"We're not just human beings." As Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica, tells us, "We're lumen beings." We are not, as the name "human" implies, beings made of earth but rather beings of light. And this recognition of our true nature actually raises the vibrational level of consciousness and opens us up to the in-pouring of grace. And like a light bulb, "the current goes through the light and heats up a filament and then the filament becomes luminous. And so the consciousness that is being used to simply go into rational thought becomes luminous, intuitive knowing. And then the higher dimensions of our being become palpable. They literally become lit up. And that radiance has a profound effect on the whole energy field, not only of the body itself and all the cells and its atomic structure, but also on the entire field of awareness of the physical plane and on all those who are in the same region of space and time. . . . and then the filament of our consciousness as a group is lit up. We become like a candelabra and each light strengthens the other, and the power of that then burns away the karma that had been acting like a shell that had closed us down and contracted a wall around the heart. And that melts away and we are liberated." Recorded on the evening of Thursday October 8, 2009.