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In 1971, Mike Shreve (founder of this site) was a teacher of Kundalini Yoga at four universities and he ran a yoga ashram in Tampa, Florida. Then an encounter with God dramatically transformed his heart, his life, and his worldview.
This concept of being “one with God” can be interpreted two main ways: (1) Undifferentiated oneness and sameness, (2) Differentiated oneness: union with uniqueness, marriage by merging, blending but not the banishing of individuality. In this latter...
As a yoga instructor I taught my students that God resides within every human being, that all people possess an inward ‘spark of divine nature.’ This is basically the stance taken in Far Eastern and New Age religious groups, that the Creator is...
As a yoga student, I was taught that Jesus’ death on the cross was merely an example of obedience, an inspiring demonstration of the “at-one-ment” Jesus possessed with the Oversoul. It graphically showed how far we should all be willing to go in...
Many Far Eastern and New Age groups differentiate between the man, Jesus, and “the Christ.” Dr. Ernest Holmes, founder of the United Church of Religious Science, stressed: “Christ is the reality of every man, his true inner self.”1 “Christ is...
