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Healing Our Mother Earth
By Michael Ketterhagen, PhD “…the human being becomes whole through the practice of meditation and the practice of all the other steps leading up to that one-pointed experience of our divine nature. Let us meditate more and more, so we can heal humanity.” That statement sounds like the only action we need do is sit and “navel gaze.” That is the furthest from the truth when it comes to making humanity whole, when it comes to healing humanity. When we develop a deep relationsh
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Essential Nature of Essential Oils
By Michael Ketterhagen, PhD Healing means “making whole” the whole person, the gross part of us and the subtle part of us. Essential oils, which are very popular today, are a connection between the gross part and the subtle part of the human being. Of course, the most subtle part of the human is our mind and its intuitive abilities. As we all know, we humans have a physical body made up of bones, muscles, and organs. What we often forget is that those physical components of
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Jul 232 min read
Reiki & Healing Touch: Bringing the Energy Fragments Together
By Michael Ketterhagen, PhD Continuing my discussion about healing, which I defined as “making whole,” I want to talk about Reiki and Healing Touch, energy-healing modalities offered at the Fond du Lac Center for Spirituality & Healing. Both are becoming more and more popular and significant in the holistic health world. Reiki and Healing Touch operate in the energy dimension of the human body. Yoga calls this dimension the “pranamaya kosha.” “Pranamaya kosha” means the “shea
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Jul 232 min read
Healing Our Mother Earth
By Michael Ketterhagen, PhD “…the human being becomes whole through the practice of meditation and the practice of all the other steps leading up to that one-pointed experience of our divine nature. Let us meditate more and more, so we can heal humanity.” That statement sounds like the only action we need do is sit and “navel gaze.” That is the furthest from the truth when it comes to making humanity whole, when it comes to healing humanity. When we develop a deep relationsh
Yoga & Wellness Blogs
Jul 232 min read
Essential Nature of Essential Oils
By Michael Ketterhagen, PhD Healing means “making whole” the whole person, the gross part of us and the subtle part of us. Essential oils, which are very popular today, are a connection between the gross part and the subtle part of the human being. Of course, the most subtle part of the human is our mind and its intuitive abilities. As we all know, we humans have a physical body made up of bones, muscles, and organs. What we often forget is that those physical components of
Yoga & Wellness
Jul 232 min read
Reiki & Healing Touch: Bringing the Energy Fragments Together
By Michael Ketterhagen, PhD Continuing my discussion about healing, which I defined as “making whole,” I want to talk about Reiki and Healing Touch, energy-healing modalities offered at the Fond du Lac Center for Spirituality & Healing. Both are becoming more and more popular and significant in the holistic health world. Reiki and Healing Touch operate in the energy dimension of the human body. Yoga calls this dimension the “pranamaya kosha.” “Pranamaya kosha” means the “shea
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Jul 232 min read
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“Joy is our birthright!”
by Michael Ketterhagen My yoga teacher proclaimed this in one of his recent lectures. He was talking about the result of the Vishoka Meditation practice. He meant that at our core there is a presence of absolute joy. The joy he speaks of is the fruit of the Vishoka Meditation practice. I supposed that just by the fact that we are a child of the Creator, whatever name or label we may give that reality, we are the child of joy, freedom, love and compassion. But what if we do
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Our Communal Identity breaks us from Poverty Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven --Matthew 5:3 (RNAB) “For the masters … [of the] Sri Sukta [a song of prosperity in the Tantric Himalayan Tradition] , the domain of poverty encompasses much more than lack of sufficient food, clothing, and shelter.” --Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Community is absolutely necessary for an end to poverty in our world today. A group of people doing yoga asana (postures) or
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