“Serving the world with love and cooperation, you will find your own true Self. As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away, and without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.”
- Amma
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi - aka Amma, the ‘hugging saint’ - is currently in the US on her 2008 world tour. Since 1981 she has been giving hugs, inspiration and spiritual guidance to people around the world, and is estimated to have hugged more than 30 million to date. Tens of thousands line up for her ‘darshan’ (Sanskrit for divine sight, or blessing) wherever she travels. On her recent visit to Los Angeles, I decided to investigate this phenomenon, and figure out what it is exactly that draws so many millions to share the ‘Amma experience.’
I first met Amma in June of 2006, just two days after my sister’s death in a tragic car accident on the afternoon before her planned visit to see the hugging saint. The idea of wading through thousands of people to see the renowned saint-figure had always kept me away, but this time I felt a divine mandate to go and meet her myself, and share with her the awful news of what had happened to my sister, Ananda, who was a longtime Amma devotee. Continue reading →
Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you. Continue reading →
Ladies and Gentleman, it’s official: this site is up and running, as is…!
I will continue to add features and content, a gallery, videos and writing - like the article i just wrote, “How to stay happy while the world burns,” which will be posted shortly…
It’s been a long road, but over these past months i’ve learned so much about blogging and web designing and seo, etc…my brain is practically computer toast…but it’s all been well worth it! It’s hard to believe the amount of work that goes into the millions of sites out there - i have some serious newfound respect.
Speaking of which…
It being May Day, an ancient pre-Christian holiday celebrating life and the start of Summer, as well as International Labor Day, i’d just like to point out a few live statistics from the truly remarkable Worldometers site, in solidarity with our earth and all of us who live and work in this beautiful world…
A word on the context…it’s spring of 2003, year two of the Tribeca Film Festival, just blocks away from ground zero and my studio at the time. The bombs have just recently begun raining on Baghdad in the ill-fated Iraq oil war…
