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Once upon a time I was born in 1946 and grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, I was a Sagittarius. I didn’t remember my past lives or for that matter did anyone in the neighborhood ever mention such a thing. I wondered as a kid where my "big me" friends were that were good. Nobody seemed to be "a me." I tried to channel Swami Muktananda because I thought he was a "big me friend" in India and maybe I would met him some day. Sometimes he told me secrets when I was a kid like that. I don’t remember much of it now.
Sometimes we went to the mountains to go fishing and the nights were always cold. Once I got to ride a horse in Lake City and it was named Dynamite. I got on the horse and headed down the trail, but he would not go anywhere but in a circle, right back to the barn. I guess that is what they give to eight year old kids when they rent a horse. To this day some people psychic me only to find out that I road a horse named Dynamite. This proves to me the futility of trying to psychic someone to find out something about them. You will find out "something," but who knows what that will be.
I decided to study Yoga and learn meditation when I was about 23 and that is not something that I had planned on doing. If I had planned it out more, spirituality would not have felt like such a drastic change in my life. But it was very drastic to me, so it took me time to reorganize my life. Almost nothing was the same after that. I guess that I rode a horse named Dynamite after all, and the doctrines of Yoga and Hinduism were enough to get me going in some different direction, which is to get back to the Self. My degree in college didn’t say much about meditation, so I had to begin to learn more again and again.
The learning process is like time in, I’m a Yogi, instead of a little went a long way. A lot was learned and then I forgot to throw the weeds out of the garden. I guess that is what can happen in the Spiritual disciplines. We plant good things but still have to throw something out. The wind will blow it in anyway.
I met various Gurus, Goswami Kriyananda, Shelly, Adano Ley (Swami Nitty Gritty), and Chogyam Trungpa the Tibetan Buddhist. Later I spent time with Swami Muktananda and his group of people. These were all learning experiences that made the garden grow. That time has all passed, and maybe I was at one time a beginner Yogi that grew up a little and I came to understand many of the teachings of Yoga and Hinduism that I thought were hard to understand in the beginning. Thus I have some faith that the pathway works.
There still might be time for our favorite things in life and doing meditation as well, otherwise no one would attain any of these mysterious doctrines and states of consciousness. Some people are even born with some of these states of consciousness.
We all have time to follow God if we could find him. Well, it was God that put us here and maybe we have found what God wanted us to find, the whole world. Thus we can enter meditation at times and see the Self. This is also what we are supposed to do.
Have you ever tried to "channel" someone that was alive? How did you go about it? Maybe some people are able to do this. Perhaps these people have a séance with others at times. Question: Have you ever tried to "channel" someone that was alive? How did you go about it?