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practice AND grace-the oneness blessing
Guest: Arjuna Ardagh Program 3219
Host: Michael Toms and Justine Willis Toms Interview Date: 10/10/2007 Program Length: 1 Hour
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Program Description: There is a practice that some are bringing back from India called Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing. Ardagh traveled to India at the request of the Oneness University and interviewed more than 300 people who had received extraordinary benefits from this blessing. He also met those who were critical and who were very wary of this phenomenon. Through his personal experience of the blessing and the interviews he did, Ardagh concludes that Oneness Blessing is a good thing. When asked if this is a shortcut to enlightenment he replies, "I'm not really a big believer in enlightenment. It feels to me that it is a term that people use very loosely and no one seems to agree as to what it means . . .I believe, however, that this phenomenon of blessing definitely speeds up the process of evolution of consciousness to allow greater and greater oneness." Ardagh describes the origin of the blessing and suggests that the most reliable measure of spiritual maturity is happiness. This revelation and more serves as the focus for this edition of New Dimensions with our guest Arjuna Ardagh. (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms and Michael Toms) 1 Hour
Arjuna Ardagh was educated in England at Cambridge University, where he earned a master's degree in literature. Since the age of 14 he has had a passionate interest in spiritual awakening, and he began to practice meditation and yoga at that time. In his late teens he trained as a meditation teacher. After graduating from Cambridge, Ardagh devoted himself completely to the call he felt inside. He studied and lived with a number of great spiritual teachers, both in Asia and the United States and is the founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California, a nonprofit church dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. He is the author of The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005); Relaxing into Clear Seeing (Self X Press 1999); How About Now (Self X Press 1999); and The Last Laugh (a novel) (Self X Press 2003); as well as the creator of Let Yourself Go (Sounds True 2006), a six CD audio set; and Awakening Into Oneness: The Power of Blessing in the Evolution of Consciousness (Sounds True 2007). To learn more about the work of Arjuna Ardagh go to www.livingessence.com or www.awakeningintooneness.org
Topics explored in this dialogue:
What is phenomenon of Deeksha or the Oneness Blessing
What is the true nature of enlightenment
What is grace and how does it arrive in our lives
How did Deeksha begin to emerge in India
How do the effects of the Oneness Blessing have lasting benefit
