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4 Apr 2013 - 10:18am
Hi everyone,
it's been so long since I've blogged, or to be honest even read lightworkers. But as always, like an old friend I greet it and it knows exactly the right things to say to me. Already a channeling from Jesua hit every mark in my mind and enlightened me.
Last June I finally left my verballly abusive relationship, but the toll it took on me was unleashed and I became a mess.
My spiritual work fell by the way side, I had to cancel the classes I was teaching in psychic development because I could no longer sustain the energy.
It was like I had to completely crumble before I could awaken from the ashes. I'm not going to lie, the last year has been one of the worst of my life.
I had to move home, and depression set in so deep. It gave me such an ego beating aswell, as a spiritual teacher and healer, I just couldn't manage to heal or to lift myself back to the light.
I kept going to my spiritual circle, and just grew tired and bored. I just fell completely from that beautiful energy I had spent 4 years building inside of me.
The last year I started to date, I started to try out tantra, and learnt so much about soul mate attraction. I've met some people who I was still attracting in the negative and it showed me that I'm still on my healing path from my ex, still trying to crawl away from that negative space and reach towards anything else.
On the bright side, I finally got a part time job working for my dad. At first it was really hard because I've never gotten on well with my dad, but we actually bonded, and I'm closer than ever with my mother after moving home too.
I finally started my own company before christmas, and it's going so well. I started making my own soap products and bath salts, all based in holistic medicine, but also great for your energy. It's like a watered down version of what I was doing before, but again, I'm easing myself back every day.
So here I am single, for the first time in nearly 8 years. Yes the lonliness is killing me, it's my biggest hurdle to overcome. I need to learn to be ok on my own. doing my heart chakra mditations and personal development and meditations for strength has helped so much. I might not have been doing spiritual work outside my home, but I can honestly say, if it wasn't for my meditaion, and some amazing people in spirit, I wouldn't be here.
Again it's still a struggle, I'm a much more complecated soul than I realised before, I'm starting to try and attract something better for myself, a husband, a family, a home of my own.
Maybe my own little soap shop where I can do healings too. Life is moving, again im impatient. It's so hard to still sit in the negative, I know from the guys I'm still attracting tha I'd be better off on my own. My poor soul, only god knows what I must have gone through in a past life to never feel like a man could love me.
I will cotinue on, making my soap and I'm finding a new apartment next month so I look foreward to again, finding more of myself, releasing the horrors and sadness from my past, and finally getting "home" to the person I once was, or even better. The new me who is even better than I was, someone who wont fall so far again. A more stable pillar inside to hold me up, so next time something happens in my life (because thinking that all will be smooth is niave), the secret is to truly just be prepaired and be able sit back calmly and go "it's ok, I'm ok, I can get through this".
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Thought I'd show you one of my new soaps, Pink Sugar flavour all natural shea butter soap :)
Blog entry
25 Aug 2012 - 12:13pm
Nepal Spiritual Shaman Tour
Pilgrimage & Initiation Journeys to Nepal are designed for you if you are seeking something different experience in life, for shamanic initiation and empowerment. In this era we know what science has done but our age old unique traditions have their own value and we welcome you in a sacred journey to Nepal for deep immersion into the culture, spirituality, and healing practices of Tibetan, Tamang, and other tribal shamans to make you feel how animism came into function and how these traditions are continuous flowing down from generation to generation in a oral tradition.
What is Shamanism?
Shamanism is humanity's oldest healing practice; as nearly as anyone knows, it is as old humanity itself. The word shaman means "to know" or "to see in the dark" in the language of the Tungus people (modern-day Tuva, in central Asia), and refers to the capacity of the shaman to access spiritual and healing powers beyond the physical world. Shamans gain this knowledge and power by making contact with spiritual guides and teachers, both in this reality and non-ordinary reality. They use their gifts for the benefit of others and the community, and to maintain balance between their people and the rest of the world. True shamans never use their gifts to harm or gain power over other people. Shamanism is not a religion per se, and so it is compatible with all religious practices -- though naturally the specific form of shamanic practice will be shaped by a person/culture's religious beliefs.
Shamanism in Nepal is mainstream. It exists alongside medicine as a viable healing system. Shamans are consulted by politicians, priests, and laymen alike for healing, divination and as intermediaries with the spirits. The ancient wisdom tradition of Tibetan and Nepalese shamans is passed on through pilgrimage type full-moon initiations in which master shamans, like those with whom we work, transmit power (sakti) for the healing of self and the prosperity of the community.
Participants receive teachings, healings, and initiation from Tibetan and Nepalese shamans, Buddhist lamas, Hindu sadhus, shamans, and cultural experts, as well as visit the major residences of the deities (shrines).Participants will sit in circle with master shamans . come and make the understanding of culture, custom, myth, ritual, and heart-to-heart conversation with shamans. Experience a unique once-in-a lifetime opportunity to study ancient Tibetan shamanism from masters who learned the shamanic ways of divination, extraction, healing and trance from their elders in Tibet. Receive healings and teachings from shamans whose practice reflects traditions that predate Buddhism in Tibet, and share their stories.
Shamans function as spiritual leaders, doctors and physicians, granting healing through the restoration of belief. For the Mien and other Southeast Asian hill tribes, a shaman functions as a religious specialist who works with spiritual forces, serving as a bridge between the spirit world and the physical village community. Shamans consult spirits regarding problems such as curing the sick and guiding the souls of the dead. The spirits then prescribe a ritual, which the shaman must perform as a solution.
Our Nepal Spiritual Shaman tour program is open itinerary program and we design program for you on your choice. This is the general itinerary.
Nepalese Shamanism: A Rich Tradition
Nepal is home to over sixty distinct ethnic and linguistic tribal groups, more than half of which practice some form of shamanism. Not surprisingly, then, the shamanic practices of Nepal reflect a diverse array of influences, among them Tibetan "Bon" religion (probably an early form of Tibetan shamanism), Tibetan Buddhism, early Hinduism and an apparently unbroken line of traditon and history dating all the way back to their Stone Age origins. It is likely that many of the healing practices of Buddhism and Hinduism share a common origin with Himalayan shamanism. However, Nepalese shamans belong to different religious groups and do not see themselves or their shamanic roles as "religious".
Here we focus mainly on the shamanic practices of the Newari, one of the more significant ethnic groups of Nepal, offering a few details about the Kirati as well.
The Path of the Shaman
The Newari shamans (jhankri) say that "the way of the shaman is the way of love". They seek to bring love, harmony and peace to those who suffer from diseases of a spiritual nature since, like most shamans, they recognize that disease can be caused by other, more physical, mechanisms and leave such cases to medical doctors. As in other cultures, the shaman’s role is recognized by the community, not claimed by the individual: he is a jhankari only because others are healed by him, not because he says he can heal them.
The primary duties of a Kirati shaman (mangpa) are invoking spirits, remembering his own roots in nature, and putting his actions to the service of the good; this is mundum, the path of the shaman. Both groups believe that the Path of the Shaman was brought to the world by Shiva, and that people are called, rather than choose, to be shamans. The chosen person may try to avoid the call because he knows it will mean a difficult life; the jhankri have everyday occupations like everyone else, but must make themselves available for healing work at the "transition times" of the day: at daybreak, or just after sundown.
Three Calls to the Path
The requisite skill for becoming a shaman is the gift of being able to fall into a trance, as this is how a shaman bridges the spirit and physical worlds. A child with this gift often feels she is "different" from other children, an outsider. There are three main ways in which a person can be "called" to the shaman’s path:
(1) "Abduction by Ban Jhankri", waking visions of and/or interactions with Ban Jhankri, the primordial shaman and mentor to all shamans
(2) visionary dreams, usually of nature, which expand the persons sense of connection to nature, natural places and natural objects
(3) family tradition, visions and dreams in which ancestral shamans (recent and distant) call the person to the path.
When the call is finally recognized for what it is, the child or young person is initiated as a shaman, but then must find a teacher (guru/guruama) with whom she can apprentice to learn all she must know to be a spiritual healer.
Three Causes of Spiritual Disease
The jhankari seeks to right the spiritual, psychic and emotional imbalance which underlies many (though not all) physical ailments and has three primary causes.
(1) Bhutas are the spirits of humans who died under violent circumstances and wander between the two worlds. These spirits often help the jhankari, but when they have been insulted or neglected they can cause chronic illness or minor physical problems, and so must be appeased.
(2) Grahas are negative influences from the planets, demons or even everyday circumstances which bring on acute diseases, accidents and so on.
(3) Disease may also be caused by bad karma, consequences of one’s own misdeeds in the current lifetime (not in past lives, as many Westerners mistakenly think). In such cases the jhankari cannot cure the patient, but can only help the patient understand how to take responsibility for his actions and thereby restore himself to "good karma".
The Three Worlds of Spirit
The superficial appearance of the everyday world (maya) conceals a hidden Reality which guides us -– whether we realize it or not -– and in their trances, jhankri see behind this veil of maya to the three worlds of the spiritual realm: dharti, the Middle world; patal, the Lower world, imagined as a sparkling, crystalline-blue ocean spreading beneath the Middle world; and akash, the Upper world, the realm of the gods.
In a healing ritual (chinta), the jhankari most often travels to the Middle world to receive information about the people, animals and plants which are relevant to the patient’s condition, while the Lower world is accessed to ascertain the origins of the disease, or in cases where bits of the patient’s soul have been stolen. The Upper world is accessed only in the most dire cases, such a deathly illness, and here the jhankari negotiates with the gods directly to restore the patient to health.
Preparing to Heal: Jokhana and Shakti
Before accessing the spirit world in her trance, the jhankrini sometimes consults the jokhana (ginger oracle): small bits of fresh ginger root which are thrown and interpreted according to how they fall. The oracle may reveal which of the three primary causes applies, it may give glimpses of the past or future relevant to the healing, and it may give insight into the intentions of the patient. The jokhana is especially important in Kirati healings.
Shakti, the healing energy which a shaman taps is not infinite or limitless. Periodically the jhankrini must replenish her own shakti. This is accomplished in various ways: a gupha or pilgrimage to a sacred site; a retreat where Nature can be confronted/experienced; or a visit to a cemetery.
Trance
Trance is an altered state of consciousness (called the "journey", "soul flight", etc. in other traditions) by which the shaman connects with the spirit world. The jhankrini enters trance through the recitation or singing of mantras, burning the appropriate kind of incense, special breathing techniques and drumming. Once in trance she bridges the spiritual and physical worlds, and can choose, as needed, to communicate with both worlds without breaking the trance. With the aid of animal spirits, helping spirits and the gods, the jhankrini moves among the three worlds seeking healing for her patient, and uses her knowledge of demons and death spirits to influence them to disappear or to reveal what they know about the patient’s condition.
Phurba: The Shaman's Ritual Tool
The phurba, a ceremonial dagger, is a central ritual tool for all shamanic rituals - so central, in fact, that its use is rarely specified but simply presumed. It may be made from clay, wood, iron or more expensive metals. While other objects of similar shape can be considered phurba, it is usually a knife with three distinct segments, one of which is a characteristic three-sided blade or point. The segments and the triple blade represent the three spirit worlds, while the phurba as a whole symbolizes the "world axis" binding all three worlds together. But it is more than a ritual object; during a healing it is the jhankari himself. During his trance, the jhankari transforms his spiritual body into a phurba and takes flight through the spirit worlds in this form.
Outline Itinerary
Day 01: Arrival & Transfer to Hotel
Day 02: Kathmandu sightseeing
Day 03: Kathmandu to Beshishar
Day 04: Beshishar to a village where live shaman and practice animism
Day 05: Rest & Shamanism Ceremony in the evening
Day 06: Village to – Khudi
Day 07: drive back to Kathmandu
Day 08: Free day in Kathmandu
Day 09: Visiting monasteries & meditation
Day 10: Departure
Blog entry
19 Jun 2012 - 4:17am
"Blessed be thy feet which have brought thee in these ways
Blessed be thy knees that kneel at the sacred altar
Blessed be thy sex, without which we would not be here
Blessed be thy breast, formed in beauty and strength
Blessed be thy lips, that they shall utter thy sacred names..."
Teaching
15 Mar 2012 - 6:08pm
Do you FEEL a strong pull on your heart-strings to begin a Mission Now?
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Time to Get Serious
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ASHTAR
Channeled Through Janisel
My Dearest Friends.... I come to assure you that things are as they should be. There are great amounts of energy bombarding your Earth at this time and everything is being greatly accelerated. NOW is the time for 'focus'. You who are the bridges between Heaven and Earth are the 'hands and feet' of the Command, so to speak. It is through you that much of our work is done. As I said, much has been accelerated and, although we wish you to remain in a state of joy and lightheartedness, it is now time to put your 'work' in its proper perspective and concentrate on the mission at hand. We are working very diligently to gather the Lightworkers together in order to prepare the general population for what is to come.
This means that each and every one of you are needed at this time to make a commitment in your own heart as to what role you will play in this. In other words, it is time to get serious. We are not asking you to give your lives over to the Ashtar Command exclusively, for you each have many missions and sub-missions that you are here to accomplish. What we are asking, however, is that for those of you who feel your connection to us to band together, so to speak, in order to establish and implement certain 'activities' towards the goals which have been set before us. You have shown that you can do this numerous times, such as in the planting of the crystals and the activation of the grid. This was an excellent example of the Unity we wish for you to achieve, and our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who have participated in this project. Rest assured there will be other projects we will ask you to work on. For the time being, we are asking you to continue in this Unity, and stay focused on the tasks at hand.
Do not let yourselves become 'bogged down' in the mundane affairs of your day-to-day activities. We wish for those of you who are aligned with the Command and its work to use this wonderful email forum to interact with each other in manifesting this bond of Unity. You are held within the gentle hand of All That Is and encircled with the energy of Unconditional Love of such depths that your present consciousness can not truly comprehend its magnitude. We of the Command and the Spiritual Hierarchy are working most diligently to help you and all mankind reach their full potential. As a 'return energy exchange', we ask each of you to now search your hearts and decide what it is that you are capable and willing to do in partnership with us. For you see, we are truly in a partnership in which each and every one must play their part. NOW is the time to begin. NOW is the time to decide your focus.
NOW is the time to dedicate yourselves to the work at hand. We need your hands, we need your feet, we need your voice, we ask your commitment. To paraphrase the words of The Most Radiant One, spoken so long ago, "it is time to be about the Father's business". There is no longer the luxury of time to be spent in petty pursuits, bickering, judgment, or anger. Your time, which we have worked towards for eons, is at hand. Know that, even though you may not see us in your skies, we are most definitely close to you, and send you our deepest blessings and love.
Your Friend and Brother,
Ashtar
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ASHTAR and The Ashtar Command
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MEDITATIONS
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/meditations/meditations.html
SPACECRAFT in Art Throughout History
http://sanandaseagles.com/pages/spacecraft_in_art.html
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles. Isaiah 40:31
Blog entry
25 Aug 2011 - 12:38am
(a bit of music to enhance your reading)
NEW MILLENNIUM BEING #185
Virgo - #185 - Integrating Matter and Spirit
Earth Mother Virgo and Pisces Polarities
Guru Rattana, Ph.D. © www.yogatech.com/nmb/
August 23, 2011
I. ASTROLOGICAL EVENTS SET THE STAGE
August 23 - The Sun moves into Virgo where it says through the 22 of
September.
August 26 - Mercury goes direct.
August 28-29 - Virgo New Moon, 8:04 PM PDT (3:04 AM GMT)
September 12 - Pisces Full Moon, 2:27 AM PDT (9:27 AM GMT) .
Both the new and full moons form trines in the Earth signs. There is an
easy flow of energy, which feels good, but to take advantage of this
openness, we must take action if we want things to happen.
September 16 - Pluto goes direct. Time to move forward.
September 27 - Libra New Moon, 4:10 AM PDT (11:10 AM GMT)
The ongoing Pluto and Uranus square discussed in the last issue is very
strong during the Libra New Moon.
II. INTEGRATING MATTER AND SPIRIT
SUMMARY
This issue is about integrating matter and spirit and resolving their
apparent separation. This is the main challenge and lesson of
Pisces/Virgo polarities. The Virgo archetype is about the birth and
evolution of Sprit into physical form. With Pluto in Capricorn until
2024, we are experiencing serious challenges related to all aspects of
physical reality. We must experience the oneness of Spirit and Earth (1)
to meet our personal and collective challenges, (2) to make the paradigm
shift from fear to love, as we move into the Aquarian age and (3) to
serve as grounding rods to anchor in the frequencies of love into Mother
Earth.
Working with the energies and lessons of the Earth element makes it
possible for us to be human vessels of love. The principles from the
path of the Tao (which synthesizes the concepts of the Pisces and Virgo
archetypes) help us synergize physical and non-physical realities so
that we can achieve peace and love.
VIRGO AND PISCES POLARITIES
The most important question in our spiritual/life journey at this time
is how to integrate matter and spirit so that we can experience inner
(and outer) peace, oneness and love. To do so, we must understand the
dynamic of polarities. Every sign of the zodiac faces its own unique
(yet universal) issues, which must be resolved in order to access our
power and potential. The primary challenges of each sign are symbolized
by the relationship between the opposite or polarity zodiac sign.
Virgo and Pisces are each other's polarities. The two signs in polarity
find resolution to their archetypical challenges only by integrating the
(1) energies, (2) qualities and (3) powers of their opposite sign. The
Earth Mother Virgo and Sacred Pisces duality is between body and mind,
finite and infinite, physical reality and non-physical reality and
matter and Spirit.
POLARITIES
To find resolution between the duality of matter and Spirit, we must
understand how humans got so out of touch with Spirit and how we can
reestablish harmony within ourselves and with natural forces. I will
discuss 5 points.
[1] Separate and Sacred
Many belief systems consider matter and Spirit as separate and in
conflict. One reason is because we have lost our personal experiential
connection with Spirit. In the dense frequency of physical reality,
Spirit appears to us as a separate reality. Instead of perceiving
physical reality as simply a denser form of existence, it has been
categorized as ? not only different, but also ? of less value and ? not
sacred.
[2] The Universal Dynamics of Polarities
The universe operates through the dynamic of polarities, which obviously
exist in pairs. By their very nature polarities express what we call
opposites. However polarities are actually complements -- they work
together. And they are inseparable. Where we find one, we find the other.
The universe is made up of two polarities. [1] One polarity is fixed.
The fixed polarity sets the rules of operation or natural,universal laws
that govern all reality. This includes the law of cause and effect
(karma). [2] The other polarity is the evolutionary force of constant
expansion and change.
In the universe, polarities are not a problem. Their interactive dynamic
is the way things work. The fixed polarity creates the universal fabric
and holds everything together, while the force of change continually
creates expansion and evolution.
[3] Redefining Sacred
When human belief systems separated matter from Spirit, they defined
Spirit according to the fixed polarity. In the process, humans degraded
the status of physical reality. The evolutionary polarity got denigrated
and excluded from the Divine equation. The Earth, physical reality and
the Mother were no longer included in the definition of Sacred. Father
(HE) or fixed (the rules) became exclusively associated with the Divine.
The Mother, physical reality and the evolutionary flowing force got
deleted from the Divine equation.
[4] Resolution in Sacred
The reality is that both Father/fixed and Mother/evolutionary are
together the underpinning dynamics of both physical and non-physical
worlds, which are different manifestations of one reality. The
resolution of the matter/Spirit schism is possible only when we actually
perceive everything as sacred -- when we experience everything as part
of the Divine Plan or Play. Our inner and outer conflict can end only
when (1) we embrace the evolutionary flow of creation without resistance
and exclusion, and (2) play by natural and universal laws.
[5] Resolution in Our Body with Mother Earth
We witness the non-physical aspect of the Divine in our neutral mind,
where we experience the fixed qualities of stability, silence and peace.
But an authentic experience of 'the Father' or fixed archetype is not
enough. In order to end our existential conflict, (1) we must give value
to Mother Earth, our human experience and physical life, (2) we must
experience the archetype of the Mother as Sacred, (3) we must experience
the Divine in our body, and (4) we must experience our body as a sacred
vessel.
The apparent separation of universal polarities can be resolved when we
experience the Divine as including the flowing, comforting presence of
the Mother. When the flowing aliveness aspect of the Divine enters our
psyche -- our consciousness -- through our emotional and physical bodies
(not just in our mind), we can experience Oneness and our inner conflict
can be resolved.
THE TAO
The philosophy of Tao expresses the integration of the Pisces and the
Earth Mother Virgo archetypes. The Tao (1) acknowledges both universal
polarities as part of the Divine or Sacred
and (2) it asserts that natural harmony exists between heaven and earth
-- physical and non-physical realities -- matter and spirit. The Tao
refers to 'the Way' or the Force that operates through all existence --
heaven and Earth. This Force has two components.According to Lao-tse
[1] Evolutionary Flow
The Tao cannot be described in word, ie. it is not an intellectual
concept that can simply be understood. We can find harmony and oneness
with the universal flow (1) by feeling the universal Force flow through
our bodies, and (2) by developing an intimate relationship with the
unfoldment of activities in our everyday life.
[2] Fixed Laws of Nature
We experience this harmony not by following man-made rules, but by
following the laws of nature. Natural universal laws regulate the
rotation of the planets, the activities of animals, birds, plants, the
wind, the rain and the snow -- all life and activity on Planet Earth and
in the cosmos.
Harmony or Disharmony
The more we interfere with the Earth's natural balance, which is
governed by universal laws, the more we create disharmony in our
environment and within ourselves. And the more we experience our
separation from nature, Mother Earth and the Universe. Man-made
environmental destruction is a result of a belief system that has no
respect or love for the Divine Mother. And the 'Father' (degraded to the
patriarchy) makes his own rules!
Everything and everybody has its own nature encoded within it. When we
violate, manipulate or try to control from our ego point of view of what
is right or out of greed, we create problems. Arbitrary, human rules
imposed from the outside inevitably create inner and outer conflict,
struggle and disharmony.
THE TAO AND OUR HUMAN EXPERIENCE
The Taoist philosophy explains the essence of the Earth Mother Virgo
archetype.
Our human experience is about learning valuable lessons. Our most basic
lesson is learning how to live according to universal/natural laws. So
instead of trying to escape the physical world, we should embrace our
physical life and our bodies as sacred vessels of the Tao (Love.)
The essence of Taoism (and the Virgo archetype) is to work with, learn
from and appreciate whatever happens in everyday life. Living in harmony
with natural laws results in harmonious living and happiness.Life
becomes sweet (1) when we work in harmony with life's challenges and
tests, (2) when we change a negative into a positive, and (3) when we
stop interfering and resisting.We know we have reached the state of Tao
consciousness when a serene smile glows on our face. We laugh quietly
and enjoy a subtle sense of cosmic humor.
RESOLUTION IN HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
To experience oneness of matter and spirit, we must expand our
consciousness so that we perceive reality differently.
[1] In our awakened neutral mind, we perceive reality beyond the level
of conflict. We find the place of peace where conflict does not exist.
Our inner conflict is resolved because we no longer operate from our
conflictual dualistic mind channel.
[2] We must also experience oneness with the Tao in our physical and
emotional bodies. We must be able to relax and flow with the natural
universal forces.
I strongly suggest getting a copy of the small book Tao te Ching and
reading from it every day.
FIRST, SECOND AND SEVENTH CHAKRAS
Although integrating finite and infinite can seem to be the most
challenging of all polarities, when we experience the two energies in
our body, it all feels so natural and it feels good.Our physical
experience is upgraded significantly when we enjoy being in our bodies!
Our task is to work with the first, second and seventh chakras, to do
Kundalini Yoga for grounding and to strengthen our nervous system to
hold higher frequencies in our body.
Mind/Body/Spirit integration comes through our relationship with the
first, second and 7th chakras.We feel anxious, insecure, worried and
fearful [1] when we are not grounded or connected in our body and with
Mother Earth (1st chakra) [2] when we cannot relax, let go and surrender
to the flow, and [3] when we are not connected to Spirit (7th chakra)
[1] In our first chakra, we connect with our body and the Earth.
We must feel rooted at the first chakra (base of spine, legs and feet)
to feel safe in the physical world and comfortable in our bodies.
[2] At our second chakras we connect with the Tao as it flows through
and animates our being and all physical reality. With a stable rooted
base at our first chakra, it is possible to relax and enjoy the flow of
energy and prana through our body.
[3] In our seventh chakra, we connect with the stable, fixed qualities
of Spirit.
Together the first and seventh chakras help us develop a deep sense of
security and trust. Both make it possible to be present in the moment as
we allow the flow of existence. (second chakra)
We must experience a personal connection with both universal energies to
be able to trust the Infinite unknown force - a power greater than
ourselves. In synergy, we witness the miracle of manifestation in
physical reality.
III. DIRECTIVES FOR YOUR KUNDALINI YOGA PRACTICE
Whistle Breath Pranayama awakens the crown chakra.
Inhale with deep whistle through the mouth.
Exhale through the nose.
Concentrate to the sound at the crown.
Listen to the pure sound inside your head.5 minutes
Mentally hear Sat on the inhale. Mentally hear Nam on the exhale.
2 minutes
Effortlessly open oneself to experience the comforting and supportive
energy and essence of Spirit.
Maa Sex Meditation on page 129 in Sexuality and Spirituality awakens the
Divine Feminine.
The Kriyas for Skull and Pelvic Bone Adjustment on pages 28-33 in Relax
and Renew are excellent for grounding.
Here are some directives to guide your practice.
* Focus on gold, not white, to ground in higher frequencies
* At the first chakra feel the stillness to feel safe and secure.
Then feel the movement and flow at 2nd chakra and in your body in
general. Moving, alive and stillness in our body create grounding.
* At the first and second chakras to experience the presence of Spirit
in your body
(1) feel gravity and the solid existence of physical reality. Feel peace
and stillness.
(2) relax into the natural rhythms in our body and
(3) connect with the energy and flow of nature and prana through your body.
* Both first and seventh chakras help us develop a deep sense of
security and trust and help us to be present in the NOW.
* Witness the non-physical aspect of the Divine in your neutral mind.
* Experience stability, silence and peace. But this is not enough.
Feel that you can hold these qualities and higher frequencies in your body.
* To integrate your experiences,
(1) feel peace, stillness and aliveness in your body.
(2) relax and trust and surrender to natural and universal forces.
(3) feel the presence of the Divine Mother
(4) Allow the Divine to enter your entire being through your emotional
and physical bodies.
(5) Experience the flowing, comforting presence of the Mother.
(6) Allow the Presence of Mother energy to merge and be at one with the
stable stillness in your neutral mind. You are at peace and in love.
Your inner conflict is resolved. Sat Nam!
(AND ... just wanted to include a beautiful poem by
beloved Alaenura Adams
May Our Wings of Love ~ Fly In~Formation
The Tantric Language of Love and Light
May The Joy in this Knowing Touch Every Living Soul On this Beautiful Blue Green Planet ♥
May Presence of Love Remain in Our Hearts ~ This and Everyday
May Love Bring Peace Joy and Harmony ♥
May We Continue to Spread The Glow of Love With Every One We Draw Close to.
May Our Collective Wings ~ Create Waves of Bliss~ Abundance and Radiant Love Here, There and Every Where...
May Our Destination Be of the Brilliant Golden Light of The Morning SUN
May These Words Amplify Every Impulse of Desire
May All Hearts Remember Their Wings of Gold
May We Completely Step Into Our Divine Sovereignty
May This Day and Everyday Be The Most Sublime
May The Supreme Virtues of Love Reign Forever and Ever
This is My Prayer
And So It Is ♥
Blog entry
12 Jul 2011 - 1:28am
Monday, July 11, 2011 High Level Soul Partnering Ascension Partnering The time has come to review our spiritual love relationships once again. Accelerated changes require that we review and upgrade continuously. This is not shallow, for love is deep. The waters of love move in waves and spirals across the planet, all must flow or stagnation occurs. The same is true of spiritual love partnership. All is an energetic flow of Golden Liquid Light between swirling bodies of Love. We are all rainbows of undulating light in human form, and the more we focus on this reality the more flowing, flexible and loving our lives become. Human Evolutionary Partnership is reaching new levels of experience, as we uncover individually our True Nature, it become tantamount that Right Relating becomes absolutely a daily fulfilling requirement. One can however only see as one can perceive at any given moment in the reality matrix of time. Individually, we dig through the muck of our rich and earthy experience to ultimately SEE THE LIGHT IN OUR OWN VERY LILLY NATURE . This becomes a major breakthrough in the LOVING SELF page of life. Over and over the movie scripts are played out in full color and full emotional detail, sometimes drawing others even into the Skakespearean drama of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING…..until one day, in time, we become too tired, to exhausted, too broke, too overwhelmed, too devastated, etc…to even care anymore…WE GIVE UP….oh, but are we weak, so very weak when this happen? Not in the least, we become STRENGTH OF LOVING EXPRESSION….we might feel so humanly humiliated, so embarrassed, so jealous of others….but WE DECIDE TO SHAKE OFF THE CHAINS OF EGO LINKS… and then we enter a new spiral stairway of infinite possibility….how can this be? It seems just fairy talks as, WE GIVE UP EVERYTHING, TO GET EVERYTHING….WE BECOME NOTHING, TO BECOME EVERYTHING. WE ENTER THE GARDEN. Yes, of course, we still go back and forth to dabble in our dramatic stories a bit more, but something significant has changed about us, something drastically and tangibly real…THE UNRREAL BECOMES REAL. As we inch along at what feels like snail-human ascension speed our sluggish meanderings…become a conscious ACCELERATED sprint to love. We direct our bows and arrows to the Source of All, in an effort to complete ourselves, so that in fact we can complete our in time our collective HU-man LOVE legacy in time. This completion is actually only another beginning but IN REALITY IT IS A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE CO-CREATED TOGETHER. Take a moment and let this sink into your golden cells. Nature seeks connection. Your natural state is connective love with the other. NATURAL partnerships are only of love and beauty. When nature is not in a harmonic state it naturally dies, returns to earth, and is reborn to new life and beauty. It is time all relationships are revamped and transitioned into more harmonic clarity. All unconscious misaligned behaviors must be removed from all ascension partnerships now or the partnerships will dissolve to be reborn into new Golden Soul Partnering Forms at another time. The heightened collective goal is to restructure all forms of relating, initially through INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY ENDEAVORS. Many of you will find this difficult to resolve, as you are transcending and transforming Karmic Relationships, at this time.These are the toughest of moments for many. These are relationships in which both souls chose to work on many past negative patterns from previous incarnations and to clear them all now. Yet, somehow many cannot meet The Mark on the Target. We do our best. Yet, Human birth creates a heavy density cloud of forgetfulness and usually one partner wakes up sooner than the other. You may find that one may not, or will not choose or cannot further themselves on The Path. Do not force, do not give ultimatums…live love and if need be lovingly move one to Live Life more fully. Many of you are at a crossroads now. YOU MUST CHOOSE YOUR TRUTH, SPEAK YOUR TRUTH, AND RESPECT THE OTHER. Constant conscious communication is a must, as you flow within the natural pathways of love. Soul mates are appearing for many, as the personal work is reaching and clearing deeper levels of self. Now the Planet together with all life has achieved collective frequency awards that can sustain PURE LOVE RELATIONSHIPS IN FORM!!! CELEBRATE AS PURE LOVE MEETS PURE LOVE. Your heart will leap when you look into this person’s eyes. Time will stand still. They will finish your sentences (even, telepathically!). They will have similar likes and dislikes and share similar interests. You may be taken even for brother and sister. You will receive Golden Light dreams before meeting him or her saying I AM ON MY WAY. A miraculous feeling of love and grace will fill your every moment. Depending on your soul’s relationship growth progression you will evolve through many karmic relationships before reaching a soul to soul connecting partnership, but it even gets better….because many of you also have incarnated to unveil GOLDEN TWIN SOUL PARTNERING on Earth. This is an Ascension Golden Soul Partnership with A MISSION TO SERVE! If you have had a near death experience or possibly a Light encodement experience or you have been born with Golden DNA encodements turned on at birth, you are certainly chosen for this higher relationship work which is unfolding now on earth. You will know what to do, you soul is guided with loving purpose to fulfill this Dream on Earth. Let this be your sign this is for you! It is one of the highest way to serve The One, in fact, as it is multiplying at quantum levels, your shared Golden Soul Encodement of Love Frequency is healing the Earth. We must let go of all forms of relating which no longer serve this purpose as soon as possible, for it is in the Greater Good of All That Is, that the Earth Return to The Garden of Love. Review, and if need be, recycle the love in Higher forms of relating. Take Personal Self Responsibility seriously now. LOVE SELF and BE AN ATTRACTOR OF HIGH LOVE NOW ON EARTH. Work on additionally clearing finer levels of self sabotage, of finer levels of negative self patterns, and of worthiness issues, etc. WORK ON SELF only. Realize now, it is never The Other but The Self which realizes SELF. The Other is not your responsibility, never has been, never will be. BE THE EXAMPLE OF NATURAL HUMAN BLISS. Stay tuned to shifts, as you relate with your partner and if it feels OFF, in even the slightest way, communicate immediately and clearly, then choose a LOVE STEP, and if ultimately necessary get off to a new partnership beginning elsewhere. Let your Self Fly together! There is no greater gift to the other/the world than to BE LOVE NOW. Anything that makes you cringe in any way is a sign to move on, stay away and love self more, however difficult it may feel. Love More, feel more love, invite in the love, and it will do wonders for your family and friends, and FOR YOURSELF. Clear the space. It is time to make a fresh start now, either by transforming your current partnership or by attracting a more heightened love partner form to you. Wave after wave of love, new and fresh forms of blissful Liquid Light of Love, are coming your way. As we each choose and attract Higher Love the world Love Frequency is expanded by our diligent and meaningful dedication. It is truly the most wonderful Win-Win Project on the Planet at this time. The hummingbird finds the flower now, Blessings of life’s nectar, lilli
Teaching
4 May 2011 - 2:32pm
Dear hearts of light,
years i questioned myself how one belongs to fantasise and how one belongs to dream,
because everybody that i have get to know, doesn't matter who, did say in a certain way to me, "act normal",
when my fantasy or dream doesn't fit in the picture of that persons fantasy or dream.
Because of this i began to think about what normal behaviour is and what normal experience is and how on should experience normal,
because out of the fantasy and the dream grows experience and out of the experience you receave wisdom that
you teach your surroundings and your children and you pass that to your children what you see and find "that is normal",
while the child and someone elses vieuw is a completly different experience vieuw of what's normal.
I know that fantasising and dreaming is creating out of the fantasie and the dream and that is what Is.( All That Is )
Dear hearts fantasising and dreaming is the engine of inspiration to create what the creation does also and waht the creation truly is.
So why are we prisoning fantasys and dreams ourselfs and does that also happens by our surroundings while that
is just living hole and one with All That Is ( Creation, Source, Allah, God, Buddha, Dharma, Prana).
In loving service into infinnity,
Swen.
Blog entry
26 Apr 2011 - 3:28am
THE EARTH AND TAURUS
REBIRTH OF FEMININE ARCHETYPES
Guru Rattana, Ph.D. http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/
April 24, 2011
NEW AND FULL MOONS
APRIL 20 - The SUN moved into TAURUS where it stays through May 20.
MAY 2- 3 - TAURUS NEW MOON - 11:51 PM PDT (6:51 AM GMT)
MAY 17 - SCORPIO FULL MOON - 4:10 AM PDT (11:10 AM GMT)
At the Taurus New Moon, five planets are in Aries (Mercury, Venus,
Jupiter, Mars and Uranus,) emphasizing the continual need to focus on
ourselves and our path. At the Scorpio Full Moon, Venus, Mercury and
Mars will have moved into Taurus. The forces of redirection,
redefinition, and rebirth are requiring change. Our discussion below
highlights themes being awakened in our psyche at this time, which will
be major influences for many years to come.
DID ANYONE NOTICE?
Did anyone notice that astrological symbolism is dominated by masculine
archetypes? This reflects the patriarchal paradigm, which over time has
transformed many goddess archetypes into god/male figures. In this issue
we investigate the re-emergence of some of the goddess and feminine
archetypes.
To review, there are 12 zodiac signs, six in each polarity. The 3 air
signs and the 3 fire signs are classified as masculine. The 3 water and
the 3 earth signs are designated as feminine. However, the ruling
planets do not all correspond to the polarity of the signs. The Libra
air/mental sign is ruled by Venus, which along with the Moon is the only
planet considered feminine. The Moon rules Cancer - that fits. Libra and
Venus represent non-physical love achieved through the balance and
alchemy of the two universal polarities.
The ruling planets of the other 2 water signs Scorpio (Pluto) and Pisces
(Neptune) have been inappropriately transfigured into 'he' planets. The
same is the case for the Earth sign Capricorn and its ruling planet
Saturn. And Earth Goddess Virgo is ruled by Mercury - definitely a
misfit (although Virgos have very good minds.)In this issue we discuss
Taurus.
DEFINITION OF THE TWO UNIVERSAL POLARITIES
The 2 universal polarities are often designated as male and female,
which leads to confusion and misrepresentation of these basic energies.
Both exist in both men and women and must be integrated and expressed to
achieve wholeness, inner peace and Love.
To avoid all the misunderstandings that arise, I like to call the male
polarity the STABLE POLARITY. This energy is stable, absolute,
unchangeable, neutral, impenetrable and non-judgmental. The female
polarity is the FLOWING POLARITY. Its energy moves, changes, transmutes,
transforms, and is ever-evolving.
WHO RULES WHAT?
Before the discovery of Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1848 and Pluto in
1930, except for the Sun and the Moon, each planet ruled two zodiacal signs.
* Sun -- Leo
* Moon -- Cancer
* Mercury -- Gemini and Virgo
* Venus -- Taurus and Libra
* Mars -- Aries and Scorpio
* Jupiter -- Sagittarius and Pisces
* Saturn -- Capricorn and Aquarius.
After their discovery, Uranus was assigned to Aquarius, Neptune to
Pisces and Pluto to Scorpio. This leaves Venus and Mercury with dual
rulership. Mercury and Gemini are an obvious fit. idealized Venus (more
later) works for Libra. What about the Earth signs Virgo and Taurus?
We need another planet. What about the most obvious entity in our
planetary system - Mother Earth!. When I first wrote on this topic in
2001, I proposed that Earth be assigned to Taurus. Ten years later there
is no longer any question in my mind - Taurus is ruled by Planet Earth!
Everything about Taurus represents the Earth. Taurus personifies the
productivity, wealth, fruitfulness and sensuality of the fertility
goddess.Who else could the fertility goddess be but our own lush planet
Earth?Where else does life grow and flourish like on planet
Earth?Certainly not on Venus.
I have tested my hypothesis on my Taurus friends. Their responses range
from a relieved and an exited "YES!" to a smug "of course."Every Taurean
so far has been in agreement. I originally speculated that Taureans were
so aligned with beauty that they might feel deprived if they thought
Venus was no longer their primary goddess. But Taureans are so innately
connected to the Earth and nature that to take away Venus is to deprive
them of nothing. Recognition of the Earth goddess supports Taureans in
being who they are and affirms the legitimacy and the importance of
their role in promoting sensitivity, sensuality and beauty in our human
lives.
Venus and Earth are both Goddess of Love archetypes. However, each
represents a very different aspect of Love. Venus represents idealized,
non-physical Love. Earth represents the physical manifestation of
universal Love. As the first Earth sign and second sign of the zodiac,
Taurus makes it very clear that our soul comes to Planet Earth to
experience Love. Our Earth journey is about figuring out how to do so.
A PROPER PLACE FOR PLANET EARTH
I concur with Alice Bailey who wrote in Esoteric Astrology that modern
astrology gives very little importance to planet Earth even though "the
energy which emanates from or radiates from Earth itself" is of
paramount importance. She writes, "Astrologers have always emphasized
the incoming influences and energies as they beat upon and play through
our little planet, but they have omitted to take into adequate
consideration the emanating qualities and forces which are the
contribution of our Earth...to the larger whole." (*1) This can be
rectified by assigning Earth to Taurus.
There are many explanations why Earth has not been given its proper role
in astrology. Our patriarchal, male/mind-dominated, externally-oriented
culture plays a pivotal role in this oversight. The dominator/dominated,
victor/victim, exploiter/exploited operating manual of the world's power
structure controls our psyche. The domination, egotistical "the Earth is
here for us to exploit" attitude does not lend itself to treating Gaia
Earth as a living entity with value that merits deep respect,
appreciation and care.
If we view ourselves as separate from the Earth, and at the mercy of
planetary energies, wenaturally feel disempowered and victimized. If we
recognize and experience our interconnectedness, we value and explore a
relationship that promotes a reciprocal and beneficial partnership. Our
Earth journey is about cultivating this deep, spiritual, in-the-body
experience. Mother Earth is our teacher.
POSITION OF EARTH IN OUR NATAL CHART
The first thing we need to know is the position of planet Earth in our
natal chart, which is always 180o from our Sun, or exactly opposite our
Sun. Thus if your Sun is 2o Aries, your Earth is 2o Libra. The Earth and
the Sun are polarity pairs.
Aries -- Libra
Taurus -- Scorpio
Gemini -- Sagittarius
Cancer -- Capricorn
Leo -- Aquarius
Virgo -- Pisces
Planet Earth is always in the house opposite our Sun, i.e. if your Sun
is in the first house, your Earth is in the seventh, etc. Traditional
astrology would thus say that the Sun and the Earth oppose each other.
This polarity relationship is, however, complementary. The integration
of the two interdependent archetypes is the foundation for the inner
alchemy of love.
THE PLACEMENT OF EARTH IN OUR NATAL CHART INDICATES
*where and how we will be challenged in our earthly pursuits
*where we must learn to express and anchor our authentic soul self into
our daily life
*where we must grow and develop as a human being so that our soul
presence works for us and attracts opportunities.
The placement and sign of our Earth indicate how we experience that 'our
inner reality creates our outer reality.' Our Earth path exposes the
battle between our subconscious programming and our soul and indicates
where we must work to achieve a synthesis of our complex natures into an
integrated whole, heart-centered being.
EARTH, SATURN AND PLUTO - FEMININE ARCHETYPES
Our Sun sign represents the male/stable polarity of our soul -how our
soul shines and the nature of our basic creative energy. Our Earth sign
represents the female/flowing polarity of our soul - (1) how our Sun
energy can be properly used this lifetime and (2) where our personal
development and growth make it possible to manifest and experience Love
in physical reality.
Saturn, Pluto and Earth guide our Earth school experience. While Planet
Earth has been ignored and excluded from the planetary family, Saturn
and Pluto have been co-opted into masculine archetypes. However, if we
understand the male polarity as the stable, absolute, unchangeable
universal energy and the female polarity as the energy that moves,
changes, transmutes and transforms, there is no doubt that both the
Saturn and Pluto archetypes express the ever-evolving female polarity.
Saturn and Pluto (along with Mars) have traditionally been considered
'malefic.' This is understandable in a paradigm that excludes or
denigrates one of the universal polarities. In isolation, the expression
of both polarities gets distorted and destructive. The polarities need
each other to function optimally. First we will discuss Saturn and later
Pluto.
EARTH, SATURN AND OUR WORLDLY PATH
Saturn represents our karma - a necessary part of our path to dharma.
Saturn obliges us to work out our energetic obligations accrued through
the law of cause and effect, this lifetime and in previous incarnations.
Earth gives us an opportunity to rise above karma by doing our dharma.
Dharma can be understood as (1) our way of life or lifestyle that is in
accordance with universal and natural laws and aligned with our soul
blueprint, (2) what we have to accomplish this life time, and (3) how we
go about accomplishing it.
The importance of the sign and placement of Planet Earth in our natal
chart should not be underestimated.
* Our Earth sign represents the nature of our earthly path, which we
must follow to achieve self-mastery and soul consciousness.
* Our Earth sign indicates the types of experiences we will have and the
energy we must use to achieve our Earthly goals.
* The house placement of Earth is the arena of life where we will be
most challenged to deal with Saturn's rules of physical reality.
* The goal of our life experiences as defined by Earth is to facilitate
the experience of Love through our earthly endeavors.
* Our ability or inability to master our Earthly path determines our
success or failure in terms of our ability (1) to make our contribution,
(2) to follow our destiny path and (3) to connect with universal Love
while in a physical body.
DISCOVERING OUR EARTH PATH
Current astrology does not examine the role of Planet Earth in natal
charts. One unconscious reason for ignoring theimportant role of Planet
Earth is the uncomfortable fact that as embodied souls, we are exploring
unknown and challenging territory. We are here to learn lessons and to
grapple with physical reality in order to survive. We don't feel
comfortable with our Earthly path and the experimentation required to
master it. And we certainly don't like the pain component.
As you examine your Earth sign, check out the following for yourself.
* We feel both challenged and relieved when we begin to understand the
nature of our Earth path.
* We see the many ways that we have both fought and followed this path.
* We recognize that we have been on this path since we were a child.
* We can understand the logic and reasons for this aspect of our
physical journey. It incorporates growth that is part of our personal
empowerment and necessary for our wordly success.
* We experience a sense of relief when we stop resisting and start
enjoying this challenging part of our lives.
*We recognize the potential power in embracing this path, which rewards
us withboth personal growth and professional recognition.
* This "must do to survive' part of our lives transforms into a "get to
do" to live a more fulfilling life.
* We discover a missing piece in our puzzle that is so obvious it is
almost embarrassing.
As you explore your own Earth path, examine these issues --
(1) In what ways have you resisted this aspect of your life?
(2) In what ways have you embraced it?
(3) How have your life experiences forced you to grow in this area of
your life?
(4) How might your life be easier and more fulfilling if you were a
success in this area of your life?
(5) Is this a missing piece that could create a major breakthrough in
the achievement of your life goals?
(6) How could you change your attitude toward your Earth path?
(7) Note how a shift on any or all of the above creates more peace and
an inner experience of Love in your life.
THE PATRIARCHY AND HIGHER EXPRESSIONS
Human exploitation of the Earth and the depreciation of the status and
role of women, our emotions, feelings and the feminine are a natural
result of a paradigm that (1) indulges in mental activity and values
mental attributes and pursuits, above and at the expense of feelings and
sensitivity and (2) directs our spiritual quest outside ourselves
towards an external God and savior. The disturbing result is that we
have distanced ourselves from the gifts of the Earth, our body and our soul.
The highest expressions of masculine energy are * neutrality, *
non-judgment, * the right use of will and * soul-directed individuality.
Although humans give lip service to both free will and individuality,
very few commit to master these aspects of being, which can only be
achieved when we are able to access and operate from our neutral mind.
As a result of our conflicted consciousness, individual will has been
degraded to control and manipulation to get our own way and to
aggressively go after what we want. These immature versions of right use
of will and individual power are products of our dualistic mind.
We must cultivate the higher faculties of our mind and the male polarity
of our soul to be able to embrace and expresses the elevated qualities
of the female polarity of our soul. Without a stable, neutral inner
foundation, we are incapable of relaxing into the flowing energy of our
emotional and physical bodies. Without the sensitivity of our feeling,
flowing nature, we don't even notice the subtleties of our emotions and
our bodies, let alone the Earth.
RELATION OF EARTH TO THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE
What is the nature of the Earth in relationship to the rest of the
universe?Over five hundred years ago astronomers determined that Earth
and the other planets revolved around the Sun, instead of revolving
around the Earth. This fact inadvertently contributed to depreciating
the value of the Earth.
The Earth is, however, the center of astrological inquiries. The main
concern of astrology is to discover how the laws of the universe and the
archetypical energies of the other planets affect life on planet Earth
and how can we make practical use of these laws and energies. Astrology
asks how do the Sun, Moon and the planets influence life on
Earth.Although this question is of critical importance, the geocentric
point of view of astrology has contributed to ignoring the influence of
planet Earth itself. We are fish who have forgotten that we swim in
water and that our existence emanates from and is determined by the
water (Earth!) itself.
OUR EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP WITH PLANET EARTH
Humans, animals and plants are all dependent upon the soil of the Earth
for their sustenance and well being. Yet we pollute the air we breathe
and the water that we drink. We plunder natural resources, pave the
ground that connects us to the Earth's vibration and destroy natural
habitats to serve our selfish greed. Because we have severed our
energetic relationship with Mother Earth, we have no understanding of
how to relate to her, how to respect her and how to enjoy and be
nurtured by her gifts.
Our lack of direct relationship with Mother Earth has led us to view her
as unpredictable. We watch as she peacefully absorbs our abuse and then
we are distraught when she reacts with floods, earthquakes and other
natural disasters. We try to predict what she will do without attempting
to understand or accept our responsibility in the cause and effect
relationship between our Mother and her children.
Basically we have lost touch with the Earth, with our bodies and with
our emotions. We have severed our connection with the flow of the
feminine. The result is that we live in fear, feel insecure and perceive
lack. This mindset leads us to hoard and squander resources and to seek
to control and manipulate to meet our excessive and insatiable needs. We
are unable to experience true empathy, and we suffer from unrefined and
shut down sensitivity.
We are however at a major turning point. The re-introduction of feminine
archetypes into our individual and collective psyche can change our
human fate and curtain the abuses of the old paradigm. Reestablishing
our connection with the flow of life and the Earth through refined
sensitivity opens us up to new possibilities. We are can experience that
there are enough resources for all of us to get our basic needs met and
enough opportunities for everyone to share their gifts.
EARTH AND THE QUEST TO EXPERIENCE LOVE
The recognition of Earth as a planet in our zodiac and its pivotal role
in defining our human journey will facilitate our soul's quest to
experience Love. The perceived burden of being human and having a human
body can be reassessed. Taurus and Earth are here to embellish our
journey with riches, pleasures and gifts available no where else in the
universe.
Humans come to Planet Earth to experience Love in the human form. We
activate our body and awaken our consciousness so that we can enjoy this
ecstatic feeling. Our past failures to achieve this goal in no way
negate the Divine intention for humans to experience Love while on
Planet Earth. We are being aided in attaining this goal by the higher
vibrations of Love that are infusing the Planet. The Earth's vibration
is being upgraded to the frequency of the heart center, which provides
the energetic environment for us to open our hearts. The more our hearts
open, the more we will be able to honor the sacredness of our Mother
Earth, recognize Her as a planet of Love, and embrace Her and our own
physical embodiment of Love.
A friend of mine told me this story.He was meditating in the mountains
in Spain and the soul of his sister-in-law, who had died during the
Spanish civil war, came to him. He asked her, what she was doing.She
replied, "The Earth is the most beautiful place in the whole universe.
After we leave our bodies, we like to come back every chance that we get."
THE GIFT OF EARTH AND OUR HUMAN BODY
It is a gift to get a body and come for a visit to Mother Earth, where
we can actually feel physical pleasures, touch different textures, taste
so many foods and absorb the nurturing energy of the Earth and the Sun.
Planet Earth is a treasure house of goodies, from gemstones to flowers,
plants and trees, to thousands of species of wildlife, to a myriad of
landscapes and bodies of water.Taurus teaches us that Earth is a very
special place and that we should enjoy our short, sacred journey.
It is time to embrace the obvious and to give Gaia Earth the due She
deserves. As we truly recognize and honor our Mother and care for and
protected her, humans will receive gifts that were previously
unavailable. Turning our attention back to our own earthly source will
empower us in ways that have eluded us for millennia.
* We will be able to tap into the healing and nurturing energy of the
Earth and receive physical and emotional healing.
* We will escape from the exploitative mindset that has enslaved our
psyches and dominated our economic, political and religious systems.
* We will be able to enjoy being in our bodies and stop using them as
simply a means of transportation, a bothersome mechanism that needs to
be fed and a puppet that we get to ornament.
* We will be able to enjoy the profound satisfaction of personal
empowerment and sacred sexuality.
* We will stop looking outside ourselves for salvation and experience
our divinity in our bodies.
PLUTO AND SCORPIO
Sounds good - experiencing Love in a human body on Planet Earth. But our
Earth path is not a heady spiritual ideal. Attaining and integrating
higher expressions of the feminine into our psyche is the most
challenging part of our spiritual path. Enter Scorpio, the polarity of
Taurus and Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio. Pluto and Scorpio are feminine
archetypes that express the deep flowing powers of Kali and the Kundalini.
Scorpio and Pluto represent what we don't see, the unknown, the
unconscious and the subconscious. They represent our quest to discover
and empower our core, our essence and the primal flow of life. They
represent the process that we must go through to access our purity so
that we can express our soul blueprint. They represent the purification
process required to tap into the flow and rhythm of our soul. Their path
is defined in terms of * growth, * development, * adjustment, * death
and rebirth, * evolution and * alchemy.
When our spiritual goals are defined exclusively by the esteemed
faculties of the upper chakras and the stable, male polarity paradigm,
the ever-changing, transforming, in-the-body requirements of the lower
chakras and flowing female polarity can be * experienced as upsetting
and disturbing, ?rejected as superfluous and * interpreted negatively.
The role of the Scorpio and Pluto archetypes is not to derail our
spiritual goals, but to make it possible for us to attain them! If our
distorted subconscious programming and self-effacing belief system run
our lives, we won't be able to find inner peace or Love. They expose our
dysfunctions and oblige us to correct them. Their goal is to upgrade the
expression of our emotional, flowing energy so that it nurtures and
sustains us, instead of sabotaging our intentions and destroying our
hard work.
PLUTO AND SCORPIO UNCOVER THE MYSTERIES AND GIFTS OF LIFE
The challenge of Earth and Taurus is to break down and unblock forms and
structures that do not transmit Light and Love. Scorpio and Pluto help
by revealing the inner truth of the spiritual reality hidden within all
life and material forms.
The Pluto and Scorpio archetypes uncover the mysteries of life. These
feminine energies penetrate deep into the places where the truth hides
until we are able to bring it into the light of consciousness. The truth
includes both our wounded conditioning and the Light and Love of our Soul.
As Pluto and Scorpio reconnect us to our Earthly source and to Her
generous gifts -
* Many of the mysteries of life will no longer appear so mysterious.
Many of the answers we seek will be forthcoming as we develop a
relationship with the Earth Mother.
* The healing we need will be forthcoming as we learn to respect Gaia
Earth as an living entity.
* The depression and insecurity we feel will be alleviated as we
reconnect with Earth as our sacred home.
* The deprivation we experience can be turned into abundance when we
respect and wisely use the Earth's resources.
* Our inability to meet our basic emotional and material needs can be
replaced with prosperity, wealth and blessings, when we accept with love
and gratitude the generous gifts of our Mother Earth.
* Our soul becomes a sensory presence as we invite it into our body
through proper nourishment, alignment, activation and care.
* Our Kundalini awakens as we anchor our existence to the primal power
of the Earth Mother.
As we return to the arms of our Mother, we experience a peaceful sense
of well-being. We receive pleasure from every breath. Our stress and
depression give way to vitality and enthusiasm.Our bodies give us
pleasure instead of pain. Our emotions feed our soul. Our sensitivities
are enhanced. We realize that we are living in an exquisite garden.
TAURUS AND EARTH QUALITIES
Taurus and Earth are associated with the second house of the natal
chart. Taurus inaugurates spring. It is a time of new life, great
activity, awakenings, births and creations. Taurus is cautious,
practical and supportive of our human ambitions, need for material
security and desire for physical pleasure.
Associating Earth with Taurus validates the earthly qualities of Taurus.
These include (1) her need to create and sustain a self-contained
environment where she can get her needs met, monitor events and energies
that impact her life and process at her own slow methodical pace, and
(2) her desire for predictability and certainty so she can have the time
and space to be productive and creative.
The qualities embodied by Taurus reflect the qualities embodied by
Earth. Taurus moves at a slow, comfortable pace. Taurus is motivated by
her need for physical pleasure and economic well being. She is
interested in the acquisition and protection of material assets and the
accumulation of land and wealth. She likes to be productive and develops
the personal skills and talents, which she can use to attain emotional
and financial security. Taurus has a natural affinity with nature and
desires to live in a natural environments. She loves to give and receive
love.
The regenerative Earth goddess played a leading role in the
civilizations dependent upon agricultural cycles for their subsistence.
It is Taurus's relationship with the Earth that allows her to be
self-sufficient, resourceful, productive, practical and the bestower of
wealth.Arts dependent upon the Earth and her resources are associated
with Taurus -- gemology, architecture, music, sculpture, pottery and
painting. The celebration of life through dancing, music, singing,
acting and lovemaking is also associated with Taurus. Taurus loves all
the refinements of life.
THE VICTORIOUS FEMININE: PEACEFUL AND FIERY
Taurus and the Earth are associated with the proud, victorious aspects
of the feminine principle and personal power. Both express prosperity,
personal strength, fertility, productivity, autonomy and the capacity
for self-love. Through her magnetism Taurus attracts love and wealth to
herself and unabashedly enjoys it.She is self-sufficient and
independent. She can support herself and meet her own emotional needs.
Her capacity for self-acceptance opens her to the delightful possibility
of enjoying the pleasures of life without being attached to the form or
person delivering the goods.
Taurus also embodies the fierce and even belligerent qualities of the
Earth and the early fertility goddesses, who are very patient until
pushed beyond their limits. When provoked beyond reason, the Bull will
attack. When abused to excess, the Earth will erupt. Her stubborn and
persevering qualities make Taurus a financial success and the Earth the
endless cornucopia of visual and editable delights. The Bull's trump
card is that she is at one with her Earth Mother, who surrounds her
child with the bounty of life. The grateful Bull knows she is here on a
very short visit and she makes the best of this opportunity to be held
in the arms of Her Mother..
FEAR AND EMPOWERMENT
Although the Bull is a symbol of male potency and a source of
empowerment of the fertility goddesses, the Bull is a representation of
the power of the self-sufficient goddess.For she embodies a perfect
blend of masculine and feminine power. Taurus gets her sense of autonomy
from her ability to embody both masculine and feminine qualities.
Taurus embodies beauty, which has a different flavor than the delicate,
serene perfection of Libra. Taurean beauty is earthy, indulgent and
luxurious. The love, beauty and sensuality of the classical Venus, who
is the embodiment of soft (and submissive) feminine attributes has been
denuded of masculine powers. It is not necessarily bad to have one
planet represent the more refined feminine qualities. The problem is
that over time male-dominated cultures have stripped the feminine
archetype of her strength and independence and have made her into an
object of pleasure and exploitation.
Classical Venus is a safe archetype to use by those who wish to
manipulate and dominate women. Earth is NOT a safe archetype to play
this game with.The Earth is too real. The Earth is ever-present in our
bodies, our emotions and our psyche. The Earth is capable of vengeance
if she is not loved and respected. The Earth can fight back and does.
Fear of feminine power partly explains why Gaia Earth has not been
recognized as one of the primary zodiac signs and the ruler of Taurus.
Denial of Earth as a vital and pivotal player in the astrological world
fits into the patriarchal paradigm that has been unable and unwilling to
recognize the role and power of women and avoids the existence of
emotions and feelings in both men and women.
Denial is a powerful force, but it loses hands down to reality. Mother
Earth is the source of all life. Both men and women have emotions and
bodies. Women are over half the human population. Women give birth to
both sons and daughters. Women are the source of creation on planet
Earth. The power of women, the Earth and the feminine are being re-born.
OUR EARTH AND TAURUS TEACHERS
Earth and Taurus teach us teach through direct life experience about
values, needs, necessity and self-sufficiency - wemust take care of our
bodies and honor our physical and emotional needs. Mother Earth
demonstrates that there are plenty of resources to do so. She teaches us
how to identify our comfort zones so that we can relax, feel comfortable
and secure and enjoy our humanness.
Earth and Taurus teach us that our body is an instrument of our soul and
an exquisitely designedtool for achieving soul consciousness. Earth and
Taurus activate the emotional and physical component of our sensory
system by making us aware of the sensual, sexual and emotional pleasures
that can be experienced in our human body. They teach us how to unleash
our power by tapping into our primal energies and by connecting with the
natural forces of Gaia Earth.
Earth teaches us that we can find inner peace if we (1) interpret all
our experiences in relationship to our quest for Love, (2) treat
everything as sacred and (3) interact with everyone as Her children.
Earth teaches us that our most primal relationships are with our body,
our emotions and with Gaia Earth herself. As we develop these
relationships, which are instinctual, sensual and non-verbal, we
discover the endless gifts that Mother Earth and our body bestow upon us.
MEDITATE ON MAAAAAA
To connect with the Mother, place your hands on your heart and chant
long MAAAAAAs.
The sound of MA is very soothing. Allow yourself to be nurtured by the
sound.
REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES
Austin, Stephanie, "Taurus New Moon," "Scorpio Full Moon," The Mountain
Astrologer, Issue #156, April/May 201l, pp.105-6.
Oken ,Alan,Alan Oken's Complete Astrology, Bantam Books, New York, 1980.
(Oken Astro)
Oken ,Alan, Soul-Centered Astrology, The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA,
1990, pp.192-199.
(Oken)
Dreyer, Ronnie Gale, Venus: The Evolution of the Goddess and Her Planet,
Harper Collins, London, 1994.
1. Dreyer, p. 130
Blog entry
11 Mar 2011 - 3:00am
It is an era in which we are called to turn toward the divine feminine - what does that mean? It means something different to every person, and many of us sense that the balance of the feminine joining her divine masculine would mean the emergence of the new earth that we are dreaming of. I had an experience of oneness with my divine masculine higher self. Yes, it was a merging into one being in my meditation. I got a sense that my higher self, the male one, Imagi, whom I imagine as a my highest self in 11D and I joined together. He appears as a harlequin with dark and light sides of his hat and face and clothing. I appear with the opposite coloring, as where he was dark, I am light and vice versa.
He has playful, laughing energy. He reminds me of Krishna in his looks, even though at that dimension, he is unlikely to have gender or form, yet this is how I see and experience him. He is integration of all higher selves into one, and his female counterpart is All-I-am, or All-I for short. Back to my experience with Imagi, my male highest self.It felt like being a tantric union, like we were becoming one body, one heart of light, facing one another and coming together. It felt like the light in me was lighting up him and his light was shining inside of me. Light poured out of our third eyes. I could see wires and flowing of colors through the wiring.
In our union of opposites, it was a completion of circuits. I could see how my wiring completed his and vice versa. Males and females do that for each other. In 3D, the reason we have sex, besides the obvious reasons of pleasure and procreation is that it is to remember oneness within ourselves of our male and our female sides. In higher dimensions, I sense that we contain both male and female united. We are complete within. Sexuality can be a completion of our circuitry and remembering our oneness.
In this meditation, I felt that circuitry flowing, and saw the Ita and Pingala Energy Channels in red and blue. That is the energy channel of the spine that looks like two snakes in representations of kundalini energy rising. And kundalini rising and connecting our energy fields feels orgasmic. We are meant to feel orgasmic all the time, not just in sexual union.
I got a sense that the higher dimensional versions of myself are having an experience of bliss continuously, that it is possible for us too as we spiritually advance. Completing our own dual circuitry within, uniting it, is part of the process of ascension. I am seeing an image of the intersecting spirals in the center up a spine of a person's body, and the energy field around the outside, around the body, all connected. We have to love our male within, and our female within. We have to have them merge and open up our circuitry so our kundalini flows.
What qualities bring us into this balance? Meditate on receptivity. Meditate with the heart becoming a bowl of water that is still, open to what it receives. Listen to our higher selves, and discover how we can unite male/female energies within. Be a vessel, a receiver. Be telepathic with our higher selves and the light energies from the sun that carry information in downloads. Right now there are solar flares galore and it feels like a very powerful time to tune into to the infinite. All knowledge is possible. Connecting our circuitry can only help us flow better and has the potential to open us to endless orgasmic bliss. Imagine how that could transform the world if all were experiencing it. War? Not possible.
We create the outer world from the inner world. We love our opposite, which is really ourself, in the inner world, using symbology and imagination, meditation and feeling to experience it first. Then we are likely to experience it in the outerworld. Connecting while being receptive to our higher selves is essential as they are already merged with their opposite. You already know this, and it is a matter of remembering. Remember your divinity, your divine feminine and divine masculine, in balance. What you create on the inside is reflected on the outside, in the world, so you are doing your bit, just by going inward.
Blog entry
5 Oct 2010 - 1:43pm
Sex is the Material worlds attempt to duplicate Kundalini Spirit. Keep in mind that Bliss is charge and causes braiding of DNA. . .
kundalini may be physically measured in among other ways, as a coherence phenomena of collected cellular "blue fire". (Reference our 2 hour video with 3 Medical Doctor's: "The Biology of Blue Fire".) Ultra violet coherence being the motor and currency of cell metabolism (Ettienne, and Lipton). What may be most instructive about this is the degree to which the gathered (and "fractal?) inertia of human attention/focus does specifically direct and steer this waveguide. The mechanism which permits increasingly coherent human focus to steer microwave and shorter bandwidths is very much our appropriate challenge to understand fully.
Interestingly, it was UV spectral emission lines which can measure the braid angle of DNA helical wrap factor. It was this technology which allowed us to prove that electrical lo frequency COHERENCE in the heart beat, associated with the feeling of compassion, does measureably affect the braid angle of DNA. (The chapter in my book, entitled Programming DNA: Is Emotion the Weaver"., and the research done at my suggestion by Heart Math Institute, published in Int'l Society for the Study of Energy Medicine. http://www.danwinter.com/rein )
The point being that an Ultraviolet effect in the DNA is documentably changed by a conscious teachable skill: feeling love and compassion in the heart measured in the power spectral analysis of the EKG (my work at Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, first measured EKG coherence associated with emotion).
So now let us apply this metaphor to the activities we know create likely kundalini medical symptoms. Creating glandular coherence creates microwave and ultraviolet cellular coherence. Glandular (emotive) coherence appears teachable with biofeedback or yoga etc. We must ask what is the principle in essence of what permits human conscious activity to grapple with the heart of high frequency cellular fires.
I discussed with Ben Bentov many times the mechanism of the sonic entrainment of the heart pressure waves with the liquids of the brain ventricles (like a can of peaches shaking he would say.) His capacitive accelerometer for measuring this ring relationship between heart and brain liquids was one of th e planets finest feedback devices. Ben described his own kundalini experiences as often originating in the solar plexus area, very different than mine. (His book on the subject: "Stalking the Wild Pendulum", has a chapter - phonon mechanism of kundalini - which is cross correlate to Lee Sanella, MD book "Kundalini: Psychoses or Transendance".)
COHERENT heart sounds pump ecstatic juices to the brain. Think of the geometry of sonic phonons or sound in liquid long standing waves as functioning like a flute operated snake charmer, or the sonic standing nodes moving like the pushers in a peristalsic pump (in which mechanical hands push liquids up a flexible tube.)
The origin of the sweetness tasted dripping from the squeezed amygdala of the brains nut, is the blue dish at the base of the spine. Here foreplay or breath gathers the collected Ultraviolet nectars of cell metabolism. If tantra or kundalini can produce enough Sacra Cranial Pulse (a sonic long wave) up the fluids of the spine, then the stinger tube hole at the base of the spine can begin to pump. When successful of course this produces the positive biofeedback of "permission to taste the sweetness". Sweetness being always and only a measure of braidedness.
There are those who doubted the definite experience of we intense kundalini experiencers, who begin to taste quite literally from the roof of our mouths, whatever is near the tailbone. The end products of digestion gather there, as in the hi frequency massaged "sweetness", highest density content braidedness: at the BLUE DISH. At first in tantra, it takes extreme conservation (abstinence from orgasm) to build the pressure of the assembled cellular hi frequency excipients (foreplay), to back flush them up the just learning how, spine pump. Later, as the passage is opened more, the tailbone tube "straw that sucks", begins delivering sweet nectar to the brain floor 'under the flower' VERY frequently (my experience). At first we visualized a simple opening of the tailbone tube, which Gurdjieff called the 'organ Kunda-buffer', regulated by the (sonic and actual) massage of the peritoneal and prostate ( in the male). Later we realized also that the vestigial HORSE HAIRS of the tail bone, still present at the human spin base, also serve a high frequency coherence light wave guide gathering 'up' function.
When all of this 'sacro cranial pumping' works..(danwinter.com/isthisrecursion/apta.html AND Upledger Institute, and Polarity concepts)
the arrival of these the best biological nutrients to the brain crown produces:
1. an explosion of brain cellular growth at the upper brain. The unfolding of the petals of a magnetic flower there, which then attract images (magnetic waves in phase are identical to perception of 'petals') to the pineal. ...The 'Thousand Petalled Lotus".
2. an extreme plumbed removal of lingum excipients /mucosal crystalizations blocking flow, from the cerebrospinal and connected lymph passages. The psychological correlates of which include however many months of tears required to excise every unshareable (less than VERY symmetric/ recursive and thus eternal) stored emotion. The geometry of emotion's electrical library being the phase disciphined foldedness on surface of cell and piezoelectric muscle. (The notion that cell surface SHAPE is no more than an index of whatever electrical waves could stand together musically in phase, as in "Structural Stability and Morphogenesis" -mathematic biophysics text, and depicted more romantically at http://www.danwinter.com/cancer - shape fold index to cancer and aids.)
3. a potentially dangerous over excitation/ metabolic speedup of the glands. the skill to move nutrients from the cells entrance to High Quality UV, and then out to glandular and ecstatic operations goes to its limit. Essentially, metabolisms baud rate can speed up to beyond the glands ability to withstand the fire. In my case, fifteen years of nutritional honing permit a kind of thin survival. (Specifically I believe the higher amperage and higher frequency densities pushing thru the cellular cores, stress the mineral to water bond structure as at Albert Szent Gyorgyi "Electronic Biology and Cancer", necessitating trace mineral replacement and the bliss capacitance necessary to hold those minerals soluble and funtional as geometrizers for cellular electrical conductive efficiency.. Also I emphasize the quality of the critical raw oils {"Lorenzo's Oil"} {heat kills them} which create the myelin sheath dialectric insulator so stressed by hi amperage and voltage at the synaptic level. If nervous tissue as optical hologram waveguide does not get the electrical insulator quality necessary to hold hi pressure/voltage, then psychokinesis becomes unsustainable.) Important instructions for hygiene here, at Nourished By Spin; Twinkling Eyes Lifestyle
4. an overflowing of sweetness dripping onto the back of the tongue, resulting in a different appreciation of what sweetness is (the girl after kundalini or tantric ecstatcy prefers lentils to chocolate because their deferred but self braided sweetness is tastier. ersatz sweetness only a substitute for ecstatic process is no longer desired)
5. the perception of a magnetically implosive current traveling spinally. Moving ones attention to the core of this magnetic current, can with shamanic practice create an organ of perception (look through the eye of the serpent.)
6. a potent magnetically converging atmospheric and earth current force precipitating moisture from above, and creating new springs below. Herein comes the in-tube wormhole song-line entering force which Aboriginally glues tectonics together. Drawing the magnetic current energy line from the energy going in circles which we cutely label mass, is the ss word from ss tone : the raised djed, and djedi knight.
7. a dramatic improvement over the perception of simple orgasm; the passage of hapliod DNA seed up the spine in the male: prostatic thick but clear fluid can come out the penis, the semen went up. In the female noteably, recurrent descriptions of "virgin" birth (conversations with Sannella, Drunvalo). The point is that it is the carrier of capactive charge which instructs the eggs membrane to turn inside out/donut and become fetus. (The ""MOMENT"" of fertilization). The source of the charge spin must inherently have enought recursion (awareness), to feed DNA it's complement message. See how whatever causes the spherical egg membrane to BEGIN TO DIMPLE, is the agent of the onset of the fertilization. (see also egg dimple at pic at danwinter.com/torrent ). Article with pictures at www.danwinter.com/superDNA The point being that, the lightning light spike of kundalini charge, able to COME TO A POINT, literally because its harmonics are in PHI golden ratio nesting (see our ekg spectra work), can actually trigger an egg to split... (turn inside out).
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE ECSTATIC INDUCED FREQUENT REPORTS OF VIRGIN BIRTH have NO father. It is important to realize that what we have been calling an ECSTACY TUBE or wormhole up the spine (see also the wormhole transport function in the movies "Contact", "StarGate", and TV's "Deep Space Nine"), becomes quite literally a blood artery of what we have childishly been calling ANGELS. (Timeline/ event history trajectories or splits, like at Montauk, can be healed or reconverge nondestructively for example, only when the subsequent event histories themselves are arranged into a Phi-lotaxes based temporal fractal, -math for time histories in log phi geometric in "Spiral Calendar" by Carolan - descriptions by the Templars under "Repair the Fabric of Time" - so "Angels Don't Bleed - see also danwinter.com/buehler Templar Ruta Time Continuum.. Oritronic vs Metatronic).
The magnetic implosion vortex (up the spin) in the very process of becoming self organizing as a wave function (KUNDA HAS A "MIND OF IT'S OWN"), becomes self aware. Steering this worm (ORMes), is part of the coherence body which becomes angelic. The Saraphic here (See the role of Angel Gabriel at Mary's conception, and Moroni gold plate guardian), being the hi Reptilian, (Mag), while the Ophanic being the hi source of the "bird' brain genetics. Remember "Myth of the Birth of the Hero" (Otto Rank) requiring all avatars to be virgin birth.."So Moses Was Born" (Joan Grant), did not mean the Magnetix X chromosome was without trigger,(XY cross then BRANCH eugene), it meant 'Dad was ET'.
8. the long term impact of kundalini on DNA braid coherence is such as to add another harmonic series of frequecies to the enveloping. This is commonly and erroneously referred to as adding another strand. More correctly entering another dimension never referred to anything which was not topologically the superposition of another axis of symmetry (braiding). This is exactly what happens when the ratio of a carrier wave length, to the wave length of the envelope which contains it, becomes sacred, or recursive, or phi. (Long wave PHI ratio-Golden Mean- the perfection of recursive nest). Genepool spin densities become potentially entirely fractal in this way, and thus reach stellar awareness. This is harvest of sweetness which genepools potentially deliver as milk to gaia's lactic core. (Sweetness in chemistry being merely a name for HOW MUCH BRAIDING..).
9. Kundalini is schizophrenia only when the urge to fractality is fractionated, in nutrition and environment totally lacking in spin density/context richness/braidedness. (The appendix to Lee Sannella, MD book on kundalini showing the huge proportion of Kundalini experiencers who are diagnosed schizophrenic is a VERY sobering diagnosis of our Medical profession). This then relates to the microcosmic orbit skill to return/rotate the magnetic, microwave, and UV broad spectral currents back down the spine. (I believe were the microwave map of the spine to be resolved, the IDA / PINGALA up and down currents would be visible around the SUSHUMNA core). The psychological import of this is that once you see God (light explodes), if you cannot return and create a service with your new phone line to the spin of one mind, then you will go insane. The geomantic law here is that true ecstatic process is unsustainable and produces insanity unless you live in a magnetically fractal landscape. This is why Magdalen had to create a zodiac fractal when she directed the (Templar dreams) siting of the gothic cathedrals, to distribute the spin force of the charge of her tantric swoon with Jesus Christ, fractally to the nearby zodiacal landscape. Awareness is distributed only as wave. Waves can change scales by perfected ratio only in the presence of the Lo-PHI Golden Mean Fractal. Mygdala is the name for the journal on fractality and the nut squeezed in the brain to make sweetness, by the hearts sonic fractal. Rosy foldedness perfected. Come here to die, and you won't. ... All sensitive and sustainably psychokinetic, particularly women, MUST bond (phase lock) with their LAND, in order to get leverage on the collective DNA field effect (collective mind / 'God') .. and that landscape must be fractal/recursive/embedable/geomantic in order to hold her charge/awareness).
The heart of the matter of principle which enables awareness to attract the force of such currents is contained in the 'recurring' harmonic whisper of the heart at the moment of love. We look at the harmonic content of the EKG, as the rush tingle of compassion sweeps, we find not just COHERENCE in the EKG between 0-35 hertz (exactly the coherence bandwidth in the EEG and the Earth's Schumann resonance.) WHAT WE FIND IS A PARTICULAR KIND OF COHERENCE (MUSICAL CHORD). WE FIND THAT WHEN THE HARMONICS OF THE HEART'S BEAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO CAPACITIVELY ENTRAIN THE BRAIN AND EVEN ENTRAIN A TREE AT A DISTANCE....... AT THAT MOMENT THE HEART'S FREQUENCY HARMONICS WILL BE A RECURSIVE/SELF EMBEDDED/ FRACTAL IN THEIR NON-LINEAR HARMONIC NEST.
More specifically, the physics here is that the frequency harmonics (power spectra / fft) of the EKG will show the heart change from normal linear harmonic intervals between contained frequencies (multiples of 2), to a situation where the INTERVAL BETWEEN CONTAINED HARMONICS BECOMES MULTIPLES OF GOLDEN MEAN. (THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE NON-LINEAR, and therefore implosive cascade called LO-PHI.. love..) ~ Dan Winter
Teaching
7 Sep 2010 - 2:36pm
There are many ways to define the same thing and depending on where you are coming from, the light that reflects upon the situation will make the same thing look drastically different. Understanding this is one of the most important principles the learning experience called life can give to you. If we cannot respect the fact that each person goes through their journey individually then we must at least agree to keep our judgments to ourselves and allow future generations to see the world through their own eyes.
New Age Spirituality tells us that judgments do not serve man; it only prevents the unity needed to achieve amazing things. By focusing on differences instead of similarities we prove the ignorance of the self and intern separate each one of us from the foundation of civilization, grouping ourselves to accomplish greater tasks and thus encourage a higher rate of human survival.
Now that we are no longer are in need of protecting ourselves from the beast of this planet and we do not needed to hunt for our own food anymore, it seems that there is no need for unity. When in fact there is a great need for unity of all people. When we come together and open our hearts and minds (not to accept others values as our own) but to hold a new respect; that a person holds their values close to their hearts in the same way that you do. Then we can break bread together and unity shall begin, and intern humanity will see a great reduction in conflict and a serious jump in technological, philosophical and social advancement.
video
16 Aug 2010 - 7:07pm
What paths lead to the truth?
Among the thousands of beliefs, methods and techniques humanity has developed, which ones (or one?) are right for you? When that inner voice for something higher than your day-to-day life starts calling, how do you even begin to know where to start looking, and how deep should you be getting into each teaching and concept you come across? Paths is for the spiritual seeker, the researcher who’s been through any number of teachings and has now stumbled across Kabbalah. When you start delving into Kabbalah’s concepts, it’s common to connect what you’ve learned in other teachings to what you’re now finding in Kabbalah. Paths does the job of helping you explore these connections, and the questions that arise from them. In a lively and fun setup, Andrew K. Martin sends all kinds of questions to Dr. Michael Laitman, questions sitting on the tongue of anyone who’s been searching for something bigger than this world, as well as putting all kinds of common notions of spirituality to the test.
kabbalah.info
Teaching
23 Jun 2010 - 12:15pm
Here I stand in the center of the universe. My universe in which I am the creator of and the creation, there is no one as important as me in this Universe. I realize that because I AM in the center of my universe I am in a position of ultimate power. I am the master of my Universe and I can control anything that goes on with-in that Universe. I live with-in this universe, and I mold this universe because I live in the center of this universe which is located in the metaphysical center of me. Truth be told the metaphysical sense of me is truly who I AM and so are you.
You are the Universe; your Universe is in a great place of power and love.
I do not think there are words sufficient enough to explain these truths because there is only ONE way to find this out and that is through YOU. That is not negotiable although the methods will be as unique and personal as the individual.
I was able to gain access to this wonderful world of Metaphysical knowledge when I accepted responsibility for everything that has ever happened to me and I accepted that it was my fault entirely. I do not blame anyone for my F-ups I have and always have had the choice of living the life I wanted. I then choose to look fear in the face and try to understand the unknown. This was the thought behind the subtitle for my book “15 Days to a beautiful life - Understanding God”. I have no Idea how to describe what I am seeing as truth and I feel like I am seeing above things at times with lack of language to express it. I can just tell you taht the answers are right there for you inside your true self.
It is becoming undeniable that the metaphysical is becoming a real force in this world and I have watched many ancient theologies warm up to this idea, which is wonderful. As long as there are people like you and me who put the fact with feelings and look inside, we will always be amazingly blessed. When we look with-in we magically have a mutual understanding of free will and individual preference because we will know the truth and purpose of choice. Besides those that do not observe this truth will not be part of a masters Universe and are not a vibration match. This is the Universal Law which is set by the hand of those who observe it and is as powerful as your Universe wishes it to be.
Joseph Anthony
Dedicated to Claire Thank You
for inspiring the post
Teaching
9 Jun 2010 - 5:18pm
I am sure someone has asked you this question many times; although depending on your age the phrasing may be different. The most common form of this question is “What do you do for a living?” I am going to assume that 99.99% of the time this refers to work or your job in some way. Most people relate who they are with what they do. This subconscious hick-up can cause a ton of unnecessary negative emotion and even worse “Writers Block”.
Truth be told, even the most glamorous job cannot define you. You are way more magnificent than that. If you are a musician, artist or writer your work may be a reflection of which you are as a person but it is you the creator who breathes life into the creations in which you create. You are unique and anything that more than one person calls them self cannot represent you ij your entirety. I am a writer, a dad and a husband no one thing describes me although I am proud to be all of them.
There are over 6 billion beautiful people that are each truly unique, no two are exactly alike. Your body is your temple and it holds the most beautiful, loving and extraordinary amazing creature inside of it; Your Spirit.
The spirit that is inside of you is the truth, your truth. The only truth you shall ever have. I say to my readers almost every essay, blog, speech or book I create. To look inside, they ask me why?
Your spirit will answer all the questions you have and I can assure you that the answer will be as unique as the faces that represent the journey to get them. Man has got into a great deal of trouble by telling others how to live and what to believe in. The obsession to be right is something that has taken many men to the point of insanity and all for not because each person’s path is unique and their interaction with the path they are on.
Many people pick up self help books like mine and hope that the book is a user manual to their souls but that would serve no purpose to you. I choose to put the power in your hands, I write to point out that there is beautiful and loving magic inside of you that is always at your disposal and is as abundant as infinity. This journey is deeply personal because we all do not all think the same exact thoughts. Your path is either littered with negative thoughts, hate and intolerance. Or your path is pure of all impurities which are one of many symptoms of the positive thoughts you think, and positive affirmations you say.
That being said, this all comes back to loving yourself. Desiring what you want is the easy part. The belief that you can do it and feel that you are worthy enough to have it is another. This is where you find the state of being needed to succeed and it also provides you with the endurance to make positive thinking an effective Life style choice. If you cannot find love for in yourself, you will not find that love in yourself. That love is your truth and is your spirit and it has always been there waiting for you to stop star gazing and look inside.
Try Loving yourself and Love whatever it is that makes you, YOU!
Then figure out what you believe and start looking for the magic in your life. You will be surprised in what you find and how amazing you truly are.
No matter what your theology it serves you no purpose to doubt yourself; so pay attention to that gut instinct, respect each other’s path, and put your faith in yourself where it belongs.
Joseph Anthony
Please check out my latest title “15 days to a beautiful life” and the other great new thought titles at http://EvolvetheMInd.com
video
26 Mar 2010 - 10:50am
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14 Feb 2010 - 4:58am
Yoga means Union
INTRODUCTION
If you are fast you miss the point.
Yogis are very slow and they are in Understanding.
The society lives mostly in miss-understanding. People living in the society (man of the street) follow each-other.
The Yogi follows the Self; he lives in the Self.
This is the difference between a Yogi and a common man.
The Knowledge of a Yogi is not from his parents, his brothers, his sisters, his aunty, his cousins, grand-parents, and teachers.
The Wisdom of the Yogi comes from the Master.
HOW TO BECOME A YOGI?
The Yogi is living Inside – he has found his Centre of Light (Centre of the Universe)
A Yogi is a person, who knows how to bring the Energy from the Muladhara Chakra up to the Sadhastara Chakra.
When the Yogi is in Samadhi all the questions are answered.
There is no confusion anymore.
The Yogi has found the Void, where there is Nothing anymore.
Through Hypnotherapy (Yoga Nidra) we can contact to the Void. This is the quickest way to contact with your Self or your Centre of Light.
Each person has his own way (Ego).
Each person has a vibration; which is his level of consciousness.
ADVAITA VEDANTA
When you are in the Void, you are still brainwashed.
What happens is; you open up and your aura expands.
You become a powerful Modem (device to encode Information).
There are two things: Science (what is thought in the Universities) and Religion (which is thought in the Houses of God; temples, churches, mosques and so on).
Those two, apparently look like opposites and we call that polarity.
NEW TECNOLOGIES
New technologies are created by high vibrational human beings.
The Rishis left Rishikesh and Haridwar in the 1960’s. They are back here now and are announcing the New Earth.
WHAT IS THE LAW?
Law is exactly that what the People in Power say is the law.
The Yogis and Rishis are Powerful People and they live accordingly to the Law of Nature.
Suria/George/Centreoflight/Tapovan/Laxmanjhula/Rishikesh/ Haridwar/Uttarakhand/LandOfTheGods/India/PlanetEarth
Blog entry
7 Dec 2009 - 2:57am
THE ENERGY OF LOVE
What you call sexual energy, or sexual expression, is the energy of Source...the energy of LOVE....of which existence is both made and sustained............................................
When a couple in love experiences total surrender, of one to the other, during a heightened sexual experience, they become blended into a single consciousness containing equal parts male and female. The original experience of Oneness, or God, awakening to its own existence, and responding, was , "I Am," meaning, "I exist." That experience led to Oneness individuating its own male and female halves, then blending them into Oneness again.
The sacred function of your sexuality intended to bring about the same ecstasy and experience of Oneness as the original awakening of existence.
The female vulva is a geometric gateway to the cosmos. The vagina is the spiralling passageway through which a person must travel in order to enter the womb, which is the microcosm of the egg of existence. As the egg is "hatched," or fully activated, energy and consciousness move directly through another spiralling tunnel or passageway to the woman's soul. From the woman's soul the energy and light of love is sent out in waves back to her partner and through existence simultaneously. These waves are like ripples on water, only holographic. They are like bubbles expanding in wavelike motion as opposed to ripples on a flat surface. These waves create a blending of the soul of the woman and her partner. The love and ecstasy created by their union is transmitted through a spiral passageway down through the males body into his prostate which further excites his penis to transmit the love, adoration, and joy energies passionately into the woman’s vagina. This cycle is repeated in a continuum once both the male and female have totally surrendered to giving and receiving love and relinquishing all control. The two become a microcosm of the macrocosm of existence. They spin the galaxies together, hold planets in form, spiritually activate one another’s souls and spirits through the dimensions, and heal each other and all of existence: and all while having a great time! Sound easy? Ideally yes. But your world has made it very complicated.
Trust and respect have been so long lost that you spend more time testing one another, making each other prove yourselves, finding reasons to doubt each other, and vying for control than you do creating and enjoying your love relationships. And these things you call love relationships are often little more than addictive pain patterns being acted out. Love does not need to possess, control, degrade, withhold, prove anything, distrust, or conquer. Love simply loves. It flows. It is uninhibited, uncontrived, natural, innocent, and spontaneous. And while discernment is needed in the selection of a partner, it need not prohibit you from loving everyone. Did you know that humans are terrified of feeling the totality of unconditional love? You have been taught to restrain yourselves lest you make a fool of yourselves. You have been taught that it is impossible to love fully without hurting if the other person does not return your love and promise to stay forever. Without 100 percent guarantee that you will not "lose," you hold back a little or a lot. It does not really matter how much. The point is that the flow has been dammed and therefore controlled.
What if love could only exist in the presence of surrender? What if there were no such thing as loss, only change? What if you had to let go before the other person did without knowing whether he or she will ever let go or not? You would risk disappointment; but that is all. If you have healthy self-esteem and self-love the person you love cannot devastate or humiliate you. He or she cannot make you feel unworthy; only you can! The object of love is not to win someone over, break through their barriers, make them need or desire you, or make sure you don't lose. The object of love is to love, to cherish, to honour, to adore, to respect, to never harm, to appreciate and never depreciate another
This is the nature of your true being, your soul, your spirit. To experience love for no apparent reason and for no ulterior motive is a great sign that you are nearing completion of your trials and karmic pain. It is the way home to your true self.
To fill your life with friends and/or a partner who naturally inspire you to love is a wonderful thing. To surround yourself with sacred objects of beauty, to live in a place you enjoy, to be in nature regularly, to do what you really like to do are all important ingredients in life that can help you become more in tune with the Energy of Love....Spirit... Source.....Oneness...Your Natural State of well-Being....
The essential nature of the unrestrained soul is tantra. This leads to being in a constant orgasmic state in your whole body. In this state, energy blocks are dissolved, emotions released to flow naturally, and spiritual experience of love and Oneness are the norm. And it is what you and Earth most need at this time ...........In the Awakening of the Heart......and the Energy of Love.....
Amorah
Dolphin Star Temple Mystery School
www.world-harmonics.com
Teaching
13 Aug 2009 - 2:29pm
THE SACRED IN SACRED SEXUALITY
The term sacred sexuality is in a way misleading because it can be interpreted to imply that sometimes sex is sacred and sometimes it is not. As human beings we are born with certain instincts and urges such as the urge to eat when we are hungry and to sleep when we are tired. We also have a sex drive. All three of these natural urges are necessary for our survival. Food and sleep keep us alive and so the innate need for them is an important part of our being human, so much so that it the urge is automatic. Go long enough without food and your hunger increases and increases until you can think of nothing else but how hungry you are and/or you will waste away and die. In the case of sleep you will eventually fall asleep whether you consciously want to or not.
As humans, our sex drive also has a purpose. Yes, it helps us keep our species going by creating new life, but it has another purpose as well; it is a homing signal, a reminder of from where we originated and of what is important in life. In fact, our sex drive is so strong and so important to express that it will be expressed in one way or another. Even if we try to tame it, express it in only in ways we think are socially acceptable, hold it in due to shame, fear of what others will think, cultural conditioning or other reasons, it will express, just perhaps in a way that is unfulfilling or even violent in its misdirection. Sex in and of itself is not dangerous, it is how we approach it, stifle it, misdirect it and color it with our own agendas based on past experiences, beliefs, etc. that make sex seem like less than the innate, beautiful, fulfilling experience that it ultimately is.
One of the reasons we crave sex so much is because of how wonderful it feels. This is such common knowledge that it is woven into our culture in just about every way possible. It is on our minds a lot (have you ever read one of those studies asking people how often they think about sex?!) and it is even part of how many of the products we use are promoted. Sex is part of how we respond to the people around us, and based on their response to us, we form opinions about ourselves. Sex is probably part of most every interaction we have, one way or another. It is a mental process as much as a physical thing that we “do” with someone. It is a foundation for how we feel about ourselves and how we take that sense of self into the world on a day to day basis. You can even think of sex as a currency or current of energy that we exchange in how we perceive others, how we respond to them based on that perception and how we feel about ourselves as a result. And interaction and exchange takes place, even if it is very subtle.
One of the gifts of having a sex urge is that it drives us to meet that need which often brings us together with others who also wish to meet that need. In the sexual interaction, an energy (current) exchange takes place physically but it again also takes place in how we feel about ourselves and the other(s) based on the interaction. Our past experiences have created expectations of ourselves, of our partner(s) and of the experience created together. Where it falls short of fulfillment, it is easy to attribute this to something about men, women, sex, the person or people you are with or to yourself. Thus sex has the capacity to stir up a lot of baggage, which we often continually perpetuate upon ourselves and each other. When this happens, sex can feel unfulfilling both physically and emotionally. Regardless of how much sex we may be having, if it is not fulfilling, it just leaves us wanting more and more as we try to get our fill. And if we have sex while feeling lack of trust, past hurts, repressed anger, etc. it is hard to really enjoy it fully because we are closed off to what makes sex most juicy (openness to experience it). This is similar to how some people approach food or other substances or experiences. More is not necessarily better. Nor is variety in terms of partners necessarily going to bring about the fulfillment we seek, it is how we choose to experience something that makes it fulfilling and sustaining. Experiencing the sacred in sexuality is a path of sexual and life fulfillment because it helps us to experience the whole of what sex is and what we are. Once we experience this wholeness, everything can be fulfilling if we so choose. Sex is never quite the same again.
Sacred sexuality can be thought of like stopping to smell the roses. Life is full of colors, textures, small details, tastes, sounds and more that are always present when you choose to take notice. A piece of fruit can be savored for its color, shape, size, scent, texture, taste and how it is presented (among other things). Or in a hurry to feed a hunger, we can gulp it down and not notice any of this, and feeling like we are still hungry for more of something. Sacred sexuality brings our attention to what is already present in our own bodies, in the bodies of others (if you choose to share the experience with others) and in what is created between people in the moment. In this regard sex is somewhat like dancing. An exchange of current (energy) takes place that is not just two or more people, it is something in and of itself that contains and includes whoever is present as one experience together. What’s more is that as you become aware of the sensations in your own body, it has a positive impact on the body of your partner(s) and of the overall experience.
Some people equate sacred sexuality with specific types of practices and/or techniques such as those of Tantra. Tantra is one approach to sacred sexuality but there are others such as Kama Sutra, Healing Love and more. Also, sacred sexuality can be experienced and enjoyed any time a person or people chose to savor the sensations and experience of pleasure in the moment. It can be independent of any specific approach or practices. Many people find the practices/techniques to be helpful in learning how to be aware and present to what is happening in the moment instead of stuck in the mental and emotional baggage and limiting self beliefs from the past. Since this type of conditioning is so much a part of how we interact, I believe learning and using practices and techniques such as breathwork, sound, eye contact and body movements are extremely valuable and helpful. However, it is important to keep in mind that these practices and techniques are not the full picture of sacred sexuality; they are just ways to be present and open to the fullness and wholeness of the moment. Many people equate sacred sexuality with techniques and lose track of sacred sexuality in its whole and ultimate form, which is the gift of being present (presence).
When people are truly present to themselves and each other sexually, their thoughts and baggage melts away and they become aware of the life force that sustains and unites them. The experience of divinity from which they came opens inside and around them and the feeling is exhilarating and pleasurable and much more. It is as if your senses open up even more and you feel pleasure/divinity/life force in greater depth and breadth because you are open to feeling more of it. It is always there and it is limitless. Sacred sexuality opens you to more of what is always present and this openness extends beyond “having sex” to an openness in everyday life, although the sex is really wonderful and that is a great reason for sacred sexuality in and of itself!
One of the great things about sacred sexuality is that you can choose to experience it at any time. Sexuality is life force energy (current) and it is always present. With practice you will be able to feel and enjoy your sexuality any time you wish, even if you are not with any other person or not in a relationship. Sacredness is about how you perceive things, about the openness to experiencing the divine within and around you. Any time you experience life force energy, you are experiencing sexuality. And when you shift your perception to go beyond mental conditioning, baggage, etc. by being present to the sensations in the moment, you are tuning into the sacred. Sacredness and sexuality are one…if you choose to experience them as such. From the experience of sacredness and sexuality being one, you can sense the sacredness in all experiences and all people. In life and in the bedroom, sacred sexuality can include things that many people would not typically define as sacred. However, if you are open to experiencing sacredness, you will learn from experience that it is everywhere. It is life changing and ultimately I believe it is what sacred sexuality is truly about.
A friend of mine once told me that sacred sexuality is not so much about knowing the sacredness in sex, but more about knowing that sexuality is the foundation of everything sacred in life and about life. He dreams of the day when not only would sacred be used to define sexuality but sexuality would be used to define and understand sacredness. Humanity has separated itself from sexuality; and when we objectify sexuality, we objectify ourselves by cutting ourselves off from our sacred source. Sacred sexuality is about being present to the fullness, the perfection, of our experience as human beings with our hearts and senses open to the depth and breadth that life is.
Linda White Dove
Copyright 2006 Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com/
Blog entry
19 Jun 2009 - 7:26am
We are a dynamic multidimensional being with the ability to perceive consciousness on different planes of existence -from the apparent density of 3d physicality to the subtlest etheric vibration of 'spirit' in higher dimensional realms.
The place most of us stop and focus awareness at is in the plane of duality-awareness embedded in 3d-physical existence. Duality is useful here as part of the decision processing necessary for manifesting anything in this dimension. Ego is closely tied to duality -as the chief filter and information processor of dualistic information (on-off, yes-no, good-bad). Duality, unfortunately, is also predisposed to support Fear (resulting from logical, self-preserving point of view) and thus the Ego has become laden with fear, and that fear has become humanity’s dominant influence of awareness.
Insecurity is a flavor of fear that many people carry with them. Cultural biases and fads instigate and support feelings of insecurity which are manipulated and leveraged to support commercial, consumer processes and cycles set up by the ego to assuage itself.
Spiritual practice focuses awareness on the expanded nature of self. As consciousness disengages from its embedded state in 3d-duality it expands to perceive the continuation of the body into finer, subtler vibrations of being. At these “higher” levels of awareness only a feeling of connectedness and love exists -there is no fear.
The dominant influence of awareness at these levels of being is something we have no word for in our common language. It’s a feeling of “always-is-ness,” a primordial being-ness, a complete and utter security of being -to the point that there is no question of the possibility of a threat existing. None of the common fears in 3d affect who we are at the higher states of being. There is no “time” period. Nothing ends, nothing began, everything exists at an energetic level -it is simply transforming and evolving consciousness.
All distinctions of a beginning and ending universe are subject to 3d reality and only exist in that dimension. The goal of spiritual practice is to reorient awareness to a higher level that maintains an always-is-ness confidence of being while “playing” in 3d manifesting and co-creating. Tantra, as a spiritual pathway, is remarkable for its capacity to use physical, 3d experience as both a doorway and catapult for consciousness expansion and reorientation to higher levels of being.
Tantric practices gradually transfer awareness from duality to unity consciousness. Tantric practice frees consciousness from the bonds of 3d by engaging this dimension’s fundamental aspect of physical pleasure: sex. Following its vibrational leading to subtler dimensions of spirit, consciousness is transformed and expanded by direct experience. From this higher-perspective of awareness, fear and insecurity can be consciously released as not serving the higher-good of the self; resting in the always-is-ness feeling of being. Thus Tantra effects the entirety of living, aiding the adherent in shifting dominant feelings from fear to confidence-of-being.
Sunyata Satchitananda
www.mythiclove.net/sunyata
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2 Mar 2009 - 3:54pm
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Well, literally translated from the Sanskrit this is a very loose and open sentence (open to suggestion, that is) but I used these words in particular because they appeal to me in their original sounds - me being born in the eastern 'pig' year therefore I like the sound "HAM" and also in mid-March, Aries the ram, hence I use "LAMB" participle.
AVA+LOK means "see, look @".
AVA+LAM translates as "cling 2", "hold on 2" or more appropriately "adopt":) this can also be used in joga when instructing someone to 'adopt' a position OR when we 'adopt' a new task in work or a new position in an argument, eh or I guess also to adopt a friend, an animal or a child;)
SUKHAM means "with pleasure" and "happiness", or as an adverb SUKHAM can mean "with comfort, @ ease".
Sanskrit is a beautiful language and is the root language of all the modern languages of Europe.
Admittedly I know far too little about it to be using it so flagrantly in this context but I felt that it may attract the attention of people who recognize or know more about it, who may be able to teach me more as I have a limited vocabulary in this tongue, even though it makes my heart sing to listen to it.
Eh, the answer is my wife taught me. AND I LISTENED heehee!
SNIGDAH is a funny word which means "affection" or "affectionate" and reads just as it sounds. It reminds me of the JAWAS from STARWARS EPISODE ONE (alluding to the statements' immense depth and gravity, heehee;P)
~Hugs~
XXi
PS For adults reading this - a surprising number of females I have met know and understand these words (probably better than me) and this language, Sanskrit, is one of the five sacred languages, and in any modern tongue or dialect the embedding of Sanskrit phrases has a fabulous attractive power. If, not only for their spiritual power but also because of the beauty of their aesthetic pronunciation. It is a secret language of lovers in which Tantra is read and shared.
Blog entry
23 Dec 2008 - 10:06pm
Cetacean SoulPlay
(with loving gratitude to WA(nimus)J for His words)
The Other calls.
Deep in ancient dreams
Auroras beckon,a stellar beacon,
homing,calls to me .
My Third Eye, watchful eye,
astrolabe of this soul's journey,
whirls, pulsates,
a soular syncopation.
An umbilical, silvery fine, pulses,
connects me
to a memory of fluid perfection
where time is notime.
Shimmery rainbows arc and swirl
Each chakra illuminating with every pulse
that kundalini bridge
across a night sky.
That rainbow bridge arcs
and descends
to a glistening strand.
Entranced, I'm drawn
to the shores
of notime.
In notime, our Mother,
Her tidal pull, draws me deeper,
deeper into
ancient dreams,
my soul's origin.
Into that inky wet, I glide.
One foot, then the other,
feeling my land legs regain their
original form, fluid fusion.
I am reborn, my Cetacean Soul
in joy at rebirth, drifts
in Her saline womb,
my soul's sonar thrums
and pulsates,
clicks, whirrs and
whistles in longing.
Seeking that Other, shimmering beacon
who called to me
in dreams of
my soul's origin.
Anima:
Across the Universe
an afterimage burns into my soul,
swirling psychedelia.
In opalescent mind-bridging
colors of love,
I did...
Touch you.
Across miles, lightyears and
lifetimes, I felt
the shape of your head,
curve of your spine,
breadth of your hand,
heart, felt your breathing,
the mist of it,
rising and falling,
encircling, entwined,
the reunion of Siamese selves,
a spiraling bellytospineto
bellytospine
interlocking DNA into
one translatable code,
ancient puzzle pieces
once separated,
now rejoined in night's
phosphorescence
In that wave of notime
we spiraled round
each other's soul.
Animus:
Visions of the Deep,
ecstasy released,unity
of oneness through spirit.
A liquid love gliding through everpresent
translucent pages, waves
of enchanted sea swirls
and wispy interludes.
blues and greens with
harmless yellows splashed about
...deep sighs.....utterances of
our spirit...
spiraling syncopations .....
silky smooth rhythms ....
melodic contractions...
portals opened......
...breathless release....
clean....
free......
falling.(WAJ)
In cetacean soulplay,
we spiraled 'round each
Other,
fluid,
free flowing
soul merging
fragments, once
separate
now
One.
Blog entry
19 Dec 2008 - 2:32pm
TANTRIC HEALING
The word Tantra is Sanskrit, the sacred language of Hinduism. It derives from the root word tan, which translates as "to extend, expand, spread, continue, spin out, weave; to put forth, show, or manifest."
Like the universe we inhabit, Tantra is continually expanding, spreading, and manifesting itself like a "cosmic weave," made up of different energies.
We are part of this weave, as are our forefathers and foremothers, all life, and every type of energy and matter. This includes thoughts, actions, and all physical matter.
Because Tantra is a mystical subject, it is nearly impossible to define. Even eminent scholars have had a hard time explaining what Tantra actually is.The different explanations of Tantra indicate its multifaceted nature. Tantra is a spiritual science, which means it is also mystical, in its interconnectedness, the holistic wisdom link between ourselves and the universe we inhabit.
By embracing Tantra, we become more "real," more "complete." We recognise and stimulate our inherent sensual spirituality, we discover parts of ourselves that have remained asleep or have been repressed.
With Tantra, an energy is released that is evolutionary and "upwardly motivated." We can learn to use this energy for pleasure, for achieving our worldly goals, and for aiding our spiritual evolution.
Familiarity with Tantra can help a person to enjoy life to the fullest. It can help do away with guilt or fear, break down self imposed or limiting cultural boundaries, and guide us in our search for solutions.
Tantra teaches us to become familiar with our mystical nature, and when we do so, our boundaries expand.
We enter into new domains of awareness. We become empowered, more fulfilled, and more perfect.
Tantric Yoga is based on the belief that the Universe is made up of Yin-Yang (Female-Male) principles, and that these Yin-Yang energies are also contained within the human body. Unification and harmonization of the Yin and Yang energy forces brings the experience of joyous transcendence and mystical ecstacy.
Spirituality and sexuality are not seperate. Rather, these fundamental and exquisite forces of our innermost beings are deeply integrated and united bringing a sense of divine balance and fulfillment within one's self.
Through the study of the Tantras (sacred sexual teachings), we gain awareness and mastery over our subtle energy body and creative sexual energy flows.
Through continued practice while partners develop and master the tantric asanas (postures) and pranayamas (breathing techniques), they tone and strengthen their respective subtle energy bodies and learn to harmonize the Yin-Yang forces within themselves and each other.
As couples combine and channel the primordial, evolutionary force of the Kundalini energy, they begin to experince deepening levels of the tantric erotic sentiment and the mystic erotic thrill created by the maturing and upward movement of Kundalini energy.
This eternal force which unites within them ascends as a powerful vortex of energy rising like liquid fire through their subtle bodies and into their 7th chakras at the top of their heads.
This union in turn begins what is often called a nectar rain of orgasmic splendor throughout the entire nervous system and aura (electromagnetic field of energy around the physical body ).
It is believed that through this transcendental state of mystic love that all karmas and impurities of the mind and body may be burned up and the participants may be transported into the divine realms of consciousness.
shared by LIORA www.twinflame1111.com
http://www.crystalinks.com/tantra.html
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9 Dec 2008 - 1:05pm
Golden light is having a slimming effet on me
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14 Oct 2008 - 12:10am
To everyone who ever heard a story which thrilled them, a song which stirred them, or an idea which changed them.
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26 Sep 2008 - 2:50pm
"What Yogis now, what Rishis of old,
The greatness of that Mother hath told,
Who from her own breast gave birth
To the sky and to the earth.
Thou hung the Heavens in empty space,
And holds the earth in its place,
Thou made and lighted up the sun
To stay and shine this earth upon.
Thy power transcendent, since their birth
Asunder holds the heaven and earth,
As chariot wheels are kept apart
By axles made thru workman's art.
In Shakti, who with thee can vie,
Thou fills the earth, the air, the sky;
Thy presence, unperceived, extends
Beyond the world's remotest ends.
A million earths, if such there be,
A million skies fall short of thee;
A billion suns can not out shine
The effulgence of thy light divine.
The worlds, which mortals boundless deem
To thee but as a handfull seem.
Mother, Thou art without a peer.
On earth, or in yonder heavenly sphere. p. VII
Thee, God, such matchless powers adorn
That thou without a foe was born.
Thou art the Lord of Lords,
Adored by Men and revered by Gods.
The circling times which wear away,
All else, to thee can not decay;
Thou shinest on in youthful force,
While countless Yugas run their course.
Unvexed by cares, or fears, or strife,
In bliss serene flow on thy life,
With faith we claim thine aid divine,
As thou art Mother, and we are thine.
An old Hindu prayer. The metrical translation from the Sanskrit writers, by Mr. J. Muir
Every one has many bodies, but I will deal with only two at this time, the Sthula (gross body) and the Sukshma (the subtle body). These two bodies can be easily understood by every one. The gross body can be felt but the subtle body can reason, as every one has experienced in the dreaming state. What keeps these two bodies together? There are ten pranas; five are subtle and five are gross. The gross pranas are in the gross body and move thru the gross Nadis or nervous system. The subtle pranas are in the subtle body and move thru the subtle Nadis. These two pranas are connected about the heart which is the organ of sensation. When the poets and others felt that sensation, they called it Atma or God in the heart. The other connection of the pranas is between the heart and the navel, that is the mind. The subtle body has as many nerves as the gross body. The three main ones are the Ida, Pingala and Sushumana. The Ida Nerve is on the left side, the Pingala is on the right and between the two is Sushumana. The mouth of the Sushumana
is closed by the Goddess Kundalini as she is sleeping at the door of the Sushumana. The Kundalini is in the subtle body and remains there always, but part of her divine energy is in the gross body and manifested as Prana, Apana, Vyana, Samana and Udana. The Kundalini is the creator and the sustainer of the universe. She is the All in All.
The best authority on the Kundalini is the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. It says: "The Kundalini is sleeping, closing the door of the Sushumana. She sleeps above the Kanda or where the Nadis unite. She gives liberation to the Yogi and bondage to fools. He who knows her knows Yoga."
The location of the Kanda is 12 angulis (or about 9 inches) above the anus and 3 inches long and 3 inches in breadth. It is the shape of a bird's egg and covered with a soft white piece of "cloth."
Great Rishi Yajnavalkya says the Kanda is about the same location. All authorities on Yoga give the location of the Kanda in the lower part of the body above the anus; and there is sleeping the Kundalini.
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika says further about the Kanda and Kundalini:
"Yogins awake the Kundalini that is sleeping at the door of the Sushumana. Seated on the Vajrasan and taking hold of the ankles, Yogi should slowly beat the Kanda."
We read in the Sharada Tilaka about Kundalini: "We pray to the Paradevata united with Shiva, whose substance is the pure nectar or bliss, red like unto vermillion, the young flower of the hibiscus, the sunset sky, who having crept her way thru the mass of sound issuing from the clashing and dashing of the two winds in the midst of the Sushumana, rises to the brilliant energy which glitters with the lustre of ten million lightnings. May she the Kundalini, who quickly goes to and returns from Shiva, grant us the fruit of Yoga! She being awakened is the cow of plenty to Kaulas, and the Kalpa Creeper of all things desired for those who worship her."
The Kundalini is the support of all, the Yoga is the means to reach her.
The Kundalini, when awakened, is the giver of all power, health, wealth and success. The Kundalini feeds the baby in the mother's womb. She fulfills our every desire. She is the All in All.
"I praise Tripura which is the treasure house of the race.
"The Kundalini, has three angles as well as three circles, and her Bhupura is three-lined. Her Mantra is three syllables, and she has three aspects. The Kundalini energy is also threefold in order that she may create the three Gods (Brahma, the Creator, or air; Vishnu, the Preserver, or water: Rudra, the Destroyer, or fire). Since she is triple everywhere, she is Tripura."
"O Mother of the Universe, those who praise you by the words, Mother, All in All, and Maya, will obtain all.
"There is nothing which can not be obtained on earth or in the Heavens, by Thy Grace."
This is as it should be, as the Kundalini is Power of Powers, Light of Lights, and All in All.
The Kundalini is Divine static and dynamic energy. The static energy (Kundalini), is sleeping at the Muladhara (Root Chakra); the dynamic energy of the Kundalini is all over the body as Prana, Apana, Samana, Vyana, and Udana. These five Vital breaths, or life forces, keep the body together. The duties of the five Pranas are as follows: Prana remains in the upper part of the body, and always moves upward; the Apana resides in the lower part of the body, or abdomen, and always flows downward; the Samana stays in the first section of the torso, digesting and distributing the food substances; the Vyana resides in the heart, and from there moves all over the body, its duty being the circulation of the blood; the Udana carries the Soul upward when the body dies.
These five Pranas stay in the grosser body. They are also in the finer or subtle body—the five finer breaths corresponding to the five grosser Pranas above described.
The Pranayama Yoga, the Mudra Yoga, and Dharana Yoga, are all for the control of the five Pranas and mind. Mind without Prana is like a bird without wings. The practice of the Mudras is to control the dynamic energy of the Kundalini, namely, Prana,
Apana, etc. The practice of Pranayama
is also to control the Prana, Apana, etc.—the dynamic energy of the Kundalini, and with it awaken the static energy of the Kundalini, which is sleeping at the Muladhara, or
root Chakra. When the five Pranas are controlled or made to stop at the desired place, the Muladhara Chakra, or at the door of the Sushumana, it will work like a spark to the static energy of the Kundalini.
"When Prana and Apana are mixed, it will naturally cause heat in the body; then the body becomes light and powerful. This extreme heat when felt by the Kundalini, causes her to awaken from sleep. Then she goes into the Sushumana." (From H. Y. P.)
The duty of the Yogin is to gather together or control the five Pranas—the life force of the Kundalini—that the dynamic energy of the Kundalini may be used to awaken the static energy of it, as one Kundalini energy will move the other energy.
When the Kundalini awakens or moves, what then remains? What will become of the Kundalini? She will go to the Six Chakras and also remain at her place. As steam is converted from water by heat and again returns to it, so rises the dynamic energy of the Kundalini, which goes up to the different Chakras and returns again and again.. While she will reach to the Sahasrara, still she will be at her home at the Muladhara Chakra.
The Kundalini power can only be known by Master Yogins, but some times even ordinary Yogins can see it, however not as clearly, as long as the inner eye is not open. When the Yogin has opened the inner eye, then he sees the different Chakras and the energy of the Kundalini, which is Life of Life, and Light of Lights.
The following Masterly and Scientific explanation of the Kundalini is by Prof. P. Mukhyopadhyaya, and was written for Arthur Avalon and brought out in his book.
"The Serpent Power," pp. 302-313.
I here acknowledge my thanks for the use of this explanation, and I wish that every student of Yoga would read "The Serpent Power." R. S. Gherwal.
"When you say that Kundali Shakti is the primordial Shakti at rest, I am led to think of an analogy (and it may be more than an analogy) in modern science. Cosmic energy in its physical aspect may be considered either as static or as dynamic, the former being a condition of equilibrium, the latter a condition of motion or change of relative position. Thus a material thing apparently at rest (there being no absolute rest except in pure Consciousness or Chit) should be regarded as energy or Shakti equilibrated, the. various elements of it holding one another in check (or, as the mathematicians will say, the algebraic sum of the forces being zero). Of course, in any given case the equilibrium is relative rather than absolute. The important thing to note is this polarisation of Shakti into two forms—static and dynamic.
"In the tissues of a living body, again, the operative energy (whatever the nature of that may be, whether we believe in a special 'vital force' or not) polarises itself into two similar forms—anabolic and katabolic—one tending to change and the other to conserve the tissues, the actual condition of the tissues being simply the resultant of these two coexistent or concurrent activities.
"In the mind or experience also this polarisation or polarity is patent to reflection. I have constantly urged this polarity between pure Chit and the stress which is involved in it: there is a stress or Shakti developing the mind through an infinity of forms and changes; but all these forms and changes are known as involved in the pure and unbounded ether of awareness (Chidakasha). This analysis therefore exhibits the primordial Shakti in the same two polar forms as before—static and dynamic—and here the polarity is most fundamental and approaches absoluteness.
"Lastly, let us consider for one moment the atom of modern science. The chemical atom has ceased to be an atom (indivisible unit of matter). We have instead the electron theory. According to this, the so-called atom is a miniature universe very much like our own solar system. At the centre of this atomic system we have a charge of positive electricity round which a cloud of negative .charges (called electrons) is supposed to revolve, just as myriads of planets and smaller bodies revolve round the sun. The positive and the negative charges hold each other in check, so that the atom is a condition of equilibrated energy, and does not therefore ordinarily break up, though it may possibly break up and set free its equilibrated store of energy, as probably it does in the emanations of the radium. What do we notice here? The same polarity of Shakti into a static and a dynamic partner—viz., the positive charge at rest at the centre, and the negative charges in motion round about the centre; a. most suggestive analogy or illustration, perhaps, of the cosmic fact. The illustration may be carried into other domains of science. and philosophy, but I may as well forbear going into details. For the present we may; I think, draw this important conclusion:
"Shakti, as manifesting itself in the universe, divides itself into two polar aspects—static and dynamic—which implies that you cannot have it in a dynamic form without at the same time having it in a corresponding static form, much like the poles of a magnet. In any given sphere of activity of force we must have, according to this cosmic principle, a static background—Shakti at rest or 'coiled', as the Tantras say.
"Before I proceed, let me point out what I conceive to be the fundamental significance of our Tantric and Pauranic Kali. This. figure or Murti is both real and symbolic, as indeed every Murti in the so-called Hindu mythology is. Now, the Divine Mother Kali is a symbol of the cosmic truth just explained. Sadashiva, on whose breast She dances, nude and dark, is the static background of pure Chit, white and inert (Shavarupa), because pure Chit is in itself Svaprakasha (self manifest) and Nishkriya (actionless). At the same time, apart from and beyond Consciousness there can be nothing—no power or Shakti—hence the Divine Mother stands on the bosom of the Divine Father. The Mother Herself is all activity and Gunamayi (in Her aspect as Prakriti composed of the Gunas). Her nakedness means that, though She encompasses all, there is nothing to encompass Herself; her darkness means that She is inscrutable, Avang-manasagochara (beyond the reach of thought and speech). Of course, this is no partition of reality into two (there lies the imperfection of the Sangkhya doctrine of Purusha and Prakriti, which is otherwise right), but merely polarisation in our experience of an indivisible fact which is the primordial (Adya) Shakti itself. Thus Chit is also Shakti. Shiva is Shakti and Shakti is Shiva, as the Tantras say. It is Gunashraya (support of Gunas) as well as Gunamaya (whose substance is Gunas); Nirguna (attributeless) as well as Saguna (with attribute), as said in a well-known passage of the Chandi.
"Your suggestive hint makes the nature of the Kundali Shakti rather clear to me. You are quite right, perhaps, in saying that the cosmic Shakti is the Samashti (collectivity) in relation to which the Kundali in the bodies is only the Vyashti (individual): it is an illustration, a reproduction on a miniature scale, a microcosmic plan, of the whole. The law or principle of the whole—that of macrocosmic Shakti—should therefore be found in the Kundali. That law we have seen to be the law of polarisation into static-dynamic or potential-kinetic aspects. In the living body, therefore, there must be such polarisation. Now, the Kundali coiled three times and a half at the Muladhara is the indispensable and unfailing static background of the dynamic Shakti operative in the whole body, carrying on processes and working out changes. The body, therefore, may be compared to a magnet with two poles. The Muladhara is the static pole in relation to the rest of the body, which is dynamic; the working the body necessarily presupposes and finds such a static support, hence perhaps 3 the name Muladhara, the fundamental support. In one sense, the static Shakti at the Muladhara is necessarily coexistent with the creating and evolving Shakti of the body, because the dynamic aspect or pole can never be without its static counterpart. In another sense, it is the Shakti left over (you have yourself pointed this out, and the italics are yours), after the Prithivi—the last of the Bhutas—has been created, a magazine of power to be drawn upon and utilized for further activity, if there should arise any need for such. Taking the two senses together (yours as well as mine), Shakti at the Muladhara is both coexistent with every act of creation or manifestation and is the residual effect of such act—both cause and effect, in fact—an idea which, deeply looked into, shows no real contradiction. There is, in fact, what the physicist will describe as a cycle or circuit in action. Let us take the impregnated ovum—the earliest embryological stage of the living body. In it the Kundali Shakti is already presented in its two polar aspects: the ovum, which the mother-element represents, one pole (possibly the static), and the spermatozoon, which is the father-element, represents the other (possibly the dynamic). From their fusion proceed those processes which the biologist calls differentiation and integration; but in all this process of creation the cycle can be fairly easily traced. Shakti flows out of the germinal cell (fertilised ovum), seizes upon foreign matter, and assimilates it and thereby grows in bulk; divides and subdivides itself, and then again co-ordinates all its divided parts into one organic whole. Now in all this we have the cycle. Seizing upon foreign matter is an outwardly directed activity, assimilation is an inwardly directed activity or return current; cell division and multiplication is an outwardly directed operation, co-ordination is inwardly directed; 5 and so on. The force in the germ-cell is overflowing, but also continuously it is flowing back into itself, the two operations presupposing and sustaining each other, as in every circuit. The given stock of force in the germ-cell, which is static so long as the fusion of the male and female elements does not take place in the womb, is the necessary starting-point of all creative activity; it is the primordial cause, therefore, in relation to the body—primordial as well as constantly given, unceasing. On the other hand, the reaction of every creative action, the return current or flowing back of every unfolding over flow, constantly renews this starting force, changes it without changing its general condition of relative equilibrium (and this is quite possible, as in the case of any material system); the force in the germ-cell may therefore be also regarded as a perpetual effect, something left over and set against the working forces of the body. Many apparently inconsistent ideas enter into this conception, and they have to be reconciled.
"1. We start with a force in the germ-cell which is statical at first (though, like a dicotyledon seed, or even a modern atom, it involves within itself both a statical and a dynamical pole; otherwise, from pure rest, involving no possibility of motion, no motion could ever arise). Let this be the Kundali coiled.
"2. Then there is creative impulse arising out of it; this is motion out of rest. By this, the Kundali becomes partly static and partly dynamic, or ejects, so to say, a dynamic pole out of it in order to evolve the body, but remaining a static pole or background itself all along. In no part of the process has the Kundali really uncoiled itself altogether, or even curtailed its three coils and a half. Without this Muladhara Shakti remaining intact no evolution could be possible at all. It is the hinge upon which everything else turns.
"3. Each creative act again reacts on the Muladhara Shakti, so that such reaction, without disturbing the relative rest of the coiled Shakti, changes its volume or intensity, but does not curtail or add to the number of coils. For instance, every natural act of respiration reacts on the coiled Shakti at the Muladhara, but it does not commonly make much difference. But Pranayama powerfully reacts on it, so much so that it awakes the dormant power and sends it piercing through the centres. Now, the common description that the Kundali uncoils Herself then and goes up the Sushumna, leaving the Muladhara, should, I think, be admitted with caution. That static background can never be absolutely dispensed with. As you have yourself rightly observed, 'Shakti can never be depleted, but this is how to look at it'. Precisely; the Kundali, when powerfully worked upon by Yoga, sends forth an emanation or ejection in the likeness of Her own self (like the 'ethereal double' of the Theosophists and Spiritualists) which pierces through the various centres until it becomes blended, as you point out, with the Mahakundali of Shiva at the highest or seventh centre. Thus, while this 'ethereal double' or, self-ejection of the coiled power at the Muladhara ascends the Sushumna, the coiled power itself does not and need not stir from its place. It is like a spark given from an over saturated 6 electro-magnetic machine; or, rather, it is like the emanations of radium which do not sensibly detract from the energy contained in it. This last, perhaps, is the closest physical parallel of the case that we are trying to understand. As a well-known passage in the Upanishad has it, 'The whole (Purna) is subtracted from the whole, and yet the whole remains.' I think our present case comes very near to this. The Kundali at the Muladhara is the whole primordial Shakti in monad or germ or latency: that is why it is coiled. The Kundali that mounts up the Nadi is also the whole Shakti in a specially dynamic form—an eject likeness of the Eternal Serpent. The result of the last fusion (there are successive fusions in the various centres also) in the Sahasrara is also the whole, or Purna. This is how I look at it. In this conception the permanent static background is not really depleted, much less is it dispensed with.
When again I say that the volume or intensity of the coiled power can be affected (though not its configuration and relative equilibrium), I do not mean to throw up the principle of conservation of energy in relation to the Kundali, which is the embodiment of all energy. It is merely the conversion of static (potential) energy into dynamic (kinetic) energy in part, the sum remaining constant. As we have to deal with infinities here, an exact physical rendering of this principle is not to be expected. The Yogi therefore simply 'awakens', and never creates Shakti. By the way, the germ-cell which evolves the body does not, according to modern biology, cease to be a germ-cell in any stage of the complicated process. The original germ-cell splits up into two: one half gradually develops itself into the body of a plant or animal—this is the somatic cell; the other half remains encased within the body practically unchanged, and is transmitted in the process of reproduction to the offspring—that is, the germ-plasm. Now, this germ-plasm is unbroken through the whole line of propagation. This is Weismann's doctrine of 'continuity of the germ-plasm,' which has been widely accepted, though it is but an hypothesis."
Shakti being either static or dynamic, every dynamic form necessarily presupposes a static background. A purely dynamic activity (which is motion in its physical aspect) is impossible without a static support or ground (Adhara). Hence the philosophical doctrine of absolute motion or change, as taught by old Heraclitus and the Buddhists and by modern Bergson, is wrong; it is based neither upon correct logic nor upon clear intuition. The constitution of an atom reveals the static-dynamic polarisation of Shakti; other and more complex forms of existence also do the same. In the living body this necessary static background is Muladhara, where Shakti is Kundali coiled. All the functional activity of the body, starting from the development of the germ-cell, is correlated to, and sustained by the Shakti concentrated at, the Muladhara. Cosmic creation, too, ending with the evolution of Prithivi Tattva (it is, however, an unending process in a different sense, and there perhaps Henry Bergson, who claims that the creative impulse is ever original and resourceful, is right), also presupposes a cosmic static background (over and above Chidakasha-ether of Consciousness), which is the Mahakundali Shakti in the Chinmayadeha (body of Consciousness) of Parameshvara or Parameshvari (the Supreme Lord in male an female aspect). In the earliest stage of creation,. when the world arises only as a mist in Divine Consciousness, it requires, as the principle or pole of Tat (That), the correlate principle or pole of Aham in the development of the former, the latter serves as the static background. In our own experiences, too, 'Apperception' or consciousness of self is the sustaining background—a string, so to say, which holds together all the loose beads of our elements of feeling. The sustaining ground or Adhara, as the seat of static force, therefore is found, in one form or other, in every phase and stage of creative evolution. The absolute or ultimate form is, of course, Chit-Shakti (Consciousness as power) itself, the unfailing light of awareness about which our Gayatri (Mantra) says: 'Which sustains and impels all the activities of Buddhi.' This fact is symbolised by the Kali-murti: not a mere symbol, however.
Remarks about the rising or awakening of the Serpent Power at the Muladhara have been, perhaps, almost of the nature of a paradox. The coiled power, though awakened, uncoiled, and rising, never really stirs from its place; only a sort of 'ethereal double' or 'eject' is unloosed and sent up through the system of centers. Now, in plain language, this ethereal double or eject means the dynamic equivalent of the static power concentrated at the Mula, or root. Whenever, by Pranayama of Bijamantra, or any other suitable means, the Muladhara becomes, like an electro-magnetic machine, oversaturated (though the Kundali Shakti at the Mula is infinite and exhaustless, yet the capacity of a given finite organism to contain it in a static form is limited, and therefore there may be oversaturation), a dynamic or operative equivalent of the static power is set up, possibly by a law similar to Nature's law of induction, by which the static power itself is not depleted or rendered other than static. It is not that static energy at the Mula wholly passes over into a dynamic form—the coiled Kundali leaving the Mula, thus making it a void; that cannot be, and, were it so, all dynamic operation in the body would cease directly for want of a background. The coiled power remains coiled or static, and yet something apparently passes out of the Mula—viz., the dynamic equivalent. This paradox can perhaps be explained in two ways:
(a) One explanation was suggested in my main letter. The potential Kundali Shakti becomes partly converted into kinetic Shakti, and yet, since Shakti, even as given in the Mula-center, is an infinitude, it is not depleted; the potential store always remains unexhausted. I referred to a passage in the Upanishad about Purna. In this case the dynamic equivalent is a partial conversion of one mode of energy into another. In Laya-Yoga (here described) it is ordinarily so. When, however, the infinite potential becomes an infinite kinetic—when, that is to say, the coiled power at the Mula becomes absolutely uncoiled—we have necessarily the dissolution of the three bodies (Sthula, Linga, and Karana—gross, subtle, and causal), and consequently Videhamukti (bodiless liberation), because the static background in relation to a particular form of existence has now wholly given way, according to our hypothesis. But Mahakundali remains; hence individual Mukti (liberation) need not mean dissolution of Samsara (transmigrating worlds) itself. Commonly, however, as the Tantra says, 'Pitva pitva punah pitva,' etc.
(b) The other explanation is suggested by the law of induction. Take an electromagnetic machine: 'if a suitable substance be placed near it, will induce in it an equivalent and opposite kind of electro-magnetism without loosing its own stock of energy. In conduction, energy flows over into another thing, so that the source loses and the other thing gains what it has lost, and its gain is similar in kind to the loss. Not so induction. There the source does not lose, and the induced energy is equivalent and opposite in kind to the inducing energy. Thus a positive charge will induce an equivalent negative charge in a neighbouring object. Now, shall we suppose that the Muladhara, when it becomes over-saturated, induces in the neighbouring centre (say, Svadhishthana) a dynamic (not static) equivalent? Is this what the rise of the Serpent Power really means? The explanation, I am tempted to think, is not perhaps altogether fantastic."
Blog entry
19 Sep 2008 - 3:58pm
I provide Tantric Healing sessions which include Internal Pelvic Release. In a previous blog entry I shared the most common reasons why one would want to have a Tantric Healing session. My purpose as a lightworker is to provide opportunities for sexual healing and clearing of blocked energy which keeps one from experiencing the fullness of life and sexual integration/expression. I see both men and women in private sessions and serve the highest possibility that each one is open to receiving, releasing, allowing, and expanding into.
Love and Light,
Sunyata
Reasons for seeking Sexual Healing with Internal Pelvic Release
Many, if not most, women in our culture have experienced physical abuse, sexual trauma, rape, and/or molestation as well as mentally and emotionally abusive episodes. Even short of these more extreme experiences, women often are pressured to submit or accommodate sexual gratification of their husband or lover without desiring or fully welcoming the engagement in the moment. All of these circumstances produce contractions and restrictions of a woman’s energy.
The “bad experience” is stored in body-memory tissue located usually in the yoni, stomach and/or anus areas of the body. This has the affect of clamping down the woman’s full enjoyment of sexual engagement and creating “dead” or numb areas of the body. Often this affects sexual desire as well. Women who experience this may compensate or ignore the feelings of disconnect, numbness, pain or anger that exist and “just go-along” with their husband or lover’s request for sex and not be fully present to what is happening. This certainly takes it toll on the relationship, even if only on a subliminal level -slowly eroding the intimacy and freedom of sexual expression she feels.
Internal Pelvic Release (a.k.a. “Yoni Healing”) is an important aspect of sexual healing for women. To experience the full flow effect of kundalini (sexual energy) rising it is essential that the energetic pathways of the body be prepared, clear and open. When this is the case, women feel empowered and free in their sexual expression and embodiment of Shakti (Divine Feminine) energy. They feel “lighter” -more enlivened- experiencing expanded sensual sensitivity and orgasmic response to their lover’s attention.
Procedure
To create a holistic healing opportunity there first needs to be a sense of “space” around the issues embedded like a memory in the body. To begin with, some consciousness discussing the woman’s concerns and felt awareness and understanding of past abuse, trauma, or emotional wounds, is shared. With a detached perspective and holding an intention of releasing and opening, the woman opens to an opportunity for healing. At that point, the physical aspect of the procedure has greater impact and is welcomed by the body.
To prepare the body, a full-body sensual massage is given. It is essential to deeply relax the body so its unconscious “armoring” is lowered and energy is flowing more easily. The adept Daka will also use Tantric skills to enliven the energy pathways of the body in preparation for the energy release that follows. Only when the body is readied in this manner will the Internal Pelvic Release procedure be affective.
The following description is for information purposes only and is not a complete instruction set of the procedure. One should not attempt internal pelvic release without previously receiving personal instruction and guidance by an experienced practitioner. There are more aspects to become familiar with and assurances of competency to complete before one begins performing this procedure with a client or inexperienced receiver.
Its very important for the Daka to ask permission before engaging the yoni. The woman receiving this procedure must feel completely at-choice, with nothing being “taken” from her nor having to submit to something she is not desiring or ready for. I ask permission and receive her verbal “yes” and then I wait for the yoni to also “say yes” by its feel -open, receptive, welcoming energy.
The exterior of the yoni receives a sensual massage that is intended to relax and open the yoni tissues up to receiving deeper contact and vaginal penetration. When the yoni is prepared and ready to be entered the Daka will enter the yoni with one finger and gently probe the vaginal walls for areas of tightness, tenderness, soreness, or pain. When such areas are encountered, a gentle but firm pressure is applied without “rubbing” or creating friction to that area -merely meeting the contracted spot with firm-but-gentle pressure that equals the firmness of the contraction -without trying to force it to release. The receiver is invited to bring consciousness to this spot and “breath-into” it with the intention of allowing whatever wants to happen to do so -again not in resistance or forcing anything to happen.
The physical process is similar to acupressure on a knot in one’s muscle. Often, the masseuse will hold pressure until there is a release in the muscle. As the Daka feels the vaginal wall release there is a definite feeling of softening and opening that occurs. Often this is accompanied by a vocalized release which may include anger, sobbing tears, and/or physical reactions of shaking and sweating.
After one area is addressed, a thorough canvassing of the yoni wall and addressing of additional “tight spots” occurs, providing a “clearing” of the yoni. It is often necessary to receive more than one session for complete clearing to occur.
A Different Touch
The Internal Pelvic Release procedure is different from “pleasuring touch” or even the release associated with invoking female ejaculation. The process is often pleasantly enjoyable while engaging pleasure-sensitive areas of the yoni, the touch however, is not a solicitous one, designed to invoke sexual excitement or orgasm. Rather, the yoni is engaged with "love-heals," accepting, touch/pressure.
This love-heals touch often contacts tender, sensitive, sometimes painful areas of tight, clenched tissue or muscle in the stomach, yoni and anus area. The engagement therewith is gentle, loving-acceptance, healthful touch/pressure, which meets the “tightness” with equal presence without resistance. This is different from touch designed to invoke orgasm or female ejaculation -it feels loving, accepting, healing, opening one’s self to a more relaxed welcoming of touch rather than the armoring stiffness, “deadness” or numbness currently felt in one’s gut, yoni, or anal areas.
Benefits
By freeing these areas of the body from contraction it allows for the free-flow of energy through the three lower Chakras (energy centers) in the “body.”
The Root Chakra (located at the end of the tail-bone, externally represented by the perineum) is connected to one’s relationship with one’s community, family, survival, feeling of groundedness and connection to mother earth Gaia. It is through this source all our material-physical manifestations come from -procreation/creation.
One’s Second Chakra is associated with the genitals of the body and is connected to our sexual expression, as well as one’s feeling of Shakti (Divine Feminine energy) flow through the body -resulting in a “sensuality” of being. Because of this, the Second Chakra is also associated with Eros, vital force, inspiration, creative spark, vitality, and vibrancy of life. If you are not feeling these aspects of your essential nature then you have contractions/restrictions in this Chakra.
The Third Chakra is connected to one’s “Power” in life and shows up in one’s ability to manifest one’s dreams or intentions. The Third Chakra is located about three fingers below the sternum’s end on the rib cage and is associated with the stomach. If you have a protruding stomach out of proportion with the rest of your body or experience severe tightness, cramping, or bloating of your stomach, you likely have Third Chakra, personal power, issues happening. Clearing this Chakra empowers one’s life with confidence and clear intention and understanding of how to manifest one’s desires.
By clearing these three Chakras from blockages and restrictions (which show up in these areas of the body) one becomes a being filled with vibrant energy, sensuality, confidence, and tremendous expanded orgasmic ability. One’s energy shoots to new heights and sees fantastic new possibilities entering life every day.
Completion
Completing the procedure involves holding space and staying present without trying to fix anything or stop the emotion from coming out. The Daka can offer support by eye-contact, holding hands, embracing the receiver as desired -or not- by her. Gentle, long strokes to the body of reassurance and acceptance is often welcomed.
I keep one hand present at the yoni (exterior), holding in support of integrating the releasing energy. My other hand strokes the body, bringing the energy up and out through the body on to whatever energetic disbursement the wisdom of the “body” has in store for it. Sometimes the receiver can become cold at this time, it is good to have a blanket or sheet available to cover up with. Compression squeezes through the covering are often welcomed now, feeling deeply cared for and nurtured and warm.
If after reading this you would like to receive a Tantric Healing session, or want to learn the complete procedure in order to offer this healing practice as a Daka, please contact me.
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Blog entry
13 Sep 2008 - 9:25am
One day about 2 years ago I woke up and could hear the Voice of my heart: Now you Love yourself Fully so you don't need to give or receive love from others. I knew that it was truth. I love myself so much that I will never go against My Self again.
I love the God living inside Me, I love the Animal living inside Me - Lion, I love the Male Inside Me, I love the Lover loving Me inside Me and I love the Boy playing inside Me. I love my Body because I live inside my body and I take care of my body as best as I can. My body loves exercise so I give it plenty, My body loves Organic Healthy Food so I feed my Body with no poisons and pesticides
I realised I do no need anybody's Love and That Giving and Receiving Love creates Dependances, so I decided I no Longer do Giving and Receiving Love.....
Some people thought that I am a Monster who does not believe in giving and receiving Love.
What I do Instead is I SHARE ALL THE LOVE I HAVE FOR MYSELF WITH ANYONE I WANT TO. FREELY AND FOR NO REASON. I Started to share love instead and I noticed that Shared Love does not hurt because I no longer depend on someone else's Love.
I love you and I love God Inside you ad You inside Me
Robert
video
31 Aug 2008 - 12:24pm
What I've ascertained from your videos, is that there really is no heaven and hell per se--rather they are states of mind based on how evolved we really are (and being confined to the 3rd dimension may make many feel like they're in hell)--is that correct?
When we are in the light body do we make love the same way we do in our physical body?"
These questions and others, asked by subscribers, are put to the collective consciousness of Nine, through Magenta Pixie for their responses.
Music by Kevin Macleod.
Edited by Magenta Pixie.
Story
31 Aug 2008 - 12:21pm
Lovemaking in the Lightbody, Heaven and Hell and other questions.
is it possible for anyone to channel?
Yes. Anyone with DNA is capable of communicating with it.
“or is it only for people more "connected" than others?”
The communications will come with matching frequency to the channeler. Therefore it is recommended that the channel be of a certain vibratory rate in order to attract a like vibratory energy. However anyone can channel.
What I've ascertained from your videos, is that there really is no heaven and hell per se--rather they are states of mind based on how evolved we really are (and being confined to the 3rd dimension may make many feel like they're in hell)--is that correct?
Heaven and hell are “states of mind” but “states of mind” manifest as “frequencies” which from your perspective are “places” therefore it is correct to say that heaven and hell are places, yet your comment is correct for they are “states of mind”
When/if we "ascend", you mention we become geniuses--is this accurate--can you elaborate?
The full ascended one reaches genius level by balancing the left and right hemisphere of the brain, raising kundalini spine energy and activating the pineal gland and thus activating the higher strand DNA helix formation. The Ascended one is then at genius level and exists within their light body in crystalline form.
Will the world-wide use of currency ever end? If so, what will this entail?
We see from our vantage point in your current timeline that monetary systems shall change and many will see that as an ending. There shall be “currency” but not as you currently perceive it therefore world-wide use of currency shall not end.
This shall entail a coming together of the like minded to formulate new systems based on fairness, equality and unity. Strategically placed lightworkers currently within political, financial and other systems shall be forerunners in this currency changeover process and shall act when the time is right. The currency change over process shall be a “slow process” from your perspective even whilst certain systems shall appear to change quickly. Many will perceive this as negative but chaos always precedes change and peace. Therefore there shall be a birth moment, a transition prior to the monetary change which you are already in the process of. The monetary change is part of the Ascension for everything is ascending including systems and structures and policies for these all exist within the universal mind which itself is raising with Ascension in accordance with natural universal law.
“I have a question for you, When we are in the light body do we make love the same way we do in our physical body?”
There shall be a choice. The physical body can be used in much the same way as it is now, we refer here to those who use tantric energies. However it will be possible to extend this tantric energy further than you can now and love making can occur in the dream state, remembered by both parties and can occur telepathically when the couple are apart. That which you know as “absent healing” works in the same way. Love making shall extend to the mind and the energy fields around the body and the charkas. All this is possible now and is available to those who are Ascending & moving into their light bodies. Indeed there are couples now on your Earth who are able to move fully into their lightbodies and make love this way and do. When they do this they create yet another pathway of light within the Ascension process, mapmaking a frequency that others shall follow. This pathway of light is currently available.
will the people we love be able to see us as we ascend?
If they are not vibrating on the same frequency they may not be able to see you, it really shall depend on their own level of awareness and their control over their consciousness.
There are those who walk among you that you do not see. Some like not being seen. Some are here to help. All vibrations exist in simultaneous levels of space with differing aspects to time.
As you raise your frequency you shall see those who did not want to be seen. This has already happened to some. Many of those who did not want to be seen are coming to terms with the fact they they are being seen. In the same respect there are those who see you now who at some point may not. This is evolution as frequencies are raised. On another perspective you shall all see one another…..for in one time frame you Ascend individually at differing rates, this is the perspective you currently experience as therefore is the most relevant for you. Yet there is another perspective where all beings Ascend at the same rate together in perfect equality. These perspectives are both correct. Hence the reason why different channels pick up different information. There are infinite perspectives. There is also only one.
I have read that we will ascend and people on the physical will not be able to see us..but we can help them soo much and be the people they channel..I do not see the joy in that ..the earth and its people are wonderful..it saddens me to think that we would leave before we learned how to love where we are..do you have any insight into this?
It is correct on one perspective to say that you will be the people those that cannot see you channel. Those from higher frequencies always guide and help those on the frequencies below. This has always been done, it is the way it is.
However those that you communicate with on the higher levels are aspects of you, for they are your DNA.
It is complicated for us to explain to you that which cannot be perceived in third density. For although there is a perspective where “others” do not “see” you, and we bring forward the words “others” and “see” in italics for these words are metaphor for an even greater truth. There is only so much knowledge we are permitted to pass to you, there comes a point where we can give only clues.
Therefore “others” are metaphor and “see” is metaphor. It is for the researcher of truth to dig deeper into the reality of what we impart but one must let go of third dimensional limitations in one’s thinking if one wishes to access a correct response to this.
You say you do not see the joy in this situation and we can understand your perspective. Again we say you are looking at this with the third dimensional eye. If we were to show you exactly how much “joy” there truly is in this situation you would not exist in third density any longer for no third density being can hold that much “joy frequency” within. Dear ones you must let go of worries and trust. It is trust that shall take you forward. We see from the higher perspective and are here to guide you as are many others but we cannot give you all the answers you seek. We follow the rules according to that which you laid down for us to follow. We would not do you such a disservice by breaking the rule that you devised.
This then brings us to the next question
“Can you tell me who is the architect of the universe?”
The best response we can give here is to tell you to look in your mirror. There the architect of the universe stands before you.
WE ARE THE WHITE WINGED COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF NINE.
Blog entry
30 Aug 2008 - 6:34am
I am a Man serving as a Sacred Intimate (Daka, Sexual Healer). I’ve worked as a carpenter, insurance inspector, photographer, TV station manager, and Development Director so you might wonder how did I come to be one who engages sexual energy with the intention of healing, shifting, releasing and opening energy blockages consisting of: emotional wounds, judgment, shame, powerlessness, low self-esteem and inexperience.
My path to becoming a Sacred Intimate started when I was pursuing a fine art photographer career. I created fine art nude-in-nature imagery which was well received and published in several issues of FOCUS magazine and shown at Photo San Francisco. The women who posed for me weren’t professional models and for many it was their first time to be photographed unclothed. I was professional and respectful, making sure they were comfortable, warm, and at-ease. Many of these women had remarkable responses to seeing their beauty portrayed in fine art imagery. From these experiences I yearned to be able to positively affect a woman’s self-esteem and realization of her beauty and innate divinity -however I had no idea of what form that service might be.
I began studying Tantra and sacred sexuality. It was here that I found a basis for understanding sexuality and the dynamic of male-female energy engagement. This took me to a higher possibility for sexual engagement and created a container that supported transcendence within sexual relationship. Through my own process of healing, opening, and releasing my “blocks” to wholeness and integration I was able to reach a place within where I could serve the women in my life with similar processing, education, and coaching.
Eventually I met and began a relationship with, a woman who was serving as a Sacred Intimate (Dakini). Through her introduction and example, I was presented with the form my service could take. I desired formal certification to become a “Daka” and found a teacher for that purpose. I became certified as a Tantric Healer and started offering sexual healing sessions soon thereafter.
Before I began giving sessions as a Daka I went through a period of deep introspection, contemplating my motivation for serving in this capacity. Was I doing this to “get dates?” Was there some sexual gratification in the process for me? How did I feel about serving women I wasn’t attracted to? Would I serve men too? What were my boundaries, what was I willing/not willing to provide in a session?
My fears came up: Did I know enough, would I be good enough? Would I be able to fulfill the client’s expectations for the session? Could I keep my emotional “distance” and not become enmeshed/entangled with a client’s feelings or circumstances? Fortunately, I discovered, fears are always worse than what is actually experienced. My sessions were perfect, each a lesson in relaxing into being present and holding space without a personal agenda -which is a large part of my service as a Daka.
One of the big questions was: Would I serve Men? At first, I was disinclined because I am heterosexual, but then realized I was perpetuating my own homophobic fears. So, I remained open and after several gay or bisexual men contacted me for sessions I decided to give it a try. This process was perfect because it made me take another, closer, look at the purpose of the sessions I offer. For me, sessions are about healing and integration and realizing one’s divinity and higher awareness of being and not merely for the client’s sexual gratification. I realized that I was uncomfortable with providing “directed release” (a.k.a. “a happy ending”) as an expectation in the session. With either men or women, orgasms can happen, but they are not the goal of the session. I teach meditation and breathing techniques and energy awareness which combine to produce an expanded understanding and experience of orgasm when it occurs -and give men the option of not ejaculating but retaining the energy and moving it up through their body for an expanded experience.
So why do men and women come to see me in sexual healing sessions?
My sessions focus on sexual healing, releasing, opening and clearing energy blockages stemming from past trauma, emotional wounds, judgments, shame, powerlessness, and messages prompting low self-esteem. These blocks take the form of “hot spots” of tension stored in the body at various locations -often in the first or second Chakra area. Both men and women carry these blockages and both benefit from being consciously touched with loving, accepting, nurturing energy. By being present and providing loving touch, an opportunity is presented for the stored energy to shift, move, open, and release as a result of the intention for healing and integration held by the client. I gently steward our session and provide a safe and sacred container for such releases to occur.
Another reason men and women have sessions with me is due to the profound absence in our culture for healthy modeling of masculine attributes that support holistic growth and integration in the psyche. Women experience a double dose of discouragement when trying to grow into integrated wholeness by receiving healthy masculine modeling. There are very limited positive resources to model one’s inner masculine after and when women do assert masculine aspects they are often demeaned as a “bitch” or “dyke” by immature male egos.
Men likewise have scant resources for such modeling, and often receive their “training in being a man” from their father, grandfather, older brothers, uncles, superiors at work, or religious leaders -many of whom are emotional-adolescents themselves! Sessions with me give one the opportunity to explore healthy male energy that does not have an agenda for personal fulfillment or egoic gain.
A third aspect of sessions with me centers on healthy unconditional acceptance and touch. Many people do not have a resource for this in their life. And there seems to always be an attachment of expectation for reciprocal treatment -at the least- or worse, a one-way “using” of the other for sexual gratification. Women especially, report feeling like their husbands are just using their body to “get off” and don’t feel “seen” or felt as being present with -during sex.
I provide present, unconditionally loving acceptance and touch to whomever is before me -loving their body in all its shapes, sizes, colors, ages, and forms. For some people, my touch is the only experience of loving acceptance their body has had since they were very young. Sessions with me are often among one’s first steps towards body acceptance and better self-esteem.
Another significant category of client are women who have chosen to be celibate for one reason or another. These women often choose to experiment with male energy in a safe and sacred container, knowing nothing is expected of them in return and they can relax into positive male energy and maintain their choice of celibacy.
Men clients come to see me for many of the same reasons women do. Men have also experienced trauma, emotional wounding, and abuse and desire a safe container to release blockages of judgment, shame, powerlessness, guilt and low self-esteem. Whatever their sexual orientation, positive male energy is invaluable to experience and incorporate in one's life and men find their time with me to be nurturing and supportive in this way. Also, some heterosexual men desire to experiment with male energy in a safe and sacred container without the expectation of sex. I provide a positive engagement that meets this desire without judgment or pressure for sex.
What happens in a session with me?
Many clients are nervous in the beginning of their first session. Quickly that releases as one feels my presence, unconditional love and open listening which fosters trust and shifts the experience into relaxed confidence. I spend a significant amount of time counseling and coaching, which brings conscious awareness to personal and relationship challenges and a higher possibility for sexual engagement. I ask clients to share with me their intention and desire for our time together and what part of their story which seems relevant to our session. We discuss their intention, desires and concerns and I ask them to hold these lightly during our session and see what wants to shift, open, release, and integrate.
Because energy blocks are accepted into our being through a process that goes from the more subtle etheric bodies (intellectually, emotionally, spiritually) into the density of the physical body (and gets lodged there in “storage”). The process to release such blocks includes a similar pathway. I co-create with the client an opportunity for shifting or release by bringing a higher-consciousness to the underlying emotional and psychological issues attached to the blockage. Then I engage the body through breathing techniques, movement and massage to activate the specific areas harboring these blockages.
To get to the state where a shift or release can happen the body must be deeply relaxed, where armoring defenses are inactive. The quality of touch conveyed during the massage is one of unconditional love and acceptance, nurturing wholeness and well-being. There is no salacious “getting-off” energy part of this process, I am merely bringing the opposite of: judgment, fear, shame, and guilt to these sensitive areas of the body -and holding space for whatever wants to happen to occur.
I begin the session with a “centering” exercise using eye-gazing and breathing. I often follow this time with some core-connected “meditative movement” -a slow “dance” of stretching and moving our bodies to aid in embedding the new consciousness discussed earlier in the session. This is followed by a full-body sensual massage that includes the entirety of the body.
A full body sensuous massage includes the “private areas” of the body. For these areas, I ask permission first, and then wait for the body to also say “yes.” For the yoni (vagina), it is a three-step process. First, permission is received to start engagement with the yoni exterior, then when that is complete, permission is granted to enter the yoni for the interior release process, and third, permission to engage the sacred spot (another area that often carries shame, judgment, and fear). Each step is given respectful pause and consideration so that the woman feels completely at-choice and that nothing is being “taken” from her in the massage.
The massage is followed by a period of “completion” where I simply hold space and stay present to the venting or releasing that has occurred. If the client is open to it I eye-gaze with them for a bit to connect (sometimes however, the client desires to “go within” and close their eyes for a while) and we might hold hands or with my hand to their heart, so there is no abrupt ending to the session.
I also offer follow up counseling/coaching by phone or email for what may come up during the days/weeks that follow the session. Many clients benefit from repeat sessions which clear more blockages and allow for further integration and a return to a sense of wholeness and well-being.
Sessions for couples.
I feel humbly blessed to be trusted by a couple who are revealing their relationship’s challenges and desires. Couples often have issues around sexuality and intimacy and it is wonderful to experience the “ah-hah” moments where consciously connecting-the-dots creates a shift or opening that allows more love to shine through. I use a process of bringing consciousness to challenging aspects of relationship followed by integration with movement, breathing and massage to create a higher possibility for the couple’s love to deepen and intimacy to be felt.
Often couples come for sexual enhancement and also end up learning advanced sensitivity and communication skills and/or ways of bringing presence and consciousness to their relationship more fully. For many couples, sessions include discussion, coaching, education, demonstration, and body integration which I initiate and also teach them to do with each other. In addition, I offer sessions co-facilitated with a Dakini, Kali Devi, for those who are more comfortable with a couple leading the session.
As more women become apprised of the opportunity to grow into fullness by releasing blockages of energy through Sacred Intimate sessions our culture will begin to heal itself more rapidly. As men become more sensitive to the higher possibility of masculine/feminine integration and appreciation of their feminine aspect they will find eager support from women who share the desire for higher possibility in relationship and the social evolution of our species. Sacred Intimates, male and female, lead in this endeavor and provide opportunities for individuals and couples to expand in love and self-integration for a more holistic experience of life and love.
Please join me September 12-14th 2008 at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California for the World Polyamory Conference where I will be facilitating a workshop entitled: The Sacred Intimate: Agents of Love and Light. Also, please visit my web site to read more information about my sacred service offerings and to be notified of the release of my book “Love, Sex & Consciousness: a Handbook for the Aquarian Age” -coming soon. I am also accepting new clients, so please contact me with your desire for a session.
Love and Light,
Sunyata Satchitananda
www.mythiclove.net/sunyata
www.sacrederos.com/sunyata/
Accept What's Present
Release What's Not
Consciously Create
—Sunyata Satchitananda
Blog entry
24 Aug 2008 - 1:35pm
This is the channeled transcript of the video which can be found either here on Lightworkers or on You Tube username magentapixie2012
The true nature of sexuality
Sexuality is far more than just sensation or procreation or even in it’s higher form, showing physical love to another. Your sexuality is your key to attaining higher states of consciousness. When sexuality is grounded yet is tantrically shared with another of like vibration within the universal sacred marriage, the true marriage and the union which has been bought together by universal forces of destiny in line with the incarnate blueprint of the couple, sexuality becomes a spiritual tool.
This has been known on your planet for many thousands of years and those who have controlled your planet have sought to defile that which is a sacred union with the divine. For when one is bought together with another of like vibration and ignites the flame of kundalini passion and tantra, one creates the sacred triangle with the Twin Flame higher self union and thus with universal source energy, Christ Consciousness. God.
This sexual union is so powerful and embraces so many levels simultaneously as the divine feminine and masculine energies blend together in electrical magnetic harmony.
One mirrors the cosmos, one mirrors God for this energy that flows between the tantric couple is the very energy of universal flow, it is the very creation of universal flow itself.
When Kundalini fire is raised through the sacred sexual act and flows to the brain, igniting the pineal gland, the sacred pine cone, the receiver transmitter of the all that is, one enters the altered state of consciousness that brings one in alignment with cosmic energy. One is then free to explore other dimensions at will and learn universal truths and access sacred knowledge. The akashic records of all that has ever passed and all that can pass shall be available to he who reaches upwards to blissful divinity in this way.
We know you have been told that sexual activity should only take place within a marriage. This statement has truth within it but it is the sacred marriage of Twin Flames that is spoken of here. No marriage conducted by the state or by a church or other third density organisation or institution can ever bring together two people in the sacred union. This sacred union transcends third density laws and religions and takes place within the higher dimensional fields of the couple involved. This is the sacred marriage we speak of and this couple do not need to have entered into that which you know as “marriage” within third density, for this marriage is not recognised in higher light. The Twin Flame tantric couple can become married within third density and many sacred Twin Flame Soul Mate couples do, but it is not necessary for their union is still blessed by cosmic forces of light.
True marriages are a meeting of minds, a meeting of souls, a reunion that transcends space and time and brings forth such recognition on a soul level to the lovers involved that literally their breath is taken away from them when they meet. These are the couples that hold the sacred keys to true sexuality, these are the couples to whom the Starseed children of the christed sphere shall be birthed, these are the couples that hold the Earth healing keys of light within their very DNA.
These couples may be heterosexual male female couples or homosexual same sex couples, this does not matter in the eyes of the sacred divine light. A perfect balance of male and female energies shall always exist between these couples regardless of the orientation their sexuality takes in third density. For these Twin Flame sacred tantric couples have had many lives together, incarnating as both male and female.
We ask you now to re-program your thinking from that which you have been taught by your societies for now is the time for the true nature of sexuality not only to be revealed but to be utilised. Sexuality and the sexual act is nothing to be ashamed of or to be hidden. Sexuality is to be enjoyed and explored and embraced. Sexuality is your key to the higher divinity when used properly between two people who are of like vibration.
We say again, these people may be same sex couples and we say to these higher vibratory same sex Twin Flame Tantric couples to hold their head up high in their sexuality and not to be affected by remarks made by lower vibratory humans who have given themselves so much limitation. For those who make remarks about your sexuality shall have incarnated as homosexual themselves at some point in either their past or future. Therefore homosexuality is universal when viewed with the higher dimensional eye and is a lesson to be embraced. It is simply a different experience to the heterosexual one.
Now is the time for these understandings to be bought to light and for religious dogma, narrow minded limitations, judgements and control to be put aside. It is the time of the great shift, it is the time of the awakening of the masses and it is the time of the Ascension. The true nature of sexuality shall now be revealed and your kundalini tantric sexuality shall be utilised to transport you to ever higher states of consciousness and to experience and become part of ever higher dimensional frequencies.
WE ARE THE WHITE WINGED COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF NINE
video
24 Aug 2008 - 1:24pm
This video was made at the request of my brother, youtube user "Kroaky"
I asked the Nine what they could tell me about this subject.
Music by Kevin Macleod.
Edited by Magenta Pixie.
Photo Album
19 Aug 2008 - 11:44pm
"The heart is like a flower - unless it is open it cannot release its fragrance into the world. The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage. It is a courage which comes only when we realise that no one can hurt us, no matter what they say or do. They may hurt our body, but if we have realised we are spirit, nothing outside can touch us, if we so decide. Little by little, practice opening your heart to those you think have hurt you. Realise it wasnt them that hurt you, it was yourself. And it taught you not to trust and you closed your heart. A closed heart is in need of opening. And when you do, you will have begun to heal yourself." Osho
Blog entry
20 Jul 2008 - 9:37pm
Many people have been led astray in Tantric sex because they only fell into lust~*~Never mistake Tantra for lust! Some Tantrikas undergo years of training so that they can experience sacred sexuality without the least trace of lust ever crossing their minds!"I also love this part, and can attest to the truthfulness of it~ "In ordinary sex, people rush to get to the end...But in Tantra, the process of getting there is even more delightful~ Tantrika adepts can make love for several hours or even longer~Tantra: Sex and BeyondbyWendell E. WilkinsonTantra philosophy is as old as the Hindu Vedic scriptures which are at least several thousand years old. The Devi Sukta in the Rig-Veda is the main source of the Tantric teachings. The popular understanding of Tantra in the West represents only a part of the vast system. "Tantra" means a loom or weaving. In Tantric teachings, the universe is perceived as a fabric where everything is woven together, connected and related seamlessly. Tantra is also translated as "web". We are all connected to each other in this infinite web...In Tantra the Goddess is known as Devi~ Devi is the source of all knowledge and power~ Her power is called Shakti~ The main initiators of Tantra into the esoteric world were originally female adepts~ These women were seen as manifestations of the divine Shakti, the female aspect of the ultimate reality~Devi created the universe and the whole universe is her body~ The sun and moon are Her eyes~ The wind is Her breath~The mountains are Her bones~ The rivers and oceans are Her veins~ Devi is omnipresent and all-knowing...Electricity, magnetism, power, heat, light, and the five elements are Her eternal manifestations~ She is the primal force of life which underlies all existence and the Tantrik seeks union with Her~By use of mantras a person is able to create and experience the vibration of the Goddess~ Mantra is so important in Tantra that it has been called the "Path of the Mantra~" Mantra is a chant, a prayer, an invocation, a magical syllable, living words made of power, and a manifestation of the Goddess~ A Mantra is a combination of sacred syllables which form a nucleus of spiritual energy~ It serves as a lens to focus spiritual vibration~The potency of mantra is released through repetition and this may entail many thousands of repetitions or just one, depending upon the receptivity of the individual~ OM is the supreme mantra and the easiest to remember~ The mantra of the Hindu and Buddhist goddess Tara is OM HRIM STRIM HUM PHAT~ The universe and every being are made of these occult sounds, letters of light, the little mothers of existence~The mantra helps to focus the mind and awaken the supernatural energies within the body and to evoke the presence of the Goddess~ Mantra is used to bring oneself into harmony with the universe, uniting individual and cosmic consciousness (the Goddess)~The devata is the presiding deity of the mantra, a very personal aspect of the goddess~ Mantra is Goddess of the spoken word~Tantra views the body as a living temple~ A mysterious force is active in the body. It is in the brain, the cells, everywhere~ Consciousness is not found in the brain alone, but exists throughout the body~ Raising the Kundalini (life force) is a primary goal of Tantra...The Kundalini awakens in the lower back and when it reaches the brain through Tantric methods, bliss and enlightenment result~In Tantra there is always an emphasis on personal experimentation and experience~Tantrikas experience enhanced sensory and mental capacities~ Though our ordinary perception is confined to a narrow range, Tantrikas can often feel an intense variety of universal vibrations~ Tantric yogis use the senses as a means of elevating their consciousness~Tantric yoga is the only system of yoga which deals with human sexuality and focuses on the unification of male and female energies~ By merging with a partner, one can experience the blending of male and female essences~ Within each gender lies the seed of the opposite sex which creates attraction between two people~ The Taoist sages call these opposites yin and yang (feminine and masculine respectively) ~ Both yin and yang exist in men and women, with the yen predominantly in women, and the yang in men~ These polarities compliment each other and it is important to learn how to balance them~ Tantra endeavors to combine yin and yang into blissful union and although one can work with a sexual partner to accomplish this, the inner yoga practices of Tantra can enable an individual to unfold and unite the male and female energies without a partner~ In fact, it is better for a person to do Tantric spirituality alone than to attempt it with the wrong type of sexual partner~In Tantric sexual practice, to see your partner as divine, to actually and deliberately worship and adore the divine in her/him, initiates the process of transformation~Tantra teaches that men and women are manifestations of god and goddess~ Two of the ancient Hindu Tantric models for this are Shiva and Shakti, Krishna and Radha~ These Divine couples demonstrate the possibility, through Tantric sexual union, of achieving a fully conscious awareness of themselves as God and Goddess~Tantric partners should maintain eye contact and become aware of each other's breathing until their breaths come simultaneously~ With practice, they'll eventually match their heartbeats, energy, and consciousness. In Tantric sex the couple becomes one Being and they are able to experience the ecstasy of sexual union for an hour or more~ In this sense, Tantric sex is used as a vehicle to expand consciousness...Experiencing oneness with each other will enable them to experience the ultimate oneness with the Goddess~Sexual foreplay, which should last at least an hour, is used to build energy and increase a couple's awareness of each other...In ordinary sex, people rush to get to the end~ But in Tantra, the process of getting there is even more delightful~ Tantrika adepts can make love for several hours or even longer~In Tantric sex the climax is avoided as long as possible or even dispensed with entirely so as to build energy which can be used for psychic experiences or even for spiritual enlightenment~*~Tantra is not about giving into lust~Many people have been led astray in Tantric sex because they only fell into lust~*~Never mistake Tantra for lust! Some Tantrikas undergo years of training so that they can experience sacred sexuality without the least trace of lust ever crossing their minds!Suggestions for creating a Tantric environment include keeping the bedroom clean, as well as oneself, use incense and candles, and meditative music. Eat a light meal and either drink just one glass of wine to attain a slight glow and to help relax or abstain from alcohol completely for the evening. Use massage to begin foreplay. Dancing, feeding one another and taking a bath or shower together can also begin Tantric foreplay. Loving conversation is good as long as it's not of the past or future...Keep your thoughts in the present!Tantric sex requires you to fully engage all of your senses~ Be aware of what you hear, of what you smell, of what you see~~Be aware of the sensations on your skin~ Try to be totally cognizant of as many sensations as possible occurring at once~ In this heightened state of awareness, your body will give you messages~ Listen to them~Tantra seeks to animate and control the life force~ When Tantric lovers connect deeply and their energies join, they magnify the life force in each other~ If one person constantly drains the other, then this is conscious or unconscious vampirism~ Lovers can exchange and magnify energies by holding one another and breathing together~ This Tantric practice can lead to a pure and enlightened love that is beyond sex~Ultimately love is Divine...Love is God/dess~ Tantra uses love's energies to awaken the soul's light, power, and awareness~Several forms of Hinduism teach that the world is an illusion, but Tantra teaches that our world is real~Tantra celebrates the physical aspect of creation~ The Tantrika enjoys all aspects of life and some of the skills s/he develops are composing poems, drawing, singing, chanting, writing, gardening, cooking, playing musical instruments, dancing, tattooing, sewing, solving riddles, carpentry, meditation, sports, gymnastics and sexuality~ Those who practice Tantra know that all seemingly ordinary activities can lead one to higher mystical awareness if these things are done mindfully and skillfully~Basic Tantric mind training teaches one how to control thoughts and moods~ We must always learn to think consciously without daydreaming, thus do our thoughts become focused and powerful. Eventually we can even experience the primal cosmic realm that has eternally existed beyond all thoughts and symbols~ Without mental discipline, Tantra, nor any form of yoga or spirituality can be effective...The mind is our basic tool~A strong mind saves us while a weak mind dooms us!Tantra teaches that there is a constant exchange of energies between people, animals, plants, planets, stars and universes~ It is the blessing of a human being to be able to feel things more deeply and consciously~ The human being can sink lower than the animals or rise higher than the angels~Tantra is a way of life, a path of discovering the ecstatic in everyday life. Everything is to be experienced as a gift from the Goddess~ Passion is important in all aspects of life and in Tantra it's understood that our search for passion and pleasure is really a search for God/dess~ Sex is only one doorway to the Divine~~ Each flower is a doorway~ Each smile of a child is a doorway~ For the Tantrika adept, there is nothing but doorways~ Even eating, drinking, or listening to music can be a communion with God/dess~ God/dess is in a finger, a nut, or a glass of water~ A feeling of warmth is felt. The soul becomes a fire~ An inner light is seen...When God and Goddess unite within us, we experience the true inner marriage~About the Author:Wendell Wilkinson is a mystic and a writer~He resides in San Francisco, California, USA
Shared with Love and Light, Rosalie xo
Blog entry
29 Jun 2008 - 6:57pm
Weave Your Chakras & Subselves
Tantra, most think, is about sex. But sex contributes only
one seventh of tantra.
Tantra means weaving, weaving in the sense of coordinating
and orchestrating. When you weave your attributes or inner voices
through the seven categories of human concern called CHAKRAS, your
sexual chakra affects all the voices you manage. In All-Chakra
Tantra, you also weave inner voices' concerns in security, power,
love, communication, vision and spirituality chakras.
You, as the weaver, CENTER yourself to weave. You know which
inner voices–also called subselves–your current issues activate. As
Center, you weave and integrate the dance of your selves at each of
your chakras, the dance within you as an integrated person and your
dance with the subselves of your lovers. First learn for yourself
then teach others how to experience what you've experienced.
Inner voices--subselves sometimes have names like Inner
Child, Machiavelli, Critic, Perfectionist, Aphrodite, Gengis, and the
like (Capitalized to show they're inner voice). Subselves, such as
Critic or Romantic influence multiple chakras.
Each of your chakras is a forum where concerned subselves
discourse on how to react to situations in your life. Your first
chakra--your security and belongingness forum–gives inner voices an
agora to express their opinions of, say, how taking a certain lover
will affect your Inner Child. Tantra pairs chakra concerns–security,
sex, power, love, communication, vision and spirituality– with your
perineum, genitals, diaphragm, heart, throat, brow, and crown.
Focus in turn on each chakra. Center yourself successively among the
voices at each chakra. At a given chakra, you hear inputs from voices
relevant to that chakra, voices with radically different
perspectives. You job: coordinate these voices so they all get their
needs met. You recognize, accept and coordinate the voices at each
chakra.
You also give the chakra itself a voice. Hear the voice of each
chakra; let each give you its overall perspective in each of the
challenges life presents you. Hear what each says about your
lovelife. Simultaneously hold the energies of each your chakras and
subselves. Consult your neutral Witness. Discriminate alternatives
and choose your reactions to other people and life's challenges.
And you also center yourself in lover-relationships .
In All-Chakra Tantra, you create two-person or multi–person (if
you're polyamorous) beings. In multiperson beings--interperson al
entities--dyad, triad, moresome, network--you and your lovers weave
your needs together. You and they synergistically join the ocean of
consciousness and merge with all humanity and the cosmos.
You learn too how to teach other people to weave chakras within
themselves and with their lovers too.
Chakra 1 Safe at First Base
Your first (or base) chakra relates to your perineum, your needs to
belong, feel safe, secure and healthy, grounded in your material and
emotional existence. You learn, for yourself and those you coach, to
cherish vulnerable, sensitive, emotional, playful and magical aspects
of your own psyche and for the Inner Children of your lovers. Within
you, you learn to simultaneously feel and hold tension between your
Inner Child and protective subselves–particular ly your Inner
Patriarch and Inner Critic. To free the voice of your Inner Child and
hear its perspectives, reprogram yourself and your clients so you and
they distinguish fathers and mothers from lovers. When you hear your
Child, you avoid limiting patterns parents, church, media and society
imprinted on you.
In all-chakra relationships, you honor lovers' first-chakra needs;
you help them feel emotionally and financially secure. You let your
Inner Child connect with the Inner Children of your sweethearts. You
meet the primal, base chakra need for loving tactile contact–you
regularly massage and touch each other all over. You encourage your
lovers' health (as well as yours) when you eat, exercise and stretch
together.
Chakra 2 Sexually Both Cautious and Free Center in Thee
The second chakra relates to your sex organs, sexual and sensual
needs. Release your emotions and reprogram self- put-down attitudes
that inhibit satisfying interactions with lovers. Analyze the bonding
patterns you and they co-create. Simultaneously hold energies of your
sexually free and sexually cautious voices. Decide how much each
voice should contribute in each given situation in your life.
Women, expand your capacity for second chakra pleasure. Give and
receive beautiful rituals of vaginal honoring. For yourself and other
women, learn to ejaculate copious, alkaline fluid (amrita in
Sanskrit).
Men, master your second chakras with internal holds (bandhas)
so you can pull up energy instead of ejaculating. You practice
lasting longer in lovemaking. Experience new kinds of orgasms.
Chakra 3: Take What's Rightfully Yours
For your third chakra, related to your belly, All-Chakra
Tantra teaches you to take what's yours, assert yourself
appropriately. You and your lovers empower each other. You explore
power chakra dynamics with your lovers--how you bond (sometimes
sweetly, sometimes sourly) into parental-child roles. Chakra 3
meditations help you return to sweet and centered interaction. You
can lead or follow your darlings as you choose, rather than
unconsciously following or initiating.
Chakra 4: Live Loving Oneness, Personal and Impersonal
The meditations of the forth chakra associate with your
heart. You cultivate the ability to express either personal or
impersonal love and to shield your heart when you choose. You love,
cherish, support, heal and encourage yourself and your lovers. You
communicate feelings, cultivate sweetness, romance each other. You
develop dyadic consciousness, where you identify at the same time
with your beloved's consciousness and your own as parts of a greater
awareness, a two-person awareness greater than the sum of your
separate identities.
Chakra 5: Speak or Hold Silence
Fifth chakra: throat, expression. Hear each of your inner
voices tell you what they want and need. They say how they aid you,
your beloved and humanity. Choose what, when and how to express (or
not express) your inner voices to other people. Speak helpful, loving
truth keep quiet. Sing. Honor your beloveds' many voices too. Speak
authentically, kindly and effectively to each other. In one throat-
chakra exercise, you sanctify sex--speak romantically of sacred
sexual organs and acts.
Chakra 6: Think, Dream, Intuit, Channel, Envision
The sixth chakra's the brain chakra; it's the forum for
vision, intuition and intellect. In this forum of intellectual,
pictorial and intuitive vision which comprise Chakra 6, you receive,
share and expand visions for yourselves, each other, others you love,
your community and world. As beloveds, you intuit each others
thoughts and feelings, as well as those of your children, parents,
friends and others. Access the messages of dream, past life, fantasy,
archetype and hero-tale.
Chakra 7 Crown Thy Good With Siblinghood
For the seventh charka, your crown, the tantric meditations
invoke awareness of your unity with everyone and everything. Tantra
helps you rise to broader perspectives of your crown chakra, yet stay
aware of the wisdom of chakras 1-6.
There's an Eighth Chakra, too–the Clown Chakra above even
your crown. The wisdom of this chakra: don't take the chakra category
system so seriously; it's all funny and humorous. Let yourself laugh
at the proclivity to categorization that tantra uses to map the
continuous, simultaneous continua of ever-shifting dimensions in a
system ruled by divine play (lila).
***
Realize that though the crown's higher in the
standing human than the genitals or base, the crown is not higher in
the sense of better. Perineum, genitals, diaphragm––that is,
security, sex and power though lower in the body, are all crucial to
you as an ecological system. In tantra, you coordinate all your
chakras through your center. You transcend (rise above) any chakra or
subself when you witness your ecology, center yourself, end exclusive
identification or overidentification with a chakra or subself, you
simultaneously embrace inputs from other chakras and opposite
subselves and encompass more than Thinker, Pleaser or other voices.
Expand your awareness to more than your body. Expand your
perspective to even more than awareness of you and your darlings,
more than the awareness you share with each other and with humans,
with life itself, or even with the Earth. Feel your oneness with
everyone and everything everywhere at all-times. Experience unity,
the seamless web of consciousness linking the manifest and inchoate
universes. Merge with the latent--unformed but constantly arising–
reality of the metacosmic void. Identify with divine play that can
manifest all forms.
In tantra, you recognize, cherish, coordinate and integrate
the chakras and inner voices. You consciously apply what the chakras
focalize--security, sex, power, love, talk, understanding and unity--
to enlighten yourself, your lovers and the world. Tantra activates
all your chakras and inner voices. The chakras are energy centers
associated with your perineum, genitals, belly, heart, throat,
forehead and crown. You pour energy from your chakras into a coherent
river of light that spouts up your spine and meets your beloved's
light. You connect in the stream of consciousness that sweeps you
both to the ocean of life. Center yourself and orchestrate your
chakras--inner power plants that generate security, sexuality, power,
love, communication, vision, and feelings of oneness with everything
and everyone.
Blog entry
28 Jun 2008 - 7:07am
THE OMNIPOTENT OOM
Tantra and Its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism
Hugh B. Urban
Ohio State University
In this day and age, when matters pertaining to the sexes are generally avoided, and we are taught that the sexual appetite is an animal craving that should be subdued and concealed it is not surprising that the great majority of persons are blind to the vast importance of the sexual nature [T]hey fail to realize that not only is the cause of our individual existence, but that it is thewell-spring of human life and happiness.
-Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard, "Tantrik Worship: The Basis of Religion" (1)
Surely few terms in the vocabulary of Eastern religions hold such a tantalizing, titillating or controversial place in the contemporary American imagination as Tantra. A word that instantly conjures up images of exotic eroticism, mystical ecstasy and Oriental intrigue, Tantra has entered fully into both contemporary Western scholarship and popular discourse as a whole. Not only are popular entertainers like Sting practicing their own varieties of Tantric sex, (2) but Tantra has now become a major commercial enterprise, spawning entire lines of books, tapes, video, and erotic merchandise. Indeed, I was rather intrigued to discover recently that the phrase "American Tantra" is now a registered trademark, representing a whole line of books, videos and other "ceremonial sensual" merchandise (3).
For most American readers today, Tantra has come to be defined basically as "spiritual sex" or the use of sexuality as a religious experience; as the "exotic art of prolonging your passion play" to achieve "nooky nirvana," it is praised as much a needed liberation of sexuality for a repressive Western world (4). As it is commonly used in popular discourse, Tantra has come to be used almost interchangeably with the erotic techniques described in the Kama Sutra, and frequently identified with a range of Western esoteric practices, such as the erotic rituals of the Ordo Templi Orientis and the sex magic of Aleister Crowley. And yet, rather strikingly, any one who carefully reads any of the classic Sanskrit Tantras quickly realizes that sexual practices play a fairly minor and often very "unsexy" role. Where sexual rituals are discussed it is usually in a very few terse stanzas, which are embedded within hundreds of pages of dry and often dull ritual details (5). In other words, the identification of Tantra with sex and particularly, with scandalous, transgressive and deviant sexuality
1. A bust of Pierre Arnold Bernard (c. 1875-1955)
is largely a modern American preoccupation, not a traditional Indian one. So the question is: how did Tantra come to be identified primarily as sacred sex in the American imagination, and how did it come to be associated with Western practices such as Crowleyian sex magic?
Part of the answer, I will argue here, lies in the mysterious life and works of Pierre Arnold Bernard one of the first and most important, yet also today strangely little known figures in the transmission of Tantrism to the West. Known in the popular American press as "Oom the Omnipotent," Bernard became notorious throughout newspapers and journals as a spiritual leader and philosopher as well as a philanderer, seducer of women and purveyor of scandalous indecencies. Not only did he found the first "Tantrik Order" in America (1906), but he was also the first in a long line of Tantric gurus who would come under intense criticism and suspicion for their alleged immoral, indecent and illegal sexual practices. As such, he has been a seminal influence on much later esotericism in the U.S. not only on later traditions of Western sexual magic, but also on contemporary New Religious Movements, such as the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the Siddha Yoga Society, and more recent developments like American Tantra," the Church of Tantra and the New Tantrik Order in America.
In my discussion of Dr. Bernard and the transmission of Tantra to America, I will borrow some insights from Michel Foucault and others who have examined the role of sexuality in modern Western culture. As Foucault suggests, the men and women of the Victorian era were really not the repressed, puritanical prudes that we commonly imagine them to be today; on the contrary, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed an unprecedented new interest and proliferation of discourse about sexuality, which was not categorized, classified and described in endless detail. "What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret." (6) Above all, as we see in new medical and psychological texts like Psychopathologia Sexualis, there was a special interest in forms of non-reproductive sexuality that were now categorized as " deviant," transgressive and antisocial, now labeled with a whole new lexicon of terminology such as homosexuality, necrophilia, nymphomania, spermatorrhea, and so on. As I will argue, the new fascination with Tantra with its explicit use of non-reproductive sexuality, often in violation of laws of class and purity was a key part of this larger obsession with "deviant" forms of sexuality in the Victorian imagination.
After a brief discussion of the Western discovery of Tantra during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (part I), I will examine the life and work of Pierre Bernard, along with all the scandal and controversy that surrounded his mysterious persona (Part II and III). Finally (part IV) will discuss the larger impact of Tantra on Western esotericism in this century, by looking at the gradual synthesis of Western esoteric-sexual practices with the newly imported Tantric techniques that has taken place over the last one hundred years.
I. FROM "BLACK ART OF THE CRUDEST AND FILTHIEST KIND" TO "THE ART OF SPIRITUAL ECSTASY:" Tantra's Complex Journey to the West
The Tantras [exert] great influence in later days...The worship assumes wild, extravagant forms, generally obscene, sometimes bloody...We cannot go further into detail. It is profoundly saddening to think that such abominations are... are performed as part of divine worship. Conscience, however, is so far alive that these detestable rites are practiced only in secret.
-J. Murray Mitchell and Sir William Muir, Two Old Faiths (7)
Adrenalin sex, liquid sex, hard sex, flowing sex, expanded sex, Tantric sex, sacred sex, wet sex, slow sex, ecstatic sex,.. we want it ALL! In expressing sexual energy, we experience the human body's potential for awareness and feelings!...We channel the creative life force flowing through us.
-Paul Ramana Das and Marilena Silbey, "American Tantra" (8)
Tantra, it would seem, lies at a pivotal intersection between Indian and American imaginations, at the nexus of a complex play of representations and misrepresentations between East and West taking place over the last two hundred years. Not only was it a crucial part of the Western "imagining of India," particularly during the colonial era; but it has been no less crucial a part of the "re-imagining of America," particularly during the eras of sexual liberation, feminism, gay rights and sexual politics at the turn of the new millennium.
In most contemporary American imaginations, both popular and scholarly, the word Tantra is almost always associated with the word sex. Defined as the oath of ecstasy, the yoga of sex, Tantra is usually identified as that religious path which combines the physical experience of sexual pleasure with the spiritual experience of liberation. Yet anyone who reads the classic Tantric texts quickly realizes that it often takes quite some time to get to the juicy sexy stuff. In fact, most Sanskrit tantras are remarkably dull, dry boring
2. Bernard the Shastri
ritual manuals, and when they do happen to deal with the infamous "fifth M" of Maithuna or sexual intercourse, it is usually just a couple of verses, surrounded by hundreds of pages of technical details (9). In many Tantric schools, maithuna is to be taken strictly symbolically, as the union of the individual self with the Supreme Self of Lord Shiva; and when it is taken literally, it is generally hedged around with strict moral injunctions and ritual safeguards (10). Most traditions, moreover, insist that the semen must absolutely not be released in the act of intercourse, but instead retained and withdrawn back into the body of the male practitioner. Far from hedonistic abandon, Tantric maithuna is in a sense sex in reverse, in which the goal is not orgasmic release, but on the contrary, controlled withdrawal and sublimation (11).
What is most important to the authors of the Indian Tantric literature, I would argue, is not sex, but rather power -- power on all levels of reality, spiritual cosmic, physical and socio-political alike. Most Hindu Tantric traditions center around the Goddess Shakti power or energy which circulates throughout all of the manifest universe; she is the creative energy or force which radiates out o the supreme consciousness of Lord Siva, generating the myriad forms of the phenomenal universe. "[T]he Tantric conceives of the world as power (Shakti). As the goddess' own self-effulgence, he believes the world is nothing but power to be harnessed" (12).
Thus the task for the Tantric is to arouse and channel the flow of shakti or creative energy that circulates through out the universe, the human body and the social order. As Douglas Brooks argues in his study of South Indian Tantra, the primary concern for the Tantrika is
how one might harness and actualize the power perceived to be inherent in all things, including social relations. The dichotomies of impure/pure, and auspicious/ inauspicious are...mechanisms for the expression of...episodic forms of power (13).
Sex may in some traditions be one means of awakening and harnessing power, or one form of its expression in the physical universe; but it is by no means the only or even the most important one. In fact, if one examines most popular vernacular texts on Tantra today, it would seem that by far the most attention is given not to matters of sexual pleasure, but rather to the acquisition of supernatural abilities and achieving all one's worldly desires (14).
So how, then, did "Tantrism" come to be defined primarily as "spiritual sex?" This shift begins, I think, during the early colonial era, with the first discovery of Indian religions by Christian missionaries and Orientalist scholars in the early nineteenth
century. The Orientalist interest in the Tantras, I would argue, was a part of the much broader concern with sexuality and its aberrations during the Victorian era. As Foucault and others have argued, the men and women of the Victorian era were by no means simply the puritanical prudes they are commonly imagined to be; on the contrary, the Victorian era witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of discourse about sexuality particularly in its most disturbing, deviant and perverse forms, which were now categorized and classified in intricate detail. "Paradoxically, it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded. Far from the age of silence and suppression, sexuality became a major issue in Victorian social and political practice" (15).
The first Orientalist authors, such as Sir William Jones and H.T. Colebrooke, actually had relatively little to say about the Tantras. It was really not until the early nineteenth century, with the arrival of Christian missionaries like the Baptist William Ward and the Scotsman, Alexander Duff, that Tantras became objects of intense interest and morbid fascination. Above all, the missionaries singled out the sexual element particularly transgressive and illicit sexuality as the most horrific aspect of the Tantras and the clearest evidence of their complete depravity. The Tantras, as Ward put it, involve "a most shocking mode of worship" centered around the worship of a naked woman (preferably a prostitute or outcast) and rites "too abominable to enter the ears of man and impossible to be revealed to a Christian public" (16).
For later British authors like H.H. Wilson, Sir Monier Williams and many others, the Tantras were then quickly adapted to the larger Orientalist narrative of Indo-European history and the decadence of modern India. According to most Orientalist accounts, the history of Indian culture was a long steady decline from a golden age comparable to ancient Greece and Rome, embodied in the texts of the Vedas, down to a modern era of licentiousness and superstition, embodied in the perverse secret rituals of the Tantras (17). Repeatedly throughout nineteenth century Orientalist literature, we find the Tantras described in the most vivid language as "lust mummery and black magic" (Brian Hodgson), "nonsensical extravagance and absurd gesticulation" (H.H. Wilson), and "black art of the crudest and filthiest kind" in which " a veritable devil's mass is purveyed in various forms" (D.L. Barnett) (18).
This equation of Tantra with sex was only compounded with the Western discovery of the Kama Sutra and other erotic manuals. The leading figure in this new interest in Indian erotica was the famous Victorian Orientalist and explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Not only did Burton found a small secretive group called the
Kama Shastra Society, but he also privately published the Kama Sutra (1883) and the Ananga Ranga (1885), the first Hindu treatises on love to be translated into English (texts which could not be officially translated until the mid 1960's) (19). From Burton's time on, it seems, Tantra came to be increasingly associated and often hopelessly confused with the sexual positions of the Kama Sutra.
In the first decades of the twentieth century, a few brave scholars made an effort to defend and re-valorize the Tantras, arguing that there is far more to this ancient tradition than mere illicit sexuality. The most important figure in this moralizing reform of Tantra was Sir John Woodroffe, a.k.a. Arthur Avalon, the enigmatic High Court Judge and secret Tantrika, who made it is his life's work to defend the Tantras against their many critics. In Woodroffe's rather sanitized and rationalized account, Tantra is a noble philosophical tradition, basically in line with the Vedas, and even comparable in its symbolism to the liturgy of the Catholic Church (20).
Despite Woodroffe's valiant attempt to present a sanitized and rationalized version of Tantra, however, the mistaken equation of Tantra with sex would persist throughout the Western imagination, both popular and scholarly. And it was soon also identified and mixed with Western sexual-magical traditions, such as the teachings of the mysterious American Rosicrucian and "sex-oriented occultist," Paschal Beverly Randolph, and of course the self-proclaimed "Great Beast, 666," Aleister Crowley, who, many believe, actually had been involved in Tantric practices in India (see below, part IV). One of the key figures in the transmission of Tantra to the West and in the transformation of Tantra into something sexy, scandalous, scintillating and exotic, was the enigmatic Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard.
II. THE SCANDAL OF OMNIPOTENT OOM:
Dr. Bernard and the Tantrik Order in America
Wily con man, yogi, athlete, bank president, founder of the Tantrik Order in America and the Clarkestown Country Club ...the remarkable "Doctor" Bernard was all of these. He was also the Omnipotent Oom, whose devoted followers included some of the most famous names in America.
-Charles Boswell, "The Great Fuss and Fume Over the Omnipotent Oom" (21)
I'm a curious combination of the businessman and the religious scholar.
-Pierre Arnold Bernard (22)
3. Pierre Bernard simulating his own death.
Pierre Bernard was not only the first man to bring Tantra to America, but was also surely one of the most colorful, unusual and controversial figures in early twentieth century American history (see fig.1). Described as "both a prophet and showman," Bernard was a man "who could lecture on religion with singular penetration and with equal facility stage a big circus, manage a winning ball team or put on an exhibition of magic which rivaled Houdini" (23). Infamous throughout the press as "the Omnipotent Oom," Bernard claimed to have traveled throughout the mystic Orient in order to bring the secret teachings of Tantra to this country and so found the first "Tantrik Order in America" in 1906. Surrounded by controversy and slander regarding the sexual freedom he and his largely female followers were said to enjoy, Bernard is in many ways an epitome of Tantra in its uniquely American incarnations.
Virtually nothing is known about the enigmatic Bernard's early life and background in fact, he seems to have gone to some lengths to conceal his real background behind a strange veil of fictitious identities and false biography, often using the fake persona of "Peter Coons" from Iowa (24). Probably born in 1875 to a middle class family from California, Bernard left home in his teens to work his way to India in order to study the "ancient Sanskrit writings and age old methods of curing diseases of mind and body." After studying in Kashmir and Bengal, he won the title of "Shastri" and was supposedly initiated into the inner mysteries of Tantric practice (see fig.2). Upon returning to America and now introducing himself with the title of "Dr." he worked at various odd jobs in California and began to study hypnotism. By 1900, in fact, he had become moderately famous as a master of self-hypnosis who could use yogic technique to place himself in a state simulating death (fig.3). According to Nik Douglas, it is also likely the Bernard received some instruction in Tantric practice from one Swami Ram Tirath, a young Indian yogi who had come to California in the early 1900s, and who praised Bernard as a man of "profound learning," comparable "with the Brahminical Tantrik High Priests of India" (25).
Beginning in 1904, Bernard had established a clinic in San Francisco where he taught his own versions of self-hypnosis and yoga, which eventually became known as the "Bacchante Academy." Even then, Bernard had become something of a scandal in the California press, who charged that the Academy "catered to young women interested in learning hypnotism and soul charming by which they meant the mysteries of the relations between the sexes" (26). Sometime in the years 1906-7, Bernard also founded the first Tantrik order in America, with an accompanying journal the International Journal: Tantrik Order whose charter document for initiation reads as follows (see figs.4-6):
4. Front page of the International Journal of the Tantrik Order
As a tear from heaven he has been dropped into the Ocean of the TANTRIK BROTHERHOOD upon earth and is moored forevermore in the harbor of contentment, at the door to the temple of wisdom wherein are experienced all things; and to him will be unveiled the knowledge of the Most High...
Armed with the key to the sanctuary of divine symbolism wherein are stored the secrets of wisdom and power, he...has proven himself worthy to be entrusted with the knowledge...to soar above the world and look down upon it; to exalt the passions and quicken the imagination...to treat all things with indifference; to know that religion is the worship of man's invisible power... to enjoy well-being, generosity, and popularity...He has learned to love life and know death (27).
After the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, Bernard left California and eventually relocated to New York City, where he would open his "Oriental Sanctum" in 1910. Teaching Hatha Yoga in the downstairs room and offering secret Tantric initiation upstairs, the Oriental sanctum quickly became an object of scandal in the New York press: the notorious "Omnipotent Oom" was charged with kidnapping and briefly imprisoned, though the charges were later dropped. "I cannot tell you how Bernard got control over me or how he gets it over other people," said one of the alleged kidnapees, Zella Hopp, "He is the most wonderful man in the world. No women seem able to resist him (28). Similar controversy surrounded the "New York Sanskrit College," which Bernard founded a few years later in New York. The press reported "wild Oriental music and women's cries, but not those of distress" (29).
By 1918 Bernard and his followers had moved out to a large seventy-two acre estate in Upper Nyack, New York, a former young girls' academy which he renamed the "Clarkstown Country Club" and made the site of his own "utopian Tantric community" (fig.10). A sumptuous property with a 30-roomed Georgian mansion rounded by a wooded mountain and river, the Club was designed to be "a place where the philosopher may dance, and the fool be provided with a thinking cap!" (30) Eventually, he would also purchase a huge property known as the Mooring, with old English country house, and then later open a whole chain of Tantric clinics, including centers in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago and East 53rd Street, New York City, as well as a Tantric summer camp for men in Westhampton, Long Island. His clinics were well known for attracting the wealthiest, most affluent clients, "mostly professional and business men and women from New York," including Ann Vanderbilt, Sir Paul Dukes, composer Cyril Scott and conductor Lepold Stokowski, among many others (31).
5. Inside cover of Bernard's Tantric journal
According to Town and Country magazine of 1941, "Every hour of the day limousines and taxies drove up to the entrance of the Doctor's New York clinic. In the marble foyer behind the wrought-iron portal of 16 East 53rd Street, a pretty secretary handled appointments" (32). Hence, it is not surprising that Bernard quickly achieved a remarkable degree of wealth, fame and status:
Almost overnight, Oom found himself showered with more money than he had ever dreamed of and chieftain of a tribe of both male and female followers ...This tribe at the outset consisted of no more than a dozen members, but eventually it would number well over 200, and would carry on its roster some of the best-known names in America (33).
And much of the appeal of Bernard's teachings – as well as the scandal and controvery they generated – centered around his views of love and sexuality.
III. Sex, Secrecy, Slander And Censorship: Bernard's Tantric Teachings and their Reception in the American Popular Imagination
Love, a manifestation of sexual instinct, is the animating spirit of the world.
-Bernard, "Tantrik Worship: The Basis of Religion" (34)
Bernard's Tantric teachings were, however, also surrounded with a certain aura of secrecy and elitism, teachings so profound and potentially dangerous they had to be reserved for the initiated few. Thus the International Journal, Tantrik Order quotes the words of Arthur Schopenhauer: "Philosophy should be like the Eleusinian mysteries; for the few, the elite," (35) and it also warns the disciple that "whoever has been initiated, no matter what may be the degree to which he may belong, and shall reveal the sacred formulae, shall be put to death" (36).
According to the police reports of a raid of Bernard's clinic, entry involved a secret signal and complex series of taps on the bell. There also seems to have been a certain hierarchy of disciples, with the lower level initiates performing yoga and physical exercises downstairs, while the "inner circle" called the "Secret Order of Tantriks" engaged in the more esoteric Tantric rituals in the upstairs:
Downstairs, they found a bare room where Oom's physical culture clients, paying a $100 bite, toiled through exercises designed to produce the body beautiful. Upstairs, it got more interesting: There,
on canvas-covered mattresses, Oom's inner-circle clients participated in secret rites of some kind...[T]he upstairs customers, following physical examinations, had to pay large sums and then sign their names in blood before they could be initiated into the cult (37).
The popular press offers us some fairly vivid and probably rather imaginative accounts of Bernard's secret Tantric rituals and the occult initiations into arcane esoteric techniques.
During Tantrik ceremonies, Oom sat on his throne wearing a turban, a silken robe and baggy Turkish pants, and flourished a scepter. While so engaged, he invariably smoked one of the long black cigars to which he was addicted...
A frequent Tantrik ceremony involved the initiation of new members. "To join the order," an Oomite later disclosed, "the novitiate must first have confessed all sins, all secret desires, all inner thoughts; must then promise to abide by Doctor Bernard's orders and must finally take the Tantrik vow."
The novitiate looks upon Doctor Bernard as a high priest - indeed, as a sort of man-god. He kneels before Doctor Bernard and recites: "Be to me a living guru; be a loving Tantrik guru." Then all present bow their heads as though in church and repeat in unison: 'Oom man na padma Oom.' It is sung over and over in a chanting monotone, like the beating of drums in a forest, and is supposed...to induce a state of ecstasy (38).
There does appear to have been some real need for the secrecy in Bernard's Tantrik practice – particularly in the context of Victorian attitudes of early twentieth century America (39). According to most of the accounts that came out of Bernard's Nyack country club, much of the spiritual practice there centered around the full enjoyment of the physical body and the complete liberation of sexual pleasure. As we read in the International Journal, Tantrik Order, the human body is the supreme creation in this universe and the most perfect place of worship – a truly embodied, sensual worship that requires no churches of stone or external priesthood:
The trained imagination no longer worships before the shrines of churches, pagodas and mosques or there would be blaspheming the greatest, grandest and most sublime temple in the universe, the miracle of miracles, the human body (40).
Like dance or yoga or any other forms of physical expression, sex was, for Bernard, a spiritual discipline and means of both manifesting and attaining the divine within the physical body. "The secret of Bernard's powers," as one observer comments,
6. Bernard's Tantric Oath.
7. The word "Tantra," spelled in devanagari characters using little heart icons, from Bernard's journal.
was "to give his followers a new conception of love...Bernard's aims are...'to teach men and women to love, and make women feel like queens'" (41). Indeed, in his Tantrik journal Bernard spells the word tantra in devanagari characters comprised of tiny hearts [!] (see fig.7, above) (42). As we read in the article, "Tantrik Worship," the sex drive is in fact "the animating spirit of the world;"
The animating impulse of all organic life is the sexual instinct. It is that which underlies the struggle for existence in the animal world and is the source of all human endeavor...That affinity which draws the two sexes together for the...production of a new being, that overmastering universal impulse, is the most powerful factor in the human race and has ever been the cause of man's most exalted thought (43).
According to Tantrik metaphysics, the physical universe itself is conceived in the sexual union of the great God Shiva and his consort Shakti – respectively the divine light of pure Consciousness and the Creative Power which manifests that radiance. In turn, the union of the male and female in sacramental act of Tantric intercourse is a replication of this divine union, which returns us to the primordial origin of all things. This, Bernard suggests, is the essence of Tantrik worship, embodied in the notorious "fifth M" of maithuna or sexual intercourse:
The fifth act of the Tantrik ceremony, the union of the actual man and woman, is held to be the most important of all. ..It is supposed to symbolize a great cosmic mystery, the production of the universe through the union of purusha and prakriti, a mystery constantly kept before the mind by the worship of the two symbols Linga and Yoni. (44).
Yet in modern Western culture, the profound mysteries of sexual love have been brutally and stupidly repressed, relegated by self-righteous ignorant prudes to the realm of depravity and immorality. Today, "matters pertaining to the sexes are generally avoided, and we are taught that the sexual appetite is an animal craving that should be concealed," such that most Americans now "are blind to the vast importance of the sexual nature" and fail to realize that it is in fact the "well-spring of human life and happiness" (45). According to one disciple's account, Bernard is among the only teachers today who recognizes the natural, spontaneous beauty and power of sex, which is nothing other than an expression of our re-uniting with the Divine:
Sex is discussed naturally... Doctor Bernard believes that men and
8. Tantric stages of progress according to Bernard.
women can learn a lot about living by learning a lot about playing and loving. He teaches the Oriental view of love as opposed to the restrained Western idea. Love, in its physical aspects, is akin to music and poetry. It unites men and women with the infinite (46).
Bernard's wife, Blanche de Vries, also became a student, and eventually a teacher in her own right, of oriental dance, Hatha Yoga and a "watered down version of Tantrism." She would eventually develop her own sort of "Tantric health system," which she marketed very profitably to the wealthy New York upper class society who were increasingly obsessed by matters of physical health and beauty (47). Among her more affluent patrons, for example, was Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, a stepdaughter of the Vanderbilt family. As Mrs. Bernard commented, the Tantric teaching of love is the most-needed remedy to modern America's social ills, most of which derive from repression, prudery and self-denial:
Half the domestic tragedies...and not a few suicides and murders in America are due to the inherent stupidity of the average Anglo-Saxon man or woman on the subject of love. We will teach them, and make our adventure a great success (48).
Apparently, Bernard also believed that for certain individuals (particularly overly-repressed women of the Victorian era) more drastic surgical measures might be needed to liberate their sexual potential. Sexually unresponsive or "desensitized women" could be helped by a form of partial circumcision in which the clitoral hood was surgically removed an operation believed to improve female receptivity by exposing the clitoral gland to direct stimulation (49).
The popular press of the day, of course, took no end of delight in discussing and sensationalizing Bernard's scandalous Tantric practices, and soon dubbed him the "Loving Guru." Indeed, Bernard's clinics seem to have represent something terribly shocking yet somehow strangely tantalizing in the Victorian imagination something deliciously transgressive in a world where sex for the sake of procreation within heterosexual marriage is the unassailable pillar of decent society: (50)
The rites are grossly licentious and are most often invoked in veneration of the Sakti, the Hindu goddesses of female energy. But sometimes Oriental men with a yen for one another invoke them just for kicks. A couple skilled in the rites...are supposedly able to make love hour after hour without diminution of male potency and female desire (51).
Hence it seems inevitable that Bernard's Tantric clinics should have
elicited some complaints from his neighbors and also attracted the attention of the authorities. One F. H. Gans, who occupied an apartment across the way, summed up the neighborhood grievance:
What my wife and I have seen through the windows of that place is scandalous. We saw men and women in various stages of dishabille. Women's screams mingled with wild Oriental music (52).
In Nyack, where Bernard was an affluent and respected citizen, the authorities apparently received a host of complaints about this scandalous Tantric clinic; reluctantly, the police were forced to investigate and rode into the estate on horseback:
Nyack concluded Oom was running a love cult. The local prudes clucked and gasped their alarm. Oom, obviously, was a danger to the young of the community and would have to be run out of town.
But the Nyack police refused to act. Oom was a big taxpayer. So the prudes complained to the New York State Police, then a recently formed, eager-beaver organization mounted on horse. The night they received the complaint, a squad of troopers galloped to Oom's estate and swung down from their saddles near the main building (53).
After his brief rise to celebrity, soon followed by his rapid descent into infamy and scandal, Bernard seems to have retired into a relatively quiet and comfortable later life. Enjoying an affluent lifestyle, Bernard was known for his lavish wedding and anniversary celebrations, his generous patronage of professional baseball and boxing, his investment in sporting venues like a baseball stadiums and dog tracks, as well as his building of an airport. Eventually he would assume a more respectable position in Nyack society, becoming president of the State Bank of Pearl River in 1931. With a fondness for collecting fine automobiles, such as Rolls Royces, Stutzes and Lincolns, Bernard is said to have been worth over twelve million dollars at his peak. "I'm a curious combination of the businessman and the religious scholar," as Bernard once described himself (54). He died in New York City in 1955, at the age of 80.
In sum, we might say that the enigmatic and wonderfully colorful character of Pierre Bernard is of vital importance to the history of American Tantra for at least three reasons. First, he was a bold pioneer in the early transmission of Tantra to America, where it quickly took root and flourished; second, he was one of the first figures in the larger reinterpretation of Tantra as something primarily concerned with sex, physical pleasure and bodily ecstasy; and finally, like so many later American Tantric gurus, he also generated
intense scandal, slander and censorship from the surrounding American society, foreshadowing Tantra's role in the American imagination as something wonderfully seductive, tantalizing and transgressive. As such, Oom's popular brand of Tantra would help lay the foundation for a new synthesis of Indian Tantric teachniques and Western sexual magic which emerged in the early twentieth century.
IV. SEX MAGICK AND THE YOGA OF SEX: Tantra's Legacy in Modern Western Esotericism
[T]rue Sex-power is God-power.
-Paschal Beverly Randolph, The Ansairetic Mystery (55)
Sex is a sacrament.
-Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies (56)
The Love of Liber Legis is always bold, virile, ecstatic, even orgiastic...Mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of Will.
-"Message from Master Therion," Constitution of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars (57)
Once the seeds of Tantra had been sown in this country, it would seem, they soon began not only to proliferate wildly in the fertile soil of the American imagination, but also to intermingle with a number of existing Western esoteric traditions. Most modern forms of sexual magic, I would argue, are largely the complex fusion of Indian Tantric techniques, as re-interpreted by figures like Bernard, and Western occult movements emerging from the Masonic, Rosicrucian and magical traditions.
Sex, magic and secrecy had, of course, long been associated in the Western religious imagination: from the early Gnostics to the Knights Templar to the Cathars of late medieval Europe, esoteric orders had long been accused of using sexual rituals as part of their secret magical arts (58). However, perhaps the first evidence of a sophisticated and well-documented use of sexual magical techniques cannot be found any earlier than the mid-nineteenth century, with the mysterious figure of Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-75). A mulatto born of a wealthy Virginian father and a slave form Madagascar, Randolph was raised a poor, self-taught free black in New York city. After running away from home at age sixteen, he traveled the world and eventually emerged as one of the leading figures in the nineteenth century Spiritualist movements, the most famous scryer of his times, as well as America's foremost exponent of magical eroticism or "Affectional Alchemy."
In sexual love, "he saw the greatest hope for the regeneration of the world, the key to personal fulfillment as well as social transformation and the basis of a non-repressive civilization" (59).
In the course of his wanderings through Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Randolph encountered a wide variety of esoteric traditions not just European Spiritualist, Masonic and Roscicrucian orders, but also a range of Sufis lineages. In fact, he claims to have derived much of his knowledge from a group of Fakirs in the areas of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, which may have been a branch of the unorthodox Muslim mystical order of the Nusa'iri, a group long persecuted by orthodox Islam because of their alleged Gnostic sexual rituals (60).
Whatever his primary inspiration, Randolph began to teach a form of sexual magic that would have a profound impact on much of later Western esotericism. For Randolph, the experience of sexual orgasm is in fact the critical moment in human consciousness and the key to magical power. As the moment of procreation, when new life is infused from the spiritual realm into the material, it is crucial moment one the soul is suddenly opened up to the spiritual energies of the cosmos: "at the instant of intense mutual orgasm the souls of the partners are opened to the powers of the cosmos and anything then truly willed is accomplished" (61). As such, the experience of sexual climax has the potential to lead the soul either upward or downward, to higher states of spiritual transcendence or to lower, more depraved states of corruption:
The moment when a man discharges his seed, his essential self into a...womb is the most solemn, energetic and powerful moment he can ever know on earth; if under the influence of mere lust it be done, the discharge is suicidal At the moment his seminal glands open, his nostrils expand, and while the seed is going from his soul to her womb he breathes one of two atmospheres, either fetid damnation from the border spaces or Divine Energy from heavens. Whatsoever he shall truly will and internally pray for when Love is in the ascendant, that moment the prayer's response comes down (62).
The power of sex, then, can be deployed for a wide range of both spiritual and material ends. If one can harness the creative energy aroused by sexual contact, he can realize virtually any worldly or otherworldly goal. One can not only achieve the spiritual aims of divine insight, but also attain the mundane goals of physical health, financial success or regaining the passions of a straying lover. According to Randolph, the major uses of sex magic are:
9. An American Tantric yogi: illustration from Bernard's journal.
I. For purposes of increasing the brain and body power of an unborn child, II. Influencing one's wife or husband and magnetically controlling them, III. regaining youthful beauty, energy, vivacity, affectional and magnetic power, IV. prolonging the life of either the subject or actor or either at will, V. attainment of Supreme white magic of will, affection or Love, VI. For the furtherance of financial interests, schemes, lotteries, etc. VII. The attainment of the loftiest insight possible to the earthly soul (63).
One of the most striking features of Randolph's sexual magic, however, is his insistence that both male and female partners must have an active role in the process, and in fact, that both must achieve orgasm – ideally a simultaneous orgasm – in order for the magical operation to successful: "For the prayer to be effective the paroxysm of both is necessary[T]he woman's orgasms should coincide with man's emission, for only in this way will the magic be fulfilled" (64). And the resulting pleasure that both partners feel in this union is nothing less than the overflowing joy of the divine emanating from above like the breath of God himself:
When pleasure results from the meeting of the electric currents of the male with the magnetic flow of the female, in the nerves of each, as in the touch of loving lips, the two currents spread out into waves, which flow all over the nervous network of both until they die out upon the foot of the throne whereon each souls sits in voluptuous expectancy. [T]he joy...is diffused over both beings and each is based in the celestial and divine aura - the breath of God, suffusing both bodies, refreshing both souls! (65)
As we can see here, Randolph's practice of sexual magic is quite fundamentally different from most Indian Tantric traditions (and also, we will see, from the later sex magic of the O.T.O., Crowley and their disciples). Sex, for Randolph, sex is strictly for married couples, in contrast to the explicit violations of caste and marital laws that one often finds in Tantric maithuna (66). Moreover, Tantric sexual rituals are generally directed toward the retention of the semen, which is to be reversed and drawn back into the body of the male. Most Tantrics have little if anything at all to say about the female body, but describe spiritual union as something to be achieved within the male's divinized consciousness (67). Randolph's sexual magic, conversely, is aimed specifically at the emission of the semen in a moment of mutual climax between both male and female, which releases their combined creative powers. Finally, whereas Tantric union is designed to re-enact the divine union of Shiva and Shakti, the eternal male and female principles
of the universe, Randolph's sexual magic is intended primarily to achieve certain more realistic aims in this world: to influence the nature of unborn child, to insure good health, and even to attain more mundane material and financial benefits.
But in any case, Randolph's sexual teachings were to have a lasting impact on later Western occult traditions, introducing sexual magic into the mainstream of American esotericism: "Largely through Randolph's influence, the genie had been released from the bottle; the notion that sex provided the lost key to scattered elements of mythology had taken on a practical side. A multitude of sexual mysticism[s] flourished" (68).
While it seems fairly unlikely that Randolph had any direct knowledge of Tantra, it seems more plausible that several later Western occultists did in particular, the organizers of the highly esoteric movement of the Ordo Templi Orientis. Founded in the late nineteenth century by Carl Kellner (d. 1905) and Theordor Reuss (d. 1923), the O.T.O. became the main conduit through which Western sexual magic began to merge with a (somewhat deformed) version of Indian Tantric practices. A wealthy Austrian chemist and industrialist, Kellner claims to have been initiated into Indian sexual techniques in the course of his own Oriental travels, citing three masters – one Sufi and two Indian yogis, one of whom may have been a Bengali Tantrika. Reuss, too, seems to have had some knowledge of left-hand Tantra, which he cites in his work (69). However, other authors have suggested that Kellner's true inspiration may have been Randolph, whose sexual-magical teachings had been spread to Europe by a group of disciples in the late nineteenth century. Many of Randolph's ideas on sex magic were transmitted to Germany through a little known but extremely influential occult group known as the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, begun by Max Theon (d. 1927) and Peter Davidson (d. 1916) probably sometime in the 1880's (70).
Whatever their origins, much of the O.T.O. ritual appears to have centered around the "inner kernel" of sexual magic – though one already quite different from the more conservative system of Randolph. As the O.T.O. proclaimed in the Masonic journal Oriflamme in 1904,
One of the secrets which our order possesses in its highest grades is that it gives members the means to re-erect the temple of Solomon in men, to refind the lost Word... Our Order possesses the Key which unlocks all Masonic and Hermetic secrets, it is the teaching of sexual magic and this teaching explains all the riddles of nature, all Masonic symbolism and all religious systems (71).
The O.T.O. developed a system of nine degrees (later expanded to eleven), the first six of which were more conventional Masonic initiations. The seventh, eight and ninth, however, focused respectively upon the theory of sex magic and on the techniques of auto- and hetero-sexual magic. Homosexual intercourse also appears to have played a central role in the rituals (72). Through the magical act of intercourse, by focusing all one's will and imagination upon a desired goal in the moment of orgasm, one is said to achieve success in any occult operation, from the invocation of a god to the finding of hidden treasure." One may, for example, use these techniques to magically empower a talisman or other magical object: by focusing one's entire will upon the desired object during the act of auto- or heterosexual orgasm, and then afterwards anointing that object with the semen, one can use that empowered object to achieve virtually any desired end. Similarly, the power of controlled imagination and sexuality can be used to incarnate a god within one's consciousness, by concentrating all one's will on the deity at the moment of orgasm and so "blending their personalities into one" (73). Yet although the sex magic of the O.T.O. may have found some of its inspiration in the techniques of Randolph and his disciples, there would seem to be many fundamental differences between the two. As Godwin points out, the auto-erotic and homosexual techniques developed by Kellner and Reuss would have horrified the far more reserved Randolph, for whom sex was a sacrament between married couples, strictly guarded by ritual sanctity and moral injunctions (74).
Surely the most infamous member of the O.T.O. was the notorious magician and self-proclaimed Great Beast, 666, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). And it is with Crowley that we find the first clear examples of Western sexual magic being combined (and perhaps hopelessly confused) with Indian Tantric practices. Born the son of a minister in the highly puritanical Plymouth Brethren sect, Crowley is in many ways an exemplar of the Victorian age as a whole raised in prudish repression and turning later to extremes of sexual excess. Following Nietszche in his fierce rejection of Christianity as emasculated and weak, he "declared that all orthodox religions are rubbish, and that the sole true gods are the sun and his vice-regent, the penis" (75). A poet, novelist, and accomplished mountain-climber, Crowley would also become one of the most reviled characters of the early twentieth century. And much like Bernard's, Crowley infamy and scandal would center above all around his sexual practices.
His most recent biographer, Lawrence Sutin, suggests that Crowley may have first learned Tantric Vamachara practices in Ceylon as early 1901 while studying Buddhism; yet he seems to have been initially quite repulsed by them, describing "these follies of Vamacharya (debauchery)" as "evocations of the evil ones, things
unlawful to write of, dangerous even to think of" (76). His attitudes toward such rituals appear to have changed dramatically in the next few years, however, when he began to experiment in sexual magic of his own. Already in 1902, Crowley and his partner Rose had begun to engage in a series of what Sutin calls "secret rites, of a sexual nature (and related to Tantric practices, such as the emulation of the passive Shiva in cosmic coupling with the mounted energetic Shakti)" (77). Other authors think Crowley may been even more deeply involved in left-hand Tantric rituals during his travels in India. In 1936, Elizabeth Sharpe published a semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical account entitled Secrets of the Kaula Circle, which describes a mysterious Englishman calling himself by the number "666," who engages in a variety of the most esoteric Tantric rites. Nik Douglas concludes that this is clearly a reference to Crowley and is evidence that he had extensive knowledge of Tantric techniques (78) (though it seems equally likely that Sharpe has worked the infamous Beast 666 as a fictional character into her own imaginative narrative).
Yet whatever their precise origin, sexual practices clearly formed an integral part of Crowley's magical repertoire. And they appear to have become particularly central during the years of his involvement with the O.T.O. After reading his Book of Lies in 1912, Theodor Reuss allegedly contacted Crowley and accused him of revealing the innermost secret of the O.T.O – namely, the secret of sexual magic. Though Crowley had apparently done so unintentionally, the story goes, he was named the Sovereign Grand Master General of Ireland, Ioana and all the Britains. In his Confessions, Crowley discusses the nine degrees of the O.T.O.'s initiations, together with the two he later added, and also pointed to this innermost kernel of sexual magic which lay at the heart of the higher degrees:
[I]f this secret [of sexual magic] which is a scientific secret were perfectly understood, as it is not by me after more than twelve years' almost constant study and experiment, there would be nothing which the human imagination can conceive that could not be realized in practice...If it were desired to have an element of atomic weight six times that of uranium that...
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20 Jun 2008 - 11:04am
When Love Enters the Story of Love….
I have been searching
This Universe of Endless Never stopping Creation
Searching like a still clear movement of an eye
of the Mystical Eagle seeing
Everything turning into Seemingly Nothing and Seemingly Nothing turning
Into All things
Searching for the matching female mirror part of
Me being Who I am
everywhere I could go.
Because I saw on one day of bitter sadness
my Eternal Love turning into Non Eternal Love and Leaving me
Going to be Another Non eternal Love for Somebody Else
I knew about.
As I could not understand why
As nobody else could understand
But I felt in my Heart My now non eternal Love understood
And The pride the mother of all disasters
together with the fear their father did not let her
To tell me the truth.
I went flying wildly into many Galaxies for months
carrying endless river of bleeding pain
running through My heart
and trying to wash any of my own Love away
As the bleeding stopped
On one sunny day
and I could start to see
Who I am as I am again
then
I finally went to the state of being hilarious
and dancing with the stars
And riding the bunch of bewildered comets
Touching the fast skin of Light with the message
for the Real Essence of this Universe
For its Matrix Itself
Message for the God,
who I felt inside with my Spirit
‘I wish to meet a Woman you created for me
For I wish to live with her inside the Romantic Dream of Heaven
I and she can create freely together’
And for I am ready to live inside never dying Flower of Love
Leaving all the fear, hate, anger, jealousy, judge, victim
Thrown back into their own Fire of Hell
Forever
And I trusted I would succeed to find
a Smiling Blossom of Divine Magical Wild Beauty
Of this Stormy season
When the Sun with its new vibration of light
Disconnected all who were not meant
to stay connected until they die
and I knew it might be really possibly almost quite late
to find my Matching Mirror of Free Woman
because this is a world of slaves slaving Hell
And just before I may be about to get tempted
to find some other weaker flower for a while
less wild
less magical
less divine
less smiling
growing everywhere around the corner
growing for painful pleasure
growing into dull emptiness
But it was not late at all
when I find You being there out of the blue
And saw you coming
with the gentle wind in your long hair
So lightly
like you were the Mistress of the Wind
Swirling down to come to me to tell me
There is everything everybody needs
in this Interconnected Creation of Love
There is always
The One Right for The Other One,
which I knew deeply inside my heart.
What my mind could not imagine in bravest dreams
Only my new true friend intuition could tell me was
You are going to be
a Beautiful Daughter of Goddess of Love
Looking with wild passion
and deep compassion
into my eyes
Like you were looking into the mirror showing you
We are free to paint the Greatest Painting of our lives
With the most beautiful colours
talking pure magic while freely touching
The radiant canvass of us two naked painters
Painting the Story of Love with Truth and Honesty
knowing deeply suddenly in our souls
Time has come
for the Pure Miracle of Love
To come finally true
For YOU and FOR ME
How do I know all this?
When the Mind is Clear
to broadcast the station of Freedom to Love
Then it knows You are what you are
And this is what I am.
‘Hello Life
I am Life,’
Let’s go Dancing beyond the clouds of Fear
Where the Angels we created
Are waiting to see us dancing
in the shiny shoes of freedom
to be who we are…
And my Heart does not need
to seek to know
if the Palace of Your Heart is full
of Magic of Love for all
My Heart only feels My Soul
Expressing Pure Joy from a touch
Of Divine Eternity of You Touching Me.
My Heart Knows and sees with the Eyes of Love
You know What Love really is
and You know how to build
the temple of Everlasting Love
Yet there is just one
little tiny piece of poisoned seed of fear
Inside your glowing aura
And I have the happy joy to tell you
‘I can not hurt You, Beauty of Your Heart
as I am made of Love and for Love
as You are made of Love and for Love
as You and Me know now
after the wild storms of our lives
brought us here where now
this is the only truth
of the Father God & Mother Goddes, taking our hands
and letting us
to merge our souls
and sending us to walk
the Beauty of Life Together…
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4 Jun 2008 - 6:00am
We cannot know what X-in-Heaven is unless we know what X is. We cannot know what sex in Heaven is unless we know what sex is. We cannot know what in Heaven's name sex is unless we know what on earth sex is.
But don't we know? Haven't we been thinking about almost nothing else for years and years? What else dominates our fantasies, waking and sleeping, twenty-four nose-to-the- grindstone hours a day? What else fills our TV shows, novels, plays, gossip columns, self-help books, and psychologies but sex?
No, we do not think too much about sex; we think hardly at all about sex. Dreaming, fantasizing, feeling, experimenting— yes. But honest, look-it-in-the- face thinking?—hardly ever. There is no subject in the world about which there is more heat and less light.
Therefore I want to begin with four abstract philosophical principles about the nature of sex. They are absolutely necessary not only for sanity about sex in Heaven but also for sanity about sex on earth, a goal at least as distant as Heaven to our sexually suicidal society. The fact that sex is public does not mean it is mature and healthy. The fact that there are thousands of "how to do it" books on the subject does not mean that we know how; in fact, it means the opposite. It is when everybody's pipes are leaking that people buy books on plumbing.
My four philosophical principles will seem strange or even shocking to many people today. Yet they are far from radical, or even original; they are simply the primeval platitudes known to all premodern societies; the sane, sunny country of sexual common sense by the vote of "the democracy of the dead". Yet in another way they are "radical", in the etymological sense of the word: they are our sexual roots, and our uprooted society is rooting around looking for sexual substitute roots like a pig rooting for truffles. It has not found them. That fact should at least make us pause and look back at our "wise blood", our roots. Here are four of them.
First Principle: Sex Is Something You Are, Not Something You Do
Suppose you saw a book with the title "The Sexual Life of a Nun". You would probably assume it was a scurrilous, gossipy sort of story about tunnels connecting convents and monasteries, clandestine rendezvous behind the high altar, and masking a pregnancy as a tumor. But it is a perfectly proper title: all nuns have a sexual life. They are women, not men. When a nun prays or acts charitably, she prays or acts, not he. Her celibacy forbids intercourse, but it cannot forbid her to be a woman. In everything she does her essence plays a part, and her sex is as much a part of her essence as her age, her race, and her sense of humor.
The counterfeit phrase "having sex" (meaning "inter- course") was minted only recently. Of course a nun "has sex" she is female. Draftees often fill in the box on their induction forms labeled "sex" not with the word "male" but "occasionally" or "please!" The joke would have been unintelligible to previous generations. The significance of the linguistic change is that we have trivialized sex into a thing to do rather than a quality of our inner being. It has become a thing of surfaces and external feeling rather than of personality and internal feeling. Thus even masturbation is called "having sex", though it is exactly the opposite: a denial of real relationship with the other sex.
The words "masculinity" and "femininity" , meaning something more than merely biological maleness and femaleness, have been reduced from archetypes to stereotypes. Traditional expectations that men be men and women be women are confused because we no longer know what to expect men and women to be. Yet, though confused, the expectations remain. Our hearts desire, even while our minds reject, the old "stereotypes" . The reason is that the old stereotypes were closer to our innate sexual instincts than are the new stereotypes. We have sexist hearts even while we have unisex heads. Evidence for this claim? More people are attracted to the old stereotypes than to the new ones. Romeo still wants to marry Juliet.
The main fault in the old stereotypes was their too-tight connection between sexual being and social doing, their tying of sexual identity to social roles, especially for women: the feeling that it was somehow unfeminine to be a doctor, lawyer, or politician. But the antidote to this illness is not confusing sexual identities but locating them in our being rather than in our doing. Thus we can soften up social roles without softening up sexual identities. In fact, a man who is confident of his inner masculinity is much more likely to share in traditionally female activities like housework and baby care than one who ties his sexuality to his social roles.
If our first principle is accepted, if sexuality is part of our inner essence, then it follows that there is sexuality in Heaven, whether or not we "have sex" and whether or not we have sexually distinct social roles in Heaven.
Second Principle: The Alternative to Chauvinism Is Not Egalitarianism
The two most popular philosophies of sexuality today seem totally opposed to each other; yet at a most basic level they are in agreement and are equally mistaken. The two philosophies are the old chauvinism and the new egalitarianism; and they seem totally opposed. For chauvinism (a) sees one sex as superior to the other, "second", sex. This is usually the male, but there are increasingly many strident female chauvinist voices in the current cacophony. This presupposes (b) that the sexes are intrinsically different, different by nature not social convention. Egalitarianism tries to disagree with (a) totally; it thinks that to do so it has to disagree with (b) as well. But this means that it agrees with chauvinism on (c), the unstated but assumed premise that all dfferences must be dfferences in value, or, correlatively, that the only way for two things to be equal in value is for them to be equal in nature. Both philosophies see sameness or superiority as the only options. It is from this assumption (that differences are differences in value) that the chauvinist argues that the sexes are different in nature, therefore they are different in value. And it is from the same assumption that the egalitarian argues that the sexes are not different in value, therefore they are not different in nature.
Chauvinism:
Egalitarianism:
(c)
and (b)
therefore (a)
(c)
and not (a)
therefore not (b)
Once this premise is smoked out, it is easy to see how foolish both arguments are. Of course not all differences are differences in value. Are dogs better than cats, or cats than dogs? Or are they different only by convention, not by nature? Chauvinist and egalitarian should both read the poets, songwriters, and mythmakers to find a third philosophy of sexuality that is both more sane and infinitely more interesting. It denies neither the obvious rational truth that the sexes are equal in value (as the chauvinist does) nor the equally obvious instinctive truth that they are innately different (as the egalitarian does). It revels in both, and in their difference: vive la difference!
If sexual differences are natural, they are preserved in Heaven, for "grace does not destroy nature but perfects it" If sexual differences are only humanly and socially conventional, Heaven will remove them as it will remove economics and penology and politics. (Not many of us have job security after death. That is one advantage of being a philosopher. ) All these things came after and because of the Fall, but sexuality came as part of God's original package: "be fruitful and multiply". God may unmake what we make, but He does not unmake what He makes. God made sex, and God makes no mistakes.
Saint Paul's frequently quoted statement that "in Christ. there is neither male nor female" does not mean there is no sex in Heaven. For it refers not just to Heaven but also to earth: we are "in Christ" now. (In fact, if we are not "in Christ" now there is no hope of Heaven for us!) But we are male or female now. His point is that our sex does not determine our "in-Christness" ; God is an equal opportunity employer. But He employs the men and women He created, not the neuters of our imagination.
Third Principle: Sex Is Spiritual
That does not mean "vaguely pious, ethereal, and idealistic". "Spiritual" means "a matter of the spirit", or soul, or psyche, not just the body. Sex is between the ears before it's between the legs. We have sexual souls.
For some strange reason people are shocked at the notion of sexual souls. They not only disagree; the idea seems utterly crude, superstitious, repugnant, and incredible to them. Why? We can answer this question only by first answering the opposite one: why is the idea reasonable, enlightened, and even necessary?
The idea is the only alternative to either materialism or dualism. If you are a materialist, there is simply no soul for sex to be a quality of If you are a dualist, if you split body and soul completely, if you see a person as a ghost in a machine, then one half of the person can be totally different from the other: the body can be sexual without the soul being sexual. The machine is sexed, the ghost is not. (This is almost the exact opposite of the truth: ghosts, having once been persons, have sexual identity from their personalities, their souls. Machines do not.)
No empirical psychologist can be a dualist; the evidence for psychosomatic unity is overwhelming. No pervasive feature of either body or soul is insulated from the other; every sound in the soul echoes in the body, and every sound in the body echoes in the soul. Let the rejection of dualism be Premise One of our argument.
Premise Two is the even more obvious fact that biological sexuality is innate, natural, and in fact pervasive to every cell in the body. It is not socially conditioned, or conventional, or environmental; it is hereditary.
The inevitable conclusion from these two premises is that sexuality is innate, natural, and pervasive to the whole person, soul as well as body. The only way to avoid the conclusion is to deny one of the two premises that logically necessitate it-to deny psychosomatic unity or to deny innate somatic sexuality.
In the light of this simple and overwhelming argument, why is the conclusion not only unfamiliar but shocking to so many people in our society? I can think of only two reasons. The first is a mere misunderstanding, the second a serious and substantial mistake.
The first reason would be a reaction against what is wrongly seen as monosexual soul-stereotyping. A wholly male soul, whatever maleness means, or a wholly female soul, sounds unreal and oversimplified. But that is not what sexual souls implies. Rather, in every soul there is—to use Jungian terms—anima and animus, femaleness and maleness; just as in the body, one predominates but the other is also present. If the dominant sex of soul is not the same as that of the body, we have a sexual misfit, a candidate for a sex change operation of body or of soul, earthly or Heavenly. Perhaps Heaven supplies such changes just as it supplies all other needed forms of healing. In any case, the resurrection body perfectly expresses its soul, and since souls are innately sexual, that body will perfectly express its soul's true sexual identity.
A second reason why the notion of sexual souls sounds strange to many people may be that they really hold a pantheistic rather than a theistic view of spirit as undifferentiated, or even infinite. They think of spirit as simply overwhelming, or leaving behind, all the distinctions known to the body and the senses. But this is not the Christian notion of spirit, nor of infinity. Infinity itself is not undifferentiated in God. To call God infinite is not to say He is everything in general and nothing in particular: that is confusing God with The Blob! God's infinity means that each of His positive and definite attributes, such as love, wisdom, power, justice, and fidelity, is unlimited.
Spirit is no less differentiated, articulated, structured, or formed than matter. The fact that our own spirit can suffer and rejoice far more, more delicately and exquisitely, and in a far greater variety of ways, than can the body-this fact should be evidence of spirit's complexity. So should the fact that psychology is nowhere near an exact science, as anatomy
Differences in general, and sexual differences in particular, increase rather than decrease as you move up the cosmic hierarchy. (Yes, there is a cosmic hierarchy, unless you can honestly believe that oysters have as much right to eat you as you have to eat them.) Angels are as superior to us in differentiation as we are to animals. God is infinitely differentiated, for He is the Author of all differences, all forms.
Each act of creation in Genesis is an act of differentiation— light from darkness, land from sea, animals from plants, and so on. Creating is forming, and forming is differentiating. Materialism believes differences in form are ultimately illusory appearance; the only root reality is matter. Pantheism also believes differences in form are ultimately illusory; the only root reality is one universal Spirit. But theism believes form is real because God created it. And whatever positive reality is in the creation must have its model in the Creator. We shall ultimately have to predicate sexuality of God Himself, as we shall see next.
Fourth Principle: Sex Is Cosmic
Have you ever wondered why almost all languages except English attribute sexuality to things? Trees, rocks, ships, stars, horns, kettles, circles, accidents, trips, ideas, feelings-these, and not just men and women, are masculine or feminine. Did you always assume unthinkingly that this was of course a mere projection and personification, a reading of our sexuality into nature rather than reading nature's own sexuality out of it (or rather, out of her)? Did it ever occur to you that it just might be the other way round, that human sexuality is derived from cosmic sexuality rather than vice versa, that we are a local application of a universal principle? If not, please seriously consider the idea now, for it is one of the oldest and most widely held ideas in our history, and one of the happiest.
It is a happy idea because it puts humanity into a more human universe. We fit; we are not freaks. What we are, everything else also is, though in different ways and different degrees. We are, to use the medieval image, a microcosm, a little cosmos; the universe is the macrocosm, the same pattern written large. We are more like little fish inside bigger fish than like sardines in a can. It is the machine-universe that is our projection, not the human universe.
We do not have time here to apply this idea, so pregnant with consequences, to other aspects of our being, to talk about the cosmic extension of consciousness and volition, but many philosophers have argued for this conclusion, and a deeper eye than reason's seems to insist on it. But we can apply it to sexuality here. It means that sexuality goes all the way up and all the way down the cosmic ladder.
At the "down" end there is "love among the particles": gravitational and electromagnetic attraction. That little electron just "knows" the difference between the proton, which she "loves", and another electron, which is her rival. If she did not know the difference, she would not behave so knowingly, orbiting around her proton and repelling other electrons, never vice versa.
But, you say, I thought that was because of the balanced resultant of the two merely physical forces of angular momentum, which tends to zoom her straight out of orbit, and bipolar electromagnetic attraction, which tends to zap her down into her proton: too much zoom for a zap and too much zap for a zoom. Quite right. But what right do you have to call physical forces "mere"? And how do you account for the second of those two forces? Why is there attraction between positive and negative charges? It is exactly as mysterious as love. In fact, it is love. The scientist can tell you how it works, but only the lover knows why.
Sex at the Top
Sex "goes all the way up" as well as "all the way down Spirit is no less sexual than matter; on the contrary, all qualities and all contrasts are richer, sharper, more real as we rise closer and closer to the archetype of realness, God. The God of the Bible is not a monistic pudding in which differences are reduced to lumps, or a light that out-dazzles all finite lights and colors. God is a sexual being, the most sexual of all beings.
This sounds shocking to people only if they see sex only as physical and not spiritual, or if they are Unitarians rather than Trinitarians. The love relationship between the Father and the Son within the Trinity, the relationship from which the Holy Spirit eternally proceeds, is a sexual relationship. It is like the human sexual relationship from which a child proceeds in time; or rather, that relationship is like the divine one. Sexuality is "the image of God" according to Scripture (see Genesis 1:27), and for B to be an image of A, A must in some way have all the qualities imaged by B. God therefor& is a sexual being. There is therefore sex in Heaven because in Heaven we are close to the source of all sex. As we climb Jacob's ladder the angels look less like neutered, greeting-card cherubs and more like Mars and Venus.
Another reason we are more, not less, sexual in Heaven is that all earthly perversions of true sexuality are overcome, especially the master perversion, selfishness. To make self God, to desire selfish pleasure as the summum bonum, is not only to miss God but to miss pleasure and self as well, and to miss the glory and joy of sex. Jesus did not merely say, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God", but also added that "all these things shall be added" when we put first things first. Each story fits better when the foundation is put first.
C. S. Lewis calls this the principle of "first and second things". In any area of life, putting second things first loses not only the first things but also the second things, and putting first things first gains not only the first things but the second. things as well. So to treat sexual pleasure as God is to miss not only God but sexual pleasure too.
The highest pleasure always comes in self-forgetfulness. Self always spoils its own pleasure. Pleasure is like light; if you grab at it, you miss it; if you try to bottle it, you get only darkness; if you let it pass, you catch the glory. The self has a built-in, God-imaging design of self-fulfillment by self-forgetfulness, pleasure through unselfishness, ecstasy by ekstasis, "standing-outside- the-self" . This is not the self-conscious self-sacrifice of the do-gooder but the spontaneous, unconscious generosity of the lover.
This principle, that the greatest pleasure is self-giving, is graphically illustrated by sexual intercourse and by the very structure of the sexual organs, which must give themselves to each other in order to be fulfilled. In Heaven, when egotistic perversions are totally eliminated, all pleasure is increased, including sexual pleasure. Whether this includes physical sexual pleasure or not, remains to be seen.
Application of the Principles: Sex in Heaven
In the most important and obvious sense there is certainly sex in Heaven simply because there are human beings in Heaven. As we have seen, sexuality, like race and unlike clothes, is an essential aspect of our identity, spiritual as well as physical. Even if sex were not spiritual, there would be sex in Heaven because of the resurrection of the body. The body is not a mistake to be unmade or a prison cell to be freed from, but a divine work of arto designed to show forth the soul as the soul is to show forth God, in splendor and glory and overflow of generous superfluity.
But is there sexual intercourse in Heaven? If we have bodily sex organs, what do we use them for there?
Not baby-making. Earth is the breeding colony; Heaven is the homeland.
Not marriage. Christ's words to the Sadducees are quite clear about that. It is in regard to marriage that we are "like the angels". (Note that it is not said that we are like the angels in any other ways, such as lacking physical bodies.)
Might there be another function in which baby-making and marriage are swallowed up and transformed, aufgehoben? Everything on earth is analogous to something in Heaven. Heaven neither simply removes nor simply continues earthly things. If we apply this principle to sexual intercourse, we get the conclusion that intercourse on earth is a shadow or symbol of intercourse in Heaven. Could we speculate about what that could be?
It could certainly be spiritual intercourse—and, remember, that includes sexual intercourse because sex is spiritual. This spiritual intercourse would mean something more specific than universal charity. It would be special communion with the sexually complementary; something a man can have only with a woman and a woman only with a man. We are made complete by such union: "It is not good that the man should be alone." And God does not simply rip up His design for human fulfillment. The relationship need not be confined to one in Heaven. Monogamy is for earth. On earth, our bodies are private. In Heaven, we share each other's secrets without shame, and voluntarily. In the Communion of Saints, promiscuity of spirit is a virtue.
The relationship may not extend to all persons of the opposite sex, at least not in the same way or degree. Ifit did extend to all, it would treat each differently simply because each is different—sexually as well as in other ways. I think there must be some special "kindred souls" in Heaven that we are designed to feel a special sexual love for. That would be the Heavenly solution to the earthly riddle of why in the world John falls for Mary, of all people, and not for Jane, and why romantic lovers feel their love is fated, "in the stars", "made in Heaven".
But this would differ from romantic love on earth in that it would be free, not driven; from soul to body, not from body to soul. Nor would it feel apart from or opposed to the God-relationship, but a part of it or a consequence of it: His design, the wave of His baton. It would also be totally unselfconscious and unselfish: the ethical goodness of agape joined to the passion of eros; agape without external, abstract law and duty, and eros without selfishness or animal drives.
But would it ever take the form of physical sexual intercourse? We should explore this question, not to kowtow to modernity's sexual monomania but because it is an honest question about something of great significance to us now, and because we simply want to know all we can about Heaven.
Since there are bodies in Heaven, able to eat and be touched, like Christ's resurrection body, there is the possibility of physical intercourse. But why might the possibility be actualized? What are its possible purposes and meanings?
We know Heaven by earthly clues. Let us try to read all the clues in earthly intercourse. It has three levels of meaning: the subhuman, or animal; the superhuman, or divine; and the specifically human. (All three levels exist in us humans.)
Animal reasons for intercourse include (i) the conscious drive for pleasure and (2) the unconscious drive to perpetuate the species. Both would be absent in Heaven. For although there are unimaginably great pleasures in Heaven, we are not driven by them. And the species is complete in eternity: no need for breeding.
Transhuman reasons for intercourse include (i) idolatrous love of the beloved as a substitute for God and (2) the Dante-Beatrice love of the beloved as an image of God. As to the first, there is, of course, no idolatry in Heaven. No substitutes for God are even tempting when God Himself is present. As to the second, the earthly beloved was a window to God, a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. That is why the lover was so smitten. Now that the reality is present, why stare at the mirror? The impulse to adore has found its perfect object. Furthermore, even on earth this love leads not to intercourse but to infatuation. Dante neither desired nor enacted intercourse with Beatrice.
Specifically human reasons for intercourse include (1) consummating a monogamous marriage and (2) the desire to express personal love. As to the first, there is no marriage in Heaven. But what of the second?
I think there will probably be millions of more adequate ways to express love than the clumsy ecstasy of fitting two bodies together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Even the most satisfying earthly intercourse between spouses cannot perfectly express all their love. If the possibility of intercourse in Heaven is not actualized, it is only for the same reason earthly lovers do not eat candy during intercourse: there is something much better to do. The question of intercourse in Heaven is like the child's question whether you can eat candy during intercourse: a funny question only from the adult's point of view. Candy is one of children's greatest pleasures; how can they conceive a pleasure so intense that it renders candy irrelevant? Only if you know both can you compare two things, and all those who have tasted both the delights of physical intercourse with the earthly beloved and the delights of spiritual intercourse with God testify that there is simply no comparison.
A Heavenly Reading of the Earthly Riddle of Sex
This spiritual intercourse with God is the ecstasy hinted at in all earthly intercourse, physical or spiritual. It is the ultimate reason why sexual passion is so strong, so different from other passions, so heavy with suggestions of profound meanings that just elude our grasp. No mere practical needs account for it. No mere animal drive explains it. No animal falls in love, writes profound romantic poetry, or sees sex as a symbol of the ultimate meaning of life because no animal is made in the image of God. Human sexuality is that image, and human sexuality is a foretaste of that self-giving, that losing and finding the self, that oneness-in-manyness that is the heart of the life and joy of the Trinity. That is what we long for; that is why we tremble to stand outside ourselves in the other, to give our whole selves, body and soul: because we are images of God the sexual being. We love the other sex because God loves God.
And this earthly love is so passionate because Heaven is full of passion, of energy and dynamism. We correctly deny that God has passions in the passive sense, being moved, driven, or conditioned by them, as we are. But to think of the love that made the worlds, the love that became human, suffered alienation from itself and died to save us rebels, the love that gleams through the fanatic joy of Jesus' obedience to the will of His Father and that shines in the eyes and lives of the saints—to think of this love as any less passionate than our temporary and conditioned passions "is a most disastrous fantasy". And that consuming fire of love is our destined Husband, according to His own promise. Sex in Heaven? Indeed, and no pale, abstract, merely mental shadow of it either. Earthly sex is the shadow, and our lives are a process of thickening so that we can share in the substance, becoming Heavenly fire so that we can endure and rejoice in the Heavenly fire.
http://www.peterkre eft.com/topics/ sex-in-heaven. htm
Blog entry
29 May 2008 - 2:28pm
do you ever find yourself so bored with this world you can't wait to leave?
this society i live in is so trivial. all consumed with shopping, consumption, money, politics, money, greed etc. it's boring to me. i know none of it is important and there they are running around at the speed of light trying to get more, spend more, be more - whatever. they can keep that garbage.
i guess it wouldn't be so boring if more of them would be willing to listen or have a conversation about something other than tv shows, shopping, spending, whinning about lack of this or that.
thankfully, i see the humour in everything. at least there is some entertainment value in thier shenanigans!
find the humour to ward off boredom. i should be on the floor laughing so hard i can't breathe in about 5 minutes!
hope you find something to laugh about today!
Story
27 Apr 2008 - 3:11pm
The Black Pearl Activations.
There is a total of seven activations in the Black Pearl.
These activations activate our higher chakras, eight through twelve.
They activate all your DNA.
The activations will help open and clear your chakras eight through twelve.
And help with integrating these chakras into your physical body.
Every time you reach a new level more DNA will start working immediately.
So every time you reach a new level of frequency inside your physical body, your DNA is ready for it
The activation also helps in rasing the frequency of your physical body and spiritual bodies.
These activations are part of the ascension teachings.
All of you are working toward ascension and while doing that more and more chakras and DNA get activated. It’s a process connected to raising the frequencies.
The Black Pearl was used during the mystery schools to speed up the process of opening and activating the chakras and DNA.
They were done during or before starting the mystery school depending upon the choice of the student.
You can call the Black Pearl a shortcut.
People attending mystery schools would attend several lifetimes before ascending.
They were able to come back every lifetime more conscious but still had to deal with the physical body.
As you know the physical body only has 7 chakras and 2 strands of DNA when you come in.
The Black Pearl started during the time of the Order of the Sphinx in Egypt.
Before that in Lemuria and Atlantis it was not needed since everyone had the chakras and DNA still in their physical body.
After the fall of Atlantis this was brought back to 7 chakras in the body and only 2 strands of DNA.
Since it does take some time to get all these chakras and DNA activated, usually several years, this shortcut was introduced to the more advanced students at first.
Later on also the new students were allowed to take the Black Pearl activations.
These activations work with fear, ego, light and dark energy, masculine and feminine energies, power, twin flames and twin souls and much more.
They were important subjects that were taught in the schools.
Usually a student would go through certain teachings and when the student was ready the activation was done.
Some of you have memories of these activations in the sarcophagus.
You all have connections to one mystery school and most of you have attended more than one.
You have done several of these activation during those times.
So why are we offering it separate from the mystery school teachings?
Many people are interested in the mystery school teachings but don’t have the time or sometimes courage to start.
Mystery schools in the old days meant being in school full-time.
Everyone attending the school would be living in the temples full-time as well.
Fully dedicated to learning the path of ascension.
In these days not many people have that chance. So all we can offer is the classes.
You all have connections to the mystery school and the teachings.
We would like for you to find those connections and bring back the connection into this life.
Bring back what you have learned.
That is why we have the mystery school right now.
To bring back what you have learned and to teach you all that you have not learned yet.
We are already in 2008 and time is going faster and faster.
All of you have different connections, so our job is to bring to you as many different aspects of the mystery schools as possible.
Different connections, different levels, different paces.
All attracted to different teachings.
So different schools, different classes.
The Black Pearl activations can be done at any time, either separate of together with other teachings.
This is what is so important to us, all teachings lead you in the same direction, but since you are all different, there are different ways of learning provided.
It’s all depending upon your choice, your feeling, your connection with the teachings.
All that is important is that you have an open mind and intention to ascend.
And all we can do is offer you the tools to accomplish ascension.
Imhotep
High Priest of the Temple of Isis.
The Blue Lotus.
Enlightment.
The lasts stage before enlightment starts when you receive the Blue Lotus.
Last night on April 19th I went to bed late.
It was around 1 after midnight before I went to sleep.
During my sleep I was taken to Buddha’s birthday.
When I was standing in front of him he said:
“Good, you have the Blue Lotus.”
I had no clue what it meant, but could see it inside of me.
It was beautiful.
I asked for an explanation and all Buddha said was:
“Sit down in my chair.”
So I did.
The moment I sat down, the Blue Lotus changed into gold, then into diamond and from there into pure white light.
I felt like I was inside the lotus and suddenly everything made sense to me.
I knew what was happening.
This was enlighment.
I also knew why I had to stop writing down the activations after the 5th activation of the Black Pearl.
There are two more.
The first one, the connection to Mother Earth and all the beings upon her.
The last one, where you receive the Blue Lotus.
We are so focused on ascension and how to get there, that we forgot about a very important part of the ascension.
One that can be reached for all of us.
ENLIGHTMENT.
There are beings on our planet that we call enlightened.
But did they receive enlightment before or after ascension?
I understand now that we can receive enlightment before ascension.
Reason I say receive is because I feel this is the only way.
We start by receiving the Blue Lotus when we are ready for this path toward enlightment.
Now I know why this trip to California was so important and why we were not allowed to change the date. We wanted to but were told not to change a thing.
I received and went through these activations of the Black Pearl while writing them.
I needed these days to be without interference to experience all this myself.
I had all the time to myself and no obligations during the day.
I would not have been able to do this at home.
And now I know.
I am sitting in Buddha’s chair and from here I understand.
We are able to reach enlightment before we ascend.
And we can ask for this if we are ready.
We can receive the Blue Lotus now.
Love and Light
Petra
Blog entry
26 Feb 2008 - 12:20pm
Most people think of sexual coupling when they hear the word "TANTRA" but Tantra is so much more than this. A person can perform Tantra at any time upon meeting another individual, and it matters not where, when, or with whom. Here is a simple illustration. Next time you meet someone; either someone you already know or a perfect stranger, take their hand in yours, look deeply into their eyes and tell them that you love them UNCONDITIONALLY. Then feel your hand touching theirs and let your awareness enter fully into this sensation. Next feel their hand touching yours and let your awareness enter fully into this sensation as well. Once you are fully aware of your hand touching theirs and their hand touching yours then let your awareness move fully into the very act of touching and BECOME THE TOUCH. Should you desire to become a little more intimate then kiss the person. Know that you are your lips touching theirs. You are their lips touching yours, and YOUR ARE THE KISS. This can even be done with animals, trees, flowers, and yes, even a rock. Should you let a person know ahead of time of what you are doing and how to do it they too will be able to merge into the ONENESS with you. THIS IS TANTRA! (Pronounced Tun-tra) NAMASTE - Polygethes
Blog entry
21 Jan 2008 - 4:50pm
What is Tantra?
Nik Douglas
from
Spiritual Sex
The Many Meanings of Tantra
Most People are unclear about what Tantra really is and what it can do for you. Probably the most common view is that Tantra has some connection with Oriental religion, with uninhibited sex, and with the lovemaking positions and techniques outlined in the Kama Sutra, Hinduism's oldest sex manual. To some, Tantra is a free-love cult, a survival of the psychedelic sixties; to others, it's New Age spiritual sex therapy, part of the California lifestyle, a slice of 1990s pop culture.
None of these views of Tantra are wrong outright, but none really explain what Tantra actually is. So what is Tantra? What does it mean? And, most important of all, what is its relevance to us today?
The word Tantra is Sanskrit, the sacred language of Hinduism. It derives from the root word tan, which translates as "to extend, expand, spread, continue, spin out, weave; to put forth, show, or manifest." Like the universe we inhabit, Tantra is continually expanding, spreading, and manifesting itself like a "cosmic weave," made up of different energies. We are part of this weave, as are our forefathers and foremothers, all life, and every type of energy and matter. This includes thoughts, actions, and all physical matter.
Some Definitions of Tantra
Because Tantra is a mystical subject, it is nearly impossible to define. Even eminent scholars have had a hard time explaining what Tantra actually is. The different explanations of Tantra indicate its multifaceted nature. Tantra is a spiritual science, which means it is also mystical, in its interconnectedness, the holistic wisdom link between ourselves and the universe we inhabit.
By embracing Tantra, we become more "real," more "complete." How? By recognizing and stimulating our inherent sensual spirituality, we discover parts of ourselves that have remained asleep or have been repressed. With Tantra, an energy is released that is evolutionary and "upwardly motivated." We can learn to use this energy for pleasure, for achieving our worldly goals, and for aiding our spiritual evolution.
Familiarity with Tantra can help a person to enjoy life to the fullest. It can help do away with guilt or fear, break down self imposed or limiting cultural boundaries, and guide us in our search for solutions. Tantra teaches us to become familiar with our mystical nature, and when we do so, our boundaries expand. We enter into new domains of awareness. We become empowered, more fulfilled, and more perfect.
Traditional dictionary definitions of Tantra are revealing. A Sanskrit word, Tantra is sometimes translated as "leading principle, essential part, model, system, framework,
doctrine, rule, theory, scientific work," also as "order, chief part, rule, authority, science, mystic works, magical formulas, means, expedient, stratagem, medicine." Finally, a Tantra is sometimes defined as "a type of mystical teaching set out mostly in the form of dialogs between a cosmic couple. intimate insightful dialogs, between God and Goddess, Shiva and Shakti, the male and female Tantric adepts, were at times written down and became known as Tantras. Naturally, these dialogs, being intimate, included sexual secrets as well as many other fascinating
topics.
Tantra has been well tested over thousands of years, not in worldly laboratories but in the laboratories of the human body, by Yogi scientists and Tibetan Lamas who were not driven by commerce but by the earnest desire for spiritual knowledge and liberation. Their observations and insights have been passed down to us.
The sacred Hindu and Buddhist scriptures known as Tantras provide detailed instructions on a wide range of topics, including spiritual knowledge, technology, and science. Their content is often paradoxical. In Tantra, science and mysticism go hand in hand, as do sensuality and asceticism. Just as advanced scientific treatises are difficult for the layperson to comprehend, so traditional Tantras require adequate preparation before they can be properly understood. © Nik Douglas
