I am over half way through an initiation into Kamalmitka Devi instructed to me by Vedic Folks to chant a mantra for 1008 times for 48 days straight. The mantra is: Om Aim Hreem Shreem Kleem Hasou Jagat Prasutyai Namah. It is said to bring success in the field of Career.
When I was healing in 2012, the Knights Templar came up as an issue to be addressed and they have just resurfaced again. What did they stand for for Christianity and how did they believe in Jesus as the Saviour of the World and defender of the weak?
The world is not ready for the death of Amitabh Bachchan and the social media movement will be absorbing this. Hollywood comes and goes and they are already using social media like it was satellite TV and Amitabh Bachchan has no written documentation to support his life – no memoirs, no autobiography, nothing. The Indian literary tradition needs to investigate this fact and see about the relationship between news media and celebrity life.
There needs to be a movement to publish Parvati Tarot cards after the Ganesh cards were published and the Kuan Yin Oracle cards have been published too. Questions can be asked as to why she is not idolised and formatted in healing circles but as the Yoga movement grows the need for her presence develops.
The Bible needs to be broken down and sold as separate books – especially the Four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
I came across this website many years ago and the advice to share spiritual experience stood out as one that is necessary to gain transparency and to facilitate communication and negotiations in this technology dependent and heavy age.
https://shivshisya.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-be-shiv-shishya.html
When Tibet fell, the Gods cried. He we go again they thought and not even the apex of civilisation was safe from the rampant desire of a politician bent on power. Tibet was idolised for its comparison, not what it inherently had in store for new visitors. The Dalai Llama’s book My Land My People shows that the British were present in Tibet and life was not all about the American tourists following their dreams of the great explorer and the American Dream to see that Lhasa and its surrounding Himalayan idyllic communities were beholden to the image of Shangri-La – a perfect civilisation where the people were so happy and peaceful and new a philosophy that people still search for today. The film Dr Strange was meant to be filmed in Tibet but the Chinese had chemically imbalanced brains or mood disorders according to western medical reports waiting to happen. If I can be called a Hindu incarnation of God by the NHS when I don’t speak or understand any Indian languages, then they can be disowned as British citizens and some Dr Kavorkian scientist wait to have a go at them for the oil they use in their foods.
The United Kingdom has had it’s history of command and conquest there is just the haemorrhaging of the second half of the twentieth century that needs to be contended with as the mind is compressed with the aftermath of World War One and World War Two images. Some mystics contend that the Americans were going to start a Third World War and are just blaming President Putin because he has always had strong ties to China and the common sense not to speak badly about them or insult their stock broking. The western world had better watch out – I opened my first Forex account last week so I know a thing or two about investing so expect some wit and quips to enter my blogs.
It could be that the UK is like Tibet in that when the Dalai Llama fled to India, he left behind a civilisation that was torn apart and then modernism had its way with and is now incapable of being restored due to the burdens of memory and desire and the reality that real share dealing gets done by people in high places and royal families and not little blog writers like myself. Do we lack a real Monarch after Queen Elizabeth 2nd had to sit back and watch all that sex from America take over her domain of awareness and dominate her narratives and block her from having access to her people via the TV. King Charles is no stranger to ITV and the shows of central London yet he shies from the News and does not appear on the TV except for a Christmas message that is without context. What does it mean to be a Christian in this day and age and are our politicians one? When did we last claim to be a great Christian country and what damage has Adolf Hitler done to the psyches of our Royal Family and MPs to leave the Problem of Evil without a connection to the average person when he was more than capable of understanding it?
They could have used the TV better but the idyll of the 1980s has been shattered by the Murdoch Empire and the big newspapers are not going to give back control to Satellite TV after David Cameron made his way to another silent majority and staying clear of a decent TV set in the UK. Let’s face it, our TV is awful and this is a sign of a proletariat that does not care and keeps its money where its handbags and gladrags are and we have toppled the great ancestry of our nation to wait for the next time King Henry VIII gets mentioned on The Chase.
Do we too have a memory of a great nation where people could afford to come here and see what a great time they had and visit our architecture and places; or are we too suffering from Chairman Mao’s great warning, that “religion is evil” and we are tired and run down chasing the great spectre of Churches and more from the Americans about what a few extra tens of millions can accomplish if you really want to speak the Gospel of Jesus. Has anyone ever asked: What do the Chinese say the Gospel of Jesus is? How do they classify God and is this what Tony Blair meant when he said “We don’t do God”?
Prince William is not welcome to spend time with Tom Cruise for all the shit we get for being into popular culture and not mixing with Drs who hate the celebrities and take this out on the ordinary man. Their salaries will never balance with the RPI and Inflation and this is what COVID ended up being about – trying to please the Drs and Nurses with their culture of feeling like they are second best compared to the great religious debates taking place in the Church of England run by the Royal Family.
Church just is not good enough these days and they have sat back and watched with vengeance as the TV has ruined our nation and the celebrities talk about Scientology as the next great Nazi cult of our times. Who can afford £1000 an hour for fancy Auditing and who needs to walk into a cult that ruined our bookshops and Mind Body Spirit tradition?
Sometimes Immigration just seems to be a flood where they are seeking answers to nothing. It is not hard to see that the Tibetan cause will not be satisfied until the English one balances out and gets some stability that Donald Trump is trying to teach Nigel Farage how to do it by taking over the News and acting like FOX News. What celebrities talk on GB News? What wonder things are so bad every night and Rees Mogg has decided to throw his hat into British culture by ignoring the obvious – the immigrants took over the football and the Goebells of our time, Alistair Campbell thought he could outwit the TV.
So there is no need for the BBC to talk about China emerging – it is a great Empire with a history that would make evening TV programmers weep – why can’t we have Chinese films on our TV so that the Christian Empire has something to contrast with? What about Bollywood? Or are we just going to bend over and take it up the arse from America for another hundred years? The one good thing social media did was screen the Barack Obama election for what would have happened if the 24 hour news cycle of the BBC had been left to be in control of his election and campaign. For he was like a ghost in spite of acting much better than Donald Trump and we did not get any of his enlightenment in the UK on our TV sets so no wonder they talk about how bad things are – they only have the Church of England to blame for saying told you so.
There is a Monarchy without a Monarchy, a Parliament that sits in centuries old tradition and a sports scene that is dragging the Prince Of Wales down into the gutter with Brad Pitt watching tennis. We want to know where our money went and what you did with all of our culture. We want to know how you spent your sexual freedom and what the long term effects will be of letting Leanardo Di Caprio screw any model he wants while we pay for it with bad belly nerves while watching the BBC for breakfast trying to dream of the American way of life and getting up and getting out there to a job that can fulfil our expectations without another celebrity harping on about the environment.
Just how powerful does the western man think he is to change the climate and again, I ask, has anyone asked what the Chinese think about climate change? They don’t have footballers running round getting the vote of Pope Francis in his biography and Pope Leo talking about what heroes these men are for ruining our country and spoiling our education standards. It just goes to show that our luck is out when Abishek Bachchan is pictured with footballers in India and that is how he is going to spend his father’s inheritance and all that capital that no person with common sense has mentioned on the BBC for decades?
What is the context then of mental health and how far will the pill pushers go to chemically balance brains when the culture is off the table and no decent conversation is had now that the once UKIP racist Nigel Farage is being salaried into the position of Prime Minister that TV Tony Blair ruined but did not let us put him on trial about.
I used to work at the British Heart Foundation and around Christmas time I was in the stock cupboard sorting out the books when I noticed how many Christmas books there were. There were so many books aimed at children that it makes me think how far behind we lag in literary stakes in the Indian community. We have now had a British Asian Prime Minister, so if there are any serious questions about our national identity and heritage we can ask him, or at least point as if we are capable of his merits. But what would it take to have some Krishna colouring books. Native images of Rama and Shiva; to see the delight of children colouring Ganesh? Why stop there? There is Little Krishna at ISKCON and he is playing with white kids; so why can’t they have children books that have imaginative art work and are large scale with the permission given to pass them on. We Hindus suffer from as many health problems as Christians do and may have problem getting access to decent holistic treatments with the onset of western medication lacking roots with which to talk to us about our post-colonial status and really find out how we are doing on a day to day basis. What if we don’t like football or support the Beckhams, does that mean we have to Bend It Like Christmas Karma, the movie? We have problems letting the past go that can not be seen and gaining access to literature aimed at children would be one way of helping this cause. What do you think? Can you think of reasons not to publish cartoon books of Sita and Lakshmi? Does Indian archaeology have a say in the depiction of our glorious Gods and Goddesses? Is it a matter for erotica and are we doomed to hold on to past energies and find ourselves on the receiving end of medical inspections and questions without answers and answers without questions? The publishing industry was fought for in the United Kingdom and we as Indians are still dealing with Shree Book. There used to be a book shop on the Soho Road in Handsworth where Sikh books were priced at up to £100 and over – so what is the catch and where are these discussions being had? Who is deciding what is important about the postcolonial sketch and what are the long term artistic features of integration and holistic meditation on these factors governing the British Asian diaspora, their families and all their friends who work so hard to put their culture on show at weddings, where family is the centre piece of the religion of Hinduism but the children start out life so one sided and emphasising one side of the brain? Social media now hosts Instagram and all those flashing lights and images so there is hope that these stagnant waters can be moved on.
I. The Turning of the Wheel
The pilgrim walks with all who spin,
Bound by craving, loss and sin,
The wheel revolves, desire and fear,
~ Estrangement whispers, ever near.
II. Brigid’s Hearth – Ignorance to Flame
From childhood’s school, the fire is lit,
Ignorance breaks as wisdom sits,
Her Celtic hearth, a spark of sight,
The wheel turns slowly into light.
III. Lima’s Lantern – Aversion to Calm
Where sorrow bends, her lantern glows,
Aversion yields, compassion flows,
The pilgrim learns through Lima’s hand,
The wheel turns turns gently, makes a stand.
IV. Burial Grounds – Desire to Release
Among the graves, desire is stilled,
The pilgrim sees what time has killed,
Yet every name, a seed of peace,
The wheel turns onward, chains release.
V. Cathedrals and Castles – Pride to Humility
High articles fall to humble knees,
Grey towers bow to Albion’s seas,
The pilgrim learns that pride must fade,
The wheel turns soft, the path is made.
VI. Shree Geeta Bhawan – Dharma’s Song
Krishna’s chant, the mantra flows,
The pilgrim hears what Dharma knows,
The wheel turns true, the song is one,
Albion shines with India’s sun.
VII. Gabriels’s Door – Confession to Renewal
Estrangement hurled, a bitter stain,
Yet thresholds break, and doors can gain,
Confession seeds the pilgrim’s song,
The wheel turns right, estrangement gone.
VIII. The Djinn – Shadow to Insight
The Djinn may haunt with dear and night
But chanting breaks their shadow’s bite,
The pilgrim sees through darkness thin,
The wheel turns clear, the light within.
IX. Buddhist Dharma – Suffering Shared
The Buddha’s light turns Albion’s wheel,
Through suffering’s fire, the wounds can heal,
Estrangement bends, yet Dharma sings,
And Albion walks with liberated kings.
X. EnlightenNext – Evolutionary Awakening
Not mine alone, the path is shared,
A future calls, a world prepared,
Collective chant, the soul’s ascent,
The wheel turns forward, EnlightenNext.
XI. Liberation – Albion’s Chant
Through suffering’s fire, compassion grows
Through emptiness, the river flows,
The pilgrim walks, the wheel turns still,
Albion chants: the Dharma’s will.
XII. The Masters in English – Knowledge to Vision
Through Oxford’s halls the pilgrim read,
Texts of fire, words of bread,
The Masters’ ink, the scholar’s page,
Turned estrangement into sage.
XIII. The PhD – Depth to Circle
The wheel descended, deeper still,
Research carved by patient will,
Yet every thesis, every line,
Was Albion’s soil, a mythic sign.
XIV. The Return – Autobiographer’s Song
From scholar’s desk to pilgrim’s stage,
The circle closed, the mythic page,
No longer study, but living lore,
Albion speaks – estranged no more.
In Northfield’s quiet heart she stands,
A lantern in the Midlands air,
Our Lady of St Lima calls
The weary pilgrim into prayer.
Her walls are stitched with whispered hymns,
Her alter breathes the green of spring,
And every candle lit within
Becomes a star, a living wing.
She gathers silence, folds it whole,
And offers it as healing balm,
Her voice is liturgy of soul,
Her presence is a steady calm.
O Lima, mother, saint, and guide,
You root the mythic soil of land,
Through you the estranged are sanctified,
Through you the broken learn to stand.
Wild Stage 