Lakshmi

Colorized Photo by thunderhands.

Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity (both material and spiritual), light, wisdom, fortune, fertility, generosity and courage; and the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm. Representations of Lakshmi are also found in Jain monuments. Mahalakshmi brings good luck to her devotees. She is believed to protect her devotees from all kinds of misery and money-related sorrows.

Lakshmi in Sanskrit is derived from its elemental form lakS, meaning "to perceive or observe". This is synonymous with lakṣya, meaning "aim" or "objective". The Hindu Sacred Texts Vedas call Mahalakshmi as Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi which means she is the one who has the object and aim of uplifting mankind.

Goddess Mahalakshmi is called as Shri or Thirumagal because she is endowed with six auspicious and divine qualities or Gunas and also because she is the source of strength even to Lord Narayana. She is the consort of Vishnu and married Rama (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and later Rukmini).

Gandhi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

About This Blog / My Magazine / Book / & Future plans

To all my Readers:

I wish to thank all those world wide who have been reading this Blog & will continue to read it. It will remain "Open" but Static. I.E. I won't be posting here for the foreseeable future. The reasons are stated below. It has been a labor of love. I'm glad I was and am able to contribute to the well being of so many in my own way.

* I will be concentrating on other projects, such as my other blog "Apache Tracker & my personal website "Spirit of crazy Horse." (see Pictures & links Below)

* I will concentrate on distributing my Book "Listen to the Wind speak from the Heart."

* There already are scores of writings, wise sayings from masters, and beautiful images & Videos throughout this site. Go to the "Archives" and or "search this site" features, to the right on the sidebar. Enough for six books!

* My time and efforts are too diversified and I wish to focus on one thing that will encompass all I do, as an artist, author, and healer. This will also give me more time for my self and the enjoyment of my own life.

Personal Web site

This Personal website Features a lot of (most of) my creative endeavors in the way of Music Videos, Images, etc. all in one place. In addition it is a resource to purchase, My CD's and my New Book and any upcoming material. There will be links to this blog, "Apache Tracker" and many other resources as well. I will be adding things bi-monthly

APACHE TRACKER

This is my other "Sister" Blog and is geared toward historical and survival topics in the Native American Tradition. Other topics may be covered from time to time.

This Blog will be open and articles will be posted periodically, not regularly.

MY BOOK

My wish is that you purchase it. I don't think you will be sorry. It is meant to be used as an oracle of sorts by opening up to any page at any time. Lots of good information in a small easily carried book of 100 pages with a laminated cover.

In fact My music CD'S would be a good compliment to my book.

Blessings to you all

Mitakuye Oyasin

Roger "Thunderhands" Gilbert

Compassion

"In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for
ourselves. In particular, to care about other people who are fearful,
angry, jealous, overpowered by addictions of all kinds, arrogant, proud,
miserly, selfish, mean- you name it- to have compassion and to care for these
people, means not to run from the pain of finding these things in ourselves."
~Pema Chodron

Change

"...'change'... chen... is neither to stay in it forever nor to fly away somewhere else. It is to lodge without lodging, to move forward without moving away, to be active in a situation. To be active in a situation is not to be wrapped and engulfed in it but to lead by following it."
-- Kuang-ming Wu

Transform

"When you identify yourself with Tao, you will have no partiality; when you transform with things in the world, you will merely follow the natural course. You are indeed a sage."

-- Zhuangzi (Wang Rongpei)

Carl Jung on "The State or Goverment"

Quote:

"Jung stressed the importance of individual rights in a persons relation to the state and society. He saw that the state was treated as "a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected" but that this personality was "only camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it", and referred to the state as a form of slavery. He also thought that the state "swallowed up [people's] religious forces", and therefore that the state had "taken the place of God"—making it comparable to a religion in which "state slavery is a form of worship." Jung observed that governments "stage acts of state" comparable to religious displays: "Brass bands, flags, banners, parades and monster demonstrations are no different in principle from ecclesiastical processions, cannonades and fire to scare off demons." From Jung's perspective, this replacement of God with the state in a mass society led to the dislocation of the religious drive and resulted in the same fanaticism of the church-states of the dark ages—wherein the more the state is 'worshiped', the more freedom and morality are suppressed; this ultimately leaves the individual psychically undeveloped with extreme feelings of marginalization."

Who was Carl Jung?-Jung has had an enduring influence on psychology as well as wider society. He founded a new school of psychotherapy, called analytical psychology or Jungian psychology. He gave us:

* The concept of introversion and extraversion.
* The concept of the complex.
* The concept of Collective Unconscious, which is shared by all people. It includes the archetypes.
* Synchronicity as an alternative to the Causality Principle, an idea which has even influenced modern physicists.
* The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Socionics were both inspired by Jung's psychological types theory.


Comment by Thunder: I have always said that the Government is nothing more then a organized religion. The above reference to "Peoples religious forces" in my view and that of Jung can be equated with spirituality or personal spiritual beliefs.