Baba Ram Dass

Ram Dass (April 6, 1931, born Richard Alpert – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba

Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author. His best known book, Be Here Now (1971), has been described as "seminal", and helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga with the baby boomer generation in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve other books on spirituality including Grist for the Mill (1977) and Polishing the Mirror (2013).

In 1967, Richard Alpert traveled to India and became a disciple of Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba who gave him the name Ram Dass, meaning "Servant of Ram". In the coming years, he founded the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. The Hanuman Foundation, a nonprofit educational and service organization initiated the Prison-Ashram Project (now known as the Human Kindness Foundation), in 1974. The Hanuman Foundation is actively focused on the spiritual well-being of society through education, media and community service programs. He co-founded the Seva Foundation by joining with health-care workers to treat the blind in India, Nepal, and developing countries.

He traveled extensively giving talks and retreats and holding fundraisers for charitable causes in India. In 1997, Ram Dass had a stroke which left him with paralysis and expressive aphasia. He grew to interpret this event as an act of grace, learning to speak again and continuing to teach and author more books. After becoming seriously ill during a trip to India in 2004, he gave up traveling and moved to Maui, Hawaii, where he hosted annual retreats with other spiritual teachers until his death in 2019.

When Be Here Now was first published in 1971, it filled a deep spiritual emptiness, launched the ongoing mindfulness revolution, and established Ram Dass as perhaps the preeminent seeker of the twentieth century. In the book Ram Dass peels away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turns into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely. His book was a critical element of 1970s spiritual enlightenment in the U.S.

His book from 2013, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart is his auto-biography. In the book he discusses his Jewish routes and his reconciliation with the tradition and his bisexuality. For five decades, Ram Dass explored the depths of consciousness and love and brought them to life as service to others. He gathers together his essential teachings for living in the eternal present, here and now.

He includes a combination of perennial wisdom, humor, teaching stories, and detailed guidance on his own spiritual practices, including:

· Bhakti Yoga―opening our hearts to unconditional love

• Practices for living, aging, dying, and embracing the natural flow of life

• Karma Yoga―how selfless service can profoundly transform us

• Working with fear and suffering as a path to grace and freedom

• Step-by-step guidance in devotional chant, meditation and mantra practice, and much more

This book presents Ram Dass’s life journey and example of how to become a beacon of unconditional love.

Orgone and Orgonite

Orgone is etheric energy. It’s another name for the energy that is everywhere and embodies all things. Reiki energy, Prana, bio/electro-magnetic energy, and life force energy are all Orgone energy. The origin of Orgone energy study begins with the Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, who was a student of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Dr. Reich thought that the libido essentially was a physical manifestation of bioenergy that could be harnessed and measured. He viewed it as a life-affirming and life-flowing force. He explored the connection between energy in the environment and Bioenergetics the study of energy flow through living systems. Reich argued that deficits or constrictions in bodily Orgone were at the root of many diseases, and could produce neuroses as defined in Freudian theory. Reich founded the Orgone Institute c. 1942 to pursue research into Orgone energy after he immigrated to the US in 1939, and used it to publish literature and distribute material relating to the topic for more than a decade. In the 1930s and 40s, Dr. Reich developed tools to detect and measure the existence of Orgone, measured using a modified Geiger counter.

In 1986, scientists at the University of Marburg in Germany published the results of a blind study which showed that 30-minute Orgone Accumulator treatments caused a consistent psychological effect. They published that their investigations displayed evidence for the assumption that the properties of Orgone Accumulators and its effect on humans exist and can be measured. There are also Orgone-irritating devices which disturb electro-magnetic fields such as fluorescent lights, television sets, microwave ovens, X-ray machines, and other devices containing radioactive. Radio broadcast towers, airport radars, and microwave telephone communications towers may also constitute hazards. It could either be in a life-beneficial positive form (Positive Orgone Energy), a harmful negative etheric energy form (Deadly Orgone Energy), or just plain neutral Orgone Energy. Dr. Reich labeled the positive energy POR and the negative energy DOR. He studied DOR within the larger environment and noted that areas where microwaves can be detected, DOR has an atmospheric expression as well, and when sufficiently widespread, is associated with altered atmospheric conditions, altered cloud formations, drought or desert conditions.

Dr. Reich determined that by stacking alternating layers of fiberglass which is an organic substance and steel wool an inorganic substance you could attract and collect Orgone energy of both positive and negative polarities. He began constructing a device that was able to successfully heal his patients of various ailments including various forms of cancer by having them sit inside the box for periods of time. The device is called an Accumulator Box. The box was known to attract and harness Orgone energy for several purposes. Some of his Accumulator boxes were as large as a room so that the patient sat within it. Others were small enough to hold an ones hand.

Orgonite refers to a composition that is made up of metal shavings such as brass or copper and suspended in polyester resin along with a range of various crystals such as quartz sands or quartz points. Orgonite is Orgone processing material. It converts Orgone from one state to another, and is also thought to release Orgone energy when stimulated by conventional forms of energy. Orgonite was first coined by Karl Welz in the 1980s. He is mostly credited as the one who made improvements on Dr. Reich’s Accumulator Box. The frequencies mimic natural earth resonance and promote the balancing of energies.

Orgonite Devices are typically made by hand and are made of resin, metals in powder and filings form, minerals, gems, and quartz. In the most basic form, orgonite consists of a 50/50 mix of organic (resin) and inorganic (metal shavings) materials. Orgone energy devices are intended to help harmonize bio-energy. They are said to have a positive and healthy effect on blood and body tissue and improves the flow of life-energy by releasing any energy blocks and DOE a person may have. Orgonite Devises are also personal EMF protection devices that can help shield from the harmful side effects that come alongside electromagnetic radiation. However, this isn't their biggest benefit. Their main function is bio-energy healing. They may also help heal and improve spiritual and physical health through improved POE.

Moldavite

Moldavite is a deep green, Tektite Crystal created from a meteor collision with mother Earth 14.8 million years ago, over the Moldau River Valley in the Czech Republic. Found only in the Czech Republic, these green gems are among the rarest minerals on Earth, rarer than diamonds. (And the source will eventually run out). Most meteorites that hit the Earth are forms of iron ore and metal minerals. Moldavite is unique for being a Tektite Crystal.

Prized by humans for thousands of years, Moldavite Crystals were given as gifts from royalty to royalty, often set as jewelry to wear. It is associated with the legendary Stone of the Holy Grail. Robert Sardello, in Love and the Soul, notes, “…I am never without my Moldavite. It feels like carrying the Grail… In the darkest of times there is the brightest of light. It comes from within. This stone awakens the interior Light of the heart.” It is a talisman for the healing of the Earth and having the power to accelerate one's inner growth and spiritual evolution. Even those not usually sensitive to the energies of stones, often feel the energy of Moldavite because it's undeniably powerful, heart chakra energy. The green crystal is found in a raw, amorphous stone, and is also available as a cut and polished stone. Faceted Moldavite, some say, can have an intensified energy that is created by the cutting process. For others, raw cuts are preferable.

In Robert Simmons and Katy Warner’s book Moldavite: Starborn Stone of Transformation, note, “Moldavite is a great tool for awakening yourself to the grand cosmic scheme of things, Moldavite causes rapid change, Once the ball rolls there is no stopping it…When there is a fairly open channel in a person’s whole system, the energy of Moldavite is often felt at the heart, third eye, and crown chakras, but this can vary with the individual and over time as well. The solar plexis is also a major activation point in some individuals.” They suggest in their writing that where one wears the crystal matters little if it is within the aura of the body. “It is our feeling that Moldavite is powerful enough to affect the whole system, wherever it is worn or carried.” For meditation it is often placed over the chakra that one wants to open or heal. Or it can be used as an energy poultice, placed on the skin or used with spring water.