REVIEW: Arjuna Ardagh – Awakening Into Oneness: The Power of Blessing in the Evolution of Consciousness
In Awakening Into Oneness, author Arjuna Ardagh takes us on a fascinating journey to Southern India where in the past few years, spiritual leaders, and millions, of all faiths, have found a radical new gateway to personal and global transformation.
It’s called “The Oneness Blessing” or “deeksha” in India, and leads to an altered state of consciousness. By a touch, eye contact or intent, from a qualified person, we’re liberated from our ego-limited condition. There are claims that this enlightenment is actually grounded in physical processes in the brain.
Ardagh began this journey after the release of his book The Translucent Revolution in 2006, He and his wife were invited to the Oneness University in India. As a veteran of all kinds of meditation, Ardagh was impressed with the power of the “Oneness Blessing”. “It was fast, clean, and accurate” There are lyrical descriptions of their days at Oneness U, and the dasas who guided and looked after them. The dasas were energetic, selfless young Indian men and women (dressed in white) who with the University’s founders Sri Bhagavan and his wife, Sri Amma, had a vision and a plan for actually changing global consciousness. Ardagh’s first reaction was one of both enthusiasm and skepticism. Was this a cult? Was this another workshop high?
In his interviews with both founders, they were very candid about their vision. Why had they been brought to this place at this time? Bhagavan calmly stated that “business as usual” was no longer optional. “Unless we make changes, it is unlikely that all 6 Billion of us will survive the next decade”. There are all the predictions of 2012.
Ardagh concludes that his book is neither an evangelical text of conversion nor an expose, but he does address the five major criticisms aimed at the Oneness movement. When you read about a temple in southern India costing $17 million, built to house 8,000 “cosmic beings” who are going to save the world…..it’s bound to arouse criticism.
What IS a “cosmic being”? To find out, get the book. It’s a fascinating read about western reaction to Indian mysticism.
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