When we examine the meaning of scriptures, we discover there are two major approaches to understanding them: exoteric and esoteric methods. Exoteric methods include literal, analogical, and symbolic strategies for understanding the scripture.
Life is like an echo. The call we send out returns to us. We carelessly say, „I am sick, I am broke, I am lonely“ without realizing that our alleged powerless words are anything but weak and powerless. The moment we send out a call, the moment we say „I am sick, I am weak, I am broke,“ we are setting into motion a current of magnetic force that goes out into the world to magnetically attract and return to us thoughts, people and conditions in harmony with the dominant note of our word and thought.
Are there mantras that can help get through mental blockages?
Meditators report seven major types of blockages that impede them from going deeper in meditation:
1) They are locked into physical pain or the symptoms of disease, and they cannot detach their attention from these deep body sensations.
2) They encounter an etheric blockage in their inner vehicles of consciousness that stops them from further deepening in meditation.
What is the nature of a Spiritual Teacher and how can you spot one? Some people think that a Spiritual Teacher has no ego and that he is devoid of self-interest. I tell you, if someone had no ego and were devoid of self-interest, they would not be a Spiritual Teacher, they would be dead!
