04.29 "The River"(The Cult)

Asia

India

Rishikesh

Ganges (Ganga) River: 

(from our balcony)

www.wikipedia.org

The Ganges (also Ganga) flows through India and Bangladesh. Its 2,525 km (1,569 mi) start in the western Himalayas and flows south and east through North India into Bangladesh, where it reaches the Indian Ocean at the Bay of Bengal. 

It is the most sacred river to Hindus, and it has been inhabited since long before written history. You can feel it is a special place.

I've been fascinated since, as a kid, I saw for the first time a National Geographic's map of the ocean floor. One of the main spots that sparked my imagination was the projection underwater of the Ganges… I imagined it to have been above water in the past, and I was blown away at its huge size (see below, described as "Bengal Fan")

http://geology.campus.ad.csulb.edu/people/

bperry/Geology%20160/Geol160ContMargi

nsOceanFeaturesImagesPage.htm

Despite my high expectations, I found The Ganges impressive… beyond words. I could live by its shoreline. 

Leaving The River and returning to our experiences in the Ashram, today we did Kundalini Meditation. It was something definitely different; it was divided in 4 parts of 15 minutes, the first involved shaking vigorously with a high frequency, electronic rhythmic music,  the second moving freelance while listening to a softer yet still fast paced rhythm, the third step involved sitting still and meditating with soft dispersed sounds, and the last part laying back in silence and darkness (before there was a green light and we had our eyes closed or semi-closed). During the last 2 parts you feel very energized, with your body tingling. The closest I've experienced something similar has been dancing on a beach on MDMA. A definitely unexpected and enjoyable experience that reinforce my feeling that MDMA, more than a recreational drug, it is an entheogen (drug that help you enter in contact with the Inner God / Cosmic Consciousness like LSD, psylocibin, mescaline and DMT) that everyone should try at least once in their lifetimes: after having mystical experiences, we become more tolerant and our lives take a more meaningful turn; life will be much better if all humans had felt at least once that in essence everything we see disconnected are indeed parts of One Entity... and I don't care if that is real or not; but I do care that the warm feeling makes us all more loving people.