You might listen to this sound below while or before you read my articles, using a headset with two separate channels.

This is binaural music, and both channels are on slightly different frequencies. I got it free from Sacred Acoustics. That is the website and binaural sounds provider run by Karen Newell, the gal in Charlottesville, Virginia who goes with Eben Alexander MD.

https://johndenugent.com/?s=eben+alexander

Alexander is that Harvard brain surgeon who had the week-long NDE (Near Death Experience), and wrote a book about it that became a New York Times bestseller for six months.

Newell co-wrote with Alexander his second book. This is no dummy.

Her view is that binaural music can achieve many of the benefits of serious meditation without the tedium.  Others are claiming this as well.

Here is a very neutral and pretty fair article on binaural beats, slanted,  however, very subtly towards

“Anxious? What you really need is one of our Big-Pharma anti-anxiety pills.“ 😉

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320019#takeaway

The claimed result in binaurality is that your brain relaxes, stops fighting, and this also permits new truths to come in which might conflict with your/my/our previous assumptions or, worse, rock-hard convictions that are wrong.

The huge problem for earthlings is their egoic mind is so strong that facts and truth constantly lose the battle, or it takes YEARS for them to adjust and begin, ever-so-slowly, to change.

Does our race have that much time?

Here it is now, binaurally, the awesome, ancient, Aryan sound for God, “aum,” usually written as Om — majestic, powerful and a little bit scary, like the big guy himself.;-)

.https://johndenugent.com/images/aum-binaural.mp3

If you skip over it, I hope you will try it out later on. 🙂

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….Spiritual reading for May 4

 

There is much transpiring in the outer world. We would not always characterize it as either good or bad, positive or negative. Usually, there will be some of both. The point is that you can expect activity, demands upon your time and attention from without.

It is often the case that there are aspects of these demands which you can sort and discard. We encourage you to do that as you can. There is no virtue in whizzing about, expending energy and vitality on activities without clear-cut benefits to someone. So as you find yourself pulled into this or that, please check to make sure that you are doing what you really want to be doing. Check to be sure that you are making a choice.

Even if you do the above effectively, many of you will still find yourself busy, even close to overwhelmed. Some of you may notice that although your life in the world is not unusual in terms of the actual demands, your mind has ratcheted up and is wildly busy.

Whatever your experience, the most important thing you can do is to cultivate the inner space where peace and clarity reign. If you do not find a way to touch into that inner space on a regular basis, you are much more apt to lose your footing and to make mistakes.

Of course you are often asked to add to your load when it is already heavy. Unfortunately, this is how it is. You can hold your breath and try to bluster your way through, tell your mind to shut up, or just keep going without consciousness. You’ll probably survive if you take this latter course, but you won’t grow any stronger or more resilient.

As the times and your innermost being call for a truer response to life, this is an opportunity to exercise your ability to hold to both the temporal and the eternal in one moment. Or moments close to one another, at any rate.

If you have a practice, try to add to it a little today. Insane? Maybe, but it will pay off. If you do nothing else, make a point of taking a smidgen of time for something that renews or fulfills you: music, nature, poetry, dancing, etc.

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I might recommend this joyful music:

.https://johndenugent.com/images/happy-warm-greetings.mp3

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Anything that will help you maintain perspective, that will assist you in keeping your eye on the eons, will be helpful.

You have spent enough time in self-reflection to be aware of and understand your own responses to stress from the world. Today, think a little bit about how you can moderate it, how you can float through the mental or physical demands without becoming consumed by them.

You are both spirit and form—this is a great moment to sink into that reality, to find your way toward balance and joy, even in times of duress.

We send lots of love and blessings. — E. West