The hermit lights his own way,
and that of others.
Nagna says:
By that light, he sees far.
एकांतवासी ने अपने तरीके से रोशनी डाली,
और वह दूसरों की।
नग्न कहते हैं:
उस प्रकाश से, वह दूर तक देखता है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
We spend a lot of time worrying about the future,
not realizing that it is just the farther reaches of the present.
Nagna says:
The future is here, and we can change it now.
हम भविष्य के बारे में चिंता करने में बहुत समय बिताते हैं,
यह एहसास नहीं है कि यह सिर्फ वर्तमान की पहुंच है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
भविष्य यहां है, और हम इसे अभी बदल सकते हैं।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
The above photo was shot in a hotel bathroom in Brazil on Nov. 28 2017. I ran across it recently, and my reaction was, "I want that lean body again!" How, when, and where was it lost? And why?
When the picture was taken, we had been living in Uruguay for almost five years. That's a clue. When we first moved to Uruguay, in early 2013, people told us stories about the significant amounts of weight they had lost after moving there, without dieting. People there eat less prepared food, and Uruguayan grass-fed beef, which contains no growth hormones, is world-famous. In the US, Sandy and I had been afraid to eat red meat, and ate mostly chicken and fish instead. God only knows what additives were in the food in the US. When we lived there, in comparison to this picture, I looked like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
Sandy and I moved back to the US in late April, 2019. We've been back here for approximately a year and a half. I don't look like the Dough Boy yet, but I have a roll of fat around my waist that I don't like (not only due to vanity, but because excess fat is not consistent with optimum health). When, and why, did the change take place? The photo below provides a clue.
This shot dates from May 15 2019. Considering that I was a year and a half older than in the Brazil picture, I'd say that my body was still just about as lean. At the time, we were living in a rental house right next to a canal on the Gulf, here in Florida. We had been back in the US for less than a month. Life on the canal was very nice, especially in May. At around 4:00 in the afternoon, we would sit under the ramada as the breeze from the Gulf was coming up, and have wine, cheese, and crackers. We no longer have a ramada, but snacking at around 4 p.m. became a habit.
Another factor, of course, is exercise. In Uruguay, my main exercise was walking our dog, Betty. At the time of the Brazil picture, Betty was four years old and liked to take really long walks. Betty is now seven, and her walks are quite a bit shorter, especially in the Florida heat. In Uruguay we had a swimming pool, so I had the exercise of swimming and cleaning the pool. We don't have that here. I also had a pull-up exercise bar, which I don't have here. The result of more food additives, more between-meals snacks, and less exercise can be seen in the photo below.
This photo, taken on Oct. 25 2020, shows what a year and a half of life in the US has done. I can't do anything about the lack of a pool (and wouldn't want to have to clean it, anyway), or make Betty take longer walks. Maybe I can get her to take two walks, one in the morning and one in the evening. I think she'd like that. I'm going to cut down on the beer and crackers in the afternoon. And I'm going to get myself a new exercise bar.
Text and images Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler.
The future is already here,
the result of our actions today,
but many don't want to see it.
Nagna says:
I'm not sure that I want to see the future, either.
भविष्य पहले से ही यहाँ है,
यह आज हमारे कार्यों का परिणाम है,
लेकिन कई इसे देखना नहीं चाहते हैं।
नग्न कहते हैं:
मुझे यकीन नहीं है कि मैं भविष्य देखना चाहता हूं।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
Well, we went from 95,000 visits to this blog to 96,000 so quickly (thirteen days) that I didn't even notice. Now we are halfway to 97,000. How it happened is no great mystery: the pirates are still hard at work, day and night. At the same time, it's gratifying to see the many countries from which the visits are coming. The graphic below shows the main sources of visits in the last twenty-four hours.
In the last couple of weeks, the Upanishad poem-series has grown to fifty-three parts. I do not think it is finished.
Today I completed the work of publishing and translating the six stanzas of Shankara's Nirvana Shatakam (also known as Atma Shatakam). It well summarizes the teaching of Advaita Vedanta.
I am continuing to do a lot of photography, as well. The illustration below shows me as I am every day. Would my nudity be more acceptable if I drew tilak markings on my forehead and body and hung rudraksha beads around my neck? I don't think so. My nudity is not religious, it's just natural.
As always, I would like to thank you all for your continued interest and enthusiasm.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो
विभुर्व्याप्य सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणि ।
सदा मे समत्वं न मुक्तिर्न बन्धः
चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥ ६ ॥
ahaM nirvikalpo nirAkArarUpo
vibhurvyApya sarvatra sarvEndriyANi.
sadA mE samatvaM na muktirna bandhaH
chidAnandarUpaH shivo'ham shivo'ham. 6
I am without change, I am without form.
Permeating the basis of all, I am everywhere and behind all the senses.
I am always in equilibrium, and have neither liberation nor attachment.
In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
न मे मृत्युशङ्ग्का न मे जातिभेदः
पिता नैव मे नैव माता न जन्म ।
न बन्धुर्न मित्रं गुरुर्नैव शिष्यः
चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥ ५ ॥
na mE mrityushangkA na mE jAtibhEdaH
pitA naiva mE naiva mAtA na janma.
na bandhurna mitraM gururnaiva shiShyaH
chidAnandarUpaH shivo'ham shivo'ham. 5
I have neither death nor its fear, neither caste nor its distinctions,
nor have I father or mother, or any birth.
I have neither relations nor friends, neither guru nor disciple.
In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दुःखं
न मन्त्रो न तीर्थो न वेदो न यज्ञाः ।
अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता
चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥ ४ ॥
na puNyaM na pApaM na saukhyaM na duHkhaM
na mantro na tIrtho na vEdo na yajñAH.
ahaM bhojanaM naiva bjojyaM na bhoktA
chidAnandarUpaH shivo'ham shivo'ham. 4
I am neither virtue nor vice, neither pleasure nor pain,
neither mantra nor holy shrine, neither scriptures nor sacrifices.
Neither am I enjoyment nor its object, nor the enjoyer.
In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
न मे द्वेषरागौ न मे लोभमोहौ
मदो नैव मे नैव मात्सर्यभावः ।
न धर्मो न चार्थो न कामो न मोक्षः
चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥ ३ ॥
na mE dvESharAgau na mE lobhamohau
mado naiva mE naiva mAtsaryabhAvaH.
na dharmo na chArtho na kAmo na mokShaH
chidAnandarUpaH shivo'ham shivo'ham. 3
I am not affected by aversion or attachment, I have neither greed nor delusion,
neither egotism nor jealousy.
I have no duty nor objects of desire nor desire itself nor liberation.
In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
न च प्राण संज्ञो न वै पञ्चवायुः
न वा सप्तधातुर् न वा पञ्चकोशः ।
न वाक्पाणिपादौ न चोपस्थपायू
चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ॥ २ ॥
na cha prANa saMgyo na vai pancha vAyuH
na vai saptadhAtur na vai panchakoshaH.
na vAk pANi pAdau na chopastha pAyU
chidAnanda rUpaH shivo'ham shivo'ham. 2
I am neither to be understood as prana nor as the five kinds of breath,
nor the seven materials nor the five sheaths;
neither am I the organs of speech, elimination, motion, grasping, or procreation.
In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
मनो बुद्धि अहंकार चित्तानि नाहं,
न च ष्रोत्र जिह्वे न च घ्राण नेत्रे.
न च व्योम भूमिर्न तेजो न वायुः
चिदानन्दरूपः षिवोऽहम् षिवोऽहम्
mano buddhi ahaMkAra cittAni nAhaM,
na ca Srotra jihvE na ca ghrANa nEtrE,
na ca vyoma bhUmir na tEjo na vAyuH.
cidAnandarUpaH Sivo'ham, Sivo'ham.
I am neither mind nor intelligence nor ego nor memory,
neither ears nor tongue nor nose nor eyes.
Neither am I the sky nor the earth, nor fire nor wind.
In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
Translation Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He lives in an illusion,
clothed in an illusion,
where past and future are illusions.
Nagna says:
Only consciousness is real.
वह एक भ्रम में रहता है,
एक भ्रम में कपड़े पहने,
जहां अतीत और भविष्य भ्रम हैं।
नग्न कहते हैं:
केवल चेतना ही वास्तविक है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He is comfortable in his body,
but more comfortable in his consciousness.
Nagna says:
Without this body, he can be more naked.
वह अपने शरीर में सहज है,
लेकिन वह अपनी चेतना में अधिक सहज है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
इस शरीर के बिना वह अधिक नग्न हो सकता है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He is light, emerging from the shadows,
he is life, emerging from potentiality.
He is Consciousness, he is Consciousness.
Nagna says:
He is one of us.
वह प्रकाश है, छाया से निकलता है,
वह जीवन है, क्षमता से उभर रहा है।
वह चेतना है, वह चेतना है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
वह हम में से एक है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He rises from the astral mists,
bearing messages.
It is they who wish to speak,
not he.
Nagna says:
They tell us that they, and we, do not die.
वह सूक्ष्म तल से उगता है,
असर संदेश।
यह वे हैं जो बोलने की इच्छा रखते हैं,
वह नहीं।
नग्न कहते हैं:
वे हमें बताते हैं कि वे, और हम, मरते नहीं हैं।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
[For Yakov.]
It has been a long road,
and the end has not been reached.
Have there been listeners
for the line he preached?
It is too soon to know,
and still, not time to go.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.
The universe is conscious,
and loaded with life.
Nagna says:
This is our home-world, don't waste it.
ब्रह्मांड सचेत है,
और जीवन से भरा हुआ।
नग्न कहते हैं:
यह हमारा घर-ग्रह है, इसे बर्बाद मत करो।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
From muladhara to sahasrara,
he is only consciousness.
Nagna says:
The light of consciousness is unobstructed.
मूलाधार से सहस्रार तक
वह केवल चेतना है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
चेतना का प्रकाश बाधित नहीं है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
My friend Yakov Leib HaKohain (poet L. G. Corey) passed away on Oct. 16, 2017 (26 Tishrei 5778). Today, Oct. 14, 2020 (26 Tishrei 5781) is his yarzeit. If you are one of Yakov's friends, or even if you aren't, please keep him in your thoughts today.
He is a channel for the other side,
and a mystery to this side.
Nagna says:
He is also a mystery to himself.
वह दूसरे पक्ष के लिए एक चैनल है,
और इस तरफ एक रहस्य।
नग्न कहते हैं:
वह खुद के लिए भी एक रहस्य है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
Clues are scattered in many places;
when we put them together, we see the truth.
Nagna says:
The truth is that we don't die.
कई स्थानों पर सुराग बिखरे हुए हैं;
जब हम उन्हें एक साथ रखते हैं, तो हम सच्चाई को देखते हैं।
नग्न कहते हैं:
सच्चाई यह है कि हम मरते नहीं हैं।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
Cead mile failte! As I write this, we are passing the milestone of 95,000 visits to this poetry/writing/photography blog.
As most of you know, I am the naked poet (or a naked poet--hopefully there are others), but I hope that my habitual, everyday nudity is not the reason for the blog's popularity (not likely, in my opinion, since I'm 78 years old).
Expression begins with freedom, and I'm trying to be as free as I can. I recommend it to everyone, but I happen to be in the position of living in an area where most of the time the climate doesn't require clothes. We are also in the fortunate position of having our own woods on the property, and the lovely trees make a perfect privacy screen.
Those 95,000 visits have come from over a hundred countries. Below is a graphic that shows the principal sources of visits over the last twenty-four hours.
In addition to the countries named in the above list, we have recently received multiple visits from Cambodia, India, Nigeria, Kosovo, Lebanon, two small Persian Gulf countries, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Australia, Netherlands, Taiwan, Russia, South Africa, and many other countries.
I am not able to explain this diversity of appeal, but I do find it very gratifying,
My interests, too, are quite varied, and the focus of the blog changes somewhat as my interests change. Currently, my mind is occupied with Advaita Vedanta and mediumship. I feel that the best way to understand the world is to understand myself, and I am trying to do that.
The abovementioned effort has resulted in the Upanishad poem-series, which currently comprises 45 parts. I am hoping that it will reach 108 parts, but that is yet to be seen.
Other interests, possibly including some of your favorites, have been temporarily placed on the back burner, but in all probability they will return.
As usual, I would like to thank you all for your continued interest and enthusiasm. Stay safe, and be well.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
The third eye opens the astral plane,
revealing discarnate entities.
Nagna says:
He is trying to interpret their symbols,
and understand their words.
तीसरी आँख सूक्ष्म तल को खोलता है,
आत्मा संस्थाओं का खुलासा।
नग्न कहते हैं:
वह उनके प्रतीकों की व्याख्या करने और उनके शब्दों को समझने की कोशिश कर रहा है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
When we see Divinity in others,
love is deepened at all levels.
Nagna says:
We are Divinity,
from the base to sahasrara.
जब हम दूसरों में दिव्यता देखते हैं,
प्यार सभी स्तरों पर गहरा होता है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
हम दिव्यता हैं,
आधार से सहस्रार तक।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He entered this world with a long history.
He will leave it with a long future.
Nagna says:
There is only the now,
but it is too big for us to see it.
उन्होंने एक लंबे इतिहास के साथ इस दुनिया में प्रवेश किया।
वह इसे लंबे भविष्य के साथ छोड़ देगा।
नग्न कहते हैं:
केवल अब मौजूद है,
लेकिन हमारे लिए इसे देखना बहुत बड़ा है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He is here, but he is also there.
He lives beyond time and space.
Nagna says:
His true home is in Consciousness.
वह यहां है, लेकिन वह वहां भी है।
वह समय और स्थान से परे रहता है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
उनका सच्चा घर चेतना में है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
This illusion has survived
for 78 years,
but eventually it will dissolve
into energy and light,
into consciousness.
Nagna says:
Consciousness will then dress itself
in another illusion.
यह भ्रम बच गया है
78 वर्षों के लिए,
लेकिन अंततः यह भंग हो जाएगा
ऊर्जा और प्रकाश में,
चेतना में।
नग्न कहते हैं:
चेतना तो खुद ही कपड़े पहनेगी
एक और भ्रम में।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
The blacksnake slithers through
the new-mown grass,
traveling fast.
It lifts its head, like a skinny cobra,
looking around for predators;
finding none,
it moves swiftly on
its secret way.
Nagna says:
The snake, too, is consciousness.
There is nothing else.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
He has lived in many times and places,
he has had many different bodies,
but he is only consciousness.
Nagna says:
Consciousness is his true
name and form.
वह कई युगों और स्थानों में रहे हैं,
उनके पास कई अलग-अलग निकाय हैं,
लेकिन वह केवल चेतना है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
चेतना उसका सही नाम और रूप है।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
What happens when we put clothes on? I'm not sure whether the question has been asked before, but based on my own experience, I think I may have some answers.
I've been a naturist (mostly home and beach) for more than forty years. For most of that time, however, I worked among "textiles" in a textile world. Now, though, I've been retired for about sixteen years. I now also live in a climate where the temperature generally does not require clothes. For the last six months or so, due to the limitations imposed by the pandemic, I've been at home most of the time. Except when shopping or walking the dog, I simply have no need to wear clothes, and I don't. What difference has this fact made? Actually, it has made several.
Not surprisingly, I no longer get the painful, humidity-caused groin rashes that I was getting previously. Other differences, though, are more surprising. For one thing, wearing clothes, unless there is really a need, has become almost intolerable to me. For another, it seems that I am able to think more clearly when I'm not wearing clothes. I now think I know the reason: covering the body with clothes creates a perpetual distraction.
But there is more. Like my mother, I've always been very "psychic." I now believe that the wearing of clothes dulls psychic abilities, blunts the psychic senses, so to speak.
I could illustrate this effect in several ways, but I'll just give a couple of examples.
My mother passed away in 2006. At that time my wife, Sandy, and I were living in a floating home in Portland, OR. In those days I did a nude yoga routine and meditation in the attic of the floating home every morning. Just before my mother passed, I received a strong and clear telepathic communication from her. She was 1200 miles away, but when she passed, I knew it with certainty. I looked at the clock, and noted the exact time of her passing. When I went downstairs to take my shower, I said to Sandy, "you may get a call." The call arrived while I was still in the shower. Later, in talking to my siblings, I checked on the time of Mom's passing: The time I had noted on the clock was correct.
I have seven siblings, and I am the only one who received such a communication. One of my sisters said that it was appropriate, since I was the eldest. But was that the reason why I received it, and they didn't? Or was it because I was the only one who was naked at the time, and therefore fully receptive to psychic communication? This, of course, is not proof, but I think it may be significant.
Over the years I have received many psychic communications, often from persons who were "deceased." As a general rule, these communications came during the night. I always sleep naked, and have for some 45 years. Proof? No, but possibly indicative.
I have said many times, including in this blog, that nudity is a human right. If this is so, why do civil governments all over the world, as well as church authorities, suppress nudity, our natural state? Perhaps they know that there is power in our natural nudity, and it is power that they do not wish us to possess?
I have no definitive answers, but it is certainly food for thought.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
If my memory serves, Sandy and I left Uruguay for the United States on April 19 2019. We spent a few days "decompressing" with our good friend Dale, in the Miami area. I wrote about this experience in the poem "Return to the Old Country," at that time. While we were there, we bought a car. We then drove to the place where we had decided to live: Hudson, Pasco County, FL. We (Sandy) had done a lot of research, but what originally brought this area to my attention was the large number of nudist resorts and clothing-optional communities in the area. Pasco, in fact, bills itself as the "Naturist Capital of the USA."
We don't happen to live in one of those fortunate communities, but we have a very nice house, with our own woods in back for a privacy screen, a fenced back yard for Betty, and the tile floors that Sandy wanted. All amenities, including a great medical center, are close by. Everything worked out for the best.
Anyway, for the first six weeks we lived in a rental home, and were able to move into our new house at the beginning of June of that year.
One of the things we wanted to do in moving to Florida was to get away from winter. At our age, and with my aversion to clothes, it just wasn't something we wanted to deal with.
Summer in Florida is pretty hot (mostly in the nineties Fahrenheit) and most of the year is extremely humid (80-90% most of the time). The humidity had an effect on me that I had not anticipated: painful groin rashes. The only solution to this that I have found is to not wear clothes, but rather let the air circulate freely around my body. This strikes me as nature's way of dealing with it, and it has become my way, too, unless I am out shopping or walking the dog.
Another thing that one has to think about is the possibility of hurricanes from June through December. Both last year and this year there have been several of them. This area is relatively well protected, though, and we have not really been threatened.
As I write this, California is still on fire (as are many other areas in the western states). North-Central and Northeastern areas are experiencing November-like cold. Much of the South has had serious flooding. Here, we have been much more fortunate, though nothing is guaranteed.
Today is the fourth of October. When I got up this morning, I felt the need of my winter bathrobe (see picture below, taken this morning), which I hadn't worn for so long that I couldn't find the belt to it. Lately the high temps have been in the low eighties, but the high today was just 77° F. The seasons are changing. Right now I rely on passive solar (the sun shining on the tiles of the living room floor) plus breakfast-cooking to bring the house up to the 77 or 78F that we find most comfortable, but in December and January, we will actually need to turn on the heat. Fortunately, we get our electricity from a co-op, and it is quite reasonable. Outside, long pants and a light jacket will suffice.
Except for the humidity, this is pretty much what we signed up for. Florida is, indeed, a different world.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.
He brings light,
because he is light.
He brings energy,
because he is energy.
He brings Consciousness,
because he is Consciousness.
Nagna says:
This is his true essence,
and his true form.
वह प्रकाश लाता है,
क्योंकि वह प्रकाश है।
वह ऊर्जा लाता है,
क्योंकि वह ऊर्जा है।
वह चेतना लाता है,
क्योंकि वह चेतना है।
नग्न कहते हैं:
यह उसका सही सार है,
और उसका असली रूप।
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
Nagna says:
I am not this body.
In the form of Bliss-of-Consciousness,
I am Shiva, I am Shiva.
नग्न कहते हैं:
मैं यह शरीर नहीं हूं।
चिदानंद के रूप में
मैं शिव हूँ, मैं शिव हूँ।
As Nagna has said, truth is not always popular. Here's mine anyway, for whatever it's worth.
I believe that I have lived many lives. I have lived with evidence of this throughout this current life.
I believe that the "spiritual" or "conscious" part of us survives physical death. There is also a lot of evidence for this. I do not say that we have "an immortal soul," which would be putting the cart before the horse. I say, rather, that we are multidimensional beings, living simultaneously on several different levels or planes (which in Hinduism would be called "worlds"). But those other planes do not depend on the body; it is, rather, the other way around. Everything is consciousness, and that consciousness continues.
When the body becomes non-functional, one of the planes, the physical one, becomes vacant. Sooner or later, the body will be replaced with a new one, so that the set of planes will again be complete. This is my view concerning what people commonly call "reincarnation."
This world, as physicists have discovered (rediscovered?) is an illusion. What really exists is only consciousness (or Consciousness).
Within that Consciousness, each of us is a multidimensional energy-personality-essence. Thus, I am one with my previous-life "selves," and we can communicate. We can do this in "real time" because in reality there is no time--it, too is an illusion. Distance does not matter either, as has been proven in the case of telepathy, because space is also an illusion. There is only Consciousness.
Since there is only Consciousness, we are all, in reality, One. As the song says, "One Heart, One Mind, One Love." It is only the realization of this that is difficult, and that is because of the illusion.
Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.
