Spiritual testimonies from yoga practitioners of MISA

Shortly after I enrolled in the yoga course in Sibiu in 1993, a strong campaign began to discredit the yoga school and Grieg in particular. Due to this context and the fact that I did not participate in the yoga camps during the first year of the course, I only got to know Grieg and his role in the yoga school better at the beginning of the second year of the course, when I travelled to Bucharest with a small group of colleagues to attend the Christmas celebration.

I listened with interest to the colourful stories of the two people talking about Grieg, giving numerous examples of cases where he had manifested paranormal powers. For me, it was more like a fairy tale than something real.

Then the meditation began. Grieg had not yet arrived. I was beginning to relax and become more and more inwardly focused when, at one point, I felt a huge wave of energy coming from behind me, almost pushing me forward. I thought to myself that it must be Grieg, and after a few seconds, I opened my eyes, turned my head towards the entrance, and in the centre of the room, I saw a man walking purposefully, followed by several people. This man walked behind the chair I was sitting on, walked to the front of the room and sat down at the table on the stage. It was clear to me that this was Grieg. The meditation continued. I closed my eyes and deepened my internalisation. Not long after, I was overcome by a real state of panic, as my hands and face were numb. I wanted to move to get out of this state, because my whole body hurt and I felt like I was going to explode into a thousand pieces, but I couldn’t. Later, after entering this state several times, I understood that it was related to the perception of the limits of being and then to the transcendence of those limits, but at the time I had no point of reference. Unable to move and resisting this unknown state, I just wanted not to be alone, because despite the fact that the room was full, there was only a feeling of void. In my consciousness, I asked Grieg to hold my hand, because I was afraid, and to my immense surprise, I actually felt a warm and gentle presence envelop me and hold my hand at the same time! From that moment on, my body no longer ached, and as I stopped resisting this energy, I gently deepened my meditative state, merging with this void. It was sublime.

At the end of the meeting, I saw that many people in the room were heading towards the stage to wish Grieg a Merry Christmas, and despite my shyness, I made my way to the front, deeply moved by what had happened. Once in front of Grieg, I told him, rather quietly and fearfully, that I had heard so many bad things about him and had believed them, and he replied, “Never forget that what you sow, you shall reap!”

Since then, Grieg’s constant care, protection and advice have remained a living, dynamic and tirelessly motivating backdrop to my relationship with him.

I was a staunch atheist, and what we were taught at school at the time (dialectical materialism) seemed impossible to contradict. I “proved” scientifically to my parents that there is nothing else but what we see, and that they should therefore leave me alone with these useless Christian prayers. I found myself in yoga class, which fascinated me with its very precise and exact – scientific – approach to the structures of the human being, which go beyond the tangible. I could perceive the energies that were set in motion in the different body postures, and it was something tangible for me.

And on Easter Sunday, which at the time had no particular meaning for me apart from preparing the festive meal, the meditation of communion with Jesus took place – as it did every year. At the time, I thought Jesus was a simple man who had caused such a stir, and I didn’t understand why, because the miracles he had performed could not be scientifically proven. But since I had nothing to lose and my curiosity was piqued, I sought to perform this meditation, supported by the one I had vaguely heard about. I perceived an indescribable Light, imbued with overwhelming love, which I can still recall today, 20 years later.

I came back from the meditation with all my materialistic beliefs dismantled. I still remember the astonished faces of my parents, to whom I had said shortly before that religiosity was useless, and after this meditation, I told them, beaming, that Jesus is a being of light full of love, that I believe in Him and that they should believe in Him too.

I believe that, by the grace of God and the Spiritual Guide who led me step by step, I discovered the wonders of Creation and the Creator far beyond space and time and their four dimensions perceived by the senses.

Following a serious car accident, I had a series of spiritual experiences that were completely new to me and that affected me deeply, revealing a new dimension of existence and marking a new beginning in my relationship with my Spiritual Guide Grieg. The experience I had was unlike anything I had ever known before in terms of its complexity and the states I felt.

The most impressive thing, from the very beginning, was the way Grieg came to me and what he did there with me. When he first appeared, Grieg looked just as we all know him. I was in a coma in hospital and my consciousness had awakened in an astral realm, which was totally different from what I had imagined or read about.

Grieg had a certain state, a state that I had felt when I saw him for the first time in this existence. This encounter took place in Mamaia. He was standing in front of a hotel, looking at each of us as we gathered around him. When our eyes met, I felt something very special, an immense, pure, complex love, and for the first time, I felt God. That first encounter with Grieg was deeply engraved in my being, and that state is still a reference point for me today.

Returning to my experience after the accident, in the astral plane, I was in a hospital bed, surrounded by entities that I knew to be doctors, discussing among themselves the methods of healing that could be applied to me. There were no fixed, stable forms, like those we are used to in the physical world, nor was there any gravity, so the beings next to me were constantly changing shape, sometimes appearing as fields of energy in different bright and beautiful colours, sometimes with human appearances.

At one point, silence fell and I saw these entities move aside, as if to make room for someone. I saw Grieg appear, and these entities became very attentive, as if they were waiting for him. Everything became clear and sharp. I felt safe, even though I didn’t know what I was doing there or what Grieg was doing there. At one point, I saw Grieg simply dip his right hand into my right leg and, shortly afterwards, his other hand into the right side of my body. I was amazed, especially as I could feel very clearly that he was healing me, even though I didn’t know how he was doing it. After a while, he reached the area around my head, and I felt something very special. I didn’t see anything in particular, but I became very clearly aware of how he was ‘rebuilding’ me with great love.

There were several encounters of this kind with Grieg, and after each encounter where he ‘rebuilt’ me, I was so transformed that I can say that I knew him more deeply each time. I loved my Spiritual Guide and had done many things to increase that love, which I always considered essential to my spiritual evolution. But as I perceived him in the astral, I realised that I had never really known him during the twenty-two years since we had met, and I realised that in fact I knew only a small part of his immense and deified being. Then I instantly realised that the godly love that accompanied him and poured out on me through his being was the very love of God the Father.

I did not know what day it was in the physical world, but the doctors were trying very hard to save me. In the astral, Grieg came to see me every day, but no longer in the form of a body as we all know it. Instead, he appeared differently, in the form of a very intense coloured field of blue, green or white energy, which permeated me, especially on the right side of my body. I realised that in addition to healing me, he was also giving me knowledge and understanding, states that made me very happy. I was very excited, as if something godly and mysterious was happening to me every time he came, especially since I knew that he was the initiator of the whole process. At the same time, I felt God the Father very intensely and perceived Grieg as doing God’s will.

After a while, I learned that in the physical world, the right side of my body had been affected and that I was suffering from semi-paresis. When I briefly returned to the physical world, I felt deep gratitude for the grace God was showing me. Sometimes I would simply leave my visitors who came to see me in the hospital in the physical world, and I would fall asleep very quickly to meet Grieg in the astral. Grieg came every time, and each encounter with him was a real spiritual feast for me. The whole experience was a blessing for me. I now thank Grieg with all my heart, I thank God the Father for all the grace He has poured out on me, and I feel a deep sense of gratitude for having been able to experience all this.

I met him for the first time almost nine years ago… I had not yet joined the course. He called me over to talk to me. I did not know how to behave with him. I said, “Hello.” He responded without words, shaking my hand with great love. I felt a sense of protection and paternal love. He looked at me for a moment, then asked someone to bring me the three volumes of the book Secrets of Ecstatic Transfigurative Love. We discussed the processes of transmutation and sublimation of energies, orgasm, especially multiple orgasms, and how, through intense loving experiences, my aura would be greatly enhanced and I would be able to beneficially influence everyone around me. Over the following days, everything he described to me began to come true, and my love life was transformed in an astonishing way.

Over time, I realised that my soul had gradually opened up to the Spiritual Guide. At first, I felt a protective love and the trust that a wise being gives you, but later there were moments of doubt and fluctuations between love and doubt, after which the love began to stabilise and take on different nuances.

I remember that at first I tried to view the relationship with him as a Spiritual Guide, but my attempt was only a mental one, which did not produce anything authentic in my heart. When I opened my heart, after practising yoga under his guidance, I realised that Grieg is an authentic and powerful tantric Spiritual Guide, wise, loving, totally devoted and protective, whom I trust completely on my path to discovering God.

I started practising yoga in 1990 in Constanța. I met Grieg for the first time in Voineasa in 1993. My new yoga teacher often told us about Grieg, and when she did, I felt as if a fog was lifting around me and light was coming in.

That year (my second year of classes, for me the second time around), she organised a meeting between all the students from Constanța and Grieg in Voineasa. I went. I don’t remember how it happened, but I found myself standing in front of him, and he asked me what year I was in. Then he told me that I had a “beautiful anahata” and I had no doubt that he knew this better than I did. I felt like an open book in front of him, and he seemed to be reading the whole “book” at once! I was experiencing a very intense state of love, much more intense than any state of love I had experienced before. It was as if I loved everything, literally everything around me, with an intensity that was almost unbearable for my being. It was extraordinary. I felt as if I were about to explode with happiness, as if my whole being had become incandescent and rays of light were shooting out all around me. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. Everything around me had disappeared, even the ground beneath me. I was suspended in space, floating, and all I could see was my Spiritual Guide, Grieg.

After a moment, he said softly but firmly, “Come on, it’s okay!” and I began to perceive again the smiling faces around us and the usual sounds in this hotel lobby, which had completely disappeared during this interval, the length of which I do not know…

I have had many opportunities to be near Grieg since then and to talk to him, but that first encounter created a kind of mysterious bond between us. It is as if I have known ever since that the sun exists and that, wherever I am and whatever I am doing, it always shines in my heart and that I only have to turn towards it to find it there, always the same, forever. And I thank God and Grieg for that!

My first encounter with Grieg in this lifetime was in 1991, at a conference on Shambhala. He came on stage at the end of the conference and announced that we were going to do an exemplification meditation with the world of Shambhala. At the time, I was in my first year, I didn’t even know how to meditate, and I didn’t even know who the person on stage was. I suspected it was Grieg, but it wasn’t clear to me. I did the meditation, during which I perceived a lot of light and felt myself being transported at great speed by these rays of light.

What is important and significant to me is that the night after that first encounter, I had a dream in which Grieg came to see me and told me he was going to take me to Shambala. So I followed him. I walked with him along a mountain path. At a certain point, we came to a fork in the road where we stopped, and he told me that I could not go any further with the (astral) body I had. So he told me to lie down and fall asleep (already in the astral) and that he would guide me in the direction to take once I was asleep. That’s what I did…

I fell asleep and reached a deeper part of the astral plane, where Grieg, beside me, saw everything I saw and guided my steps. At that moment, I felt myself leaving my old body, lying by the side of the road; I got up and set off alongside Grieg and two other beings dressed in white, with white beards and white hair. We continued climbing until we reached a white cloud, which we entered. I don’t remember what happened next. What is certain is that even though I didn’t know who Grieg was, I was sure that he was a very special being.

That was my first encounter with Grieg. At the time, I knew nothing more about the relationship between the spiritual guide and the aspirant. I was a staunch atheist and it really bothered me when God was mentioned during the classes.

However, my first real encounter with Grieg took place during the third year of classes, at a time when I was beginning to accept the existence of God and understand that I was on a path of spiritual evolution that would lead me to fulfilment. It was the moment when, as they say, when the aspirant is ready, the spiritual guide appears.

It was New Year’s Eve 1993-1994. It was the first time I had attended such spiritual and artistic events. As soon as I entered, I felt magnetically drawn to a table I had seen and sat down next to it. I was surprised when, after a while, Grieg came and sat at the same table. I sat at his feet practically all night. I even felt something interesting, as if I had been called there.

In the morning, we all lined up to wish Grieg a happy new year. That’s how I got to talk to him. As soon as I stood in front of him, he looked at me and I felt a state of happiness and unparalleled love wash over me. I felt as if the sun were shining before my eyes… and he said to me with irresistible force: “Practise a lot, so that you may quickly reveal your Self in this life!” I was dazzled. I don’t remember what else he said to me. I understood almost nothing. In any case, I wasn’t practising much yoga at the time, and I didn’t know what to practise to reveal my Self. In any case, it was a spiritual turning point in my life.

From that moment on, my life simply changed. I practised yoga regularly and became totally interested in it; it simply became my only concern. Shortly afterwards, thanks to my spiritual enthusiasm, I managed to practise asanas seven hours a day, and it wasn’t enough… I wanted more… I felt a great hunger for spiritual practice. I called out to God (I who had been an atheist until recently) and dreamed almost every night of Grieg, who taught me something or told me what I had been in another life with him. I became happier and committed myself to the path of God. I thank him with all my heart for this impulse and for everything that followed.

I don’t remember exactly how my first encounter with Grieg unfolded. I was quite young, I think I was about five years old. All I remember is that my mother told me that he was an extraordinary person with a wonderful soul and that he was our spiritual mentor.

Of course, at that age, I wasn’t really “flirting” with the idea of spirituality, nor did I know what it meant to be a spiritual guide. However, when I first met him in Herculane, in a hotel – I remember there were a lot of people coming to talk to him – at first glance, he didn’t seem any different from anyone else.

As soon as I met him, I felt as if I had known him for a very long time and that, even though I was seeing him for the first time, we were very close in our hearts. It made me believe that he was and would remain my best friend, that no matter what happened, he would help me and be there for me and never leave me.

I know that we held hands and swung our arms like little children do. From that meeting and the three that followed, when I was still a child, Grieg always gave me lots of treats, sweets, and even flowers.

I felt very comfortable with him and was extremely happy to see him. Over time, this image of a best friend became a reality, as my relationship with him gradually deepened. And although I have reached maturity, I still feel the same support today when I have problems and turn to him on the subtle plane.

It is very interesting that I am writing these lines here in Herculane, where, 15 years ago, I first met my beloved Spiritual Guide, Grieg.

I was in my second year of yoga classes in Gherla with my brother Dragoș. The state of Spiritual Liberation inspired in us an insatiable curiosity and a frenetic aspiration. When we heard about the yoga camp in Herculane, we decided with great enthusiasm to go there, even though we had very little money. So we decided to hitchhike there, even though the distance between Gherla and Herculane is quite long. I found it miraculous that a car picked us up, because we didn’t even flag it down. The car stopped and the people asked us where we were going. We told them we were going to Herculane. They helped us put our luggage in the car and we set off. But the extraordinary thing, the result of godly synchronicity, was that they were going to Orșova! They dropped us off near the Herculane train station and didn’t want us to pay a penny. We were amazed by this sign from God and deeply grateful for their kindness.

Then, when we arrived at the seaside resort, we met some colleagues from the course, who put us up in their room. I knew that our Spiritual Guide, Grieg, was at the camp and I was very excited because, of course, I wanted to meet him. I found out how to meet him and, with some other colleagues, we went to the hotel where he was staying. When we arrived, several people were waiting for him. Grieg was full of love and compassion, and at the same time very playful. He spoke with us and invited some of us to stay and talk with him personally; later, this was also my case.

I remember that the wait lasted a few hours. I was very moved and therefore felt very awkward… But Grieg looked at me with such humour and compassion! I remember that we talked about angels and that he told me I had angelic resonances. Finally, I reached a point where I felt such a sublime and transfiguring state of love, coupled with a state of humility, that he said to me, “You see, now you are like an angel.”

The wonderful camp ended and we returned home, where we had left our mother, who was very ill at the time. As soon as we arrived, we had a surprise! Mum was extremely delighted and happy to have discovered a way to cure her cancer, namely natural nutrition. In fact, she had found the book Living Food, which was among the books in the library of the Gherla yoga course, which was being held at our house at the time. And my mother, left alone, had had time during the camp to leaf through the books.

From my point of view, my mother’s realisation was possible precisely because Grieg had created the necessary framework by founding the yoga school. Even though I have no concrete proof of the immediate causal link, as materialists would like, I felt that the inspiration came from Grieg, and I am very grateful to him for that. I mention these points here because my mother, who had cancer at the time, was completely cured afterwards by following the advice and therapeutic methods presented in several books and by receiving the support and help of God and our Spiritual Guide Grieg.

Today, when I think back on my first encounter with my Spiritual Guide Grieg, I can say that it was a moment of great grace.

Two years before starting yoga classes, I suffered from constant lower back pain. After X-rays, I was diagnosed with lumbosciatica, and two renowned doctors suggested that I have surgery. As I was afraid, I postponed the operation until 19 March 1990, when I started yoga classes with teacher Gregorian Bivolaru.

After a month, I told him that I had lower back problems and needed surgery. He replied that in five to six months, there would be no more problems. I thought he was joking and did not believe him, as the two doctors had a good reputation and I had much more confidence in them. I continued to attend the classes and after about two months, I had an attack during the class itself. Then, after being helped back on my feet using pressure and stretching techniques, I was shown some asanas that I practised daily. From June-July onwards, I no longer had any lower back pain and, of course, I no longer thought about surgery.

This recovery was a real miracle, and since then I have started practising yoga even more seriously. Today, I can walk without any problems while carrying a 20 kg weight in my hands. Even if the results of these classes were limited to this success, I would still be deeply grateful to my Spiritual Guide Grieg for saving me from a pain that had become permanent and was poisoning every moment of my life.

In February 2006, exactly two days after performing the secret ritual with Shiva (it was a new beginning for me, as I had joined a group that had formed at that time), my nose became blocked, meaning that I suddenly could no longer breathe through my nose. This problem lasted exactly six months, during which time I tried to solve it with everything I knew or that my Ayurvedic colleagues had advised me (herbs, essential oils, amaroli, Swedish bitter, vamana dhauti, etc.). The only remedy that worked was a spray bought at the pharmacy, but its effect only lasted a few hours.

When I saw that the problem was not going away and that doctors were recommending that I have laser surgery to cut parts of my nose to allow air to pass through, I wrote to my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, asking him to help me. It was July, before summer camp. His answer came to me in an unexpected way. It arrived two days after Shiva Ratri, exactly six months after the problem began, on the day I received the initiation into the lightning rod technique. When I witnessed the demonstration of the aforementioned technique, supported by him, my miraculous healing also occurred. Since then, seven months have passed and I have had no more problems with my nose.

I was at the market at one point and suddenly felt a very painful ache in my lower back. God brought my flatmate my way, who saw that I couldn’t move and helped me get home. As soon as I got home, I felt a very, very intense and unbearable pain. I prayed to God continuously, I prayed to my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, very deeply, I was confident that he would also help me with this pain and this very intense suffering. The very great pain lasted from noon until 6 o’clock in the evening. God sent people to help me. He brought me out of this crisis. The doctors from Dunavăț’s office came and brought me out of this crisis of very intense pain. They told me that I had a very large stone that was blocked, and it was true, because the tests showed a huge stone that had caused me injury.

My ex-boyfriend went to see my Spiritual Guide Grieg at his home and asked him very kindly to help me, and Grieg looked at him with great compassion and gave him money to buy me fruit and medicinal plants. He sent me a demijohn filled with olive oil so that I could undergo intensive treatment with olive oil and lemon juice to dissolve the stones, and diuretic herbs to eliminate the sand and stones, which were very, very numerous. He told my friend to take care of me for three months. At that moment, I realised that I was very seriously ill and that Grieg had actually helped me a great deal and saved me from death. For three months, I was bedridden, but I managed to recover completely thanks to the treatment and Grieg’s help. I thank God, Grieg and all those who helped me and were there for me with all my heart.

Some time ago, someone very dear to me was in a car accident and fell into a coma. At the hospital, the doctors told me that three days after admission, they would disconnect them from the machines to see if they showed any signs of recovery. They also told me that if there were no signs of recovery, they would reconnect them to the machines, but that their chances of survival would be very slim.

It should be noted here that in the case of a grade 6 coma or “irreversible coma”, which is a state preceding respiratory arrest (a particular form of clinical death), other vital functions (breathing, circulation) are maintained by artificial means…

This loved one had been in a coma for four days and showed no signs of recovery. At the hospital, I was informed that they would be reconnecting him to the machines the next day. On my way home from the hospital, I wrote a message to my Spiritual Guide, asking for his help. I mentioned to Grieg that I did not know if it was a karmic lesson that had caused this accident. But that was how I felt, and I knew without a doubt that I believed in him, my Spiritual Guide, with all my strength and that I loved him with all my heart. I also implored him in this letter to help my loved one come out of the coma. The next morning, they called me from the hospital and told me that something truly miraculous and inexplicable had happened, something they had never seen in all their experience: after four days, my beloved had come out of his sixth-degree coma and was ‘among us’.

As for me, I don’t need explanations or rational arguments. The source of this miracle is very clear to me. I thanked him at that moment, and I thank God and my Spiritual Guide for this miraculous intervention.

I had a health problem that was resolved by a godly miracle, which I would like to recount below.

When I left my job, I had to make a great effort to carry all my accessories to free up space. For a week, I experienced intense back pain, which became unbearable, so I consulted a doctor for an X-ray. The X-ray revealed that I had two cracked vertebrae, and the doctor told me that I needed urgent surgery.

Back home, I thought I could still solve this problem without surgery, using natural treatment methods, and decided to consult an Ayurvedic doctor. However, that evening, I began to experience severe pain that prevented me from getting out of bed, even to drink water. After a day, I was inspired by God to get into the yoga mudra position and think of Grieg. I don’t know how long I stayed in that position, but I know that I kept praying to God and Grieg to help me get rid of the pain. What is certain is that when I got up from this posture, I was no longer in pain at all, I was very energetic and my face was red.

The next day, I went to a yoga centre to talk to an Ayurvedic doctor. When I arrived, I was told that the doctor was not there, but that Grieg was. I entered the room where he was, a large lounge with many people, and when he saw me, he said, “Come closer. How are you, how do you feel?” And he told me to wait a little longer to talk about my condition.

It became very clear to me that God had acted through him and saved me, and that if we turn to the spiritual guide with sincerity, God pours His grace through him onto those of us who deserve it. I thank God and Grieg from the bottom of my heart, because without this miraculous help, I would have had spinal surgery today. I testify here that, although I did not have the presence of mind to have another X-ray to prove the miracle, the vertebrae that had been cracked never bothered me again.

Some time ago, I did something rather foolish, and afterwards I noticed that, in moments of great fatigue, and against a background of weakness due to poor nutrition, a state of increased receptivity appeared in my solar plexus. It was as if I had a subtle void in manipura chakra, the subtle force centre, as if a hole had appeared there. This gave me a very strange feeling, as if something or someone was draining my energy at that level and I was becoming weaker and weaker. I tried to pay more attention to these situations to understand what was happening. I then noticed that in these moments of receptivity, a subtle parasitic entity would “stick” to me and suck my energy through the subtle force centre manipura chakra, through this portal, this door that I had opened when I had done this foolish thing.

The feeling that arose at that moment was very intense, and I had to work hard, doing nauli kriya, mayurasana, nabhi asana and other techniques that act on the manipura chakra, to recover and regain some control at that level, and thus remove this entity from that place. Sometimes this happened more easily and quickly, sometimes only after considerable effort.

At the time, these attacks were quite frequent, occurring once or twice a week. So, I went to see Grieg and started talking to him about all this and asking him to help me, to tell me what to do to overcome this and get rid of this entity and these unpleasant manifestations. I expected him to recommend Oshawa diets, fasting, long sessions of asanas and meditation, any solution, as long as it got rid of this problem. But Grieg surprised me with his answer. He told me to realise that the energy the entity feeds on does not come from me, but from God, and that I am only a channel through which this energy flows. And that was it. I asked him in astonishment what else I should do besides this realisation, but he told me that was all I had to do, that it was enough.

I then began to realise this process of awareness, both during the entity’s attacks and in everyday life, when everything was natural and pleasant. I sought to realise that I was a pure channel through which God’s energy flowed. So, I asked God to nourish this entity as much as it needed and as much as it was necessary for it to nourish itself through me, and to be a perfectly detached and conscious channel. In the meantime, I had somehow ‘befriended’ this entity and was applying the technique suggested by Grieg for both of us: so that I would have peace and it would have the nourishment it needed, praying to God that when He deemed it appropriate for this entity to go into the light, it would do so, and that in the meantime, I would help it nourish itself with God’s light through me.

Gradually, these unpleasant sensations began to become less intense and less frequent. Eventually, they only manifested two or three times a year. Then I was completely healed.

I would like to thank Grieg for all the help he generously offered each time.

I will share about an extraordinary spiritual experience I had.

On 15 August 2011, around 10 a.m., I felt a sharp pain in my abdominal area, which grew stronger and stronger. I did not know what was happening in my body.

The pain I was feeling had become unbearable and was spreading so quickly throughout my body that I felt as if I were separating from my body. I realised that I should not stay in the room where I had been sleeping, and I prayed to my Spiritual Guide, Grieg: “Grieg! Please help me!” I called his name several times: “Grieg! Grieg! Please help me!”

I was almost about to faint from the pain when suddenly I felt a flow of energy entering through the brahmarandhra upper centre and reaching the muladhara chakra subtle force centre, amplifying my will and vitality. Thanks to this support, I was able to get up and leave the room to go to the courtyard of the house where I lived. Shortly afterwards, the friends I was living with saw me. One of them, who was a doctor, realised that I had peritonitis. They called an ambulance, but it did not arrive, even two hours later, despite repeated calls from my colleagues. Finally, a friend drove me to the University Emergency Hospital in Bucharest. I was admitted as an emergency case and immediately taken to the operating theatre. The operation lasted nearly two hours.

As I had been taken to hospital at the last minute, the doctors who operated on me were reluctant to predict the outcome of the operation, as the infection had reached my intestines and there was a risk of them rupturing. They expected to have to perform a second operation. The doctors therefore warned my sister not to expect anything good.

Two days after the operation, the doctors noticed that my recovery had been surprisingly smooth and were astonished that there had been no complications. A day later, they also removed the tube from my abdomen, as there was no longer any sign of infection, and after a few days they stopped the IV fluids as well, as my health was improving remarkably and I was even starting to climb stairs.

After seven days, I was allowed to leave, but throughout my stay in hospital I felt enveloped in love and protected. I felt the support of Grieg, who gave me vitality, strength and an exhilarating love, all of which contributed to my rapid recovery.

I am aware that all the support I received would not have been possible without the grace of God, which manifested itself through my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, whom I humbly thank with all my heart.

When the results of the latest medical tests came back: “Confirmed diagnosis: uterine cancer…”, I was only 26 years old and it felt like everything was over. The shock of this news blocked everything. All that remained was the peace of total acceptance of God’s will… I remained like this for a few minutes. Suddenly, I felt a strong aspiration to live, such as I had never felt before, and I began to pray to God to help me and teach me how to truly live and have a godly beautiful life, to be with Him, in Him… as long as He considered that I still had life to live.

From that moment on, my life changed radically. I began to study and examine all the possibilities available to me, doing everything in my power to heal. Based on all the information I received, I felt that my best chance would be to follow a natural treatment and refuse allopathic treatment, which included chemotherapy. But to follow this treatment, I needed someone to guide and support me. At the time, these therapies were still in their infancy in our country. Thanks to a television advertisement that my father had seen on a channel, I discovered that there was a natural treatment in Romania that worked in the resort of Durău, in the department of Neamț. I left the next day for this place full of hope, and I stayed there for three weeks, following the prescribed treatment with great confidence.

I was still receiving serious warnings from doctors who had prescribed chemotherapy and warned me that I had to understand that my diagnosis was extremely serious and that I had no right to take it lightly (for these doctors, my decision was senseless). This contributed to the aspiration in my soul to seek the advice of someone who could tell me with certainty whether I should also undergo allopathic treatment… Yes, I prayed again, as I did at every decision-making impasse… and another miracle happened. One of the patients being treated there told me that there was a man in Bucharest who had paranormal powers and could help me. I was overcome with immense joy and immediately went to meet him and talk to him. When I saw him, I felt completely liberated from my last inner doubts about the effectiveness of natural treatment and a confidence in him that I never imagined I could feel…

He told me in a warm and affectionate tone that I was going to recover and that I should continue the treatment I had started and not undergo chemotherapy. He then suggested that I return to Durău. God made my father’s business prosper spectacularly, which allowed me to stay and continue the natural treatment for nine months, during which I experienced some of the best moments of my life… and the beginning of a new life, as I had asked God to teach me. After six months of treatment, I had tests done and the results were incredible. I was cured! I felt like a newborn! I was lucky enough to have a new life!

I immediately went to see the person I knew was the source of my healing and who had accompanied me every step of the way to share the joy of my success and thank him from the bottom of my heart for everything he had done for me. He congratulated me on the results I had achieved, my perseverance and the positive attitude with which I had approached the treatment, and suggested that I continue for another three months! Smiling, he also suggested that I take yoga classes, as I would learn many techniques that would help me live the life I wanted. Suddenly, the joy of healing turned into the joy of recognising the spiritual guide I was going to follow, and I felt a strong sense of communion with him in my soul.

I will soon be 44 years old, and I owe him the eternal youth that my soul feels! Thank you, Lord God, for bringing me to him.

Several years ago, one of my sisters, who suffered from a malformation of the atrial septum (in the heart), developed complications and had to be rushed to hospital in Timișoara, with all possible failures: liver, kidneys, heart, breathing… All her organs were enlarged, including her heart, which was struggling to pump blood. The doctors’ verdict was that she could only survive for a few days and that her only chance was a heart transplant. My mother was desperate, as she realised that her little girl was in danger of dying. My other sister then wrote and sent a message to Grieg, briefly explaining the situation and asking him to advise her on what to do. Grieg’s response was obviously in line with my sister’s faith: “If there is a physical problem with the heart, a transplant must be performed.”

I personally went to see Grieg in Bucharest after the class on Monday evening at the Pipera Hall, just as he was talking to people. I took a photo of my sister and showed it to him. I told him that she was my little sister, that she was in hospital in a serious condition and the doctors had given her only a few days to live, that her heart could not be cured and that a transplant was necessary. But I had unshakeable faith in God and in Grieg, and it was in this frame of mind that I spoke to him. I was convinced that if he said the word, my sister would be perfectly healthy the next second. I never doubted it for a moment. I showed him the photo and asked him to help her, if he could. He looked at me, looked at the photo, then looked at me again. And he said only, “Would she like to take some medicinal herbs? ’ And I said, ‘I will personally make sure she takes them’. That was all he said. And as that was enough for me, Grieg changed the subject and we talked about something else.

From Grieg’s response, it was clear to me that he had agreed to help her in a subtle way. When my mother, who was in Timișoara, called me, I asked her to stop the transplant procedure. But at the hospital, the best professors had already gathered, they had mobilised, they had miraculously found the organ for the transplant (even though the heart is the most difficult organ to find). The next day, they redid all the tests and, to their great surprise, the results were normal. All the organs had normal parameters and were of normal size. The doctors at the hospital wanted to keep her for a few more days, as they considered it a miracle. She was finally discharged from hospital and has been doing very well ever since. I made sure that my sister did the minimum necessary by taking these plants.

In September of that year, my mother enrolled in a yoga class. She is now in her tenth year.

I am eternally grateful to Grieg for the miracle he performed for my sister and us, and also for many others.

I once had health problems related to heavy periods over prolonged periods of time. Due to the significant blood loss, I began to experience dizziness and light-headedness.

I sought to resolve this situation, which was beginning to worry me. I first consulted a doctor at a specialised clinic to obtain a diagnosis, with the intention of following an Ayurvedic treatment based on that diagnosis. During the consultation, the doctor told me that it was a hormonal disorder and that I should take contraceptive-type pills. I was worried and prayed to God to help me resolve this problem. I thought of my spiritual Guide Grieg and asked him to support me and help me. I really wanted to meet him and talk to him about this health problem.

I went to the Obor Yoga Hall to speak to an Ayurvedic doctor. When I arrived, I was surprised to see that Grieg was there. My heart filled with joy and hope, and I began to calm down. I spoke to him, and he told me that my problem had a subtle cause, namely an exaggerated emotional state, and that it would be better to adopt a more temperate attitude in life, known as the “middle way”. He then recommended that I undergo herbal treatment with a specialist doctor to regulate my body. I thanked him for his advice and was amazed to find that after finishing my conversation with Grieg, the heavy bleeding I was experiencing suddenly and completely stopped, as if by magic. I followed his advice and began a herbal treatment recommended by an Ayurvedic doctor, which I took every two hours in high doses, and this enabled me to recover completely.

I hope that my colleagues will once again realise the valuable and beneficial help that the Spiritual Guide gives us by intervening whenever he is called upon. I thank God and I also thank Grieg for giving me the chance to follow this spiritual path, which means a lot to me.

During the raids on 18 March 2004, I was in one of the ashrams. The events were quite traumatic for us and even shocking. We were threatened with firearms, manhandled, assaulted, beaten, etc. In this context, I was placed under investigation. I didn’t even realise how much stress and tension I had built up, which led to severe gastritis, causing terrible pain in my stomach. It felt like I had a knife stuck in my stomach. I had to eat something immediately to calm the pain, which was not at all pleasant. I looked for remedies, but without following the treatment seriously and the underlying cause probably not having been eliminated either, the stomach pains lasted for several months.

I ended up writing to Grieg, who was already in Sweden, about these stomach pains. I received a reply in which he recommended that I start a serious course of treatment based on medicinal plants. To cut a long story short, as soon as I read the letter, the stomach pains stopped as if by magic, as if they had been taken away by the hand. Until then, I had had severe stomach pains every day; after reading the letter, they disappeared as if by magic for about two months. The difference was very clear to me; there was no room for interpretation as to the source of this relief.

The problem was that I was so delighted with what was happening that I “let myself go” and stopped following the treatment, neglecting to completely cure the gastritis, which was no longer manifesting itself, and the pain then returned. It was only after undergoing several treatments and finally finding the one that suited me that I managed to completely eliminate this gastritis.

We don’t always realise it, but good, wise advice is very valuable, especially if it is followed and especially when you consider that today it is very easy to receive all kinds of advice, but very difficult to receive advice that is truly good and full of wisdom.

On 5 March 2010, I received a diagnosis after a CT scan: solid pulmonary formation located in the lateral basal segment L15, with irregular contours and extensions to the lung parenchyma, 3/5.2 cm, located at the level of the lateral basal pleura. In other words, lung cancer.

This news saddened me, but it did not discourage me. I had hope: God and my Spiritual Guide Grieg. I immediately wrote to my Spiritual Guide, describing the symptoms of the disease (persistent dry cough, fever not dropping below 38 degrees, etc.) and asking him with all my heart to help me stop and cure the disease. I sent him a message in the evening, and to my great surprise, by the morning the miracle had already happened: the symptoms had disappeared. It was very clear to me that I was already on the road to recovery. I was optimistic and thought that everything would be fine.

A few days later, I received Grieg’s reply: “Herbal treatment, systematically, at least four times a day. The plants will be blessed 21 times before being ground.” I began to study the recommended plants. Days and nights of research followed. I understood, from studying Grieg’s lectures and books, that I had to change my lifestyle, my diet and, above all, my attitude. As cancer develops in an acidic, Yin environment, I began to eat Yang and alkaline foods. I opted for the Ohsawa diet (continuously), carrot and nettle juices. During this time, I never stopped looking for natural remedies suited to my diagnosis in books, yoga classes, on the Internet, etc. I discovered the following idea in the book The Formula for Perfect Health - The Alkaline Diet: “Alignment with the Holy Spirit is the most powerful and fastest way to achieve an alkaline reaction in our bodies. In its most clearly channelled form, which is pure prayer, the holy essence instantly transforms acidic waste. This leads to the spontaneous healing of any existing physical, emotional or spiritual discomfort.” Understanding this message, I immediately began to apply the Supreme and Effective Method 2 to 8 times a day, which put me in intense and deep communion with the enigmatic energy of the Holy Spirit. I also began to read the “Litany to the Holy Spirit”.

Another message I found in Gherasie Gheorghe’s book Medicine of Hesychasm: “If you want to be cured of cancer, you have no other choice: eat living foods.” So, I started grinding the Yang-type grains from the Ohsawa diet, which I was following, and soaking them so that I could chew them. In addition to this diet, I started eating raw vegetables and greens. I found another constructive idea in Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life, and I realised that I needed a psychotherapist. I found one very easily. He sat next to me (a miraculous synchronicity) at the Costinești spiritual camp in 2010, during one of the activities organised there. We started psychotherapy sessions that day and continued them when we returned from the camp. While reading one of the lessons from the twelfth-year yoga course, I discovered another important piece of information: “Cancer is a disease of the soul.”

What else did I do to heal? I listened to Grieg’s lecture on spiritual healing and followed his advice. I did pranayama every day, between 30 minutes and 2 hours. I read and even reread the yoga courses, this time with more attention, and I also included asanas in my daily spiritual practice that helped me heal.

Many years ago, when I went to talk to Grieg, he answered the many questions I asked him with, “Pray to God.” Yes, I prayed to God, especially at home, and then I started going to the monastery Radu Vodă. There I met a monk whom I asked what prayers to say for healing. He told me, “Believe firmly in God,” and recommended that I pray to the Virgin Mary, say the Prayer of the Heart on the breath (what a surprise to learn this from a monk), and pray to Saint Nectarius, the healer of cancer (the relics of this saint are found in this monastery).

I also performed daily consecrations, blessings, meditations with the Great Macrocosmic Powers, with the angels of health, prayers, meditations with the god Ganesha for the removal of obstacles of all kinds on the path to healing. All this was part of my intimacy with God and with my Spiritual Guide.

Another part of my treatment took place at my general practitioner’s office (who still keeps me under observation) and in hospitals for examinations and tests. I opted for spiritual transformation and followed the advice and recommendations that Grieg had given me in his letters: “My opinion is that you should follow the herbal treatment and not undergo surgery.” After six months of herbal treatment and diet, the doctors were amazed and very interested in the treatment I had followed; they even hugged me and rejoiced at the miracles that had happened in a few months. But all these miracles would not have happened without the intervention of my Spiritual Guide Grieg, who helped me free myself from the past and enjoy every moment of my life. He helped me through the most difficult period of my life, and I thank him from the bottom of my heart. For me, Grieg is and will always be a godly being.

I am a naturally healthy person who has hardly ever suffered from illness. But one night, after going to bed as usual, I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with an urgent need to go to the toilet. When I tried to get up, I felt intense pain throughout my body. My abdomen was extremely swollen, and even the slightest movement caused me great pain. I was very frightened and did not know what was happening to me. I really did not know what to do. After a few minutes of reflection, I felt that I had to trust my Spiritual Guide completely and surrender myself to God.

I began to pray intensely to God and recite the Lord’s Prayer in my consciousness. I called on my Spiritual Guide, still internally (in my consciousness), and prayed with all my being for him to protect me and defend me against all evil and help me heal. I fell asleep again. In the morning, when I woke up, there was no more pain, all discomfort and pain had disappeared. My abdomen was perfectly normal, relaxed. I felt as if it had all been a bad dream and that I had never had such a problem.

Filled with happiness and deep gratitude for what had happened, I thanked God and Grieg for helping me overcome this difficult situation.

I became seriously ill. My abdomen was swollen and hard, and I was in terrible pain. I couldn’t urinate, defecate, eat or drink anything. I had been suffering for some time and friends rushed me to the emergency room. A doctor came to see me and, without hesitation, told me that I needed to have surgery as soon as possible because my condition was serious. He gave me an abdominal scan and other tests in preparation for the operation. I was still hoping that I would not have to undergo surgery. I had the ultrasound scan twice, with two different doctors, and both of them recommended the operation.

In the meantime, I had asked one of my friends who was with me to tell Grieg about my situation and ask him to help me. When the doctor who was to operate on me entered the room, I asked Grieg inwardly (in my consciousness) and with all my heart to help me heal without having to undergo surgery. I immediately felt Grieg’s clear and distinct presence. The vibrational space I was in, where illness and suffering predominated, was suddenly replaced by much higher vibrations, full of light and peace. This change was instantaneous and I felt it very intensely, giving me a state of euphoria and spontaneous laughter. The doctor, who was studying my medical file very carefully, looked at me in amazement and said to his intern, “Look at that! The patient is fine!” Then he asked me, “Are you okay?” And I, with a smile from ear to ear, replied, “Yes, I feel safe.” Because that’s how I felt, safe in the hands of my Spiritual Guide.

Shortly afterwards, when they came to take me to the operating theatre, I no longer had any of the symptoms that had brought me to the hospital. The doctor who had scheduled my operation was perplexed. He couldn’t understand how what he had seen during the tests could now have disappeared completely! No need for surgery! I stayed in the hospital for two more days for further tests and to be fed through an IV, as I was still a little weak. But they found nothing else. And when I left the hospital, the diagnosis on my file was completely different from the one I had received upon arrival ; I no longer had the symptoms I had presented three days earlier.

I know that all this was made possible by the miraculous help God gave me through Grieg. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Grieg!

I had been taking yoga classes for a few years and was going through a period of catching cold after cold. At one point, my throat became so swollen that I developed a goitre. I had trouble speaking because of the pain. I obviously went back to the doctor to get a prescription. When he saw me again (I think it was the third time in two months), he prescribed treatment, but he told me that what had been happening to me lately was not normal. He was also surprised that my throat was so swollen this time. He also told me that this cold was not normal and that I should have some medical tests done. He pointed out that I had colds too often and that, in the meantime, I should boost my immunity.

As I left the doctor’s office, Grieg came to consciousness and I said to myself, “I’m sure if I go and talk to him, I’ll be cured.” I immediately went to see Grieg, with faith that I would be healed. I knocked on the door of his flat, he opened it, and I spoke with him for a few minutes, but without telling him that I had a cold or what my problem was. I was convinced that even without telling him, he knew why I was there anyway.

Finally, as I was leaving, Grieg kissed me lightly on the cheek, as one kisses someone to say goodbye, but he also touched my neck and cheeks with his palms, which I did not remember him doing before. At that moment, I was sure he was healing me. I was confident that healing would be one of the effects of this encounter with my Spiritual Guide Grieg. The next morning, when I woke up, my throat was back to normal, with just a few traces of the cold remaining, and my nose was still running a little. But after a day, that stopped too. After this miraculous healing, I didn’t have a cold for a long time.

I knew it was Grieg who had helped and healed me. I realised that my complete faith in his healing power came from God. On this occasion, I would like to thank him once again for all the miracles he has made possible in my life.

Shortly after the police raids on 18 March 2004, I was volunteering at the MISA library. One day, a letter addressed to Grieg arrived. Grieg had left the country and we needed to know the contents of the letter (sometimes there were letters from the administration, from various institutions, etc.), so I opened it. The letter was addressed to Grieg and was written by a prisoner who had suffered from asthma for a long time. He had heard about Grieg as a result of the media lynching campaign carried out by the Romanian press at the time. However, this man felt that Grieg was an extraordinary person and that he could help him heal. That is why he wrote to him asking for his help.

I forwarded the letter in Grieg’s personal correspondence so that the man’s letter would reach its rightful recipient. Through a series of circumstances, I later learned the rest of the story. Grieg replied very warmly and generously to the man, telling him that he would help him. He also showed him a simple breathing technique. He also sent him a package of books and food.

The man practised the technique indicated by Grieg with perseverance, and after a while, he wrote to him again. As luck would have it, I happened to be at the MISA library again that day, where I volunteer. I received the letter and, as before, opened it to see who it was addressed to (staff or administration). Reading this man’s testimony brought tears to my eyes. He wrote to Grieg with emotion and gratitude, thanking him for all his help, because he was now completely cured, no longer had asthma, and could finally breathe normally. He also thanked him for the parcels he had sent him. He was looking forward to serving his sentence and starting a new life. Thanks to Grieg, he had regained hope in all that is good and beautiful in life.

I had been suffering from severe asthma attacks for three years. The attacks were daily, and any change in the environment (temperature, humidity, light breeze) could trigger a new attack. I had difficulty going out, moving around, working, supporting myself, and taking care of myself. I had tried all kinds of treatments, including allopathic ones. Without success. And asthma medications, especially those based on cortisone, gave me significant side effects, terrible migraines, and I couldn’t take them.

I was truly desperate, and with one last glimmer of hope, I turned to Grieg. I had a lot of trouble reaching him (I was moving very slowly because I had to stop often) and when I finally got to talk to him, all I could say was that he should help me heal and help me go on a spiritual retreat. He told me he supported my request and I left.

On the way back, I realised that I hadn’t asked him for details about the spiritual retreat and the treatment. But there was no going back. However, I was inspired to choose the spiritual guide as the subject of meditation and the theme of this retreat. A few days after the retreat began, during meditation with the Self of the spiritual guide, with my eyes closed, an image of Grieg appeared to me, small, about ten centimetres tall, surrounded by an ovoid halo. I opened my eyes in amazement, but the image of Grieg was still there! And I said to him, “You are amazing! How big you were and how small you are now!” Grieg then pointed his finger towards the middle of my chest and suddenly he was there, in the middle of my chest. Immediately afterwards, I began to breathe very heavily, inhaling and exhaling a lot of air, noisily. At first, I didn’t know what was happening, I was afraid of disturbing the neighbours. It was as if someone was forcing me to breathe. Then I realised that Grieg was breathing with me. He was teaching me and helping me to breathe. These breathing ‘sessions’ were repeated daily throughout my spiritual retreat (for a month), then occasionally in the months that followed. The fact is, I haven’t had an asthma attack since. And everyone who knew about my previous condition marvelled and asked me what treatment I had taken to stop having asthma attacks.

My sincere thanks to Grieg for all the wonderful help, known and unknown, that he has given me.

Not long ago, I received a gift from Grieg: a booklet containing stories from our colleagues in the yoga class about Grieg’s miraculous intervention at certain moments in their lives. I read it cover to cover. The next evening, I ate something ready-made that I had bought in a shop and went to bed. At around 6 o’clock in the morning, I woke up with severe pain in my abdomen. The food I had eaten had not agreed with me, but I told myself that it would pass in the next few hours (as is usually the case in such situations). As it was still early, I went back to sleep, but I woke up feeling unwell. My whole body was shaking, my abdomen was hard, and I felt a burning sensation inside my intestines. I also had a severe headache and felt like vomiting. I told myself that I should do vamana dhauti, that it might help. I was unable to do so because my stomach was very tense. And I was feeling worse and worse. Nearly six hours passed, and I realised that the situation was serious and that I could not do anything to improve it on my own. I called a friend who came with a doctor. He examined me and diagnosed me with quite severe food poisoning. He told me to take some herbal medicine and, if there was no improvement, to go to hospital. I took what he gave me, but two hours later my condition worsened.

All the while, I was looking at the booklet I had received from Grieg and thinking that this might be one of those critical moments when I needed to ask for his help. I was in the bathroom trying to do vamana dhauti and felt like I was about to breathe my last breath. So, I called out to Grieg inwardly with all my heart and asked him to help me, because I couldn’t take it anymore. Then I put myself in God’s hands. I walked into the bedroom, holding onto the walls, and climbed into bed. In the minutes that followed, I first felt Grieg’s living presence, then I felt better and better, and after less than 5 minutes, all the discomfort was gone, I was no longer shaking and I had no physical discomfort. I only felt a little weak, but my general condition was good.

When my friend and the doctor came back to see me, intending to take me to hospital, I was already feeling happy and told them that I felt fine, that I had recovered and that, by asking my Spiritual Guide Grieg with all my heart to help me, he had clearly answered my request, as there was no other explanation for me. I’m grateful to Grieg for the miraculous help he gave me.

It was summer, I was on holiday in Costinești and I really wanted to see Grieg and talk to him. The food in Costinești wasn’t very good, there wasn’t much choice. I ate something quickly. I wasn’t feeling very well, but I went to the villa where Grieg was staying anyway and sat quietly with several other people who were waiting for him. It was already late at night and Grieg hadn’t come back yet. People were falling asleep one after the other. I couldn’t sleep; I thought Grieg would arrive any minute. I felt worse and worse. I had a terrible gallbladder attack. I crawled slowly towards the bathroom, but I couldn’t get any further than the door to Grieg’s room. And I stayed there, barely breathing, with that discomfort so typical of a gallbladder attack, where you shiver and feel like you’re dying at any moment. Although I was very ill, my consciousness was still focused on Grieg, and I asked him to help me.

I immediately smelled, very strongly, that specific scent (a combination that reminded me of cedar, tuberose and pine) that existed only at Grieg’s door and nowhere else. Then I sensed Grieg’s subtle presence enveloping me with compassion. Almost miraculously, the attack stopped! Those who have experienced gallbladder attacks in their lives know that they do not pass instantly, but gradually.

I thanked Grieg in my heart and smiled at him gratefully.

Several years ago, I was at one of our spiritual school’s establishments, where I was helping two other colleagues renovate the living quarters. It was a Tuesday; we were all up early in the morning and getting ready to divide up the tasks for the day. I started working on a carpentry machine where I had to make slats for door frames. At one point, I thought I heard someone calling my name. Then I heard a loud “clang” and immediately realised that what had stopped the machine was my finger!

I don’t know when I managed to pull my hand away, but I know I saw my severed phalanx dangling, held only by a small piece of skin. I immediately thought of Grieg; I felt as if he knew what was happening to me. I took a close look at my finger, assessing the situation, then, clutching it in my palm, I went outside and walked quickly to the courtyard, where, coincidentally, a colleague was sitting in a car. He came over to me and asked what had happened, as he too had heard a strange noise coming from the machine. My colleague immediately started the car, and on the road, I intuitively felt that I had to go to the military hospital. I don’t know why there and not somewhere else, but that’s when this feeling appeared clearly and strongly in my consciousness.

The wound was starting to bleed. I squeezed the pieces of my finger into the handkerchief I was holding and tried to control my inner state. I reached the emergency room. My finger was starting to contract and hurt more and more. It was a dull, excruciating pain. I had an X-ray. Then I was sent from one floor to another, to orthopaedics, neurology, surgery, until, in a surgery where I had arrived at some point, I met a doctor with whom I felt an extraordinary affinity. We looked each other in the eye for a few seconds, then he asked me to sit down on a chair so he could operate, while he assessed both the X-ray and my injured finger.

When I opened the handkerchief and he saw the entire phalanx of my finger severed, he told me bluntly that it had to be amputated urgently and was about to administer a local anaesthetic. He prepared his syringe. Despite the situation, I remained calm. I begged him not to amputate my finger, but to stitch it back on if possible. The doctor told me that it was impossible for the finger to heal and that it would inevitably turn grey in a few hours, that gangrene would spread to the palm and that more than one phalanx would then have to be amputated. I asked him calmly if he believed in God!

He replied that he did, but that even God, in this case, could do nothing but amputate the severed part. I asked him again to leave my finger intact and stitch it back together, to put in stitches and do whatever he wanted, but not to amputate it, because I believed in God and knew that the finger would heal. I was convinced of this in my heart of hearts. The doctor had no choice but to accept it.

He looked at me with great admiration. He thought for a moment, then said: “All right, we’ll glue it back on and stitch it up, but come and see me first thing tomorrow morning. If the dry scab doesn’t appear on the joint, if it swells, blackens and festers, we’ll have no choice but to amputate immediately. If, on the other hand, God helps you as you say – and I don’t see how that could happen – and if it doesn’t swell, if it becomes crusty and the colour remains pink, we’ll see what we have to do.” He then stitched the phalanx back in place and we said goodbye until the next morning.

We went home, intending to stop by Grieg’s to tell him about the stupid thing I had done that day. I was ashamed and at the same time felt that he was the only one who could help me. We entered the building where Grieg lived and walked to the front door of his flat, preparing to ring the bell. But we didn’t get the chance to do so, because Grieg proved to me once again that he knew exactly what had happened to me. He suddenly opened the door and asked me directly, looking at my bandaged hand, “What happened to your little hand?” I replied, blushing, “I cut my finger, actually the phalanx of my middle finger, while working on the planer.”

Ooooffffffffffff, Grieg let out a very long sigh, shaking his head, as if he were anticipating a series of unintended consequences that he would have to deal with from that moment on. He knew from the outset what I was going to ask. He looked kindly into my eyes and said only this: “You must operate with the colour green and project it onto the injured area.” Then, without another word, he went into the house, slamming the door behind him.

I went back to my room and began to visualise the subtle green current which, surprisingly to me, now appeared as a vivid and clear hue on the screen of my inner vision, as if I were looking at the green halo of a projector shining in my head.

I remained motionless for several hours without feeling the slightest discomfort. My finger no longer hurt at all, and I could feel the cells of the two pieces of the stitched finger intertwining and dividing, sticking together and rebuilding the missing part. I dreamt of Grieg that night. He came to me and touched my injured finger with his hand, from the root of my palm to the tip of my fingernail, then he looked at me and told me that everything would be fine and that I shouldn’t worry. He strengthened my faith and then disappeared.

The next morning at 7 o’clock, I heard someone knocking at the door. It was my car companion, who had come to pick me up and take me to the hospital for a check-up. When we arrived, the doctor immediately asked me if I was in pain, if I was feeling any contractions or twinges in the severed end, etc. However, he was stunned when he opened the bandage and saw that my finger was pink, had a thick, healthy scab all around it, was not swollen at all, and, to top it all off, I could feel the touch of his finger on the end of the severed phalanx. The doctor looked at me in amazement and couldn’t believe it. It was something he had never seen before in his entire career as a surgeon. He was over 45 years old and an experienced doctor. He looked at me, silent and perplexed, but happy with such a success, which he could not rationally understand, but which he appreciated. He gave me a prescription for an ointment and an antibiotic for the infection, then told me to come back in a week to have my stitches removed, if everything went as well as expected.

My finger recovered so well that after two weeks I could move my severed phalanx and feel even the slightest touch on its entire surface, just like a healthy finger. Today, as I recount this story, I have a hard time finding any trace of injury on that finger!

Thank you, Lord God, for all the help, visible and invisible, that you give us every moment, and for this godly being that you have given us as our Spiritual Guide Grieg.

With endless gratitude,

In 2006, I decided to take a trip to India for a few months. The journey itself was demanding, and by the time I arrived in New Delhi, I was already very tired. While I was on my way to the Himalayas, I suddenly developed a very high fever. In the days that followed, I consulted several doctors and hospitals for tests and diagnoses, but no one understood what was happening to me, as the tests revealed nothing abnormal. But I continued to have a fever, feel very weak and sweat excessively (after half an hour, my shirt was as wet as if I had put it under water). I had no appetite and stayed in bed for long periods, unable to take more than 10 steps. I had just arrived in a small picturesque village in the Parvati River valley, quite isolated, where there were only two doctors, one focused solely on allopathic medicine and the other, more competent, who was also knowledgeable in Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese acupuncture.

On the third day, I think, I had the misfortune of eating something in a local tourist restaurant. And as the food was probably rotten, the suffering I was already experiencing was compounded by indigestion, which made things much more complicated. By the evening, I already had a high fever (40 degrees). The situation was becoming desperate, because if I didn’t do something quickly, the fever would have made me delirious. As the situation was clearly getting worse by the minute, my friend decided to go and find the village naturopath, even though he didn’t know his address or even his name. In India, especially in mountain villages, where houses are scattered, people generally do not speak any foreign languages, and people go to bed very early, going to find a doctor after ten o’clock at night in a village is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I stayed alone, performing self-blessings and invoking my guardian angel. I also worked intensely with the first Pho-wa mantra, because I thought that if I had to leave this world, at least I would do so as decently as possible.

The situation continued to worsen, so I called on Grieg with complete faith, invoking him with all my being and asking him to help me heal. I also asked him to be there for me and guide me if the time had come for me to leave this world. I did not, have not, and will never have a better or more reliable friend in this universe than my Spiritual Guide. That is why I made these requests with all my heart, with all my openness, sincerity, and trust. As I repeated this request a third time, the room was suddenly filled with his presence. I immediately felt his spiritual strength, his light, his love, his compassion, his humanity… It was him, Grieg, my Spiritual Guide, who had answered my humble request. I was so happy that he had come, that he was with me, that I no longer thought about the illness, the doctors, or leaving this world. He was attentive to details, as usual, and made me understand in a certain way that he was helping me, inspiring me, and reassuring me that everything would be all right.

The door soon opened and my friend appeared with the naturopath. He quickly examined me and began to apply herbal remedies to bring down the fever, with immediate effect. He then confirmed that without these remedies, my condition would have worsened significantly by morning. The doctor stayed with us until the fever had subsided a little, told my friend what to do, and then went home.

That evening, after the doctor left, Grieg encouraged me to apply some simple techniques I had learned in yoga class, thanks to which I was able, at that moment and in the days that followed, to bring down my fever, improve my general condition and finally get back on my feet. Later, my friend also told me that that evening, when he went out to find the doctor, he felt guided and inspired, and that he arrived at the doctor’s house in a way that he described as “miraculous”.

I thank God and my Spiritual Guide Grieg with all possible gratitude for all the help, known and unknown, that he has given me and continues to give me.

Grieg’s support, guidance and unconditional love have sustained me for years. His wise advice and witty, humorous remarks are landmarks on my spiritual path. Every encounter with him has been an opportunity for learning, purification, regeneration and inner elevation.

Of all the occasions when I had the joy, honour and happiness of benefiting from his attentive closeness, his paternal care, his wisdom, his knowledge and his boundless love, I have chosen two significant moments when Grieg helped me find my way to the fulfilment of my purpose and to mental health. He did not use big words, but behaved with calmness, simplicity and total naturalness, as if he knew everything in advance.

In 1995, when I was already in my third year of yoga classes, I was going through relationship and professional difficulties. I was trying to find balance in my soul and longed to go to Bucharest. In this regard, it was significant that I often did full yogic breathing and, while holding my breath, I strongly expressed my intention to be accepted at the MISA centre in Bucharest, in order to work more closely with Nicușor Catrina (then my yoga teacher) and with Grieg. So, I projected this intention daily on a subtle level for several weeks. Early in the morning, I had a dream that I remembered very clearly immediately afterwards, because I woke up feeling an extraordinary state of love in my soul. In this dream, Grieg had appeared to me. He looked at me with endless compassion and radiated such intense and deep love towards me that I felt he was one with me. I responded to Grieg with a feeling of intense love. I realised with amazement that I had never before experienced this profound state of love and extraordinary happiness. I did not immediately realise that this was an astral encounter and that it was directly related to my aspiration. It was the very subtle answer that Grieg had given me to my intention and my request, sent out on the etheric frequencies. Not realising this and considering it to be simply an extraordinary dream, I did nothing to clarify or concretise my aspiration in any way.

During the summer holidays that followed, I attended the spiritual camp in Costinești. Towards the end of the camp, one afternoon, I fell asleep in the tent where I was staying and had a peculiar dream. This time, I dreamed that I had asked for a position as an editor or translator at the MISA centre. In the dream, my yoga teacher, Nicușor Catrina, replied that yes, there were positions available “for a boy and a girl.” At that moment, a friend entered my tent and woke me up, inviting me and a group of yogis from my town to attend a meeting with Grieg that was to take place shortly thereafter. I immediately got dressed and accompanied him to the meeting. At one point, I approached Grieg and told him of my aspiration to come to Bucharest. I assured him of my ability to write translations responsibly, and Grieg agreed to let me come to Bucharest. He asked me to think carefully about my decision first and then give him my answer.

A few days later, I returned to Grieg’s summer residence, as I had decided to move to Bucharest to work as a translator and book editor. During this meeting, Grieg gave me the exact date I was to arrive in the autumn of that year and told me that I would be working with a certain young woman.

I must admit that about seven years ago, I started working directly with this young woman Grieg had told me about, and I can tell you that we have been working very well together as part of the same team for years.

In 1996, I had the opportunity to overhear a conversation between a colleague from my yoga class and Grieg, in which he told him that he wanted to find a job. Grieg advised him to choose a job with less responsibility, because he was going through a period of awakening erotic energy, which he had not yet properly integrated and which, in the absence of adequate sublimation, was making him more distracted and inattentive. As I listened to this discussion, I found myself judging this colleague in my consciousness for not having yet moved beyond this stage, without realising that I had not even reached it myself. “Look at him, what an idiot…”, I thought to myself.

A year later, I came to ask Grieg for help with the same problem, inwardly troubled and with my emotions in turmoil. After reprimanding me as he saw fit, Grieg looked at me tactfully and asked me, as if the event I described above had happened very recently and he had heard exactly what I had “deigned” to think at that moment: “Tell me, what did you think of that boy then: ‘Look at him, what an idiot…’, and so on, eh? Well, now you understand and see what it’s all about?” I confess that, to my great surprise, Grieg then reproduced exactly, word for word, everything I had only thought in his presence a year earlier!

I humbly thank Grieg for the patience, kindness and love with which he allows us to learn, each at our own pace and according to our abilities, at the spiritual school he founded!

There have been many moving moments when I have felt the guidance and support of my Spiritual Guide, Grieg.

During my first spiritual holiday in Costinești in 1990, I had the wonderful surprise of experiencing a profound state of awakened consciousness. I was experimenting for the first time with the effects of the technique of silence, mauna, and it helped me to calm my consciousness.

During a period when I was abroad, I asked Grieg to help me develop a quality that I lacked. He helped me to amplify my sensuality and, after six months, I had acquired a permanent state of refined femininity and vitality that I had been striving to achieve for years.

A state of enlightenment came about spontaneously and naturally, following a tapas with the Great Macrocosmic Power Dhumavati, which he had recommended to me to help me out of a severe depression. I thus became aware of the state of immortality and the importance of the choices I make at every moment.

Since the age of 15, I had been suffering from lumbar disc disease. So, I asked him for advice and he told me to do 100 spinal stretching exercises a day. I only did about 50 a day for a month. This completely cured me and I understood the importance of taking action. At the age of 27, a few months after starting yoga, I had almost forgotten about my illness.

I remember the day Grieg taught us the padahastasana posture. Because of my lower back stiffness, I couldn’t touch the floor with my hands. When he approached me and told me to relax in this position and let my body calm down, I was immediately amazed to find that my body became much more flexible, until I was able to touch the floor with my hands.

Later, following a shoulder fracture, I experienced a dull, continuous pain. During a yoga class, Grieg performed for the first time, exemplifying communion with the Godly Attribute of Godly Regeneration. Immediately, the pain disappeared completely, and from that moment on, I never felt any pain again. However, my shoulder no longer allowed me to raise my arm vertically. After an ultrasound scan, the orthopaedic surgeon decided that there was nothing more to be done, except for a very risky surgical intervention. After participating in four yang spirals with the induction of Spiritual Liberation through Godly Miracle, I noticed enormous improvements, until, at the stage where you raise your hands above your head, I realised that I could simply do it. From that moment on, my shoulder was completely healed. This healing is a miracle to me, because the ultrasound and the orthopaedic surgeon’s diagnosis showed that it was impossible with current medical technology. These are a few examples of my relationship with my Spiritual Guide.

Several years ago, I had the aspiration to have spiritual experiences, and a yogi friend recommended that I go and talk to his Spiritual Guide, Grieg. For me, Grieg was at the time an exotic being who may have had spiritual capacities and abilities, but whose appearance I did not like at all.

However, I felt the need to go and talk to him and ask him a question, and depending on his answer, it would determine whether or not yoga was the path I was looking for to achieve my spiritual aspirations. This experience s still very present in my heart and memory today, even though many years have passed since then.

I went to Bucharest directly to the yoga studio where Grieg taught and spoke to spiritual aspirants at the end of the class, late at night. I introduced myself at the reception desk and the person I spoke to gave me a numbered ticket. The number was over 100, as there were many other people who had arrived before me to speak to him. Two hours before my meeting with Grieg, I began to pray to God and ask that, if this path (yoga) was indeed the one I aspired to, He would open my soul to follow it. At one point, I felt Grieg’s presence around me, even though he was very attentive to the person he was talking to and was some distance away from me. This gave me the courage to speak to him, as I had been somewhat reluctant to do so. I hoped that my repulsive reaction to his physical appearance would not betray me, thereby compromising my dialogue with him in some way.

To my surprise, when I arrived in front of him, I saw only a halo of light and not a human face; I could only make out a hand that was visible, and that was all. I had a brief conversation with this halo of light through which Grieg was manifesting himself, and I told him that I had come with a rather unusual request, which I had written down on a piece of paper, asking for a free yoga course for the first year. He replied, without reading the note, but signing it, that it was not an unusual request and that it would be granted. At the same time, he told me to have more confidence in myself, handing me the note with his hand, which was the only part of his body I could see, the rest being only light.

I left with tears of joy in my eyes, amazed by this unusual but magical experience. On the one hand, I was happy that God had opened up a spiritual path that I was seeking, and on the other hand, I was touched by the fact that Grieg revealed himself to be a truly special being, because he cared about me and hid his face, which I rejected, just to help me speak openly and without stress with him. In addition, he also proved to me his amazing powers of perception, so that he did not even need to read my note, signing it for me as soon as he had it in his hands.

So I began to follow this path with confidence, and I have been taking yoga classes for years, always aware that the Spiritual Guide of MISA Yoga school, Grieg, has extraordinary abilities and helps each person according to their needs to open themselves up to God.

Twenty years ago, I was very ill. I started taking yoga classes in the hope of healing myself. Having been off work for ten years due to illness, I consulted Grieg, who suggested that I take herbal treatment and follow the Ohsawa diet several times. So, I followed this special diet – Ohsawa – for years. During my visits to Grieg, he would ask me about my condition and how I was feeling. I used to reply, “I’m fine, except that I’ve lost a lot of weight and look like an onion leaf” (he often used this expression when talking about thin women, because you would cry when undressing them just like you cry when you peel an onion). Grieg would then reply, “Yes, but onion leaves are very precious.” At that moment, I felt very encouraged and supported by him. His support gave me the impetus to complete the diet, which gradually restored my health. Today, I am in very good health, I feel well overall and I have regained my vitality.

In many situations, at the right time, I received support, encouragement and a helping hand from my Spiritual Guide. A multitude of synchronicities and miracles have appeared and are manifesting in my life.

When I was in the third year of the yoga course, at one point I felt the aspiration to meet Grieg in the Physical Universe, in a context other than the yoga room. Being in a very intense state of excitement and searching for this reason, I sought to talk to other colleagues about this kind of encounter. I didn’t have to look far and quickly found two colleagues from other yoga classes who told me how they had met Grieg in the city (Bucharest).

It was then that I felt a very strong urge, an immense aspiration to meet Grieg myself, somewhere, anywhere. I asked for details, I insisted on knowing more, and the joy I felt was so intense that I felt as if I had already met Grieg. The conversation with my other colleague went similarly, and then, very shortly afterwards, the miracle happened. I met Grieg three times: once, he was in a car on the road and I was on a bus. I felt Grieg’s presence, but as I was travelling by car, it quickly dissipated.

But the other two encounters were downright paranormal, completely surprising and even mysterious. Specifically, I clearly and very intensely felt Grieg’s call to a specific place where I immediately met him. Once, it was on the street in the university district of Bucharest, and there was a series of brief manifestations in the presence of other colleagues.

The next encounter was even more surprising: on Saturday evening, I felt a compelling need to go to the market to buy fruit, specifically plums, even though I already had some at home.

When I arrived at the market, I took a winding path between the stalls, a path that seemed to have been laid out in advance, and found myself face to face with Grieg, who was also buying fruit. Grieg then exclaimed with a secret and mysterious joy: “Oh, what a surprise!” Grieg then offered me an apple, which I ate the next day, giving him the honour he deserved. I must say that this apple, which was very large and very beautiful, was the best apple I had ever eaten. Afterwards, I noticed a whole series of beneficial effects, some of them spectacular, following this interaction.

Nothing is required that is not already possible

After a seven-day fast, drinking only water, supported by my Spiritual Guide Grieg, which was consacrated to achieving a state of perfect amorous and erotic continence and eliminating harmful resonances in the subtle force centre manipura chakra, I immediately received the astonishing news that my Spiritual Guide Grieg was advising me to participate in the vira camp [in the Rarău massif]. I was going to leave with a Dane named Rashus, with whom I had become friends while living in the same ashram.

I was happy to take part in this course, but the problem was that, due to the devitalisation resulting from the fast I had just finished the day before, I couldn’t see how I was going to be able to climb seven kilometres to the course location with my luggage, my rucksack, my tent and food for several days, as the path was quite difficult. Nevertheless, my Danish friend and I set off, laden with luggage, to reach the camp.

During the few hours of train travel, which I found blessed for me as I was very weak, I savoured the moment, knowing that a difficult climb awaited me afterwards. After getting off the train and staying there for about fifteen minutes, certain that my vital forces would hold out, I realised that I could no longer walk, that in fact I could no longer stand on my legs, especially as I had to carry my rucksack and the two other bags.

I sat down on a rock by the side of the road and thought of Grieg with a heavy heart.

“Why did I come to this camp when I am so weak and without energy?”

After a few moments, I felt Grieg’s subtle presence appear in my field of consciousness, accompanied by a warmth that became increasingly intense in my chest, and I felt my body become light and weightless, just like my cumbersome luggage.

The climb was then like a walk on a flat path. I covered the distance easily, with the constant feeling that Grieg was behind me, supporting me step by step with his energy and love.

I then understood that Grieg would never ask me to do anything I couldn’t do, even if it seemed impossible at first glance to ordinary human forces. And if I hesitated, he would always be by my side to envelop me in his strength and love.

Eight years ago, in February, I started taking yoga classes in Focşani. I had no idea what yoga, the technique of Laya Yoga, asanas, etc. were, but I felt deep down that this was where my salvation lay. I thought Grieg was just a regular teacher like in high school or college; I had never heard of the concept of spiritual guide.

After two or three weeks, we were told that it was Grieg’s birthday and that we were going to do an exemplification to evoke the moment of his birth at a specific time.

At the appointed time for the spiritual demonstration, there were many guests at my house. The tables were covered with drinks, food, coffee, the music was loud, and there was a lot of cigarette smoke. When the demonstration began, it was as if someone had drawn my attention to indicate that I needed to connect to the spiritual field of this transmission, but I had just started practising yoga and didn’t even know who Grieg was or what he looked like. I went into another room and, shrugging my shoulders, I said his name, Grieg, to myself. Something amazing happened. A huge light descended above my head and spread throughout my body. When it reached my heart, I felt such love that I fell to my knees and simply said, “Father.” After a few minutes, a thought crossed my consciousness: “Mate, you’re completely drunk, you don’t realise what state you’re in.” I rushed into the room where the noise was coming from. But nothing attracted me. It was like a silent film. I saw these pot-bellied people, stuffed with alcohol and food, asleep. I couldn’t even hear the music anymore. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I went back to the isolated room to clear my head. I repeated louder and with conviction: “Grieg”. This time, the torrent of light and love was much more intense. I felt as if my heart was breaking under the weight of so much love. I fell to my knees and cried for a long, long time, about fifteen to twenty minutes, repeating only: “Father, I have found you again, do not abandon me.” And he did not abandon me. Within a few months, I stopped smoking, drinking coffee, eating meat and alcohol, and I even found myself in front of the Spiritual Guide, or rather at his feet.

I was not in yoga class when I saw Grieg for the first time. A friend who had been attending MISA yoga classes for a long time convinced me to come to Bucharest to attend the conference he was going to participate in. I had read books about spiritual guides, especially about the spiritual masters of the Karguypta Tibetan school (Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa), and to be honest, I didn’t think such an exceptional being could exist in our country.

During the conference, we watched a film and at one point (towards the end), I felt a new energy in the room. My first thought was that Grieg had arrived, but I told myself that it was just an idea that had stuck in my consciousness because I knew Grieg was coming. Once the film was over, I realised that I had indeed sensed him and that my intuition was active. As I continued to watch him climb the steps to the stage, I felt a strong pressure in my chest that gradually turned into a state of indescribable, heavenly happiness. Not knowing what this state was, I suddenly remembered Milarepa’s story, which said that when his gaze met that of Marpa, his spiritual master, he was overcome with such happiness that he fainted. Thinking about it, I told myself that for me, this was a sign that Grieg was a true Spiritual Guide. What I noticed next was that this feeling remained just as intense and powerful, and when I closed my eyes and concentrated on it, it grew stronger and I could feel Grieg in my heart.

This state lasted for three days without interruption, and then it became very easy to evoke. Thinking that all my colleagues in the course had also felt it, I asked them questions, but often they were not sure what they had felt. I began to doubt what I had felt, thinking it was a figment of my imagination. It was only when I reached the fourth group of the yoga course, where the technique of revealing past lives is taught, that, while studying the lessons, I understood what this extraordinary experience had meant.

I was in the presence of my Spiritual Guide, Grieg. To place this experience in time, I can say that I was in the fourth year of yoga course, but I had only started classes in Bucharest two years earlier. Until then, I had not spent much time with my Spiritual Guide, but I can say that I longed to know him more deeply because he was an enigma to me. At the same time, I admit that I also had a certain feeling of fear and mistrust about the validity of my decision to take the MISA yoga course. This was due, on the one hand, to the fact that, as I have already said, I felt that I did not really know Grieg, that I did not know who he was, and I was suspicious of his intentions towards the students. On the other hand, at that time, all kinds of defamatory information was circulating in the media about Grieg and the MISA Esoteric School of Integral Yoga, of which he was the spiritual mentor.

At one point during my meeting with Grieg, after doing an identification meditation with him, something completely new and revealing happened to me. Even after finishing this identification, I still felt some uncertainty and slight fear. The question that kept tormenting me was, “Is it right or wrong for me to be here right now?”

Suddenly, I felt that all my emotional and mental agitation had disappeared and that in reality, “right” and “wrong” did not exist. I felt that in reality there was only God, peace, happiness, bliss and infinity. That these notions of good and bad, beautiful and ugly, are only criteria of our mind, which are certainly useful and help us to lead our daily lives correctly, but that when we have access to another type of experience, I would even say another type of life, a spiritual life, they disappear. What appears here, beyond these criteria of our mind and our common experience, is only God. It is an unprecedented experience that cannot be translated into words, perhaps only by the word “God”, and those who feel something when they say the word “God” will certainly understand.

After this inner experience, which was followed by others, equally ineffable, I felt that I had nothing to fear, nothing to doubt, nothing to question about the authenticity and good intentions of my Spiritual Guide. I understood that a being with whom one has the opportunity to live this kind of experience can only be an authentic spiritual guide.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, for a while I was unable to meet Grieg.

I longed to see him, but I knew that if I really wanted to, I could meet him in the Astral Universe.

I also wondered what a Spiritual Guide might expect from a disciple.

The aspired to meet him, even in the Astral Universe, had become an urgent inner quest.

Thanks to my intense longing, I finally met him in the Astral Universe.

At each astral meeting, the subtle atmosphere was always characterised by immense love and happiness.

When speaking to him, I thanked him for helping and supporting me in my spiritual maturation and profound transformation.

I confessed to him that I loved him very much and wanted him to be pleased with me.

I asked him what an aspirant should do to please his Spiritual Guide.

He replied, looking me intently in the eyes, that if I truly loved him very much, I had to draw closer and closer to God and strive to be permanently united with Him.

That was the wish of my Spiritual Guide.

When he told me this, the whole reality of the Astral Universe instantly collapsed.

Even my personality disappeared, and all that remained was a state of overflowing love and the Light of God, within me and everywhere, allowing me to fully experience the feeling of God’s eternity.

I was in the fourth year of the yoga course. I had learned that those who manage to hold their breath long enough, while focusing on their subtle, spiritual and energetic centre, sahasrara padma, can experience states of samadhi. I had been practising Laya Yoga regularly for a long time, but I had not yet reached that level. I was expanding greatly on a subtle level, but I was not experiencing the state of godly ecstasy. I had very intense states of love and compassion, but I felt that this was not everything. I began to practise breathing techniques regularly, pranayama with increasingly longer retentions. At first, I felt a very intense energy in my subtle force centres muladhara chakra and svadhisthana chakra, where I had the impression that waves were turning in the Yang (+) direction around me.

Then, during one of the esoteric spiritual yoga camps in Herculane, during a special lecture where Grieg gave an example, we practised pranayama with long breath holds in unison. My whole chest was vibrating, but I didn’t give up. I was sweating profusely and the subtle energy field was expanding very quickly. Then I saw, as if through a window, a light at the top of my being, and I wanted to reach it, but at that moment, I breathed. I came back slowly, and when I told Grieg about it, he said it was a preliminary state to samadhi and that if I had maintained the retention, I could have entered the light. I was very happy.

At home, I continued to do this kind of retention exercise, determined to go all the way this time. While I was practising, at one point, with the subtle help of Grieg, whom I had begged with all my heart to support me, I felt a sensation of expansion in the subtle spiritual force centre sahasrara padma, and I entered an immense, limitless space. It was a very great condensation of luminous energy; I perceived myself one metre away, but also tens, hundreds of metres in front of me at the same time. I was burning all over and my body seemed to be disintegrating. I felt that I was discovering a long-sought-after fulfilment, great happiness, but without words, something impetuous and mysterious, gigantic and full of strength. I then prayed to him, like a child, to keep me there as long as possible. My consciousness was very expanded. A friend who was with me at the time told me that he perceived me as very vast and luminous. Then I returned. I gradually emerged from this immensity. I returned to my body and felt waves of energy gradually descending towards the subtle force centre muladhara chakra. I was very happy; I felt immense joy and contentment.

I was returning from skiing by train from Sinaia. While talking to a young man in the compartment, I learned that at the Mihai Eminescu cultural centre, in a ballet studio, a young teacher was teaching yoga. I was practising yoga myself from books and decided to sign up for this class.

I entered the room, which was full of people, each with a small blanket. Radiant faces, interesting people, I thought to myself.

The class began. We started with a warm-up. After each exercise, the teacher pointed out the inner states and force centres on which we should focus. It was an extraordinary revelation for me: beyond the physical exercises, there was something much deeper. There were these Yin (-) and Yang (+) energies that formed the basis of my inner life. The fact that I could feel almost everything I was told amazed me deeply, and I realised that my teacher sometimes focused on me and helped me to feel everything he said.

From that moment on, I was convinced that practising yoga without a Spiritual Guide was like trying to empty the sea with a cup. I understood that I needed his guidance and I wanted with all my heart to continue practising yoga with him. But for me, the time was not yet right.

Then came the scandal of transcendental meditation. Yoga was banned in Romania, I finished my university studies and was assigned to Bistriţa. I had almost lost all hope of ever being able to practise yoga with my Spiritual Guide Grieg. But surprise! After the 1990 revolution, a yoga class was organised in my town. I was curious to see how yoga would be taught in this class. I was eager to practise what I had started in Bucharest, but I didn’t think I would be able to follow a class at the same level as the one I had attended there. But, to my surprise, the young man standing in front of us was giving a class very similar to the one I had attended the first time. I had to wait almost a year before I found my Spiritual Guide again at a spiritual camp by the sea. It was only then that I realised that he was the one behind this class, which was now being held in all the major cities across the country. For me, it was a miracle.

Later, I understood that this miracle had only been possible through the grace of my Spiritual Guide Grieg. Once a spiritual guide accepts you as a disciple, such seemingly fortuitous coincidences follow one after another. And even breaks and interruptions are sometimes necessary for the disciple’s aspiration to grow and for them to be able to cope with the effort required on the spiritual path.

This event took place on Grieg’s birthday. I was outside with my friends, waiting for Grieg to arrive. When he arrived, Grieg walked past us, and when he reached me, I bent down to pick up a bag that was blocking his way. When I did this, I was instantly transported to another time, I think to the past, where I was in a large gathering of people who were welcoming and cheering Grieg with joy and emotion. He was dressed in white, and I was unfurling a piece of white cloth in front of him so that he could walk on it.

That same evening, at the end of the show, I went to wish Grieg a “Happy Birthday”. As I uttered those words, I felt as if I were wishing “Happy Birthday” to eternity.

“God is terrible” – words that become experience

While attending a lecture by my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, his words caught my attention: “God is terrible! ” I then sought to understand the meaning of these words. But, as if responding to my thoughts, he added with great kindness: “When you come to know God, by entering into communion with Him, you will see that God is terrible. And this cannot be explained rationally.”

During a meditation on the revelation of the Self, I wanted to put into practice the Atma Vichara method of introspection, as it had been explained to us a few years earlier during the esoteric yoga spiritual camp in Vidra. Immersing myself in my inner silence, I slowly formulated the question: “Who am I?” I clearly perceived where the answer would come from and continued to “knock on that door” with patience. On the third question (as in fairy tales, the third time), I felt this door open suddenly and I was simply absorbed, thanks to the state of mental, physical and psychic “serenity” in which I found myself, within the deep silence that I had been seeking and dreaming of for so long.

What I experienced in that silence cannot be compared to anything I had known before and cannot be described in words. I only remember that I no longer felt the weight of any constraints, but only a state of timelessness. Time no longer had any measure. There was nothing comparable to the human, to anything that belonged to our daily lives. And I also remember that this experience was life-changing for me. When I regained consciousness of my usual waking state, I realised with astonishment that I had completely abandoned my body, which I found ‘reclined’, leaning back against the back of the chair (and I thank God that this chair had a back), my head turned upwards and my mouth open, without knowing how I had ended up in this position.

The first thought that came to me after my return to the physical world was that what I had experienced was ‘terrible’. Suddenly, the words of my Spiritual Guide Grieg I had heard long ago resonated clearly in my consciousness: ‘God is terrible! It cannot be explained, you will see when you feel Him directly.” I later realised that these words, which had made an impression on me during that lecture, had been a powerful idea that had led me to the experience I was about to have.

I haven’t spoken directly with Grieg for almost 10 years, but during that time I have applied the techniques he taught us in his yoga classes and have achieved some results.

The reason I have not contacted him in the Physical Universe is that in recent years I have obtained something very effective, namely inner guidance.

For the past two and a half years, I have been practising the technique of burning karma by energising the subtle force centre ajna chakra. After a year of practice, I understood the importance of the Revealing of the Self, and after another year, I understood that it was urgent if I really wanted to free myself from suffering forever.

For the past year and a half, I have been practising Atma Yoga and all my energies are channelled in one direction: Revelation of the Self, which I understand as identification with the immortal godly essence, the creation of a permanent and functional conscious connection with that part of me that is immortal, infinite, eternal and transcendent.

As a result of this practice, I have quite frequently had special experiences, states of godly ecstasy and macrocosmic states of consciousness, which have marked my spiritual path and prompted me to turn more and more inward, actively awaiting the day when all chains will be broken.

I decided to write because I felt it was good to communicate my realisations, even though I have a feeling that Grieg knows them, because after all, it all started with him.

He taught me that there is a spark of God the Father, the Godly Immortal Self, Atman, in each of us, and that every human being has the potential to attain ultimate spiritual realisation. He taught me so many extraordinary techniques and so much extraordinary information.

He encouraged me to look within myself, and he introduced me to the teachings of the great sages, especially those of Ramana Maharishi and Nisargadatta Maharaj.

I am very grateful to him.

I am determined to reveal my Self in this lifetime as soon as possible, and I do not intend to let this opportunity pass me by.

In general, my sadhana is guided from within by my spiritual guides; I practise meditation a lot, but I also do physical postures, asanas and breathing techniques, pranayama, in order to eliminate the harmful karmic aspects linked to the Physical Universe.

I will continue on this path and will not stop until I have attained complete Self-realisation. In any case, recent progress makes me very optimistic.

My intuition tells me that the revelation of the Self may come sooner than I am inclined to believe.

I had the opportunity to see Grieg only in esoteric spiritual yoga camps during the holidays, when I was in the first year of the yoga course, at the seaside, then in Voineasa, and I clearly felt that he was revealing another world to me, punctuated by “happy synchronicities”, and I had an intense aspiration to be closer to him, to get to know him.

I didn’t have the courage to go and talk to him, I didn’t feel I had anything to say to him, I didn’t know how to express what I was feeling; after a lecture in Herculane, I cried with nostalgia and frustration at not knowing how to express what I was feeling.

Back home, I received a photo from a friend in which Grieg was smiling very encouragingly. I had a few days off and had heard about a colleague who followed the Ohsawa macrobiotic diet every month and dreamed about Grieg. So I too resumed the Ohsawa macrobiotic diet; I had already followed it during Lent, and since I had time, I stayed isolated at home for a few days, thinking about Grieg and looking at his photo almost all the time.

I had a pyramid made of plastic tubes. I don’t know if it was very effective, but I communicated spiritually with various godly aspects while sitting inside it, where the photo was attached, at a height slightly above the projection zone of the subtle force centre ajna chakra. Looking at the photo, I felt as if he was smiling especially at me, I had a gradual feeling of fullness in my subtle force centres and I melted into a state of happiness.

At one point, I felt that I no longer existed, that I had been completely “transported” into Grieg’s being and that Grieg was one with God. After a moment of peace in which I felt this, I became afraid. The feeling of not existing plunged me into a state of panic. Various thoughts began to flood my consciousness. I remembered that my yoga teacher at the time had read to us from the Shiva Samhita that a spiritually liberated being reflects ‘everything’. I then realised that, as far as I could perceive, this was what I had felt, and since then, I have been firmly convinced that Grieg is permanently connected to God and that God reveals Himself to me through him, that by repeating this connection, I feel closer to God and that by asking for his help, even from a distance, I am inspired and supported and that by following his advice, everything that is harmonious, beautiful and good is possible.

Dear Grieg,

Thank you for all your support and help, which I feel every moment of my daily life, in the wonderful feelings of well-being and clarity that come from practising Hatha Yoga.

I feel them in the fact that I have finally opened up to my lover, who had been knocking on the door of my heart for years without me having the courage to open it to him. I feel them through all the Danish yoga students, even those I don’t know very well, because in my heart I consider them my closest relatives.

I feel them in my aspiration to be in Romania, withdrawn somewhere in the peace of my soul, experiencing the mystical thrill and feeling the inner light. I feel them in the clear singing of the Great Macrocosmic Powers before each new initiation, in the clock that has stopped, in the first snow, at a funeral, at a wedding…

I feel them in hope, in thirst and in the aspiration to let life have beauty and meaning.

We have all witnessed, to a greater or lesser extent, moments when the Spiritual Guide has blessed us with His godly presence, supernatural and yet so close to our soul. What is truly extraordinary about the moments when the Spiritual Guide manifests paranormal powers is precisely this impression of naturalness, which can sometimes cause these events to go unnoticed, even though they are quite remarkable. It is not uncommon for us to feel his subtle call, and when we meet on the physical plane, he manifests himself as if he were waiting for us.

Other times, we meet in the Astral World where we receive certain spiritual initiations, which he then confirms in the Physical one. But perhaps the most sublime aspect is the indescribable state that one sometimes experiences after undergoing certain spiritual trials in his presence, a state that feels like an immense relief to the being, to the point where you feel as if your feet are no longer touching the ground you are walking on and your being is overwhelmed by a state of sublime, heavenly happiness, which began the moment he took you in his arms. Then, your passage is so gentle and sweet that you feel as if angels are touching you with their wings.

Once, he answered questions or aspirations that I had not even formulated yet. Other times, I felt a subtle call at the precise moment and place of his arrival. Other times, I had the feeling – shared by my colleagues in the yoga class – that in his presence, the elements of nature could temper or amplify their radiance. We were all amazed – this is a visible and certain fact – to see that, above the room where Grieg was giving his exemplifications during the yoga class, the rain stopped – several times – for the strictly limited duration of the silent emission of the mantras or the operation with the subtle coloured currents, then resumed with the same intensity as before. Many aspects that he had predicted manifested exactly as he had said, while others found explanations over time that initially escaped our understanding, thus proving that Grieg has a judgement that goes beyond the limits of exceptional intelligence, marked by intuition and the common sense of godly wisdom.

As for the healing qualities of his presence, I believe that it is not only his physical presence that can bring improvement, even healing, to those who believe in him and ask for his help, but that his subtle presence can also perform unexpected miracles. When my father was suffering from cancer, I was called urgently to Iași – along with my sister – following a telegram sent by my mother; my father had had a serious crisis and everyone expected him to leave the physical plane for good. It was then that a friend told me that simply informing Grieg of this situation could often delay the moment of death for a sick person. After speaking to my Spiritual Guide, I took the first train home and, upon arrival, was surprised to find that what I had been told was perfectly true: my father was feeling much better and his ‘passing’ had been postponed considerably, giving him time to take action to recover completely.

These are just a few examples of his extraordinary beneficial power. I believe that for those who are attentive and wise, every gesture of the Spiritual Guide is imbued with a sacred beneficial force, and that it is up to each person to draw from it the spiritual or healing strength they need. In this sense, I believe that beyond the naturalness of his manifestations, any open-minded human being can intuitively perceive the depth of the godly Mystery that transcends us, and that this aspect gives each of his gestures a special connotation, for when he is penetrated, he is the manifestation, to a greater or lesser degree, of a paranormal spiritual power of greater or lesser importance. This is why the old spiritual adage, “In the presence of the Spiritual Guide, even the most insignificant moment bears fruit,” is perfectly verifiable for each of us.

I would like to begin by thanking God for giving me the chance to be blessed in this life with a Spiritual Guide. What could be more wonderful than being aware at every moment that God spreads His grace through “him”, that we can talk with “him”?

I have only one wish: to merge permanently with love, which I feel growing more and more, in proportion to my ability to open myself up and aspire to it.

Anyone who has spoken with ‘him’, with the Father, cannot fail to have noticed that since then, the aspiration, the results in spiritual practice or other aspects of this kind are special and that human beings aspire only to be permanently in continuous fusion with this ‘Bliss’.

I consider that the most wonderful ability obtained through the grace of the Spiritual Guide is that of being constantly aware that God is within us and manifests Himself in us and through us, that there is only one Truth that must be worshipped: that Truth is God.

Since I spoke with the Spiritual Guide, everything has been synchronicity for me. In all of Manifestation, I see only circumstances that manifest for a single purpose: to transform my being and prepare me to receive ‘His Grace’.

I was in my second year of yoga classes. I went to Grieg for the first time to ask him to help me solve some difficult problems I was facing. There were many yoga students seeking advice from Grieg.

However, I felt alone and didn’t really know what to do. Little by little, my state transformed and, as I opened up to Grieg, my being was filled with a feeling of peace and godly happiness. I have never been as happy and peaceful as I was at that moment. I had tears in my eyes, a happiness without any particular object or cause. I would have cried like a child, and I held back with great effort.

All my problems had disappeared, dissolved in the happiness and peace of that moment, and no longer had any meaning.

The time had come to talk to Grieg. As I approached him, I felt an immense love. I loved Grieg with all my being. I didn’t know what to ask him anymore; just being there, close to him, was enough for me. I asked him several questions anyway. I spoke to him like a son, and he answered me like a father. We finished our conversation and I was about to leave, but… I didn’t want to, I never wanted to leave. This was where I had wanted to be for a long time (even though I didn’t know it).

I hugged him, feeling his endless love and compassion, my heart burning with love. I told him I loved him. I stayed at the ashram for a few days and during that time I felt overwhelmed by his grace.

On the last day, I thought about how much I would like to see him again. Before leaving, I wanted him to bless me. The moment I thought this, his grace descended upon me. My aspiration was fulfilled. Thank you, Grieg!

It was at the end of the second year of yoga classes, in June, and I was doing breathing exercises, pranayama, in the yoga hall.

From the very first breath, I felt a sensation of fullness and intense energy rising from the base of my spine through the central energy channel, sushumna nadi, to the subtle force centre ajna chakra, like bubbles rising to the surface of water. I was no longer aware of my body, but I was conscious of existing even outside of it. Stunned at first, I wanted to come back (I was holding my breath), I wanted to exhale but I couldn’t. The idea that I had definitively left the physical universe crossed my consciousness. At that moment, my whole life flashed before my eyes, then I began to return as I felt the energy descend. When I came back, I was in the same yoga posture (padmasana).

I told Grieg about this experience, and he confirmed its authenticity, telling me that certain secrets of man and the universe had been revealed to me. He also told me to persevere in order to relive this state through evocation.

I thank God for His grace and Grieg.

If I had to talk about the state that has prevailed during these years of practising yoga and which, in my opinion, has been the highest state I have experienced and has helped me to feel God, I would say that it is the relationship with the Spiritual Guide. For me, the relationship with the Spiritual Guide means discovering him everywhere, feeling him in all beautiful and godly states, calling on him in all difficult situations.

Once, during an illustration on the theme of godly grace, I felt very intensely that, at least for me, this grace represented the encounter with the Spiritual Guide, because without him, there would have been nothing for me.

I felt that the Spiritual Guide embodies the Godly Absolute, that it is the greatest godly sacrifice. The Spiritual Guide is for me the highest and most complete physical, subtle and spiritual form that God takes for us. It is the highest form of love that can manifest itself. I felt this during the process of Laya Yoga with the first mantra and the Great Macrocosmic Powers.

I feel that nothing can compare to this state, in which I feel the Spiritual Guide vibrating in my heart, fully, intensely, godly. It is simply something that transcends words, tears, desires, time and space. It is something mysterious and godly. I wish others could feel this, but I will stop here, because words are superfluous.

It was during my moments of connection with my Spiritual Guide that I had the most intense and exhilarating spiritual experiences.

At first, I only connected sporadically, during the yoga classes. But deep down, I felt the aspiration to get closer and open my heart as much as possible to Grieg, and that is why I decided to do so systematically. During these connections with my Spiritual Guide, my heart and being were filled with a sublime luminous energy that made me vibrate with love for God, gratitude and humility, mixed with a feeling of happiness. This energy descended from the top of my head, sending shivers down my spine, and localised itself in the subtle force centres vishuddha chakra and anahata chakra, giving me states of heightened consciousness.

Thus, through the grace of my Spiritual Guide, I feel an intense aspiration to love God more and more and to submit unconditionally to His Almighty Will.

I started practising yoga two years after an accident that left me with lasting effects. The first year, I was at the camp in Costineşti. I had been there for two days and Grieg hadn’t arrived yet. I felt great and didn’t understand why he needed to be there.

Then, when I saw him, I felt a first spiral. Or rather, I felt it very strongly in the region of my heart. From there sprang a feeling of happiness like I had never experienced before, a calm happiness that permeated and transfigured everything.

At the same time, an involuntary movement of the body began, which continues to this day, a movement that energises me and makes me optimistic.

Whenever a problem disturbs my existence, the image of the Spiritual Guide is enough to reconcile me with the world and with myself. His photo or the image I have of him in my consciousness is enough. Grieg always has the right attitude that allows me to become aware of my state. I have felt him to be tender, gentle, incisive, slightly irritated, passionate, wise, and indulgent towards the limitations that I am convinced I will soon free myself from.

Grieg gives lessons in love because I feel that he is love incarnate on the physical plane, lessons in wisdom because he is wisdom itself. I feel like I was scattered in my activities until I found him. I feel like he is helping me burn away my violent karma. He is always with me, and I want to always be in his heart. I love him as I love everything.

When I started my first year of yoga, I was a heavy smoker and had been for a long time. Over time, I had developed bronchitis due to smoking, which was constantly exacerbated by cigarette smoke. The doctor told me that in my condition, smoking was putting my life at risk. I had been “trying” to quit smoking for about two years, but without success.

At the beginning of my second year of yoga course, I spoke to my yoga teacher and asked her to ask Grieg what I should do to successfully quit smoking. She asked me if I really wanted to, telling me that if my aspiration was weak, then all of Grieg’s advice would be ineffective because I would not be able to follow it. She also said, “If you were to swear on the Bible that you would quit smoking, do you think you could swear that before God? Because if you don’t keep your oath before Him…”

So I was afraid of God’s wrath and my own weakness, and I told her that I would quit smoking without swearing on the Bible, without promising her that it would be in a week, or even in a month. She replied that she would talk to Grieg about it and pass on his advice to me.

At the end of that week, on Saturday morning, when I woke up, I, who could not do without this drug, found that I could not remember ever having smoked. I no longer knew the taste of cigarettes or the gesture of lighting one. It was as if I had never smoked.

The next day, I had class and I told my yoga teacher about it. I thanked her from the bottom of my heart and asked her to tell Grieg that I was grateful and very happy. I then asked her how this had been possible. She replied that it was because I wanted it so badly and that God had found a way to help me. For me, it was a miracle and it remains a miracle.

I never met my Spiritual Guide Grieg to thank him, but someone taught me how to do it telepathically. I don’t know if he receives it, but I never miss an opportunity to thank him in my thoughts for the good he has done for me. How could I forget this manifestation of his grace?

Even though, thanks to practising yoga under the guidance of Mr Gregorian Bivolaru, I no longer had the sciatica problems that had tormented me for several years, and even though I had managed to avoid a difficult operation during my first years of practice, certain dissatisfactions had accumulated. I was at the end of my third year of yoga, so in 1993. I wrote all this down in a letter that I sent during a conference. It contained eleven points, each containing a criticism of an aspect of the MISA yoga school - some concerned Grieg, others the yoga teachers, and still others the conduct of the classes. I thought that Grieg would not read the letter or, if he did, that he would exclude me from the classes. I ended the letter something like this: “Even though I know you are going to exclude me from the classes, I will continue to practise yoga, but I wanted to share with you these things that I feel are wrong.”

To my surprise, things turned out quite differently.

Grieg read the letter point by point, commenting and acknowledging the validity of some of my criticisms or explaining where I was wrong.

Finally, exceeding all my expectations, Grieg said (approximately, as it was nine years ago): “Not only are we not going to exclude the teacher from the class, but we thank him and ask him to report anything that seems abnormal to him, even if he is not entirely right.”

That was when my attitude towards Grieg (whom I then called Mr Bivolaru) changed, because I realised that he was a man who sought the truth and was not afraid of it. This was the second turning point in my relationship with him, the first having taken place when I was cured after five or six months, according to his predictions, even though I had not believed what he had told me.

Thank you, Grieg.

As I prepared to do the clock exercise to reveal the Self, I spontaneously entered a state of deep internalisation, with the sensation of slipping into a particular “substance”, which was my true nature, true reality, the true Me. It was beyond any state, beyond ecstasy, fulfilment, bliss. It was the Supreme Godly Consciousness, it was my Essential Nature, which I felt for the first time as being one with my being. It was as if, at last, I found myself where I had never left, where, in fact, I am all the time. There was nothing surprising about it, but something so natural, so normal and so true that my usual existence seemed like an unreal aberration, a dream.

The state I was experiencing was so elevated that I told myself that even if you only experience it once in a lifetime, you can say that you have not lived in vain. I asked my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, what this state was, and he replied, “The knowledge of the Truth that Jesus speaks of.”

I was spending my first spiritual holiday at the seaside, during a meditation in the Yang Solar Spiral. I had specifically sought to place myself in the first zodiacal rows of the spiral, and I had succeeded. I was delighted to be close to my Spiritual Guide.

The meditation began. I wasn’t sure what to do, but I wanted with all my heart to be present, to perceive what was happening on the subtle plane. I prayed to God and at the same time connected with my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, asking him to help me “see”. At one point, I felt a tingling sensation along my spine and an extraordinary light exploded behind my closed eyelids. My mind stopped, and I simply experienced a state of indescribable happiness. I felt so free that I was almost dizzy, I was ‘dissolving’ into the light, into ecstasy. I don’t know how much time passed or when I finally reached Grieg to thank him and say, ‘Grieg, I can only think of beautiful things now!’

And then my Spiritual Guide said something to me that I will never forget, words that were the warmest and most sincere wishes ever addressed to me: ‘Thank you! And I wish you to be like this from now on!’

This revelation came at work. My colleagues knew I was doing yoga and never missed an opportunity to make fun of me. It had become a habit, and over the last three years, the atmosphere had become so tense that they were furious that I wasn’t participating in this ‘game’ and started insulting me. I went through many painful trials and began to pray for them, but also for myself.

One morning, my colleagues placed a newspaper with a nude photograph of my Spiritual Guide Grieg on the desk where I worked. I was stunned, but I didn’t say a word. I started making tea and then went about my daily work as if everything were normal. I was calm and prayed to God while I worked. I observed myself and, being in my seventh year of yoga classes, I knew enough to pass this test.

I look up and gaze at the photo with courage. I repeat this until something clicks inside me. The Spiritual Guide smiles at me from the newspaper and I smile back at him. Streams of energy then flow from his energy centres to mine. I consciously ‘melt’ into his energy centres and open myself up to this experience. I perceive the colours of my subtle force centres and the elevation of the vibratory level of my whole being, until I become light. The filling is complete and I feel that I have no more room inside me. The light begins to spread outside of me, but I cannot go any further. It is too much and I am not yet ready to receive so much grace. I am overwhelmed and want to go to my colleagues and hug them for what they have done. Thanks to them, I have had this unique spiritual experience.

One of my most moving spiritual experiences concerns my Spiritual Guide, Grieg. I was a beginner, somewhat rebellious and sceptical about all the qualities attributed to Grieg.

One day, following a discussion on this subject, a friend suggested that I do a meditation to connect with our Spiritual Guide Grieg and gave me a photo of him. Of course, I began this meditation with a certain amount of mistrust and suspicion, but also with a real aspiration to discover something, to go beyond something, a certain dimension, convinced that there was something else beyond. I can say that after the meditation, I was overwhelmed, but also happy. I returned to and said to myself, “He was there, he was in front of me, I saw him.” The air in the room had a completely different light and smelled of something exotic (perhaps basil, sandalwood, jasmine…).

From that moment on, my disbelief and scepticism disappeared. I was certain that there is a higher being who appears and manifests himself in the form of an ordinary man.

It was Grieg’s birthday in 1992 or 1993, and this outpouring of godly grace had been organised in Bucharest, in the small villa on Teliţa Street. I sat right next to the armchair where my Spiritual Guide was going to sit. I was holding a photo taken at Saint Andrew’s Cave in Constanța County, in which Grieg was wearing a red jumper.

At one point, Grieg arrived and sat down in the armchair. Looking at the photo, I thought to myself, without saying a word: “If I asked him, would he know where this photo was taken?”

To my amazement, he turned around and answered my secret thought: “Wasn’t it taken in Saint Andrew’s Cave?”

I was in the second year of the yoga course and didn’t know much about our Spiritual Guide, Grieg. Even though I wanted to go to his birthday party, I couldn’t afford to take the trip. I was really sad because many of my classmates had managed to get to Bucharest. So, it was the morning of March 12 and I didn’t know what to do.

At one point, I took the photo of our Spiritual Guide and began to look at it with detachment, with love and with all my heart, telling myself that this was all I could do at that moment for his birthday. After a few moments (so quite quickly), I had an extraordinary experience: I felt a warmth filling my whole being, even my face was burning; then, as I continued to look at the photo, I could no longer feel my body, I was like a “ball” of fire. I couldn’t believe it. This dizzying state lasted as long as I looked at the photo. An immense happiness overwhelmed me: I was with my Spiritual Guide on his birthday, and even though the distance was very great, he was with me!

I took it as his answer, that he knew I was by his side that day. Since the following year and to this day, I have never “missed” his birthday.

I thank my Spiritual Guide Grieg for his support and help!

During my first year of yoga practice, I didn’t understand why my boyfriend and his friends, who were in an advanced class, showed so much respect for Grieg’s photo. I thought that he was just a man and that to be valuable, one had to be a cultured man with extensive knowledge in all fields. Because of this way of thinking, I had developed a habit that sometimes annoyed my friends: I would make faces at Grieg’s photo, stick my tongue out jokingly and call him all sorts of names like, “You think you’re smart? I’d like to see you in real life! I really would!”

A few months after the course began, my boyfriend and I decided to go see Grieg to help us overcome some relationship problems that had arisen at the time. I even provoked my boyfriend: “Come on, let’s go to your Grieg’s place…”

When we arrived at Grieg’s, we waited to go in. Grieg welcomed us and then announced that he would not be seeing anyone else that evening. He asked us why we had come, but although the question was addressed to both of us, Grieg was only looking at me.

We began to tell him about our problems, and Grieg responded with a smile, using examples from Greek mythology, quotes from various philosophers and scholars from around the world, examples from history, theories from biology… In short, he far exceeded what I considered to be “general knowledge”. I was amazed both by the breadth of his knowledge and by the fact that he seemed to have “read” me and been waiting for me. His cheerful words and pleasant tone made me blush with shame and, at the same time, made me feel lighter, freer. He stayed with us for about half an hour and answered all our questions kindly and cheerfully.

I no longer make a face when I look at the photo of Grieg!!!

I was preparing a show with the theatre company. One evening, after a very busy day of rehearsals, I had a rather violent argument with a colleague. In this state of physical and nervous exhaustion, I returned home late. I lay down on my bed in the dark to try to calm down.

I looked at the photo of Grieg. I identified with him, seeking to offer him, at that moment, my entire state of being, my fatigue, my anxiety, my anger, including my regrets at being in that state. Suddenly, I felt at peace and, despite the darkness, I perceived a powerful flow of light emanating from Grieg’s heart towards mine. At that moment, I realised that I no longer felt any of those harmful emotions and that I was actually experiencing a state of deep peace, great lucidity, a state of void in the sphere of consciousness and, at the same time, pure bliss. I fell asleep in this state and woke up in a dream, aware of Grieg’s presence. I perceived no thoughts, no objects, no forms, only Grieg’s Self and my Self. At one point, I entered (in the dream) a state of ecstasy at the level of the heart, feeling that I was the Self and nothing else.

I woke up the next day very aware of the astral experience I had had. I was very calm and felt a deep, objectless joy. I thought about the person with whom I had had a conflict. I felt only a love full of transfiguration for her. Although we had had a disharmonious interaction the day before, I now perceived her as part of my being, of my heart. When I met her, I easily manifested a feeling of humility and even adoration towards her.

I had been taught the nauli kriya yoga technique for almost a year and, despite my best efforts, I couldn’t do it. One day, I decided to try harder, but to no avail! With or without a mirror, I couldn’t do it.

Without any apparent intention of making telepathic contact with Grieg, I sat down in front of his photo and told him, upset (as if he were present), that I was sorry, but I didn’t think I could do this exercise. I had barely finished thinking this when I felt an urge to get up and try again. Imagine my surprise when I realised how easily my abdominal muscles slid from left to right and back again.

This ease in performing the technique is still present today.

One Saturday, during a yoga class, things unfolded in a special way. Inspiration, aspiration, or both, prompted our yoga teacher to suggest that we dedicate the fruits of this yoga class to our Spiritual Guide Grieg.

We began to perform the asanas. A diaphanous gentleness descended upon us. There was something more, something we had never felt in other classes: a state of euphoric calm and self-centredness.

At the end of the class, we performed Laya Yoga with the bija mantra that energises ajna chakra (AUM), the subtle force centre, once again dedicating the fruits to Grieg. I looked intently at his slightly smiling face in the photo in front of me, seeking to penetrate beyond, then began to meditate.

At one point, the subtle sound that had appeared caught my attention and I interrupted the mental recitation of the mantra. I listened to the harmonious sound that corresponded to it, coming from all directions, filling the space. That’s when I opened my eyes. I saw and heard it. The mantra was ALIVE! It was there, concrete, ‘material’, omnipresent. A vibration, a movement of indescribable refinement, delicacy and luminosity filled the room, seeming at the same time to constitute everything in it. It was as if I had discovered the ‘miracle of the world’.

In this vibration of the mantric sound, I perceived the presence of a consciousness, a loving and happy entity. It looked at me from every corner of the room and smiled at me; I discovered it everywhere with amazement. I was overwhelmed by an inexplicable happiness and burst into tears. The sky, the trees, the walls of the room, the windows, the air, the beings, everything was made up of the ‘substance’ of the mantra, which existed everywhere in the form of subtle sound.

I observed my colleagues and it was as if I was seeing them for the first time. I said to myself, “Oh my God, do they realise that everything is made up of ‘Aum’? If ‘Aum’ were to withdraw, everything would disintegrate and disappear. ’ I then felt that ‘Aum’ was like a creative energy in manifestation and that if it were to withdraw, everything would pulverise like smoke and then dissipate.

At the end of the meditation, the sound and vision of the mantra disappeared. I looked around, but it had hidden itself.

I met Grieg one autumn, 16 years ago. I had come to Bucharest especially to meet him, very confident and firmly convinced that he could help my daughter, who had certain health problems with her eyes, and because I did not want her to have surgery. I arrived at his house thanks to a colleague who was taking yoga classes.

There, in a small house where he met people, I waited patiently for my turn. I found myself face to face with him after a very short time. I told him about all the treatments I had given my daughter. After listening to me, he recommended yoga for her eyesight, and I replied that I didn’t know how to do it because I didn’t take yoga classes. Grieg said, “All right, all right…” and showed me the energetic movements to perform on my daughter.

All I knew about him was that he was a very good clairvoyant, and I thought he could certainly help my daughter heal. That is how I started yoga classes in the autumn of 1996. It was only after five years, during one of our meetings, that I realised he was my Spiritual Guide. I then felt as if I were being embraced by the entire Universe, tears of happiness streamed down my cheeks, and a feeling of peace and exhilarating love overwhelmed me.

I can say that every time I think of my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, I feel this embrace from my father and mother, but also from my lover, full of love and tenderness, and whatever the sceptics may say, I admit that every time I feel that I miss him, instantly, miraculously and in a way that is inexplicable to the rational mind, my state changes and my whole being is filled with love, peace and harmony.

I had already tried the Ohsawa macrobiotic diet once, during the first year of yoga… I followed it for a day, then gave up because of a severe migraine.

Some time later, this diet was to be resumed, in unison with all my colleagues. At that time, I had started a tapas… one of my first tapas. I felt wonderful combining this diet with having concerns that organised my life… I, who was generally rather indulgent with myself and always found reasons to put things off until later.

The last day of the diet arrived. I felt truly victorious. I sat down in front of the photo of my Spiritual Guide Grieg. I wanted to convey my joy to him and thank him. So, I started talking to him in my head, and then everything turned into silence and joy. I kept looking at him. Suddenly, I felt the need to close my eyes. I felt that my Spiritual Guide was close to me, embracing me and asking, “What can I offer you?” As I couldn’t decide what spiritual states to ask him for, he held me tight in his arms and I felt us rising somewhere, very high. There, my being felt that it was first becoming like a tree trunk in which everything was absorbed, the stars, the lights, space, everything was concentrated in my being, then I contracted until I became very small, like a dot. In an instant, everything that was inside me, all those universes, began to burst forth from my being, expanding more and more, as I sought to become one with these expanding universes, everywhere.

I came back… I carried within me a great secret and all my love for my Spiritual Guide Grieg…

In 2001, during the spiritual yoga course in Costinești, I had a special spiritual experience while attending a theatre performance given by fellow yogis from Denmark.

In the first part of the performance, I was deeply impressed by the purity of those who symbolised the Macrocosmic Powers, by the mudras they performed, which I suddenly perceived as real keys to accessing, through the process of occult resonance, the reality of certain subtle parallel universes. I perceived their dance as a true cosmic game. I was fascinated by the whole atmosphere. Until then, everything had gone normally, but as soon as the actor playing Grieg appeared, I had the strange but very clear feeling that it was Grieg himself who was on stage. In my entire life, I have never had any difficulty recognising a person immediately when I saw them. Well, at that moment, which seemed much longer than it actually was, I really had the impression that it was Grieg who was on stage. Until the end, his image was constantly superimposed on that of the actor.

I can say that I managed to get to know part of Grieg’s being, thanks to what happened next on stage. I discovered the immense sacrifice he makes every day to initiate human beings into different spiritual aspects, the total inner freedom in everything he accomplishes, the dedication, the love, but also the humility in action. I was deeply impressed by the communion I felt between him and the ten Great Macrocosmic Powers, by the love he showed them. I perceived, as a corollary, the enormous spiritual strength of my Spiritual Guide, feeling that it came directly from the great god Shiva.

From that moment on, I knew that a true spiritual hero had to manifest himself in this way and that nothing could stand in the way of such a human being in his aspiration to serve the Heavenly Father.

This state of joy and revelation lasted all day, and I can relive it whenever I wish.

I would like to tell you how I enrolled in the MISA yoga course. When I turned 18 (I am now 27), on my birthday, I cried a lot, even though I apparently had no reason to: I had received many gifts, my parents took care of me, I had friends.

At that moment, I was crying because I had not accomplished anything, and I told myself that it was not a question of material achievements, but something else. That “something else” I was crying about at the age of 18, I only understood a year later: it was my spiritual aspiration. When I opened the door to the yoga class in Suceava, I was certain I had found what I was looking for. I admit that since I was born, I have started many classes: gymnastics, violin, electronics, painting, swimming, basketball, but I gave them up after a month or two. But with the yoga class, it was different. As soon as I opened the door to the room and felt the atmosphere charged with spirituality (I have no words to describe the calm, beauty, joy, love, harmony, all at once…), I knew that I would continue this class indefinitely, until I became one with eternity.

It has now been eight years… I thank my dear Spiritual Guide Grieg from the bottom of my heart for opening the door to the spiritual path for me.

I felt lonely, even though I wasn’t, and my loved ones didn’t understand why I didn’t have fun like other young people, why I went to church and not to nightclubs, why I preferred solitude to the world, why I wanted to become a nun. I wanted to meet people like me, with the same interests and aspirations, so that I would no longer feel alone and “weird”, as others told me. I prayed to the God the Father to take back the life he had given me, but he did not answer me and I cried until I fainted. But he didn’t take me back; instead, he gave me life again.

One morning, as I was walking, admiring nature and thanking God the Father in my heart for its beauty (I lived near a forest), I saw above a tree, a few metres away from me, an entity that froze me in my tracks. I couldn’t move, but I had the strength to say, “Father, if this vision is real, make it disappear for a second.”

Immediately, it disappeared for exactly one second, then reappeared. What was it? Without a doubt, it was a godly miracle, an answer from the Father. It was shaped like a candle flame, but with two points and about a metre high, and inside it was a very rapid vibration. My thoughts had completely disappeared, and this vision seemed to be communicating something to me. After a few minutes, I had to leave, but it still did not want to disappear.

Long afterwards, I experienced a state of heavenly happiness that I wanted to share with everyone. I couldn’t tell anyone what had happened to me, as they would surely have thought I was mad.

Shortly after this apparition, I met not only people like me, but people who were even more special. I couldn’t believe that such people existed on Earth, and I begged them with all my heart to take me with them. I discovered that they practised yoga, and I immediately wanted to practise it too, to become like them, and my life became a permanent miracle.

This yoga course at the MISA school not only taught me a great deal and transformed me in an astonishing way, but over time, with the will and help of the Father, I was able to help some people as I had been helped. That’s when I realised that this entity I had seen was actually my guardian angel, and I learned to connect with him and even communicate with him, and he became my best friend. His name is God’s Tear. And when I asked him, “What must I do to quickly get to know God the Father?”, he simply replied, “Love everything you touch!”

But the most beautiful experiences, the most beautiful moments I had during this course were the encounters with my Spiritual Guide Grieg.

I thank this amazing, Endless Human Being with all my heart for showing me who I really am.

being with all my heart for showing me who I really am.

One day in 1987, my yoga teacher, who was then revealing the secrets of yoga to me for the first time, placed a photo in front of my eyes and said emotionally, “There is a very special man in this world. His name is Grieg.”

I admit that at that moment, both the image and the name of Grieg caused a reverberation within me that led, for a few seconds (I think), to paralysis, to a halt in what we call the continuum of ordinary life. I did not know then that this moment would mark the beginning of a new, exceptional life for me.

Later, during the communist era, I lived through a period when yoga was banned in our country, and Grieg was the victim of numerous abuses and all kinds of completely false situations, many of which were very damaging to his reputation and even his life.

As an anecdote, detractors of the MISA yoga school today try to gloss over this period, which I nevertheless experienced with great intensity. I admit that after one of the very harsh interrogations I underwent at the ”Securitate” (Secret Police), my yoga teacher at the time asked me if I had given in to pressure and signed a statement against Grieg. With serenity, I replied that I could not betray this man. It was a clear, strong and deep feeling that I had, and it helped me to remain steadfast in other similar situations that followed.

I should mention here a very significant fact, namely that at that time I had not yet even met Grieg, the man who would become the dearest person in my heart and whom I perceived as a perfect and utterly exceptional being.

While wishing to perceive what Grieg felt in the exemplifications and thinking about him, I felt, against a backdrop of expansion, the aspiration to transmit love to everything that exists in the Universe.

At that moment, I became aware of the tremendous energisation of my subtle force centre anahata chakra, which was receiving enormous energy through the top of my head and the lower subtle force centres through transmutation and sublimation. This energy poured out into the Universe through the middle of my chest, then received a response [through the phenomenon of occult resonance].

One summer, I decided to stay in the countryside for two to three weeks to do an intensive tapas. I did yoga for about ten hours a day: meditation, asana-e and pranayama techniques.

One day, after a meditation of communion with the Great Macrocosmic Power Tripura Sundari, I stayed in the garden at the edge of the forest. Suddenly, I thought of him and an overwhelming aspiration for his presence came over me. I felt the energy of love, unique to the Great Macrocosmic Power Tripura Sundari, fill my heart and pour out towards him. I stayed there for a long time thinking about him. Although I felt him close by, I still missed him. I was a little sad that I wouldn’t see him again during those holidays.

At one point, it occurred to me that he was truly everywhere and that it was up to me to feel him. I then thought that the whole world around me — the garden, the forest, the sky and myself — was in the heart of the Spiritual Guide, in Grieg’s anahata chakra.

I started walking in the forest. The state was wonderful – I felt as if I were simply walking in his heart – it was as if everything around me was nothing but condensed love.

I felt that from the trees, the grass, the flowers, the rays of the sun, there was a boundless love always towards me, caressing me like a warm breeze. This feeling gradually intensified; my heart felt like a warm, golden spring. I cried with joy, suddenly feeling all my worries, fears and difficulties melt away in the security, peace and endless love in my Spiritual Guide’s heart.

I noticed things all around me that I had never seen before, new shades of colour, new shapes and sublime smells . All I had to do was focus on the subtle force centre anahata chakra, for it to return.

Everything around me became miraculous and, above all, I felt this unshakeable certainty that everything was exactly as it should be, because I was at the very heart of Grieg.

Following meditations of communion with the Spiritual Guide, by the grace of God, I experienced certain spiritual states in an exemplary manner. During the first meditation, from the very beginning, in a state of humility and total devotion to God, I felt an inner absorption coupled with a feeling of elevation. My whole being was projected into my heart. There, I perceived my Spiritual Guide “burning” like a living flame. He was the very personification of Life in Eternity, the illustration of the destiny of every human being. I realised that everywhere is our home, but that we can only feel it by centring ourselves within ourselves.

What use would all the riches of this world, and even the splendours of the subtle worlds, be if God did not make our hearts “burn” – even for a moment?

Meditation in communion with my Spiritual Guide revealed this aspect to me in the form of an intense experience. I saw with the eyes of my soul what it means to love God, to do His will. It means burning for Him, as the Seraphim burn – with Love. It is love that gives itself to be experienced by all worlds, it is love that surrenders to God and does not seek anything for itself. Beyond all speculation, beyond all change, beyond time and space, the Eternal Mother is the Love of God.

This is how I perceived my Spiritual Guide, meditating on Him in my heart. During the second and third days of meditation in communion with the Spiritual Guide, the state of spiritual aspiration was revealed to me. This is what I perceived: first of all, I felt that it had nothing to do with noisy exuberance. It is something far too deep and exalting to be scattered outwardly. To have spiritual aspiration is to draw every breath, every moment of life from God. It is to seek Him tirelessly within oneself while one’s whole being is bathed in imperturbable calm. Ardent aspiration only becomes a frenzied aspiration when it comes from God and is directed towards Him. The rest is just insignificant details. On the other hand, this spiritual aspiration also requires exceptional mental clarity and a firm commitment to transforming your limited being. It is a will that is totally and unconditionally submitted to God’s will.

This is how you manage to ennoble your life, give it meaning and make it truly fruitful. And to achieve this goal, tireless spiritual practice is the only and most powerful means. The kingdom of heaven is conquered by storm, or in other words, by spiritual aspiration, and once you have reached it, spiritual activity is tireless. Moreover, we know that beings who have attained the state of godliness have stated that in the Kingdom of God, spiritual activity is very intense. This is the very essence of godliness. God works ceaselessly for us.

I was at the spiritual camp in Costineşti in 2001. One day, Grieg gave a collective blessing to those who were present at that moment on the field where the camp activities were taking place. From the very first seconds, my state of consciousness became much more refined. I felt a particularly intense energy at the top of my skull and clearly saw a very intense white light, like a column or a tunnel, entering my body at that point. Almost at the same moment, the feeling of individuality disappeared as if by magic and an almost total state of mental void set in.

I was no longer aware of my body, and even my breathing seemed to follow other cycles and other needs. The only thing I perceived was a very intense point of white light above the top of my head. Moreover, thanks to the subtle fusion with this point, I clearly felt that it contained a colossal energy, far beyond my capacity to understand at that moment. I had the feeling and conviction that this point of light-energy was in fact the only thing that really existed in the Universe, all other aspects being derived from it. This light ‘filled’ my entire inner universe – the perception was very subtle and refined, as I was no longer aware of my body at all, which seemed to have dissolved into something much more subtle and elevated. At the same time, I felt a total, complete identification with this light-energy, as if I had simply transcended everything and transformed myself into this light-energy.

It seemed that in the entire Universe, in all of Manifestation, there was nothing else but It. As I sought to become as clearly aware as possible of this state, I felt a particularly deep and enveloping inner peace, which I tend to call a ‘state of oceanic peace’. At the same time, it was a “dynamic” silence, because I felt that it contained a lot of potential energy.

I also perceived a great strength, in all the ways in which it can be conceptualised.

One of the most important revelations I received from our Spiritual Guide Grieg is the Art of Blessing. I often feel the need to help the people around me.

In my meditations, when I am in a beneficial state of mind, I feel the need to share it with my loved ones. I feel that even people who do not follow the yoga course are with me in the spirals or meditations, thus manifesting the subtle connection that exists between us all.

Through the blessings I have given, I have felt that I am giving love. At first, I thought it was not very nice to bless myself, and that it was better to bless others, thinking of them first. Surprisingly, when I started blessing myself, I felt a state similar to that of a ‘child’ receiving an overflow from God.

I felt my soul with God’s help through the blessings. Blessing and self-blessing taught me to transform those around me and to transform myself.

When Grieg introduced us to the Art of Blessing in Herculane, in fact when he exemplified it, I had an experience that I will never forget. My account of this state can be found on the last cassette of The Art of Blessing.

What is not included is what I felt that day and the days that followed. As soon as I finished telling Grieg what I had felt, even though it was late in the evening, I could see my colleagues faces as if it were daylight, I could see everything very clearly and I walked as if I were floating. I left with several colleagues to go to the hotel, and they kept asking me to slow down and wait for them. When we arrived at the hotel, one of my colleagues realised that she didn’t have her car key and that she just had to retrieve something from inside. She was terrified at the thought of having to climb the stairs to the eleventh floor where our room was. I offered to fetch the key. I climbed the eleven floors effortlessly, taking two steps at a time. When I came back down with the key, everyone who saw me was amazed at how quickly I had returned and that I showed no signs of fatigue.

It was then that I realised I was not tired at all. All evening and all night, I was in a trance, feeling a very strong inner vibration that gave me indescribable happiness. Several yogis stayed with me in the room and asked me about the state I was in. In the end, I asked them to bless me so that they could feel the same thing. Although I concentrated as hard as I could, I managed to feel the same vibrations and energies as during the demonstration, but I was unable to transmit my state to anyone else.

Today, five years later, when our yoga teacher taught us how to raise the infinite, colossal and fundamental energy Kundalini Shakti, I understood that it was in Herculane, when Grieg had initiated us into the art of blessing, that I had had this experience.

One of the most memorable spiritual experiences of my spiritual practice occurred during the Herculane camp in 2001. Leaving Denmark and, at the same time, ending a relationship, made me feel heavy-hearted, but I was determined to enjoy my visit to Romania, which I had planned to last about three months.

At that time, I was meditating with the bija mantra intended to activate the subtle force centre ajna chakra, a mantra I had received initiation into – to my great surprise – in a dream. This initiation took place a few months after Grieg had advised me to meditate with this mantra, unaware at the time that a special initiation into this mantra was given as part of the yoga course.

Returning to my story, in Herculane, I experienced a wonderful state of openness of heart and sought to take full advantage of the spiritual atmosphere of the camp. The frustrations caused by the dysfunctional relationship I had experienced in Denmark began to disappear. The fear of being alone and abandoned, jealousy and anger were gradually transforming into courage, love and detachment. I was happy. Then a change occurred, in an obvious synchronicity. On one of the last nights of the camp, Grieg gave a lecture on communication with God. In this lecture, Grieg spoke about the fact that God is present everywhere and at all times, ready to welcome us into his arms. Grieg mentioned that by practicing Laya Yoga with the mantra to energise the subtle force centre ajna chakra, the yogi can reach such a state of communion with God, that a kind of dialogue can be established between him and God.

This impressed me greatly, and I felt truly blessed because this door to God had been opened to me thanks to the initiation I had received in the Astral Universe. Later, using this mantra, I reached a very deep state of meditation in which I experienced a state of ecstasy. After the lecture, Grieg exemplified the state of detached love. At that moment, “I died”; my ego could no longer maintain the supremacy it constantly attributed to itself, nor its harmful tendencies, nor its feelings of anger. I felt myself being lifted up to the starry sky, and my consciousness, along with my heart, exploded like fireworks in the mysterious ether of space. I then felt completely enveloped and imbued with the presence of God. I felt that God was telling me that He loved me and had shown me what unconditional love was. I understood that I could feel His presence all the time if I was aware of it. With tears streaming down my face, half crying, half overwhelmed by godly ecstasy, I remained transfixed at the top of the mountain by love.

I can truly say that on that night, I became a worshipper of the One who is the very essence of Love. Thank you, Grieg!

Every time I participate in a Yang Spiral followed by the Induction of the state of Spiritual Liberation through Godly Miracle, I aspire for this miracle to happen: that God’s Grace will pour out on me and make me experience the state of Spiritual Liberation.

During spiral meditation, I seek to become aware of the specific purpose of the spiral and to induce in myself a state of surrender to God, of intense aspiration to enter into communion with Him and to experience the state of Spiritual Liberation.

During the actual induction, I seek to concentrate as intensely and uninterruptedly as possible on the brahmarandhra, while identifying with the Spiritual Guide I have visualised in the middle of the spiral. I consider identification with Grieg to be important and I also put it into practice during my meditations, perceiving very clearly the differences that arise compared to situations where I act solely with my own strength. In this way, I have felt within myself, by resonance, some of the energies that he mobilises and I have experienced wonderful states.

This connection with him has greatly amplified my aspiration to feel God. I experienced a truly exceptional state during a Yang Spiral followed by the Induction of the state of Spiritual Liberation through Godly Miracle, carried out in the spiritual camp of Herculane in 2001. I felt the sounds of the music “striking” and passing through the top of my head. Then I perceived a kind of cone opening in this area, through which the sounds penetrated so that I could hear them inside my head. At one point, I began to become aware of energy blockages at this level, which manifested as certain pulsations and pain in the brahmarandhra. I amplified my concentration and asked God to help me overcome this state, aware that these pains were a sign of a purification process.

At one point, a bright white light spread over me and I felt it enveloping my whole body, penetrating inside as well. I was overwhelmed by the godly grace that was pouring over me. I burst into tears. Happiness flooded my whole being, as if God Himself were embracing me and I were one with Him. I experienced a state of intense freedom, feeling that I had everything, that I was everything, and that is precisely why I wanted nothing more.

My sense of individuality was preserved, but at the same time I felt Infinity, Eternity, the Immeasurable, all existing simultaneously.

When I experience such moments of Godly Grace, I realise how simple everything is and I wanted nothing more than to remain in eternity in deep communion with God the Father. This state continued for a long time after the end of the induction.

Two years ago, I performed blessings for God the Father (7 per day). After about two weeks, during the blessings, I sensed the presence of a very powerful male being. I felt that he had colossal strength, but at the same time, I perceived him as emanating gentleness and refinement. Internally, I asked, “Who are You?” Immediately afterwards, I began to experience states of bliss, love, beauty and harmony. As these states were exemplified to me, I felt that I was part of them, that I was all these manifestations. So I exclaimed, addressing this masculine force, “I asked You who you are, and You reveal to me who I am!”

During the spiritual yoga holiday camp in Costinești in 2013, I was accepted into the Theophanic Charismatic Movement, which is a gift for which I am very grateful. While I was on the spiral field listening to the Charismatic Movement’s lecture, at one point I felt that I had a gigantic and very powerful body. I recognised the same masculine force that I had perceived two years earlier during the blessings, but this time it was manifesting itself in my being and in my body. I was then overcome by an immense feeling of happiness, which I felt was very alive and which I saw in the form of a bright white sphere the size of a tennis ball. I looked at this sphere in my gigantic body and had the feeling that it was laughing and that, by its very nature, it was spreading this happiness throughout my being. Since I had this experience, I have been feeling spontaneous and very intense states of love for God the Father on a daily basis.

What surprises me most is that I have also begun to feel these spontaneous states of very intense love towards the people I come into contact with or those around me.

I thank my Spiritual Guide Grieg for the acceptance into the Theophanic Charismatic Movement, as I ardently aspired to receive it, and I thank him wholeheartedly for everything I received through him during the camp.

On 11 August 2004, I received an exceptional spiritual gift from my Spiritual Guide Grieg. The Spiritual Holiday Camp had begun and I was at home in Oradea. On that day, 11 August, the first Yang Spiral took place in Costineşti, followed by the Induction into the state of Spiritual Liberation through the Godly Miracle and the opening of the brahmarandhra.

Being in Oradea and having free time, I decided to do this programme myself, especially since I could benefit from the avalanche effect due to the distance. Something prompted me to do this meditation, and I chose some appropriate music that I really liked. I began the meditation exactly at the time scheduled in the camp programme, and I gradually felt myself becoming absorbed within until my senses and forms were completely cancelled out. The only thing I felt was that I existed and was part of a whole, but I had no form or thoughts. I simply felt that I existed, the awareness of my existence. Towards the end of the meditation, I gradually began to return to the physical plane and hear the external sounds of our physical world.

I had an astonishing experience of total void, where everything was frozen and only the witness consciousness was alive.

In the spring of 1994, at the Herculane spiritual yoga camp, I was going to attend a Yang Spiral for the first time. I wanted to be as attentive as possible and feel this spiritual experience to the fullest. But as soon as we started, it began to rain.

As a beginner to the yoga practice, I was still affected by frequent colds, accompanied by fever and severe sore throats, which I had suffered from since childhood. Before enrolling in the yoga class, my sensitivity had increased so much that I had a cold about every three weeks, which often required antibiotic treatment.

When it started to rain, I thought for a moment that I was going to get my head wet and fall ill. But the next moment, changing my way of thinking, I told myself that I had to trust in God and my Spiritual Guide Grieg. I then felt a sense of surrender, forgot about the rain, and concentrated on perceiving as best I could what was happening during the spiral. It was an experience that filled me with joy. Shortly afterwards, the rain stopped; when I opened my eyes, I saw that, in the thick layer of clouds, an ‘eye’ of clear sky had opened just above the spiral and a few rays of sunshine were shining through it. I looked around and saw that the ground was dry and that I had only two or three drops of water in my hair, like dewdrops. I cannot explain what happened, but I knew that I had been protected.

Recently, when I told a friend about this, I was surprised to learn that the rain from that spiral had wet him.

In October 2001, I arrived in Bucharest and moved into the spiritual centre. It was the first time I had lived in such a place. Circumstances prevented me from leaving the spiritual centre for several days, and so I was able to fully experience the special “atmosphere” that prevailed there. Above all, I felt the presence and constant support of my Spiritual Guide, Grieg.

After about a week, when I went out into the city, I was surprised to feel a very special state. I clearly had the impression of having descended (entered) the physical plane, coming from a subtle world. More precisely, I felt very strongly that, from a world filled with spiritual light, I had entered an illusory world.

This experience made me feel a deep detachment from everything that is ephemeral, thanks to a state of centring on myself. I relived this for several days in a row while travelling around town.

I started practising yoga with the MISA school in 1992, and during all these years, my existence has been an ascending spiritual experience. The most important period so far has been the seven years I spent in a spiritual centre, where I benefited from the subtle help of my Spiritual Guide Grieg. I say this because, from the moment I decided to live there, my life and that of my loved ones changed considerably in a positive way.

The spiritual centre, a place that cannot be known without living there, is the hand that the Spiritual Guide extends to you, full of spiritual grace. It was there that I succeeded for long periods in controlling my dreams at will, in knowing (to the extent that my spiritual level allowed me) the subtle structure of the Universe, in accessing subtle worlds hitherto unsuspected.

I began to practise love with amorous and erotic continence with my lover, which, in my opinion, is the deepest gift of love offered by God and revealed by Grieg. I think everyone should practise yoga, if only to acquire the miracle of love through amorous and erotic continence. And since words seem powerless to describe these ecstatic experiences, all I can say, with my hand on my heart, is that there is a God, that there are “miracles” — and that we can all experience them, if we believe in them and sincerely seek them.

Whether or not we are integrated into universal harmony depends on ourselves, our free will and, above all, our own attention directed towards the subtle planes.

The management of the MISA school allowed me to stay regularly at a spiritual centre when I came to Bucharest. I had already been in the capital for over a week, but a state of inertia and unconsciousness prevented me from going to the centre. That evening, I was meditating with the great god Shiva in my companion’s room, a few minutes’ walk from the spiritual community. I then felt, on a subtle level, a state of particular freedom, as if I were shedding worn-out clothes one by one. Everything was easy and free, and I was inspired to be very attentive to the ideas or feelings that came to me.

The idea suddenly occurred to me that perhaps if I went to the spiritual centre, I would have an extraordinary experience, but that I was losing or postponing it because I myself had wanted it that way. I got dressed quickly, arrived at the centre in five minutes and continued my meditation with the great god Shiva. After about fifteen minutes, Grieg arrived and began distributing gifts to us, then he led those present in meditation on the theme of “The Worship of Shiva”, staying with us for a few hours.

Thus, a moment of lucidity and attention made me be, or rather choose to be, in the right place at the right time.

Some days, when I return home after a day dedicated to Karma Yoga, I feel a deep love for everything around me and especially for my Spiritual Guide. This state originates from the subtle force centre anahata chakra, and extends towards the essential subtle spiritual force centre sahasrara padma.

I feel the same way when I help others, when I finish a repair, or when I think of Vârful Omu or the Sphinx in Bucegi. But these wonderful and extraordinary states, which I never thought I would be able to experience, are nothing compared to what I feel when my Spiritual Guide Grieg takes me in his arms. This embrace is something that cannot be described in words. I am very happy to have lived in a spiritual centre and to feel that I am freeing myself from all the obstructions and ties related to the illusory aspects of things.

In the meditations of communion with the soul of the Romanian people, I feel a love for our country that borders on sacrifice. I feel this state most strongly when I think of the summit of Omu and the Sphinx and, more recently, the city of Bucharest, as having a spiritual mission.

At the same time, following a discussion with Grieg about the possibility of an earthquake, I decided to move into the spiritual community. After talking with Grieg, I finally decided to come and live in a spiritual centre. Before asking the MISA school management for permission to live in a spiritual centre, I made a dedication and asked God to send me to the place where I could meet someone who embodied the great god Shiva. I already had in consciousness the image of a man who seemed to me to embody everything I wished for… but I received much more than that.

As soon as I entered the spiritual centre, I began to experience a very special state of love; I was in love with everything around me. I felt as if my soul had been reborn. I felt that I was starting from scratch, on a path that was my own and suited me perfectly. I was always happy and everything I did fulfilled me.

During the 24-hour prayer, I understood with all my heart that God is my only true friend and my only support. Since I moved into the spiritual community, I have felt this constantly.

Every time I spoke, greeted or thought about my colleagues in the community, I had a clear sense of a direct and total relationship with the great god Shiva. On the surface, these were mundane conversations, but my feelings were very intense.

There was a lot of love, which could not have come solely from those with whom I was interacting, but which came ‘through’ them and overwhelmed me. I was very fulfilled. I lived in a state of total trust in myself and in God. I experienced all these states for about three months.

I am not saying that I no longer experience them today, but their intensity is different and they have become deeply rooted in me, allowing me to experience new and wonderful states.

It was Tuesday, 10 February 1991… At that time, every Tuesday, Grieg gave lectures at the Student Culture House. At the end, he would read the notes he had received.

One of them made a big impression on me, in which a colleague recounted a particular experience he had had. Once I got home, before falling asleep, I thought back on that experience. I cried, thinking that I had never experienced anything like it. But during the night, I woke up overwhelmed by an extremely intense feeling of happiness, the likes of which I had never felt before, nor since, with the same intensity.

The repercussions that this state triggered in me, both physically and psychologically, lasted for months. It was the most beautiful gift I have ever received from God, because that morning I was celebrating my 32nd birthday.

My most cherished spiritual experience was during my first years of yoga classes at the MISA school (I was in my third year) when I decided to take the second parapsychology course. There, during a projection technique, I had a visual, empathic and mental perception of my Spiritual Guide, Grieg. We had to project ourselves to the entrance of a tunnel, go through it, and then see what we perceived at the other end.

Imagine my surprise when I saw Grieg waiting for me and realised that the tunnel was in the middle of a mountain. I was very happy. We communicated only through empathy, and he smiled at my astonishment and joy. He took me by the hand and showed me the top of the mountain (it was covered in snow and shining in the sunlight), saying, “Look, that’s where you need to go. Let nothing else in your life matter, except being one with God, for there is no greater happiness than being one with God!”

These words penetrated my consciousness deeply. For two days, I continually perceived their essence. I woke up in the morning with these words in my head, I went to the bathroom with these words ringing in my ears. It was like a thunderclap, a flash of lightning for my consciousness.

Since then, when I go through a difficult period and manage to remember this experience, I am once again overcome by a frenzied aspiration toward God and I realise that everything that happens to me and that I perceive as bad in this world does not matter, it passes. That is the place I must arrive.

Later, I went to see Grieg and told him about it, and he confirmed: “Yes, it’s true! There is no greater happiness than being one with God.” So I begged him with all my heart to help me attain this state of deep and permanent communion with God in this life, and not in another, because I don’t want to lose this chance to have Him as my Spiritual Guide. What do you think he replied? He looked at me with endless love and simply said, “Yes, very well. I will help you!” Yes, nothing could be simpler…

When I was little, I often wondered, “Where does the world end?”, “Where is the end and what does it look like?” and “What is beyond?” I always thought, “beyond” was something immense, endless, that I dared not comprehend and could not imagine. I felt that this “beyond” was something that filled my soul when I thought about it, that seemed to stop my heart, and then I felt a calmness settle around me, as if it were there, “beyond”.

I had a great need to answer these questions and many others that every human being surely asks themselves at some point in their lives. God guided my steps and I found answers. Many. Everything worked out so that I could open my eyes, wake up and lift my head, and make my way towards the Truth. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s not difficult either. I know that we are the ones who are paving the way to God, with Grieg’s help, and that the whole universe is participating in this.

When I met Grieg, I wanted to feel something special. But I was too attentive to everything and felt almost nothing, except a kind of fear of doing something wrong. Afterwards, I thought about him constantly.

It was during my first holiday in Costineşti. I left and, on the train, I was overcome with a heart-wrenching feeling of nostalgia. It was as if I was detaching myself from something I had found again after a long time and didn’t know how or when I would see it again. I had already felt this nostalgia when I was little, when I asked myself these questions about the mystery of the universe, but at the time, I didn’t know what I was feeling.

I was in my second year of the MISA yoga course and I was eager to participate in the spiritual yoga retreat in Herculane, where I would meet our Spiritual Guide for the first time. I thought about this meeting with great emotion. I arrived at the camp, but Grieg was not there yet.

One evening, I was in my room with two friends when I heard that Grieg had arrived. At that moment, I felt such a strong shiver that my whole body began to tremble; then I was flooded with a bright white light.

I sat down in the yoga mudra posture. In this asana, I understood what had happened: “The intense aspiration to see him, to meet Grieg, had triggered an elevation of energy within me, the essential and colossal energy, Kundalini Shakti, without me having seen him”.

I had a similar experience during the Yang Spiral held at Sarmisegetuza.

I ardently aspired to perceive Grieg subtly. During meditation, I sought to identify with him, and I felt the awakening and ascension of infinite, colossal and fundamental energy — Kundalini Shakti — up to the level of the subtle force centre of the heart, anahata chakra.

My chest felt like it was on fire, generating an immense feeling of love within me. I felt very expansive, flooded with bright white light.

A few years ago, seeing that Grieg was subtly and energetically charging objects for different people, I began to wish that I too could have an object charged by him. I didn’t dare ask him to fulfil this wish, which was growing in my heart and becoming stronger and stronger.

One day, I began to wonder what object I would like Grieg to charge. The answer came to me after a few moments of reflection: my earrings, because I wear them all the time. Then, that evening, Grieg appeared to me in a dream, held out his hand and said, “Come on, give them to me!” I was very surprised and happy at the same time. I gave him the earrings and he put them in his bag. When I woke up, I remembered my dream clearly and felt wonderful, but my mind wondered, “Was this an astral encounter or just an ordinary dream?”

Almost a year had passed since that dream. I was in the company of Grieg and other students who had come to see him. In my heart, my old aspiration was reawakened. I took off my earrings and held them in my hand, waiting to talk to him to ask him to charge them “for real” this time.

At one point, my voice trembling, I addressed my request to Grieg. “I’ve already charged them!” Grieg replied, taking the earrings in his hand.

My soul was overwhelmed with joy and happiness, and my eyes filled with tears. “Yes, in my dreams,” I replied emotionally, full of love and respect for my Spiritual Guide, Grieg.

“Well, you see!” he gently reprimanded me for my disbelief, then charged the earrings once again. I felt intense gratitude and great humility wash over me.

I had a dreamlike experience where I arrived on a sunny terrace where people were practising yoga techniques, even asanas. There were about twenty people dressed in white clothes, and the teacher, a tall, handsome young man, was wearing a tight-fitting leotard that showed off his impeccable physique (as they do in the Astral World!).

He looked at me kindly, and I told him I would like to see Grieg. He replied, “The one you know?”, “That’s what I’d like to know!” I replied. He smiled and led me to another person who handed me a small flying device. I sat down and suddenly found myself split in two (astral projection)… and so I set off. More precisely, there were two “me”s, each in a flying machine, and I had a “stereo” view of the landscape from different angles. Astral landscapes of indescribable beauty followed one after another – forests, fields and lakes in such beautiful colours that I trembled with emotion and delight.

Then a city appeared, like something out of a science fiction film, with different neighbourhoods and different buildings (not very tall, four or five storeys at most), many made of transparent glass, like thin cylinders (one building was even shaped like an hourglass); the distances between the buildings were quite large, there were lots of green spaces, lakes, there was even an entire neighbourhood on the water. The general atmosphere was one of great spiritual elevation, and there were obvious differences in tone from one neighbourhood to another. As we moved forward, the atmosphere became more refined and profound, culminating when we arrived in front of what appeared to be the centre of the city: a building that was not very large, about four storeys high, with a simple but elegant architecture, which radiated the certainty of being the best and most beautiful in the city. This description may not be very eloquent, but for me it was like paradise, a corner of paradise that awakened in me a happiness I had rarely experienced.

I then descended with my flying machine, but this time I was no longer split in two; the more I descended, the more the intensity diminished, probably so that I would notice the difference. Ordinary buildings then appeared and I entered a conference room, where the meeting was ending.

Grieg was leaving, as if hurrying to avoid being mobbed by the crowd. He stopped when he reached me. I felt my eyes shining with happiness as I remembered where I had come from, and I could see in his eyes that he knew about my adventure. He said to me, “How are you?” Then he turned to the others and added, “He had an exceptional experience! Tell them about it too!”

Later, I realised that my astral friend had led me to Grieg, the one I knew, after showing me a corner of their paradise.

The first parapsychological “encounter” of my life took place when I met Grieg. Even though I was in my third year of yoga classes, I didn’t know him yet. In fact, I didn’t even know who he was, and I must admit that if my yoga teacher hadn’t insisted for me to go to Bucharest, I wouldn’t have done so. But nothing happens by chance! I will never forget the little house where Grieg welcomed those who wanted to talk to him. As Grieg only arrived in the early hours of the morning, we all fell asleep after midnight. After a while, I had a dream in which Grieg appeared to me (I repeat: I had never seen him in the flesh). He opened the first door, then the second, and came in. He looked me in the eyes as if to say, “You… at last!” It was all just a dream. Suddenly, I was awakened by a noise. It was the sound of the door. At that moment, the scene from my dream repeated itself. Grieg arrived. The moment he looked at me, something happened!

Since then, I have been filling the void left by God with the presence of my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, whom I love very much. It is a blessing to come to this Earth and meet such a being in the person of Grieg. When he asked me what my problems were, I replied softly, “I wanted to see you…”

In fact, at that moment, I felt as if I were seeing him again. Later, in a dream, countless scenes from a previous life with Grieg appeared to me.

The paradox is that a few months earlier, I had criticised him fiercely, but out of ignorance. This “re-reading” completely transformed me.

Since then, I have sought to be in his presence as often as possible. Whenever we are next to each other, we communicate telepathically: I convey to him from the bottom of my heart the warmth and joy of my intentions, and I feel that he sends me the same feelings in return. Sometimes he looks me in the eyes over the heads of those in front of me. I then feel exposed, as if he were penetrating the depths of my being.

I was in my fourth year of yoga when Grieg did an exemplification of a translation into an Astral World. At the beginning of the meditation, I connected with Grieg and perceived him as a very bright sphere of golden light that first travelled across the yoga hall, then rose and disappeared.

I then felt a very intense white light rising up my spine and exiting through the top of my head. At the same time, I felt tingling along my spine and a sensation of heat. The area around my head felt very energised and expanded. At that moment, I wanted to leave my body and I saw a blue fluid coming out of my body. Simultaneously, a red symbol (which seemed to be made of fire) appeared before my eyes. I then felt that I was in another world. I was in a field and could see hills on the horizon. Everything was very calm and peaceful, and time seemed to have stopped. I felt a great deal of light and peace in this world.

During this time, however, I was aware of the physical plane where my body was (in the classroom). At one point, I felt a purple fluid suddenly come out of my body, but it only reached a distance of 1 to 1.5 metres above my head, then suddenly returned. At that moment, my body seemed to suffer a shock and I staggered, almost falling over. Finally, I saw Grieg’s sphere of light return and shortly afterwards he told us to come back. I felt my blue fluid re-enter my body through the top of my head and I came back.

I once asked Grieg what I should do to evolve more quickly on a spiritual level. He replied that I should reveal my Self. I asked him how to do that. “Should I meditate on my Self?” “No, not a meditation with the Revelation of the Self,” he replied, “but a meditation for the revelation of the Self.” This distinction then produced a truly magical breakthrough. I felt that my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, had given me a very high initiation in just a few words. The way I related to all the events of life changed. They were on the periphery, while at the centre was that “something” which is beyond them and unaffected by them.

I was lying in bed and had the idea that there was an optimal solution to my problem and that I was going to find it. Then, while remaining conscious, I was projected into the yoga class room. I was with several colleagues and we were preparing for a wonderful spiritual action. Grieg went down to a smaller room, probably one of the changing rooms. He sat down on a chair and then sat me on his lap, but it was as if he was holding me in his hands like something that tends to fly away, and I entered a state of samadhi.

My consciousness wondered if Grieg knew what was happening to me. Then I felt myself being lifted by my Spiritual Guide’s cupped palms above his head, and he said to me, “You are flying!” At that moment, my body was vibrating constantly, as if amplifying what was happening in the subtle plane. I became a “white bird” without contours, growing larger and larger until I dissolved into the Universe. There was nothing left but consciousness in the Consciousness of the Heavenly Father, the Spiritual Guide, the Beloved. Then… void!

After this experience, Grieg took me in his arms and ran towards the large hall where many colleagues and yogi friends had gathered. I was perplexed and did not know if I was an astral body or just a consciousness within the consciousness of the Spiritual Guide. What I “saw” was a point located in the region of the heart. I lived and existed only in that place. I was levitating in the hall. And from up there, I saw something shiny on the floor through a grille. I removed the grate and was ecstatic to see a multitude of crystals of all colours and sizes arranged on the spikes. The pipes there were shining, and I knew they were made of gold. I took a white, pure, transparent crystal, and I felt it was a higher entity that was helping and guiding me.

This message from Grieg makes me happy, because Godly Grace surrounds me constantly, even though I am hundreds of kilometres away from my Spiritual Guide. My beloved Spiritual Guide, I bow eternally at your feet with deep gratitude.

The last day of a parapsychology course was a Monday, the day I also had my yoga class. The presentation of the Great Macrocosmic Power Matangi was about to begin, and I really wanted to arrive on time. My friends advised me to stay, but I missed my Spiritual Guide Grieg, so I left.

It was quite late; the train I wanted to take was an express, and as luck would have it, a few minutes before its arrival, a group of drunken forest rangers had invaded the ticket office to buy tickets for the same train. I began to think that perhaps I shouldn’t leave. But as my aspiration was very strong, I began to repeat the mantra of the Great Macrocosmic Power Tara in my consciousness, praying to arrive safely. Taking advantage of a moment of inattention on the part of the employees, I slipped in and bought my ticket.

I arrived in Bucharest in time to catch the last subway train and thus arrived safely at the yoga centre. The presentation of the Great Macrocosmic Power Matangi did not start that day, and I wondered if the efforts and adventures I had gone through to get to the class were worth it.

It was 2 a.m. and the train to Braşov didn’t leave until 6 a.m. I stayed in the yoga hall and sat down so that I could see Grieg. During the parapsychology course, I had learned something about the revelation of the Self, and I began to focus on my heart and repeat the question “Who am I?” to myself. Gradually, my breathing became shallower and shallower, to the point where I almost felt as if I was no longer breathing. From time to time, I made an effort to breathe more deeply, for fear of running out of air. A feeling of warmth appeared in my heart and gradually began to absorb my conscious self into a very pleasant state of void.

As if by synchronicity, Grieg would occasionally raise his voice, as if to be heard by those waiting at the back of the room, and exhort those he was addressing to reveal their true selves. At first, I thought it was a coincidence, but he repeated this exhortation to several people, raising his voice in the same way. I felt each exhortation as if it were addressed to me, which intensified my inner quest for the true Self. For nearly three hours, I remained almost motionless, barely breathing, sinking deeper and deeper into this mysterious yet familiar reality that I was discovering within myself. I felt no fatigue, even though I had not slept all night. My consciousness was silent, in a state of purity and crystal clarity.

When I opened my eyes and began to move and then walk down the street towards the station, I had the intense feeling of being born again. Everything seemed new and bright, charged with a mysterious ‘something’ that I could not name, but which delighted me.

This state lasted for several months after that.

During one of the meetings of the Shakti Group I was attending then, which was for women only, we did a meditation to connect with the Godly Self of a colleague who had been chosen beforehand by drawing lots.

After a few minutes of connecting with the Godly Self within ourselves, we meditated on our colleague’s Self. I then felt deeply that what was in the heart of her being was also in my heart. A wheel of energies had subtly formed, connecting each of the girls in the circle, with our chosen colleague at the centre. During this meditation, I clearly felt that we human beings are no different from one another in terms of the godly essence that exists within each of us. This feeling filled my soul with peace, love, understanding and humility! Now I try to remember this more often when I interact with my fellow human beings! I thank God and my Spiritual Guide Grieg for this understanding!

I had just been introduced to the Tibetan technique of consciousness transfer, Pho-Wa. Our yoga teacher told us that we could fully use this technique during the Yang Spiral meditation. I decided not to waste a moment and to put what I had learned into practice. But how? Where to start?

I thought that my Spiritual Guide Grieg was so close to me that all I had to do was ask him for help. Inwardly, I asked him to inspire me. Help came instantly. My Spiritual Guide, Grieg, suggested that I emit silently the second mantra (from the Pho-Wa technique initiation) in order to attain inner peace, but, inexplicably, I was overcome with fear and anxiety. My Spiritual Guide then told me not to be afraid and to repeat the astra mantra seven times. This state dissipated, and my Spiritual Guide then told me to emit silently the first Pho-Wa mantra forcefully.

After all these steps guided by my Spiritual Guide, I experienced a state where everything is consciousness, and those around me, known and unknown, are one and the same consciousness, and where everything is harmony and love.

During a meditation, I wondered how my Spiritual Guide Grieg felt about the state of Revelation of the Self. At that moment, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the feeling of Eternity. I realised that I was eternal, that I had never been otherwise, that I had never been different from the Consciousness of the Whole.

I felt that Grieg, God, and of course all beings are One. I felt that Grieg is aware at every moment of the eternal and transcendent Self, Paramatman, which is projected into Manifestation and subject to the “forgetting” of the Essence, but that he is also always aware of all this, while being outside of duality.

I felt that there is a single Self, which is like a boundless ocean, and that all beings, regardless of their level of evolution, are nothing more than drops of this mysterious ocean.

I understood what it means to be conscious of every being at every moment. By becoming one with cosmic Consciousness, we are also one with Grieg, at different levels of manifestation.

At that moment, I understood what it means to be an avatar. I felt boundless compassion wash over me. I understood what it means to be unconditioned by anything and to want nothing for oneself and to do everything at every moment so that human beings can take one more step towards Spiritual Liberation and return to the Ultimate Essence. This is Godly Love: to be constantly searching for Godly Truth and Eternity, not only for oneself, but for everyone else, without making any distinction.

At that moment, I heard Grieg’s voice inside me saying, “In essence, you are like me, but when you too feel the need to sacrifice everything so that others may attain supreme spiritual Liberation, and when you are filled with this godly love and compassion for them, you will truly be like me!”

When I read Nisargadatta Maharaj’s book_, I Am That_, two or three years ago, I was fascinated by every line. I was particularly impressed by the simplicity with which Nisargadatta answered questions and by the state of firm balance in which he seemed to find himself at every moment, because almost everywhere you read, you feel called, guided towards the same simple state of being of “I am”, which leads us to the depth of being, to the essence.

I had often noticed this state of imperturbable balance, equality and detachment in Grieg. In the summer of 2000, I began my first meditations on centring myself, and from the winter of 2001 onwards, I practised these meditations every week, with the utmost regularity. Right from the start, I received a wonderful gift and a boost, as I managed to achieve the longest meditation I had ever done, lasting seven hours. What surprised me most was how natural and easy it was for me to meditate.

I began to feel more alive than ever, always fresh and very familiar. The feeling of being at home pushed me further into meditation. I then began to feel that I “existed in the light” and that I could remain in this state for a very long time, that I was forever this soft light, imbued with a scent of tender love.

I then resumed these meditations as part of a more intensive programme at Vidra, in the spiritual camp for the Revelation of the Self. At first, the results did not live up to my expectations, and I then realised that it was precisely the fact of waiting for something (the Self) to appear that was blocking everything. I felt the need to search within myself for a state of self-giving, detachment, and openness to the present moment. I began to enter this state of existence in the light more and more easily, lucid and alive, but I must admit that almost every time, I was unable to feel my heart, to feel love. I then realised that I had long neglected the emotional aspect, without even realising it, for about six years, when a particular situation had caused me to withdraw into myself. It is interesting to note that, although Grieg told me twice to try to open up emotionally, I had done practically nothing in this direction. I returned from the Vidra camp with the conviction that the heart is now the main place where I must seek, where I must discover myself.

On the penultimate day of camp, God answered my sincere request to feel my heart, and I relived, even more clearly, that state of existence in the light, which is not tainted by thoughts, but is simply existence in eternity.

I even tried to evoke different thoughts, but this state remained in the background of everything I was experiencing.

I was in my second group of yoga course at the beginning of the summer. I was very sad, I felt abandoned and I desperately needed to find my way in life, when one morning, the “miracle” happened.

I had woken up very early because I had a journey to make, and when I got home, I was very sleepy. I fell asleep. I then had the most beautiful dream of my life, but I am convinced that it was not just a dream, but a real astral encounter.

I was in the room where the yoga class was taking place. At one point, Grieg appeared and told me to sit down near the desk. What followed was a sublime experience, very difficult to describe in words. Grieg showed me for the first time what “I” means. I felt endless, unlimited. I was everything and everything was in me. It was something I had never felt before.

God was within me and I was within Him. We were one and the same being, so to speak. Then there was a series of examples illustrating the states of consciousness corresponding to each subtle force centre. With each model state exemplified, I felt that I existed only in that centre, that I was expanding and perceiving the world in a way specific to that subtle force centre.

When I woke up, I was amazed. I remained in the state generated by these exemplifications for nearly a week. I felt very strong, both psychically and spiritually.

In 1991, I was at the esoteric yoga spiritual camp in Costinești. I was in my second group of the yoga course.

One evening, Grieg withdrew to the beach with a group of yoga teachers to carry out a programme of special meditations.

My friend and I moved about 15 to 20 metres away from the group and tried to meditate, in unison with the group. I related to Grieg. I felt his body like an empty shell, his soul moving towards other subtle worlds. I also wanted to make this transition, but I felt my physical structure contracting, condensing very strongly, I felt absorbed into myself, plunging into a “void” that was nevertheless full of energy and which I then associated with a black hole.

At the end of the meditation, I was intrigued, not understanding what had happened. I had in fact experienced a state that was different from anything I had experienced before (states of expanded consciousness, of merging with the Absolute).

During a conference, I sent Grieg a note telling him about this experience, and I quote his response below: “Yes, it is real, it is the group of yoga teachers and initiates into a very high form of spiritual integration. It is a resorption into the highest subtle worlds of Manifestation, an integration into the Supreme Absolute. It was a meditation of a certain type, which I hope you too will be initiated into at the end of this yoga course.

It was a meditation related to the essential, spiritual subtle force centre sahasrara padma, but in the sense of a complete passage from the physical world to the highest worlds, more precisely to the highest universe of the Supreme Absolute. This is why this state of resorption, or even contraction and translation, appeared, which for you was like a void, but which is in fact a full void, a blissful void, the supreme blissful void that makes everything possible, with which the being must identify in the end, when he reaches supreme realisation.

In any case, it is a beautiful story, all the more remarkable because it has been confirmed by those who participated in this meditation, some of whom are present in this conference room and who were thus able to realise, even indirectly, the objectivity of these supreme spiritual experiences. ”

I was at a point in my life where I had to make some crucial decisions. It was important that I made the right choices, so I decided to meditate with the bija mantra to activate the subtle force centre ajna chakra. As I didn’t have much time, I began to silently emit this mantra continuously in my consciousness. Three days passed in this way. I woke up feeling as if I had meditated all night.

On the morning of the fourth day, my secondary subtle force centres at the temples activated, then I perceived three horizontal energy channels on my forehead and another one penetrating perpendicularly through the subtle force centre ajna chakra, and at their ends I felt focal points. Then the fundamental subtle force centre sahasrara padma activated in a new way, as I had never felt before, encompassing the entire skull. At the same time, golden flashes burst from the subtle force centre ajna chakra. The next day, I experienced such an expansion of my field of consciousness that I felt as if the top of my head encompassed the entire Macrocosm. This state lasted for 10 days, during which I slept very little and prayed a lot to the great god Shiva and silently emitted the bija mantra in my consciousness to energise the subtle force centre ajna chakra. The subtle force centre anahata chakra, was like a source of love, and my prayer to the great god Shiva flowed from my consciousness in the form of verses whose rhymes came without my having to search for them. I was in a state of devotion toward the great god Shiva and at the same time toward all aspects of Creation. I was amazed by the wind, the trees, the sun, the sky, the people; everything had a new dimension, full of mystery. Nothing was mundane anymore. I was fascinated, for example, by a small leaf, by the colour and complexity of its veins, thinking about how it had grown so beautifully. The objects I passed by every day without paying attention now seemed to be part of me in a mysterious way, but not only them, the whole Macrocosm. I had a feeling of wisdom that helped me quickly defuse some old conflicts at work or with my girlfriend.

Later, I spoke to my Spiritual Guide, Gregorian Bivolaru, who confirmed that I had experienced a state of godly ecstasy, samadhi. All the experiences of that period are practically impossible to describe in words.

It was an autumn day in 1997. I was participating in a Yang Solar Spiral meditation to burn karma by focusing on the subtle centre of force ajna chakra. At that time, I was practising Karma Yoga intensely and was almost constantly in a state of deep inner peace.

During the spiral meditation, focused on the subtle centre of force ajna chakra, I felt myself plunging into the depths of my being, until suddenly I perceived a beam of blinding light in the middle of my forehead. The perception of my body disappeared. All I could perceive was this intense light that was everywhere. I experienced a state of bliss in which I no longer felt time. This sweet “intoxication” persisted long afterwards. Afterwards, everything I did plunged me into this state of euphoria, where time stood still and I savoured everything with a heart filled with happiness. I spontaneously entered into an intimate empathic communion with every being I looked at.

In the evening, after class, when I went out on the street, I felt as if I could “get my hands on” this world. At the same time, I felt outside of it, deeply merged with godly bliss.

My Spiritual Guide later confirmed that I had experienced a state of spiritual enlightenment. When God spreads His grace, the soul and consciousness rest in deep peace.

I was in my 6th year of yoga at the MISA school. One afternoon, I was doing the meditation of communion with the Great Macrocosmic Power of Compassion and Godly Grace, Tara, a meditation that was part of the daily programme in the esoteric yoga spiritual camp at Herculane.

At one point, I saw myself at an older age; I seemed to be about fifty years old, with long grey hair and a face full of a gentleness and charisma that are difficult to describe. I was wearing a long, thin blue dress, sprinkled with white flowers, which fell to my waist, and I was walking alongside someone. At one point, I smiled, and I felt as if the whole world had awakened in that smile. My face radiated a wisdom and kindness that I had never known before in this life. I was wise, feminine, charismatic; I was the ideal woman, even though I was elderly.

Grieg told me later, when I recounted this to him, that I had seen myself in the future, advising me to refer to this image as often as possible in order to more quickly become the wonderful creature that I will one day be.

While I was meditating on the theme of “life in the pure tattvas”, my mind (manas) “disappeared”. I was a centre that existed everywhere at once. I discovered myself existing everywhere, in an infinite ocean of light. I was filled with a blissful calm, free, happy and aware of my own splendour, for I discovered myself everywhere. I consciously loved myself, in everything and in everyone, I supported the Universe with the substance of my infinitely expanded being. In the middle of my forehead, a golden, shining eye had opened, looking at me with infinite love. When I returned to a state of limited consciousness, I felt physical pain, as if matter, the surrounding reality, was hurting me…

When I asked my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, what this experience meant, he replied that it was the awakening of the subtle centre of force ajna chakra, and communion with the maha ajna chakra.

I feel like I made love for the first time in my life. And this feeling is not at all false, because in fact, I made love for the first time in a godly way, experiencing what I had dreamed of experiencing for thirteen years.

From the beginning of our loving union with erotic continence, my lover and I experienced an intense state of self-giving, of “fusion” of personality in a mysterious and overwhelming feeling of godly love. We were both crying. The state of arousal had become so intense that it was difficult to control.

We were in a love-making position that energises the subtle centre of force anahata chakra. At one point, I had a powerful clitoral-vaginal orgasm. I had reached the very limit. One more movement and I would have lost control. We stopped at that point without even breathing. Suddenly, space, time, my consciousness, or all of these at once expanded, and we entered into “something else.” I no longer felt pleasure in an erogenous zone. I was pleasure itself, but so refined, diaphanous in this inner space I had entered, which was not separate from myself. I was therefore simultaneously the space. I felt dissolved in this orgasmic state, beyond my ephemeral personality, simply existing in a dimensionless moment, in a dimensionless space, or having all dimensions, extending to infinity. This state lasted a few minutes, without diminishing in intensity. I continued, but without daring to approach this “point”. I was aware that it was necessary to be very attentive in order to maintain control over the procreative potential and avoid discharge at all costs. This would have led to a decrease in energy level and level of consciousness.

The next day, I had an almost continuous orgasmic state. A sweet flavour constantly sprang from the erotic zone and spread throughout my body, filling me with heavenly happiness. I felt the Great God Shiva so close… I felt my lover so close…

When I told my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, about this experience, he explained that this state was a sui generis penetration into a heavenly realm.

I will try to describe as accurately as possible the sensations I have experienced over the last eleven months. I apologise if my words are not sufficient to convey all aspects of these sensations.

I will start with the most recent one, which I experienced on the night of 9 to 10 March 2012. Before falling asleep, I did a few chest breaths lying on the floor. At the same time, I connected on a subtle level with my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, whom I felt in my heart. At one point, I found myself between sleep and wakefulness.

I felt and saw a child, a little boy. Even though I perceived him in the Astral Universe, he was very real and I felt him close to me. He wanted to convey something to me, but at first I did not understand what. Finally, I understood that he wanted me to give him a lot of love. I sought to give him this love that came from God through me. All the while, I kept my hands at the level of his subtle centre of force anahata chakra. The surprise came when I felt that my hand resting on his chest was actually his little hand. Even though it was my hand, the texture of the skin and the size were those of a child.

When this sensation faded, I sought to feel and experience this state of godly ecstasy and fell asleep.

During the night, I saw and felt a very intense white light ‘turn on’ in the area of his subtle centre of force anahata chakra, and spread out infinitely. I was in both planes simultaneously, being aware of each of them. I was in a state of bliss and happiness. I no longer identified with my body. I had no thoughts. When this light spread out infinitely, I knew that I was truly Me. I was that light. I had already had this experience about seven months earlier.

It was the last day I spent in the esoteric spiritual yoga camp in Costinești, in 2001. The night before, there had been a double Yang Solar Spiral, followed by the Induction of the State of Spiritual Liberation through Godly Miracle. In the morning, I ate, then lay down in the tent next to my lover, with no particular purpose. I even joked, “We’ve eaten, now we’re resting.” From the neighbouring tent, we could hear music (I later learned that it was music used as background for the meditation to evoke the King of the World in Shambala).

Suddenly, I felt a pleasant warmth in my soul, I felt “at home” and I didn’t have to do anything for it. I was experiencing the happiness of simply existing, there was nothing more to seek, nothing more to find, no more agitation or lack, everything was “here and now”. There was no more fear or despair. It was something spontaneous and so natural! I felt that this was my normal state and that it should always be this way. It was a secret, silent, intense but calm joy in my soul. I could think, walk, talk to others, and this state was not altered by anything. I felt that whatever I did, this state was always present and that the only thing I had to do was pay attention to it so that it would not leave my field of consciousness. It was not a matter of concentrating on anything in particular, I simply existed.

When I told Grieg what I had felt, he told me it was a state of ecstasy. I experience it from time to time; it usually appears spontaneously, and sometimes after a meditation.

I felt a very strong affinity with the Great Macrocosmic Power of the space, Bhuvaneshwari, as soon as I heard its name for the first time. During the theoretical classes on this Great Macrocosmic Power, I always had the feeling that I understood what was being presented beyond words; better still, I had the impression that I had already experienced all these realities. One night, I had a dream in which my Spiritual Guide Grieg initiated me into his secret mantra.

As he uttered the mantra, I felt myself being projected by its corresponding energy into a plane where I intuitively perceived the essence and meaning of each “letter of the mantra.” Beyond this understanding, I felt an expansion of energies at the level of the subtle essential centre of force sahasrara, and I experienced a state of ecstasy. At the same time, I perceived that Grieg was a channel for the manifestation of the gigantic sphere of power and consciousness of this Great Macrocosmic Power.

Finally, everything dissolved into a bright white light.

My first encounter with my Spiritual Guide was paranormal, given that I did not know him, had never seen him and, of course, was not practising yoga at the time. I had a sister who was already attending his classes and she kept telling me about what I could become if I did yoga. I contradicted her, of course, telling her that she didn’t know, that she was a woman, that she didn’t really know how certain phenomena occurred in men, but she always replied that she knew very well that if I took yoga classes, I could… and she gave me the example of her spiritual guide, saying: “He is an exceptional being and know that he could help you.” She felt and believed very strongly in all this, which made me think.

Some time after this discussion, I found myself in a situation where I had to go to another city to bring her a very heavy package, but something happened at the station and we didn’t meet. Still, I was very confident. It doesn’t matter, I told myself, I have her phone number, I’ll call her and we’ll arrange to meet. As luck would have it, in that city I couldn’t find a single working phone booth for two hours; they had all been vandalised. And carrying that heavy bag on my back, I lost a little of… how can I put it… my courage, my conviction that everything could be sorted out very easily. I was already very tired, it was late at night, almost midnight, and, exhausted, I sat down on the pavement, not knowing what to do. I was at a dead end… And I remembered that my sister had told me before: “Know that Grieg can help you, you just have to ask him, even from a distance.” And I said to myself, sitting there on the pavement: ‘Grieg, I don’t know you, but I’ve heard that you can help people and that you can help me too. Please help me! ’ And then, within seconds – he probably acted – a door opened behind me and a gentleman said, “Can I help you?” He let me in, gave me his phone, I called, and he explained how to get there. I felt immense happiness in my heart and something seemed very familiar, something I had never experienced before…

I was 17 years old and practising yoga in a small provincial town. The first time I met Grieg was at the end of my first year of yoga classes in Costineşti, after a lecture. I was about 50 metres away from him and he looked at me for a long time. I felt that he was calling me, but I didn’t dare approach him. Everything about him seemed too impressive, almost unbearable for me, and I didn’t understand how people could talk to him. Today, I would describe it as mysterium tremendum. In other words, I was very afraid of him.

The first time I spoke to Grieg was during my second year of yoga classes, during the spiritual camp in Herculane, and I was going through the greatest suffering of my life because of a man. I had heard from my yoga teacher that the Spiritual Guide could be contacted in a subtle way and that we could ask him for help. So, one night, I begged him with all my heart. Immediately afterwards, I felt my suffering disappear and I calmed down as if by magic. What’s more, the next morning I met Grieg while walking down the street. There were only two people talking to him. I approached, overcoming my shyness and fear. Next to him, I felt as if I had come home. When he saw me, he asked me kindly and lovingly, showing me that he knew exactly what was going on: “How are you feeling?” I replied with an implied “Better,” as if it were the most natural conversation between two people.

Other encounters followed, each one more wonderful than the previous one… Summarising all these encounters between Grieg and me over the years, I would say that they constitute a story of the transformation of fear into love. I remember when I arrived at the MISA yoga class, I realised that I didn’t know how to love and I asked God to teach me, because I felt it was important for me to learn to love in this life. And He sent me my spiritual guide Grieg…

In 1992, I was in my second year of yoga and decided to go to Bucharest to see my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, in person. I met him in a conference room, introduced myself and told him who I was, and he invited me to participate in the practical class the next day. I arrived in the room feeling a little sheepish because, after a year of practice, my mobility still left something to be desired. I couldn’t even touch the floor with my hands, as was necessary, for example, in the yoga posture padahastasana.

We started by warming up and doing the asanas. Of course, the first yoga posture was the one I feared the most: padahastasana. I did it to the best of my ability and tried to concentrate as much as possible. Grieg walked among the students and corrected their yoga postures. At one point, I felt his presence behind me and his fingers sliding along my spine, from the base to the head. Suddenly, I felt a white light envelop me and my spine seemed to be on fire. Inexplicably, my hands reached the floor and I grabbed my toes. I remained like this for 20 minutes, during which time I experienced a state of bliss and love like I had never known before.

This encounter with my Spiritual Guide radically transformed my life and my inner attitude.

My first encounter with Grieg took place at a yoga camp in Herculane, when I was in my second year of yoga.

One day, a few friends and I were getting ready to go to the thermal baths. In the hallway of the hotel where we were staying, we met an acquaintance who asked us where we were going. Very spontaneously and without thinking too much about it, I replied, “We’re going to the Seven Springs thermal baths first, then we’ll stop at the Roman Hotel (where Grieg was staying) to do our midday meditation before moving on to the next activity.”

I must admit that I hadn’t even thought of this option before or after, and I even forgot my answer until we returned from the thermal baths. For this is how God worked: when the time for midday meditation approached, we suddenly woke up and found ourselves right in front of the Roman Hotel. So, we decided to do our meditation at the floor where Grieg lived.

We went upstairs, and when I set foot in the corridor, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of intense well-being and had a premonition, I was even convinced that I was going to meet him. There were many people in the corridor waiting to speak to him. We sat at the end of the corridor, as there was no room elsewhere, and at the other end was the room where he received his visitors. At the end of the meditation, I clearly felt his presence. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that Grieg had just opened the door to his room. I immediately said, “Let’s go and greet him!” No sooner said than done. I got up immediately and, without hesitation, set off. I was so determined that I quickly passed everyone present, including the people in charge with keeping the order, without any difficulty. There were seven people in our group. Two of them followed me immediately, while the other four hesitated a little and were unable to get past the guards. Suddenly, I found myself face to face with Grieg. Quite naturally, I told him that I had come to give him a hug, and he welcomed me into his arms.

And in that embrace, I felt that everything was somehow accomplished. I suddenly remembered: as soon as I arrived at the camp, I had felt the desire to meet my Spiritual Guide Grieg and to embrace him.

I also remembered the spontaneous answer I had given that morning, a few hours earlier. I realised that everything was somehow planned in God’s plan and that I had only acted in accordance with it. And everything fell into place. At that moment, it became very clear to me: this was how it was meant to be!

The story of my first encounter with my Spiritual Guide, Grieg, began a long time ago, in the 1990s. At that time, the beginnings of yogic spirituality in Romania were just emerging after the darkness of communist persecution, and that is why the concept of a “Spiritual Guide” was completely foreign to us.

At the time, Grieg was known to everyone as “the teacher”, an exceptional being who knew a great deal and taught us new and unprecedented things. I know that for many of my colleagues on the course, their first encounter with him was spectacular… with intuitions, premonitory dreams or special experiences, and I rejoice for all those who have had such experiences.

In my case, the relationship with the Spiritual Guide began normally, in the most natural way possible, and then deepened over time, thanks to the respect, admiration and esteem I developed for all the spiritual teachings he gave me over the years. I could say a lot, but I will recount here an experience I had during a meditation.

I was at the seaside, in a spiritual camp. The theme of the meditation that day was ‘The Greatness of God’. During the meditation, I turned to Grieg with the intention of being helped to feel this state of God’s greatness. But I didn’t even have time to finish this subtle request, and the moment I turned to him, I perceived a total change of coordinates within myself. I felt him envelop me in his consciousness, then propel me with tremendous speed and force into the infinite Consciousness of God the Father. I then experienced with my whole being this state of God’s greatness. I then realised directly that everything I had believed until then about myself as an individual – my body, my home, my planet – was so small in the face of God’s greatness that it seemed insignificant. I realised that everything I believed God to be, all the so-called spiritual knowledge I had accumulated up to that point, was but a grain of sand compared to the greatness of the Lord God! And that the only way to truly know Him is through infinite Love and complete surrender to His Will!

At one point, as I was coming back from this meditation, I heard in my soul the voice of God who, with infinite gentleness and love, said to me: “Your Spiritual Guide, Grieg, is a perfect godly channel!”

I performed a tapas that involved practising asanas for five hours a day for a period of nine months. The aim of this was to sublimate the energy of the lower subtle centres of force and included, among other things, 30 minutes of shirshasana (headstand). As a result of performing the tapas, an awakening and ascension of the essential and colossal energy of the human being, Kundalini Shakti, to the level of the subtle force centre manipura chakra occurred within me. Continuing this tapas at the suggestion of my spiritual guide, the energy rose to the level of the subtle centre of force anahata chakra, where I experienced a state of ecstatic happiness and total, unconditional love for everything around me. Words can hardly describe this experience. It was as if the entire Universe, the entire planet, everything, was breathing Godly Love, perfect and total.

At one point, I was dissatisfied with the way my life had been going and felt the need to make a radical change. I realised that I had strayed further from God than I would have liked, and that this was due to my lack of seriousness in practising yoga. I longed for my whole life to have an upward direction, for there to be no discontinuity between spiritual practice itself and other activities. I thought that the only way to achieve this was to raise my overall level of consciousness. So, I began practising asanas and meditation for eight hours a day and went to see Grieg to ask his advice on what was troubling me. His response was: “Continue to live like the sages who follow the spiritual path. Try to talk to many colleagues from the yoga class who have undergone profound transformations and learn from their experience.”

I hadn’t told him about the tapas I had imposed on myself, but shortly after this meeting with my spiritual guide, I had an experience that I later understood to be due to his subtle support. As I was performing the asana, seeking to achieve maximum concentration and spiritual aspiration, I felt at one point that there was within me and in everything around me a kind of breath returning to a sole home, back to God. I realised that this universal process of resorption is inevitable and that, sooner or later, everything that exists will return to God.

I observed how my aspiration and efforts were inspired by this breath of reabsorption, and I intuitively understood that if I were able to surrender myself completely to Him, I would naturally return to God without any effort.

Many beings face physical suffering. I had no physical suffering; I did not suffer from any physical illness. My illness was spiritual. I had a big problem in my relationships with men. I suffered a lot, too much, and I couldn’t be happy. It was a suffering that I experienced intensely.

I told Grieg about all my suffering and asked him what I should do. Because I wanted to be with God and I knew that I couldn’t achieve this if I couldn’t harmonise my relationships with men. His answer was very simple: “Do yoga and then many miracles will easily become possible for you. And you will become godly light and full of love in the heart of God.” And that is what I did. I did what he told me. And at the end of the tapas that Grieg had given me, I experienced a state in which I felt that the being I loved at that time had become alive in my heart, had become a universe. I was a universe, this man was a universe, and godly love connected these two universes. It was a very vivid, true and real experience for me, and everything was there, palpable, in my heart, which was then in union with the heart of God. That was the first miracle. Because then, a life full of miracles began for me. And every time I fell in love, that being entered my heart and stayed there… And from that moment on, I learned that two beings who love each other can never be separated. For if I loved, that being entered my heart and never left. And since then, I have never suffered because of a relationship. And the help Grieg gave me was immense. Because in addition to his advice, his tapas, his support, I realised something else. I realised that this love that united the two worlds was him, it was Grieg.

I had often heard Grieg emphasise the importance of a woman’s state of total self-giving in the fusion of love. So, I began to beg God with all my heart to teach me this state of self-giving. Repeatedly, I asked Him to help me give myself totally to my beloved and to Him, the Supreme Lover, the great god Shiva.

I felt that the state of love, spiritual openness, deep and fulfilling adoration for my beloved, accompanied by an intense surge of tenderness and a thirst to be with him, was growing. I perceived more and more often and more and more deeply the great god Shiva manifesting himself through my beloved. I had moments when I penetrated deeply into his soul, but there was still something preventing me from surrendering completely, as I wished.

What followed was an experience that was, for me, an exceptional example of the state of total surrender. With my beloved, we achieved the consecration of loving union. In response, I felt an immense wave of love pour over us and, simultaneously, at the level of the heart, I had the impression that a door was opening and that beyond it was a vast space of light, love and candour. I was absorbed into this space. I no longer felt the limits of my body; I was beyond the mind.

The loving fusion amplified this state more and more. At one point, I felt a very powerful energy rising from the base of the spine to the heart, where there was an explosion of light, joy, ecstatic happiness, love, in an ecstatic void, into which I penetrated deeply. This void then projected me into the void at the top of my head (the subtle, essential, spiritual centre of force sahasrara padma). I felt an extremely pleasant warmth from the sacral area to the heart, and simultaneously I perceived the void in the heart, that of the sahasrara and the median void, which connected the first two. I felt as if I were making love to the entire Macrocosm, I was enveloped, embraced by love, I had become one with Love. It was the first time that it was not I who loved, but that I was Love itself, giving myself to the entire Universe. It was a state of total fulfilment, indescribable, and at the same time a state of ineffable and sacred mystery.

It was then that I understood what Shakti’s gift to her beloved Shiva really means, how much joy and fulfilment it brings not only to the beloved, but also to the woman who becomes fully aware of it.

I thank God for these wonderful states, and our Spiritual Guide Grieg who guides and watches over us on the path to deification!

A few years ago, I was working in the garden of our spiritual centre, pulling weeds from the vegetable beds (carrots, parsley, etc.). My grandmother had taught me that to get rid of a weed, you had to pull it out by the roots and leave it to dry in the sun. And that’s exactly what we did.

I tried hard to pull out every blade of weed, root and all. But somehow, my colleagues were making much faster progress than me. Sometimes a girl would finish a row while I was just starting mine. I started to blame myself. Was I doing it right? How could I do better? Quickly, but superficially? Or as my grandmother had taught me, even if it took much longer?

For several days, I tossed and turned in bed, unable to decide whether to abandon my method, but unsatisfied with it either. One day, after a few hours of work in the garden, I went to bed and was overcome by a sweet and pleasant sleep. I dreamt of Grieg. He was performing an unusual operation on me: he ran his hand over the top of my head and grabbed tufts of white hair between his fingers, pulling them out. These hairs were like roots deeply embedded in my body. When he pulled on a tuft, I felt it detach deeply and the place from which it had been pulled felt liberated, relaxed and decongested. I felt very strongly how the areas freed by these ‘roots’ became energised, how the energy channels opened up.

At that time, I had pain in one leg due to rheumatism. It was mainly in that leg that I felt Grieg pulling out the roots that had invaded, like weeds, the energy network of my body.

Once he had finished, he withdrew silently. When I came to my senses, I wanted to hug him, to thank him, but… I just had time to see him leave. I recognised that modesty that belongs only to him.

When I woke up, I felt the top of my head very energised, as was my entire physical structure. A sense of joy accompanied me for several days after this dream. I easily deduced the masterful answer from my spiritual guide to the question that had been tormenting me: is it right to pay so much attention to the weeds in a simple vegetable patch? “Yes, since you felt good after the ‘weeds’ were pulled out of your body.”

In July 1990, I was at a yoga lecture in Bacău, just as I was beginning to familiarise myself with the introductory concepts of yoga practice. After presenting some theoretical aspects, Grieg exemplified the opening and activation of the subtle centre of force anahata chakra through meditation.

During this spiritual demonstration, accompanied by music that I loved and which filled my whole being with a joy and happiness I had never felt before, I felt a kind of “burning” in the centre of my chest, both outside and inside my body. So, I opened my eyes, then calmed down and closed them again, continuing the experience. Although I had interrupted the meditation, the sensation of heat (this subtle fire) did not disappear and, at one point, spontaneously, I turned my thoughts to God. I began to cry with happiness. I felt an increasing expansion in my chest, and my feelings and thoughts turned towards God became more and more intense. As I experienced these states which were new to me, I opened my eyes and looked at Grieg, feeling that everything I was experiencing at that moment was coming through him.

When the meditation ended, I returned to my usual state of consciousness, but something in me had changed. On my way home, I felt very light, very happy, and as if I had been “born again”.

I thanked Grieg in my mind for this spiritual gift. Since that experience, I have felt that he is my spiritual guide.

During a meditation of subtle communion with the sphere of force of the great god Shiva, at the end of my fourth year of yoga, I felt that I had reached a turning point in my spiritual journey. In the middle of the meditation, I was overcome by a powerful aspiration that did not seem to come from me. I felt myself being sucked into a current that lifted me up at breakneck speed and with irresistible force. I was rising, and tears of happiness were streaming down my cheeks. Until then, I believed that my love for God was very great, but at that moment, I felt that I could love Him infinitely more. An orchard with unfamiliar fruit trees, flowers and herbs I had never seen before appeared before me, with scents and colours that enchanted my soul. I saw a man with long black hair coming towards me. I felt a penetrating purity, a calmness and an endless love emanating from him. He embraced me and walked beside me; we communicated without words and the state that overwhelmed me was very familiar, but certainly never experienced in this life. We took a few steps and I found myself facing Grieg. I stopped, but he motioned for me to continue. I moved forward and arrived at a place where there was nothing. What I perceived was beyond names and forms, without attributes.

For seven days, I experienced a state of continuous bliss. Whatever I did, I was constantly experiencing this state of unity. I felt like an atom in my own body, but at the same time I realised the immensity of my consciousness.

I experienced the same state during the meditation of communion with the Occult Moment of the Solar Hiatus in 2001.

During one of the spiritual yoga holiday camps in Costinești, our spiritual guide led a meditation to illustrate a model state of orgasm at the subtle centre of force anahata chakra, which caused a particularly great emotional opening within me. Immediately after the beginning of the demonstration, I felt a dynamisation of the infinite, colossal, fundamental Kundalini Shakti energy, which began to rise from centre to centre, up to the subtle centre of force, the anahata chakra.

Throughout the ascent, my body trembled with energy. When the colossal essential energy Kundalini Shakti reached the subtle centre of force anahata chakra, I was overcome by a state of calm, both physically (my body remained completely still) and mentally (all my thoughts stopped). I felt that the centre of my being was in my heart. I entered a state of deep meditation, feeling myself expanding more and more. I no longer perceived my body; I had no limits. I was overcome by a state of joy without object, and tears streamed down my cheeks as my spiritual experience grew more and more intense. After this experience, the state of joy and expansion persisted for several days.

A week later, I resumed this meditation and relived exactly everything that had been sublime at that moment. Since then, every time I centre myself in my heart, there is a dynamisation of the subtle centre of force, the anahata chakra, simultaneously with an expansion at the subtle level. The state of joy without object reappears and, most of the time, I am overwhelmed by this ineffable experience. I immerse myself totally in this joy, realising that nothing is more important than desiring with all our heart to arrive at Home.

During a meeting with my spiritual guide, Grieg, he exemplified the androgynous state to me. He took my hands in his, plunging me into a state that I could hardly describe at the time, being only in my second year. I had the sensation of floating in another universe, while feeling an inner strength and energy in all my subtle centres of force. It was a natural state, in which my being experienced fulfilment on all levels. The years passed, and on several occasions, I came close to what I had experienced then, which for me represents the beginning of my spiritual life. This desire for total fulfilment in the depths of my being… I have felt it continuously ever since.

During the Yin-Yang Spiral meditation in the summer of 2003, I relived the androgynous state. For me, this was the total confirmation of the spiritual apogee that human beings can reach through the predominant activation of the subtle spiritual essential centre of force, sahasrara padma and the subtle centre of force anahata chakra, and I then felt the happiness and bliss inherent in this sublime state.

Living at that moment at the supramental level, I experienced the blissful flavour of the sahasrara level, where duality disappears, that indescribable joy of realising the deep inner aspiration to merge with everything and be everything. My being was imbued with an overwhelming state, my mind had become completely silent, the thoughts that initially appeared like clouds in the “sky” of the mind then disappeared, deeply absorbed into the subtle, spiritual essential centre of force sahasrara padma. I experienced a state of effervescence throughout my entire being, all my subtle centres of force were activated simultaneously, I perceived God’s grace pouring down on me in the form of bliss.

Participating in the MISA yoga course opened the way for me to many sublime spiritual experiences, but the most exhilarating were, I think, the moments when I met our spiritual Guide, Grieg.

I met him personally three years ago at the Spiritual Yoga Camp in Costinești, where, through a series of circumstances, he invited me to attend the midday meditations, which took place every day in a room in the villa where he was living at the time, along with about thirty other people who could fit in that room.

Each illustrated state was sublime, and after a few days, I simply entered a state of bliss that revolutionised my existence. It was a state of undefined longing for God, in which I felt that a veil had been lifted from my eyes and where I realised for the first time that nothing was more important to me than to immerse myself in this state of communion with God, to seek Him in everything I did and in every moment of my existence.

May all those who embark on this path enjoy the wonders of God’s love!

During the 16th year of my yoga course, we performed an exemplification of the state of synthesis, at the supramental level, of all the loving fusions achieved up to that point with consecration, transfiguration and love.

After consecrating the fruits and completing the stages of projection at the supramental level, I turned to my spiritual Guide and asked him to show me how to achieve this synthesis, as I had never done it before and did not really know how to go about it.

Immediately, I felt subtle upward contractions, which I interpreted as orgasmic states in the subtle centres of force, the chakras. It was like very pleasant flashes throughout my entire being, as if I were making love to myself, merging with my inner man.

This fusion made me feel a sense of fulfilment, then I felt a state of unity between the inside and the outside, the top and the bottom; I felt my consciousness as a sphere and I had the impression of being simultaneously at every point of it.

This state lasted throughout the meditation and even long afterwards (I was aware of it when I closed my eyes). In the end, I realised that this type of meditation greatly helps to awaken and live the androgynous state within us.

I was in my fourth year of yoga when Grieg demonstrated a transition into an astral world.

At the beginning of the meditation, I referred to Grieg and perceived him as a very bright sphere of golden light that first “floated” in the classroom, then rose and disappeared. I felt a very intense white light at the level of my spine, which had an upward movement and came out through the top of my head.

At the same time, I felt tingling along my spine and a sensation of warmth. I felt the area around my head very energised and dilated. At that moment, I wanted to leave my body and I perceived a blue fluid coming out of my body. Simultaneously, a red symbol (which seemed to be fire) appeared before my eyes. I then felt that I was in another world. I was in a field and could see hills on the horizon. Everything was very calm and peaceful, and time seemed to have stopped. I felt a lot of light and peace in this world.

During this time, however, I was aware of the physical plane where my body was (in the classroom). At one point, I felt a purple fluid suddenly come out of my body, but it only reached a distance of 1 to 1.5 metres above my head, then suddenly returned. At that moment, my body felt like it had been hit by a shock and I staggered, almost falling over.

Finally, I saw Grieg’s sphere of light return, and shortly afterwards, he told us to come back. I felt my blue fluid re-enter my body through the top of my head, and I came back.

— C. B., 4th year of yoga, Bucharest

I was a staunch atheist, which is what we were taught at school at the time. Dialectical materialism seemed impossible to contradict. We “demonstrated” scientifically to our parents that nothing existed beyond what we could see, and that they should therefore leave me alone with their useless prayers.

I enrolled in a MISA yoga class, which fascinated me with its very precise and exact – scientific – approach to the structures of the human being, which went beyond the tangible. I could feel the energies that were set in motion in the different body postures, and it was something tangible for me. And on Easter Sunday, which at the time had no particular meaning for me other than preparing the festive meal, I did, as I did every year, the meditation of communion with Jesus. At the time, I thought that Jesus was also just a man who had caused, without my understanding why, so much fuss, because the miracles he had performed could not be scientifically proven. But since I had nothing to lose and was very curious, I sought to carry out this meditation supported by the one I had only vaguely heard about. It has now been 20 years, but I can still recall that indescribable Light, full of a overwhelming love that I had never known before.

I came back from this meditation with all my materialistic beliefs dismantled. I still remember the astonished faces of my parents, to whom I had declared shortly before that religiosity made no sense, when I enthusiastically told them after this meditation that Jesus was a Being of Light full of love and that I believed in Him and that they should believe in Him too. I believe that with the help of God’s grace and my spiritual Guide, who guided me step by step, I finally discovered the wonders of Creation and the Creator far beyond space and time and the four dimensions perceived by the senses.

Lately, I have been intensely aware of the transience of everything around me, even my body and my thoughts. Only God, in the form of eternal love, fills me with happiness. I no longer feel any desire within me except to live always in God, with God.

I feel my spiritual Guide as the most subtle ether, which sustains and fills all Manifestation, eternal Love itself, which is one with the great god Vishnu. In my meditations on the lingam of the great god Shiva, I feel him as one with Shiva. Then I experienced that Vishnu and Shiva are essentially one.

A few days later, I dreamt that I was making love, but I could not see anyone. Yet I was in ecstasy. I split myself in two in the Astral World and saw myself making love to the “void”. The next day, the state of erotic excitement and sublime ecstasy descended into my body, and a transparent liquid began to flow from my right breast, materialising from the subtle centre of force vishuddha chakra, while from my left breast flowed a “milk” that intensified my amorous fervour.

I feel that my loving relationship with God has helped me enormously to mature spiritually, but I am still not mature enough. I wish to live His Reality at every moment, with effervescence and maturity, and to manifest His Will permanently.

This happened five years ago and concerns my attitude towards my little sister, who is six years younger than me. Until then, I had not had a deep relationship with her: I often envied her because she was cuter and more attractive than me.

One night, I had a dream. We were in the mountains, in a chalet where our spiritual guide Grieg was also staying. In the evening, when everyone had retired, I went to say “good night” to Grieg, but I was shy and remained standing in the doorway. He motioned for me to come closer and said gently but firmly, “Love your sister!” His words burned into my heart like fire. I was very impressed by this dream and told my mother about it the next day, as she knew about the tension between my sister and me. I didn’t dare tell her about it.

There is no doubt that Grieg induced the necessary state of mind in my dream, because quite quickly, my attitude towards my little sister changed radically. This dream freed me from the little hell I was living in every day. And today, I look back with gratitude on this telepathic communion with Grieg, who helped me to open up first to my sister, then to more and more people, and to appreciate their qualities.