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How can we grow the membership of our group?
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What's happening in the Midwest - to be put in calendar
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- A modern-day mystic and yogi, Eric Putkonen focuses on the "Direct Path" traditions (a.k.a. Pathless Path): Jnana Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism, etc. After searching for thirteen years and awakening in 2005, he has devoted himself to spreading the concepts and insights of these traditions - and the possibility of Enlightenment in this lifetime.
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“Many people think that enlightenment is an altered state of consciousness. Actually, what we perceive every day through the distorted lens of ego is the truly altered state – we see things that don’t exist, we believe things that aren’t happening, and we live in a false world of our own creation.”
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Out of Our Minds (nonduality focused podcast) celebrates 1 years of production and....
Celebrating One Year of Production and The 25th Episode
There are not many podcasts or magazines for those interested in nonduality or enlightenment, and most were too long and verbose in Eric Putkonen’s opinion. In this day and age, who has time to read long articles and watch or listen to long programs? So, Eric started producing in Minnesota and publishing online a bi-weekly podcast last year that is only about fifteen minutes in length. The podcast focuses on nonduality and… Continue
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Episode 10 of Out of Our Minds has been published!
Thought I would let everyone know, as episode 10 is kind of a landmark for podcasters.
It is titled, "Nonduality and the Mobius Strip".
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We think we are separate from the world...that we have what is inside us and what is outside us, but in reality we are akin to a mobius strip. Because we have not realized the "twist", we do not recognize that there is no outside. There really no separation, which would require a barrier with more than one side. Nonduality i
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Out of Our Minds - 15-minute spirituality podcast with a focus on Advaita / nonduality
I just finished and published episode 7.
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Posted on December 8, 2007 at 11:58am —
I've heard the Midwest is a dead-zone for Satsang
I thought it would be nice to start building a network of people. Over time, we could keep each other informed of Satsangs in the Midwest. I have heard of a few in Chicago...I know I offer Satsangs biweekly in Minnetonka, but are there more? Who is interested in Satsang? With a big enough group, perhaps we could (eventually) coordinate an event by sponsering someone out of the Midwest to come here...who knows.
So this Social Network was created to help facilitate and actual communi
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When everything
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Alive
Falling awake
Into love
I watch my face
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Like a tree
Neither beautiful
Nor ugly
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It is seen through
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I'm going to a group that meets in woodbury next week. I really feel compelled to explore and be in group consciousness that way.
I've only been to one satsang around here, which was in Fairfield IA, with Neelam, so hopefully I can attend one of yours sometime soon.