HOUSTON, ASKED, "WHO'S NAVIGATING NOW."" "AND THE ANSWER THAT CAME BACK, AND I HEARD IT WITH AMAZEMENT," "WAS, "NEWTON."" "NOW, THE LAWS THAT WOULD WORK IN THAT SPACE UP THERE" "WHERE NOBODY HAD EVER BEEN BEFORE" "WERE KNOWN SO PERFECTLY THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BRING THAT" "LITTLE MODULE BACK WITHIN A MILE OF A BOAT" "IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FROM AROUND THE MOON." "AND NO MATTER HOW FAR THESE SPACE VEHICLES GO OUT INTO SPACE" "WE'VE ENVELOPED IT, WE KNOW IT." "BUT WHEN ARMSTRONG'S FOOT CAME DOWN ON THE MOON," "NOBODY KNEW HOW DEEP HE WAS GONNA SINK IN THE MOON DUST." "THAT'S HOW [INDISTINCT]." "BUT THE FRAMING ORDER OF KNOWLEDGE" "TO WHICH ALL OF OUR EXPERIENCES COME" "THIS WE ALREADY KNOW." "BUT WHAT IS THE THING THAT WE'RE COMING TO KNOW" "THROUGH TIME AND SPACE?" "IS IT A THING?" "NO." "THINGS ARE IN TIME AND SPACE." "WOW." "YOU'VE GONE INTO THE TRANSCENDENT THING." "SO HE CALLS THIS TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC." "AND THEN, AFTER YOU'VE SEEN EVERYTHING," "YOU BEGIN THINKING ABOUT IT," "AND THE LAWS OF YOUR THINKING ARE WHAT DETERMINE" "WHAT YOU CAN THINK." "THESE ARE THE LAWS OF LOGIC, THE CATEGORIES." "YOU CAN'T EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T FIT IN THOSE." "SO YOU'RE ENCLOSED." "THIS IS MAYA, EXACTLY." "AND IT WAS SCHOPENHAUER WHO FIRST RECOGNIZED" "THAT THE INDIAN CONCEPT OF MAYA" "AND KANT'S CONCEPT OF THE FORMS OF SENSIBILITY" "AND THE CATEGORIES OF LOGIC WERE EQUIVALENT." "SO IN HIS WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA," "HE'S ABLE TO TALK ABOUT WESTERN THINKING" "IN TERMS OF ORIENTAL THINKING." "THE TWO COME RIGHT TOGETHER THERE." "NIETZSCHE PICKED THIS UP, AND WOW!" "THIS IS A WHOLE NEW THRUST IN WESTERN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY." "SO THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT MOMENTS" "IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION" "TO RECOGNIZE THE BREAKTHROUGH OF THIS ELEMENTARY IDEA SYSTEM," "THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY," "INTO WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM." "WELL, WITH THAT LITTLE PRELUDE," "I'M GONNA COME NOW TO OUR THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY." "YOGA, THEN, IS A LINKING OF CONSCIOUSNESS," "THIS UNCONSCIOUSNESS, THIS EGOCONSCIOUSNESS," "TO THE SOURCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS." "AND THE SOURCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS, OF COURSE," "TRANSCENDENT OF ALL OUR CONCEPTS." "JUST AS ALL THAT TRULY-- I DON'T EVEN DARE SAY "IS"," "BECAUSE "IS" IS A CONCEPT." "YOU SEE, YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS" "WHEN YOU ASK, "IS GOD ONE OR MANY?"" ""ONE OR MANY"?" "THESE ARE CONCEPTS." "THESE ARE THE CATEGORIES OF THOUGHT." "AND THE WORD "GOD"" "IS NOT SUPPOSED TO REFER TO A PERSONALITY." "IT'S SUPPOSED TO REFER PAST THE PERSONALITY" "TO THAT WHICH IS REALLY TRANSCENDENT OF THOUGHT." "AND THE MYTHIC SYMBOLS OPEN LIKE THAT TO TRANSCENDENCE." "JUNG MAKES A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE WORD "SYMBOL"" "AND THE WORD "SIGN"." "THIS IS AN ARBITRARY DEFINITION THAT HE USES." "A SYMBOL IS A MYTHIC SYMBOL," "WHICH HAS ONE LEG HERE AND OTHER IN INFINITY." "IT POINTS TO THE TRANSCENDER." "A SIGN POINTS TO SOMETHING HERE." "AS NORMALLY INTERPRETED, GOD IS A SIGN, NOT A SYMBOL." "THE WORD "GOD" REFERS TO WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A FACT." "AND THEN THERE'S THAT SAYING I LIKE TO QUOTE" "THAT CAME UP IN THE GNOSTIC PERIOD." ""PROBLEM WITH YAHWEH IS, HE THINKS HE'S GOD."" "THAT IS TO SAY--HE SAYS, "I'M IT." "I'M NO SYMBOL."" "AND THEN OF COURSE, WHEN HE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT'S IT," "THEN EVERYBODY ELSE'S GOD IS NO GOD AT ALL." "IN PROPER LANGUAGE..." "CONCRETIZING THE IMAGE," "CONCRETIZING THE SYMBOL IS WHAT WE CALL IDOLATRY." "SO THERE ARE WHOLE RELIGIONS FROM THIS STANDPOINT" "AS AN IDOLATROUS SYSTEM." "AND PERHAPS THAT'S BECAUSE OF THIS, YOU KNOW," "UNCONSCIOUS IDOLATRY OF OUR OWN" "THAT WE'RE SEEING IDOLATRY IN EVERYBODY ELSE" "AND BUSTING IDOLS." "JUST A LITTLE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY." "[LAUGHTER]" "NOW, THE..." "CLASSIC BOOK OF YOGA IS CALLED "THE YOGA SUTRAS."" "AND THE WORD "SUTRA" IS RELATED TO OUR "SUTURE"," "THE THREAD THAT A DOCTOR USES TO SEW YOU UP AFTER AN OPERATION." "SO "YOGA SUTRAS" MEANS THE THREAD OF YOGA." "AND THERE'S A TYPE OF BOOK, TYPE OF DOCUMENT FROM INDIA," "CALLED SUTRAS." "THERE ARE LOTS OF SUTRAS." "AND WHAT THESE ARE ARE THE SORT OF BOOKS STUDENTS BUY" "THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXAMINATION," "WHICH IN VERY SHORT, CONCISE FORMULAE" "SUMMARIZE THE WORK THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING ALL YEAR." "AND YOU CAN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THE BOOK" "UNLESS YOU ALREADY KNOW THE SUBJECT." "NOW, THE SECOND APHORISM OF THE YOGA SUTRAS" "WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED TO A LEGENDARY SAGE NAMED PATANJALI." "THE SECOND APHORISM IS THE CLASSIC DEFINITION OF YOGA," "AND IT IS AS FOLLOWS." "YOGA IS THE INTENTIONAL STOPPING OF THE SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY" "OF THE MIND STUFF." "YOGA IS THE INTENTIONAL STOPPING OF THE SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY" "OF THE MIND STUFF." "NOW THE MIND STUFF." "[SIGHS]" "THERE ARE 2 ASPECTS TO THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MIND." "ONE IS THE NERVES, THE GRAY MATTER," "AND THE OTHER IS THE ENERGY THAT LIVES IN THE NERVES." "THE ENERGY IS WHAT COMMUNICATES MESSAGES AND ALL THAT." "THE GROSS MATTER IS CALLED IN SANSKRIT "TULA"." "GROSS MATTER-- WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE." "AND THE SUBTLE MATTER-- THAT'S, SAY, THE ENERGY INSIDE," "THE ACTIVATING PRINCIPLE," "IS CALLED "SUKSMA", OR SUBTLE MATTER." "NOW, THIS SUBTLE MATTER WITHIN THE BRAIN" "TAKES THE FORMS OF WHAT IMPACTS THE SENSES." "I SEE YOU ALL AS THOUGH YOU'RE IN MY HEAD" "BECAUSE THE SUBTLE MATTER HAS TAKEN YOUR FORMS." "AND YOU'RE HEARING ME-- SAME REASON, SO FORTH, SO ON." "MOVE YOUR EYES QUICKLY," "AND YOU SEE HOW QUICKLY THE SUBTLE MATTER CHANGES." "THE PROBLEM IS, IT CONTINUES TO CHANGE" "EVEN WHEN YOU WANT IT TO STAND STILL." "SUPPOSE YOU WANTED TO HOLD IN YOUR MIND ONE THOUGHT" "OR ONE IMAGE, SOMETHING YOU THINK YOU'D LIKE TO HOLD THERE." "YOU WILL FIND WITHIN 4 OR 5 SECONDS," "THAT YOU'RE HAVING ASSOCIATED THOUGHTS." "THE MIND IS MOVING." "THE GOAL OF THIS YOGA IS TO MAKE THE MIND STAND STILL." "NOW, WHY SHOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT?" "NOW WE'RE COMING TO A BASIC IDEA IN THIS PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY." "EVERYTHING IS EXPERIENCED THROUGH THE MIND." "THIS IS MAYA." "AND THE MIND IS IN AN ACTIVE STATE." "THE IMAGE IS GIVEN OF A POND," "RIPPLED BY A WIND." "AND THE RIPPLED POND, WITH ITS WAVES," "IS REFLECTING IMAGES THAT ARE BROKEN IMAGES" "AND THAT COME AND GO, COME AND GO, COME AND GO." "READ THE FIRST COUPLE OF VERSES IN THE BOOK OF "GENESIS."" "THE WIND, THE BREATH, THE SPIRIT OF GOD ..." "OR BLEW OVER THE WATERS." "THAT'S THE CREATION OF THE WORLD." "YOU START THIS EXCITEMENT GOING." "AND NOW COMES THE POINT." "WHAT WE DO IS IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH ONE OF THOSE BROKEN IMAGES," "ONE OF THOSE BROKEN REFLECTIONS ON THE SURFACE OF THE POND." "AND HERE I COME, THERE I GO." "THAT LINKS US TO THE TEMPORAL FLOW." "TIME AND SPACE--MAYA." "MAKE THE POND STAND STILL." "ONE IMAGE." "WHAT WAS BROKEN AND REFLECTED" "IS NOW SEEN IN ITS STILL PERFECTION," "AND THAT'S YOUR TRUE BEING." "BUT THAT'S EVERYBODY ELSE'S TRUE BEING, ALSO." "AND THIS IS THE GOAL OF YOGA," "TO FIND THAT REALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS" "WHICH IS OF YOU AND OF EVERYBODY ELSE." "SCHOPENHAUER AND HIS "WORLD AS WILL" IDEA IS FULL OF THIS." "THAT BOOK IS A SYMPHONY OF RAPTURE," "DEALING WITH THIS MATTER." "AND HE USES AN IMAGE" "WHICH I LIKE TO BRING UP IN RELATION TO THIS" "IN HIS PAPER ON "THE FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY,"" "WHERE HE ASKS, "HOW IS IT THAT A HUMAN BEING CAN SO PARTICIPATE" ""IN THE DANGER AND PERIL OF ANOTHER" ""THAT, FORGETTING HIS OWN SELF-PROTECTION," "HE MOVES SPONTANEOUSLY TO THAT PERSON'S RESCUE?"" "HOW IS THAT WHAT WE TAKE TO BE THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE," "PRESERVING THIS SEPARATE ENTITY, EGO," "IS SUDDENLY DISSOLVED, AND AS THOUGH ONE WERE THAT OTHER," "ONE ACTS IN THE INTEREST OF THE OTHER," "EVEN AT THE LOSS OF ONE'S OWN LIFE?" "SPONTANEOUSLY." "THERE'S A SPONTANEOUS ACT" "OF SAVING THAT LITTLE CHILD WHO'S ABOUT TO BE HIT." "SCHOPENHAUER ANSWERS AND SAYS," ""THIS IS A METAPHYSICAL REALIZATION" "THAT HAS BROKEN THROUGH, WHICH IS USUALLY NOT THERE."" "IT'S THE REALIZATION OF THE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS," "OF WHICH WE ARE ALL MANIFESTATIONS." "AND SO IN THAT SENSE, YOU AND THAT OTHER ARE ONE." "THE EXPERIENCE OF SEPARATENESS IS ONLY A SECONDARY EXPERIENCE" "WITHIN THE ..." "FRAME OF TIME AND SPACE," "WHICH IS THE SEPARATING PRINCIPLE," "WHAT NATURE CALLS "THE PRINCIPIUM INDIVIDUACCIONES"" "THE INDIVIDUATING PRINCIPLES TIME AND SPACE." "IF IT WEREN'T FOR TIME AND SPACE," "WE WOULD NOT BE SEPARATE HERE." "SO THIS IS OUR SECONDARY EXPERIENCE." "YOU HAVE TO HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE IN ORDER TO LIVE IN THE WORLD." "BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN THERE'S A BREAKTHROUGH" "OF THE OTHER REALIZATION." "AND SO THE FUNCTION OF YOGA IS TO RELEASE US" "FROM THE TIME/SPACE COMMITMENT," "INTRODUCE US TO THE TRANSCENDENT." "AND THEN COMES THE PROBLEM OF BRINGING US BACK" "SO THAT WE CAN OPERATE IN BOTH KNOWLEDGES." "IN THINKING ABOUT YOGA," "JOE REMINDS US THAT IT BEGAN AS A SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE" "FOR BOTH HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS." "IT REMAINS TODAY A WAY TO ACHIEVE" "HIGHER LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS" "WITHIN WHATEVER RELIGIOUS TRADITION ONE FINDS ONESELF." "ALSO, THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF YOGA." "MOST USE CONCENTRATION ON AN OBJECT" "PART OF THE BODY, A DEITY, OR EVEN AN IDEA" "TO PROMOTE MEDITATION." "WE'RE MOSTLY FAMILIAR WITH YOGA" "THAT EMPHASIZES PHYSICAL CONTROL, POSTURE, AND BREATHING." "AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL," "ALL ARE MEANS OF MERGING PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS" "WITH THE UNDIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE DIVINE." "THE STEPS ALONG THE WAY" "ARE MARKED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION," "EACH STEP WITH A CORRESPONDING LINK" "TO OUR WESTERN PHILOSOPHIES." "JOE NOW INTRODUCES US" "TO PERHAPS THE MOST SOPHISTICATED FORM OF YOGA," "KUNDALINI YOGA, WHICH CONCENTRATES" "ON THE 7 SYMBOLIC CENTERS OF OUR PSYCHIC ENERGY." "NOW, THE SPECIFIC YOGA THAT I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT" "THE DATES FOR THE SUTRAS ARE USUALLY GIVEN AS SOME TIME" "BETWEEN 200 B.C. AND 200 A.D." "IN THOSE 400 YEARS THERE, THIS THING TOOK SHAPE, APPARENTLY." "THE YOGA THAT I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT" "IS A SPECIFIC LATE FORM OF YOGA" "THAT DEVELOPED IN THE 4th AND 5th CENTURIES," "AND IT'S KNOWN AS KUNDALINI YOGA." "AND IT AFFECTED ALL OF THE EASTERN RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES." "IT APPEARS IN BUDDHISM, IN ...," "IN HINDUISM ABOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY." "SO THAT IN TALKING ABOUT IT, I'M GOING TO USE BOTH SYSTEMS," "BOTH THE BUDDHIST AND THE HINDU IMAGES TO ILLUSTRATE IT." "NOW WE'RE GOING TO START BY MEDITATING." "THIS IS SAID TO BE A COMFORTABLE POSTURE." "AND WE ARE TO SIT THERE WITH THE SPINE PERFECTLY ERECT." "NOW, SINCE THE HUMAN BODY AND THE COSMIC BODY" "ARE EQUIVALENT," "OUR SPINE IS COMPARABLE TO THE WORLD AXIS." "SO WE HAVE REACHED THE WORLD AXIS." "THE CENTRAL POINT, THE IMMOVABLE SPOT," "AND WE ARE NOW IN MEDITATION." "AND YOU BEGIN BY BREATH CONTROL," "BREATHING TO CERTAIN PACES." "AND THE BREATH IS VERY CURIOUS." "YOU BEGIN BREATHING IN ONE NOSTRIL, HOLD," "OUT THROUGH THE OTHER NOSTRIL, HOLD." "IN THROUGH THE SECOND, HOLD." "OUT TO--SO FORTH AND SO ON." "THE NOTION IS THAT EMOTION AND FEELING AND STATE OF THE MIND" "ARE RELATED TO BREATH." "WHEN YOU ARE AT REST," "THE BREATHING IS IN A NICE, EVEN ORDER." "WHEN YOU ARE STIRRED WITH SHOCK, THE BREATHING CHANGES." "WITH PASSION, THE BREATHING CHANGES." "ALL RIGHT." "CHANGE THE BREATHING, AND YOU CHANGE THE STATE." "SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS SMOOTH THE WATERS" "OF THE RIPPLED STREAM BY A SLOW" "I MEAN, WHEN YOU SEE ONE OF THESE..." "PRIESTS BREATHING THIS WAY," "I MEAN, THE LENGTH OF THE BREATH IS TERRIFIC." "AND THE PRACTICED YOGI HAS A GREAT CHEST" "FULL OF BREATHING POSSIBILITIES." "SO WE'RE GOING TO CALM THE WATERS," "AND WHEN THE WATERS ARE CALM," "THAT IMAGE OF IMAGES APPEARS IS KNOWN TO US." "NOW COMES THE POINT." "THIS IS THE GROSS BODY." "THIS IS THE SUBTLE BODY." "DO NOT IDENTIFY THE GROSS BODY WITH THE SUBTLE BODY." "IF YOU DO THAT, YOU ARE CRAZY," "AND YOU THINK YOU'RE IT." "AND SO WE MUST DISENGAGE." "NOW WHAT THAT IMAGE REPRESENTS IS THE TOTALITY" "OF THE ENERGIES OF LIFE" "POURING INTO THE FIELD OF TIME AND SPACE," "AND SO IT IS WHAT WE CALL "GOD"." "GOD IS A PERSONIFICATION OF THE ENERGIES, AND THAT'S IT." "BUT THESE ENERGIES SHOW THEMSELVES IN THE WORLD" "IN MANY ASPECTS." "THE DIFFERENT ORGANS OF THE BODY" "EACH ORGAN OF THE BODY HAS ITS OWN IMPULSE TO ACTION." "AND THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF OUR PSYCHOLOGY" "IS THE CONFLICT OF THOSE IMPULSE SYSTEMS." "UM..." "SO EACH OF THE ORGANS OF NATURE AND OF THE BODY" "HAS ITS OWN INFLECTION OF THIS FORM," "THIS ONE." "AND SO WE HAVE 5." "IN THE EAST, THERE ARE 5 ELEMENTS." "IN USUAL TALKING IN THE WEST, THERE ARE 4," "BUT THEN THERE ARE LOVE AND HATE THAT PULL THEM TOGETHER" "AND SEPARATE THEM, WHICH REPRESENT THE 5th." "HERE THE 5th IS SPACE," "AKASH," "OR AS THEY USUALLY TRANSLATE IT "ETHER"." "AND THEN COMES AIR AND FIRE AND WATER AND EARTH," "IN THAT ORDER OF DENSITY." "AND ONE OF THE MODES OF TALKING ABOUT CREATION" "IS A PRECIPITATION OUT OF SPACE." "OF AN ENERGY THAT BECOMES DENSER AND DENSER" "IN TERMS OF THE 5 ELEMENTS." "AND THEN EACH OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVES 5 FACTORS" "SO THAT IT CAN BE EXPERIENCED BY THE 5 SENSES." "SO WHAT THIS IS IS A PANTHEON." "THERE IS A BUDDHA ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF THOSE 5," "A NAME FOR BUDDHA." "THERE'S THE BUDDHA OF THE CENTER." "THEN THERE'S THE BUDDHA OF THE EAST," "OF THE SOUTH, OF THE WEST, AND OF THE NORTH." "NOW, THIS WHOLE THEME OF EAST, SOUTH, WEST, AND NORTH" "ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOLAR COURSE" "IS A COMMON FEATURE IN MYTHOLOGIES EVERYWHERE." "THE SUN RISES, THE NEW DAY." "THE SUN AT NOON IS IN THE SOUTH." "SO THE SOUTH REPRESENTS THE HEIGHT, THE CULMINATION MOMENT" "OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FIELD OF TIME." "IN THE WEST, IT SINKS INTO TRANSCENDENCE AGAIN." "AND WE SPEAK ABOUT GOING WEST WHEN ONE DIES." "AND THEN IN THE NORTH, IT IS AS IT WERE UNDER THE EARTH" "AND THAT'S THE AREA FROM WHICH DEMONS COME, DISEASE COMES." "DANGER COMES, AND SO FORTH." "AND, UM..." "THAT'S A TYRANNICAL FORCE," "COMES FROM THE NORTH." "IT'S AMUSING." "IN AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGIES," "THE LITTLE HEROES WHO ARE GOING TO SAVE THEIR MOTHER" "FROM DANGER OF MONSTERS" "ARE WARNED BY HER, "DO NOT GO NORTH." ""THAT'S WHERE DANGER IS." "YOU GO EAST, SOUTH, OR WEST."" "SO THE BOYS GO NORTH." "THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GET PAST THE RULES" "OF THE SOCIETY THAT YOU'RE IN," "IS TO GO NORTH TO BREAK THE RULE." "AND YOU FIND SOMETHING THAT THE SOCIETY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT." "AND YOU BRING IT BACK, AND THAT SERVES AS A SAVING," "AMPLIFYING FORCE." "SO THIS BUSINESS OF THE 4" "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CENTRAL BUDDHA AND 4," "THEN REPRESENTING EAST, SOUTH, WEST, AND NORTH." "NOW HERE THEY ARE." "THIS IS A TIBETAN 11th-CENTURY FIGURE," "AND THOSE ARE THE 5 BUDDHAS." "HERE SITS THE BUDDHA HIMSELF AT THE IMMOVABLE POINT." "THE BOLD TREE, THE TREE OF ILLUMINATION," "THE BODHI TREE, THE TREE OF AWAKENING." "THE WORD "BUDDHA" MEANS "THE ONE WHO HAS WAKED UP"," "EYES HAVE OPENED." "[AHEM]" "THE EYE IS--WE CARRY IT IN OUR POCKET ALL THE TIME," "OR WE HOPE WE CAN-- ON THE BACK OF A DOLLAR BILL" "AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID." "WHERE THE SIDES, PAIRS OF OPPOSITES, COME TOGETHER." "THERE THE EYE OF KNOWLEDGE OPENS." "BUT IN THE FIELD OF ACTION, YOU'RE DOWN ON THE SIDE." "AND YOU'RE ON THIS SIDE," "AND THE OTHER GUY'S ON THE OTHER SIDE." "AND SO YOU HAVE ACTION." "BUT THIS EYE IS THE MIDDLE EYE." "IT'S THE EYE OF A REFEREE AT A TENNIS MATCH," "DOESN'T CARE WHICH SIDE WINS." "YOU CAN'T HAVE A TENNIS GAME UNLESS THERE'S SOME SERIOUS" "INTENTION TO KNOCK THE OTHER CHAP OUT THERE." "SO TIME ASKS FOR VIOLENCE," "BUT THIS EYE ASKS FOR THE RECOGNITION BEHIND THE VIOLENCE," "OF PEACE," "WHERE THE LION LIES DOWN WITH THE LAMB." "THIS DOESN'T MEAN THE LION ISN'T GONNA EAT THE LAMB." "OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO EAT THE LAMB," "BUT IT MEANS NOTHING'S HAPPENING WHEN THAT HAPPENS." "THAT'S JUST A TIME-- A TEMPORAL THING," "AND YOU MUST REALIZE THE PEACE THAT LIES BEHIND THAT ACT." "SO HERE'S THE BUDDHA UNDER THE TREE." "HIS EYES HAVE OPENED" "AS A RESULT OF THE INFLUENCE OF THESE 5." "THESE ARE MEDITATION BUDDHAS, DHYANI BUDDHAS." "THEY ARE NOT HISTORICAL BUDDHAS." "THEY'RE SUBTLE MATTER." "AND IT'S THROUGH THEIR INFLUENCE THAT HE COMES TO THIS KNOWLEDGE." "THE PIG HERE REPRESENTS IGNORANCE" "AND IS PIERCED BY A LANCE-- WITH THE OPENING OF THE EYE" "IGNORANCE IS WIPED OUT." "THESE ARE THE SUBTLE NERVES, EACH ONE WITH A NAME." "THE WORD UP HERE SAYS, "PRANAYAMA"." "THAT MEANS BREATH CONTROL." "YOU BREATHE IN, IMAGINE THE BREATH IS FILLING" "ALL OF THESE NERVES," "ACTIVATING ALL OF THE SENSES, ALL THE ORGANS OF CONSCIOUSNESS," "SO THAT WE'RE GOING TO BECOME MORE AND MORE CONSCIOUS." "THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT." "AS I SAID YESTERDAY, DEMONS OR MONSTERS" "ARE WHAT INHIBIT CONSCIOUSNESS." "MANY OF THE DEMONS ARE PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS." "[LAUGHTER]" "AND THEY SET UP RULES FOR HOW WE SHOULD THINK," "AND THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS HELPFUL." "SO OF THESE MULTITUDE OF NERVES," "THERE ARE 3 THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT." "AND HERE THEY ARE." "NOW, HERE ARE THE 7 CENTERS." "WE HAVE A CENTRAL SPINE NERVE, RUNS UP THE CENTER OF THE SPINE," "CALLED SUSHUMNA," "AND ON EACH SIDE IS A SIDE NERVE." "THE ONE THAT IS HERE RENDERED GRAY IS CALLED "IDA", I-D-A," "AND IT REFERS TO LUNAR CONSCIOUSNESS." "NOW THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CLUE TO THE WHOLE BUSINESS." "LUNAR CONSCIOUSNESS," "CONSCIOUSNESS THAT DIES AS THE MOON DOES," "AND IS RESURRECTED." "I SPOKE WITH A SERPENT YESTERDAY, CAST ITS SKIN" "TO BE BORN AGAIN." "SO THE SERPENT REPRESENTS THE POWER OF LIFE, ENERGY," "AND CONSCIOUSNESS TO THROW OFF DEATH." "BUT IT IS IN THE FIELD OF DEATH," "ITS CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FIELD OF DEATH," "THROWING OFF DEATH AND PUTTING ON NEW BODIES," "REINCARNATION," "OR THE SEQUENCE OF THE GENERATIONS." "EVERY TIME A NEW GENERATION IS BEGOTTEN," "THE DEATH OF THIS GENERATION IS THROWN OFF" "AND LIFE HAS MOVED ON." "IT'S THROWING OFF THESE BODIES AND PUTTING ON NEW." "THIS IS SYMBOLIC, THEN, OF LIFE ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS" "ENGAGED IN THE FIELD OF TIME, THE FIELD OF DEATH, AND BIRTH." "THE MOON SHEDS ITS SHADOW TO BE BORN AGAIN." "THE SERPENT SHEDS ITS SKIN TO BE BORN AGAIN," "AND THEY ARE SYMBOLIC OF THIS POWER." "THE OTHER NERVE IS CALLED "PINGALA", P-I-N-G-A-L-A," "AND REPRESENTS SOLAR CONSCIOUSNESS." "THE SUN DOES NOT DIE." "WHEN IT SETS, IT TAKES LIGHT WITH IT." "IT DOES NOT CARRY DEATH IN ITSELF." "SO THIS IS CONSCIOUSNESS" "DISENGAGED FROM THE FIELD OF TIME." "AND NOW JUST THINK OF THE DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES" "THAT YOU KNOW." "[AHEM]" "THERE ARE THOSE WHO BEGIN TO FEEL SOME SPIRITUAL" "YOU RUN INTO THEM IN ASHRAMS." "THEY WALK A LITTLE ABOVE THE GROUND." "AND LIFE IS ..." "I'LL NEVER FORGET MY EXPERIENCE" "THE FIRST TIME I WAS IN AN ASHRAM." "IT WAS YEARS AND YEARS AGO." "AND IT WAS A GORGEOUS, BEAUTIFUL PLACE" "WITH DEER GRAZING ON THE LAWNS" "AND GIRLS IN SARIS ON BRIDGES" "LOOKING DOWN AT THE GOLDFISH SWIMMING IN POOLS." "IT WAS SIMPLY RAVISHING." "AND THEN SOME VULGARIAN, I THINK HE WAS A BOOK SALESMAN" "OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, CAME INTO THE GROUP," "BUT IT SEEMED LIKE," ""HOW CAN WE TOLERATE THIS KIND OF GROSS BODY?"" "SO WHEN YOU THINK OF YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE" "AS RELIEVING YOU OF THE PHYSICAL," "YOU'RE GOING UP THIS TRACK, AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE" "A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE," "BECAUSE YOUR BODY'S STILL THERE." "THIS IS KNOWN AS MANIC DEPRESSIVE EXPERIENCE." "YOU'VE IDENTIFIED YOURSELF WITH THE SUBTLE BODY," "BUT YOU'RE STILL GROSS." "AND, UM..." "TRYING TO BECOME THE IMMORTAL" "WHILE YOU'RE STILL ON EARTH." "THE THIRD TEMPTATION OF CHRIST." "AFTER HE HAD REJECTED THE DEVIL," "WHEN THE DEVIL SAID, "LOOK, YOUNG MAN, YOU LOOK HUNGRY." "WHY DON'T YOU TURN THE STONES INTO BREAD?"" "HE SAID, "ONE LIVES NOT BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD" "OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD."" "AND THEN THE DEVIL SAYS, "WELL, COME, I'LL TAKE YOU UP" ""ONTO A MOUNTAINTOP AND SHOW YOU THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD." "ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS BOW TO ME AND YOU CAN RULE THESE."" "THIS IS HOW TO BECOME A POLITICIAN." "AND JESUS SAYS, "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN." "I'M NOT GOING TO DO THIS."" "SO HE SAYS, "OH, YOU'RE SO, SO SUBTLE." ""LET'S GO UP ON THE TOP OF HEROD'S TEMPLE." "AND NOW CAST YOURSELF DOWN." "GOD WILL BEAR YOU UP."" "AND JESUS SAID..." ""NO." ""I AM STILL ALIVE." "I AM STILL A BODY."" "THIS IS THE VIRTUE KNOWN AS TEMPERANCE." "I AM STILL A BODY." "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN."" "HE REJECTS HIM 3 TIMES, AND THE THIRD TIME" "IS THIS ONE OF HAVING SURPASSED ECONOMICS AND POLITICS." "YOU ARE JUST A SPIRIT." "NOT SO." "SO JESUS IS RECOGNIZING THE GROSS BODY AS WELL." "PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL REFERENCE" "OF SYMBOLS..." "INTERPRET THEM IN GROSS MATTER" "AND GET INVOLVED IN PRETTY GROSS ACTIVITIES" "TO REALIZE THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE." "I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THAT DETAIL," "BUT I THINK YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT." "I SHOULD SAY," "IF YOU INTERPRET THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOL AS CONCRETE," "THEN YOU GET INVOLVED WITH THE CONCRETE ACTION" "ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONCRETE BODY," "AND YOU HAVE LOST THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGE." "NOW YOU CAN'T BRING THE KUNDALINI UP THE CENTER" "UNTIL YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT THESE ARE SIMPLY 2 ASPECTS OF THE ONE CONSCIOUSNESS." "THE LIGHT OF THE MOON REFLECTS THE LIGHT OF THE SUN." "THE LIGHT OF YOUR BODY, CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUR BODY," "IS THE IMMORTAL, ETERNAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN YOU." "CONSCIOUSNESS FIRST, THEN YOU." "YOU REPRESENT A SPECIFICATION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS" "IN TIME AND PLACE." "AND THROUGH THE SPECIFICATIONS OF YOUR PERSONAL LIFE," "YOU ARE TO ABSTRACT THE IMMORTAL," "TO EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE VICISSITUDES OF YOUR MORTALITY" "YOUR ETERNITY." "THAT'S THE WHOLE GOAL." "HERE WE HAVE FROM 2000 B.C. AN INDIAN LITTLE STAMPED SEAL" "SHOWING A FIGURE IN YOGA POSTURE." "AND HERE ARE THE TWO IDA AND PINGALA SERPENTS" "RIGHT BACK 2000 B.C." "SO THAT WE HAVE 4,000 YEARS OF INTERIOR EXPLORATION IN INDIA," "WHICH WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT" "IN FOLLOWING THE KUNDALINI." "AND HERE--NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT." "THE SAME DATE, 2000 B.C., IN MESOPOTAMIA," "THIS IS A LIBATION CUP OF KING GUDEA OF LAGASH" "IN MESOPOTAMIA." "AND WHEN YOU EXPLORE IT, LOOK WHAT YOU FIND." "THIS IS THE SYMBOL THAT IS ON THIS VASE." "KING GUDEA OF LAGASH, ONE OF THE CITIES OF SUMER, 2000 B.C., IN THE PERIOD OF THE SUMERIAN RENAISSANCE," "AFTER THE EARLIER SEMITIC INVASIONS." "TWO LION-BIRDS," "THESE ARE WHAT LATER ARE KNOWN AS CHERUBIM," "OPENING THE PORTS OF A SHRINE." "AND WITHIN THE SHRINE, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" "THE 2 INTERLOCKING SERPENTS WITH THE ..." "UP HERE." "THIS IS THE EARLIEST SIGN IN THE WORLD, AS FAR AS WE KNOW," "OF THE CADUCEUS OF HERMES, MERCURY." "NOW, WHO IS HERMES?" "WHO IS MERCURY?" "HERMES IS THE GUIDE OF SOULS TO KNOWLEDGE OF IMMORTAL LIFE." "IT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE," "REPRESENTED AS THE ONE THAT IS REPRESENTED HERE." "SO THE POPULAR CHERUBIM WHO GUARD THE GATE OF PARADISE" "TO CHERUBIM THAT GOD PLACED AT THE GATE OF PARADISE" "TO KEEP MAN AWAY FROM THE TREE OF IMMORTAL LIFE." "THESE 2 CHERUBIM HERE ARE NOW OPENING THE PORTAL" "SO YOU CAN GO IN," "AND HERE IS THE TREE OF LIFE UNDER WHICH THE BUDDHA SAT." "AND WHERE IS THAT TREE?" "IT'S RIGHT IN EVERY ONE OF US." "SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO ..." "IF YOU ARE INTERPRETING THIS WHOLE THING PURELY MATERIALLY," "NOT SPIRITUALLY," "YOU WOULD GO TO ..." "THIS IS A FOLK ART." "THESE ARE CALLED "NAGAKALS"" "OR SERPENT STONES." "THERE'S A PERFECT CADUCEUS." "THIS IS IN A LITTLE TOWN, TERVANDER, A LITTLE CITY" "SOUTHWEST INDIA." "THESE ARE COMPOSED BY FOLK ARTISTS." "THEY'RE PUT IN THE WATER TO RECEIVE THE POWER OF THE WATER," "WHICH HAS FIRE IN IT, BECAUSE THE FIRE" "IS WHAT GIVES IT ITS ... CHARACTER." "AND THEN THEY'RE PLACED UNDER THE TREE." "HERE THEY ARE UNDER THE TREE," "AND HERE ARE SOME BRAHMA ... PEOPLE." "NOW WHEN I WAS IN KASHMIR, I CAME UPON THIS RUINED TEMPLE," "AND IN THE MIDDLE OF IT THIS OBJECT HERE." "THAT IS A YONI." "THAT'S THE SYMBOL OF THE FEMALE ORGAN." "AND IN A TEMPLE DEVOTED TO THE GODDESS," "THAT IS THE ALTAR." "AND I WENT INTO ONE SUCH TEMPLE IN KANJIVERAM" "WITH SOME INDIAN FRIENDS." "WE BROUGHT FRUIT AND SO FORTH AS OFFERING." "AND THE PRIEST THEN TOOK THE RED POWDER" "THAT WOMEN PUT ON THEIR FOREHEADS" "AND DUSTED IT INTO THE YONI," "RECITING THE 108 NAMES OF THE GODDESS." "NOW 108 TIMES 4 IS 432." "AND THAT'S THE NUMBER OF YEARS IN THE CYCLE OF TIME." "AND THE GODDESS IS THE CYCLE OF TIME." "THE NUMBER ALWAYS ENDS UP AS 9." "4, 3, AND 2 ADD UP TO 9." "AND, UH..." "SHE IS TIME." "SHE IS THE WOMB." "9 IS THE GRAIN, YOU MIGHT SAY, OF HER MOVEMENT." "AND I WAS WAKED UP THIS MORNING BY THE RINGING OF THE ANGELES," "WHICH RINGS 9 TIMES, AND THEN 9 TIMES AGAIN." "WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT, THE ANGELES WHEN IT RINGS," "IS THE CONCEPTION BY MARY OF THE CHRIST CHILD," "THE POURING OF ETERNAL ENERGY INTO THE FIELD OF TIME." "THAT'S WHAT THE ANGELES IS." "THAT'S WHAT THE 108 NAMES OF THE GODDESS" "IT'S ALL ONE STORY." "AND HERE NOW IS A LINGAM." "THIS IS IN THE ELEPHANTA CAVE IN BOMBAY." "THE ENERGY OF THE GOD." "SO THESE ARE THE 2 SYMBOLS OF THE ULTIMATE ENERGIES," "THE MALE AND THE FEMALE ENERGIES," "BOTH OF WHICH COME INTO SEPARATION," "IN THE FIELD OF TIME AND NEITHER OF WHICH EXISTS" "TRANSCENDENT OF TIME." "BUT THAT WHICH BREAKS THEM INTO THE FIELD OF TIME" "IS THE FEMALE POWER." "SO THE GODDESS IN THIS MYTHOLOGY IS THE HIGH POWER." "[COUGHS]" "THIS IS FROM CHINA." "1, 2, 3 1/2." "3 1/2 TURNS OF THE SERPENT POWER." "IT'S EXACTLY THE KUNDALINI." "IT'S IN BRONZE FROM CHINA," "THE PERIOD OF THE CONTENDING STATES." "NOW, THIS PUTS IT AROUND 5th CENTURY B.C.," "ABOUT THE TIME OF CONFUCIUS," "AND THIS IS EARLIER THAN ANY INDICATION OF KUNDALINI" "IN THE SYMBOLISM OF INDIA." "HERE WE GO TO ROME." "THIS IS THE 50 A.D., THE PERIOD OF CALIGULA." "THERE'S OUR SERPENT RELATED TO THE MOON." "SERPENT SHEDS ITS SKIN." "MOON SHEDS ITS SHADOW." "THIS IS THE BASKET OR SACRED OBJECT OF THE GODDESS ISIS." "I'M PRESENTING THESE TO SHOW" "THAT WHAT I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT" "COVERS THE WHOLE OF EURASIA," "ALL THE WAY FROM ROME TO CHINA." "AND IT'S ONLY IN INDIA THAT IT WAS BROUGHT TO FULL EXPRESSION" "AND ELUCIDATION." "THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES AND ANALYSES OF THESE YOGI MASTERS." "ONCE AGAIN, CAMPBELL HAS MADE THE CONNECTION." "THE THEMES EXPRESSED IN KUNDALINI YOGA" "HAVE BEEN REFLECTED IN CULTURES ACROSS THE GLOBE." "JOIN US NEXT TIME" "WHEN JOE FOLLOWS THE PATH OF THE KUNDALINI" "UP THROUGH OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL CENTERS." "CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY ACORN MEDIA"