"I am making a call to reclaim our Speech, which I believe is essential for both our survival and our prosperity."
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As an initiate, guru, and now lineage holder in India’s most
ancient and largest order of yogis and shamans, Juna Akhara, my studies and
practices over the last 44 years in India are all part of an Oral Tradition passed down over the millenia from the voice of the guru to the ear of the disciple.
We personify Speech as Mother Goddess. I am going to tell you a story of how Speech plays the determining role in our consciousness, in our experience of life, and in how we know ourselves.
“They praised Language as a powerful and benign Goddess
ever ready to bestow favors on Her devotees.”
Although I have been teaching and writing about Sacred
Speech since 1977, a number of recent events regarding our freedom and privacy of Speech (and thought) and the wholesale corruption of mass media, have made me feel
the urgency to share my knowledge and experience about the nature and
power of speech with a wider public.
My goal here is much
larger than the book.
I believe we are in a civilizational crisis, and at its very
core is that fact that our Speech has been diminished, our
languages are degrading, and along with this, the control of our own lives and
thoughts. Philosophers, linguists, cognitive scientists and babas will all
agree that our knowledge and our experience is determined from our Speech.
My story requires that I tell you about the great masters of Sacred Speech in
ancient and medieval India, their lineages, their sublime teachings and practices, and how we may employ those teachings in our
lives today.
We will explore what a tradition is and how it works, how knowledge is obtained and passed down, storytelling, what a practice really means, and what constitutes authority.
We will explore how Sacred Speech is actually used, in a spiritual discipline, in ritual, in mantra and tantra, and in daily life, for the purposes of self knowledge as well as prosperity.
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Since my goal here is to not only entertain you, but also give you tools for personal growth, we will examine many of the assumptions we bring into the study of the "other" (whether another culture, religion, or even gender), to free ourselves of those limitations, especially in these times in which our speech has been so compromised by mass media.
We will also look at how mass media has affected our speech, the use of abstractions and euphemisms, Orwell's rules, and how we may reclaim our speech and our empowerment.
It’s employment leads to prosperity - in the ancient Vedic rituals, as well as in the modern IT revolution; but its misuse leads to political and economic manipulation of the public, as pointed out by Orwell, with disastrous results.
“...the very words in our mouths have become colonial subjects
immigrating from mass media.” -- Baba Rampuri
The Matrix of Sacred Speech is not about the description and analysis of a particular language, even Sanskrit, but exploring the true nature and potentialities of language, emphasizing its role in effecting liberation; that it may be used by my readers as magical formulae to employ in their lives, not only to be more successful, prosperous, and happy, but, to have real relationships, to increase perception and knowledge, and to do good things.
Topics covered include:
•The Spiritual Mind
•Acquiring Knowledge
•Authority, Text, and Scripture
•The Enlightenment
•Panini, the Birth of Linguistics, and the IT revolution
•Deconstructing the Idea of India
•Deconstructing Yoga – Science & Yoga
•Mantra
•Tantra
Yantra: practical uses and applications
•Sacred Grammar and Grammatology
•Yoga Sutra and Patanjali
•Storytelling - Myth Structures/Modern adaptations
•The Mother Goddess - The Little Mothers – Matrikas
•The practice of Sacred Speech
•Manipulation of Speech – Orwell’s warnings
•Rules for empowering your speech
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PLAN
I have cleared my schedule to focus on completing the
manuscript of the Matrix of Sacred Speech
in the next six months. We will need 2 months of editing, so by July, 2014, I can start working with our translators for our editions in several languages. The English Language edition will be ready for public release in September, 2014, while the other language editions by November, 2014.
PERKS
Everyone making any contribution of any kind will receive a personal "thank you" from me as well as my blessings.
My goal with the "perks" is to make them relevant to the principles of community and collaboration, to either include you in the creative process itself, or at least give you some special access, and a seat in the front row.
Please check on the side bar for the levels of the perks. Everyone participating in the perks will be receiving The Matrix of Sacred Speech about a month before public release, and you may have followed the conversation through updates on this page, or in newsletter, or personal contact with me. So we may certainly have a conversation before the general public is involved. As the perks move to higher levels, I want to be able to personalize the book for you, by signing it, and then be able to acknowledge your collaboration and generosity in the book itself, and be able to have personal contact with some of you over SKYPE.
Druvinka, the most exciting contemporary artist from Sri Lanka, is donating a painting, "The Mother of Speech" that she has created exclusively for this book. She is known for the multilayered story myth-scapes she creates on large canvasses. She is making 16X16 Fine Art Prints of her painting, which she will number and sign for some of our supporters.
Master Class
Also listed among the perks, for those of you who would like to take collaboration further, I will conduct an on-line Master Class, in the form of an interactive webinar, dealing
with the subject or chapter that I am working on at the time. This will be once a week going on over 3 months. Besides allowing some supporters participation in discussions dealing with the actual content
going into the book, and ask their questions, it also gives me an opportunity
to know my audience better, and an insight into how to articulate the knowledge
I have to give you, so that it rings bells. In this way, the audience
collaborates with me in a new way. I have some important and valuable things
to tell you, and I want to make sure they get through. The subject matter will differ at each get together, so missing a session won't disturb the sequence.
The Matrix of Sacred
Speech will be self published and translated into six other languages (so
far) (German, Russian, Italian, French, Czech, and Serbian). Those from countries for which
there will be a translation in their language will receive the translation as
well as the original English.
Newly Added Perks:
We have just received a donation of a collection of rare Indian Mythology Posters of Gods and Goddesses to be used as perks for The Matrix of Sacred Speech Project.
Included in the collection are a large number of litho prints of Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), who almost single handedly created the genre of Calendar Art. These are all originals whose age exceeds 40-50 years, in some cases, more. The Ravi Varma prints are labeled as such.
There are also included litho prints made in Germany in the 1930's. They are labeled.
I've linked to hi-res images of the prints so you may see their quality.
Please send me a private comment or message with the number of the print that is listed below:
$35
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$151
Budget (November 2013 - October 2014)
Printing 5000
Editing/Layout/Formatting 8000
(including translations)
Research 500
Travel 1000
Overhead 7000
Translation - 6 languages 6000
Indiegogo/Paypal/Banking fees 5000
Cost of Perks including Shipping 9000
Web, Internet, Computer, Video 3500
Total 45000
Schedule
Fundraising Campaign ends November 20, 2013
Webinar & Skype calls begin December 10, 2013
Rough Manuscript May 1, 2014
Edited Manuscript July 1, 2014
Public release of Book September, 2014
Rough translations October 1, 2014
Public release of translations November, 2014
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