Oregon Gnosis

06/23/2026

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VideoRight Livelihood/Vocation The word vocation relates to a person’s employment, trade or profession. It also relates to a strong feeling or calling for a particular career or occupation. All of us grew up knowing that we would have to work one day. For some of us this may have caused a lot of s...

06/20/2026

☀️ Summer Solstice & the Mystery of Ishtar
In ancient Babylonian tradition, Ishtar descended through seven gates of the underworld, surrendering all that was superficial before returning transformed through the Water of Life.

This timeless allegory reminds us that spiritual growth requires us to let go of what no longer serves us, descend into self-discovery, and awaken the inner light of consciousness.

As we celebrate the longest day of the year tomorrow, may the Summer Solstice inspire your own journey toward renewal, wisdom, and inner awakening.

✨ "Know yourself, and you will know the universe and the gods."

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06/17/2026

Rather than avoiding our struggles, meditation teaches us to understand them—and through understanding, find freedom.
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Discover practical guidance for self-understanding, meditation, and inner transformation in To Meditate Is to See.

06/17/2026

If we awaken our consciousness, we could verify the concrete fact that the world is not as we are seeing it. If one could wake up from that dream in which one finds oneself, then one would see the wonderful phenomena that have happened around since the beginning of the world...
I know phenomena so simple that anyone can see them. They are physical, material, they are visible to the whole world, and yet people, seeing them, do not see them! You could tell me..., or ask yourselves, and with good reason (or you could “demand me, to speak more clearly). “If that's the case, why doesn't you even mention one to us?” The reasons? One: because if I mentioned to you any of those phenomena (which are perceptible to the naked eye), you would see them immediately and you would die, because it turns out that all those phenomena that currently correspond to forces and wonders are jealously guarded by certain very strong elementals, which when discovered, would cause the death of the curious, and since I do not want to create a graveyard on my own, I find myself in the need to remain silent...
So, brothers and sisters, it is necessary to wake up, if you want to perceive the great realities of life; but it is only possible to wake up by knowing how to live.
How could someone wake up when one is a toy of others? If I were to insult you at this moment, I am sure that you would not tolerate me, you would protest violently, and the best of you would immediately withdraw...
See how easy it is to make you change! It is enough for me to say a harsh little word to you and you will be quickly red-faced and furious. Now if I want to flatter you, all I have to do is tell you sweet words, and you will be instantly happy; that is, you are victims of circumstances, you are not masters of yourselves, and that is unfortunate, right?
So, brothers and sisters, those of you who want to be masters of themselves must begin by not allowing the mind and feelings to intervene in your affairs of practical life.
Of course, this requires, I repeat, as I have already said, a tremendous passivity of the personality and a terrific activity of the consciousness.
That is precisely what we need: activity of the consciousness. When the consciousness becomes active it comes out of its lethargy, and then it is obvious that the awakening comes...
First of all, we must start by not doing what others do.
We need to become individuals, and that is only possible by de-egoizing ourselves, and not allowing the mind and feelings to interfere in the different circumstances of existence.
So, the circumstances of life depend on our states of consciousness; changing one's states of consciousness, circumstances change, that's obvious.
We cannot change the circumstances of life if we do not first change our states of consciousness...
I therefore invite you to deeper reflection. As we allow the consciousness to become active, as we control the mind and feeling, so that they don't stick their noses where they shouldn't, the result will be wonderful, because as the consciousness becomes active, the process of awakening is accentuated.
And not only do all the circumstances that surround us change, but also, we begin to notice that during the hours in which the physical body sleeps, we work (live, we “would say), outside the physical body in a more cognizant manner.
And so, as the personality becomes passive, as the mind and feeling are restrained so that they don't go where they shouldn't, the awakening of our consciousness will become greater and greater; and thus, we will end up becoming great researchers of life in the superior worlds...
Who wants to wake up must do it here and now. Who wakes up here and now wakes up in all corners of the universe.” - Samael Aun Weor

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06/16/2026

Continuing with the EightFold path, Right Vocation and Effort. Premier: June 21 at 8am pacific time.

The word "right," is used in reference to purity. During this presentation we will discuss the 5th and 6th steps of the "Eightfold Path." Each step helps one become aware of their suffering and how to end it. The Eightfold Path is for everyone. With these two steps, we are seeking to better our lives, become aware of what areas we need to improve, become aware of what we're giving our power to, whether it's pure or impure, make changes and work to discover our true purpose. Imagine empowering the parts of you that help with knowing who you truly are and why you are here. Inverential Peace!

"Work is love made visible." - Kahlil Gibran

"A sleeping consciousness, a hypnotized consciousness, cannot know anything about God, or the reality, or the truth, or that which is beyond death. A sleeping consciousness can only live bound by its own conditioning. To know what is beyond death, to know what really exists on the threshold of mystery, we need to wake up. Unfortunately, people continue with their consciousness asleep. My dear friends, understand, comprehend that love is the foundation of everything that is, has been and will be. My friends: to reach the complete awakening, one needs tenacity in this work; fighting tirelessly every day, watching ourselves at home, on the street, among friends, at work, etc., and whatever defect we discover in our words, in our looks, in our thoughts, we must annihilate it. The time has come to understand, my friends, that through awakened consciousness it is possible to take the great leap to immerse fully into the great reality of life free in its movement, beyond this dualistic and frightening machinery of relativity." - Samael Aun Weor

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06/16/2026

Consciousness and Circumstances: States and Events

“When we talk with someone, they tell us the various events of their life; they speak to us, we could say, of events, of what happened at certain times in their history as if life were only a chain of events.
People do not realize that in addition to the circumstances of existence, there are also states of consciousness; the capacity to live is based, precisely, on the way in which one manages to combine the states of “cognizance with the circumstances of existence.
It may be the case that a circumstance that could have been happy was not because we did not know how to combine the conscious state with the event itself...
When we examine the world in which we live, we can verify the conclusive, clear, and definitive fact that there are people who should be happy and they are not. We have known many concrete cases of subjects who have a good house, a beautiful car, a magnificent spouse, beautiful children, and enough money, and yet they are not happy. On the other hand, we have been able to see, corroborate the case of poor individuals, who are needy, possibly humble pick-and-shovel laborers, who neither enjoy a beautiful mansion, nor have more money than is needed for daily sustenance, nor use beautiful late-model car, and yet they are happy in their homes with their children (poor but clean, tidy), and their industrious and sincere spouse.
Thus, it is not money, in itself, that can give us happiness; everything depends on the way in which one knows how to combine the cognizant states with the events or circumstances of practical life.
If someone placed in magnificent conditions is not up to the circumstances, if one does not know how to combine, intelligently, the cognizant states with the environment in which one develops and lives, they will unquestionably be unfortunate. Yet another, even in difficult circumstances, who knows how to combine the facts of practical life with states of consciousness, will achieve well-being, prosperity, happiness, etc.
Thus, it is urgent to understand the need to learn how to live wisely...
If we want a definitive change in the circumstances of life, it is necessary for that change to take place first within ourselves. If internally we do not change anything, externally life will continue with its difficulties...
Above all, it is necessary to make ourselves masters of ourselves. As long as one does not know how to govern oneself, one will not be able to govern the difficult circumstances of existence either.
When we contemplate the various events of life, when we see this order of things, we can see that people are true machines that do not know how to live. If someone insults them, they react furiously.
If someone praises them, they smile happily. It is really very easy for any perverse person to play with human machines; they can be made to go from sadness to happiness, and vice versa, just by saying a few words.
It is enough for someone to insult us for us to react. It is enough for someone to pat us on the shoulder for us to smile happily. We do not know how to govern ourselves, others govern us, and that is indeed unfortunate. We are incapable. How easy it is for them to play with us, right?” - Samael Aun Weor

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06/14/2026

♋ Cancer (June 21 – July 22) is associated with the White Rose flower, Eucalyptus, the Cherry Tree, Violet plants, and the purifying aroma of Camphor. Traditionally used in spiritual and meditative practices, these fragrances can help create an uplifting atmosphere for reflection, prayer, and inner renewal.

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06/11/2026

Many of us seek freedom in our circumstances, but true freedom begins within. Learning to observe and direct our thoughts, emotions, and impulses can open the door to lasting peace and happiness.

✨ What is one habit, thought, or emotion you would like to gain greater control over?
Share your thoughts below. 👇

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06/10/2026

Self-knowledge

Everyone is free to investigate physics, chemistry, wherever they want, but the most important thing for us is to investigate ourselves, to deeply explore ourselves. Only then will we get where we need to go, my dear friends...
The consciousness, I repeat, is valuable and worth paying attention to. But, to wake it up, to get it out of the state of torpor in which it finds itself, we need to learn how to self-observe ourselves daily, this with the purpose to self-discover ourselves.
There is no doubt that in all self-discovery there is self-revelation. When one discovers a defect and disintegrates it, one knows a new truth, one receives a message of light, one learns something new.
This is how we can daily feed ourselves with the transubstantial bread that comes from above, which is the bread of wisdom.
As we disintegrate the ego, we will feed ourselves with the bread of wisdom.
However, before disintegrating the ego, the only thing that human beings have in their minds are ideas, and theories and more theories, and as Goethe said:

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”

It is necessary to understand, my dear friends, that the noblest faculties of the Being can only awaken in us with the destruction of the myself, of the ego, that is, through the Buddhist annihilation... - Samael Aun Weor

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06/09/2026

“A Revolutionary Leap
The time has come to understand, my friends, that through awakened consciousness it is possible to take the great leap to immerse fully into the great reality of life free in its movement, beyond this dualistic and frightening machinery of relativity.
All of us are victims of the law; karma falls on each of us like a bolt of revenge. We err and we err again, and karma punishes us and punishes us again.
We are in a world of causes and effects. Every harsh word (for example) that we utter will later fall on us like a bolt of vengeance. We do evil and receive evil; and there is no effect without cause or cause without effect... This is the machinery of relativity.
Within this machinery of relativity everything is processed according to the law of cause and effect. All of this terrible chain of causes and effects has enslaved us in this valley of bitterness, in this cosmic dust cloud...
In this world of associations and combinations, the only thing that exists is pain. We need to get out of this world of combinations and take the great leap to immerse into the illuminating Void, and subsequently enter the great reality, the tality, life free in its movement.
But this would not be possible if we did not explore ourselves deeply to discover our psychological defects: anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc. They are the multiple defects that we carry within, and each of these is the head of a legion...”

8For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” 9Then He asked him, “What is your name? And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” 10Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country.” Mark 5:1

“In the Egyptian doctrine these are known as the red demons of Seth. These are the psychic aggregates that we carry within, the living personifications of our psychological defects.
It is necessary to disintegrate them, to turn them into dust of the earth, into cosmic dust, in order to awaken our consciousness and take the great leap, the “bold leap” that will allow us to immerse into the illuminating Void and later enter the bosom of the great reality...
Listen, this is not an evolutionary leap. Evolution is the twin sister of devolution. They are mechanical laws of this world of relativity. Neither of these two laws could allow us to enter the great reality.
It is not through incessant evolutions (through millions of lives) that we will one day be able to reach the great reality, no! The innumerable births and the laws of evolution and devolution revolve here, in this universe of relativity, incessantly. Neither of these two laws (of evolution and devolution), will be able to allow us to take the great leap.
We really need to be revolutionaries, rebels, take the big leap no matter what the cost might be. This is only possible by breaking chains, destroying all those perversities that we carry within, all those barbarities that make us unhappy, wretched... Only in this way, my dear friends, will we be able to take the great leap.
There are virtuous and ineffable saints that religions revere, that have merits, but as I already told you, in the last synthesis, these only allow you to be born in the heavens of the space or on the painful Earth, but never enter the bosom of the great reality (where there are no saints). Within “the great reality there is only life free in its movement, humans who have freed themselves from themselves, those who have destroyed their defects in life, those who have rebelled against the horrible machinery of relativity...
If we want final liberation, we need an active revolution. Only in this way we will arrive where we have to arrive, which is, to authentic happiness (to which we have the right), to inexhaustible happiness.
We need to break chains, revolutionize ourselves against everything that currently exists on the right or on left of the world.
We need to comprehend that matter is nothing more than a homogeneous substance that, in the last synthesis, becomes wonderful from the ineffable Chaos, from the unlimited space, from the divine.
We need to not allow ourselves to be biased by the schools of the right or of the left, that is, spirituality or materialism.
What do the priests of religions know, for example, about reality, about the tality, about that which is beyond the body, the affections and the mind? They may have read the teachings of the enlightened masters, but they have not realized them in “themselves and therefore have not experienced anything.
What do the pontiffs of materialism know about matter? Nothing! Let us look at matter, a piece of iron, what do we see there? “We see matter!”, the materialists will say; but they also call a piece of glass “matter” (pure empiricism, we would say, between parentheses). But those atoms that rotate there around their gravitational centers with their electrical charges, what does it mean? They know nothing about it. They only know that ions revolve around their electrons and understand something about protons, etc., but nothing more.
We say that there are igneous particles within those atoms (igneous souls). Those igneous souls are really extraordinary. Those igneous souls, those igneous particles, are the ones that weave and unweave, incessantly, that which is called “matter”, that which many call “matter” (an issue of name), because nobody knows the substance...
There are magicians in the East who harness those igneous souls or igneous particles placed inside atoms, and by means of them they perform extraordinary prodigies “So, ultimately, these atoms also carry what is called spirit or fire...
It is good to understand that these electrical charges of the atoms are cognizant, they are the igneous souls. Understanding this (understanding that the spirit exists in everything), it is worth reflecting a little...
What do physicists know about the substance itself? Nothing, absolutely nothing! Therefore, the time has come when we, passing beyond the electrical charges of atoms, or the reverse charges in antimatter, dedicate ourselves to self-exploration of ourselves, with the purpose of knowing something about ourselves, something about our own Being. That is what we have dedicated ourselves to and that is the purpose of the teachings that we have here...” - Samael Aun Weor

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