Wishing you all the best for the coming year!
Best wishes, Ed and Brigitte
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Posted in 2021, 21st century trend, Brigitte Saugstad, children, Christmas, creativity, endearing, enlightenment, friendship, fun, Ganesha, gratitude, Hanuman, happiness, holiday, hope, inspiration, life, light, mouse, smile, togetherness
Tagged Brigitte Saugstad, ceramic art, Christmas 2020, Ganesha, Hanuman
Posted in 2021, 21st century trend, collective consciousness, enlightenment, freedom, friendship, fulfillment, happiness, health, hope, humanity, inspiration, Kundalini, life, light, meditation, peace, self-isolation, smile, thoughtless awareness, togetherness, well-being, yoga
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Posted in 2020, 21st century trend, art, benevolence, Brigitte Saugstad, creativity, Diwali, endearing, enlightenment, fun, Ganesha, gratitude, Happy Diwali!, hope, humanity, India, innocence, inspiration, joy, life, light, smile, talent
Tagged Brigitte Saugstad, Ganesha, Happy Diwali!, joy, life, light
Posted in 2020, 21st century trend, art, Brigitte Saugstad, creativity, Ganesha, Hanuman, heart, inspiration, joy, life, light, mouse, smile, talent, thoughtless awareness, timelessness
Tagged art, Austria, Brigitte Saugstad, ceramic art, Ganesha, Hanuman, online shopping
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
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Dear Friend!
Year 2020 will be the last one of the age of materialism…
✨“The biggest and grandest alignment comes on December 21, 2020 when Jupiter joins Saturn in what’s referred to as the great conjunction. “✨
✨“These grand conjunctions come every 20 years, but this meeting has extra gravitas. It marks the end of a 200-year cycle of unions in earth signs that’s brought the age of materialism, banking, capitalism and corporations.”✨
✨“December 2020 kicks off a new 200-year cycle of unions in air signs. What that will bring isn’t entirely clear yet, but early indications are that thought, philosophy and truth will prevail. This is going to be a big shift.”✨
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Tagged 2020, new age, new Roaring Twenties
~Edward Saugstad
~Lyall Watson
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Tagged angels, collective consciousness, enlightened collectivity, enlightenment, inner freedom, Supernature
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Tagged bravery, childhood trauma, freedom, inspiration, liberation, The King's Speech
Posted in 2019, 21st century trend, don't panic, dreams, freedom, friendship, fulfillment, fun, gadzooks!, gratitude, happiness, holiday, inspiration, joy, life, light, love, music, nature, party, people, smile, togetherness, well-being
Tagged Austria, fun, happiness, Italy, joy, life, Spitz Villa, togetherness, Traun Lake, wedding
Posted in 2019, 21st century trend, art, Brigitte Saugstad, children, creativity, Ganesha, happiness, hope, Inner Peace Day, innocence, inspiration, joy, life, light, love, meditation, peace, silence, smile, talent, thoughtless awareness, timelessness, togetherness, well-being
Tagged 2019, Brigitte Saugstad, Ganesha, Inner Peace Day, meditation, springtime
“Happy New Year!”
(meditate to regenerate)
🌹🍀🌹🍀🌹🍀🌹
Like millions of dew drops, each perfectly reflecting the morning sun, may every cell inside me naturally reflect the Heart of God.
I will no longer be divided from Her by my two arbitrary balloons of ego and conditionings.
Her promise to me is healing equilibrium and eternal Union.
Unconditionally do I accept my destiny divine.
or here:
http://edsaugstad.com/VIDEO-files/the-cool-breeze-and-forgiveness-from-The-Shack.mp4
Posted in 2019, 21st century trend, alert mental silence, enlightenment, forgiveness, freedom, fulfillment, grace, gratitude, happiness, health, hope, joy, life, light, love, meditation, peace, silence, smile, thoughtless awareness, well-being, yoga means 'UNION'
Tagged 2019, good health, inner peace, world peace
Have you ever spontaneously flown somewhere, not knowing what to expect but feeling a rare thrill rising in your heart? When my wife first heard that many of our friends were booked to fly to Greece to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light, she took out her smart-phone and booked two seats for us.
I’d never been down to that fabled peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea, but my first impression was similar to that of India, an ancient world that I’ve had the privilege of visiting many times. This initial intuition that began when my wife came home and announced that we would soon be going there, was boosted when we eventually boarded an airliner half full of laughing, singing, childlike Indian women, all of whom had also strongly felt the calling.
My first impressions there were that everything was familiar. It was easy to get around in, like any other Western country. The freeways were almost empty and everyone seemed to drive slowly, which was very relaxing (although it did occur to Brigitte and me that maybe due to the economic hardships the locals are experiencing, not many can afford to speed, or even to drive). Then a massive wall of dark grey-purple cloud rose up and washed the landscape clean with a brief rain. We found it to be a significant welcome for all the pilgrims showing up that weekend, and I was reminded of the ancient demigods who were believed to inhabit this land in prehistory. (Human beings, in particular one or two ‘poets’, long ago wrote perverted interpretations of these titans’ lives on Earth, lowering them to the level of incest and murder, ideas unfortunately still generally accepted today.)
My wife’s favourite thing in life is to wake up early near a beach and go for a long walk and foot-soak there. We were sheltered near the scenic end of a bay, and because it was outside of the busy summer season, there was hardly anyone around. In Greece, even the stray dogs and cats seem at peace as they stretch out beside strangers and give the impression of being completely fulfilled (when actually they’re cleverly making friends to get something to eat!). Every morning our hearts would stretch out to the distant islands and mysterious waters so our souls could consume the vast beauty and deep history around us. We attended colourful Diwali functions, enjoyed ourselves immensely with many new and old friends, and even ascended the ancient inland hills to the Centre of the World, the Navel of Creation! (Weeks later, Brigitte hasn’t lost the inspiring heart-boost that she still rides on daily.)
They say that Zeus, king of the demigods, in order to determine the centre of the world, sent two great eagles flying, one from each extreme, east and west. They met in the place that was later named Delphi. A most magical place! I really felt like I was back in India where everything began thousands of years ago, not in young Europe any more. There’s even a natural free-standing stone in the original centre of the sacred grounds, recognizable as the Hindu child-god, Ganesha, emitting amazing vibrations (light and cool).
All two-hundred-and-fifty of us felt light and joyous, many reminded of the old tours of central India that we used to go on in the nineteen-eighties. In contrast to the great subtle significance of this location, Brigitte pointed out that the manmade history was just full of ego. Pompous conquerers would display statues of their officers there to show the gods and all the world how very important they were. Even down in the so-called civilized nation-state of Athens, such a great, benevolent genius (I would go so far as to say divine messenger) like Socrates was killed by men-on-ego. And here we are, thousands of years later, repeating the same patterns in our heads, hearts and actions.
Descending back down to the twenty-first century at the end of the day, I remembered how, as a twelve-year-old child in Canada in 1970, I had suddenly been overwhelmed to write a long Social Studies essay on the Greek gods, accompanied by a hand-drawn wall mural; and in Art class I passionately attempted to carve a plaster-of-Paris bust of Socrates. I didn’t know what overcame me at that time, but now I guess it was personal insight into a higher realm of existence. Forty-eight years later I’ve breathed those essential airs and walked upon the very roots of legend that send the restless mind up into soothing meditation.
If you’ve never been to Greece, go there soon — with an open mind and heart.
Best wishes (pure desires),
Ed
more photos here:
https://www.facebook.com/edward.saugstad/media_set?set=a.10156077110191545&type=3
Posted in 2018, 21st century trend, enlightenment, friendship, fun, Ganesha, Greece, Happy Diwali!, holiday, hope, India, inspiration, joy, life, light, love, meditation, smile, timelessness, wisdom
Tagged gods, Greece, Happy Diwali!, Pallas Athena, Socrates, time travel
My existence has been a silent song
awaiting the dawn of music 🦋🎶
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Tagged enlightenment, hope, music
Posted in 2018, creativity, Ed Saugstad, fun, holiday, inspiration, life, light, meditation, music, nature, peace, smile, thoughtless awareness, timelessness, well-being
Tagged Cabella, Ed Saugstad, keyboard improv., TEV
Victoria:
‘We were reminiscing about Cabella. Our daughter Joy said “For us children, Uncle Eddie was King” and “When I grow up I’m going to follow his tradition of making all the children happy.” Then she told us about the coins you used to bury in the sandpit and how they found enough to buy an ice cream, and other lovely stories and memories.’
Posted in 2018, dreams, Ed Saugstad, freedom, heart, hope, life, light, peace, silence, smile, thoughtless awareness, timelessness, well-being, yoga means 'UNION'
36 years ago today I crossed an essential threshold and embarked on an epic journey …
into enlightenment.
Almost every day since the 20th of April, 1982, I’ve been able to attain clarity, and briefly glimpse blissful Reality through the instrument of my central nervous system, and the state of thoughtless awareness.
The upward spiral unfolds, with wonderful surprises arising just around every curve.
More than anything else, I wish this for you.
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(for full-size headphones or bass intense speaker system!)
In separation have I suffered long,
But now am glorified in the eternal bliss of Union.
And from my core,
That once was small,
The sound of Light
Expands to all.
Never will I shrink again
Into a ball of doubt and pain.
Forever forth, in inner sky,
I spread my wings and upward fly.
All Life pulsates within my breast.
I have become
The hollow drum.
~Ed Saugstad
20 April 2018
—special thanks to Linda Dzus (wife of one of my old best buddies, Doug) who took this amazing photo in their neighbourhood on Mayne Island, British Columbia, the oasis that I briefly took refuge in after attaining self-realisation, 36 years ago—
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Tagged drumming, Ed Saugstad, enlightenment, freedom, inspiration, Sahaja Yoga meditaion
Posted in 2018, Easter, forgiveness, freedom, fun, Ganesha, happiness, life, light, love, smile
Tagged Brigitte Saugstad, Ganesha, Happy Easter!
I was born an optimist.
Despite the chaos of alcoholism, I survived childhood.
At the age of twelve I wrote an emotional essay on the insanity of war
that raised many eyebrows, but echoed away into silence,
ineffective.
With sixteen I enthusiastically came across the theories of meditation
and the age of enlightenment, only to be mislead by
imposters.
But my desire was pure, and the light that I came to believe might just be imagined,
turned out to be real and all-pervading.
Despite the fruitless jungle of youth, with its years of aimless wanderings under the influence of narcotics, I stumbled out into adulthood, and, step by step,
made my way up the mountain
— thanks to our fourth, natural (and now thriving) state:
thoughtless awareness.
Here, on the brink of universal change, when darkness takes its last stand, I am firmly rooted in the belief that each of us carries the seed of the highest ideal in us, about to sprout, or already stretching out its magnificent boughs.
We need to nurture that.
We are not these shells.
I have felt, again and again, the immensity of who we are.
The time has come to shine.
Optimistically yours,
Ed Saugstad
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Tagged Ed Saugstad, enlightenment, survive, thrive
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Tagged hope, life, world innocence, world peace
🤓😏🤭😃😚🤗😳😋😍🤪🙃
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Tagged forgiveness, inner freedom, inner peace
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Tagged 1982, Ed Saugstad
(and don’t fear ogres — they may turn out to be your friends or relations!)
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