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Your Color Vibe for 07/12

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Friday, July 12:    Azure Blue

Believe it or not, this is going to be a great day.  It can start out on something of a sour note, however even minor keys can make great harmony.  Take time in the morning to ground, center, and be within your power.  The opportunities out there will need you to recognize them and to be strong enough, i.e. moving out of your comfort zone, to take advantage of them.  There can be some work involved and some of the rewards are down the line, but it is time for you to strike out in a new direction.  If you need help, it will be there.  Pay attention to your intuition.  It will not guide you in the wrong direction.  At this time, pieces are falling into place and today you will be able to add a most important piece to your fulfillment as WHO you are.

THursday’s COlor Vibe

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Thursday, July 11:    Hazy White

Emotions can be at the forefront today as you are finding yourself unbalanced and without a center.  This can surprise you because you always thought that you were so good at keeping yourself protected and centered and grounded and everything else.  And perhaps you were, however there is a layer of energy that is coming in, much like smoke from one of those fog machines, which can trip you up and leave you uncertain.  This is not a good time for starting anything nor for making major decisions.  The wool is over your eyes.  Not completely but enough so that you cannot really see what is entailed in things that you are considering.  This is a day of shift and turmoil.  Let it be what it will.  Step back and act from your core.  There is really nothing that cannot be put off to another time.  This is a day for observation, and with that observation will come new knowledge that will assist in the process of moving forward.  It will actually, if you are alert, be quite an interesting and profitable day.

On the Process of Sainthood

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The Science of Miracles: How the Vatican Decides

By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer
Date: 09 July 2013
pope john paul ii at his last christmas service
 The Vatican has declared that Pope John Paul II performed two miracles, clearing the way for him to be canonized.
CREDIT: Gasper Furman | Shutterstock.com

When Pope John Paul II died eight years ago, supporters chanted “Santo subito,” or “Sainthood now!”

It looks like his supporters will finally be getting their wish. The former pope’s path to sainthood is almost complete, with the Vatican recently confirming that he performed two miracles. Now all that’s left is the official canonization ceremony, which  has not been scheduled yet. The process of certifying miracles in the Catholic Church goes back centuries and involves an investigation by scientific experts.

Though it may seem strange to outsiders, verifying that miracles have occurred can strengthen people’s beliefs, said Michael O’Neill, who runs the website MiracleHunter.com.

“Even people who are believers in God have an attraction to proofs of his existence. Sometimes it seems like he’s hiding,” O’Neill said. “Miracles are a way that people see God touching the world

Long road to sainthood

In the Catholic religion, saints are people who are in heaven with God. Though many more people may be in heaven and technically saints, those deemed official saints of the church are ones that the Catholic church knows are in heaven. As such, people can pray to these saints, who sometimes intercede on their behalf with God.

But determining who is in heaven is a tricky proposition. That’s where miracles come in. According to the church, miracles, or divine events that have no natural or scientific explanation, serve as proof that the person is in heaven and can intercede with God to change the ordinary course of events.

The Catholic Church uses a formal process to determine who is a saint. First, that person’s life is thoroughly investigated. If deemed virtuous enough, the person is said to be a servant of God. If they’ve exhibited heroic levels of virtue in their life, they are considered venerable. To become saints, however, they need to have performed two miracles after death.

Miracle commission

Toward that end, a Vatican-appointed Miracle Commission sifts through hundreds or even thousands of miraculous claims. Typically, the commissions are composed of theologians and scientific experts.

Nearly all, or “99.9 percent of these are medical miracles,” O’Neill said. “They need to be spontaneous, instantaneous and complete healing. Doctors have to say, ‘We don’t have any natural explanation of what happened,'” O’Neill said.

A woman whose breast cancer was cured wouldn’t qualify, for instance, if she was given a 10 percent chance of survival — she would need to be told there was no chance of survival before any divine intervention, said the Rev. Stephan Bevans, a theology professor at the Catholic Theological Union.

In 2010, former Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that John Paul II had posthumously healed a French nun suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The church recently confirmed a second miracle, when a Costa Rican woman’s brain injury spontaneously healed after praying to John Paul II.

Miracles can be confirmed only if the healed person prayed solely to one person, such as John Paul II, during their ordeal. That way, there can be no mix-up when determining which person in heaven interceded on their behalf, O’Neill said.

Recent tradition

The process of using miracles to determine saints has a relatively short history in the Catholic Church. Prior to 1531, when a Spanish peasant reportedly saw an image of the Virgin Mary in the slopes surrounding Mexico City, miracles weren’t required and saints were agreed upon mostly through tradition or martyrdom, O’Neill told LiveScience.

The rules regarding miracles and sainthood changed as recently as John Paul II’s tenure. He reduced the required number of miracles to two, from three.

And as science has explained more and more over the years, many things that would have been considered miracles in the past are no longer seen that way, Bevans said.

Although miracles are still technically required, “I think they’ve receded in importance” as criteria for sainthood, Bevans told LiveScience. “It’s the holiness of the life of the person that counts.”

That may be the main value of saints, Bevans said.

John Paul II, for instance, has “performed the miracles, so to speak, but he’s also somebody who many people have found a great inspiration. His holiness was so evident,” Bevans said.

from:    http://www.livescience.com/38033-how-vatican-identifies-miracles.html

Your Color VIbe for 07/10

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Wednesday, July 10:    Periwinkle Blue

Uh, oh, it is a good day for watching what you do, what you say, where you go, what is said to you.  There will be some indication in all of this of just exactly where it is that you are needing to go, to do, to say at this time.  There is a time for being out in the limelight, and then there is a time for holding back and watching from the sidelines.  This is a sidelines kind of day.  From the sidelines, a lot of things can become much clearer.  From the sidelines, you can hear, see, experience things that might have missed you if you were out in front.  From the sidelines you can be open to many other levels of being.  From the sidelines, you can see into the multi-dimensionality of things.  Interesting day.  As always, you have a choice as to what you are going to do with it all.  Choose wisely and you can find some doors opening for you.

Assault Against Natural Medicine

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The battle against medical doctors AMA and natural medicine and our choices

At  a time when doctors were not the majority of healthcare practitioners in America dealing with the cure and prevention of illnes and disease, there were vast amounts of homeopathic and other practitioners using natural remedies. In 1847 in Philadelphia, the American Medical Association AMA, was founded because the medical doctors felt they needed to establish a national association that would look after their interests, this was decided one year earlier at the New York Mecial Convention.

The very next year after being created, the AMA began its organized assualt on debunking natural remedies and discrediting any health-care practitioner who was not a medical doctor. At this same time the AMA also set out to establish laws governing patent medicine. This practice has continued ever since, and so establishing the health-care monopoly for the medical doctor, and has expanded to medical research and drug companies.

Today the AMA has created power and influence to create laws that help expand the business of its members while at the same time eliminating any competition that might threaten its outrageous profits.

For example the AMA filed suit against the chiropractors in Illinois. Chiroprators were saying that adjustments can alleviate pain. Many people were going to chiropracters instead of medical doctors. The AMA, in an effort to protect its members filed suit against the chiropracters. The chiropracters fought back and big time and won. But the fact barely got any press, can you see why?

Another huge case, that barely got press was when a doctor, who was treating AIDS patients with all natural methods and was curing people, was sued immediately by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). The case went all the way to Supreme Court and the doctor was found not guilty. It was in fact proven that his treatments were more effective than those of the medical doctors using drugs and surgeries. But did you hear about it?

This doctor discovered the cure for AIDS, is should have been on the front of every publishing magazine, newspaper, the press. Does that make you mad? Does it cause you disbelief? The powers that be do not want you to know that his inexpensive cure was proven in court to work. It is all about profits. People go to jail every day for being greedy, 75% of the people in jail are their for reasons involving money. People will kill for it, and they do not care who.

There are thousands of lawsuits against people curing with all-natural methods, withoout drugs and surgeries, and they are being supressed and debunked at every chance. Their only crime is that they are curing people without drugs. All-natual, inexpensive methods work better and have no side effects. News organizations will not run these stories because of the pressure they get from their sponsors, the food companies and the pharmaceutical companies.

They are being charged with practicing without a license or dispensing drugs without a license. How can America wave the banner of free speech, freedom of ideas, freedom of choice? while they limit our healthcare and medical choices?

This worldwide umbrella wants to bring the natural supplements,natural remedies and food supplements under their regulation, and even information. In America, giant pharmacetical companies are buying vitamin, mineral and herbal and homeopathic companies and selling their remedies as drugs at outrageous prices.

Their are some medical doctors coming out to denounce drugs and surgeries, even though they have been trained to prescribe drugs and perform surgeries because they know it is all about the money and not curing and preventing disease. Protect your health and vote for choices, to keep all natural remdies available, vote now, do not give up any more of your rights.

from:    http://www.examiner.com/article/the-battle-against-medical-doctors-ama-and-natural-medicine-and-our-choices

Latest on Volcano Popocatepetl

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New Lava Dome Spotted at Mexico’s Popocatépetl

Shot of a new lava dome seen on July 7, 2013 forming within the main crater at Mexico’s Popocatépetl after a week on continuous strong ash emissions and explosions. Image: CENAPRED.

Programming Note: I’ve now entered summer crunch time. Between lab time and field work with my students over the next month along with my own projects and manuscripts that need to move forward before the start of the next school year, I am going to be busy with a capitol B. I’ve going to try to keep up with posts as events occur, but I can’t guarantee that I can update as quickly and frequently as I normally do, at least not until this stretch is over. Hopefully this helps dispel that myth that someone college faculty have the summer “off” … !

Onwards to the update!

As noted in this space last week, Popocatépetl has had an active week, to the point that a multitude of flights in/out of the international airport in Mexico City were cancelled. This huffing and puffing at Popocatépetl, with ash plumes reaching 3-4 km above the volcano, has prompted the elevation of the alert status to Yellow-Phase III. This means that the eruption at the volcano has moved from sporadic explosions (Phase II) to frequent small to intermediate explosions, usually caused by a dome collapse (that can generate pyroclastic flows). Tremor is almost constant at the volcano, along with constant emission of ash-and-steam from the summit vent.

 

An overflight of that vent on Sunday showed that a new lava dome has formed within the crater during the past week’s activity (see above), meaning a new sequence of dome growth (and eventual collapse) is in full swing. As magma rises up under the active vent, a plug of lava forms (as the lava dome). The pressure rises under the plug and it is eventually destroyed (either by collapse or explosion), leaving the magma underneath to feel the drop in pressure, prompting an explosive eruption. Once the vent is clear, new lava can begin to fill in the vent to form another new dome and the cycle continues.

This type of eruption is common at many arc-related volcanoes like Popocatepetl like Mount St. Helens, Soufriere Hills and Merapi. You can check out this USGS page on this same pattern that occurred at St. Helens after the catastrophic 1980 eruption or if you want to get cozy with a dome, check out this video of the dome at Mexico’s Colima taken in 2008 — rubbly piles of extruding lava within the main crater vent. The collapse of these domes can be one of the most dangerous and unpredictable events at a volcano as the extrusion of the dome isn’t particularly violent, but the collapse can generate large pyroclastic flows. A collapse of a dome at Unzen killed the famed volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft and Harry Glicken in 1991. The dome at Popocatepetl likely needs to get larger so it extends out of the crater at the summit vent (see above) before it can generate a large dome collapse pyroclastic flow, but all of this means that Popocatepetl needs to be taken seriously in this new phase of activity.

from:    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/eruption-update-for-july-8-2013-popocatepetl-iwo-torishima-white-island/#more-163580

Dr. Jeff Masters on TR Chantal

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Tropical Storm Chantal is strengthening as it speeds west-northwestwards at 26 mph through the Lesser Antilles Islands. At 6:22 am AST, St. Lucia recorded a wind gust of 54 mph. Sustained winds of 38 mph, gusting to 52 mph, were observed at Martinique at 10 am AST. An Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft is in the storm, and measured top winds at their 1,000′ flight level of 80 mph at 8:41 am AST, about 20 miles north of the center. Top winds seen by the aircraft’s SFMR instrument were about 60 mph, and it is likely that NHC will bump up Chantal’s top winds to at least 60 mph in their 11 am advisory. Barbados Radar shows a large area of heavy rain that has organized moderately well into low-level spiral bands affecting much of the central Lesser Antilles Islands. Chantal is not very impressive on satellite loops, though, with only a modest amount of heavy thunderstorms that are not well-organized. Only a small amount of upper-level outflow is visible. Chantal is fighting dry air associated with the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), as seen on water vapor satellite loops. Moderate wind shear of 15 – 20 knots is driving dry air into the storm. Ocean temperatures are fairly warm, at 28°C.


Figure 1. Latest satellite image of Chantal.


Figure 2. Barbados weather radar image of Chantal taken at 9:14 am AST on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Chantal’s center was located between St. Lucia and Martinique. Image credit: Barbados Met Service.

Forecast for Chantal
Chantal will likely continue to intensify before hitting Hispaniola on Wednesday afternoon. In their 5 am EDT wind probability forecast, NHC gave Chantal a 23% chance of becoming a hurricane before hitting Hispaniola. Working against intensification will be the fast forward speed of the storm–tropical storms moving faster than 20 mph in the deep tropics usually have trouble intensifying. In addition, the Eastern Caribbean is an area where the trade winds accelerate, helping drive sinking air that discourages tropical storm intensification. Dry air will also slow down the intensification process. Interaction with the high mountains of Hispaniola and high wind shear may be able to destroy Chantal by Thursday. The 8 am EDT Tuesday wind shear forecast from the SHIPS model calls for shear to rise to the high range, 20 – 30 knots, as the storm approaches and crosses Hispaniola on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, when Chantal is expected to be in the Bahamas, lower moderate wind shear of 15 – 20 knots should allow for re-intensification of the storm–if it survives interaction with the high mountains of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Eastern Cuba. The latest 06Z run of the GFS model dissipates Chantal as it crosses Hispaniola, though the 00Z run done 6 hours earlier had the storm surviving. Chantal has the potential to cause big problems for Haiti, which is highly vulnerable to flash flooding due to the lack of vegetation on the deforested mountains. However, there is a lot of dry air to the west of Chantal, which may act to keep rainfall totals in Haiti down to a manageable 2 – 4″. Over 300,000 people are still homeless and living in makeshift tent camps in Haiti, three years after the great 2010 earthquake.

Chantal’s fast west-northwest forward speed of 26 mph will slow to 20 mph by Wednesday afternoon and then 10 mph by Thursday afternoon, as the storm “feels” the presence of a trough of low pressure over the U.S. East Coast. This trough will steer Chantal to the northwest and then north-northwest across Hispaniola and into the Bahamas. The trough of low pressure pulling Chantal northwards is expected to lift out the the northeast over the weekend, leaving Chantal behind off the coast of Florida. High pressure will likely build in, potentially forcing an intensifying Chantal westwards into the Florida or Southeast U.S. coast, with a possible Monday landfall.

from:      http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

July 9 Color VIbe

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Tuesday, July 9:    Light Peach

Just a note:  this morning around 3:00 AM, there was a huge surge of new energy onto the scene.  It has a clash with some of the older stuff hanging around, so you may have found your sleep disrupted or perhaps some very odd dreams.  There will be more of this happening.  It is a good time to journal your dreams.  That will assist in seeing how the pattern is merging.

This is a day for synchronicity, and if you are open to it, many things can become much clearer to you.  This will happen through the symbols and signs associated with the synchronistic event/s.  Things are happening on many, many levels now and while they can be read one way from a certain point of view, from another perspective there is a much deeper realm of meaning.  You will understand what this means as the day goes forward.  This is a day for being ready for whatever comes your way.  This is not a time to react without first grounding and centering.  It is important to have perspective today in order to see things as they are, beyond the illusion.

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Overall Weekly Chromoscope

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July 7-13

The theme this week is “of all things…”   And it will definitely be a week of all things, so choose wisely what it is that you are wishing to focus upon.  That can make a big difference this week.

 

Overall Color for the Week:    Light Green Blue

So, what you thought you knew, what you thought was so reliable, how you created your routine, all those kinds of things are turning out to be not quite as rock solid as you thought.  Just remember that most of the space in an atom is empty, and you might just find yourself staring into a new kind of emptiness this week as the energies begin to pull things apart, as things start tumbling about.  You will find this week can bring you some interesting confrontations, exchanges, conversations with people you know.  The effect of these will be to make you question a lot of the foregone conclusions that you had had.  Also, you might feel yourself spinning a bit off center as friends you thought you knew so well become somehow different.    The long view of all this is to see that things that once seemed so reliable are changing.  Interestingly, your reactions and doubts and questions can be provoked by a seemingly innocent comment.  As for some of the things you used to love, this week you will begin to look at as not quite so desirable.  You may still enjoy them, but you are becoming aware that a lot of the charm of the old stuff is beginning to fade.  This can lead to some deep questioning.  This week, take time to clear your environment through sound, smudge, etc.  Maintain that clarity as it will assist you in taking on a new perspective.  Also stay grounded.  Be centered in your heart.  Act from your core, and in all circumstances, proceed from love.  There is no clearer light.

On the larger scale, the foundations are coming apart in many, many countries.  Things are being seen on the news in obvious cases, but there will much that is not noted.  Some of this can be related to the one-sidedness of the media.  Some can be related to the fact that small movements in the beginning are not seen as having any real significance.  The myopia of the powers that want to be is becoming ever more pronounced.  The financial markets will ride something of a roller coaster this week, but should end basically on a high note as some double-talk announcement is made concerning an issues related to fuel and the environments.  Also the weather will turn wicked in some areas.  There will be unexpected bursts of weather conditions that are out of season, even frightening.  There is more flow within the mantle of the Earth.  It is as though the liquid core is becoming somewhat unbalanced.  This can lead to some unusual effects on the surface and in the seas.  Look for an individual to be arising possibly in the Mid to Far East who is going to have some promises of some kind of salvation, perhaps not reported just yet, but rumored in the social media.  There will be more UFO activity, much caught on camera, and there is the possibility if bot this week, but soon, of some kind of message coming to the Earth from the Galaxy.  Look for more talk of diseases.  Interestingly, none will be linked to the obvious culprits – GMO’s, vaccines, pollution, etc.  It is well to look to local farmers for your produce.  That one time extra-Galactic energy is beginning to exert more of a pull on the planets as a whole and on the Sun in particular.  There can be some weird events relative to planetary motion and solar activity.

It is time for all to be in touch with Gaia, to offer her your support, and to be connected with her at all times.

On Gurdjieff & Ken WIlbur

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How far we have come in terms of overall models for life management and personal evolution?

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06/18/2013 1:42 p.m. (Updated 6/18/2013 2:51 p.m.)

From Gurdjieff’s Fourth way to Ken Wilber’s ILP

The article gives a brief introduction to Gurdjieff’s Fourth way and Ken Wilber’s Integral Life Practice (ILP). Gurdjieff’s Fourth way is a path of personal evolution in its classic form requires the help of a master, while Wilber’s ILP is a model for self-directed life-management and personal evolution.

Ideas about personal evolution

The different evolutionary paths and traditions that have arisen over the years, all (of course) related to a particular cosmology or metaphysical worldview. When evaluating a particular way with a particular goal (eg. The great awakening), one should also reflect on the underlying worldview. Let us take as an example Buddhism. Is it true that men are ruled by lust? This sounds almost like the Christian original sin. A psychologist Abraham Maslow or a psychotherapist Arthur Janov that would have replaced the word “lust” in need. Buddhism has a strong focus on being free from this world, and we are given well actually only one-dimensional notions of how life was for the liberated. What kind of life lives these enlightened when they have left the physical plane? Channeled ET literature has no corresponding notions of fundamental dualism between the liberated and the “wheel of life”-bound.

The reflections of relevance when it comes to questions like: Should The great awakening be a rush project, about which to be saved from the great sin? Or should we rather put more emphasis on a modular development of all our functions, and bring our functions more or less in harmony with each other? What should we focus most on: the long road of life, or some one-dimensional ideas about a fundamental goals? Such questions must have been the basis for the development of the fourth way.

“It is better to travel integrally and whole … than two arrive as a Specialized piece�

Gurdjieff’s Fourth way

Here in the West it was George I. Gurdjieff (1866? -1949) From Armenia who introduced the Fourth way [Wiki: GI Gurdjieff ]. What this article is concerned, it is not so interesting how Gurdjieff got their ideas and inspiration from. The important thing to understand is the principle of Fourth way. Gurdjieff’s Fourth explanation of the way, and how he practices went forth with His disciples, has been best described by PD Ouspensky in his book In Search of the Miraculous (1947). This volume presents verbatim Gurdjieff talks about the three traditional ways: The body’s way (= Fakir way and hatha yoga), emotion-way (= monk’s way and bhakti yoga) and the mind’s way (just as Gurdjieff called yogi way).

Within yoga distinguishes also between raja yoga (consciousness and �rv�kenhetsveien) and jnana-yoga (the realms of knowledge way); besides that India also has a road called karma-yoga. Gurdjieff brought techniques and insights from all of the traditional system, and united them. Each novice was given a customized program, as a first measure of the way of all was a certain harmonization of the features, and a certain confrontation / vigilance around its own personality “most smelly” properties. In Gurdjieff’s version of the Fourth way is a master necessary as the ordinary individual is helplessly to be able to observe and correct their own “mess” and robotaktighet.

Another representative of the fourth way was ancient Indian Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) (Wiki: Sri Aurobindo ], who made ​​his own yoga synthesis called Integral Yoga [Wiki: Integral yoga ]. Gurdjieff was particularly categorical in his statements and writings of Sri Aurobindo is characterized by oriental difficult and hyper nuanced terminology. For both, their statements and books something secondary in relation to their practical teaching was conveyed intimate and individually.

Ken Wilber’s ILP

The trans-rational and integral philosopher Ken Wilber American (b. 1949) is the mastermind behind a new evolutionary path, Integral Life Practice (ILP) (see article RKM Ken Wilber and his integral framework for a post-modern cosmology ). ILP is adapted to the modern man in Western society, and does not require the presence of a master. Wilber and three co-authors gave in 2008 the book Integral Life Practice , which we are based in. ILP can be said to be a general name for any modular self-development program that aims to nurture and develop as many of the individual features and capabilities, so that evolution is the most comprehensive and harmonious. Wilber has worked with this modular approach since 2000, and in 2004 was the first ILP open workshops organized by the Integral Institute. According to Wilber (2006) has other centers and institutions that have been committed holistic development, just had methodologies for activating 2-3 functions. Thus, the ILP will represent a quantum leap forward.
ILP is quite simple that you take responsibility for your own evolution towards wholeness and harmony, and that you take responsibility for administering this modular evolution in a sensible way. In the books of Wilber and various workshops can bring ideas and suggestions, but what features / centers enable, and how to practice exercise and develop them, is of course entirely up to you. ILP is not tied to a specific eastern or esoteric world view, also here you can even insert the cosmology you personally prefer. In his book Integral Life Practice (2008) the authors have done their utmost to remove most of the cultural-religious-esoteric metaphysics and terminology traditionally associated with the individual modules and techniques.

When you get deeper into the practice of ILP, the ILP for each identical to the major art of life and the overall way of life. Because the framework is so new and modern, we are well rid of the “museum-like” association complex that characterizes most evolutionary paths.

Osho awakening psychology

Students of Indian oppv�knete master Osho (1931-1990) may well spice ILP with Osho own insights and methods. Osho specialty was to identify the evolutionary keys used by each of the major mystics and each of the mysterious traditions [see RKM article Osho (1931-1990): A biographical sketch of oppv�kningspsykologiens master ]. Osho never tried to create a system out of those keys.

from:    http://www.nyhetsspeilet.no/en/2013/06/fra-gurdjieffs-fjerde-vei-til-ken-wilbers-ilp/