Like many, I experienced some traumatic religious experiences in my youth. To summarize, at the age of sixteen, I was asked by church officials to choose between my divorced parents, with the understanding that the wrong choice would mean my excommunication resulting in never reaching “total freedom” (the ultimate goal of all Scientologists). This was […]
The best part of this portion of my experience occurred at the very beginning of the experiment when Susan, our group mentor, was very kind and shared her perception of God. Previously, I had found the idea of God to be narrowly defined in the Abrahamic faiths. Her knowledge caused me to recognize that the […]
Now I was carrying discomfort, albeit not as difficult as Derik’s. So, I contemplated surrendering my current difficulties much like Derik had surrendered his. But how could I place my problems on everyone else? Wasn’t that what surrendering them to God was? They were my responsibility and wouldn’t it be wrong and hurtful to allow […]
Although I love parts of my job, and always have, I don’t mean to suggest that I now love going to work and that I enjoy the culture and the environment in which I work. Work became just work; sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. I was serene and calm for a while. Some difficult days at […]
Axis Teacher Training students choose a Yama (observance) or Niyama (restraint) to experiment with in their daily lives. This student focused on Satya, truth, with a commitment to avoid being judgmental. By withholding judgment, Truth had a clear path to present itself in surprising ways.
In an attempt to discover what Satya or truth means to me I did access consciousness as my experiment. In my experiment I hope to have a better idea of how judgments affect my daily activities. After Two weeks of journaling I plan to take my results and live my life for the better. Looking […]
After keeping track of things I found how very untrue to myself I have been. For example with my diet if I cheated I would tell myself it’s ok I’ll start again tomorrow, then tomorrow would come and I’d cheat again then it would be a new tomorrow and so on. Then when I got […]
In conclusion I am changing my behavior. I am approaching every day and everything in a new way. I’m not going to” judge a book by it is cover.” I’m also going approach my normal daily situations from a non-judgmental point of view and be willing to receive all possibilities of the universe. This has […]
As part of the Axis Teacher Training program, students experiment with select Yamas (observances) and Niyamas (restraints) in their daily lives. The following student account of a Satya experiment reveals one person’s observations about raw self-expression.
Satya, truth. What is truth? One of the dictionary definitions of the word is, “the state or character of being true,” for me this is a typical idea of what truth is and can be, the next definition is, “actuality or actual existence.” The embodiment of truth is expression, expression of raw human experience, the […]