Tantra (scroll down for the 112 practices in the Appendix) Paul Reps: in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, in the chapter called Centering, the Sacred Text at the Origins of Tantra are translated and listed: 112 techniques from the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra. Daniel Oudier: in Yoga Spandakarika, these 112 techniques are listed with a more detailed translation...

It’s Showtime! Jupiter in Leo: CLAIMING YOUR CROWN                                             “Your crown has been bought and paid for—all you need to do is put it on your head.”   James Baldwin    To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE  Dear Friend,         When big-hearted, abundance-loving Jupiter transitions into noble Leo on July 16th, it kicks off a...

Spiritual teachers come in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexes and many of the truly Great Ones will always choose to remain in disguise and anonymous while in a human incarnation. Here is the definitive teaching of the Buddha on this subject, called The Four Reliances: Rely on the message of the teacher, not on...

Deep, Dark, Sweet and Full—COMING ATTRACTIONS: SUMMER 2014 To View in Your Browser:  CLICK HERE THE WEB IN THE WOMB   by Joan Pancoe “One has to come to terms with one’s loneliness one day or another. Once you face it, loneliness changes its colour, its quality; its taste becomes totally different. It becomes aloneness. Then...

I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,  To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for...

MID-SPRING KARMIC TUNE-UP: “You Want the Truth . . . But Can You Handle the Truth?” To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE WORK/PLAY VARIATIONS   by    Joan Pancoe “If everything seems under control, you’re probably not moving fast enough.”  Mario Andretti Dear Friend,         When I was much younger and more naïve, I used to...

DEFINITION of ALIEN: ANY SOUL WHOSE PRIMARY DEVELOPMENT IS MORE THAN 51% IN HIGHER FREQUENCY DIMENSIONS AND LESS THAN 49% IN THE 3RD DIMENSION. For me personally, it wasn’t until I was about age forty in 1993 that I experienced a shift in my energies and started feeling more alien─i.e. more comfortable in other dimensions─than...

APRIL 2014 ECLIPSE ALERT: “Strange Days Indeed” “To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE “GOING WITH THE FLOW”   by   Joan Pancoe “Death, impermanence, things that go wrong, laughter, colour, light sparkling in puddles, cars breaking down, relationships ending, falling in love—all are the play of existence, the movement and change that is reality. It is...

“We practise and we work with whatever arises─ without attempting to convert the disorderly nature of existence into something more regimented.” “We exist in continual flux. We move, and are moved, in the dance of appearances─ in the limitless pattern of creation and destruction. The perceptible and imperceptible seem to make each other a mystery.”...

SPRING FORECAST: Love the ONE you’re with . . . or ELSE! To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE VENUS AND JUPITER by Joan Pancoe “The essential thing is not to chase after ecstasy. It arises naturally if your presence in the world remains relaxed, without goals and constraints—free, opened and light.”  Daniel Odier in...