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Amrit Sandhu sits with a guest named David, who treats food, fasting, and soil as spiritual work. David says Jesus belonged to the Essenes near Qumran on the Dead Sea, and that those people later followed Christ. You do not enlist, in his telling. You notice that you already live that way. From Rudolf Steiner he takes two pressures. One buries a culture in materialism and in the boast that humans can outwit nature. The other is escapism. Lab science, he says, cannot catch a meaningful coincidence. Biodynamic fields join sky to soil, and tobacco is a plant he says carries prayer. He reports water fasts as long as seventy days. Amrit, who now fasts a few days a month, says the practice became something he wants. With Steiner, Sri Yukteswar, and Yogananda, David puts the end of a dark age in 1899 and calls this the start of a light age, with people as the remedy rather than the mistake.
Key points
- David places Jesus with the Essenes near Qumran and says that community later followed Christ.
- He describes two pressures, hard materialism and escapism, as what shoves a life off center.
- A meaningful coincidence, in his view, sits outside anything a laboratory can count or predict.
- Biodynamic fields and tobacco are offered as living links among prayer, soil, and sky.
- Long water fasts are the discipline he credits with cutting through confusion.
- He dates a dark age’s end to 1899 and says a lighter age has already begun.
Short quotes
realizing science can't quantify nor predict a synchronicity so there are phenomena that are outside of being able to even
David, Essene practice and a light age
He says a coincidence full of meaning sits outside what instruments can predict. Watch at 3:41
that's over embedding us into materialism and then we've got these like escapism is the other Force
Amrit Sandhu, Essene practice and a light age
The host restates the two pulls as materialism on one side and escapism on the other. Watch at 8:02
armonic deception came this idea that we can beat Mother Nature at her own game
David, Essene practice and a light age
He names the materialist error as the boast that people can outwit the living world. Watch at 20:12
initially it was a hard practice now I really look forward to my fasting days
Amrit Sandhu, Essene practice and a light age
After monthly fasts, the host says the hard part gave way to something he wants. Watch at 52:08
about and this is an Awakening of humanity because we're just starting into a a SATA Yuga a light age we're
David, Essene practice and a light age
He calls the present the opening of a light age rather than the depth of a dark one. Watch at 1:14:18
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