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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.
Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.
F.: For years of seeking, "floyd" was led to believe that what was being sought was "out there somewhere" and that he just needed to find the place or places on the globe where that "somewhere" was.
He was told of dozens and dozens of physical places on the planet said by the non-Realized masses to be "holy places" or "places where spirituality will descend upon you with such heavenly power that The Force will make you feel as if you have been swept away by a cleansing flood that leaves you pure in its aftermath."
[What did not register at that time was this: that for a person to stand on the beach and to watch the water recede while waiting for the coming force to sweep over her or him might actually prove to be something other than a purifying, cleansing event. What was mistaken for a potentially supernatural event proved time and again to be merely a natural event, namely, a money-wasting, time-consuming, energy-depleting tsunami.]
Yet having owned a tour company and having worked as a tour guide for trips across Western Europe, it made sense that indeed a guide of some sort was required to lead me on my "journey" if I were to receive "maximum benefit"; thus, in my sleep, the words of one guide after another were heeded, each telling "where" the "special" place was where they had found "it."
On one website, the one assuming the roles of "The Expert on Spiritual Places" offers his list of "The Top Ten Spiritual Places in the World" that seekers must visit in their lifetime if they want to be ultimately spiritual. He begins the list with his #1 and #2 choices: "Alaska" and "Arizona." Alaska? Arizona? Really? Maybe he is actually playing the role of "The Expert on Republican Spiritual Places"?
From those two U.S. states, "The Expert on All Places Holy" suggests that you visit Southeast Asia ("especially," he says, "Thailand and Singapore"); Egypt ("Maybe it's the Pyramids, maybe it's the excessive sand; whatever it is, spend some time in the scorching sun and tell me that you have not heard the voice of God");
then go to Machu Picchu, Peru ("and take the 35-mile Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu," he says. "If you do not ask yourself questions while on this trip, then you're spiritually starved"); next, visit Goa, India ("What is perhaps its greatest trait is that, for the most part, Hindus and Catholics coexist");
and then finish your spiritual journey at the "Buddhist / Catholic / Islamic / Jewish sites of Mount Everest and Tibet ("to find out what the monks have known all along"); then visit the Vatican in Rome; Mecca in Saudi Arabia; and finally Israel in "the Holy Land."
So if you are a dedicated seeker who is susceptible to the advice offered by "holy people who know where the most holy places are on the planet" then start saving up your money if you want to follow their advice. It will not be cheap to visit the places where the poor are scorned and the rich are admired;
places where you can stand in the scorching heat in order to hear God speak to you; places where child molestation and child prostitution have reached new heights; places that will inspire you to ask questions unless you are spiritually starved; places where bandits lie in wait for you as you trek through their cities and then along their trails to their holiest site where human sacrifices were performed, ignoring U.S. State Department bulletins / warnings (as three persons have recently told me they will be doing as they "head out to that special place to find God");
other places in the Far East where government agency lists have offered 182 specific warnings about travel there; places where monks could tell you the truth (if only they had not taken a vow of silence); places where the riches of the planet have been sent by the Christian faithful where the riches, in turn, are spent to protect child molesters among their clergy;
places where persons who do not believe what the locals believe are deemed to be "infidels" who are to be killed, at least according to the more radical religious elements there; and places where the third of the three sky cults of Abraham claim that they alone have been "chosen by God."
Since "holy" literally means "different from" (a concept which is the very essence of dualistic thinking) then indeed those places might be deemed "holy" in the strictest sense of the word.
The result is that millions of non-Realized persons (who are believing the nonsense being spread by other non-Realized persons who are touting their high state of religiosity or spirituality) are being driven to seek without that which is within; are being driven to try to tap into outer resources rather than the inner resource; and are being driven to seek "holy and spiritual places" rather than the Realized guru that will point them away from the outer guru and toward the inner guru.
Maharaj: "This is our stupidity, verging on insanity."
Consider the word "driven." If you are being driven in a car, for example, there are three places in the car where you can be and one place where you cannot be: you can be in the passenger seat, the backseat, or the trunk / boot.
Where you cannot be is in the driver's seat. You cannot determine where you go, how you go, when you go, when you stop, when you fly ahead full-speed willy-nilly, or if you will go right, left, forward, or backwards. Such is the susceptibility and the vulnerability of being driven, relatively speaking.
The Advaitin pointers are intended to put you in the driver's seat so that you are not being driven at all until, eventually, you realize that you have nowhere to go, that whatever it was that You have been seeking all along is no farther away than the words of a Realized guide that can direct you along the "path" - along Your "journey" - until You realize that there is nowhere you have to go, nothing you have to try to be, nothing that you have to try to do.
Then, nisarga living can happen spontaneously and contentedly, yet that pointer is offered with full awareness that the last mode of functioning throughout the relative existence that those who take themselves to be super-religious or super-spiritual want is a natural mode as opposed to a supernatural mode or a magical-thinking mode or a myth-and-superstition-based mode (a.k.a., an unnatural mode and a supposedly "religious or spiritual or holy" mode).
He was told of dozens and dozens of physical places on the planet said by the non-Realized masses to be "holy places" or "places where spirituality will descend upon you with such heavenly power that The Force will make you feel as if you have been swept away by a cleansing flood that leaves you pure in its aftermath."
[What did not register at that time was this: that for a person to stand on the beach and to watch the water recede while waiting for the coming force to sweep over her or him might actually prove to be something other than a purifying, cleansing event. What was mistaken for a potentially supernatural event proved time and again to be merely a natural event, namely, a money-wasting, time-consuming, energy-depleting tsunami.]
Yet having owned a tour company and having worked as a tour guide for trips across Western Europe, it made sense that indeed a guide of some sort was required to lead me on my "journey" if I were to receive "maximum benefit"; thus, in my sleep, the words of one guide after another were heeded, each telling "where" the "special" place was where they had found "it."
On one website, the one assuming the roles of "The Expert on Spiritual Places" offers his list of "The Top Ten Spiritual Places in the World" that seekers must visit in their lifetime if they want to be ultimately spiritual. He begins the list with his #1 and #2 choices: "Alaska" and "Arizona." Alaska? Arizona? Really? Maybe he is actually playing the role of "The Expert on Republican Spiritual Places"?
From those two U.S. states, "The Expert on All Places Holy" suggests that you visit Southeast Asia ("especially," he says, "Thailand and Singapore"); Egypt ("Maybe it's the Pyramids, maybe it's the excessive sand; whatever it is, spend some time in the scorching sun and tell me that you have not heard the voice of God");
then go to Machu Picchu, Peru ("and take the 35-mile Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu," he says. "If you do not ask yourself questions while on this trip, then you're spiritually starved"); next, visit Goa, India ("What is perhaps its greatest trait is that, for the most part, Hindus and Catholics coexist");
and then finish your spiritual journey at the "Buddhist / Catholic / Islamic / Jewish sites of Mount Everest and Tibet ("to find out what the monks have known all along"); then visit the Vatican in Rome; Mecca in Saudi Arabia; and finally Israel in "the Holy Land."
So if you are a dedicated seeker who is susceptible to the advice offered by "holy people who know where the most holy places are on the planet" then start saving up your money if you want to follow their advice. It will not be cheap to visit the places where the poor are scorned and the rich are admired;
places where you can stand in the scorching heat in order to hear God speak to you; places where child molestation and child prostitution have reached new heights; places that will inspire you to ask questions unless you are spiritually starved; places where bandits lie in wait for you as you trek through their cities and then along their trails to their holiest site where human sacrifices were performed, ignoring U.S. State Department bulletins / warnings (as three persons have recently told me they will be doing as they "head out to that special place to find God");
other places in the Far East where government agency lists have offered 182 specific warnings about travel there; places where monks could tell you the truth (if only they had not taken a vow of silence); places where the riches of the planet have been sent by the Christian faithful where the riches, in turn, are spent to protect child molesters among their clergy;
places where persons who do not believe what the locals believe are deemed to be "infidels" who are to be killed, at least according to the more radical religious elements there; and places where the third of the three sky cults of Abraham claim that they alone have been "chosen by God."
Since "holy" literally means "different from" (a concept which is the very essence of dualistic thinking) then indeed those places might be deemed "holy" in the strictest sense of the word.
The result is that millions of non-Realized persons (who are believing the nonsense being spread by other non-Realized persons who are touting their high state of religiosity or spirituality) are being driven to seek without that which is within; are being driven to try to tap into outer resources rather than the inner resource; and are being driven to seek "holy and spiritual places" rather than the Realized guru that will point them away from the outer guru and toward the inner guru.
Maharaj: "This is our stupidity, verging on insanity."
Consider the word "driven." If you are being driven in a car, for example, there are three places in the car where you can be and one place where you cannot be: you can be in the passenger seat, the backseat, or the trunk / boot.
Where you cannot be is in the driver's seat. You cannot determine where you go, how you go, when you go, when you stop, when you fly ahead full-speed willy-nilly, or if you will go right, left, forward, or backwards. Such is the susceptibility and the vulnerability of being driven, relatively speaking.
The Advaitin pointers are intended to put you in the driver's seat so that you are not being driven at all until, eventually, you realize that you have nowhere to go, that whatever it was that You have been seeking all along is no farther away than the words of a Realized guide that can direct you along the "path" - along Your "journey" - until You realize that there is nowhere you have to go, nothing you have to try to be, nothing that you have to try to do.
Then, nisarga living can happen spontaneously and contentedly, yet that pointer is offered with full awareness that the last mode of functioning throughout the relative existence that those who take themselves to be super-religious or super-spiritual want is a natural mode as opposed to a supernatural mode or a magical-thinking mode or a myth-and-superstition-based mode (a.k.a., an unnatural mode and a supposedly "religious or spiritual or holy" mode).
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, you will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right.
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Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, you will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right.
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Now you can receive for $40 a downloadable computer file version of the same 7-hour satsang that seekers receive when they visit for the Advaita Retreat with Floyd. You will be guided through the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond).
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.
NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.
NOTE: When you order this package, you receive three additional ebooks free: CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS, FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD and THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS (offering the Advaita teachings in a fictional novel format)
You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:
I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:
I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally.
Presently, Skype sessions are being conducted with parties in Australia; The Netherlands; New Jersey, U.S.A.; London, England; Italy; and India.
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."
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The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
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