Ken O'Donnell in Colombia and Memories

Dear Family of Light,

Been a busy bee here the last few days and sorry if haven't responded but got my Spiritual Brother Ken O'Donnell coming in town to launch 2 books, Wise Leader & Peace Begins with Me.

Little background on Ken...back in 1986 when my life was a mess, yes confused soul them... I came back to Colombia to get my life together...just had a NDE in car crash...90 mph into a traffic circle...quick way for God to slap you in the face and say Wake UP!!


Well I am still hear to talk about it and will be the subject of a future blog-maybe movie...wait I wrote one in the past..but u have to search my blogspot. Life is a written book.

Anyway I am in Colombia -27 yrs old and trying to figure life out. Decide to study film and communications, but deep inside I was looking for God, as I had just seen Him-Her, the Point, Shiva... when I left my body went through a tunnel and saw this Wonderful, Loving Light in a world beyond time. Believe me I didn't want to come back!

But as the old story goes...if you haven't finished your mission on earth, will you are not dead yet.

So I find myself going to a lecture of Dadi Janki, no not the rapper, a real Living Angel. This small little Hindi lady that looks a little like an ET. If you look into her eyes she can take you beyond this world of suffering and into the heart of God. Believe me it has happened to me.

I am sitting in the National University in Bogotá-Aug 5, 1986--my brothers Pablo's birthday... Dadi is talking in Hindi, Ken is translating and I am still confused. The were talking about God, Peace and had wonderful music as an opening.

Most of the stuff I know as I was a philosopher then and pretty arrogant. So I listened and when Dadi finished Ken said we are going to do an open eyed meditation. If you look into Dadi's forehead you will have an experience of peace. Oh sure you got to be kidding!

So I got up and walked right to the front. I was about 30 ft away. Dadi went into a deep meditation, Eyes beaming like a UFO -almost a trance. Live music by Giselle Chaparo who was the main Raja Yoga teacher, angelic voice...A commentary by Ken and me wondering what the heck is going on. I start to see this bright light around Dadi's head. As cynical as I was then, I started thinking how are these guys doing this trick. My mind was running and then I heard a voice....Just experience it and stop thinking.

Good idea. So I just observe..then I feel myself leaving my body going to this Light again. By then Dadi has disappeared and all I see is this subtle ball of light and my mind at peace. But then fear kicks in and I start thinking again. Soon time stops and I see myself in the Soul World. A trip there is worth a thousand words.

It was like going in and out of dimensions. The great thing was that my mind finally stopped thinking. Mind can be a good amigo and bad friend -the soul decides.

The music stops and I find myself back in my body. Now more confused than before. I go backstage to find Ken as here is a gringo Colombian back home and I want answers!!

I ask him in English, "Hey I had a strange exp and need to figure this out before I go crazy again...yes been there -done that. Lesson learned.
He says, “Why don’t you come to the meditation center at 7 am and find out more.

7 Am? I go to sleep at 4am! I need my beauty sleep. But curiosity killed the cat.

I wake up...barely...go to downtown Bogotá and enter the Raja Yoga center. I smell incense and feel a peaceful vib. Dadi is sitting giving a chit chat. I take some photos, listen and wonder who are these folks dress in white?

The class ends and time for me to go. Everyone is running around preparing to go to a 3 day retreat into the mts. I talk to Ken and feel as if I had known him for lifetimes. He is about 6'2, big teddy bear and even plays guitar and sings.

I tell him I want to say good-bye to Dadi Janki and he says sure. I walk up and she gives me a toli, like a sweet candy...still looking at me with those ET eyes.

I say thank you, this has been very nice, but I got to go, I'm a busy man.
She looks at me and smiles. "Why don't you come to the retreat with us?"

What? No way Jose! My mind started running again. Ken was even surprised as I hadn't taken the course, but Dadi is Dadi. I start to think of a great excuse. Then I ask Ken.
"What is going to happen in this retreat?" He says, "Take it as a Spiritual Retreat"

Hey that is a great idea; I need a Spiritual Retreat, like going away to Jupiter on a super sonic soul train.

So I run to my house come back and start to look at the posters. I am looking at the Tree of Humanity. I see the Golden Age, Silver Age, Cooper Age and Iron. Then I see Christ on the branch in the Cooper Age and have a major Deja Vu.

I had seen this same poster, same house -same vibration in a dream when I was a little kid in Miami. I go to the cycle, and there is Christ again. My uncle is a Franciscan Priest and always had a deep love for God, but didn't feel the Christians had the monopoly on salvation.

If I died today, Tio Lefa would say I was going to Hell, since I believed in reincarnation.

I keep thinking dear uncle this is Hell!

Anyway to make a long story short. I go to the retreat, get a Rahki tied, which has something to do with Purity and promise to God, I get a tilak on my forehead, I start waking up at 4 am....not easy at first, I get the course in 2 days, I read my first murli and tears of joy fall down my soul. I end up going home and as I get off the bus...everything is in slow motion, all the colors are brighter and as I get to my house I see my cousin Luis Florez and his girlfriend. They say Hi and I am in a trance.

I tell them I can’t talk now and wave good bye...I hear.."He must high again on that maryjane. Yes I was HIGH, a natural high and still there now.

I ended up doing a big media campaign for the Un Million Minutes of Peace by the Brahma Kumaris was on the radio, TV, newspapers and all my family is saying, "What the Hell happened to Luis??? I change in a 180 degrees, stopped smoking, drinking, women, sex parties and all the stuff that was driving me crazy. Should I be a priest or a playboy? Oh the decisions we have to make!

Get invited to NY for the grand finale with Dadi Janki and Dadi Prakshmani and some 200 yogis in Sept. Then to make sure what I was getting myself into, I find my self in MT Abu India in Dec 1986.

My search has ended and now its 2 am. Yicks, got to get up in 2 hrs.

So the rest is history in a blog for future reference or maybe a book-movie tour.
We are in the Greatest Movie Now, Your own Book!

Enjoy and be blessed.

Lucho -Prakash



Below Press Release in Spanish..will translate in timelessness.




Boletín de prensa

En Colombia el gurú empresarial Ken O´Donnell y su nuevo libro.

Ante lo que parece ser una inminente crisis mundial derivada del estancamiento y el derrumbe de la economía norteamericana, múltiples investigadores han iniciado un proceso de búsqueda de nuevos modelos empresariales. A su vez, varias revistas estadounidenses del mundo de los negocios, como Fortune o Business Week, ya han publicado informaciones sobre lo que se perfila como un cambio profundo en la mentalidad empresarial.

Y precisamente, uno de los representantes de estas teorías Ken O´Donnell, consultor internacional de desarrollo organizacional y autor del nuevo libro Liderazgo: lecciones para tiempos turbulentos publicado por Panamericana Editorial, estará en Colombia para hablar acerca de la actitud y comportamiento que debe tener el líder en tiempos de crisis.

Kenneth Graeme O´Donnell, conocido como Ken O´Donnell, nació en Sidney, Australia, en 1952, y desde 1979 reside en Brasil; desarrolló la teoría del cambio basado en la espiritualidad según la cual “…Ante circunstancias adversas y con gente difícil se puede sacar lo mejor de otros…” Ha escrito más de diez libros sobre desarrollo personal y organizacional, traducidos a más de seis idiomas. Es el creador del programa autogestión y calidad de vida adoptado en 29 países.

Liderazgo: lecciones para tiempos turbulentos un libro que llega a las librerías nacionales precedido de la trayectoria de Ken O´Donnell.


Ken O´Donnell en Colombia
12, 13 y 14 de noviembre.


CONTACTO:
JAIDYTH PERDOMO A- Divulgación y Prensa.
Cel: 311 2282473 – 315 3699217. Tel: 3603077 ext: 258
medios@panamericana.com.co. www.panamericanaeditorial.com

Luis Mejia- Tribal Ink News
Cel 314 477 1841 -312 5700
lcondorkogi@gmail.com

Brahma Kumaris Colombia
533-1340 623-2537
Bogota@co.bkwsu.org
www.bkcolombia.com
www.myspace.com/colombiabrahmakumairs



Bio Data-
Web Site:
http://www.oxfordleadership.com/Aboutus/about_partners.asp

Formación: en Ciencias Aplicadas de la Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur - Sidney, Australia.
Idiomas: inglés, portugués, español y francés.

Escritor: autor de 10 libros sobre desarrollo personal y organizacional publicados en 6 idiomas, entre otros: El Alma en el Negocio, Raíces de la Transformación, La Última Frontera, Lecciones para una Vida Plena, La Paz Comienza Contigo, Endocalidad y En el Ojo del Huracán escrito junto con el Brian Bacon, el cual trata sobre como las organizaciones y las personas pueden supervivir en momentos de caos. De sus libros se han vendido más de 300.000 copias. Su nuevo libro, Liderazgo: lecciones para tiempos turbulentos muestra formas practicas para sobrevivir un huracan.

Desempeño laboral, ha trabajado como químico en la área de investigación, desarrollo y control de calidad en empresas como Max Factor y General Foods, y se ha desempeñado como facilitador de cursos de comunicación en empresas como Unilever, Alcoa y Citibank.

Consultoría, se ha desempeñado como consultor internacional en las áreas de Calidad y de Desarrollo Organizacional Holístico. Trabajó como consultor de UNESCO y del PNUD, facilitador en empresas como Dupont-Merck (EE.UU.), Aeropuerto Internacional JFK (Nueva York), Banco Central (Bolivia, Brasil), Xerox (Brasil) Mercedes-Benz, Fiat, Citibank, Red Globo, Petrobrás, Infraero, Banco do Brasil, Belgo Mineira de Minas Gerais, y de Ministerios de Educación y Salud de algunos países de América Latina.

Conferencista, ha dado mas de dos mil conferencias y cursos en Europa, EE.UU., Australia, Rusia, India y América Latina, entre las cuales se destacan: la del Instituto de Economía de la Academia de las Ciencias de Rusia, de las Universidades de Oldenburg y Bremen - Alemania, las universidades de Barcelona y Valencia-España, la Universidad de Lisboa-Portugal), con temas como: La administración de Conflictos, el manejo del stress, Gestión de Calidad, Valores en el Trabajo y la Teoría de Caos, entre otros.

En varias ocasiones y en diferentes ciudades de India ha orientado diálogos y talleres para ONGs y empresas de proyección mundial.

Diseño de programas, creador del programa Autogestión y Calidad de Vida, implementado en 29 países.