George Ivnovich Gurdjeff (en armenio: , en griego: , en ruso: , Gueorgui Ivnovich Giurdzhyev Alexndropol, 14 de enero de 1866 Neuilly-sur-Seine, 29 de octubre de 1949) fue un maestro mstico, escritor y compositor armenio, quien se autodenominaba como un simple Maestro de Danzas.

George Gurdjieff naci a finales del siglo XIX en la Armenia del entonces Imperio ruso, su principal obra fue dar a conocer y transmitir las enseanzas del Cuarto Camino en el mundo occidental. Una personalidad misteriosa y carismtica, con un agudo sentido crtico, y una elevada cultura tradicional, acapar la atencin de muchos, guindolos hacia una posible evolucin espiritual y humanitaria. Falleci el 29 de octubre de 1949 en Neuilly-sur-Seine, Francia.

Segn los autores[1] que han estudiado su obra, sus planteamientos constituyen un conjunto de ideas interrelacionadas muy innovadoras, que tienen el objetivo de producir la evolucin consciente en el hombre.

Gurdjeff mostr que la evolucin del hombre [...] es el resultado del crecimiento [y desarrollo] interior individual; que tal apertura interior es la meta de todas las religiones, de todos los caminos, [...] pero que requiere un conocimiento directo y preciso, [...] pero que slo se puede adquirir con la ayuda de algn gua con experiencia y a travs de un prolongado estudio de s y del trabajo sobre s mismo.

Introduccin de Perspectivas desde el mundo real. Mlaga: Ed. Sirio, Espaa, pg 8.

El sello Naive ha completado en el ao 2001 la publicacin del conjunto de la obra pianstica de Gurdjieff-De Hartmann en 9 CD.

El verdadero significado del trabajo de Gurdjeff es fuente de discusin. Igualmente es reconocido como un maestro carismtico, que fundamentalmente desarroll un conjunto de atrayentes ideas msticas y esotricas.

Gurdjeff introdujo y disemin algunas de sus ideas al mundo occidental. Ha sido y es motivo de debate si stas habran sido producto de su mera maquinacin con el fin de lucrarse y ganar fama o bien si realmente fueron originadas por l mismo en base a sus investigaciones sobre mtodos y enseanzas elaboradas por sociedades secretas o esotricas, que dataran de tiempos inmemoriales, para preservar conocimientos arcanos y beneficiosos para facilitar el desarrollo de las potencialidades humanas, como un estado superior de conciencia y la prolongacin de sta ms all de la muerte. Gurdjeff presenta conceptos en Europa Occidental, como por ejemplo el Eneagrama del Cuarto Camino, que fueron muy poco difundidos dentro de sta, ya sera por cuestiones polticas o por motivos religiosos.

Sin embargo, las investigaciones de Gurdjeff carecen de continuidad, es decir, no se han desarrollado. Gurdjeff supo cautivar y atraer la atencin de personalidades prominentes de su tiempo que decidieron estudiar sus difciles mtodos y parece ser que lo hicieron con seriedad y por largos periodos de tiempo[citarequerida]. Este es el caso del famoso arquitecto norteamericano Frank Lloyd Wright. Remedios Varo, Eva Sulzer y Leonora Carrington eran tambin seguidoras de su doctrina, impartida por su discpulo Ouspensky.[5]

Tanto Gurdjeff como sus mtodos, a pesar de muchas vicisitudes y de sus detractores, cuentan con muchas publicaciones y exhibiciones en diferentes partes del mundo. Incluso se ha filmado una pelcula que describe la bsqueda, casi arqueolgica, que emprende Gurdjeff en pos de la verdad, que l se propona encontrar en los conocimientos y tradiciones que atesoraran los antiguos templos y monasterios del Asia, adems de sus interacciones con personajes con quienes l se encontr a lo largo de esta travesa; el film se basa en la segunda serie de sus escritos y comparte el mismo nombre: Encuentros con hombres notables, pelcula dirigida por Peter Brook.[citarequerida]

A pesar de lo antes dicho, el Trabajo de Gurdjeff no se basa exclusivamente en aspectos metafsicos o esotricos. Lo metafsico y lo mstico son caractersticas propias de la obra de Gurdjeff, pero estos aspectos no constituyen todo su trabajo y esencia. Tambin incluye enseanzas sobre el hombre y su relacin con la vida material.

Descendientes de sus discpulos como Nathalie de Salzmann de Etievan, disearon un modelo educativo terico.[6] En este contexto, el Sistema de Gurdjieff intenta ser aplicado para educar mentes pequeas. Se pretende que el pequeo "desarrolle" lo que Gurdjeff consideraba las principales esferas del ser: el cuerpo, el intelecto y las emociones.

En Amrica Latina hay varios colegios que siguen el mtodo Etievan, basado en la informacin de Gurdjeff. Esta informacin va dirigida a adiestrar en nios y jvenes su conciencia, llevndolos a "amar su trabajo, a esforzarse, a conocerse, a desarrollar su voluntad, a responsabilizarse por sus actos asumiendo las consecuencias de stos, a expresar su sentir, a buscar la verdad dentro de su ser, a centrar su atencin y a formar su conciencia, para cada da ser mejores y poder enfrentar las vicisitudes de la vida de una manera positiva".

Se considera que el Sistema de Gurdjeff puede tornarse peligroso si se aplica incorrectamente. Gurdjeff mismo advirti esto en varias ocasiones. A pesar de los peligros, muchas escuelas continan captando nuevos discpulos manteniendo un halo de misterio y atractivo para los incautos o interesados en el tema.

Otros discpulos sealan que una verdadera escuela de Cuarto Camino no hace demasiada publicidad, sino que debe ser encontrada. Esta es considerada la primera condicin para poder entrar. El psiquiatra britnico Anthony Storr, incluye un captulo sobre Gurdjeff y su Trabajo en su libro intitulado en Ingls "Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen".[7]

A principios de los 70s, haba una escuela de Gurdjeff en la isla caribea de Carriacou que funcionaba como granja y monasterio, siguiendo los preceptos espirituales de Gurdjeff. Pero fue destruida por la intervencin del gobierno comunista de Cuba despus de la revolucin de 1977.[8]

Gurdjeff sostuvo que existen tres caminos principales para llegar a desarrollar los poderes latentes del hombre: el camino del faquir, el camino del monje y el camino del yogui, cada uno de los cuales requiere que el candidato abandone el mundo para poder hallar el sendero luminoso. Gurdjeff asegura que todos los dems caminos artificiales que existen en Occidente no conducen a nada ni llevan a ninguna parte, y de no ser porque existe un Cuarto Camino, la gente de Occidente no tendra la menor oportunidad para desarrollarse internamente. Las escuelas de Cuarto Camino ofrecen al buen padre de familia la oportunidad de un desarrollo interno en los aspectos fsico, intelectual y emocional, en el mismo ambiente cotidiano en que vive.[9]

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Georges Gurdjieff[2] (1866[1] - 1949) est un aventurier et une figure de l'sotrisme de la premire moiti du XXesicle.

Surnomm le nouveau Pythagore[3] et considr par certains comme dtenteur d'un savoir traditionnel trs ancien, ce personnage controvers sera vu par d'autres comme un dangereux escroc et un charlatan.

N Alexandropol, aujourd'hui Gyumri, en Armnie, d'un pre grec et d'une mre armnienne, le 27 dcembre 1866[1], mort le 29 octobre 1949 l'hpital amricain de Neuilly-sur-Seine, il est enterr au cimetire d'Avon en Seine-et-Marne.

Cette partie de sa vie, essentiellement connue par le tmoignage qu'il en laissera dans le livre Rencontres avec des hommes remarquables, est mal connue et sujette caution[4].

An d'une famille de 3 enfants, Gurdjieff passera son enfance et sa jeunesse dans la rgion de Kars. D'abord aise, sa famille sera ruine pendant la petite enfance de Gurdjieff[5], contraignant son pre quitter Alexandropol pour exercer le mtier de menuisier Kars[6]. C'est l que Gurdjieff suivra des tudes l'cole grecque puis au collge russe. Sa famille voulant le voir tudier en vue de la prtrise orthodoxe, il entrera ensuite au sminaire[7],[8],[9].

Son pre, qui exercait l'activit de barde, aura une grande influence sur Gurdjieff, notamment en lui contant longuement les lgendes anciennes telle celle de Gilgamesh[10], et en lui inculquant des notions de spiritualit et des considrations sur la vie[11] qui se retrouveront par la suite dans son enseignement[12].

Nanmoins, les propres intrts de Gurdjieff rsidaient dans ltude de la science et de la technologie. Un prtre local lui aurait alors suggr de suivre la fois le sminaire et les tudes mdicales, afin quil puisse "gurir la fois lme et le corps"[13].

Gurdjieff a finalement rejet tout ce qui prcde en raison de sa fascination pour loccultisme. Lastrologie, la tlpathie, le spiritisme et les tables tournantes, la divination, et la possession dmoniaque, tout cela accaparait son intrt de jeune homme. Il ne voulut pas couter les avertissements de son prtre au sujet de ces choses, et ne trouva pas non plus les explications de la science trs satisfaisantes. Par consquent, dans les dernires annes de son adolescence, il se serait mis poursuivre ltude de ces sciences occultes, voyager travers lAsie centrale, le bassin mditerranen, lgypte, le Tibet et lInde. Lobjet spcifique de sa recherche tait lcole sotrique Sarmouni(en), prtendument fonde Babylone aux alentours de 2500 avant Jsus-Christ. Il laurait lu dans un livre ancien armnien et se serait senti attir par la dcouverte de cette cole.

D'aprs son propre tmoignage, Gurdjieff se prend lui-mme en charge tout au long de cette aventure spirituelle avec des affaires lgitimes (par exemple: la vente de tapis) et des entreprises frauduleuses (par exemple: la coloration de moineaux avec de laniline, les qualifiant de canaris amricains, et les vendant avec un grand profit). Son sens des affaires lui permet d'accder une grande aisance financire.

Gurdjieff raconte que lors d'un voyage en Afghanistan, vers 1897, un derviche l'aurait prsent un vieil homme de la secte Sarmouni la recherche de laquelle il stait mis. Celui-ci aurait organis une expdition pour mener Gurdjieff au monastre Sarmouni dans le centre du Turkestan, o il aurait appris leur danse mystique, leurs pouvoirs psychiques, et lennagramme. Pour les Sarmounis lennagramme serait un important moyen de divination, ainsi quun outil de reprsentation des processus vitaux, tels que la transformation personnelle. Ils lutiliseraient galement comme symbole des tats conscients et inconscients des tres humains. Ces utilisations vont devenir une part de lenseignement spirituel de Gurdjieff quand il fonde sa propre cole pour atteindre lillumination.

Aprs avoir quitt le monastre Sarmouni, Gurdjieff aurait form un groupe, les "Chercheurs de Vrit", ses compagnons dans la qute de lillumination et de la (pleine) conscience. Il raconte quils se seraient rendus au Tibet pour prendre contact avec le cercle intime veill de lhumanit et apprendre la sagesse des tulkas, les lamas tibtains (moines) soi-disant rincarns. Plus tard, Gurdjieff se serait faufil lintrieur de la Mecque et de Mdine, les centres de lIslam, mais il ne russit pas trouver l la vrit intrieure. Puis il se serait rendu Boukhara, o vivrait le groupe de soufis Bahaudin Naqshbandi.

Ces soufis Naqshbandi, galement appels les Khwajagan ou Matres de Sagesse, prtendraient tre la Fraternit du Monde, compose de toutes les nationalits et religions, enseignant que tous taient unis par le Dieu de la Vrit. Ces Naqshbandis possderaient une lgende sur un cercle intrieur dhumanit qui constituait un rseau de personnes trs volues ayant des connaissances particulires. Ces personnes auraient veill sur la race humaine et dirig le cours de son histoire. Les Naqshbandis croyaient aussi en une hirarchie spirituelle perptuelle dirige par le Kutb i Zaman ou Axe de lge, un esprit personnel recevant les rvlations directes du dessein divin. Cet esprit transmet soi-disant ces rvlations lhomme par lintermdiaire dautres esprits appels Abdal ou les Transforms. Gurdjieff et ses disciples croyaient que ces esprits, essences dmiurgiques dun niveau suprieur lhomme, sont responsables du maintien et de lvolution de lharmonie plantaire bien que leur action ne ft pas forcment propice la libration des individus. En dpit de leur hostilit potentielle, Gurdjieff et ses partisans maintenaient le contact avec ces esprits.

L'existence de Gurdjieff jusqu sa quarantime anne relve du mythe invrifiable. On sait seulement de manire certaine quil sinstalle, en 1912, Moscou comme marchand de tapis orientaux, et quil commence grouper autour de lui des disciples recruts dans les milieux occultistes et plus particulirement thosophes. Ceux-ci se structurent en Institut pour le dveloppement harmonique de lhomme. Toutefois, Moscou devient vite un lieu qui ne convient pas un millionnaire; aussi, en 1915, retourne-t-il en Armnie. Larrive des bolcheviks en Armnie signife lexil pour un capitaliste peu frquentable tel que Gurdjieff, qui dmnage successivement Istanbul, Berlin, Dresde, et enfin, en 1922, Avon o il ouvre nouveau son Institut, puis Paris, au 6 rue des Colonels-Renard[14],[15],[16] o Gurdjieff dcde en 1949.

Paris, et dans la succursale de New York de lInstitut, qui ouvre en 1924, il enseigne un christianisme sotrique avec un programme pour aider les lves atteindre les plus hauts niveaux de conscience. Sa doctrine dinspiration soufie/gnostique englobait la croyance que chacun dispose de trois centres personnels; le mental, situ dans la tte (le chemin), lmotionnel situ dans le cur (oth), et le physique situ dans le ventre (kath). Une premire cause pour que les gens soient spirituellement " endormis " ou " mcaniques " serait le dsquilibre de ces trois centres au sein de chaque personne. Ses danses soufies et ses autres exercices sont conus pour rtablir lquilibre de ces trois centres et amener la personne au plus prs dun tat spirituel alerte.

Beaucoup de groupes Gurdjieff se forment aprs sa mort, tels les centres Gurdjieff Ouspensky, le Fellowship of Friends de Robert Burton, le Thtre de Toutes les Possibilits, et lInstitut pour le dveloppement de ltre humain harmonieux. Il convient de citer aussi la formation Arica (du nom dune ville dans le nord du Chili), un programme de potentiel humain fond par Oscar Ichazo, impliqu surtout dans la propagation de lennagramme.

Son uvre est galement diffuse par des disciples de Gurdjieff, tels que Henri Tracol, Vra Daumal, femme de Ren Daumal, ou Jeanne de Salzmann, lpouse du peintre Alexandre de Salzmann.

Le noyau de la doctrine de Gurdjieff a trait lintgration de toutes les forces vitales pour les mettre en harmonie les unes avec les autres ainsi quavec lordre cosmique, de sorte que chaque individu apprenne tre. La vraie connaissance, selon lui, est une fonction de ltre. Ce que connat un homme est en lien direct avec ce quil est.

Gurdjieff fait une distinction entre ltre essentiel et la personnalit superficielle, et assigne ses lves des exercices divers ayant pour but daffaiblir les conditionnements. Ces mthodes relevaient dun travail psycho-physique et de la thrapie de groupe.

Il a introduit la figure de l'ennagramme

Ouspensky le dcrivait ainsi: Exercices rythmiques accompagns de musique, danse de derviches, exercices mentaux, tude des diverses faons de respirer et ainsi de suite. Parmi les plus astreignants taient les exercices dimitation des phnomnes psychiques: lecture de pense, clairvoyance, manifestations mdiumniques, etc. Avant de commencer ces derniers, Gurdjieff nous avait expliqu que ltude de ces trucs, comme il les appelait, tait obligatoire dans toutes les coles orientales, parce que, avant davoir tudi toutes les imitations, toutes les contrefaons possibles, il tait inutile de commencer ltude des phnomnes de caractre supranormal ... Cependant notre effort portait surtout sur la rythmique, et sur dtranges danses destines nous prparer faire par la suite des exercices de derviches. Gurdjieff ne nous disait ni ses buts ni ses intentions, mais daprs ce quil avait dit auparavant, on pouvait penser que tout cela tendait nous mener vers un meilleur contrle du corps physique.

Katherine Mansfield crivait (Elle avait t accepte dans le travail la suite de son insistance rpte, alors qu'elle se trouvait en phase terminale de la tuberculose): Il ny a certainement pas dendroit sur cette plante o lon puisse recevoir lenseignement que lon reoit ici. Mais la vie nest pas facile. Nous avons de grandes difficults, des moments douloureux. Thoriquement cest merveilleux, mais en pratique cela implique des souffrances.

Boris Mouravieff crivait (ami d'Ouspensky, il eut des contacts avec Gurdjieff sans jamais faire partie de ses instituts): Sur les gens qui tombaient dans son orbite, Gurdjieff exerait son influence d'une manire trs simple, voire brutale. Le contenu du message mis part, ce fut ce qu'il appelait le Travail. Ce travail, abstraction faite des conversations et des exercices, consistait persuader ses disciples qu'ils taient littralement zro en chiffre. Il leur disait sans ambage - et en face -, chacun d'entre eux - qu'ils n'taient ni plus ni moins que de l'ordure. (...) Et - il faut que le lecteur le sache - l'influence hypnotique, comme toute influence de la nature, est inversement proportionnelle au carr de la distance. Distance physique et psychique ou l'une ou l'autre. Or, les effets de cette influence de Gurdjieff sur son entourage immdiat taient visibles. Il pouvait proposer ses disciples n'importe quelle absurdit - voire n'importe quelle monstruosit, sr d'avance qu'elle serait accepte avec enthousiasme comme une rvlation. Dans l'tat psychologique ainsi cr, les gens ne raisonnaient plus. Tout tait bon, parce qu'ainsi parlait Zarathustra.. (...)[17]

Les mthodes de Gurdjeff visaient promouvoir lauto-observation et le rappel de soi afin que ses lves sortent, selon lui, de leur profond sommeil et deviennent conscients de leur vrai moi. Alors seulement, ils cesseraient dtre des machines humaines. Ce concept de rappel de soi tait selon lui la cl d'une vraie vie, d'une conscience relle du vrai moi. Sans cette capacit de rappel de soi, de conscience totale et libre, un homme ne serait qu'un ensemble de ractions automatiques programmes par son ducation, ses acquis et son illusion de choix, soit une vritable machine quelle que soit son envergure intellectuelle.

Jean-Franois Revel raconte dans Le Voleur dans la maison vide, Mmoires (Plon, 1997) qu'il fut disciple de Gurdjieff autour de 1947. Il le dcrit comme un imposteur et un escroc, dont l'aplomb esbroufeur n'aurait pas d me cacher l'indigence intellectuelle. Revel mentionne les rumeurs qui prtaient Gurdjieff une part de responsabilit dans la mort prmature de Katherine Mansfield, car le vieux charlatan prtendait dtenir aussi des secrets mdicaux, issus d'une mystrieuse tradition, cense tre plus efficace que la plate et intellectuelle mdecine occidentale.

Louis Pauwels indique qu'aprs deux ans d'exercices qui m'ont la fois clair et brl, je me suis retrouv sur un lit d'hpital: thrombose de la veine centrale de l'il gauche et quarante-cinq kilos. (...) Il me semble que le pch de Gurdjieff est de ne s'tre pas retir temps[18].

Selon l'analyse du site Prvensectes, la plupart des groupes initis par Gurdjieff ou ses disciples seraient des sectes[19]. Pourtant, l'organisme officiel gouvernemental Miviludes n'a jamais class les groupes Gurdjieff comme sectes, pas plus que CICNS, Centre d'Information et de Conseil sur les Nouvelles Spiritualits.

Par ordre alphabtique d'auteurs puis de titres (de nombreux ouvrages ont t traduits par Henri Tracol):

1960 En Franais dans le texte. Dbat anim par Louis PAUWELS consacr Gurdjieff et ses enseignements, avec Yvette ETIEVANT, Arnaud DESJARDINS, Ren BARJAVEL, Pierre SCHAEFFER[20].

1954 L'homme qui ne dort pas ou l'extraordinaire monsieur Gurdjieff. - mission de la radiodiffusion franaise du 15/02/1954 (1h14'), prsente par Louis Pauwels [21]

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Rajneesh Born 11 December 1931 Kuchwada Village, Bareli Tehsil, Raisen Distt. Bhopal State, British India (modern day Madhya Pradesh, India) Died 19 January 1990 (aged 58) Pune, Maharashtra, India Nationality Indian Field Spirituality Movement Jivan Jagruti Andolan; Neo-sannyas Works Many books, audio and video tapes (exact number not known) Influenced by Zen Buddhism, Tantra, Sufism, Samkhya, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Mahavira, Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu, Gorakhnath, Guru Nanak, Kabir, Gurdjieff, Krishnamurti

Rajneesh (11 December 1931 19 January 1990) was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who had an international following, the "Rajneesh movement". Rajneesh was born Chandra Mohan Jain; he was known as the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s, and finally as Osho in the last year of his life.

He was born in a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in north India. He spent most of his childhood with his maternal grandparents, which he later mentioned as "the blessing in his life" for its carefree environment.

He entered college at his age of nineteen. Asked by the principal to leave the college, he transferred to D.N. Jain College and completed his B.A. in philosophy in 1955. After obtaining his M.A. in philosophy in University of Sagar in 1957, he started teaching at Raipur Sanskrit College and became a professor at Jabalpur University in 1960. While teaching at colleges, he became known as a public speaker.

As a professor of philosophy, he travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His outspoken criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and institutionalised religions made him controversial. He also advocated a more open attitude towards sexuality: so the press called him a "sex guru".[1] In 1970, Rajneesh settled for a while in Bombay. He began initiating disciples (known as sannyasins) and took on the role of a spiritual teacher.

In his discourses, he reinterpreted writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. Moving to Poona in 1974,[2] he established an ashram that attracted increasing numbers of Westerners.

The Poona ashram was by all accounts an exciting and intense place to be, with an emotionally charged, madhouse-carnival atmosphere.[3][4][5] The day began at 6:00 a.m. with Dynamic Meditation.[6][7] From 8:00 a.m., Osho gave a 60- to 90-minute spontaneous lecture in the ashram's "Buddha Hall" auditorium, commenting on religious writings or answering questions from visitors and disciples.[3][7] Until 1981, lecture series held in Hindi alternated with series held in English. During the day, various meditations and therapies took place, whose intensity was ascribed to the spiritual energy of Osho's "buddhafield".[4] In evening darshans, Osho conversed with individual disciples or visitors and initiated disciples ("gave sannyas").[3][7]

The ashram offered therapies derived from the Human Potential Movement to its Western audience and made news in India and abroad, chiefly because of its permissive climate and Osho's provocative lectures. By the end of the 1970s, there were mounting tensions with the Indian government and the surrounding society.

A situation rose when Rajneesh entered a three-and-a-half-year period of self-imposed public silence on 10 April 1981. He occupied himself with satsangssilent sitting with music and readings from spiritual works, and gave no discourses.[7][1] Around the same time, Ma Anand Sheela replaced Ma Yoga Laxmi as Osho's secretary.[5]

Later in 1981 Osho moved to the United States, and his followers established a community, later known as Rajneeshpuram, in the state of Oregon. Within a year, the leadership of the commune became embroiled in a conflict with local residents, primarily over land use, which was marked by hostility on both sides. Osho lived in a trailer next to a covered swimming pool and other amenities. He did not lecture and only saw most of the residents when, daily, he would slowly drive past them as they stood by the road. He gained public notoriety for the many Rolls-Royces bought for his use, eventually numbering 93 vehicles.[8][9] This made him the largest single owner of the cars in the world.[10]

Ma Anand Sheela (born Sheela Ambatal Patel, 28 December 1949) was Osho's personal secretary from 1981 to 1985. On 10 July 1981, she purchased the 64,000-acre (260km2) Big Muddy Ranch to create the Rajneeshpuram, Oregon commune.[11][12] She was the main manager and spokesperson. She carried a .357 Magnum handgun, and created a Rajneeshpuram police force armed with Uzi submachine guns and a Jeep-mounted .30-calibre machinegun.[13][14] It was under Sheela's influence that Rajneesh decided to travel to the United States and begin an ashram there.[12]

While at Rajneeshpuram, Rajneesh depended on Sheela to manage the organisation.[12] She was seen as Rajneesh's principal aide, and as second-in-command of the organisation. She was also president of Rajneesh Foundation International. The two of them met each day in private to go over significant matters for the group.[12]

Sheela ran the operations of virtually all of the sub-groups under Rajneesh's movement, as well as Rajneeshpuram itself.[12] Rancho Rajneesh was administered through the inner circle of followers managed by Sheela.[12] She made decisions for the organisation in meetings with followers in her own private living space.[12] In addition, Sheela would make decisions for the organisation by herself or after meeting with Rajneesh.[12] Those followers of Rajneesh that did not abide by her rulings risked being kicked out of Rajneeshpuram.[12] According to Bioterrorism and Biocrimes, "This peculiar decision-making style had a significant impact on the group's move to employ biological agents".[12]

The Oregon commune collapsed in 1985 when Rajneesh revealed that the commune leadership had committed a number of serious crimes, including a 1984 bioterror attack (food contamination) on the citizens of The Dalles, Oregon.[15] He was arrested shortly afterwards and charged with immigration violations, and was deported from the United States in accordance with a plea bargain.[16][17][18]

Ma Anand Sheela was sentenced to three concurrent 20 year prison sentences, for assault, attempted murder, telephone tapping, immigration fraud and product tampering.[19] She served 29 months before being released on parole.[20] Upon release, she left immediately for Switzerland, where she now manages two nursing homes.

Twenty-one countries denied him entry, causing Osho to travel the world before returning to Poona, where he died in 1990. His ashram is today known as the Osho International Meditation Resort. His teachings emphasised the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humourqualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation. Osho's teachings have had an impact on Western New Age thought,[21][22]p177 and their popularity has increased since his death.[23][22]p182

One of his strong hopes was creating what he called "new man", who embodies characteristics of Gautama Buddha and Zorba the Greek [24] at the same time. Through this concept, Rajneesh tried to reject neither science nor spirituality, but embrace them both. According to him, New man is not subject to ones sex and does not belong to institutions such as family, political ideologies, or religions.

Many books of his teachings were published. They followed a pattern: he would give talks, they would be recorded. The tapes would be worked up into a typed manuscript by some of his followers. The manuscripts would be published, at first in India, and without ISBN numbers, so they were at first bought by his admirers. Later some of the best were reprinted in the West. His talks covered a wide range of religions and philosophies. The total number of books is not known, but it was certainly more than 30.[25]

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931 - 1990) Rajneesh founded the Rajneesh Foundation International, and is one of the most controversial of modern gurus. In 1981 he was deported from Oregon under a bevy of serious criminal charges associated with his ashram, or spiritual community. His recent death did little to stem his influence in Europe or America. [A]lso called OSHO AND ACHARYA RAJNEESH, original name CHANDRA MOHAN JAIN, Indian spiritual leader who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, individual devotion, and sexual freedom while amassing vast personal wealth. (...) In 1981 Rajneesh's cult purchased a dilapidated ranch in Oregon, U.S., which became the site of Rajneeshpuram, a community of several thousand orange-robed disciples. Rajneesh was widely criticized by outsiders for his private security force and his ostentatious display of wealth. By 1985 many of his most trusted aides had abandoned the movement, which was under investigation for multiple felonies including arson, attempted murder, drug smuggling, and vote fraud in the nearby town of Antelope. In 1985 Rajneesh pleaded guilty to immigration fraud and was deported from the United States. He was refused entry by 21 countries before returning to Pune, where his ashram soon grew to 15,000 members. In later years he took the Buddhist title Osho and altered his teaching on unrestricted sexual activity because of his growing concern over AIDS. [...more...] (...) the only known successful use of biological weapons in the United States was by the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult in 1984. The group contaminated salad bars in 10 restaurants in The Dalles, Ore., with Salmonella Typhimurium, causing several hundred people to become ill. Hinduism is not by nature a proselytizing religion, however, in part because of its inextricable roots in the social system and the land of India. In recent years, many new gurus, such as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and Satya Sai Baba, have been successful in making converts in Europe and the United States. The very success of these gurus, however, has produced material profits that many people regard as incompatible with the ascetic attitude appropriate to a Hindu spiritual leader; in some cases, the profits have led to notoriety and even legal prosecution.

Name Change

In 1988 thirty years after taking the title, ''Bhagwan,'' (which means ''the embodiment of God'') Rajneesh admitted the title and his claim to be God were a ''joke.'' ''I hate the word... I don't want to be called Bhagwan (God) again. Enough is enough. The joke is over,'' stated Rajneesh saying he was really the reincarnation of Buddha and claiming for himself the new title of ''Rajneesh Gautaman the Buddha,'' (Star Telegram, Dec. 29, 1988; Sec.1, p. 3). Later he took the title, ''Osho Rajneesh,'' a Buddhist term meaning ''on whom the heavens shower flowers.'' (Ibid, 1/20/90).

Rajneesh's flock caught much of his meditative bon mots on tape, and now incessantly recycle these ponderings as spiritual wisdom under the author name of Osho.

The amazing story of the Wasco County election scandal was revealed to the conference's riveted participants by Leslie L. Zaitz, an investigative reporter for The Oregonian, and Dr. John Livengood, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control. To win the county election, the Rajneeshees planned to sicken a good portion of the population in the town of The Dalles, where most Wasco County voters live. Their weapon of choice to keep local residents from voting was salmonella bacteria. Cult members decided to test the use of salmonella and, if successful, to contaminate the entire water system of The Dalles on Election Day. First, the Rajneeshees poisoned two visiting Wasco County commissioners on a hot day by plying them with refreshing drinks of cold water laced with salmonella. Then, on a shopping trip to The Dalles, cult members sprinkled salmonella on produce in grocery stores "just for fun." According to reporter Zaitz, that experiment didn't get the results they wanted so the Rajneeshees proceeded to clandestinely sprinkle salmonella at the town's restaurant salad bars. Ten restaurants were hit and more than 700 people got sick.

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Born: December 11, 1931, 5:13 PM In: Kutchwada (India) Sun: 1830' Sagittarius AS: 2003' Gemini Moon: 1529' Capricorn MC: 654' Pisces Dominants: Capricorn, Sagittarius, Gemini Neptune, Mercury, Sun Houses 7, 8, 6 / Earth, Fire / Cardinal Chinese Astrology: Metal Goat Numerology: Birthpath 1 Popularity: 68,983 clicks, 178th man, 325th celebrity

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1st Fire sign - 1st Cardinal sign (spring equinox) - Masculine

In analogy with Mars, his ruler, and the 1st House

Aries governs the head.

His colour is red, his stone is the heliotrope, his day is Tuesday, and his professions are businessman, policeman, sportsman, surgeon...

If your sign is Aries or your Ascendant is Aries: you are courageous, frank, enthusiastic, dynamic, fast, bold, expansive, warm, impulsive, adventurous, intrepid, warlike, competitive, but also naive, domineering, self-centred, impatient, rash, thoughtless, blundering, childish, quick-tempered, daring or primitive.

Some traditional associations with Aries: Countries: England, France, Germany, Denmark. Cities: Marseille, Florence, Naples, Birmingham, Wroclaw, Leicester, Capua, Verona. Animals: Rams and sheeps. Food: Leeks, hops, onions, shallots, spices. Herbs and aromatics: mustard, capers, Cayenne pepper, chilli peppers. Flowers and plants: thistles, mint, bryonies, honeysuckles. Trees: hawthorns, thorny trees and bushes. Stones, Metals and Salts: diamonds, iron, potassium phosphate.

1st Earth sign - 1st Fixed sign - Feminine

In analogy with Venus, his ruler, and the 2nd House

Taurus governs the neck and the throat.

Her colour is green or brown, her stone is the emerald, her day is Friday, her professions are cook, artist, estate agent, banker, singer...

If your sign is Taurus or your Ascendant is Taurus: you are faithful, constant, sturdy, patient, tough, persevering, strong, focused, sensual, stable, concrete, realistic, steady, loyal, robust, constructive, tenacious. You need security, but you are also stubborn, rigid, possessive, spiteful, materialistic, fixed or slow.

Some traditional associations with Taurus: Countries: Switzerland, Greek islands, Ireland, Cyprus, Iran. Cities: Dublin, Palermo, Parma, Luzern, Mantua, Leipzig, Saint Louis, Ischia, Capri. Animals: bovines. Food: apples, pears, berries, corn and other cereals, grapes, artichokes, asparagus, beans. Herbs and aromatics: sorrels, spearmint, cloves. Flowers and plants: poppies, roses, digitales, violets, primroses, aquilegia, daisies. Trees: apple trees, pear trees, fig-trees, cypresses, ash trees. Stones, Metals and Salts: copper, calcium and potassium sulphate, emeralds.

1st Air sign - 1st Mutable sign - Masculine

In analogy with Mercury, his ruler, and the 3rd House

Gemini governs the arms, the lungs and the thorax.

His colour is green or silver, his stone is the crystal, his day is Wednesday, his professions are journalist, lawyer, presenter, dancer, salesman, travel agent, teacher...

If your sign is Gemini or if your Ascendant is Gemini: you are expressive, lively, adaptable, quick-witted, humorous, sparkling, playful, sociable, clever, curious, whimsical, independent, polyvalent, brainy, flexible, ingenious, imaginative, charming, fanciful but also capricious, scattered, moody, shallow, inquisitive, opportunistic, unconcerned, selfish, fragile, ironical or changeable.

Some traditional associations with Gemini: Countries: Belgium, Wales, United-States, Lower Egypt, Sardinia, Armenia. Cities: London, Plymouth, Cardiff, Melbourne, San Francisco, Nuremberg, Bruges, Versailles. Animals: monkeys, butterflies, parrots, budgerigars. Food: dried fruits, chestnuts, ground-level vegetables: peas, broad beans, etc. Herbs and aromatics: aniseed, marjoram, lemon balm, cumin. Flowers and plants: lilies of the valley, lavenders, myrtle, ferns, Venus-hair-ferns, bittersweets. Trees: nut trees such as chestnut trees. Stones, Metals and Salts: agates, mercury, silicas and potashes.

1st Water sign - 2nd Cardinal sign (summer solstice) - Feminine

In analogy with the Moon, her ruler, and the 4th House

Cancer governs the stomach and the breast.

Her colour is white or black, her stone is the moonstone, her day is Monday, her professions are catering, the hotel trade, property, antique dealer, archaeologist...

If your sign is Cancer or your Ascendant is Cancer: you are emotional, sentimental, peaceful, imaginative, sensitive, faithful, resistant, protective, vulnerable, generous, romantic, nostalgic, tender, poetic-minded, motherly or fatherly, dreamy, indolent, greedy, devoted but also timorous, unrealistic, evasive, passive, anxious, dependent, stubborn, moody, passive, lazy, touchy, stay-at-home or inaccessible.

Some traditional associations with Cancer: Countries: Holland, Scotland, North and West Africa, New-Zealand, Paraguay, Algeria. Cities: Amsterdam, Manchester, Tokyo, New York, Istanbul, Stockholm, Milan, Venice, Genoa, Cadix, Alger, Tunis, Bern, Magdeburg. Animals: crabs, animals with shells. Food: milk, fishes, watery fruits and vegetables, turnips, white and red cabbages. Herbs and aromatics: tarragon, verbena, saxifrage. Flowers and plants: geraniums, white roses and white flowers in general, water lilies, morning glory, bear's breeches, and lilies. Trees: all trees full of sap. Stones, Metals and Salts: pearls, silver, lime and calcium phosphate.

2nd Fire sign - 2nd Fixed sign - Masculine

In analogy with the Sun, his ruler, and the 5th House

Leo governs the heart and the spine, and the eyes, according to some authors.

His colour is gold or orange, his stone is the diamond, his day is Sunday, his professions are actor, manager, jeweller, fashion and arts, and action (e.g. fireman)...

If your sign is Leo or your Ascendant is Leo: you are proud, determined, strong-willed, loyal, solemn, generous, ambitious, courageous, heroic, conquering, creative, confident, seductive, happy, daring, fiery, majestic, honest, magnanimous, charismatic, responsible, noble, dramatic but also domineering, vain, susceptible, bossy, stubborn, intolerant, self-centred, violent, quick-tempered, nonchalant.

Some traditional associations with Leo: Countries: Italy, Romania, Sicily, Czechoslovakia, Iraq, Lebanon, Southern France. Cities: Rome, Prague, Bombay, Madrid, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Bath, Bristol, Portsmouth, Syracuse, Damas. Animals: lions and felines in general. Food: meat and especially red meat, rice, honey, cereals, grapes, iron-rich vegetables: watercress, spinach etc. Herbs and aromatics: saffron, mint, rosemary, common rue (Ruta graveolens). Flowers and plants: marigolds, sunflowers, celandines, passion flowers. Trees: palm trees, laurel, walnuts, olive trees, lemon and orange trees. Stones, Metals and Salts: gold, rubies, magnesium and sodium phosphate.

2nd Earth sign - 2nd Mutable sign - Feminine

In analogy with Mercury, her ruler, and the 6th house

Virgo governs the intestine.

Her colour is green or yellow, her stone is the agate, her day is Wednesday, her professions are accountant, secretary, writer, computer scientist, nurse, doctor...

If your sign is Virgo or your Ascendant is Virgo: you are brainy, perspicacious, attentive to detail and numbers, analytical, serious, competent, scrupulous, sensible, modest, logical, tidy, well-organized, clean, hard-working, provident, honest, faithful, reserved, shy, helpful, a perfectionist, but also narrow-minded, calculating, irritating, petty, anxious, cold, repressed or caustic.

Some traditional associations with Virgo: Countries: Brazil, Greece, Turkey, West Indies, United-States (the same as Gemini), Yugoslavia, Crete, Mesopotamia, Lower Silesia, State of Virginia. Cities: Paris, Boston, Athens, Lyon, Corinthia, Heidelberg, spa towns in general. Animals: dogs, cats and all pets. Food: root vegetables: carrots, celeriac, kohlrabies, potatoes etc... Also dried fruits such as chestnuts. Herbs and aromatics: the same as Gemini whose ruler is Mercury too, lilies of the valley, lavenders, myrtles, ferns, Venus-hair-ferns, bittersweets, clovers. Flowers and plants: small bright-coloured flowers, especially blue and yellow, such as dandelions, buttercups, yellow dead-nettles, buglosses, forget-me-nots ; cardamoms, oak leaves, acorns. Trees: all nut trees, e.g. the hazelnut tree... Stones, Metals and Salts: sards (red agate), mercury, nickel, potassium sulphate and iron phosphate.

2nd Air sign - 3rd Cardinal sign (autumn equinox) - Masculine

In analogy with Venus, his ruler and the 7th House

Libra governs the kidneys and the bladder.

His colour is blue or red (not too bright), his stone is the opal, his day is Friday, his professions are in the beauty, luxury or fashion industry, musician, artistic creator, lawyer, mediator...

If your sign is Libra or your Ascendant is Libra: you are sentimental, charming, polite, refined, loyal, a pacifist, fair, distinguished, light-hearted, romantic, learned, ethereal, nice, well-groomed, a perfectionist, calm, sweet, tolerant, sociable, elegant, considerate, seductive, aesthetic, indulgent, but also hesitant, weak, indecisive, selfish, fragile, fearful, indolent, cool or even insensitive.

Some traditional associations with Libra: Countries: Japan, Canada, Indo-China, South Pacific Islands, Burma, Argentina, Upper Egypt, Tibet. Cities: Lisbon, Vienna, Frankfurt, Leeds, Nottingham, Johannesburg, Antwerp, Fribourg. Animals: lizards and small reptiles. Food: berries, apples, pears, grapes, artichokes, asparagus, beans, spices, corn and other cereals. Herbs and aromatics: mint, Cayenne pepper. Flowers and plants: hydrangea, big roses, blue flowers and those associated with Taurus also ruled by Venus, namely, poppies, digitales, violets, primroses, aquilegia, and daisies. Trees: ash trees, poplars, apple trees, pear trees, fig-trees, cypresses. Stones, Metals and Salts: sapphires, jade, copper, potassium and sodium phosphate.

2nd Water sign - 3rd Fixed sign - Feminine

In analogy with Pluto, her ruler with Mars, and the 8th House

Scorpio governs the sexual organs and the anus.

Her colour is black or dark red, her stone is the malachite, her day is Tuesday, her professions are gynaecologist, psychiatrist, detective, the military, army, stockbroker, asset managemer...

If your sign is Scorpio or your Ascendant is Scorpio: you are secretive, powerful, domineering, resistant, intuitive, asserted, charismatic, magnetic, strong-willed, perspicacious, passionate, creative, independent, vigorous, generous, loyal, hard-working, persevering, untameable, possessive, cunning, ambitious, sexual, proud, intense, competitive but also aggressive, destructive, stubborn, anxious, tyrannical, perverse, sadistic, violent, self-centred, complex, jealous.

Some traditional associations with Scorpio: Countries: Morocco, Norway, Algeria, Syria, Korea, Uruguay, Transvaal. Cities: Washington, New Orleans, Valencia, Liverpool, Milwaukee, Fes, Halifax, Hull, Cincinnati. Animals: insects and other invertebrates. Food: the same strong tasting food as for Aries: red meat, garlic, onions, leeks, spices. Herbs and aromatics: aloes, witch hazels, nepeta, mustard, capers, peppers. Flowers and plants: geraniums, rhododendrons, thistles, mint, honeysuckles. Trees: blackthorns, bushes. Stones, Metals and Salts: opals, steel and iron, calcium and sodium sulphate.

3rd Fire sign - 3rd Mutable sign - Masculine

In analogy with Jupiter, his ruler, and the 9th House

Sagittarius governs the thighs and the liver.

His colour is indigo, orange or red, his stone is the carbuncle, his day is Thursday, his professions are explorer, commercial traveller, pilot, philosopher, writer, clergyman...

If your sign is Sagittarius or your Ascendant is Sagittarius: you are charismatic, fiery, energetic, likeable, benevolent, tidy, jovial, optimistic, extraverted, amusing, straightforward, demonstrative, charming, independent, adventurous, straightforward, bold, exuberant, freedom-loving.

Some traditional associations with Sagittarius: Countries: Spain, Australia, Hungary, South Africa, Arabia, Yugoslavia. Cities: Stuttgart, Toledo, Budapest, Cologne, Avignon, Sheffield, Naples, Toronto. Animals: fallow deers, hinds, and all games. Food: grapefruits, raisins, onions, leeks, bulb vegetables. Herbs and aromatics: aniseeds, sage, bilberries, cinnamon, borage, mosses, sage, blueberry, patience, balsam. Flowers and plants: dandelions, carnations, thistles. Trees: mulberry trees, chestnut trees, ash trees, lemon trees, oaks. Stones, Metals and Salts: topaz, tin, silica, potassium chloride.

3rd Earth sign - 4th Cardinal sign (winter solstice) - Feminine

In analogy with Saturn, her ruler, and the 10th House

Capricorn governs the knees, the bones and the skin.

Her colour is black, or grey, green or brown, her stone is the jade, her day is Saturday, her professions are politician, researcher, jurist, scientist, engineer, administrator...

If your sign is Capricorn or your Ascendant is Capricorn: you are serious, cold, disciplined, patient, focused, thoughtful, ambitious, indomitable, cautious, lucid, persistent, provident, steady, introverted, stern, wilful, hard-working, responsible, persevering, honest, realistic, loyal, reserved, resolute, moralistic, quiet, rigorous, attached and reliable. But you may also be curt, withdrawn, calculating, petty, cruel, unpleasant, ruthless, selfish, dull, rigid, slow or sceptical.

Some traditional associations with Capricorn: Countries: India, Mexico, Afghanistan, Macedonia, Thrace, the Yugoslavian coast, the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, Albania, Bulgaria, Saxony. Cities: Delhi, Oxford, Brussels, Mexico, Port-Sad, Gent, Constance, Mecklenburg, all the administrative centres of capital cities. Animals: goats, pigs and animals with split hooves. Food: meat, potatoes, barley, beets, spinach, medlars, onions, quinces, flour and starchy food in general. Herbs and aromatics: indian hemp, comfreys, centaureas, hemlocks, henbanes. Flowers and plants: ivies, wild pansies, amaranths, pansies. Trees: pines, willows, flowering ashes, aspens, poplars, alders. Stones, Metals and Salts: turquoises, amethysts, silver, lead, calcium phosphate, calcium fluorine.

3rd Air sign - 4th Fixed sign - Masculine

In analogy with Uranus his ruler, with Saturn, and the 11th House

Aquarius governs the ankles and the legs.

His colour is navy blue or indigo, his stone is the sapphire, his day is Saturday, his professions are astrologer, high technologies, scientist, astronaut, psychiatrist, actor, electrician...

If your sign is Aquarius or your Ascendant is Aquarius: you are idealistic, altruistic, detached, independent, original, surprising, gifted, contradictory, innovative, humanistic, likeable, friendly, self-confident, impassive, quiet, intuitive, creative, charitable, elusive, disconcerting, generous, tolerant, paradoxical, and you cannot stand any kind of constraint. But you may also be marginal, resigned, distant, utopian, maladjusted, eccentric and cold.

Some traditional associations with Aquarius: Countries: Russia, Sweden, Poland, Israel, Iran, Abyssinia. Cities: Moscow, Salzburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Saint Petersburg. Animals: long distance big birds such as the albatross. Food: citrus fruits, apples, limes, dried fruits and easily preserved food. Herbs and aromatics: peppers, hot red peppers, star-fruits, and generally herbs that are spicy or with an unusual flavour. Flowers and plants: orchids, dancing ladies, polygonatum. Trees: fruit trees. Stones, Metals and Salts: aquamarines, aluminium, sodium chloride and magnesium phosphate.

3rd Water sign - 4th Mutable sign - Feminine

In analogy with Neptune her ruler with Jupiter, and the 12th House

Pisces governs the feet and the blood circulation.

Her colour is green or purple or turquoise blue, her stone is the amethyst, her day is Thursday, her professions are seamanship and and faraway travels, musician, social and emergency worker, doctor, writer and jobs in remote places...

If your sign is Pisces or your Ascendant is Pisces: you are emotional, sensitive, dedicated, adaptable, nice, wild, compassionate, romantic, imaginative, flexible, opportunist, intuitive, impossible to categorized, irrational, seductive, placid, secretive, introverted, pleasant, artistic, and charming. But you may also be indecisive, moody, confused, wavering, lazy, scatterbrained, vulnerable, unpredictable and gullible.

Some traditional associations with Pisces: Countries: Portugal, Scandinavia, small Mediterranean islands, Gobi desert, Sahara. Cities: Jerusalem, Warsaw, Alexandria, Seville, Santiago de Compostela. Animals: fishes, aquatic mammals and all animals living in the water. Food: melons, cucumbers, lettuces, vegemite sugar, pumpkins. Herbs and aromatics: lemon, chicory, limes, mosses. Flowers and plants: water lilies, willows, aquatic plants. Trees: fig-trees, willows, aquatic trees. Stones, Metals and Salts: heliotropes, moonstone, platinum, tin, iron phosphate and potassium sulphate.

Sun Aspects Sun trine Uranus orb -258' Sun trine Jupiter orb -408'

The Sun represents vitality, individuality, will-power and creative energy and honours. For a woman, it also represents her father, and later her husband. The Sun is one of the most important symbols in the birth chart, as much as the Ascendant, then the Moon (a bit less for a man), the ruler of the Ascendant and the fast-moving planets.

It's element is fire; it is hot and dry, it governs Leo, is in exaltation in Aries and is in analogy with the heart. It represents the boss, authority, beside the father and the husband ; the age of the Sun goes from 20 years old to about 40, following the Venus age when one is aware of his seductive power.

Temperament : Bilious

Characterology : Emotive, Active, Secondary, passionate type.

Your nature is marked by a constant concern for elevation and evolution. You want to project the image of a moral person, inhabited by a natural sense of justice and fairness. Your desire for discoveries prompts you to appreciate changes of life settings, explorations of the world, spiritual and inner journeys. Your enthusiasm may conceal a form of shyness and reserve. But the will to broaden your horizon prevails over your modesty. Sagittarius gathers. He readily listens to all argumentations, even to those he is not familiar with, and he has the ability to synthesize different logics. Therefore, he is not satisfied with stiff explanations and he strives to take advantage from the diversity of approaches and standpoints, without denouncing any of them a priori. He is a born unifier, an agent for cohesion. The Tradition emphasizes his civic sense, his respect for laws and morals. Possibly. What is certain is that you respect at least your own moral. More than anyone, you understand and you integrate the rules of the game and the specificity of each situation. This is a valuable asset when a new situation emerges and it becomes important to grasp the logic of its laws. Your qualities lay in the open-mindedness that allows you to quickly understand new circumstances and their stakes.

In your natal chart, the Sun is in the 6th House. You strive to keep your life setting under control. Therefore, you prefer to limit your experiences to activities which you master, and which you know in their slightest details. Each thing has its place and its timing. You try to focus your efforts, and to gain in efficiency what you lose in fancy. What is your ideal? A professional life in which your qualities blossom: precision, logic, and sense of observation.

If the Sun is part of your natal chart's planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Solarian: you loathe pettiness and Machiavellian manoeuvre, and you are fond of natural nobleness as well as of direct and honest attitudes. You endeavour to get out of muddled or dark situations as quickly as possible. Your need for transparency may lead you to make cut-and-dried judgments such as yes or no, and black or white. However, your honesty commands your entourage's consideration. At times, you come across as authoritarian. It is true that you never want to be thought of the notable absentee, and that you manage to make people pay attention to you, as well as to your plans and your assessments. To this end, the Solarian sometimes develops a great talent for placing himself under the spotlight without missing a single opportunity to arouse interest. Some other Solarians, although more discreet, still manage to be the focus of any debate, even in situations of exclusion. It is your way of being present even though you are actually not there... More than other people, you appreciate the esteem extended to you. It is useless to cheat with you, since in all areas you consider establishing enduring relationships only with those who love you, admire you, respect you, or express some degree of affection to you. Your will to straighten out your inter-personal relationships is your strength and sometimes, your Achilles' heel. You cannot achieve anything behind the scenes. Therefore, your comportment is marked with heroism, and your stands are devoid of ambiguity, in the sense that your commitments are unfailing, and your rebuffs, final.

Passionate, wily, and spiteful character. Fire plays a major part in life, whether it represents a disaster or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with great consequences on destiny. Regardless of the nature of ordeals and opponents, and despite the losses suffered, if one displays courage, this degree indicates that obstacles can be overcome and enemies, defeated.

N.B.: symbolic degrees belong to a branch of fatalistic astrology. Their interpretation must be regarded with the utmost caution, especially given the fact that different authors give different meanings to symbolic degrees. This is the reason why they are not included in our Astrotheme reports.

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Let's start with the levels of empowerment.

There are essentially four levels of empowerment.

Physical Empowerment Emotional Empowerment Mental Empowerment Spiritual Empowerment

I have included a fifth level. Financial Empowerment. I feel that financial empowerment is a combination of several of the others and want to give people additional tools to help achieve it for their own help and to help their family.

Physical Empowerment

Lets take a look at the aspects of physical empowerment. Your life, your health, your physical environment. All of the physical things around you both living and nonliving.

How are you going to get what is out of balance into balance?

First off what do you want to change? Your weight perhaps? The way you look?

Of course there is diet and exercise. What about balancing acid and base? How about conscious and unconscious eating?

When you learn more about how to be aware and how to be more observant, then when you ask yourself "How can I change the way I look and feel?" You will have a system to help make some changes.

I was at a friends house recently. One person came in, sat down and proceeded to finish off half a bowl of potato chips. I tried to stop her by calling her name a couple times in an attempt to wake her.

She stopped with eyes wide open and she woke up to what she was doing to herself. She was as shocked at what she was doing as she was that someone was calling her name.

People walk around in a state of sleep. They do things like a robot on automatic pilot. After a while they look in the mirror and say "Oh my gosh, what happened?" Its time to wake up before it becomes too late to really live.

Emotional Empowerment

What does your life feel like? What factors are preventing you from getting out of that chair and into a different state of being?

The first thing you have to look at is, do you have control over your emotions or do they have control over you. Achieving the balance is the key. Even if you have no emotions, it means that you are way out of balance. How can you generate happiness? How do you remove the barriers to having a happier more balanced life? When you say, "I want to be happy", what does that mean? How can your world give you something unless you define it?

Think about all the things you wish to change about your life. How do you neutralize the bad things? How can you draw in more of the positive "life force increasing" events and things into your life? How can I achieve peace of mind?

Emotions flow, thoughts flow, your life flows. When we learn how to adjust the flow we can use what is a natural process to enhance our lives and the lives of many others.

Stress puts a negative effect on our bodies. Once we learn how to eliminate stress at the source then we have more energy for our own health. There are many resources for stress management. I am going to give you one for preemptive stress elimination. You can remove stress at its source by taking some action towards eliminating the factors that cause stress.

Mental Empowerment

Feed your body feed your head. Let's take an honest look at is what you are allowing to go into your head. If you eat bad food you will have a bad body. If you feed your head with bad images, bad words, and bad thoughts you will get a bad head. Sounds simple enough?

Would you like to know a little more about the power you have over your thoughts and body?

Try this on for size.

Here is an experiment. 1. Close your eyes 2. Visualize biting into a lemon. 3. Remember the sour taste and texture. 4. Count to 10 while thinking about the lemon. 5. Is your mouth watering?

Now think about this for a second. Is there really the bite of a lemon in your mouth? Did your body react though? Of course it did. Look at the command you have over your body just by thinking.

What are the bad thoughts and images doing to you?

In the Self Empowerment Guide, there are several easy to use techniques to counter the constant bombardment of thoughts and images that continue to give you dis-ease. Do you like the discomfort that these thoughts and situations give you?

I didnt think so.

Your thoughts can either help you or hurt you. You can learn to change your thoughts and change your life for the better.

Spiritual Empowerment

Would you like to align your life with the positive things just outside your current reach?

Here is a reminder of things about you.

You are an infinite being who decided came down to this place and this body to endure the hardships and enjoyable times. Why did you do this? You might ask. It is so you can evolve as a soul and by evolving as a soul, connected to all of the rest of us, we are all evolving.

There are the things we evolve from and the things we don't evolve from. When we have examples of hardship around us it is our choice to decide what we do with them and how we grow from them. It is also our choice to move those experiences away from us as well. Even when we complain about how hard things are, we are given an opportunity to evolve from them. There is always free will as well as choice even when we feel or have forgotten that we truly have it. There is even the choice to remember that you have free will.

Take a look around you at the people around you. Who are your friends, confidants,your mentors and your students?

Why are they here?

They are here to assist you in your growth and evolution. Deep inside they understand this and willingly participate in helping you create the situations you need for the maximum amount of growth that you can handle.

Whether you chose to see this or not is very truly up to you. Not seeing or not believing a thing is there is your choice as well. The sooner you come to the realization that we are all creators of our world and co-creators of our world it will be easier to understand that putting effort into evolving will help not only ourselves but all of us. All of us have been given the gift of free will. Making an effort to improving our lives and the lives of others is a wonderful choice to act upon.

If you truly feel it is not worth the effort, how about doing it because you are going to help that little girl on the swing set? What about that little boy playing in the sand box? How about the friend or family member who just needs a push in the right direction. That animal who is wondering where its next meal might come from. Empowering yourself and working on your evolution sends a rippling effect to all of us. You are worth it and so are we.

We are all truly courageous individuals to take on this evolution on behalf of all of us.

This is a beautiful thing.

Authors note: I wrote the above when my daughters asked me why we are here. There are a lot of times we don't understand what our lifes purpose is or why we are living. With some effort we can find our own answers to these questions and start living self empowered lives. Thank you. - Jase Peck

Financial Self Empowerment

In the Self Empowerment Guide we have a section dedicated to generating abundance. We want you to learn how to attract money and abundance into your life. The author has taught how to attract abundance classes for over 15 years. In his abundance class he gives an offer if you do not double the money you invested in the class within a week he will refund double the cost of the class to you. To this date there have been no takers. When you understand that with a few changes it is easy to get abundance to flow to you.

If you have ever felt bad about receiving money, or are perpetually without cash to purchase something, or in a bad financial situation, then you need to invest in the guide.

There are several techniques to help you undo the programming and change the mindset that keeps you from generating abundance. People speak of the law of attraction. You attract to you what you most think about. This law is actually a very old piece of wisdom. It has been around long before movies or books like The Secret.

In the self empowerment guide we help you to understand the sources of programming and help you to change the way you have allowed yourself to think. You do the discovery and you do the work. You also get the results.

The information works. Engaging it gives you the proof.

We have a save money guide along with the financial empowerment section of the guide. There are over a hundred and ten ways to save money alone in that part of the Self Empowerment Guide. Everyone can benefit by saving money these days. Not everyone is aware of places to save some extra money.

All of us need to be focusing on getting financially empowered. Cutting your costs and purchasing things that have value are two important lessons for us right now.

I have added the first ten of the more than one hundred ways to save guide here. Please use some of the ways to save right now.

Right now people need ways to save money. Save money out of preparation, not out of fear.

The phrase save it for a rainy day was used to remind people that its good to have a little extra when you cannot work outside.

There is a lot of programming that people allow themselves to be a part of. If you allow yourself to be programmed you will be disempowered. Its time to change the programming to believing in yourself and what you can do.

Here is a gift to help you to save enough money right now so that you can invest it in something that can help you. I know several people who only used the ten we have listed here to save themselves a couple hundred dollars in just two weeks. This is part of my gift to you for coming to my website. Please share this website with everyone you know.

If we can work together and empower each other we can truly make a change in this world.

Here are ten ways to help you financially right now.

1. Turn off those lights. No I am not saying live in the darkness. (Actually I hope to get you out of the darkness) Just shut off the lights in the other rooms. Unplug devices that you are not using. Most household devices draw a small amount of electricity even when they are powered off. Laptop power packs and even the monitor you are using are examples. If there is a light on it, then it is drawing current from the electric company and money from your wallet. At the end of the month you captured a few dollars as a gift to yourself for making the effort.

2. Go on a diet. I have a friend who was reading on a snack box about how much is one portion. She counted out seventeen cheese nips, put them in a bowl and that was her snack for the night. At the time I couldnt help laughing as I finished my box. The next night she had a bowl of cheese nips while I sat hungry contemplating a drive to the store. (More money) She even lost 5 pounds from eating only one portion at a time.

3. Empty the glove box. If you drive, spending gas money carting around objects is pretty silly. I used to let my kids leave a ton of toys in the car to keep them occupied. One day I looked in the back seat and saw that I was the chauffer for passengers who were literally along for the ride. When next I looked I saw a bunch of things in the trunk I had forgotten too. Instead of hauling everything up and down hills and in and out of stop and go traffic. I put the kids toys in a backpack (a bag or box will do just as well) the other items in the house. In the end I think I saved a mile per every four or five gallons. I was quite literally paying to taxi around objects.

4. Buy bigger now, save bigger later. No I am not saying buy that new car you always wanted. Although if you really focus your efforts you will most likely be able to save and generate enough money to do so. I am saying there are some lower cost food places like Aldi's, even Wal-Mart has some discounted food items. Next take a look at the price per ounce. Very often the item that is 32 ounces is 5 cents per ounce and the item that is 16 ounces is 7 cents per ounce. Do the math you are saving 2 cents per ounce or 64 cents for the bigger item. Here is an example. What does a bottle of water cost these days? How about 16 ounces for about a dollar and a half? If you buy 8 bottles of water you spend 12 dollars for one gallon of water. Amazing right? Yes and you thought gas was high.

5. Entertain yourself for free. Yes there are dozens of free events. Free concerts, DVD night with family and friends, a walk in the park, a trip to the library. Take a friend they probably need to become empowered too. Reward yourself with beauty not food. If you had a good day at work, take a walk, if you had a bad day at work, take a walk. If you take a friend the conversation is free. If you are alone and are talking to yourself, people might look at you funny. Borrow videos from friends, share yours as well. One free event a month will net you twenty to fifty dollars of savings.

6. If you dont use it then lose it. Take some of those old books to the used book dealer, sell them on eBay or give them away to friends. (A book exchange) My mother used to have a bunch of books in a room. For a long time I thought she just moved them around. I found out later she was sharing them with friends and her friends were sharing with her. Take those old clothes and drop them off at the goodwill store. If you have been on a diet by using the infomation above then instead of an abundance of weight, you now have an abundance of clothes.

7. If you dont need it, leave it. Do you really need that new issue of the latest sports magazine? The bran new dress? The latest designer fashion? If you need a suit for an interview then please do what you need to, but when you leave it at the store you leave money in your pocket.

8. If you can make it then create it. The time to do so that is. Take the time to do some simple crafts with your kids. Help them make games. Draw on the sidewalk with a rock and things like that. Start a garden. Buy some seeds with a friend and share them. I have a garden every year. After the initial planting I always have left over seeds I share with my neighbor. One tomato seed can give you dozens of tomatoes. Plant good seeds in your life.

9. Fix it or Pitch it. If the button fell off, sew a new one on. If someone else can sew it for you then barter something that you can do. Take the old clothes put them in a box to use when you are outside in the garden or just sitting watching television with your one portion of cheese nips. If you cannot fix it then why heat it with your furnace? Why spend gas on it by carrying it in your car?

10. Look around, save around. Take a look around your house or life. Is a neighbor taking too much of your time complaining about their has-been exes? Do you keep buying batteries when you can go get rechargeable ones that in the end last longer and save being in a landfill? Learn to let go of the things you no longer need and extend the things you do.

11. Of course there is an eleven. Wait three months before purchasing seasonal things. Buy that windbreaker in the winter as well as some of the short sleeve shirts. Savings 50%. Buy next years winter jacket at the end of the winter season. I usually buy my camping supplies in July. I bought a four wheel drive vehicle in March and saved $6500 from the same vehicle I priced just 30 days before.

12. Here is a great trick. When you save some money on something, take it as cash and put it into a piggy bank or some storage. This way you will physically see the result of your efforts. Think of ways to invest this new cash into things that can make more money for you. A garden? Maybe invest it in a type of account that will gain you some interest.

Every time you save money on something, take the cash or coins and put them somewhere. Try it! It is pretty fun to do and see. One of our empowered friends funded a week long vacation at the beach from the money she saved and stored. When she was down at the beach they laughed because they saved some money by going to the grocery store for food and put the money they saved from the restaurant in storage for next years vacation.

In the self empowerment guide there are over 100 more ways to save money. Everyone wants value for their money. Imagine saying to people that you purchaced a guide that saved you dozens of times more that you paid for it.

It is your right to have a happy abundant life. We want that for you as well.

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The human mind is complex it perceives things differently according to our beliefs and thought patterns. This unique part of our body gives us the insights and mental prowess to go through life by utilizing our own abilities to survive and adapt. But if you want to live life to the fullest then you better let your creative juices flow to come up with great ideas for self-improvement in both your personal life and career.

Everyone has the capacity to be creative, as long as they dont put a limit to their capability to think and to accept new ideas from the outside. But there are certain hindrances that stop the flow of creative juices on our brain and here are some ideas on how to burst the dam and let the creative you show itself to the world.

Get Rid Of Your Stress

Stress is one of the hindrances in letting your creative juices flow out of you. In most cases, our problems, fears, inhibitions, physical exhaustion, or even our emotions can become a hurdle that stops our mind from thinking anything beside the problem.

Stress management can help get rid of this problem and let your mind relax to boost your creativity. It also helps you focus your eyes on an object that gives you comfort or that can help you relax. You might also want to indulge in your favorite activities to help you get rid of negative thoughts that stop your brain from being creative.

Expand Your Repertoire

Using your own stock knowledge may not be enough to guarantee a fresh flow of creative juices to run through your head. If you want to get some good ideas then you better get out of your hiding-hole and look at your surroundings to get some good thoughts to enter your head. Visit the local park, mall hopping, or even visit your friends to get you in the right mood.

Do What You Want To Do

Get in touch with your hobbies and favorites to help your brain relax and let it do what it is accustomed of doing. You can draw, sing, or even compose a new melody on your piano to help your mind focus on the task at hand. Fresh ideas do come out when you are focused on a specific goal so you better think of what you want to do and start doing it to train your mind to be creative.

Voice Out Your Thoughts

It might help if you come up with ideas while voicing it out loud. You dont need an audience; you just need to listen to your own voice to help your mind focus on the task at hand. It would also help to have someone to talk to and help you come up with creative ideas.

As the famous saying goes 2 heads are better than 1 so you might want to ask some of your few friends for a serious brainstorming session while having fun in the process to avoid stressing yourself out.

Reading And Watching Television

Reading is a great way to exercise your mind to think. If youre reading fantasy novels or short stories, you might notice that your mind visualizes the flow of the story as you read each line. You can easily get new ideas out of your head when it is in this state so give it a try if you want to come up with creative concepts for your goal. Television is also a great way to refresh your brain with new ideas to add to your creativity. Feel free to jump from one channel to another until you find a show that catches your attention. Relax and focus and let your mind wander as you enjoy a comfortable time watching.

Dont force the creativity to come out. In truth, doing so would only give you a headache when you push your brain to its limits. Try to relax and let your thoughts wander; focus on it as if youre watching a movie, and let it do all the work while your body is complete and total rest.

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Light is information, Darkness is lack of information.

Go, Wherever darkness has triumphed, Shine your light.

Bless,

Zdravko

We can imagine ourselves to become whatever we want to be, and truly become just that.

But deep down, The very foundation of that structure, Behind whatever we manifest and create, Life simply flows, Constantly, Like a river; It is, Continuous.

We can choose to jump in and insert whatever variable we wish.

Go, Become a master of imagination, But the constant, eternal essence of it all;

Life is, Its as simple as that.

Bless, Zdravko

In you is another me, Patiently awaiting to be set free, Behind us can we all our ignorance leave, To roam in true beauty and see, That which makes us be, Is the same in you as in me.

Bless, Zdravko

Fear not the traps of this world, Nor the thorns of peoples horns.

Your barrier should not be defense, Instead, Become transparent softness, Swirling and transforming any force, Your tool is that which dissarms any roughness, Being its total opposite and mirror image, It will destroy itself.

If you truly wish to be strong, Practise kindness.

Bless, Zdravko

Great time spent asleep, Confusions were deep, Ego was a knife too steep, With true joy I didnt greet.

Chained to time, My souls hyme, Didnt feel as if mine, Asleep I was to loves rhyme.

That night I saw, What I had only forgot, In pure awe, The plant helped me figure it all out.

A new state emerged, A life long practise, A battle with no fight, To remain purged, That night, I became a novice, On the path with no path, There was not the language of mind, No math, To maintain true peace I shall find.

~ Zdravko Stefanovic

Just like the seed knows, Life flows, When cracked, Smacked, Into a world packed, With challenges, Fringes, Moments, Difficulties.

Another moment, Eternally, Repetitively, For me to learn, Oh, How my soul yearns, For a place, My pace, Sometimes lost, In my egos face.

Always retreatable, Laughable, Incredible, Cureable, Reachable, Is my souls stillness, Removing all illness, Is Gods embrace.

~ Zdravko Stefanovic

Life is a fantastic and ever-evolving symbiosis of the nature of balance and non-balance in a perfect equilibrium. We must learn that we attract and to see how we attract. All the forces known to man play a role in this matrix of attractionand wisdom is a language, enabling us to realize how we can program the software that we are running on.

All that must be learned and understood is the language. To learn the different languages of nature and indeed the language of the inner universe, one should grow a compassionate, objective perspective of all events within and outside oneself. Emotions are probably the strongest accent, or should I say module, in this whirlving pool of natures languages. They strike us more real than anything else. When the heart leads, the mind follows.

If your heart is upset, the mind becomes upset, which in turn feeds the ego-mind and thus, repeating the process. This process is called the trap of ego, and should not attempt to be dwelled in. The key here is objectivity, for the ego only operates in the realms of subjectivity. It has no power when your awareness stretches to sheer objectivity. This will, when cultivated enough, give you the power of accepting life, and yourself for what you are. It gives birth to self-honesty, one of the key elements to breaking the chains of suffering, that which in Hindu terms makes us repeat the same mistakes over, and over again (Samsara).

Just be still, Inside and out. Peace is not to be forcefully attained, It is a mode of consciousness to be perceived and felt.

Bless, Zdravko

When in balance, The mind sees synchronicity, The heart sees beauty.

Together they breed (magic) love.

When confused, The mind is loud, The heart is painful.

Together they breed suffering.

Know when you are confused. Go seek balance.

Bless, Zdravko

What truly inspires me the most, emotionally and intellectually when thinking about the human enterprise, are our Artists. With every stroke of their brush, they incorporate the current and full version of the universe, and extend it with their action. If you think about creativity for a moment, the cognitive ability to engage in free association, artists are somewhat on the path of becoming the masters of their creativity. An induced state of trance where the individual is receiving information from the cosmos (The Great Spirit) through their energetic chakra system; and tunnel it through their denser, materialistic projection of their current version of themselves, the universe, and this Earth.

They renew our world. They see and create new ways of expression, definitions and beauty. Our artists are our most important projectors into new space of rejunivation and unfolders of the fact that there are higher realms of reality.

Bless, Zdravko

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Is consciousness an epiphenomenal happenstance of this particular universe? Or does the very concept of a universe depend upon its presence? Does consciousness merely perceive reality, or does reality depend upon it? Did consciousness simply emerge as an effect of evolution? Or was it, in some sense, always "out there" in the world? These questions and more, are addressed in this special edition.

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Cosmological Foundations of Consciousness Origins of Thought Evolution of Consciousness Neuroscience of Free Will Quantum Physics & Consciousness Out-of-Body and Near Death Experiences Dreams & Hallucinations Paleolithic Cosmology & Spirituality Self-Consciousness in Apes, Dolphins, Cephalopods, Machines Consciousness in Extra-Terrestrials Sexual Consciousness How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe

Over 70 Consciousness Raising Articles By: Henry P. Stapp, Deepak Chopra, Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Brandon Carter, Michael Persinger, Walter Freeman, Howard Shevrin, Arnold Trehub, Bruce MacLennan, GianCarlo Ghirardi, Don Page, Shan Gao, Gordon Globus, Fred Kuttner, Bruce Rosenblum, Etzel Cardena, Larry Dossey, Bruce Greyson, Roger Nelson, Rudolph Tanzi, Ernesto Di Mauro, Michael Nauenberg, Thomas Suddendorf, Lori Marino, Andrea E. Cavanna, Ian Tattersall, Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, Bruce Greyson, Milford H. Wolpoff, Edgar Mitchell, Thomas H. Huxley, Rene Descartes, Williams James, and many more.

This Text Is Divided into 13 Sections with nearly 70 Chapters

Section I. Cosmology of Consciousness

Section II. Brain and Mind

Section III. What is Consciousness

Section IV. Consciousness and Thought

Section V. Remote Consciousness

Section VI. Self-Consciousness - Dissociated, Shared, Near Death Consciousness

Section VII. Dreams, Hallucinations & Altered States of Consciousness

Section VIII. Origins & Evolution of Consciousness

Section IX. Paleolithic Consciousness: Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, Spirituality, Sexuality

Section X. Animal and Artificial Consciousness

Section XI. Quantum Physics and Consciousness

Section XII. Consciousness and ExtraTerrestrials

Section XIII. Consciousness and the Universe

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There are many types of investments that will ensure you a safe and secure financial future. While investing money may not be rocket science, it definitely is a science that takes time, effort, and perseverance to master and produce true results. In this article, we cover the following types of investments:

Liquid investments are investments that could be turned into cash relatively easily and assume various forms, such as savings accounts, Certificates of Deposit, Money Market Accounts, and other interest-bearing accounts offered by banks. Normally, these types of investments are FDIC-insured and although they offer low rates of return, they are relatively less risky.

Under the broad umbrella of bonds, we cover both savings bonds (Treasury Bonds) offered by the US government and corporate bonds issued by private corporations. The US Treasury is the largest issuer of savings bonds and normally these are very secure investment vehicles, given that they are backed by the United States Government Uncle Sam. These savings bonds are easily sold at most banks and can also be directly purchased from the Treasury Department online. As investments, the savings bonds are safe and stand by their promise of providing fixed interest rates.

In addition to government bonds, corporate bonds represent another major chunk of investment vehicles. Normally, corporate bonds are rated by independent agencies based on the level of risk associated with their issuer. Much like government savings bonds, they are relative safe but do carry some risk, given that they are issued by private corporations which are subject to loss, bankruptcy, and other risk-producing eventualities.

The nuts and bolts of an annuity boils down to some very basic contracting. You, as the investor, pay a lump sum amount to the annuity issuer, typically an insurance company. At a pre-defined period, typically your retirement, the annuity would mature and start paying you a fixed amount every month. The advantage of an annuity is that you will not have to pay taxes until the annuity payments actually start accruing to you. Although considered low risk, annuity provides charge high fees and their success is largely dependent on the reputation and stability of the insurance company underwriting the annuity.

A stock normally represents your ownership within the corporation. The advantage of holding a stock is that not only do you own a piece of the company, you also have the liberty to trade these instruments in an open market (and thus realize capital gains) and reap income in the form of dividends, which are declared when the company makes profits. Stocks, as an investment class, are very volatile and may be subject to sharp market fluctuations and uncertainty.

Mutual funds are a large aggregation of stocks, bonds, and other financial investments, except that they are managed by professional investors. The advantage of mutual funds is the possibility of diversifying your financial investment over a large pool of investments. Unfortunately, it is not easy to predict the risk and rate of return through mutual funds and depending on the professional expertise of mutual fund managers, the success is likely to vary.

For those who keep track of the real estate market, buying, selling, and renting property could be a viable financial investment. Not only will you realize capital gains if you invest in the right property, there is also the possibility of earning rental income. If you had purchased your property relatively early in your career, at retirement you may have paid off the propertys mortgage and so whatever rental income accrues is basically your profit (minus, of course, maintenance).

If you have bad credit you still can get loan from BadCreditPersonalLoans.net. Disclaimer: This article is not intended as investment advice. You must check with a qualified professional before making any investment decision.

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