Meditation: Shasta 2013 Retreat Notes

We do not warrant the completeness nor the accuracy of the notes published here.  They are meant to remind the student of the meditations performed at the conference, not to serve as a definitive description of the meditations.  As the resources for the descriptions are researched links to those resources will be supplied here.

Shasta 2013-08-28

Mountain majestic
Rising tall
Open your secrets
And tell all
Of heaven and earth
To us whom you call

8-28-2013

The impact of meditative mind over the environment

No anxiety.  Slavery.

Kriya- sitali pranayam. Inhale hold 8 sec exhale nose 31 min inhale squeeze cheeks exhale3x

Kriya-left Jupiter on forehead. Ton. Pump navel. Right Jupiter.,Saturn up at sides. Tongue at upper palate.  Molars tight.  Listen every heartbeat.
Increases flow in the brain.  Self emboldment.  Vision.
When you react, you stop seeing.  Helps involve you with what’s going on.  Nm091

Kriya- right hand forearm up, palm level in front at shoulder.  Left hand extended, bent, palm up.  Eyes closed.  Waheguru jio gyani ji.  Balance hands.  Sing.   Whisper, silent & pump navel.  Then contemplate (no music).  Nm190.

Kriya-hands clasped in front, right over left.
“o” mouth Ldb.  Sense the lips and focus on sensation of hands.  Expand chest and shoulders on inhale. Strong breathing.
Inhale 3x.
Ldb. Focus on navel & hands and original Prana.
listen wha Yantee
“o” mouth only using diaphragm.
Inhale, squeeze, hold, exhale 3x.       La665.   Revitalizes.

Kriya – Sadhana.   Use med mind to suggest.
interlace hands in front of heart, pull thumbs back
Ra ra ra ra ma ma ma ma sa sa sa sa sat Hari Har Hari Har.
Ton. La031

Mantra. Direction to mind
“o” mouth stimulates frontal lobe. Original Prana field betw navel and crown.

Shasta 2013-08-29

8/29/2013
Increase the Links between intuition and perception.
Your symbolic identity does not apply.

Kriya – hands interlaced in front, jupiters up at mouth. Ton, looking at mudra.  Inhale (sip) mouth 4x exhale nose.
16 min.  La936
Stimulates intuitive process, integrates with perception.

Kriya –  gives awareness of surroundings.  Tolerance.
Jupiters up tight at sides.  Breathe”o” w diaphragm.  Eyes closed.   11 min.Nm427
Then, begin Breathing w navel.  11 min.  Inhale,tighten muscles on spine 3x.

Kriya – upside down nose. La001

Kriya – hands interlaced at chin, knuckles up.  Elbows out.  Bof “o”‘

Kriya- jupiters up at sides,curved.  Waheguru jio.  Nm373
Humee hum, bole so Nihal.
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Kriya – left palm up at solar plexus. Tight hand on top,
Alm jo.  Touch thumb and saturn I rhythm with heart. Eyes at brow point..
Then sat nam waheguru (Indian) 1/30/75”

Evening
Kriya – right hand over left, 4 inches in front.  Inhale nose, exhale mouth, flexing spine.

Kriya – interlock pinkies, left thumb up, right thumb down. 1 min.  Whistle areas bhaee.

Shasta 2013-08-30

Work in the mind

Kriya – Jupiter, Saturn, up at sides.  Aad such…bay such. Whisper.

Kriya. – right hand on left, level of throat.  Breathe through left nostril.

Kriya. – prayer pose at 45 deg. Thumbs crossed.  Sat nam harinam ,,,  la041
2x / breath.

Kriya – right palm over lefy pal, facing up at plexus.  Gobinde Gobinde Hari Hari

Kriya –  for fear of unknown.
Thumbs and mercury together at plexus pointing outward.  Inhale nose, exhale mouth, inhale mouth, exhale nose.  3 middle fingers together.
la097

Kriya – Jupiter, Saturn up at sides.  Toc. “o” mouth.
Then tantric Har.

Kriya – Jupiter, Saturn up at sides, spread wide.  Shoulder blades back. Listen ONG namo.  7 1/2 min.  Then sing.  To 11 min.
Tch2005. 7/23/96

Kriya – la051. ONG kar

Kriya – la051. Ek ONG kar

Shasta 2013-08-31

Kriya – genie pose   Sat Sam hari nam harinam…   Opens heart with unfulfilment.  11-31 min.

Kriya – Jupiter, Saturn intertwined, up at sides.  Toc.  Har.

Kriya – for telescopic perception. La 687
3 lines
Inner state of enlightenment
Wind
UnDifferentiate everything

Interlace hands, fingers straight, thumbs touch, elbows out, palms in.
Wind – use ra ma da sa sa se so hung. Vibrate in heart, throat, and thymus
Enlightenment same position.  Harinam sat nam harinam haree.  Chant from the source.
Undifferentiation – 7th chakra. Ek ONG Kar sat nam karta purkh…
Ajunee without consonants.
14 min. For 1 year.

Kriya – palms together, each in gyan mudra at heart.  8 step inhale nose. Exhale mouth.
Purify ourselves. La093.

Kriya – Jupiter, Saturn up at sides, a little in front. Aap sahai hoa. Ton.  3rd eye Tch2408

Shasta 2013-09-01

Intuitive perception – integrate point on inner thigh  (body mandala)  with third eye and mantra Ek ONG Kar sat Hari.  La831

Spiritual beggar – left palm up at plexus, right hand out in front begging.  Toc.  No expectation.
Intuition gives rise to aspects in the mind.  If you give identity to them, superstion.
Intuition is integrating an experience in a synthetic way.  Every component reflects the whole experience.  Events of the whole are known by their relationships.

Kriya – la766.  Unload subconscious
Hands over left ear, right hand palm forward. Sing humee hum hum w tip of tongue.
Both hands over ears, sing Har haray haree.

Kriya – naad for opening intuition.  Fingers on pads, thumbs interlocked, palms forward at heart. Waheguru – diaphragm, first and second chakra.  3,4, use only nose. 5,6.  La159.

When you need intuition to work, fold arms an chant waheguru through nose 16x.

Kriya- rejection – clasp hands in ball over heart.  Chant Hari Har Hari Har… 8x/breath.
11-31 min

Kriya – for rejection nm345.  Stimulates  radiant body.
Arms straight out to sides. Palms rotate up and down.  Hold out straight. Har.
Ton.
History is manifest as a resistance to the present moment.

Kriya -salameet – everlasting la697
Buddha mudra on lap.  Thumbs round.  Ldb.  Ton.  Invokes Prana.  7 min
Thumbs on mound of mercury.  Shake I horizontal circles at shoulders.  7 min.
Punch, eyes closed 4 min
Karl akal 4
Dance bangara 2 min

Shasta 2013-09-02

Kriya – gyan mudra hands facing front.  Inhale slow whistle, cannon exhale.  Nm336  11-21 min.  Reduces gap between thinking and doing.

Meditation: Meditations for the Radiant Body

We have ten bodies.  The projection of the radiant Body, the tenth body, determines how other people see us and how we see ourselves.  It can be shiny and protective, or dull and porous.  We also use our Radiant Body to heal.  If it is strong enough, we can heal people with our mere presence.  This is a goal that is our challenge in this age, where so many people need to be healed and there is so little time.

These meditations strengthen, enhance, and polish the Radiant Body.

NM345      NM345 Mind & Mentality II Scope and Projection I
    Tantric Har
NM0410     NM0410-The Northern Lights – EkOngKar

Ajai Alai – Guru Shabbad Singh
NM0163     NM0163 – Polish the Radiant Body

Meditation: Shasta 2013 Sadhana Meditations

This is not “Guru Dev Singh’s” sadhana meditation.  It is a collection of four meditations given by Yogi Bhajan as part of several classes.  These meditations were practiced daily at the Mt Shasta retreat.

1.  LA889-9601010-Uttar-Kriya

LA889-2     LA889-1

Sweep arms in wide circle from top to down, with bounce at the bottom.  Feel hands. Do it in rhythm of Tantric Har.  11 min. Right arm on top of left, elbows out, in front of chin.  3 min. Inhale, twist left, hold, exhale completely to the right/  3x.
    Tantric Har

2.  LA877-960604-SelfRealization

LA877-1     LA877-2

Hands in gyan mudra palms up extended in front with elbows at ribs.  Sing Humee Hum Brum Hum  8 min. Extend elbows to sides with fingers pointing inward in large arc towards thymus.  Hold position.  Sing Humee Hum Brum Hum.  3 min. Oscillate hands in front of heart quickly up and down, palms facing inward, elbows out. Listen tantric Har. Inhale, hold, oscillate rapidly, cannon exhale..  3x.
    Humee Hum Brun Hum

3.  LA819-850109-Eliminate-Brain-Fatigue

LA819-1 Funky swimming.  With hands facing each other in front. bring right hand up and out to side, then back around to center.  Left hand down and in, then back around to center.  Keep going at a fast pace.  Feel the hands, feel the brain.  9 min. LA819-2 Extend arms up 60 deg to right, palms together.  Hold position.  3 min. Extend arms up 60 deg to left, palms together.  Hold position.  3 min. LA819-3819-4 Inhale, interlock infers above the head, stretch, squeeze, exhale. 3x.
Lock hands in front at Thymus, left hand on outside.  Pull them apart with great strength, but hold them together.  Breathe in, hold, breathe out, 3x. 819-5 Stretch legs in front, cross ankles and try to pull them apart.  3x on each side, with a count of 16. Grip the hands again and cross the ankles, inhale, pull, to a count of 16, exhale.  2x

4.  LA918-970908-Internal-Effectiveness

LA918-1     LA918-2

Put right hand on top of left shoulder, led hand flat against the back.  Keep your posture.  Chest out, chin in, spine straight so that energy and spinal serum flow freely.  Close the eyes, breathe long and deep.  Inhale deeply, hold as long as you can, exhale long.  Do this very consciously without any rhythm.  11 min. Switch sides.  Do for 11 min.

Inhale, put arms out so sides at 60 deg,chin up, face up, praying to Almighty God. 3 min. Put hands on heart, right over left.  Contemplate. 7 min.

Put hands on lap, left under, right over.
Sing Har Har Har Har Gobinde…  Use Guru Shabd Singh version.  3 min.        Har Har Har Har Gobinde

Healing with the Ten Bodies

Yogic tradition tells us that all consciousness that can be identified has ten bodies.  It is the common denominator  of all beings and collections of beings.  We can approach healing in a very profound and permanent way if we recognize this and relate with the bodies in a contemplative way.  Contemplating a body of an event we can find the story that holds the tendencies of the patient at a very primal level and modify it.  Our workshop will address this proposition and we will practice healing using this method.

Meditation: “Sniff” meditation

Sit cross legged. Place left hand on left knee, in gyan mudra.  With right hand, place thumb on the mound of Mercury (on palm just below the pinkie finger), palm facing your face.  “Sniff” each finger in succession as you silently recite the mantra “Sa Ta Na Ma”, starting with the Jupiter (index) finger.  After the fourth “sniff”, exhale the breath and begin again.

11-31 minutes

This meditation will stimulate your perceptive field and intensify your experience.

Meditation: “Blow Your Mind”

BlowYourMind

Put finger tips together at chin level. Sing Ra Ma Da Sa (pause) Sa Se So Hung. Emphasize the first Sa, then pause before the next phrase.

Eyes at tip of nose. Look at mudra. 31 min.
This is for when your space is too organized or constricted

Meditation: Initiate an Intuitive Existence

Place hands on knees with the thumbs touching the Mercury fingers (pinkies).   Balance the weight of the body.  Place eyes at the tip of the nose.  Place tongue at the upper soft palate, in the back of the mouth.  Don’t move.  31 min.

Meditation and Healing Workshop July 20, 2013 with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center (Review)

We held a Meditation and Sat Nam Rasayan® Healing Workshop with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center in Hollywood. The topic of the workshop was Healing with the Elements.

Meditation: Initiate an Intuitive Existence

Meditation: Sniff Meditation

Meditation: BlowYour Mind

The Elements are a system of forms that we can use in a healing relation.  They are Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether.  An assumption of using elements to heal is that any system can be described completely by the composition of elements present in the system.  Our mortal incarnation can be described physically as a collection of elements held together by our prana.  When the prana can no longer hold the elements together, they disperse, and we expire.

How elements are combined can describe conditions of imbalance or disease.  Too much of one or more elements and a lack of others can produce a condition of imbalance in the body, in the mind, or perhaps in a relationship between a person and someone or something else.  Bringing the composition of elements into balance can remove the tendency of the condition.

The way we use elements to heal is simply to include them in the healing relation.  We relate with elements in the same way that we relate with the event.  We find how we are affected in our perceptive field by our intention to include one or more elements.  It is the same intuitive process that we use for all healing.  We do not need to conceptualize nor visualize an element as an object or static property, but rather look inside our perceptive field to find how we are affected in relation with it.  Those effects are the reality of the process.  Any preconceptions of an element that come from outside of the experience only serve to limit the experience and dilute the effect.  The use of elements has an immediate and strong impact on the healing relation.  We use them to effect quick results where the precision of other contemplative forms is not required.

Highlights of the experience.

Workshop Lunch Menu

 

 

 

The Wolf and the Lamb, an Aesop Fable

A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.” Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.” “No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.”  The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Translated by George Fyler Townsend. Aesop’s Fables (p. 15). Amazon Digital Services, Inc..

It is Ten Years Today…

…since the start of the Iraq War.  Last week my family listened to Rachel Maddow comment on war in our time when she visited Los Angeles.  Neither a pacifist nor a war hawk, Rachel shared her thoughts on why it our nation has a propensity for engaging in perpetual war.  She has written a book entitled Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.  It is an American political history of America’s most recent wars.  In her address she described her motivations for writing the book and described some aspects of its context.

Here I would like to share some highlights.

View Intro Video  Why she wrote the book

View Excerpt Video Reading a passage that describes the aging and deterioration of the US nuclear arsenal.

Meditation and Healing Workshop March 16, 2013 with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center (Review)

We held a Meditation and Sat Nam Rasayan® Healing Workshop with Hari Nam Singh at the Healing Heart Center in Hollywood.  The topic of the workshop was Healing in the Dream State.  Here are some of the highlights:
Audio recording    

Meditation Use the Wind to Produce Trance

Meditation for Mastery of Time and Space

Meditation See Without the Eyes

Lunch Menu 

Meditation: LA877-19960604 – Self Realization

 LA877-960604-SelfRealization

See the lecture video from 19960604

    Humee Hum Brum Hum

    Tantric Har

See full transcript LA877 960604 Self Realization in Library of Teachings

Meditation: KYB117-19860822 – Achieve an Experience of God

Sit in Easy Pose, bend your elbows so that your upper arms are by your rib cage, and the hands are at shoulder level, palms facing forward. Bring each hand into Surya Mudra with the thumb and sun finger (ring finger) touching. Keep the other three fingers straight. Silently meditate to Rahke Rakhan Har by Singh Kaur. Your hands are in Surya Mudra and you are meditating to a Surya Shabd. Close your eyes and go through your oneness.

Let the surya or sun energy circulate. Start with 11 minutes and work up to 31 Minutes.

Rakhe Rakhan Har

Transcript: KYB117-860822-Achieve an Experience of God 19860822

HNS Class Golden bridge – 2012-12-26 – Dissolving the Boundaries of Perception

Hari Nam Singh
Sat Nam Rasayan® Class
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 — 4:00 p.m.
Bodh Gaya Room
Golden Bridge — Hollywood, California

Tune-in.  Ong Namo….

Meditation For Mastery Of Time And Space (890312 — M0512):
Mudra:  Place both hands on your lap with the palms up.  The right hand is on top of the left hand.  The tips of the thumbs are touching.
Sit straight.  The chin is slightly tilted toward the chest.
Eyes:  Focused on the tip of the nose.
Mantra:  Recite with the tip of the tongue silently, “Waa-hey Guru….”  Use only the tongue.  Do not move the lips.  It’s silent.  Just let the tongue do its exercise.
Time:  11 Minutes
To End:  Inhale, hold the breath, exhale, relax.

So Sat Nam Rasayan® is a healing tradition where we use our awareness and find in our awareness through our perception how we’re affected by something.  We can trust that to be our reality.  Our perception happens inside of us.  Everything that we relate with — people, our environment, and everything else — in some way affects us and brings certain perception to our awareness.  As healers all we need to do is recognize that.  If we are able to relate with the experience of that relation in a neutral way, then something new can happen.  The perceptions that come from that relation are allowed to modify.  We don’t need to modify them.  They will modify if we relate with them in a neutral way.  The tendencies modify in a way that healing happens.  We don’t need to push back on any perception that arises through our relation; rather just allow it, don’t react to it, and then see how it changes.  It will produce more perceptions, more awareness.  That broader awareness is experienced by both the healer and the tiny pet in some way, and healing is allowed to happen in the tiny pet.  That’s simply a description of the process that happens when we do this.

So we don’t need any particular knowledge, only experience of how we can relate in the proper way.  We can relate in the proper way by placing our awareness in a certain position where we can relate in a neutral way and then allow our intention to heal to manifest.  It’s just very simple; however, not necessarily simple to recognize that so that’s why we practice.  Most of what we do we do through Meditation and Practice.  If we can arrive to that place of awareness, then our intention becomes very effective.  We set the intention to heal, and then that’s what happens.  It’s actually much more simple than you could ever even imagine.

We tend to imagine all kinds of things:  “This is this way.  That is that way.  This is just one of these.  That’s one of those.”  We relate to things typically by referring to something else, rather than just having the experience of relating with something in a very fundamental way.  So it’s also useful that we renounce all the preconceptions that we have about everything so that we can have perceptions that are new and perceptions that really do reflect what we’re relating with, rather than our own preconceptions.  So that’s about all that may need to be said about all of this.  If you have any questions, I would like to entertain them at any time.

So why don’t we then just begin.  We’ll do some healing exercises with partners.  So select your partners, and we’ll begin.  Let’s have the new people lie down first.

Round One :  Open the space.  Recall the space of the Meditation that we just did.  Expand beyond the physical sensations.  Find the boundaries of perception.  Begin to become aware of your Visual Field and how it appears to you as you observe it.  Begin to be aware of how all the sensations, everything in your entire Field of Perception, is interacting in this Visual Field.  Don’t try to look for any content.  Just observe how your sensations, everything that you feel, everything that you think, and even the sounds are affecting the Visual Field.  Choose to allow your partner to affect your Field.  Recognize your partner.  Just let the experience go where it will.  Modify your intention to relate specifically with your partner’s Throat Chakra.  Just research how your relation with the Throat Chakra appears in your Field.  Use your intention to expand your perception in the Field.  As you do that, recognize the resistance to expanding your perception in the Field and the tendency that limits perception.  In your Field, presume the existence of a single Point that has no size or dimension.  Just include it.  Feel how it’s affecting the Field, and how it affects in particular your Visual Field, as if you could see how it’s affecting — not necessarily the point itself; however, its effect on your perception.  Research your relation with the Throat Chakra in the presence of this Point.  Keep allowing the effects of that Point in your Perceptual Field.  Expand beyond the resistances of your perception.  Hold the space of the Point as it appears in your Visual Field.  Come to conclusion.  Switch with your partner.

Round Two :  Take your partner.  Touch your partner in a comfortable way.  Close your eyes.  Begin to become aware of all of your sensations.  Allow your sensations as they happen.  You’re not giving any particular attention to any of them, and allowing them just to flow.  Include all of your sensory sensations, everything that you feel, everything that’s happening in your mind, all the mental sensations.  Allow everything just to happen, and don’t resist it.  Allow your attention to be on your entire Field of Perception, without discriminating any part of it.  Wherever you find any distraction where your attention goes to something in particular, just allow that to happen.  Observe how that is affecting everything else, how it’s affecting the whole of your perception.  Allow any discomforts that you have, any resistant thoughts, and whatever comes up.  Feel how it’s affecting everything, and just let it happen.  Allow everything that happens in your Field of Perception to be part of the flow of your experience, without interrupting it or differentiating any part of it.  If you judge your experience, then just let that be part of the experience.  You don’t have to reject any part of your experience.  Any opinions that you have are just part of your experience.  Anything that doesn’t feel right or is uncomfortable is just part of your experience.   Be aware of sensations that appear in your skin around the area of your Navel.  Feel how those sensations are affected by and interrelating with all of your sensations.  Feel how all of your perceptions in some way are affecting those sensations in your skin in the area of your Navel as though those sensations are becoming the source of all your sensations.  Allow those sensations to be your main organ of perception, as though you have eyes in your skin around your Navel.  Allow your Navel to become the eyes of your perception.  See everything through those eyes.  Make a simple intention that you will allow your partner to affect your Perceptive Field so that now the eyes of your perception include all the ways that your partner is affecting you.  Include the perceptions centered at your Navel as though everything is happening there.  Whatever you’re feeling, feel it in a neutral way.  Whatever you feel that does not feel like Deep Security, feel how it relates to Deep Security, and then use your intention to transform it.  Come to conclusion.

Round Three :  Open the space.  Hold your awareness in your Navel as before.  Wherever it is, find the resistance to the proposition of moving your awareness to your Navel.  Let’s repeat the exercise.  Allow your Navel to become the eyes of your perception, relating with Hari Simran Kaur.  Everything that you feel in a neutral way, research how it differs from feeling Deep Security.  With your intention bring that relative distance to Zero.  Come to conclusion.

So the point of these exercises isn’t what we did or didn’t do, and not to be able to retrace the steps that we did; rather to have the experience of doing what we did.  We don’t have to believe anything that we’re doing, only observe what is there in our awareness.  We see how we can relate with that and choose to relate with that.  If we find something in our awareness and we notice something about it, then we can contemplate that and then see how our separation from that can begin to be made Zero so that we can merge with the experience.

The first exercise mainly was so that we could expand our perception beyond the boundaries and limitations that we impose.  If we can always do that, then anything is really possible.  Healing isn’t a formula.  The only formula is to be present and aware in the moment and then see how we can merge with the experience of that and relate with it in a way that will bring to neutral the tendencies that cause separation and that cause imbalance, not from any judgmental perspective, only as to how what you’re experiencing in relating with something differs from being merged in the open neutral space.  Does anybody have questions?

There’s no point in trying to understand any of this because it is mysterious.

Being conscious of the fear and not being reactive to it, being neutral with it, and relating with the experience of that in a way that’s neutral and lets the fear merge into the totality of the entire experience, which can include the fear; however, that’s only a small part of the experience.  You’re diluting that aspect or diluting that tendency.

Keep in mind that positive and negative are two sides of the same coin.  Wherever you have a polarity of positive and negative, you can’t have one without the other.  Go beyond the duality so that you’re merged in the experience of it, and it can include both.  When we’re experiencing something, we tend to like to go for what feels good; and we want to reject what feels bad or uncomfortable; however, as a healer, what we really need to do is contain the entire experience, allowing for what feels good and and allowing for what feels bad, and not be reactive to it.  Reactive would mean, “Well, this feels really good.  Let’s go with this,” and be reactive to it in that way, which would deny perhaps its polarity or some other aspect of it that you’re not willing to observe or include.

So all we need to do as healers is really contain the experience.  Just contain it so that we have as much of that experience as we can perceive by extending our awareness as much as it will extend beyond the limitations that we impose.  It may not be obvious how we impose limitations; however, you can allow for the possibility that that happens.  That’s why it’s a good policy that you renounce whatever preconceptions you have about how everything works, how everything is, what everything is, who everybody is, and the fixed ways that we see how everything is interrelated, and allow it to become represented in our experience of what Yogi Bhajan called “The ElectroMagnetic Field,” which is the dynamic interrelationship between everything in the moment.  Keep in mind that’s a fiction, too; however, we can allow for some unifying experience that includes everything.  Anything else?

All right.  Well, let’s finish.

Sat Nam.  Sat Nam.  Sat Nam.  (silent prayer….)

Okay.  We’ll be here next week, God willing.  The world hasn’t ended….