The dawn of the age of illumination

It appears to me as though we are in a deep, rapid evolutionary process. And it's necessary, the process that we're in is necessary. There was a need, and there's a need for every person on earth to wake up simultaneously. At the same time, everywhere at the same time, it's been prophesied actually that that would happen during this transition from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. It is the dawn dawning of the Age of Aquarius is said to be the dawning of the age of illumination. Illumination where the lights come on, where we actually get to see, we get to see the magic, the medicine, the poison the wound. We have the opportunity to birth the New Earth. And then it becomes the work and the responsibility of everyone who is waking up into that awareness to keep adding clear water to the muddy water. And the only way that we will have that opportunity and have that resource is to really clarify your own vessel to clarify and purify your own channel of light, and then be the light be the light and the long dark night of the soul, which seems to be what's happening now, all around the world, all of this confusion, all of this uncertainty, and all the deep, sudden, and rapid evolution is taking place everywhere. What the world really needs now is, is people who are prepared to do the work people who have been doing the work, actually, for probably many lifetimes. Yeah. And people like us who are willing to do this, what we do tonight, like come here to sit in circle to light the candles to meet on the auspicious evening of new moons and full moons and to sit in the light and the gravity of the celestial bodies and to channel what we need to be able to serve that purpose to serve that Dharma to do our work collectively and individually. And it's a great merit to each one of us that we keep showing up to do this kind of work. And it's a great privilege and a great honour actually to be able to hold this space for the sole family to gather and grow together and to glow together and to go on and on and on together on this journey. We really need that solidarity. I've started to use the word "soalidarity". Awakened souls who stand shoulder to shoulder on this process because we need that. I speak for myself I need that I've been praying for that for a long time you know to suddenly be in common unity in a community of like minded souls with open hearts and strong backs, and soft and loving ways of being and doing.

I'm humbled and grateful that that prayer has come through I feel safe in this kind of circle this kind of deep water. It used to be the case that it was safe to be in the shallow water the shallow water used to be the safe place for now the deep water is the safe place. Yeah, but you need to be secure inside yourself you need to be strong inside yourself to be comfortable in the deep water. And so that is work that we will do this night. Okay, we will do the work to strengthen our position on every level. Okay, the physiological biological level the glandular level, the the physiological structures, the nervous system, the psychic field, the emotional body, and the spirit and soul self, we will try to do a lot of things now to create harmonic resonance in all the dimensions in which we exist, but the practice that we will do tonight, I don't often teach this sequence that we will do tonight. It is a long and a strong sequence of exercises. And the purpose of this practice is to really tune up the endocrine system. Okay, the endocrine system is the sensitive and sophisticated system of glands inside the body that governs all the hormone blood chemistry. Okay, and many of the pretty much all of the autonomic functions of the body, the order automatic functions, if you like, and also governs the mood. It says in the Vedas, that the human condition is composed of 60 moods, in any given moment, one of those moods will be on the surface and just left to its own devices. It will be randomised, probably, like just like many facets on the diamond, no one of them will be shining. And that's okay, if you're comfortable with Russian roulette. I'm not a gambling man myself. Okay, so I really want all the facets to be shining all of them, okay, all at the same time simultaneously.

So, that is what we will do, we will do this work to strengthen the mind breath body matrix. Sometimes self love is really holding yourself in. Okay, when things are getting tough and your nerves are shaking, and your mind is playing tricks on you, and you feel like you might not be able to make it for another 30 seconds. Sometimes self love is being able to kind of breathe through that like stay in to go that extra mile to do that little bit of extra work to squeeze the last little bit of juice out from your body fruit, okay, to really switch on the good chemistry, to electrify the tree of nerves. Sometimes self love is knowing exactly when to surrender, okay, when to let go, when to just take it easy to know your limit. Intuitive intelligence tells us which one is which, in any given moment, it's really the real process, actually, of yoga is to deepen this divine inner dialogue with yourself this Paramahansa Yogananda calls it the Divine Romance. Okay, this this internal dialogue, I'm going to call it the vertical conversation that you have with yourself the information in the signals, and the the information the signals that are flowing from your body matrix, you know, through the nerve system, through the, through the lens of the brain into the kind of psychic field, and all the information which is coming back, you know, to the body, which is this first and most important of conversations. The real process it that we're in is about deepening and clarifying that vertical channel, because the degree of order or disorder in the vertical conversation has no choice but to be expressed on the horizontal plane. Okay, that's how energy is expressed. It is the vertical conversation first, the information that's flowing in between i&i If you like the small eye and the big eye, and then it just spreads out onto the horizontal conversation with everybody else in the great living Hall of Mirrors. I just want to call it that this beautiful theatre, of shared experience, you know, the great living Hall of Mirrors, where if you pay attention, if you are able to spend long enough in the eyes of another person, you will find that magic happens. And that magic is that you meet yourself there. In the eyes of the other, it is the first Aquarian sutra. See the other person as you. Try to see the other person as you then you will do no harm to that other person, empathy will always be there, compassion will always be there will be no inclination to do any harm to the other. When you are able to hold that meditation in place like everything it requires practice. So let's do that. Thank you for your patience with the opening comments.