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Understanding the Mind - a foundation for meditation

In today's class we explored the 3 phases of the mind - the instinctive, intellectual and intuitive. Our study each day has been taking us deeply in to the understanding of the mind and to give us the necessary framework to begin successful meditation practice.

We looked closely at how to identify the instinctive, intellectual and intuitive phases of the mind.

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Apr 27, 2011 Spiritual Adventures

Hiking the Jungles of Periyar

Our day started early and by 7am we were in Periyar National Park ready to begin our 3-hour hike through this jungle. We were all eager to see wild life. Our first encounters were the Nilgiri Langur monkeys. Then across the lake we spotted families of wild boar plus a
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Apr 26, 2011 Spiritual Adventures

Elephants! Elephants! Elephants!

83 year old Anne on an elephant. She has been an amazing spiritual adventurer on this trip and has kept up with the group in all the inner and outer adventures. Our team is ready to ride off into the forest on elephants. Katherine and Mandy. Anne
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Apr 25, 2011 Spiritual Adventures

Spice Capital of the World

It is no wonder that the Europeans desperately seeked to find a sea route to India. And in Kerala they landed and discovered the amazing world of spices. It's day 4 of our Kerala Spiritual Adventure and our first full day in Periyar and we are enjoying being here in the Sahyadri
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Apr 24, 2011 Photography & Travel

Children of Rajasthan

I spent most of last week in Rajasthan mainly in Jaipur and the villages surrounding Jodhpur. My morning and evening strolls through many villages brought many a curious stare. These were villages that seldom saw visitors. The local kids would follow me a good 10 feet behind as I
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Apr 24, 2011 Spiritual Adventures

Ancient Port City to Mountain Jungle

Today we leave the ancient historic port city of Fort Kochi and head east, inland towards the Sahyadri Mountains,. It is a long but beautiful drive. It takes about 6 to 7 hours to drive up to the small town of Thekkady or Periyar and we took the less common route via Mavady Hills
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Apr 23, 2011 Photography & Travel

Preponed.......and I'll have salad on the side with that.

I walked up to the check in desk at the Delhi airport to catch my flight south to Kochi and the lady looked up and said "Sir, your flight has been preponed!" I thought to myself "Now, is 'preponed' that Filipino dish that's made with eggplant, because if it is I want some salad o
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