Ruminations from 19032023

 We had deliberated on the topics and we moved on to the eclectic topic of Paranormal. This subject went on to a fascinating conversation that bordered on real life experiences and books.

It began by thinking about what is paranormal and how do we classify it. It became everything about the "unexplainable", parallel universes and multiple states of being and stories in our lives that piqued attention, fascination  and interest.

 The initial conversations were about Planchette and  the multiple experiences some folks seems to have had - predominantly Namita and Puneeta. Charu, VIjay and Rashmi had also heard of this. Namita also connected with multiple stories from her personal life and life of her relatives starting and connecting a story of Planchette with some science called micari.  She did mention about rebirth of souls and passage of souls. Her personal experiences right from an young age when we fell into a well to experiences of her relatives who had lost a young person in a family due to an accident, invocation of Gods and connecting some coincidences in life to an mystical man and a fascinating tale of a haunted house and coincidences in Shillong held everyone's attention. Vijay touched upon a scary coincidence in California, his connection with Meher Baba and how his grandfather's writeup appeared as a coincidence in his life. Some of the conversations went back to movies like Kantaara

Ganesh touched upon his limited reading and podcasts that fascinated in this area. The first person who has inspired in this area is Tom Chi.  He has connected everything in this world in a fascinating way  . Then, there is a physicist who is making paranormal more normal called Nassim Haramein. His TedX speech and how he tries to uncover the root of creation in a mindvalley talk . This was fascinating. 

One author and book that piqued interest was Dr Brain Weiss whose book Many Lives Many Masters was brought up.  This led to conversations about past life regression . Rashmi mentioned that she had the complete collection of this author with the exception of this book.

This was a discussion of out of the world experiences very much in our small cocoon of Enclave

Next meeting: To be decided

Topic: Purpose or well being

 

 

Ruminations from 04032023

 The topic was meant to be self help; And as always, the group helped itself  to multiple topics that created a tapestry of thoughts woven together by conversations around the books we read and how we related to them.

 The  initial book that was discussed was Thinking in Bets . A discussion took place on everything being in possibilities and how risks are taken. And how they should be taken. This was brought in by Anand. Slowly the conversations drifted to connections and actions taken as bets in different circumstances and contexts

This went on to Uday connecting all the way from Bhagvad Gita to Nelson Mandela through the works of some philosopher, Gandhi and Martin Luther King - each one connected to the other inspiring the other and touching a cause. Uday continued with touching upon The Good Work of Your Life and the meaning of the book and the essence of self. Uday also touched upon the the panchakoshas - Annamaya, Panamaya, Monomaya, Vigyanamaya, and Atma and how each one went deeper. Deeper the impact, deeper the change. He further mentioned the Iceberg model and sent an article he authored on that.

This could be related by the group on why some self help books and actions do not have as deep an impact as the intent. Somewhere along the conversations, Ojus connected this with the Netflix film A Most  Fortunate Man and it did strike a chord about ego and transformation and how in spite of all the intent, if ego belies reason, it can lead to ruin

Ganesh touched upon self help books in the categories of "do it this way" types - moving on to  stories or data that is impersonal to biographies and how all leave an impact on the way he sees self-help. 

Puneeta spoke about some blogs that were helping her forgive her self for enegry drift that helps her to move on from creative blocks.  The conversation was largely equating attention to energy.When attention and energy sync together, masterpieces are born. Ojus also equated energy with love from his background in Reiki. This was also tied to Indian scriptures.

Coming into openness and Indian scriptures, Anand spoke about places of multi religious worship in Assam called Naamghar that left everyone conversing about the melting pot of India  -  the depth and openness possible in human and Indian psyche. 

Next date : To be decided

Topic : Calling or Purpose