All your actions should be prayers. It is amazing to observe that most of the people enveloped in sloth and lethargy are not aware that life on this earth is but a brief moment, and that moment should be utilized to purify the way of the soul. Those who live in such a...
(Guru Purnima is July 10, 2025) In all spiritual traditions this day is considered to be very holy. For on this day students become aware that life is not to be believed only in the external world—that there is something higher, deeper, than what they have been doing....
Part 3 After concluding the laboratory work on Sunday, Alyce and I invited Dr. Ferguson and the Swami to dinner with us at a local smorgasbord place. While chatting about yogic methods for self-regulation, the Swami surprised us by saying, “I am sorry I didn’t stop my...
Part 2 We continued talking for a few minutes. Suddenly the Swami said, “Be attentive, I will do something.” Caught by surprise, I said over the intercom, “Be attentive.” I could not think of anything else to say and did not know what he was going to do. The record...
Part 1 As already noted, Alyce and Dale Walters and I began research in self-regulation of autonomic processes in the mid-1960s. Through a publication of the Menninger Foundation, which is sent to psychiatric alumni, our voluntary controls program came to the...
Part 2 The body and, hence, the mind are continually undergoing changes of state due to various factors such as climate, environment, and habits, and those influences are beyond the realm of man’s control. The consequence of this continual and varied state of affairs...
