Stealing Fire

​Dear All,

A useful way of finding out where things are headed is to check out what the latest craze is in sunny California.

Following on from last weeks email(here) to you about how meditating in the morning helps you achieve creative 'Flow' during the rest of the day, a newspaper article* this morning talks about how corporate competition on the West Coast is driving executives to find wilder and wilder ways to keep the creative juices flowing to maintain their edge.

This includes something called 'microdosing' - taking a tiny amount of an illicit and possibly dangerous substance. And getting zapped with TMS(transcranial magnetic stimulation) - usually used in clinical treatment of depression. You'd think grown-ups would know better :o).

What this does show though is an increasing awareness that there are different mental states a person can be in, which directly affects happiness, creativity and the ability to achieve what you want to achieve. The question is how to get to it consistently.

This is the subject of the book Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal.

 

At some point in the future, hopefully, there will be a more widespread acceptance that the path to nirvana-like states is by the cultivation of the kundalini through daily meditation and not by the cultivation of weed :o).

Here's Shri Mataji explaining neuroplasticity(word mentioned in last weeks email about creative flow), before scientists were fully aware of the concept: click Brain Science of the Future.

We had a packed group meditation meeting last Tuesday. Hope to see you tomorrow.

Regards

*Andrew Hill FT 13/03/17 Drugs, hot tubs and 'flow dojos' are part of a CEO's work life