Brent's girlfriend is not happy about us having 6 girls in the studio on Mantalk TM.
The Radio Outlaw & Brent Weiler make mint juleps in preparation for the Kentucky Derby on Mantalk TM
My friend , now deceased, Don Cox cuts a promo for Mantalk TM.
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The theme was: What's the best double album of all time.
More Mantalk TM fans . Yep. They're drunk and calling
from a University of Miami fraternity. Big Surprise.
The full Mantalk James Brown Godfather of Soul Interview.15 minutes.
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Includes his Clear Mantalk TM Promo, also Harvey Fierstein.
I worked with Don at Y100 in Miami.
,pulling up next to a cop and smoking it.
Of course the a/c was on and the window was rolled up.
Another great Don Cox rejoiner for Mantalk TM.Thanks Don!!
Hear the audio I had to bug the hell out of him,but Paul Castronovo
agrees to an interview. He was the morning man at
WSHE and Zeta 4 now at BIG 106 in Miami.
Hear the audio More with the Miami Big 106 Morning Man on Mantalk.
Hear the audio one of our Mantalk TM intro songs and aids update themes,
the show must go on by Queen.
Hear the audio On a Mantalk TM famous callout, The Radio Outlaw calls
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and this was her reply.
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Hear the audio Little Richard with Gene Noble doing hair products commercials.Funny!
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Hear the audio Interview with Dr.Mervin Silverman,President of AMFAR
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1993 Mantalk TM interview with the legendary guitarist of the group Spirit
who passed away in 1997.Rare.He played with Jimi Hendrix
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Hear the audio The Canadian auto racing legend,Greg Moore,now deceased
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Hear the audio James Brown,The Godfather of Soul, Mantalk TM interview
Doctor of Psychology Jim Kraut who runs a mens
group in Hollywood Florida.Excellent!
Hear the audio Talks about Robert Bly and misconceptions about mens groups.
Hear the audio From the National Coalition for Free Men (NCFM).Mr. Sides has strong opinions,
and actually went to Wellsley college to challenge the law at that time.Very Opinonated!
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Hear the audio Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson author of Black Fatherhood A Guide to Male Parenting,
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Brent-"Marconi rolled over but it should've been the guy who invented television who rolled over,not Marconi,who invented radio".
Outlaw-" Anyway who would've known Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar. He demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television."
Brent - "Edwin who? I was thinking instead of Marconi we should've said Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse. I think Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television. This was because the patent for the heart of the TV, the electron scanning tube, was first applied for by Zworykin in 1923, under the name of an iconoscope."
Outlaw - "The real inventor of tv was Philo Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah. He was the first of the two inventors to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals, which he did on September 7, 1927, using a scanning tube of his own design. Farnsworth received a patent for his electron scanning tube in 1930. Zworykin was not able to duplicate Farnsworth’s achievements until 1934 and his patent for a scanning tube was not issued until 1938. The truth of the matter is this, that while Zworykin applied for the patent for his iconoscope in 1923, the invention was not functional until some years later and all earlier efforts were of such poor quality that Westinghouse officials ordered him to work on something “more useful.But none of those names would've made sense to anyone reading R & R”
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WE TALK ABOUT THE OUTLAW"S LIMO DATE A NATIONAL SCOOP! DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND WE INTERVIEW RICK SANCHEZ OF CNN WHEN HE WAS AN ANCHOR AT WSVN TV IN MIAMI.HE TALKS ABOUT IT ALL,PERSONAL,ARRESTS,OPINIONS-A CLASSIC.THE TRANSCRIPT WILL BE POSTED SOON. MUST LOVE DOGS ? INTERVIEW WITH LAURA LEE PHONE PORN QUEEN MANTALK TM INTRODUCTION JOHNNY DREG THE POET GOOD COVER BAD COVER - BEATLES' HELTER SKELTER VS. PAT BENATAR'S HELTER SKELTER AND WE CHECK OUR VOICEMALE 
Hear the audio The infamous Mantalk Rubber Song, a Mantalk TM exclusive.
JOEY REYNOLDS SUCKS THE MANTALK TM NETWORK WOMEN COPS ROLLING STONES CONCERT RANDI RHODES MAKING LOVE Sexy Pat Stevens Radio Outlaw's first Radio Girlfriend RE:DICK VAN DYKE AND BILLY BOB THORNTON LOCAL ARTIST BOBBY RADICAL AND HIS BODYGUARD WANT TO COME BY AND "COLLECT" Wolfman Jack Dj Aircheck 
It's the legend Wolfman Jack doing the intro for Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.
Neil Diamond interview 
Yep.It's really Neil Diamond and we interview him for about 10 minutes and have a little fun with "him".
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John Holmes 
we're talking about John Hughes but somehow the caller thinks it's John Holmes!
Fake orgasms how to spot one! 
Sex in the office 
Have you ever been offered sex at the office?
Roy Schenk, PhD. - Has written several books on men's issues ,has organized conferences on men's issues,
founded the first shelter devoted exclusively to battered men, filed local law suits
(Madison, WI) to combat sex discrimination against men.
we bust up Chicago's 2 record set -cover your eyes! 
Recorded live on the Mantalk TM Radio show, hear us bust up Chicago Transit Authority's 2 record set
on our copyrighted Busta-Record segment.Hear more on mantalk.com !
We talk about condoms,were you expecting something else?
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Hear the audio A great holiday interview the rock legend Alice Cooper,
"Every parent's worst nightmare".
Rock legend Gregg Allman interview 
We intervew the legendary rock star Gregg Allman and he was great!
Adult Stripper Star Staci Staxx 
It's our classic interview with bubbly Adult Star Staci Staxx.
Re:Adult Star Crystal Storm 
We talk about the blown interview with Crystal.
comedienne Anna Collins 
It's her big hit PMS Blues.
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Stripper Jasmin Aloha 
9 minutes with Jasmin Hear our interview with Miss Nude Honolulu Jasmin Aloha.She was great!
Hear the audio A classic Mantalk TM interview with the great Playboy men's columnist.
He talks about his life and his book, Naked at Gender Gap.
"I am here to urge you to be a little more brave, a tad more courageous and self-controlled," Asa Baber wrote in his last column, which appears in this month's issue of Playboy magazine, "and to take some private time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe and ask yourself how you plan to spend whatever time you have left. "How can you avoid wasting your life?"
Mr. Baber, the longtime author of Playboy's "Men" column, died Monday morning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He'd been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in September 2001. Mr. Baber and Gehrig, his childhood hero, shared a birthday: June 19. Mr. Baber would have turned 67 on Thursday. A public memorial service is planned for Monday, June 30 at the Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago, at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Baber grew up on the South Side of Chicago, a self-described "gutter snipe" with a penchant for small scale trouble that might have gotten bigger had his grandmother not intervened and shipped him off to the Lawrenceville Academy, a posh New Jersey boarding school, and then to Princeton University.
But Mr. Baber's elite education was always tempered by the tough-guy streak that had been born on 47th Street and honed in the U.S. Marines' Platoon Leader Corps, which he joined while in college. He served in the Marines, after his 1958 graduation, until 1961.
Mr. Baber had grown up wanting to be a writer in the style of the hard-boiled journalists he'd met on his summer job as a newspaper copy boy. A chance meeting with William Faulkner set him on a more literary path.
After graduate work at Northwestern University and the prestigious University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Mr. Baber published his first novel,The Land of A Million Elephants, a story of military intrigue in Southeast Asia clearly influenced by his own--top-secret--experiences in the Marines.
Mr. Baber was a professor of English at the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1975. He was so beloved by his students there, and those he later taught at a series of visiting professorships, that a Chicago Sun-Times feature about him published in February 2002 prompted more than two dozen former students to get in touch with him.
Mr. Baber's writing, which included fiction, essays, journalism and drama, appeared in several major national magazines and garnered many awards. But he was best known for his work in Playboy.
In 1982, after writing an essay called "Who Gets Screwed in a Divorce? I Do!," Mr. Baber launched the "Men" column. Developed with his mentor, longtime Playboy editor Arthur Ketchmer, the column was a touchstone for the men's liberation movement. With humor, often raunchy and usually wry, and an utter disdain for political correctness, Mr. Baber waged a battle of the sexes that celebrated difference but never surrendered to stereotype.
After going public with his ALS diagnosis in an appearance on the 2002 Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, Mr. Baber was elected to serve as a national vice president of the MDA. Colleagues there loved his humor, his sprit and, of course, the quintessentially manly courage with which he faced his disease.
"He wasn't 'Tuesdays With Morrie'," said Lauren Webb, an MDA health care coordinator at the ALS clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, "He was Asa."
"Even at his bedside, when he was dying, he was still cracking jokes," said his son Brendan, "and there was still laughter in the room."
Mr. Baber is also survived by another son, Jim; his fiancee, Sherri Stubbs, and his sister Dorothy, best known as Ducky. His first grandchild, a boy, is due to arrive in September.
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New Theatre catapults into its 21st Season with several recognitions from New Times "Best of Miami," Christine Dolen's "Top Ten of the Year," and NOW The SunPost "Best of 2006!" The SunPost Awards New Theatre... Best Supporting Actor Nicholas Richberg, Romeo and Juliet, New Theatre A gay Mercutio with more than a passing interest in Benvolio and a crush on his Juliet-crazed pal Romeo? That might not have been what was going on in Shakespeare's head-although you never know-but that's exactly what was going on in Romeo and Juliet at New Theatre last summer. In the hands of Nicholas Richberg, who played the fey Capulet buddy Mercutio, audiences got a new perspective on a classic tale and some comedy injected into their tragedy. Richberg's exciting, electric, anything-can-happen performance breathed new life into an old story and made you wish Mercutio didn't die in Act 1.
Best Set Jesse Dreikosen, Madagascar, New Theatre The hallmark of a good set is not how innovative it is or how cozy it is or even how aesthetically sumptuous it is. The true hallmark of a good set is how well it fits organically with the characters and plot of a play, and Jesse Dreikosen's set for Madagascar at New Theatre certainly fit the bill. Dreikosen's sparse, elegantly ruined Rome hotel room mirrored the ruined American family at the center of the play and revealed hidden frescos that illuminated family secrets. Dreikosen's work provided the perfect setting for a haunting drama, and enhanced the play without overshadowing it.
Miami Theater MVP Ricky J. Martinez He acts! He dances! He choreographs! He writes plays! He directs! Is there anything Ricky J. Martinez can't do? After honing his skills in all of these disciplines and racking up an impressive list of credits, Martinez has embarked on yet another phase in his career. Following a few years as associate director,
Martinez is the new artistic director of New Theatre, and was handpicked for the position by founder Raphael de Acha. Martinez will also see his play Sin Full Heaven produced next season as part of New Theatre's lineup. The fact that a man as well respected as Martinez, who is talented in a variety of disciplines, and who has a hip, urban edge to him, is now responsible for the artistic vision of a major theater is already creating plenty of buzz, and is bound to give Miami theater a good shot of adrenalin.
The Chakras—the Seven Centers of Consciousness By Yogi Amrit Desai
I leave survival and move into divine will in muladhara chakra.I transform my sensuality into love and liberation in swadhisthana.
I develop my will power with deliberate action in manipura. I open my heart unconditionally in anahata. I clear my communication in vishuddha. I alter my perception of duality into unity in ajna chakra.I melt into the bliss of oneness in sahasrar.
Each chakra is a vortex of the swirling energy of prana. They represent our energy distribution centers. They exist in the subtle body and correlate with the nerve plexuses (ganglia) in the physical body. All seven centers are vortexes of energy connected by the main channel of energy, shushumna nadi, which integrate and interlink all seven chakras. The main channel connects energy from the highest sahasrar center to the lowest muladhara and serves all of the centers in-between.
All the chakras are interconnected through the Ida, Pingala and Shushumna Nadis. Ida is the flow of breath through the left nostril (moon); Pingala through the right nostril (sun). In ordinary consciousness, the breath interchanges between the left and the right nostrils, so the chakras function under the influence of the polarity of the Ida and Pingala channels. When Ida and Pingala are balanced, the chakras also come into resonance and function harmoniously, accelerating and maximizing healing as well as evolutionary processes on a mental as well as spiritual level. The meaning of the words Hatha Yoga is to unite the sun (Ha) and moon (Tha) into Shushumna. When shushumna is functioning in balance and harmony, the breath flows evenly and simultaneously through both nostrils. When energy moves downward, it moves into manifestation. When it moves upward, it brings liberation.
The downward movement of the life force is outward or centrifugal, moving away from the center. The upward movement is centripetal, moving toward the center. When the downward flow undermines our ability to use the energies of the lower centers as the foundation, it makes it more difficult to penetrate and climb to the subtler expressions of prana associated with the higher centers. Our evolutionary journey to awakened consciousness is the journey of a steep climb up the spinal chord to the pinnacle of the sahasrar chakra As you journey up the spinal column, through each center, you integrate a new level of consciousness, extending and expanding beyond the previous limitations and boundaries that keep us victims of our own unconscious use of available, life giving forces. As you move from the lower to the higher, you move through the transformation of the energies consumed in the previous center to a more refined, subtler world that was previously unknown.
The purpose of the journey is to embrace and experience all the levels of consciousness that bridge the gulf between Purusha and Prakriti, Shiva and Shakti, - and Spirit and Matter. The purpose of the upward ascension is to break through the bondage of matter, the fear of death, and realize that consciousness is the underlying reality behind the multitudinous changing, evolving forms in existence. Purusha, the supreme consciousness, is the source of life and a vehicle to discover that source.
The seven chakras can be divided into two major categories: the separative and the integrative. The lower chakras: muladhara (first chakra), swadhisthana (second chakra), and manipura (third chakra) - are not inherently negative but when these chakras operate under the influence of unconscious forces, they become the source of insecurity, attractions and repulsions, addictions and fears. This unconscious activity creates one’s own self-caused suffering. Elimination of these unconscious forces and self-caused suffering is the ultimate purpose of the practice of yoga. Through the practice of yogic disciplines, the lower chakras exist as the potential foundation for spiritual unfoldment and Self-realization. The next three higher chakras: anahata (fourth chakra), vishuddha (fifth chakra), and ajna (sixth chakra), progressively initiate integration and finally enter the ultimate union in the seventh chakra, sahasrar. The first five chakras have dual possibility. They operate in the field of duality—polarity. The fact that these five centers operate in this field always leaves open the possibility for a sadhak (spiritual seeker) to move either up or down, toward either higher or lower centers. It is only when a yogi reaches the final stages of samadhi that he is no longer susceptible to the seductive forces of duality, and the illusive effects of relativity. When human consciousness predominantly operates through the first three chakras, it manifests as separative forces that function in the field of duality and create internal conflict and stress. They pull your attention and your energy downward and outward. The lower possibility of each chakra center generates an inner conflict and the higher possibility generates deeper integration. The lower possibility is inborn and actualized in the form of personalized instinctive natural forces.
The higher possibility is also inborn as a supernatural potential to be revealed by the practice of yoga. Between the two possibilities there exists the field of natural polarity. In order to enter the integrative higher state of consciousness one must move from duality to polarity before transcending into unity – or from unnatural to natural, and natural to transcendental. When the natural instinctive polarity of each chakra is distorted by preprogrammed self-concepts, the natural, pure polarity of the chakras is experienced in a dualistic way. The interplay between the individual preprogrammed, acquired appetites and biological appetites create a dynamic of continuous friction that produces not only stress, but is also the basic cause of all physical, mental and emotional health problems. It is the root cause of body-mind conflict.
The natural polarized activity of the chakras functions through the harmonious balance of tension and relaxation. However, when this homeostatic process is psychologically disturbed, relaxation is not enough to balance the tension. This unresolved tension is then experienced as stress. As a result, the natural universal polarity that manifests throughout creation turns into the individual experience of duality in the form of stress and conflict. When conflict is registered in the physical, mental or energy bodies, it can be described as “energy blocks.”
These blocks may appear in the form of mental, physical, or emotional blocks that distort our perceptions, disturb our ability to see, and diminish our capacity to feel. When there is blockage, either in the physical or subtle bodies, there is a decreased range of sensitivity to sensation and the inability to feel and experience universal reality as it manifests in the present moment. This form of distortion is invariably experienced as excessive mental and emotional activity and disturbance, which is the cause of all human suffering. The presence of such conflict in our physical and subtle bodies results in a continuous loss of the life force. When combined with the restriction of the free flow of energy caused by the blockages, it greatly depletes our vitality, strength and peace of mind. The restriction of the free flow of prana-shakti, the life force, through the nerve channels inhibits the activity of the chakras and disturbs the balance of the Ida and Pingala nadis.
Consciousness has a direct influence on the chakras.
If you are interacting with life unconsciously, you will invariably be drawn into the manifestation of the lower expressions of the chakras. This means your life energy will be more engaged by your attractions and repulsions, which are limited and colored by security, sensations and power issues. These forces externalize your values, divert your attention, inhibit your expression, and create dependency on the objects of attraction, and fear toward the objects of repulsion. When you are unconscious, lower chakra energies are motivated by fear and addiction.
In each chakra center, there is residual, unfinished, unfulfilled karma that must be revealed, reexamined and fully faced for it to be released. As you progressively travel through the various chakras on your spiritual journey, you will have opportunities to release these trapped energies from the blockages of past karma that inhibits the flow of prana.
Amrit Yoga is designed to awaken the prana by releasing it from unconscious inhibitions, restrictions and limitations that manifest in the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Flooding the chakra with the energy of higher consciousness releases it from the bondage of duality and reactivates the dormant powers that lie in potential.
How the Chakra System is Activated:
1. Involuntary functions, where prana carries out all life-giving biological functions independent of our will
2. Voluntary or willful deliberate actions
3. Unconscious or preprogrammed habitual actions
4. Conscious action through meditative awareness in order to eliminate unconscious programming.
The Relationship of Prana to the Chakra System:
Our entire neurological and glandular systems, as well as our vital organs, are fueled by the vital life force of prana that works through the chakras. In human beings, the biological system is operated and affected not only by voluntary actions and involuntary functions but also by unconscious habitual and preprogrammed patterns of behavior. This is why all systems, voluntary and involuntary, conscious and unconscious, use the life force of prana as their fuel. One of the disciplines of the practice of Kundalini yoga (also known as Kriya Yoga, Siddha Yoga or Tantra Yoga) is to first purify all of the nerve channels; second, to create a container to store accumulated prana; and third, to prevent the unconscious dissipation of prana. This, in combination with purification of the body, mind and heart, is central to the awakening of prana and Kundalini Shakti. This process is not always linear. Different aspects of the process may occur simultaneously or in a different sequence.
If you understand the chakra system in terms of our physical, mental, energy, wisdom and bliss bodies, you will understand how the functioning of the chakras is related to how we operate through these bodies. As we purify our physical, mental and emotional bodies, we create an appropriate container for holding the vast reserves of life energy. Our nervous system becomes strong; our ability to tolerate and manage crisis situations increases, and our creativity and intuition begins to function with greater clarity and more efficiency.
The purpose of the study of the chakra system is to understand how we can better consciously manage our life force. This conscious process is called pranayama. This is why pranayama in this broader context is not just doing breathing exercises, but also learning how to consciously recognize the different ways we lose energy, and to develop new ways to gain and store our energy reserves. Building up our prana reserve and preventing its depletion from unconscious, self-abuse use is one of the core purposes of all yogic disciplines. This is central to the awakening of prana and Kundalini. When Kundalini is awakened, it enters the shushumna nadi, the central channel, and begins to penetrate or pierce the chakras, progressively removing all inhibitions and blockages as it ascends to the higher centers of consciousness. Its ascension is marked by various stages and levels of the practice of yoga that is born spontaneously from the higher intelligence of awakened Kundalini. At such times, the yogi, without having any prior knowledge about any of the disciplines of Ashtanga Yoga, is automatically guided by the deep meditative state of awakened Kundalini to perform different asanas, pranayamas, cleansing kriyas, bandhas (locks) and mudras.
The Relationship of the Chakras to the Biblical Parables of Adam and Eve (Unconscious Unity) and the Forbidden Fruit (Duality) and the Return of the Prodigal Son (Unity) In evolution, our willful actions represent the inborn sense of the separate self (the ego), which is not present in animals. Only humans have this sense of individuality. The human ego-mind is the tool of the separative self that says, “I am happy or I am unhappy. I am up or I am down. I want pleasure and I want to avoid pain.”
Identifying ourselves with “I am this” or “I am that” separates us from the pure state of “I am that I am.” Whatever we identify with separates us from the original state of union, which is a state of “I am that I am.” This concept is represented by the forbidden fruit of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. So whenever “I am” identifies itself with the knowledge that I am separate from others and everything else, it is the same sense of duality and separation that came when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit that resulted in their exile from Eden. Before eating the fruit, they lived in complete integration, unity and oneness, although it was unconscious. Choosing to eat the fruit of knowledge was the birth of the mind. This explains how the mind represents the next level of evolution and the awakening of human potential in Adam and Eve. Eating the fruit was the beginning of their individuation, which separated Adam from Eve. Being expelled from the Garden of Eden and suffering separation from each other is represented by Eve’s having to cover herself. Eve’s shame represents the separation from the original unity and oneness in which they lived. The sense of separation represents pride and ego. It creates either shame or superiority toward others. This separation is Original Sin; union (yoga) is ultimate freedom from sin. As we bring each of the chakras into integration through balance and harmony, the journey back to the Garden of Eden through the practice of yoga is complete when there is conscious unity, or the realization of Self.
When I say “I want,” or “I want to avoid,” it represents the fruit of knowledge that creates separation from each other and the whole. It controls our attention. It directs our prana and our creative forces and activities toward fulfillment of the desires of the predominant chakra, from which our personality operates. For example, if one lives predominantly in manipura, his prana would be directed and driven by the relentless search for power. In support of the predominant chakra, the powers of all the other chakras would be used to assist the fulfillment of the predominant chakra. If a politician wants to win the election, he may compromise the security of his home life and his relationship with his wife to fulfill his ambition. He may also primarily use the manipura chakra as an asset in his search for political power, as well as survival measures to further his drives (e.g. competition, jealousy). In this way, the powers of the other chakras become subservient to the predominant chakra.
The ego, the sense of self, automatically operates from the predominant consciousness with which it identifies as “I am.” This is where attachment to the fruit of the desire resides. As soon as one becomes confined to individual desires, which is the direct manifestation of the activity of unconscious forces, and becomes attached to the fruit of the action, one becomes the victim of duality, which is the same as being expelled from the Garden of Eden. It is separation from the unity and bliss of oneness.
Animals and infants also live in this bliss; but it is unconscious unity. Even though the child experiences the primal unity, it is the unity of Adam and Eve prior to their having eaten the forbidden fruit. The moment the child begins to consciously choose the fruit of knowledge (birth of the mind), the process of separation from unconscious unity begins to move toward the exploration of human potential, which in turn gravitates toward affirming separation through ego-driven efforts, achievements and performances.
This aspect of the evolution of the soul is when the Prodigal Son has separated from his father, the Source. This is not sin but a natural evolutionary stage of the soul. When the soul undergoes the “dark night of the soul” through the experience of utter frustration, despair, and futility of his separation and duality, he finally awakens into exploring the divine potential. It is this possibility that helped the Prodigal Son return consciously to that which he already was. Consciousness in the separative lower centers is confined to survival, pleasure and power. When harnessed by the higher powers of integrative intention and meditative awareness, their energies become the foundation for unfoldment of our divine potential. Although each level of consciousness may predominantly manifest through one of the chakras, consciousness functions in combination with all the other chakras. What makes the difference is whether the chakra is functioning under separative consciousness or unity consciousness. In unity consciousness, all chakras, including the first three, provide an upward flow of energy. As long as the first three centers are focused around survival, fear of death, separation from the source continues, disintegration continues. With the opening of witness consciousness and love, integration begins. The lower chakras initiate separation from the source…the higher chakras initiate integration with the Source.
The Impact of Karma on Blockages in the Chakra System
Chakras are part of a psycho-physiological system. What takes place in the mental and emotional body directly affects the chakra system, and manifests in the form of physical effects. If we carry negative emotions, fears, guilt, blame, shame, and operate in victim consciousness, we block our heart chakra. When the heart center is blocked – it manifests as emotions. When this happens, instead of operating as a unifying force of life – the heart then operates in the field of duality, where the unifying power of the heart is split into attraction and repulsion. The prana body is the link between physical and mental bodies.
The prana body is a metaphorical vehicle for the physical body. It is used by whoever is in the driver’s seat. There are three different drivers:
1. In deep sleep, the driver is an instinctive, survival, sustenance-level operator.
2. In normal waking-level consciousness, the driver operates from preprogrammed habit patterns, belief systems and self-concepts.
3. In an awakened-level consciousness, the driver has disengaged from past and future time-bound consciousness, releasing all blockages of karma in the chakra system.
Each soul in its evolutionary journey departs from the source of unity and shifts into a separative dualistic ego-centered search for happiness and fulfillment. In this process, the soul accumulates a history of personal karma, which creates blocks in our physical and mental body. These blocks prevent the prana body from operating freely to facilitate optional psychosomatic self-healing, regenerative, and transformative processes.
By Yogi Amrit Desai, one of the earliest pioneers of yoga in this country, began teaching in 1960. He is an internationally renowned yoga master, seminar leader and author in the field of yoga and holistic living. In 1970 he had a profound life-transforming Kundalini awakening, which shattered the old model of yoga he had been practicing and teacher. Out of this experience, he developed a methodology that altered the popular notion of yoga as a physical discipline. He named this approach in honor of his guru, calling it Kripalu Yoga: Meditation in Motion. The methodology he developed has become so widely adopted that today it is taught by thousands of certified yoga teachers all over the world. Yogi Desai has continued to develop and teach his innovative approach in the form of Amrit Yoga.
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