“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. “

Bacon, Essay on Truth

• What is the Post-Truth Era?

• What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation?

• How can we live lives of satya in a post-truth world?

  Join Alakananda Ma in satsang as she discusses these vital issues.

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“Mind has two aspects, manas, the measuring mind and buddhi, the intellect. AI is all manas. True intelligence is buddhi.”

Let’s think about how AI impoverishes us in terms of:

• Our brain’s connectivity

• Our educational development

• Our environment

• Our social connections

• Our understanding of what intelligence is

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“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” Paracelsus

What is the spectrum of healing and where does Ayurveda fit into it? Discover Alakananda Ma’s unique perspective on this fascinating topic.

• Reductionistic to holistic

• Mechanistic to bioenergetic

• Individual to systems approach

• Pathology versus person

• Disempowerment versus empowerment

  and much more

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From bliss all beings come, by bliss they live, and unto bliss they all return.

Taittirīrya Upanishad

Alakananda Ma first read these astonishing words from Taittirīrya Upanishad back in 1980, during her first months in India. She has been contemplating the Bhrigu Valli section of this Upanishad ever since. Journey with her as she discusses the famous third book of Taittirīrya Upanishad.

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“We stand at the threshold of Aquarius, an age whose highest potential is to manifest as the Age of Spirit and Truth. Yet we also stand in the long dark shadow of Pisces.  We see a reawakening of fundamentalism and duality and the belief that my watch alone tells the correct time.”

In a time of renewed crusades and militant fundamentalism, there is no topic more crucial than this- how to reconcile faith traditions currently at loggerheads.

You will learn:  

• What is fundamentalism

• Key aspects of Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Hindu fundamentalism

• What is Christian Zionism

• How oppression and colonialism contributes to militant Fundamentalism

• Are the crusades returning?

• How can we bring reconciliation?

• The Golden Rule in all religions

• The story of St Francis and the Sultan

• The role of mysticism in bringing peace and reconciliation

• The need for the humble and broken heart

• The true importance of dialogue

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“Creation, like a prism
Fragments the pure white light of Truth.
People in different lands
Catching sight of different colors
Have taught that ‘It is green’
Or ‘It is gold!’
Today, from the seeds of light
Scattered over the Earth
We reap a rainbow harvest.”

Alakananda Ma

Many of us today practice a tradition different from that of our own childhood, or have a life partner from a different religious or cultural background. In the New Paradigm, can you make peace with tradition?

How do you work within and beyond traditions?

Learn about:

• The tension between tradition and revolution

• How Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and St Francis navigated tradition and revolution

• Cyclical and linear time

• The two covenants

• HinJews and JuBus

• How contemporary spiritual teachers have related to tradition: including Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Lex Hixon, Ram Dass, Bede Griffiths and more

• The interwoven path of the Tohono o'odham tribe

•   The Alandi Way and the Rainbow Bridge

• Growing up with no tradition

• Raising your children with roots and branches

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Aum. The knower of Brahman reaches the Supreme. The one who knows Brahman as the real, as knowledge and as the infinite, placed in the secret place of the heart and in the highest heaven realizes all desires.

Taittirīrya Upanishad.

Follow the journey through the five koshas to the realization of the Supreme in this amazing text.

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“A woman's breasts are a key part of her experience of herself. More than just mammary glands, a woman's breasts are also a secondary sexual characteristic, contributing to her beauty, attractiveness and self-esteem as well as to her sexual arousal. Yet with close to a quarter of a million new cases of breast cancer being diagnosed in America annually, a woman's breasts may also be perceived as a source of threat.”

Learn how to take care of your and your daughter’s breast health, from early childhood to the post-menopausal years

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Today we’ll look at ways to create community, connection, local resilience and a deeper relationship to food sources by going beyond the supermarket.

How can you use the three Swahili priciples, umoja, ujima and ujamaa, to find new ways of relating to the food that sustains you?

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   “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.” Reinhold Niebuhr

When war, violence, pollution and climate change threaten the tranquility of our lives, is there a way to live as beacons of peace in tumultuous times?

Learn how to use the Zen Peacemaker process to live in peace despite all that is going on. Alakananda Ma shares how she uses this as a daily practice.

• Not Knowing

• Bearing Witness

• Taking action

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