Joseph Selbie
Joseph is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker. He has given talks and classes on the yugas for over thirty years across the US and in Europe. The topics below are among the most popular, but Joseph can develop a custom topic and length of talk to fit the interests of your audience and the time available.
If you would like to discuss a possible engagement please contact Joseph at: joseph@theyugas.com
List of Popular Topics
The Yugas: The 24,000 Year Cycle of the Rise and Fall of Man
Sri Yukteswar, guru of Paramhansa Yogananda, presented a fascinating explanation of the rising and falling eras that our planet cycles through every 24,000 years – the cycle of the yugas. According to Sri Yukteswar, we have recently passed through the low point of the cycle and are now entering a higher age – an Energy Age that is even now revolutionizing the world. These higher ages also occurred in the past, explaining such anomalies as advanced knowledge of physics and math found in the ancient Indian Vedas, the precision construction of the Great Pyramid, and much more.
Topics include:
- The four ages or yugas: Kali (Material), Dwapara (Energy), Treta (Mental) and Satya (Spiritual)
- Our emerging energy age and bright hope for the future
- Man’s evolution from self-survival to Self-realization
- Ancient anomalies: The Great Pyramid, The Vedas, Gobekli Tepe, La Marche Cave and others
Length: 50 to 90 minutes
Includes Powerpoint Presentation
Dwapara Yuga: The Energy Age
We live in an era of all-encompassing change. Our use of energy has transformed the way we live – to our benefit and our peril. Since 1900 knowledge has expanded in all directions bringing into question nearly everything we thought we knew about the physical world and human life. Nor are the changes only outward. We ourselves are changing. We have become more aware of our inner energy – our life force — which is profoundly changing the way we live our lives.
Topics include:
- Mankind’s new energy awareness
- Emerging social, political, and spiritual patterns in our new age of energy
- How our subtle awareness of life force is changing our motivations and worldview
- How science is overcoming the limits of space
- The rise of the importance of the individual
- The rapid expansion of knowledge on all fronts
Length: 50 to 90 minutes
Includes Powerpoint Presentation
The Great Pyramid: At the Crossroad of Treta and Dwapara Yuga
The Great Pyramid’s time of construction was around 3000 BC; near the cusp of descending Treta Yuga and descending Dwapara Yuga. Approximately 5000 years old, it remains one of the world’s great enigmas. Mainstream archeology maintains that it was built by a civilization barely out of the Stone Age, yet it remains to this day one of the most precisely built structures on earth, and it reveals knowledge of mathematics and building methods that, according to archeology, weren’t discovered until thousands of years later. Either this was a colossal case of beginners luck or there is more to the Great Pyramid than mainstream archeologists maintain: built with higher knowledge inherited from Treta Yuga at the dawn of Dwapara Yuga.
Topics include:
- Treta Yuga, the Mental Age
- Dwapara Yuga, the Energy Age
- The transition from Treta to Dwapara Yuga
- Mysteries of the Great Pyramid’s construction
- Advanced knowledge contained in its form
- Why it was built and how it was used: from passive energy collection to spiritual initiation
Length: 50 to 90 minutes
Includes Powerpoint Presentation
India’s Ancient Vedas and the Mental Age
Advanced scientific and mathematical knowledge is embedded in the ancient Vedas of India: the structure and behavior of the atom, a sun-centered solar system, the gaseous nature of the sun, and algebraic and geometric concepts and formulae, are just a few examples. Astronomical evidence contained within the Vedas themselves date the origins of the Vedas to as early as nine thousand years ago, over 8000 years before this knowledge is popularly believed have been discovered.
Topics include:
- The vast mental abilities of man in Treta Yuga
- The purpose and original use of the Vedas
- Who were the ancient rishis that authored the Vedas and why
- The long decline in use and understanding of the Vedas
Length: 50 to 90 minutes
Includes Powerpoint Presentation
The Yugas and the Soul’s Journey
The ascending arc of the yugas, from the material awareness of Kali Yuga to the spiritual awareness of Satya Yuga parallels our soul’s own journey to Self-realization. Understanding the arc of development presented by the yugas can help us understand our own spiritual destiny. As we grow in realization, we progress through different motivations, levels of awareness, abilities and challenges.
Topics include:
- From Shudra to Brahmin: the real purpose and meaning of the castes of India
- From Pranayama to Samadhi: the inner stages of spiritual development
- What the yugas tell us about our untapped powers of life force, mind and soul
Length: 50 to 90 minutes
Includes Powerpoint Presentation
The Yugas In-Depth
Sri Yukteswar, guru of Paramhansa Yogananda, presented a fascinating explanation of the rising and falling eras that our planet cycles through every 24,000 years – the cycle of the yugas. The breadth and sweep of the yugas encompasses all of history and the ancient past, providing a clear explanation for many anomalies such as the Great Pyramid, India’s Vedas and the 10,000 year old spiritual site of Gobekli Tepe. The yugas provide insight into our current Energy Age of rapid change and new found abilities that is re-shaping our world as well giving us a glimpse of our enlightened future and our spiritual potential.
Class topics:
- Introduction to the Yugas
- Parallels in Descending and Ascending Kali Yuga
- Our Emerging Energy Age
- Man’s Awareness in the Higher Yugas
- The Yugas and the Soul’s Journey
- Misconceptions about the Ancient Past
- The Legacy of Satya and Treta Yuga
- India’s Ancient Vedas and the Mental Age
- The Great Pyramid: At the Crossroad of Treta and Dwapara Yuga
- Descending Dwapara Yuga: The Age of Magic
- How Old is Man? Evidence of Past Yuga Cycles
- The Dual and How the Yugas Affect Us
Length: Full-day or Half-day Seminar
Includes Powerpoint Presentation
Custom Presentation
Joseph can work with you to develop a custom topic and presentation to fit your audience. Length of presentation is also flexible: from 50 minutes to all-day seminar. Powerpoint presentations will be customized to fit.