Clear Vision: Yoga for the Eyes with Daniel Orlansky
And the rare gemstone Green Ridge Quartz
Isaiah 35:5 - Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Psalm 146:8 - the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.
Civilization has a strange way of forcing everyone to conform, forcing us all to see what “they” want us to see, and not see the obvious. For example, why isn’t it obvious that war the most racist phenomenon possible? Russian-Ukrainian Ashkenazic white Jews call Palestinians anti-Semitic for protesting genocide based strictly on ancestry, but who is the real Semite and who are the real anti-Semites? War is the most racist thing possible, but socialization makes sure that’s not what we see.
Healing is a process of stripping away the many illusions human societies have perpetuated. my worth = my net worth, and because so many are not very far along in the healing process, irrationality often rules the day (particularly on the world stage among far too many “leaders”).
Very few people have healed from ego enough to get past it to live in love and be practical and grounded in real reality, which is eternal and unchanging. Love/truth/beauty is the only real reality and it is what we are here to learn.
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” -Matthew 22: 37 - 40
From ACIM, chapter 12
VI. The Vision of Christ
1. The ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. ²The Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and there is no gain in the world, for of itself it profits nothing. ³To invest without profit is surely to impoverish yourself, and the overhead is high. ⁴Not only is there no profit in the investment, but the cost to you is enormous. ⁵For this investment costs you the world’s reality by denying yours, and gives you nothing in return. ⁶You cannot sell your soul, but you can sell your awareness of it. ⁷You cannot perceive your soul, but you will not know it while you perceive something else as more valuable.
2. The Holy Spirit is your strength because He knows nothing but the spirit as you. ²He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself, and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. ³Because He loves you, He will gladly teach you what He loves, for He wills to share it. ⁴Remembering you always, He cannot let you forget your worth. ⁵For the Father never ceases to remind Him of His Son, and He never ceases to remind His Son of the Father. ⁶God is in your memory because of Him. ⁷You chose to forget your Father but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise. ⁸As it was my decision, so is it yours.
3. You do not want the world. ²The only thing of value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love. ³This gives it the only reality it will ever have. ⁴Its value is not in itself, but yours is in you. ⁵As self-value comes from self-extension, so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward. ⁶Make the world real unto yourself, for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and so it belongs to you.
4. Correction is for all who cannot see. ²To open the eyes of the blind is the Holy Spirit’s mission, for He knows that they have not lost their vision, but merely sleep. ³He would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting to the remembering of God. ⁴Christ’s eyes are open, and He will look upon whatever you see with love if you accept His vision as yours. ⁵The Holy Spirit keeps the vision of Christ for every Son of God who sleeps. ⁶In His sight the Son of God is perfect, and He longs to share His vision with you. ⁷He will show you the real world because God gave you Heaven. ⁸Through Him your Father calls His Son to remember. ⁹The awakening of His Son begins with his investment in the real world, and by this he will learn to re-invest in himself. ¹⁰For reality is one with the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in Their Name.
5. When you have seen this real world, as you will surely do, you will remember Us. ²Yet you must learn the cost of sleeping, and refuse to pay it. ³Only then will you decide to awaken. ⁴And then the real world will spring to your sight, for Christ has never slept. ⁵He is waiting to be seen, for He has never lost sight of you. ⁶He looks quietly on the real world, which He would share with you because He knows of the Father’s Love for Him. ⁷And knowing this, He would give you what is yours. ⁸In perfect peace He waits for you at His Father’s altar, holding out the Father’s Love to you in the quiet light of the Holy Spirit’s blessing. ⁹For the Holy Spirit will lead everyone home to his Father, where Christ waits as his Self.
6. Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as Christ’s is in God. ²Christ’s Love for you is His Love for His Father, which He knows because He knows His Father’s Love for Him. ³When the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ at the altar to His Father, perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that its transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. ⁴Love transfers to love without any interference, for the two are one. ⁵As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases and becomes generalized. ⁶Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything, for its applicability is universal. ⁷When this has been accomplished, perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God.
7. What is one cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. ²At the altar of God, the holy perception of God’s Son becomes so enlightened that light streams into it, and the spirit of God’s Son shines in the Mind of the Father and becomes one with it. ³Very gently does God shine upon Himself, loving the extension of Himself that is His Son. ⁴The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of God. ⁵For the real world has slipped quietly into Heaven, where everything eternal in it has always been. ⁶There the Redeemer and the redeemed join in perfect love of God and of each other. ⁷Heaven is your home, and being in God it must also be in you.
Here is some wisdom from Daniel Orlansky, my first yoga teacher way back in the last century:
Today’s gemstone is a very rare stone that just happens to be found in the US. It is thought to ease digestive problems and nausea, boost immunity, and offer deep, whole body cleansing:
