Oscar Najarro Caceres
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One of the most widely discussed topics is the topic of non-violence, Ahimsa. The Yoga sutras are not very specific on what it really means to be non-violent; however, I think it could be useful to bring more clarity to this topic from my studies on psychology. Most of what I’m about to say comes…
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Dream 1: I’m being led by somebody towards the top of a building, or an structure. I encounter D., a very old friend. He is working on top of a primitive hanging platform. It consists of a wood plank hanging from nylon cords. We seem to be working on something that lays behind a white…
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Main dream: I was with some friends in a boat somewhere in the water (ocean or lake). Then I heard an explosion, or something being said in the radio. We kept sailing as if nothing had happened. I become suspicious, and fount out (maybe through the radio?) that there was an explosion in the city.…
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Can meditation be dangerous? Somebody asked me whether meditation was dangerous. We can initially laugh at that question, but I must admit that even I had the same doubts before. It does not take a long time to decipher in the question a profound lesson to be learned. Behind this question, we find superstitious thinking,…
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What yoga is not: There’s this tendency in the West to approach yoga and other spiritual practices within the framework of materialistic thinking. By this I mean that there’s a tendency to see yoga as a tool to achieve external results. The West has lost its Christianity, and this event has permitted people to explore…
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Dream: I was in a place where I was going to spend the night before an event the following day at 8. Since it was a sort of ex-classmates reunion, I thought 8pm since we were watching a movie that I considered boring since it was a “nerds” movie. I woke up the next day,…
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Dream 1: I was in a very dark room. I realized I was with my sister, and we were by the confession-room where a Catholic priest, whom my sister respected, awaited us. My sister asked me to deliver him a folio full of papers as thanks for a service he did her in the past.…
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Oh, those memories! In the photo above, I was on a trip to NY on a cold winter day, c. 2015. Here, I was dealing with the excruciating pains of merely existing. In reality, this is how I was feeling: My story: how I got there. After enduring some of the darkest times of my…
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I’m of the idea that all forms of therapy, or even meditation, lead, eventually and quite naturally, to resolving the conflicts experienced in early childhood and inherent in the relation of children to their parents. This type of relationship is not only the first, most important, and most necessary of human relations, but also the…
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This 73-page book is the culmination of 10 years of deep studies in philosophy, religion, psychology, and the humanities in general. This is the actual head and spinal cord that informs my practices and pursuits in life. It is available PDF online for free with a subscription to my writings. Download below:
Oscar Najarro 