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Posted in 2026, 21st century trend, art, Austria, birthday, creativity, dynamic inner silence, Ed Saugstad, family, friendship, life, love
Tagged birthday, Ed Saugstad
awaken Mother Kundalini
☺️🌀💗 (i’ve done sahaja yoga meditation every day for almost 44 years, and life keeps improving, from within)
Posted in 2026, 21st century trend, alert mental silence, benevolence, collective consciousness, dynamic inner silence, enlightenment, family, forgiveness, friendship, fulfillment, grace, gratitude, happiness, health, heart, hope, inner freedom, inspiration, joy, Kundalini, life, light, love, meditation, peace, reality, Sahaja Yoga Meditation, Shri Mataji, silence, smile, thoughtless awareness, well-being, wisdom
Tagged harmony, inner freedom, inner peace, Sahaja Yoga meditaion, world peace
Musical Mousie Christmas greetings!🎄🐭💝
Wishing you and yours abundant Peace and Light (the soft, soothing kind) this Christmas🎄
lots of love,
Ed & Brigitte💝
Posted in 2025, 21st century trend, art, Austria, Brigitte Saugstad, Cabella, children, Christmas, creativity, family, forgiveness, fun, happiness, heart, holiday, hope, humanity, inner freedom, inspiration, joy, life, light, love, mouse, music, smile, timelessness, well-being
Tagged Brigitte Saugstad, Christmas, hope, mousies, music
40 years ago – Christmas 1981🎄📞📺⏳
I’ve enjoyed sixty-three Christmases with family and friends. Most of them were at home in the suburbs just south of Vancouver, and in the charming old heart of Vienna. A few were in rural India. One was in New Jersey, and one in North Carolina.
Although all of these occasions bring back colourful memories of abundance and joy, one of the most memorable happened when I was, internally and externally, quite down and out — at the bottom of a long dive that was about to transform into a steady ascent that is still bringing me higher and higher today.
Forty years ago, Christmas 1981 (before portable telephones, personal computers, The Internet, etc.) I was living in a ‘shack by the railroad track’, on the edge of a wealthy neighbourhood. At this time of my life I used to have my place open to parties with local peers on the weekends. On Monday I would cash-in all the beer bottles to buy a bit of food for the week.
My fridge was always empty (except for all the alcohol from Friday to Sunday). On this occasion I came back to my humble home late Christmas evening and opened the fridge for some reason. I can’t describe to you my utter surprise when I FOUND IT PACKED FULL OF EVERY IMAGINABLE FOOD! Although I tried to find out who did it, none of my many smiling friends would admit to doing the deed. I still don’t know.
When I moved back to Canada twenty years later, a mature married man who had traveled the world and enjoyed undreamed of wonderful experiences, it was about a year before I ran into one of the old crowd (back in the 1970s, a couple hundred teenagers, and then young adults, in North Delta). My heart sprang open and my chest was filled with gravity-defying mirth! Then that same day I ran into three more old buddies in various locations, between ten and thirty kilometers apart, something I consider nothing less than a miracle. (As a result I ended up organizing a reunion that brought about a hundred and fifty of us back together for a nostalgic gathering.)
One thing that life has taught me is that Friendship is the highest form of love (collective consciousness). Even in a family, if the members aren’t ‘friends’, there’s no real bond.
May the whole world become a family of best friends.
Merry Christmas 2021!
Lots of love,
Ed Saugstad
(more here: https://edwardsaugstad.com/reaching-the-top-reloaded/ )
Posted in 2021, Christmas, collective consciousness, Ed Saugstad, family, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, fulfillment, fun, gratitude, happiness, holiday, hope, humanity, inspiration, joy, life, light, love, party, smile, timelessness, togetherness, well-being, wonder
Tagged 1981, 2021, Christmas, friendship, gratitude, hope, joy
Behold! Oh, Ancient Castle in our backyard ⚔️
(my pre-birthday hike)
(we ended up walking down the mountain in the night!!!)
Posted in 2021, Austria, birthday, dreams, endearing, family, freedom, friendship, fulfillment, fun, life, nature, smile, togetherness
Tagged adventure, Araburg, Austria, freedom, nature, Wienerwald
interview of an old Canadian pioneer sahaja yogi
MEDITATE TO REGENERATE ☺️
Posted in 2020, 21st century trend, alert mental silence, art, books, Brigitte Saugstad, collective consciousness, creativity, dreams, Ed Saugstad, enlightenment, family, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, fulfillment, fun, Ganesha, grace, gratitude, happiness, health, heart, hope, humanity, India, innocence, inspiration, joy, Kundalini, life, light, love, meditation, Oakee Doakee, peace, reality, Shri Mataji, Sir Ed Word, smile, spirituality, thoughtless awareness, well-being, yoga
Tagged Canada, Ed Saugstad, meditation, Sahaja Yoga meditaion
Merry Christmas! (the Evolution of Eddie)
I was born into the realm of the Wild West when Elvis was king, at the height of social freedoms which were slipping steadily down into the mists of abandon. Unlimited alcohol and tobacco consumption were a household norm for many families, with few or no suspicions about their ill effects — gross and subtle.
My first eight years took me along an often bumpy road, with the scary shadows of evermore chaos lurking just around the next bend. But there was also love. I grew up with some delightfully humorous and caring souls. My best memories still shine from those joyous occasions when we, once a year, exchanged presents, had fun together, and temporarily forgot all our fears and worries: Christmas Days!
Just before my eighth Christmas in 1965, my Dad returned home, sober, after a four year absence. From that time on, everything seemed to get more prosperous and abundant — including the number of siblings. Within another three years we would be eight brothers and sisters celebrating at home together!
I was then blessed to live through a period of wealth and wellbeing that most children in the world will never know. Looking back at my long climb as a human being, I recognize how very lucky I’ve been this time around.
May the liberating Innocence, that we call Luck, fill the hearts of good people, everywhere.
Wishing you and yours Love and Light at this special time,
your friend in this abundant moment,
Ed
(We were, oldest to youngest: Dad, Mom, Darlene, Cheryl, Rick, Ed, Glenn, David, Allan and Don. Christmases were also celebrated at Nana and Grandpa’s place, Mom’s Finnish parents. Almost half-a-century later we would be three more, Tia, Karen and Cliff, senior siblings divided from us by Dad’s first divorce.)
Darlene, Eddie, Rick and Cheryl
Darlene, Eddie, Rick and Cheryl
Rick, Eddie, Darlene, Grandpa, Glenn and Cheryl
David and Glenn, Darlene, Rick, Cheryl and Eddie
Darlene, Eddie, Rick, Glenn and Cheryl
Rick, Mom, Nana, Glenn, Eddie, Darlene and Cheryl, Grandpa and David
Rick, Cheryl, Eddie, Glenn, Darlene and David
Eddie’s haircut, May 1965
(a month before the end of grade one, and still half a year before that special Christmas that marked the end of Dad’s long drunken absence)
Glenn, David and Eddie
Darlene, Mom, Cheryl, Rick, Eddie, Glenn and David
David, Glenn and Eddie
Cheryl and Darlene, Glenn, Eddie, Rick and David
Darlene, Rick and Cheryl (the ‘Big Kids’) and Eddie, Glenn and David (the ‘Little Kids’)
Cheryl, Glenn and David
Darlene, Mom and Dad, Eddie, Nana, Rick, Cheryl, David and Glenn
Eddie, Rick, Darlene, Dad, Allan, Mom, Cheryl, Glenn and David
Eddie, Rick, Darlene, Dad, Allan, Mom, Cheryl, Glenn and David
Rick, Allan, Mom and Nana
Allan and Cheryl
Glenn, David and Eddie
Allan, Glenn, Eddie, Don and David
Darlene, Dad, Eddie, Don and Rick
Rick, Cheryl, Darlene and Eddie, Dad with David, Mom with Don, Allan and Glenn
Glenn, Eddie, David, Allan and little Don
FUN CHAOS!
Eddie (Ed the Head) and Don
Allan, Glenn, Ed and Don
Posted in children, Christmas, family, friendship, fun, happiness, heart, holiday, hope, innocence, life, love, party, smile, togetherness, well-being, wonder
Tagged Christmas, Eddie Saugstad, family, hope, togetherness
🎄Merry Christmas!🎁 (the Evolution of Eddie)
I was born into the realm of the Wild West when Elvis was king, at the height of social freedoms which were slipping steadily down into the mists of abandon. Unlimited alcohol and tobacco consumption were a household norm for many families, with few or no suspicions about their ill effects — gross and subtle.
My first eight years took me along an often bumpy road, with the scary shadows of evermore chaos lurking just around the next bend. But there was also love. I grew up with some delightfully humorous and caring souls. My best memories still shine from those joyous occasions when we, once a year, exchanged presents, had fun together, and temporarily forgot all our fears and worries: Christmas Days!
Just before my eighth Christmas in 1965, my Dad returned home, sober, after a four year absence. From that time on, everything seemed to get more prosperous and abundant — including the number of siblings. Within another three years we would be eight brothers and sisters celebrating at home together!
I was then blessed to live through a period of wealth and wellbeing that most children in the world will never know. Looking back at my long climb as a human being, I recognize how very lucky I’ve been this time around.
May the liberating Innocence, that we call Luck, fill the hearts of good people, everywhere.
Wishing you and yours Love and Light at this special time,
your friend in this abundant moment,
Ed
(We were, oldest to youngest: Dad, Mom, Darlene, Cheryl, Rick, Ed, Glenn, David, Allan and Don. Christmases were also celebrated at Nana and Grandpa’s place, Mom’s Finnish parents. Almost half-a-century later we would be three more, Tia, Karen and Cliff, senior siblings divided from us by Dad’s first divorce.)
Darlene, Eddie, Rick and Cheryl
Darlene, Eddie, Rick and Cheryl
Rick, Eddie, Darlene, Grandpa, Glenn and Cheryl
David and Glenn, Darlene, Rick, Cheryl and Eddie
Darlene, Eddie, Rick, Glenn and Cheryl
Rick, Mom, Nana, Glenn, Eddie, Darlene and Cheryl, Grandpa and David
Rick, Cheryl, Eddie, Glenn, Darlene and David
Eddie’s haircut, May 1965
(a month before the end of grade one, and still half a year before that special Christmas that marked the end of Dad’s long drunken absence)
Glenn, David and Eddie
Darlene, Mom, Cheryl, Rick, Eddie, Glenn and David
David, Glenn and Eddie
Cheryl and Darlene, Glenn, Eddie, Rick and David
Darlene, Rick and Cheryl (the ‘Big Kids’) and Eddie, Glenn and David (the ‘Little Kids’)
Cheryl, Glenn and David
Darlene, Mom and Dad, Eddie, Nana, Rick, Cheryl, David and Glenn
Eddie, Rick, Darlene, Dad, Allan, Mom, Cheryl, Glenn and David
Eddie, Rick, Darlene, Dad, Allan, Mom, Cheryl, Glenn and David
Rick, Allan, Mom and Nana
Allan and Cheryl
Glenn, David and Eddie
Allan, Glenn, Eddie, Don and David
Darlene, Dad, Eddie, Don and Rick
Rick, Cheryl, Darlene and Eddie, Dad with David, Mom with Don, Allan and Glenn
Glenn, Eddie, David, Allan and little Don
FUN CHAOS!
Eddie (Ed the Head) and Don
Allan, Glenn, Ed and Don
Posted in children, Christmas, family, friendship, fun, happiness, heart, holiday, hope, innocence, life, love, party, smile, togetherness, well-being, wonder
Tagged Christmas, Eddie Saugstad, family, hope, togetherness
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