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This month on Healing Times Radio Dr Miller Recommends
Arjuna's book is an excellent way to
follow up on the ideas we explore in our interview. It's subtitle, How
People Just Like You Are Waking Up And Changing The World, reveals the
close parallels with my new book, Our Culture on the Couch and the
recent CD releases, Awakening the Leader Within, and Healing Our Planet. Those he interviewed for his book provide excellent models for
those of us who are engaged in intentionally awakening to our purpose,
mission, and visions.
The Translucent Revolution by Arjuna Ardagh
There is a growing phenomenon happening throughout the
world, a gentle but profound revolution in human consciousness. It is
something that has been experienced directly by millions of everyday
people from all walks of life and the numbers continue to multiply
exponentially. The breakthroughs they have experienced are startlingly
similar and are marked by a new sense of well-being, increased joy in
life, diminished fear, and a natural impulse to serve and contribute to
the world in a real way.
For more than a decade, author Arjuna
Ardagh has studied this worldwide advance in human consciousness marked
by what he calls "translucents" - individuals who have undergone a
spiritual awakening deeply enough that it has permanently transformed
their relationship to themselves and to reality while allowing them to
remain involved in ordinary life.
According to conservative estimates,
millions have shifted in this way, and while the breakthrough moments
themselves don't guarantee sustained transformation, their increased
frequency is remarkable.
The Translucent Revolution
draws on the author's dialogues with thousands of writers, teachers,
and workshop participants around the world who have been touched by a
radical awakening, and whose lives emanate translucence. He blends
observation, anecdote, and research, including commentaries from leading pioneers in the field of human consciousness
like Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, and Neale Donald Walsch, to offer
simple, concrete strategies for cultivating a translucent way of life. The Translucent Revolution offers a blueprint for positive change and an optimistic perspective on these uncertain times.
Click here to read endorsements and purchaseThe Translucent Revolution
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Dear
Dr. Miller's Healing Times Radio Show can now be found at OpenMindRadio.com AND HealingTimesRadio.com!
Join me for my new radio show, Healing Times with Dr. Miller, at OpenMindRadio.com. This month my guest is Arjuna Ardagh, author of The Translucent Revolution and Leap Before You Look. I'll be talking with him about his personal journey as well as his very clear and profound work in Awakening Coaching, Leadership, and the wisdom of the masters.
Tune in the first Thursday of each month at 11AM (PST) to Healing Times Radio with me, Dr. Miller, at OpenMindRadio.com or HealingTimesRadio.com. Sincerely,
Emmett Miller MD
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This month's Guest on Healing Times Radio:
Arjuna Ardagh
This week's guest is a man I first interviewed number of years ago on my Wisdom Network radio show. I found our conversation illuminating and profound, and promised to have him back. And here he is. I am sure you will find what he has to say informative, inspirational, and stimulating.
Arjuna Ardagh 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 Relaxing into Clear Seeing, How About Now, The Last
Laugh (a novel), and the creator of the Living Essence Tapes Series.
Ardagh
was educated in England, at Kings School, Canterbury, and later at
Cambridge University, where he earned a master's degree in literature.
Since the age of fourteen 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 himself, and studied and lived with a number of great spiritual
teachers, both in Asia and in the US. In 1987 he founded the Alchemy
Institute in Seattle, Washington, and trained several hundred people in
a transpersonal approach to hypnotherapy.
In 1991 he returned to India for a period of prolonged
meditation and met H. W. L. Poonjaji, a direct devotee of the great sage Ramana Maharshi,
with whom he went through a radical shift of perspective. After returning
to Seattle, he began to share this awakened view with other people
at Poonjaji's request, facilitating a dramatic shift in awareness
with thousands of people throughout the United States and Europe.
Ardagh
has developed the Living Essence Training, which prepares people to be
facilitators of this shift in consciousness and to cultivate
translucence. He speaks at many international conferences, and has
appeared on TV, on the radio and in print media in twelve countries. He
also teaches the Deeper Love seminars with his Norwegian wife, Chameli Gad Ardagh. They live in Nevada City with his two sons.
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Michael's Memory
Michael Jackson has crossed over that magic threshold that great celebrities cross over when they leave the earthly plane of existence. Fans by the millions were shocked at the news of his sudden death, and those eager souls who had already purchased one of the $100 million or so of tickets for his 50-show comeback tour are devastated. It's hard to turn on the radio without hearing some of his stunning creations, and there's already talk of who will play his role in "Michael Jackson, the Movie". The Liverpool flashmob last Friday speaks to the size and enthusiasm of his audience.
While alive he was quite an enigma. There was what many would say was a disfigurement of his originally innocent face with its sweet smile. And then there was all that stuff about child molestation. So we sometimes had kind of a creepy feeling when we surrendered ourselves to listening to some of his awesome creations - for the man was nothing less than a musical genius. His childhood was shaped by his beginning to perform at the age of 6 with the Jackson Five, stealing the show from his older, more skilled brothers. He went on to create hit after hit, then creating, with the great Quincy Jones, his album Thriller, which was a clear step into a new direction for popular music. And who could forget his "We Are The World," an unprecedented collaboration that has much to teach us that we need to learn right now. Check it out here.
Deepak Chopra was a close associate of Michael's and his recent article may help to shed some light on who this mysterious man/boy was, and this clip of Michael during the making of "We Are The World" seems to affirm his take. Then when you add to the mix his innovations in popular dance that seem commonplace now, it's necessary to look back at dancing before Michael and dancing after Michael to appreciate what he brought to the art. The images of "The Gloved One" floating effortlessly across the stage, one was almost surprised to see that he wasn't ice skating, but dancing. His moonwalk became the clich� for the '80s and inspired a generation of dancers. There's no question he deserves his place next to the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Perhaps, soon, the world will once again feel comfortable in embracing Michael and his music, now that he is dead. The old notion of, "never speak evil of the dead" still seems to have some currency despite the impiety of our postmodern world. Perhaps.
Rest in Peace Michael
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