Healing the Heart workshop: Psychospiritual component of a healing program run by cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, M.D. In 1995 the program included meditation and a visualization involving patients' requesting guidance from believable spiritual powers.

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Workshop

• To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use extraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Workshop, Meaning of Dreams about Workshop, Dream Interpretation Workshop)

Workshop

• To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use extraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Workshop, Meaning of Dreams about Workshop, Dream Interpretation Workshop)

Weigh Down Workshop (Weight Down Workshop approach): Christian weight loss program founded in 1986 by nutritionist Gwen Shamblin, author of The Weigh Down Diet (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1997). Shamblin ascribes the program to divine inspiration. According to a 1995 edition of the television newsmagazine A Current Affair, Shamblin's gospel is: Eat what you want, whenever you want, and ask the lord to help you to stop when you've had enough, so you leave room for a hefty helping of the holy spirit. Then, the program included audiocassettes, videos, books (e.g., Feasting on the Will of the Father), and revival-like religious rallies.

(See also: Weigh Down Workshop, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

2005-04-23

The Weigh Down Diet (Weigh Down approach, Weigh Down method): Subject of a book of the same name (see Weigh Down Workshop). The Weigh Down Diet isa groundbreaking approach to weight reduction and a inspirational way to stay slim and to find a new self. According to the book's author, Gwen Shamblin, part of the solution to overweight is to relearn how to feed or nourish the longing human soul with a relationship with God.

(See also: Weigh Down Diet, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Cyclops Kyklops (Greek) (from kyklos circle, round + ops eye)

Plural cyclopes. Round-eyed giants; Homer locates them in Sicily as a lawless race of giants with one central eye, devouring men and caring naught for Zeus; their chief is Polyphemus. For Hesiod, they are three sons of Heaven and Earth, named Arges, Brontes, and Steropes, titan of flame, thunder, and lightning respectively. Later they were considered assistants of Hephaestus in his workshops under volcanoes and their number was no longer confined to three.

The history of human evolution has passed down to us transfigured by the progressive accretion of myths, so that the name cyclopes was handed down to various owners until it meant merely giants who built vast walls. Hesiod's original three were the last three subraces of the Lemurians, the one eye was the wisdom eye, the other eyes not being fully developed as physical organs until the beginning of the fourth root-race.

Odysseus, a fourth-race hero, though he destroys a barbarous race in the interests of culture, nevertheless puts out the third eye. It is an allegory of the passage from a simpler Cyclopean civilization of huge stone buildings to the more sensual civilization of the Atlanteans (SD 2:769). Disciples of the initiates of the fourth root-race were said to hand over divine knowledge to their cyclopes, sons of cycles or of the infinite (SD 1:208), while the cyclopes supposed to have built walls were masons in the sense of initiators (SD 2:345).

The legend of the cyclops with the third eye is also found in ancient Ireland. De Jubainville parallels the three cyclopes of Hesiod with the three famous Irish smiths, Goibniu (Gavida) and his brothers. Goibniu slew the wicked Fomorian Balor -- also a cyclops with one eye in the middle of his forehead -- to give victory to the Tuatha De Danaan (gods of day and life) (Irish Mythological Cycle 122).

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Vulcan [from Latin Vulcanus]

Astronomers at times have suspected the existence of a planet nearer the sun than Mercury, basing this upon perturbations of more than one kind observed in connection with Mercury and its orbit. Long ago the name Vulcan was suggested for this planet. It has been recorded that on March 26, 1859, a body was seen to be making a transit across the solar disk, yet nothing has been seen of this body since that time, although search has been made for it.

Theosophy teaches that there is a planet, at present generally invisible to human scrutiny, closer to the sun than Mercury, and that it became generally invisible to human sight during the third root-race, after the fall of mankind into physical generation. The ancients spoke of seven sacred planets, and the sun was often enumerated as a substitute or blind for this planet.

Also, the ancient Roman fire god, who has always been identified with the Greek Hephaestos, popularly regarded by the Latins as having his workshops under several volcanic islands, but especially under Mt. Aetna. The isle of Lemnos was always sacred to him. He is represented, as are similar divinities such as the Hindu Visvakarman or Tvashtri, as a fashioner, artificer, or architectural builder of the cosmic structure; and like his counterparts, the smith of the gods and maker of their divine weapons, lord of the constructive arts, master of a thousand handicrafts, etc. Not only was his forge in Olympus supplied with fire, anvils, and all the necessities of a blacksmith, according to the figurative stories of Greek and Latin mythology, but he was attended by automatic handmaidens whom Vulcan himself had fashioned. The deity is prominent in the Homeric poems, where he is represented as the son of Jupiter and Juno.

As the divine artificer, working both in a cosmic and microcosmic manner, legends tell that Vulcan assisted in the production of the human race. He also fashioned Pandora, and aided in the birth of Minerva -- for he opened Jupiter's head with an axe in order to allow the goddess to spring forth from the head of the father of both gods and men.

Vulcan corresponds to the theosophical fohat.

See also HEPHAESTOS

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Astral Light (Occult) The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the second Principle of Kosmos (the third being Life, of which it is the vehicle) to the Linga Sharira or the Astral Double in man.

A subtle Essence visible only to a clairvoyant eye, and the lowest but one (viz., the earth), of the Seven Akasic or Kosmic Principles. Eliphas Levi calls it the great Serpent and the Dragon from which radiates on Humanity every evil influence. This is so; but why not add that the Astral Light gives out nothing but what it has received; that it is the great terrestrial crucible, in which the vile emanations of the earth (moral and physical) upon which the Astral Light is fed, are all converted into their subtlest essence, and radiated back intensified, thus becoming epidemics -  moral, psychic and physical. Finally, the Astral Light is the same as the Sidereal Light of Paracelsus and other Hermetic philosophers. "Physically, it is the ether of modern science.

Metaphysically, and in its spiritual, or occult sense, ether is a great deal more than is often imagined. In occult physics, and alchemy, it is well demonstrated to enclose within its shoreless waves not only Mr. Tyndall’s ‘promise and potency of every quality of life’, but also the realization of the potency of every quality of spirit. Alchemists and Hermetists believe that their astral, or sidereal ether, besides the above properties of sulphur, and white and red magnesia, or magnes, is the anima mundi, the workshop of Nature and of all the Kosmos, spiritually, as well as physically.

The ‘grand magisterium’ asserts itself in the phenomenon of mesmerism, in the ‘levitation’ of human and inert objects; and may be called the ether from its spiritual aspect. The designation astral is ancient, and was used by some of the Neo-platonists, although it is claimed by some that the word was coined by the Martinists. Porphyry describes the celestial body which is always joined with the soul as ‘immortal, luminous, and star-like’. The root of this word may be found, perhaps, in the Scythic Aist-aer - which means star, or the Assyrian Istar, which, according to Burnouf has the same sense." (Isis Unveiled.)

(See also: Astral Light, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Suttee [from Sanskrit sati faithful wife, one who burns herself on a funeral pyre, either on the same pyre as her husbands corpse or at a distance]

The practice of voluntary self-immolation by widows was prohibited by the British in India and finally abolished. When its cessation was first commanded, the Brahmins -- who were principally responsible for the continuance of this dreadful custom -- maintained that their sacred scriptures approved of the practice, but Orientalists have demonstrated that the texts so cited had been altered. "Professor Wilson was the first to point out the falsification of the text and the change of 'yonim agre' into 'yonim agneh' [womb of fire]

. . . According to the hymns of the 'Rig-Veda,' and the Vaidic ceremonial contained in the 'Grihya-Sutras,' the wife accompanies the corpse of her husband to the funeral pile, but she is there addressed with a verse taken from the 'Rig-Veda,' and ordered to leave her husband, and to return to the world of the living" (Max Muller, Chips from a German Workshop 2:35).

The original Sanskrit of the Rig-Veda, supported by the Commentaries and the ceremonials without variation of text or meaning, is: a rohantu janayo yonim agre, "the wives (or mothers, i.e., women) may first ascend to the sacred place." These words finally were misread by the Brahmins as: a rohantu janayo yonim agneh, "wives (mothers, women) may or should ascend to the sacred place of fire" i.e., womb of fire -- construed as the funeral pyre).

Suttee therefore has been confused by the West as the custom of the burning of widows itself; but the word really means the widow herself who, because of her great virtue in unfailing fidelity to her one husband, prefers to sacrifice her life on the funeral pyre rather than to live on earth alone after his death. The custom is not commanded or even approved by Vedic or other Hindu scriptural authority, but on the contrary is, indirectly if not directly, forbidden. How the custom ever arose is still obscure, but may be ascribed to a mixture of priestcraft and unreasoning sentimental and religious devotion on the part of the ignorant masses.

(See also: Suttee, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

Dream FAQ Dictionary: How can I find out more about lucid dreaming, or get involved lucid dreaming research?

How can I find out more about lucid dreaming, or get involved lucid dreaming research?

 A. Contact the Lucidity Institute, an organization founded by luciddreaming researcher Dr. Stephen LaBerge to support research on luciddreams and to help people learn to use them to enhance theirlives. The Lucidity Institute's mission is to advance research on thenature and potentials of consciousness and to apply the results ofthis research to the enhancement of human health and well-being. TheLucidity Institute offers a membership society, whose quarterlynewsletter, NIGHTLIGHT, discusses research and development in thefield of lucid dreaming, and invites the participation of members inat-home experiments. Workshops and training programs are availableperiodically. The Institute sells books, tapes, scientificpublications and the DreamLight.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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