Blue Star Monastery

Class 3: Spiritual Protection through the Extended Senses
Donation to Temple $25

We will be exploring the five extensions of the five physical senses. As you come to a deeper understanding of the true nature of your senses, you can discern between higher and lower psychism. This can help you further recognize and naturally foster your intuitive abilities in a safe, useful and sacred way.

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Instructor: Rev. Renee Bledsoe, RM
$25 per class - Student will receive a certificate if entire 12 class series is attended.

Class meets every 1st Tuesday of the month.

Each fits on the Universal Medicine Wheel.
East - Cerebral (Thoughts)
South - Osseous (Beliefs)
West - Thoracic (Feelings)
North - Muscular (Action)
Center - Alimentary (Integration/Hub)

Source: Alchemy Consciousness

"According to Rudolf Steiner, we have a devil on each shoulder, and the angel or Christ is within our hearts.

The anthroposophical view is that good is found in the balance between two polar, generally evil influences on world and human evolution.

Two spiritual adversaries endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity: Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman(Satan). Steiner described both positive and negative aspects of both figures.

Lucifer is the light spirit, which "plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity", but also motivates creativity and spirituality.

Lucifer is the "light bearer", carries the message of spirit and denial of the material. Venus represents Lucifer.

Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "...deny [their] link with divinity and to live entirely on the material plane", but also stimulates intellectuality and technology.

Ahriman is like Satan, who carries the message of materiality and denial of the spiritual. Saturn represents Ahriman.

Both figures exert a negative effect on humanity when their influence becomes misplaced or one-sided, yet their influences are necessary for human freedom to unfold.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

The Christ being, or Representative of Humanity, is the True You - your highest self - your soul. The Sun represents Christ, The Light of the world.

Today people divide Christ into aspects such as “historical,” “cosmic,” “mystical” and so on. But Christ in his essence is one and indivisible. There is only one Christ – the living Christ who is the manifestation of God, the manifestation of Love. Christ is God revealing Himself to the world. As a manifestation of God, Christ cannot be separated from Him, cannot be considered apart from Him. And when I speak of Christ, I do not mean an abstract principle, but rather an actual incarnation of Love."

"I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." ~John14:6

On a ship in the middle of the ocean, a teenager solved one of the universe's greatest mysteries.
In July 1930, a 19-year-old named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar boarded the SS Pilsna in Bombay, bound for Cambridge University. The voyage would take weeks—crossing the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, across the Mediterranean.
No phones. No distractions. Just the endless sea, physics journals, and a mind that couldn't stop questioning.
Most passengers spent their time playing cards or reading novels. Chandrasekhar spent his thinking about dying stars.
Scientists believed that when stars exhausted their fuel, they cooled into white dwarfs—dense objects about the size of Earth—and simply faded away. But something about this bothered the young physicist. He began working through the mathematics of stellar collapse, applying Einstein's theory of relativity to what happens inside a dying star.
His calculations revealed something extraordinary.
White dwarfs could remain stable only up to a certain mass. Beyond 1.44 times the mass of our Sun, gravity would become so powerful that nothing could stop the collapse. The star would crush itself into something incomprehensibly dense—a neutron star, or perhaps even an infinitely dense point where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
He had discovered the mathematical doorway to black holes.
By the time the ship docked in England, Chandrasekhar had completed his calculations. He was certain they were correct. He called them "so simple and elementary that anyone could do them."
But at Cambridge, he encountered something he hadn't calculated: prejudice.
He described feeling "suffocatingly lonely, like a single electron in deadly free space." Racial discrimination made him an outsider in the very halls where he should have been celebrated.
And then came the betrayal.
Arthur Eddington—one of the world's most respected astrophysicists, Chandrasekhar's own mentor—publicly ridiculed his work at the Royal Astronomical Society meeting in 1935. He called it "stellar buffoonery" and declared there should be "a law of nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way."
The humiliation was crushing. Chandrasekhar considered quitting science entirely.
But he didn't.
He continued his work quietly, patiently, publishing his findings while the scientific establishment dismissed him. He refined his calculations. He taught students. He waited for the universe to prove him right.
Fifty-three years later, in 1983, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Prize in Physics for the very discovery that had once been mocked.
What began as a lonely calculation on the deck of a ship became one of the most profound insights in astrophysics. The Chandrasekhar Limit is now taught in every astronomy class. His work laid the foundation for our understanding of neutron stars, black holes, and the violent deaths of massive stars.
Two of his students, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, won Nobel Prizes before he did. When asked about this, Chandrasekhar simply continued teaching.
His story isn't just about scientific triumph. It's about what happens when you trust the mathematics even when the world tells you you're wrong. It's about perseverance in the face of prejudice. It's about how one teenager's curiosity on a ship changed our understanding of the cosmos forever.
The stars carried their secrets for billions of years. It took a 19-year-old on a two-week voyage to reveal them.

Panpsychism - The Ancient Idea That the Universe Itself is Conscious

Her name was Tilly Smith. And she was about to prove that a single school lesson could mean the difference between life and death.
On the morning of December 26, 2004, Tilly was walking along Mai Khao Beach in Phuket, Thailand, with her family. They were on their first overseas holiday together—a Christmas treat.
The beach was beautiful. The weather was perfect. But something was wrong.
Tilly noticed the water wasn't behaving normally.
"It wasn't calm and it wasn't going in and then out," she later recalled. "It was just coming in and in and in."
The sea had turned frothy—"like you get on a beer," she said. "It was sort of sizzling."
Any other 10-year-old might have thought it was strange. Tilly knew exactly what it meant.
Just two weeks earlier, in her geography class at Danes Hill School in Surrey, her teacher Andrew Kearney had shown the class black-and-white footage of the 1946 tsunami that devastated Hawaii. He taught them the warning signs: the sea receding unusually far, frothy bubbling water, the ocean behaving in ways it shouldn't.
Tilly was watching those exact warning signs unfold in front of her.
She started screaming at her parents. "There's going to be a tsunami!"
They didn't believe her. They couldn't see any wave. The sky was clear. The beach was calm.
But Tilly wouldn't stop. She became more insistent, more frantic.
"I'm going," she finally said. "I'm definitely going. There is definitely going to be a tsunami."
Her father Colin heard the urgency in her voice. He decided to trust his daughter.
By coincidence, an English-speaking Japanese man nearby overheard Tilly use the word "tsunami." He'd just heard news of an earthquake in Sumatra. "I think your daughter's right," he said.
Colin alerted the hotel staff. They began evacuating the beach immediately.
Tilly's mother Penny was one of the last to leave. She had to sprint as the water began rushing in behind her.
"I ran," Penny recalled, "and then I thought I was going to die."
They made it to the second floor of the hotel with seconds to spare.
Then the wave hit.
It was 30 feet tall.
Everything on the beach—beds, palm trees, debris—was swept into the swimming pool and beyond. "Even if you hadn't drowned," Penny later said, "you would have been hit by something."
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 230,000 people across 14 countries. Entire beaches in Phuket were wiped out. Thousands died.
But at Mai Khao Beach, not a single person was killed.
Because a 10-year-old girl paid attention in geography class.
Tilly was hailed as the "Angel of the Beach." She received the Thomas Gray Special Award from the Marine Society. She was named "Child of the Year" by a French magazine. She appeared at the United Nations and met Bill Clinton.
Her story is now taught in schools around the world as an example of why disaster education matters.
Her father Colin still thinks about what could have happened.
"If she hadn't told us, we would have just kept on walking," he said. "I'm convinced we would have died."
Tilly is now 30 years old. She lives in London and works in yacht chartering.
She still credits her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney.
"If it wasn't for Mr. Kearney," she told the United Nations, "I'd probably be dead and so would my family."
Two weeks. One lesson. One hundred lives.
That's the power of education.

Effect; Meaning; Cause. In these three words you have the key to the growth of man's consciousness. Most men live today in the world of effects, and have no idea that they are effects. Some few are now beginning to live in the world of meaning, whilst disciples and those functioning in the world of the Hierarchy are aware, or are steadily becoming aware, of the causes which produce the effects which meaning reveals.

Source: Esoteric Healing

📌 Source Texts: www.lucistrust.org