The great psychiatrist Carl Jung once had a dream in which he found himself behind a meditating yogi, in a temple. On walking to the front of the yogi he discovered that it was himself.

In his dream he knew, at that moment, that when the yogi's meditation was over, he, Carl Jung, would die as a human.

It is a very ancient Hindu concept that we and the universe are fragments of a dream, or a meditation of God.

Nowadays there are many people becoming more interested in spirituality than in religion and many of those are interested in what the original followers of the teachings of Jesus practiced before they were persecuted almost out of existence by the intolerant and power hungry Church of Rome.

The earliest followers of the teachings of Jesus were called Nazoreans and in modern terms would be classified as Gnostics, because they worked to ‘experience’ the vital truths of the teachings rather than just ‘believe’ what someone else said.

As it’s the Easter season maybe I should get back to my real life’s work for a moment and deal with a spiritual matter brought up by a querent. My conferees were often confronted with the either/or nonsense, such as "If you aren't with us then you're against us." And often it was difficult to see round that in the context in which it was presented.

We finished last time with my second Shaktipat experience that actually registered on my visual centers. ‘Automatic Pilot to the Self. Maximum Thrust’ seemed to appeal to many readers. As a word person it certainly had an impact on me.