Because a very precise parallel is drawn between spiritual activity and physical-mineral manifestations, may I ask whether there are any particular spiritual scientific writings that you would point to, to help make better sense of the various Laws, Principles and additional definitions you indicate (I’m not referring to the conventional scientific ones such as GR, which can be easily explored even by the scientifically uneducated)? I also wonder about supplementing willed thinking activity with breathing exercises. Are you saying that, in parallel with, or before a “definite intentionality of thought and purpose”, this physical activation of the lungs and heart is a conditio sine qua non for successfully effecting a loosening of the etheric body hence the recovery of the lost faculty of perception in man?
One system that I came upon that speaks closely to etheric regeneration is the Kriya Yoga of Paramahansa Yogananda. That was in 1987 when I first heard about it. But, it was in 1981 that I came upon a book, "Running and Being", which encouraged a kind of running exercise in which one actively surrenders to nature, and engages a kind of 'voluntary suffering', which came to be experienced as a kind of crucifixion. The force of the inhalation/exhalation process becomes a meditative act in which katharsis of the blood is overriding aim and achievement. I only gradually began to bring this exercise around to a spiritual-scientific interpretation, and it was in April 1994 that I purchased Steiner's seminal lecture on "Etherization of the Blood", which seemed to tell me that what I had been doing for some thirteen years was right.
I have only recently discovered that the book, Running and Being, written in 1978, by Dr. George Sheehan, was so motivational because it bears all the earmarks of what Goethe would have had to say about the practice of running as an homage to nature and the Self in the quest of a divine practice. Anyway, thanks for allowing me to say more on this. What is GR?
The conditio sine qua non of it all goes back to an event in my life from 1980, which I told Hazel about last year. May Day today makes me think about it.
I guess I do bring up GR in this essay. I am working on a further elaboration, as we speak. Its tentative title is: Einsteinian Relativity in the Light of Mahatma Gandhi.
The next chapter should serve to relax the intensity. It is, "The Trinity of Organic Life".
Because a very precise parallel is drawn between spiritual activity and physical-mineral manifestations, may I ask whether there are any particular spiritual scientific writings that you would point to, to help make better sense of the various Laws, Principles and additional definitions you indicate (I’m not referring to the conventional scientific ones such as GR, which can be easily explored even by the scientifically uneducated)? I also wonder about supplementing willed thinking activity with breathing exercises. Are you saying that, in parallel with, or before a “definite intentionality of thought and purpose”, this physical activation of the lungs and heart is a conditio sine qua non for successfully effecting a loosening of the etheric body hence the recovery of the lost faculty of perception in man?
One system that I came upon that speaks closely to etheric regeneration is the Kriya Yoga of Paramahansa Yogananda. That was in 1987 when I first heard about it. But, it was in 1981 that I came upon a book, "Running and Being", which encouraged a kind of running exercise in which one actively surrenders to nature, and engages a kind of 'voluntary suffering', which came to be experienced as a kind of crucifixion. The force of the inhalation/exhalation process becomes a meditative act in which katharsis of the blood is overriding aim and achievement. I only gradually began to bring this exercise around to a spiritual-scientific interpretation, and it was in April 1994 that I purchased Steiner's seminal lecture on "Etherization of the Blood", which seemed to tell me that what I had been doing for some thirteen years was right.
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19111001p02.html
I have only recently discovered that the book, Running and Being, written in 1978, by Dr. George Sheehan, was so motivational because it bears all the earmarks of what Goethe would have had to say about the practice of running as an homage to nature and the Self in the quest of a divine practice. Anyway, thanks for allowing me to say more on this. What is GR?
The conditio sine qua non of it all goes back to an event in my life from 1980, which I told Hazel about last year. May Day today makes me think about it.
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Thank you for these indications! By GR I meant General Relativity.
I guess I do bring up GR in this essay. I am working on a further elaboration, as we speak. Its tentative title is: Einsteinian Relativity in the Light of Mahatma Gandhi.