The most comprehensive of the Ishaya websites is published by The Society for Ascension (SFA) at www.ishaya.com. The site is being continually developed and maintained in an impressively professional way by webmaster Vidya Ishaya.
To start with, the www.ishaya.com site contains all the basic information you would expect, including details about courses and events, international centres and lots of articles about what the tradition offers. There are also a few surprises, including a delightful archive of downloadable music by Bhagavan Ishaya, the composer of the music on SFA’s introductory tape.
SFA’s monthly paper newsletter The Ascending Current is available here, together with archives of issues going back to January 1999. There is also a bi-monthly electronic newsletter called The Ascenders Connection available by free subscription. You can receive either an email notification with links to the articles, or the whole magazine for printing off-line.
A favourite visiting place on the site is the bulletin board, which contains a wide variety of lively
interactions, outspoken, frank, profound, moving, beautiful, rude, trite, boring, entertaining and funny. In short everything you’d expect from a well-attended and uninhibited bulletin board. Though the board is run with a minimum level of management, stuff that’s completely out of order occasionally gets removed.
The International Society of Ascenders (ISA) has a site at www.ishaya.org that has a no frills academic feel to it. As well as keeping the viewer in touch with ISA centres, courses and events it is a fascinating resource for looking into the roots of the tradition.
One article on the site, The Ishayas' Ascension Returns the Authority of the Goddess to Earth, details MSI’s inspiring vision of how balance is being restored to the world through the re-awakening of the feminine aspect of consciousness, dormant and repressed for so long. | | Another piece, A View from the Top of the Mountain is an interview with MSI
in which he tells Garrett Jones that he travelled to the Himalayas, walked by chance into the valley where the Ishayas lived and stayed with them for eighteen months while they taught him to ascend.
There is a refreshingly chaotic Spanish site entitled Los Ishayas en el Caribe hosted by a happy looking dolphin at www.losishayas.com. This covers Ascension activities in South America, especially Columbia, Argentina and Venezuela.
Even if you’re not from that part of the world, it’s a good Spanish language resource for background information, articles and discussion about Ascension.
Independent teacher Kalyani Ishaya has her site at www.ishaya.net. This is a small well-designed site with information about Kalyani’s teaching schedule, including her 108 day teacher training program, which is to run from the beginning of January 2001.
There are also a number of interesting articles about Ascension.
A site dedicated to people who haven’t learned to ascend yet is maintained by SFA at www.firstsphere.net. This addresses a lot of the initial questions that people have before taking the First Sphere course.
Though aimed at people who haven’t learned to ascend, it doesn’t assume that readers are at the start of their spiritual journey.
There’s a good deal of deep and expansive writing in there.
The First Sphere site has the SFA look and feel to it together with its own newsletter that anyone can subscribe to, called Seeds of Joy. This is viewable on-line and can also be downloaded in PDF format for off-line viewing and printing.
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