tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52858710730699406362024-03-15T18:09:22.636-07:00The Kundalini ConsortiumA blog committed to the evidence-based study of human energy potential, featuring books by authors who explore and practice energy cultivation. How and why kundalini, neuroplasticity, distance healing, mindfulness, meditation, near-death and out-of-body experience, and other metaphysical phenomena occur and how they influence evolution, creativity, and biology (DNA)JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.comBlogger325125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-89382123306325839022022-12-01T13:12:00.004-08:002022-12-01T13:12:57.846-08:00The Journey and the Destination: Part 02<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Journey/Destination discussion and the ways they are intertwined are worth taking a fresh look at. The first iteration was published on Sunday, March 10, 2013: <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2013/03/the-journey-or-destination.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Journey or the Destination: Part o1</a>.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Let’s reexamine the two notions, starting with the destination. What exactly is the destination? A kundalini awakening, you say. Okay… This blog is full of discussions on the effects — beneficial and harmful — that kundalini confers on those who attempt to cultivate it whether they succeed or not. Yes, I include harmful, in the sense of unwanted, painful, and stultifying experiences do <a href="https://amzn.to/3AZU0jl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">happen on occasion</a> — before, during, and after kundalini arousal. <br /></span></span></p>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Recently, seekers I’ve talked with tell me they believe kundalini will somehow usher them into a state of being that makes their inadequacies, anxieties, and dependencies disappear. Before I reveal the term they apply to this state, let me try to describe its qualities.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's a state that insulates and protects, a state in which the seeker connects with the energy continuum whereby he or she receives all-encompassing grace, expanded consciousness, and limitless ability.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What follows, how the individual lives with it, once awakened, is not clear. Suffice it to say, that boiled down to basics it resembles a yearning to escape life’s </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">toils and torments</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">. Boiled down even further into one word, it’s exceedingly suggestive of the term enlightenment.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Don’t go all to pieces; I get it. You don’t like my definition, but we’re living in the real world where there’s very little escape. Instead, read <a href="https://amzn.to/3guCUmD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment</i></a>. Its title alone should be enough to convince you there’s not a lot of proof, much less an objective process, by which it’s possible to determine whether someone is or isn’t enlightened. If you get into the text, it just may help keep your expectations realistic, your feet on the ground.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Remember, Gopi Krishna searched for an enlightened being for a long time in India, the motherlode of spiritual endeavor and experience. He never found one. Even those who others claimed were “enlightened” refused the title, saying they knew nothing — much less nothing they might pass along to others. The best they could do was to tell their story and insist that it was unique to them, adding that each individual must find out for him/herself.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So what was my destination? Once kundalini awakened, where did I land in the energy continuum? Had I taken a great leap forward in terms of grace, consciousness, and ability?</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">First, let me describe what it took for me to activate kundalini, and to my complete and utter lack of knowledge with what had happened when I did, and how I learned to deal with it. Because, right off the bat, it started working on me. Where had my journey started? Where was I now, after this so-called awakening?</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I begin with meditation at age 28. But that wasn’t the real beginning. I’m convinced it all began when I was born. Some people, like me and <a href="https://amzn.to/3XHTKPJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margaret Dempsey</a>, are just born with the idea of a quest in the form of a journey they must take at some point in their lives.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyway, after a year of mediation, I went to France where I continued to meditate and live the expatriate life with all its frivolities and excesses. After a time, I began to experience sensations in my body that I knew were connected to my meditation practice, and it was taking me somewhere. There was a certain amount of physical suffering; I could no longer function in a populated surroundings; I needed to drop everything and concentrate on the meditation. I had no access to books on kundalini, even if I’d heard the term, which I hadn’t. I retired to a small village in the south, very remote, living a kind of gnostic lifestyle. No telephones, no Internet, no TV or movies. A basically analog world: Practice, Read, Walk, Eat, Sleep. People did that then — the ascetic hermit trip, like the Buddhist and Taoist monks who went to the mountains, almost impossible to do today.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I gave up my work as a gainfully employed film editor, my social life, my habits, the woman I lived with and loved. I stayed in the house, meditating and reading. For exercise I walked. I ate sparingly.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Up to that point, the journey had been one of abstinence: learning to do without: no alcohol, drugs, or sex. I found out later that sexual energy is used by the kundalini mechanism to awaken it by a process called sublimation, and that’s why I began to feel weak as the process unfolded, more and more sexual energy was diverted to the brain. Read about my experience in detail, the before, the during, the aftermath in <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3ijCEXW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deciphering the Golden Flower One Step at a Time</a></i>. </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Like Gopi Krishna, I’d did it alone, making discoveries as the process advanced; I became my own best detective working in uncharted waters, writing everything down in a journal for future use. Up to then, I was doing the doing; once kundalini awakened, it began doing me. I had no control over it. It started to reengineer my body and has continued to do so over the last 50 years. There were insights into human physiology and a gradual extension of awareness.</span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">During the Journey, I learned:<br /></span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To live by myself,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I didn’t have to try to make others like me; in other words: I became comfortable just being myself,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To write clearly about metaphysics as previously unknown aspects of human physiology became active in my body and I could watch and learn from them,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not feel I was missing something, that others were having more fun than I was</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To live without addictions,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Metaphysical exploration is not escape.</span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">After reaching the Destination and living with an active kundalini for over 50 years, albeit, without prior knowledge of or familiarity with kundalini, I’ve observed the following about this transformative energy; it:<br /></span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Triggers autonomic self-healing capable of correcting neural defects,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rejuvenate the body and retard the aging process,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Reverses self-destructive and addictive behavior,</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Heighten and enhance consciousness to effect a release from karmic bondage,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All violence is self-hate.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I became aware of the energy continuum and my connection to all matter. Because I’d witnessed energy fields outside the body, I reasoned that we are part of the energy continuum, and therefore, death is only a different state of being.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don’t belong to a church or follow a religion. I question everything I see, hear, feel, smell, or taste. I still made mistakes, sometimes the same old ones. I’ve continued doing what I did before kundalini, namely yoga and meditation although they really do me. I learned how the ego operates. Am I always able to foil its machinations? No! I’ve found that self-remembering complements kundalini. I watch what I eat and drink; I don’t use drugs.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Could any other means have removed the physiological blockages I’ve had to overcome? I doubt it. Have I acquired extraordinary powers, magical insights, or clairvoyance? Did I start reliving past lives? No, but I have <a href="https://amzn.to/3ATj2Ax" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">experienced energy states</a> that lead me to believe that reincarnation is a natural part of the cycle of existence.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And you know what, it’s no big deal because if there were millions of enlightened individuals scattered around the world, we might not be in the fix we’re in. Then again, we might be. There are no tales of enlightened beings banning together to address the world’s problems. That’s because those beings tend to renounce the world and everything associated with it.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have not renounced the world. I’ve answered a kind of calling: to write a book, a novel that frames the Journey and the Destination as a protracted, yet positive process. It’s a novel that doesn’t degrade women, a witness to the folly of youth and the gradual arousal of self-awareness: <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vddp8d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tales of the Tinkertoy</a>.</i></span></span></p></div>JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-17744891027383912132022-10-30T15:39:00.011-07:002022-11-08T07:50:43.394-08:00TALES OF THE TINKERTOY<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3sFlfuV" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOopYsnZ8__QGXqFhs5LntKwnaQecVitxXDK_tkA0UV7fFn69j3qQD95JIge1WuMTzQOxOn_Q3RWKs7iXZssyXRDuqivFDl6SXaiIWCRQA2qlrjCL_3dOiQiAUm67e7C_6b_UyHo2pxhTnWbEigtpnCfmEJMK1eKa91NeRZv47Mba-WeyxoI4TabuUA/s320/TOFTT_V4%20copy.jpg" width="220" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">While writing <a href="https://amzn.to/3sFlfuV"><i>Tales Of The Tinkertoy</i></a>, I paid short shrift to political correctness and <i>presentism</i>, defined by Webster as <i>An attitude toward the past dominated by present-day attitudes and experiences</i> or, as pundit Bill Maher puts it, <i>Judging everyone in the past by the standards of the present</i>. I found it difficult to filter my experience through a set of informal guidelines that smother creativity and distort reality. Better to rely on the good judgment of readers to understand things were different back then</span>.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Tales Of The Tinkertoy</i> tells it like it was. It’s a story set in its own time—the 1960s. If nothing else, it serves as a historical reference, allowing readers to compare the present to the not-so-long-ago past and to appreciate the ways we’ve progressed and the ways we haven’t.</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3sFlfuV" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="2322" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-0v9d41I8kILmYhaoPGr6IheIFlJWTq2VY9jaoUcVZ6c8BnN1JCc2D0_31g9w5TfCShZ8MIYMK_np96Zih6eNWhpOK37igvdCW8epPDUqLIQ8u78xFV2FxskzGgum0apWe9G5Vjk6B65Hhxrxaw0m95LnPOrNIgwncu8saJxIHpesQGZnaUhOjuigg/w640-h166/Horizontal03.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></p><div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's in this context that we meet Gus Mazur, a young man who’s making the same mistakes you and I made when we were twenty-something. It’s the sexual revolution, a time when the uptight standards of the 1950s were turned upside down. Gus deludes himself into believing sex with liberated women will ease his frustrations about the compromises he’s forced to make at work. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ambitious, Gus has the brains to rise to the top of network television. Yet, as the only non-white producer at WBN, he’s ambivalent about an industry that values money over narrative, politics over truth. He chafes at being obliged to run civil rights and Vietnam stories that hide the truth from the American people. But the money is good and there aren’t that many opportunities “for someone like him.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He tries everything short of a sex change in a frantic search for love. One woman is determined to set him straight. She gets her chance after Gus is waylaid in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention helping him piece his life back together.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I might write something stupid like, <i>Don’t read</i> <i>Tales of the Tinkertoy</i> if you’re looking for spiritual guidance or tips on meditation—as if I didn’t want you to make the journey, and make no mistake, kundalini is a journey. And <i>Tales of the Tinkertoy</i> is a chronicle of that journy.<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whether you relate to nonfictional or fictional</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> forms, check out the <a href="https://amzn.to/3sWMnpe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">six books</a> I wrote on activating and living with kundalini.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Tales of the Tinkertoy</i></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> is different; it's a case study in gradual awareness. When you finish <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3DItv3w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tales of the Tinkertoy</a></i>, you can always dig into my <a href="https://amzn.to/3DmmoML">six books</a> full of useful information about kundalini. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Right now, however, here’s an opportunity to follow a young man as he moves from the profane to the sacred, experimenting. The answers are not always in plain sight; he learns to read between the lines. He backslides. His awakening hangs by a thread: will he find the Way? Will he take the path untrodden or will he remain tied to a life of materialism? Will he follow the breadcrumbs as the path widens?</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been asked if it’s a kundalini book. 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have within you a latent energy waiting to transform your life known as
Kundalini. This legendary power is believed to catalyze spiritual
evolution. For centuries, the secrets of kundalini have been guarded by
masters and buried in esoteric texts around the globe. Many people teach
kundalini yoga, but few have actually experienced a kundalini
awakening.</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Initiation into the Mystic Path</span></b></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.rafilounge.com/mid-summer-enlightenment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">International Kundalini Symposium</a> brings together some of today’s most prominent voices in the small pool of kundalini-awakened individuals to demystify this mysterious phenomenon. From personal accounts and yogic practices, to research and historical perspective, this compelling panel of speakers will weave together both the mystical and practical perspectives on the rise of kundalini energy to transform our lives and humanity. <br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rafilounge.com/mid-summer-enlightenment" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="1210" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgps__6AKRrvBATGxX_z50pa6s_mWa1pTrFRi_b2UvRFSwZfdI78_MtgGmVPMHP9OnF3F5wlt1lBpyr7u1QoD5ZHwVZsO5JUw2JDKUY5iVgRJwpPOLz046i9UbKoyLYVe0sLHWlC5wsvuUIPyJ9vxKV0Mz-5UPPgTct9b4-cClrwm_B69KwJauW_RUkVQ=w608-h640" width="608" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Up to now</strong> self-styled holy men and gurus have told us
Kundalini was an esoteric process for raising consciousness. They’ve
told us they could instruct novices and experts alike — as long as they
were willing to pay. The problem is that classifying Kundalini as a
means to “spiritual enlightenment” limits its benefits to a realm many
people have neither the time nor the inclination to explore. What’s
more, many people are put off by terms like “higher consciousness” and
“enlightenment.” On the other hand, if they knew that Kundalini
Meditation had therapeutic health benefits, they’d be eager to learn
about it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.rafilounge.com/mid-summer-enlightenment" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="2124" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2Kg_zrQI_ZchsEOYLUvdd9NzHE2NTQTNUPx85E5fpHCk9123h8dTG3XxtMNvwaDVrfO_wGCV1Lg6wo6v54o9PKklp7iIFtYFjNnh1SDGPvdr62O3ctgZZ49xGVR_Lc6fwFFc6_CJGvGDjWMdb3heJcPLkk5w5pM5L0lQnGs7sTPgdzCs95_6ovQU-IA=w640-h384" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Says <a href="https://amzn.to/3Nv6DHh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JJ Semple</a>, “My students tell me, ‘Don’t give me something
to believe in; give me something to DO! I want techniques for
self-healing. I also want to awaken, to become enlightened.’” I tell them
that, even with an aroused kundalini, awakening is a gradual process:
“The ultimate aim of meditation is to become more and more conscious.
Enlightenment, therefore, is becoming fully conscious, and I’ve never
met anyone who’s accomplished that overnight.”</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Perhaps, you don’t think
there’s such a thing as “The Life Force.” You’d be mistaken. Our books
on kundalini and energy cultivation techniques cover a variety of topics
ranging from <a href="https://www.lifeforcebooks.com/life-force-science/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">kundalini meditation</a> to sexual alchemy; they feature accounts of energy activation that can only be understood as the stirring of a <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/the-energy-continuum.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">life force energy</a>. There is no other explanation.</span> <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All speaker and artist proceeds of this event will go to </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Operation Underground Railroad (</span></span>OUR), a non-profit organization that rescues kids from the sex slave trade.</span></span></p>JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-24126811307295241772022-05-23T15:47:00.008-07:002022-05-25T07:41:12.693-07:00Meet Duncan Carroll, Kundalini Filmmaker<div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"After a long search I came across the autobiography of a man named JJ
Semple, who detailed his kundalini awakening after following the method
outlined in a little-known Taoist text called <i>The Secret of the Golden
Flower</i>.
JJ's account was refreshingly non-mystical. In fact, he seemed like the
only person on Earth who'd had a spiritual experience and managed to
keep their heads on straight.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"It was after meeting JJ that I decided to make a film about kundalini
and the meditation he used to activate this life force energy, knowing, al the while, that the topic would be considered controversial."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This was the manifesto that followed my 2012 meeting with Duncan Carroll. His sincerity, and yet his insistence that kundalini be approached scientifically, convinced me he was the perfect person to handle the challenge of filming the effects of what is commonly referred to as a "kundalini awakening."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Listen to Duncan sum up the challenge in his own words.<br /></span>
</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="411" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/roO4k7CereI" width="545" youtube-src-id="roO4k7CereI"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The project needed an engineer, not a pandit or a sage—a person searching for truth, not followers. That's Duncan, a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon and an established software engineer, whose metaphysical experiences date back to childhood.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To this end he created a fundraising project <a href="https://www.supermeditate.me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Super Meditate Me</a> that's already secured$145K in its drive to reach $500K.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.supermeditate.me/" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="1956" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsJvnsm-KhIQuDtZS9rrFX0MVaG09UvOXKTgKoOmLCpQr4LNdgVx1N54klEfQm7l4pFsuxGu7bf05PCz-Uk834cjaxcRJQiR0nmshf59HFyTrXwGPIhObahuJ3rJX7eugw9tC7xp2lRNd5KAOXEhNl5xt268hZZrebEQFM0w5WOHDB4qGZ8a91Hab4g/w640-h462/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-25%20at%2007.31.29.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you're a person who believes there's more to life on Earth, that a higher consciousness rules our universe and kundalini is a pathway to evolutionary progress, what Gopi Krishna called: the 'evolutionary impulse,' please consider donating to the project.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For more about <a href="https://www.supermeditate.me/?wix-vod-video-id=1852367635c44f0fbadd09a48232f3aa&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-krca3d2i" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JJ Semple's experience and work</a>.<br /></span></span></p></div>JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-43220902531435743242022-04-03T09:47:00.002-07:002022-04-03T10:44:02.447-07:00Kundalini Pain and Headache<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I recently had a consultation with JJ Semple and got invited to write about my kundalini process for this blog. First of all, I want to express my gratitude for this invitation.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am not an experienced <a href="https://amzn.to/3j4StyJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BFM practitioner</a> and the even less familiar with any structured method of kundalini awakening.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yet, my hope is that the questions, challenges, and obstacles that I experience in my personal process might relate to others, so that we can share practical research on the obstacles and challenges we encounter on our various paths.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A few words about myself: I am female, 35, living close to Berlin, Germany, in natural suuroundings. I am an author and bodyworker, focusing my research on embodiment, sexuality, health, mysticism and collective <i>traumahealing</i>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ilanstephani.com/" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="5760" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicNbywpVw1nCTMHPdYKJbsiDaK3L7VjQpCZVGZpUeWIRE_LjR-LSdyp8zXAJjFhJprgMoW1Ja1URnY6v1QxRgq_JMx0oG7mrYr2C4MUlAxrukt3v-6fRniLkCm5NssIj9lh4-GWKOAxVgXSouCL-O1i9Gh1OD8A_jrof6g2ZxLAY3O3fMV8dosGJa0CQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ilanstephani.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ilan Stephani</span></span><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had come across books about kundalini years ago, but I did not</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> pay attention to this phenomenon</span></span> until I experienced a series of violent, unexpected kundalini sensations. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now, finally, I am focusing on a safe and sustainable approach to awakening kundalini. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The first topic I want to explore is the pain in the spine caused by kundalini activity, especially pain in the most upper part of the spine, around the skull joint.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All of my unexpected kundalini shocks had this one thing in common: a sharp pain in and around my skull joint, accompanied by headaches and contractions in my jaw.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the first time onward, I was aware that this part of my body ached during kundalini activity because it was </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">chronically </span></span>tense and contracted. So far, I have not been able to release it </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in a methodical and sustainable way </span></span>before experiencing another crisis.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When I checked with JJ Semple on this, he mentioned a contemporary dentist whose treatment for those blockages, uses </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cone Beam tomography and a <a href="https://drtheodorebelfor.com/testimonials/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">special oral device</a> to </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">reconfigure</span></span> the airway chambers in the neck, skull, mouth, jaw, and head correctly.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">JJ Semple mentioned that this treatment also resolves deep-seated unconscious breathing issues. Overall health is restored and crucial nerves and energies are able to circulate through the upper spine more easily, without chronic stress, friction, or pain.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While discussing this information with JJ Semple, I was reminded of a German method that I had studied years ago—<a href="https://www.cantienica-method.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CANTIENICA</a><span style="font-size: large;">®</span>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As you can see on their website, the method does not address kundalini, it focuses on pelvic floor training, posture, effortless running, etc. Nevertheless, it's a process that might help me with kundalini.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have only studied the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">pelvic floor </span></span>module</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and have not practiced it in quite a while. Yet, in a sense, I "embody" its basic principles so I am curious about how it might affect kundalini related issues.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The method reactivates and trains the inner layer of muscles in the body, the so-called autochthonous muscles that are normally function in the background beyond our consciousness and, therefore, do not get used in our cultural postures and habits. So, once again, as is the case of kundlaini, we are unaware of the dormant resources in our beings. And if the rise in breathing-related conditions such as,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> COPD, asthma, infections like
influenza, the deviated septum, pneumonia and tuberculosis, anatomical
irregularities like malocclusion, sinus, allergies, and even lung cancer</span> are any indication, it's getting worse all th time.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>It is as if we've been asleep and have not begun to wake up</i>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Every joint and every bone is meant to have its place and have space. Your body can and even wants to provide space for every joint and bone, there does not need to be any friction or contraction." These are typical CANTIENICA</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">®</span></span></span> guidelines.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since Benita Cantieni, the founder, cured her skoliosis with this work, it is used widely for recovery, dealing with back pain, knee pain, etc.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I managed to find some illustrations for this bodywork, the lengthening of the spine and the <a href="https://www.cantienica.com/das-vivatomische-k%C3%B6rperkonzept" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">engagement of the autochthonous muscle</a>s here (sorry, text only in German). You can clearly see how the vision of a totally straight spine etc differs from our cultural norm of internal collapse.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With JJ Semple's hint in mind, I re-opened my books and looked for parallels to the challenges of preparing the nervous system on a more physiological level, the down to earth <i>space</i> that nerve channels utilize while the body is experiencing kundalini activity.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Indeed, I found a chapter in a German book where the CANTIENICA</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">®</span></span></span></span></span> founder describes how she sensed and </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">intentionally</span></span> moved one of the key bones of the skull (Os Sphenoidale).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She has developped a module for moving the muscles and structures around the face and skull, but as far as I could tell, this <i>faceforming</i> module focuses on creating a younger face and removing wrinkles.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It does not work directly with the cerebral nerves in "creating more space for every fibre, no matter where."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, the founder´s writing about her discovery with the Os Sphenoidale is what encouraged me to transfer some principles of the method in order to focus more precisely on all those structures around my skull joint.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I will describe briefly what my practice looks like. However, I have clearly benefited from my past studies in the pelvic floor module of the method, as I am already familiar with the basic postures and inner pulsing of the autochthonous muscles.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a lot of instruction available for free on the website and the internet.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here are some free basic video instructions, and I think there is more out there:</span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.cantienica-method.com/6-week-online-program?pgid=k2t6mwnq-519c1507-3ebb-4040-8896-5ced370e0ebc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pelvic floor module</a>*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.cantienica-method.com/back-training-1?pgid=k2t7it8w-6a786c17-03d6-11ea-acda-063f49e9a7e4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Module for the back</a>*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.cantienica-method.com/face-training?pgid=k2t6u5m9-d87b3c18-5838-43b5-b239-481ac61a622b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Module Faceforming</a>*</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.cantienica-method.com/running" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Module on running</a>*</span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You might also find <a href="https://www.cantienica-method.com/blog/categories/workouts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">something in this workout list</a>.* *</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">*Of course there is zero business connection between me and this method, I'm just sharing my research.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">**I also ask myself if this method could help in terms of <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/evolution-symmetry-and-sexu.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bodily symmetry</a> and in releasing other pain centers in the body. For sure, this is only a thesis at the moment and requires much more research and testing.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So, before I dive into diaphragmatic breathing itself, my current "warmup practice" looks like this:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I sit down and look at the details of an anatomical model of a skull, trying to embody more of its amazing complexity and learning to sense it inside. I put special focus on the upper vertebrae and the anatomy of the cerebral nerves and blood vessels running through the basic opening of the skull.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXD7f2vL1ZfXfGG35OYbqJk34XhVSKlvz0HqgysTeNI2vp1sUBmicPcauatp5B5J0bvaHehc0ERuupb5lQr7G2IxYepOYxQmaSgCSNhVrKtuiLObM1z5IOnB-MUbq1q_OPKkmRXeZuob9VYth0rMkZ56cslPWtOYw2m3NNqBITLyhHQs24AO7zlUfT8g" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXD7f2vL1ZfXfGG35OYbqJk34XhVSKlvz0HqgysTeNI2vp1sUBmicPcauatp5B5J0bvaHehc0ERuupb5lQr7G2IxYepOYxQmaSgCSNhVrKtuiLObM1z5IOnB-MUbq1q_OPKkmRXeZuob9VYth0rMkZ56cslPWtOYw2m3NNqBITLyhHQs24AO7zlUfT8g=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">POV: Human Skull from bottom</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I then align my body with the lengthened spine, opening the joints along the spine by pulsing with the autochthonous muscles fibres (typical CANTIENICA</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">®</span></span></span></span> stuff as presented in the links above) and engage from there with the bones and structures of my skull joint.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I imagine different lines through my skull on the base level of my brain, mostly diagonal ones - and open the space in between in rhythmical pulses. I transfer the method´s principle of pulsing with inner muscles to pulsing with nerve fibres, as well, and simply stretch the length of internal lines in a rhythmical manner.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of course, there are infinite possibilities for lines in this complexity, i.e., from my front teeth to the back of my mouth, etc. So I make some up to see how it feels.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To some extent, this is "faking it until I am making it," but I do sense that my body gets more familiar with this practice and becomes capable of moving these structures.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also notice that my body calls me to focus on other areas around my head, i.e., the bones of my paranasal sinuses and eyes. This is especially fascinating because it causes a direct release in my breathing patterns that I was not even aware of—the fact that my breath was blocked before.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">D<span style="font-family: georgia;">ue to this practice, <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/making_preparations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my b</a></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/making_preparations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reathing now flows</a> easier and with less noise. I also sense that I am breathing more efficiently, not needing the same amount of air for the same amount of energy. And it feels incredibly good and right in my paranasal sinuses, jaw and skull joint. I often fall into waves of release with yawning, tears and trembling.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It excites me because </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b><a href="http://bit.ly/DDB-CD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">diaphragmatic deep breathing</a> is such a strong parallel to the topic that the contemporary dentist focuses on. I will keep practicing and experimenting to see how it develops.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of course, there is an infinite amount of new questions arising from this.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Could working on one's own come close to what the dentist is able to do in a body, actually changing the configuration of the breathing chamber? I have no clue.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Will this practice reduce the pain I experience during future kundalini activity? I do not know. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Could this body of work help others? I do not know either.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, it does help me at the moment and it encourages me to keep going. If anything resonates for you, I would love to stay in touch by exchanging research on this platform. </span></span></p>Ilan Stephanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343048657575237394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-44626285467905954912021-10-14T11:27:00.020-07:002021-10-15T07:08:44.572-07:00Remove the Shadow and Find Your True Self<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts."</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ Michael Buble</span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It is a great pleasure to be writing again for The Kundalini Consortium blog. I would like to thank <a href="https://amzn.to/3p3MgY4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JJ Semple</a> for giving me the opportunity once more to share my story with the readers of this blog. Various things happened between the time I last wrote for this blog and today. I got divorced and that led to a mental breakdown. I am currently overcoming those obstacles and am happy to report that the worst is behind me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X02nTY2aqhw/YWmIjbcljbI/AAAAAAAAEk4/ujbEuyhOOhEZicrjxv-H_hl4myi2r8uAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s761/BrainConfig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="761" height="336" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X02nTY2aqhw/YWmIjbcljbI/AAAAAAAAEk4/ujbEuyhOOhEZicrjxv-H_hl4myi2r8uAwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h336/BrainConfig.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span><p style="text-align: left;">Relationships, unfortunately, become a vestige from the past sometimes, and one awakens to find that the relationship they are in is not right for them. This happened to me. Having had an awakening allowed me to see this. To be able to remove oneself from that situation, however, is not easy. We still go through the same cycles of trauma and recovery, to be able to cope with the event, and it is not always under our control. I was fortunate enough to have the Kundalini energy guide me through rough waters and came out at the other side stronger. It involved “going with the flow,” and allowing the self to discard the old trappings, comfort zones and attachments that act as an impediment to future growth. Progress requires a reset, some personal assessment, and a genuine attempt to change by discarding psychic layers that no longer served my best interests.</p></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">My divorce offered me a great opportunity to find myself in a different period of my life, like when I was single. The last time I was single was in 1997 at the age of 23. I found myself in that same situation again in the early part of 2018, but now with a lot of baggage, learned habits that needed unlearning, and a chance to live once again a simpler, pared down existence to find out how much transformation the energy had brought about into my life over the last 12 years since my awakening began in 2006. It was a wild roller coaster, but I was helped immensely by the kundalini energy and its promptings, which led to some beneficial changes as I type this on a sunny day in the fall of 2021.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As I have mentioned before in previous blog posts, the <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2013/01/the-search-for-genuine-experience.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">awakening kundalini</a> energy entails a lot of upheaval, chaos, and can bring about serious mental trauma. No matter how well prepared you are through previous practices, nothing really prepares you for the mayhem that follows. It is like my mind and past events turned against me as I coped with a constant barrage of sensations, thoughts, emotions that were being churned up by a snake moving constantly up my spine. It was like Iwas learning to drive a car, and at the same time, I had to learn basic vehicle maintenance, while parts started to break down or ceased to function correctly. I lost track of how things work. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of course, the advantage a very powerful supernatural process like this has is it comes with cheat sheets baked into the process. We call this ‘Gnosis’. It is like a higher energy is guiding your exact steps moving forward, warning you and giving you the right advice at the right time. If you are patient and persistent, which you have to be, since you have no other choice, you will learn to drive the ‘car’ at the same time you learn its inner workings. If you choose to oppose that voice, you will suffer, and the process will take longer. So, eventually, you give in and let the energy guide you</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">.<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><blockquote><span style="color: #38761d;">“If you go into a relationship with selfishness, expecting that your partner is going to make you happy, it will not happen. And it's not that person's fault; it's your own. When we go into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are. We don't choose a partner just to give that person we claim to love all our garbage, to put all our jealousy, all our anger, all our selfishness onto that person.” - Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love</span></blockquote></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I had a major revelation. For the very first time in my adult life, I understood what having a grown-up relationship meant and how to nurture the self and the other in that relationship without damaging either. By being patient, mature, understanding and by standing up for what made me happy, I learned to co-exist and thrive in a relationship. As much as I would like to blame my past upbringing or the person I was, some of these things, I genuinely felt thankful for certain experiences. You realize that each event, person, and episode is brought into your life to teach you lessons. If you are willing to learn from them, without being judgemental, you will treat each event as an observer, expressing gratitude for having had the opportunity to do so.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ego, that ever-willing great imposter, is ready to deceive and take you further into unconscious behavior. It's like a great tyrant. If you don’t have the requisite mindset to recognize its doings, you may never learn to take a step back and witness your own thoughts. Changing bad habits comes from learning <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2014/07/mindfulness-and-kundalini.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mindfulness</a> and is very difficult in the beginning. Having the same programming and the same responses to moments of crisis ingrained into you by force of habit, leads to cascades of unconscious behavior. Mindfulness allows you to see the cascade as a choice and your initial response, unconscious, prompted by the actions of others, to be the trigger that sets events in motion, repeatedly, over years, in similar patterns. You are the total of your thoughts that you act upon, creating the indelible patterns of your character that are only obvious when you take a step back and become a witness.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not reacting, staying silent, holding back and witnessing as an observer, are all powerful catalysts for change. To avail yourself of these techniques regularly, you must stick with the process and allow it to do its work in even the most trying situations. Initially, this is very hard. Invoking these techniques during gaps and lulls, when you still engage in negative behavior and you still have patterns to dissolve, is the best thing you can do for your future wellbeing. Once these methods become routine practice, and the results start to manifest in your life, you begin to wonder why you would behave any other way.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Getting to that stage takes a lot of time and persistence despite failed attempts. It pays to hang in there, with determination and the belief that you have the power— through non-action, witnessing and observation —to change your patterns and stop the long, incessant years of self-sabotage.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is a powerful thing to know about yourself. ‘The shadow’ that we have accumulated over the years, is nothing but the ego and its mischief being refined into a personality. Certain character traits, driven by the most negative aspects of the ego, resentment, jealousy, anger, the feeling that you deserve better and that life has been unfair, all usually hide the mistaken assumption that one has been harmed by something on the outside. This culminates in the need to assign blame to those people or events and to ensure that you, i.e.,the ego, assumes no blame and comes out looking good. The ego tries to hold on to a fake, non-existent self-image, but facing facts will lead to the collapse of even the most well-constructed mirage. It may hurt. Itmay seem like too much to bear.</span></span></p><h2 id="docs-internal-guid-d253dc4d-7fff-1aa3-0b97-24293798b458" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"> </h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Once you learn, however, that not facing pain causes it to accumulate and always get in the way of genuine progress. That is when you start to realize your full potential. It’s called ‘the shadow’ because at every moment when your true self desires to do something incredible, the part of you that has been stung by rejection or failure will create a brainstorm to avoid struggling with those same emotions again.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you give into those emotions, you’re on the same old path of the past, never attempting anything painful for fear of loss of your self-image. In the process, you never really gain anything worthwhile, thereby losing the immense pleasure and deep sense of satisfaction for having accomplished your goal of release from karmic bondage.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By being brought down a notch or two from your own fake self-image, all you risk is feeling bad. By not realizing you learn a lot more through exercising circuits in your brain that you’ve never used before, you sacrifice a genuine breakthrough as well as the chance at coming out the other end fortified. By facing down the ego, the shadow gets weaker and you get stronger with each passing day. More of who you really are and what you can accomplish becomes obvious.</span></span></p><h2 id="docs-internal-guid-d253dc4d-7fff-1aa3-0b97-24293798b458" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"></h2>Vivek Govekarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09722679564978995052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-13175969404509204352021-05-23T10:44:00.003-07:002021-05-23T10:56:23.361-07:00Are You Ready for GFM?<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Before beginning <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GFM meditation</a>, you must be ready for it. Your state of readiness
is not something I, or any other person, can determine. Only you know if
you’re ready; only your body can tell you. And it will, if you learn how
to listen to it. Here are some
recommendations for determining your state of readiness.</span></span>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check Your Symmetry</span></span>
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<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Q: What’s so important about symmetry?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>A: “Symmetry means being the same, or even, on each side. Over the last
few years, biologists have looked at the animal kingdom, and they’ve made
a few discoveries about symmetry, and how it relates to beauty and
fitness.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>“First, animals that are more symmetrical are more likely to
attract a mate. One scientist found that he could turn attractive male
swallows into unattractive male swallows (and also ruin their chances of a
good sex life) by clipping their tail feathers with scissors.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span>“Secondly,
symmetry influences fitness. Horses that are more symmetrical run faster
than horses that are less symmetrical. In one study, biologists measured
some ten features on 73 thoroughbreds—features such as the thickness of
the knee, or the width of the nostrils. The differences they could measure
were quite small, and probably had nothing directly to do with how fast
the horse could run. In fact, symmetry is probably a good indicator of
general health and strength. Our imperfect world is full of nasty
chemicals and germs. Only those individuals that are lucky enough to
inherit a sturdy genetic makeup and are also lucky enough to get good
nutrition while they’re growing, will end up being more symmetrical.”</span></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><p><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/1999/09/20/53207.htm">Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd 2003</a></span></span></span> <span style="color: #38761d;"></span><br /></p></blockquote></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Get
the point? Symmetry more or less guarantees unblocked nerve channels and
balanced growth.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Q: I’m not symmetrical; what can I do about it?</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A: If
you’re not symmetrical, something must have happened. After my accident,
my symmetrical body became asymmetrical. I gambled, and ,
my symmetry. Now, I didn’t get up one day and announce, “I’m off to find
the Secret Teachings.” I stumbled onto them accidentally. Destiny put me
on a course toward my childhood accident and serendipity (a creative form
of destiny) put me on the path to discovering and mastering the
backward-flowing method. So, however you get there, whether by destiny,
fate, happenstance, Karma, or serendipity, if you’re meant to get there,
you will. It’s up to you to understand the commitment and make the
effort.</span></span>
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<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Q: How do I check my symmetry?</span></span>
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<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A: There are various means of checking symmetry:</span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Musical ability, rhythm.
The ability to sing notes with proper intonation.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mathematical ability,
computer programming.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sports. Especially balancing sports such as
skateboarding, target sports, ice-skating, gymnastics, bicycling,
tightrope walking, juggling.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kirlian photography.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Regular photography, a
process you can undertake yourself. Here’s how:</span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Take a portrait-sized
photo of yourself. Scan the negative into your computer, load it into
Photoshop, and crop the image until the face is tightly enclosed in the
frame. Drop a line down the exact center of your face, cut the image in
two, then separate the two sides. Duplicate each side and drag the two
left and two right sides together. Flip the duplicate horizontally and
nudge until it’s vertically aligned with its corresponding other half.
What you have, in each case, are faces composed of two instances of the
left side and two instances of the right side, one half merely flipped to
complete the image. Here are sample images taken by a couple of Australian
teachers. Study each composite image and compare it with the original.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“After much thought an Art teacher at school and I worked out a way to
find out. We photographed some of the children and then through a bit of
‘darkroom magic’ manipulated them. You’ll notice that the photos of each
child’s face is made up of the original photo.”</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>~ Adrian Bruce–www.adrianbruce.com </span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span>
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<p style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Right/Right <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Left/Left Original Photo </span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nc2uIjtB7j8/YKqK9s_mh6I/AAAAAAAAEeQ/rqmbLImFPF8J7ZjYxHCiYFxxJNXy-ljjgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1667/Facesplit1%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="1667" height="350" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nc2uIjtB7j8/YKqK9s_mh6I/AAAAAAAAEeQ/rqmbLImFPF8J7ZjYxHCiYFxxJNXy-ljjgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h350/Facesplit1%2Bcopy.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t4cajj3V2G4/YKqK9aGAwSI/AAAAAAAAEeM/3TxW6Q3bEkIaC9rtOumHHJUQkU2jvl2HACLcBGAsYHQ/s1567/Facesplit2%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1567" height="330" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t4cajj3V2G4/YKqK9aGAwSI/AAAAAAAAEeM/3TxW6Q3bEkIaC9rtOumHHJUQkU2jvl2HACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h330/Facesplit2%2Bcopy.jpg" title="Some faces are more symmetrical than others." width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some faces are more
symmetrical than others</span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In his empirical wisdom, Gopi Krishna perceived a
direct link between symmetry and the qualities leading to success: “Can we
deny that whether a fortuitous gift, or the fruit of Karma, in every case
there is a close link between the talent or beauty exhibited and the
organic structure of the individual.”</span></span>
</p><p></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Note: Failure to pass any of the tests does not constitute a lack of
symmetry or mean that you are not apt to undertake kundalini training.
There are other determinants, namely your own resolve and fortitude, but
the extent of your symmetry will determine the outcome to some degree. The
more symmetrical, in all probability, the more advanced <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2020/08/the-science-of-breathing.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">your breathing</a> and
<a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2020/10/more-science-of-breathing.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> lung capacity</a>. Of course, this depends on your physical state, your age,
your habits and <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2021/05/how-sexual-sublimation-works.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">your libido</a>.</span></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Get Clean!</span></span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This means including more raw foods in your
diet! You can’t heal on a poor foundation. This was the one issue
hindering both Gopi Krishna and myself. So, learn from our mistakes. By
the way, even if you decide not to undertake Life Force activation, this
step should be a keeper.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why? Let’s take a closer look at the relationship
between a raw foods diet and GFM. What do these two healing instruments
have in common? Well, nothing secret or cryptic. In fact, a little common
sense reveals that both rely on ingested substances. For a raw foods diet,
it’s the food and drink you consume; for GFM, it’s the air you breathe.
One, as <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/p/blog-page_48.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">food and drink</a>, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">fewer fats, less sugar and less salt</span></span>; two, elements in
the air that your body converts to Prana. I won’t go into the science of
nutrition or Prana. There are researched volumes of relevant materials.
Let’s just say that both mechanisms use and refine the elements we
introduce into our bodies, so it’s up to us to make sure these elements
are pure.</span></span>
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JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-84967807700112298472021-05-07T11:22:00.008-07:002021-06-06T13:31:32.753-07:00How Sexual Sublimation Works<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve not posted to this blog or uploaded to my podcast for several months because I’ve been writing a novel for the past year and a half. Writing a novel is more absorbing and time consuming than writing nonfiction. It requires complete concentration. Now that I’m almost finished, because the novel addresses a number of sexual issues, among them sexual sublimation, I’d like to clarify how sexual sublimation worked for me. I’m no sexologist; I’m just offering my personal experience.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Spoiler Alert:
Just because this process functioned as it did for me does not mean it will work that way for you. Every kundalini experience is different. That said, let’s begin:</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Every person is endowed with unique sexual characteristics that express themselves through the various physical, emotional, and psychological mechanisms that make up their beings. They can be summed up in one word — libido.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_RTw4iFolpM/YJWBXCqwhnI/AAAAAAAAEdo/x48XTWETKiIbEn5bL_d9hMl-wyeWDMjcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s980/aubergines-on-blue-background-eggplant-flat-lay-royalty-free-image-1616503434.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="980" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_RTw4iFolpM/YJWBXCqwhnI/AAAAAAAAEdo/x48XTWETKiIbEn5bL_d9hMl-wyeWDMjcQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/aubergines-on-blue-background-eggplant-flat-lay-royalty-free-image-1616503434.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Suffice it to say that some people are very sexual in nature; some are not — and everywhere in between. Through my own experience and through conversations with other kundalini adepts, I believe that libido affects a person’s capacity to trigger the sexual sublimation process, which has to have enough sexual energy to do its transformational work.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Libido is sexual appetite or drive. A person's libido is motivated by brain function, hormones, and learned behavior, regardless of their sex, and tends to fluctuate according to mental state, hormonal shifts, and stress. Some medications can affect sexual appetite as well.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">“When a person's libido is high, they're more likely to desire sexual intimacy and to seek it out with a partner or through masturbation. This is healthy and normal, but an overly high libido that interferes with quality of life can be a sign of a hormonal imbalance or neurological disorder. When libido dips, interest in sex does as well and may be completely absent, which can put a strain on intimate relationships.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The neural pathways involved in sexual desire are similar in males and females and include cerebral, spinal, and peripheral components. Libido directly correlates to physical responses: when sexual desire is high, blood flow to the penis resulting in an erection signifies sexual desire, as does lubrication and enlargement of the labia.”</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ What is Libido?, by S. Nicole Lane - https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-libido-5084040</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Moreover, age, physical endowment, emotional stability, eating and drinking and other harmful habits, as well as (believe it or not) pollution can affect sperm and hormone counts. <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Here’s how sexual sublimation worked for me. First, the raw material, i.e., my libido and other biological characteristics at the time I started meditating had to be taken into consideration. Would my <i>Being</i> be able to furnish enough sexual energy to complete the process?</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It's not just about the climate, our food supply and energy resources – pollution could be affecting men's penis sizes, fertility and libido too.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That's according to environmental and reproductive epidemiologist Dr. Shanna H. Swan's new book Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, which explores the correlation between smaller penises, lower sperm counts and the use of industrial chemicals in everyday products.”</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ Pollution is Shrinking Penises, Scientists Warn - https://www.menshealth.com/uk/sex/a35911756/small-penis-pollution-fertility-sperm-count/</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was 31 years old, a good age for this work; young enough and not too old. (I know a number of older persons who’ve had trouble sublimating.) Health: good. Habits: I stopped drinking and drugs about that same time; smoking when I was 22 (I wasn’t a heavy smoker). I came up at a time when this country’s air and water supplies were in a lot better shape; polluted resources were not an issue. I’ve had my share of ejaculations, no way of knowing the absolute numbers, only that I started at 13 years old.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The purpose of the meditation I practiced was to distill reproductive fluids into an elixir and then draw this elixir up the spine into the brain. This process began with my practicing the breathing exercises described on the <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Golden Flower Meditation</a> website. After a while, I started to feel a buildup of what I perceived to be energy in the loins (lower belly region). Again, because I’ve written extensively on this topic, I refer you to the <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/sexual-sublimation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Common Sense Kundalini</a> website for more detail.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As the meditation progressed, I began to feel weaker and weaker after ejaculating. Eventually, I had to stop altogether; the kundalini process was asserting itself. If I wasted “my precious bodily fluids,” I suffered the <a href="https://amzn.to/3b85hkq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">physical consequences</a>. Gopi Krishna wrote about a similar struggle he'd had.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sexual energy is the most powerful source of energy in the human body. Normally, this energy is used for reproductive purposes. When prevented from flowing out (during intercourse and masturbation) and redirected to the brain, the seminal fluids in a man and the cervical fluids in a woman are distilled into an elixir and used for evolutionary repurposing. This is the sexual sublimation process. I didn’t know this at the time I began meditating; I just followed the process as it unfolded. There comes a time when kundalini takes over. At his point, you may be in for some surprises. If you long for your former way of life, you might be disappointed.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If I had to come up with reasons why some people succeed in this work and other don’t, I’d maintain that it helps to have a healthy, energetic libido; excellent <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2020/08/the-science-of-breathing.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">breathing and lung capacity</a>; the persistence of a detective; excellent lateral thinking and survival skills; and the ability to follow through without becoming discouraged.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As for <a href="https://amzn.to/3upCOhE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sex after awakening kundalini</a>, both Gopi Krishna and I discovered that the body needs to be nourished by high quality foods, clean air and water, this being especially critical after intercourse.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now it’s back to my novel. Keep an eye out for it.
</span></span></p><p></p>JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-8583080837245316812020-12-26T09:26:00.009-08:002021-01-02T06:49:16.114-08:00COVID-19 and Kundalini<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is there a case for using kundalini's pranic energy in the struggle
against the COVID-19 scourge? Any way an active kundalini might mitigate
the impact of this scourge?<br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It depends the optic chosen to examine such a relationship.
Whatever else it is, it's fast moving. I find myself reformulating what I
knew yesterday with the new information I’ve learned today.</span></span>
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<a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/making_preparations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Are You In Good Hands?<br /></span></span></a>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Through it all, I’ve limited my investigating to the use of energy
cultivation techniques to monitor and improve health. The more
impenetrable aspects of consciousness I leave to others.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There’s so much to be learned not only
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">about </span></span>COVID-19, but also disease in general and the role energy cultivation
might ideally play in preventing it.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Any role kundalini might play begins with breathing (see
<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1314379/5190265-the-science-of-breathing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Science of Breathing</a>
and
<a href="https://thekundaliniconsortiumpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1314379/5200417-more-science-of-breathing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Science of Breathing</a>). After that, there's a potpourri of home remedies and <a href="https://youtu.be/ha2mLz-Xdpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">medical research</a>,
not to mention <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-hospital-worker-fired-aurora-medical-center-grafton-wisconsin/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wild ravings</a>, such as the refusal to be vaccinated. Right
now, traditional medicine is pretty much unable to make any sweeping
claims on how the virus works and what it's going to do in the future...
Not only because there are no trials involving kundalini and the virus,
but also because every kundalini experience is different.
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today, I received a text message asking me to do a Podcast on COVID-19
and Kundalini. At first blush, there’s no way to make a credible
association between the two, much less suggest any medical diagnosis or
treatment, except to state that in my experience kundalini does not cure
degenerative diseases, i.e., cancer, diabetes, heart issues. If you have
mistreated your body,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">eventually i</span></span>t will reflect this mistreatment.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">However, the breathing techniques I used to awaken kundalini, might have
possibly protected me from the ravages of COVID-19. The</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> virus </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">targets </span></span></span></span>the lungs and other vulnerable organs; I have spent 50 years
strengthening my lungs. That said, one day my body will give out.
Nevertheless, until that moment, I'm going to continue my breathing
exercises. Could this practice apply to others? Why not? It's certainly a
cost effective solution. Zero dollars and zero cents — one more reason to
review the two posts cited above.</span></span>
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<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Aside from the breathing exercises, there are some interesting postulates
having to do with excess acidi</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ty in the body — homespun remedies and such</span></span>
— research largely ignored by medical science. I may be stretching my
knowledge a bit here, but I believe that most researchers — whatever their
bent — agree that cancer and other degenerative diseases do not thrive in
an alkaline body. If this is true, why does the medical establishment not
test for alkalinity at every periodic doctor's visits?
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Through kundalini, I have gained enough experience and objectivity to
know that:
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Proper breathing is crucial; there is much to be done to improve
it, </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As of now, there's no vetted, science-based preventative or cure
for COVID-19,</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In fact, although modern medicine has many life-saving treatments, it
is stuck in a rut when it comes to preventing sickness,
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are in a period where medical treatments are suspect; at the same
time, regular people are using their bodies as laboratories as they
attempt to find non-traditional cures: supplements, Eastern medicine
(acupuncture), home remedies, alternative drugs, homeopathy,
psychdelics, yogic practices. Are these two tendencies going to merge —
East/West, traditional/alternate,</span></span>
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<li>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I trust modern medicine up to a point; I do not know how to set a
broken leg or insert a life-saving stent. But after the stent is placed,
I am responsible for avoiding future instances, as I am responsible for
listening to my body when it tells me something is wrong.<br /></span></span>
</li>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In conclusion, it seems that there are as many common sense measures the
individual can take — alkaline diet and
<a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/making_preparations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">diaphragmatic breathing</a>
techniques — as there are medical advisories such as, wearing a mask and
avoiding crowds.</span></span>
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<p style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Breathe and be vigilant... Be a <i>Practical Mystic</i>.<br /></span></span>
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JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-42153162058152956302020-10-12T16:26:00.000-07:002020-10-12T16:26:22.919-07:00More Science of Breathing<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You’re invited to a foot race. You walk towards the starting line, only to be turned away. The people in charge move you back 30 yards behind the start. You look around. People are scattered all over the track, a large group at the starting line, a few runners twenty yards ahead of the line, one even 30 yards in front, a few standing with you. You turn around and see two runners twenty yards behind you and you say to yourself, “I’m not so bad off after all, now that I see those chumps.”<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.lifeforcebooks.com" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kBquKLGhW8c/X4Th3-v7OpI/AAAAAAAAEPo/DRxFy_-Herc0E-DHy26FmOg7TzqFMMI8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0844.jpeg" title="Footrace, Bilbao, Spain - Dec, 2015" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Footrace - Bilbao, Spain Dec. 20115</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A race with people starting from various positions on the course instead of at the starting line is not capricious handicapping, it’s a simplistic metaphor for the breathing issues now plaguing civilization. As noted in the previous episode on the Science of Breathing, debilitating respiratory conditions are multiplying: COPD, asthma, infections like influenza, the deviated septum, pneumonia and tuberculosis, anatomical irregularities like malocclusion, sinus, allergies, and even lung cancer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This hasn’t always been the case:</span></span></div><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Until the seventeenth century most of the great physicians and anatomists were interested in the respiratory muscles and the mechanics of breathing. Since then, these muscles have been increasingly neglected, lying as they do in a no-man’s land between anatomy and physiology.”<br />~ <i>Breath</i> - James Nestor, author.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span>Nevertheless, we’re </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">now </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">saddled with all kinds of maladies derived from breathing through the mouth and eating soft, easy-to-chew foods. Not all of us but a goodly proportion of us. And when we learn about the issue, when it affects us personally, that’s when we find out we’re 30 yards behind the starting line. Way behind.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Most of us aren’t that sensitive. It’s much more common, especially in the modern world, to never experience full-blown, life-threatening stress, but to never fully relax either. We’ll spend our days half-asleep and nights half-awake, lolling in a gray zone of half-anxiety. When we do, the vagus nerve stays half-stimulated.<br /><br />“During these times, the organs throughout the body won’t be “shut down,” but will instead be half supported in a state of suspended animation: blood flow will decrease and communication between the organs and the brain will become choppy, like a conversation through a staticky phone line. Our bodies can persist like this for a while; they can keep us alive, but they can’t keep us healthy.”<br />~ <i>Breath</i> - James Nestor, author.</span></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Everyone breathes differently; some more efficiently than others. The reasons are partly physiological; partly psychological. Historically, the only sources for breathing guidance came from yoga and meditation literature.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></div><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“You cannot influence or control the heart rate directly; it’s an autonomic function. So, once again, you use a “handle” to accomplish it — diaphragmatic deep breathing, which, once you master it, makes your breathing more profound and more regular. What do I mean by more profound and regular? Profound means still, as in silent; regular means rhythmic.<br /><br />“When you extend the belly, pushing it outward on inhalation and then pulling the belly in to expel air, you are embarking on a regimen of abdominal and diaphragmatic calisthenics. Starting this activity for the first time — whether sitting, walking, reclining, or lying down — you may feel a burning sensation. That is the muscles of the abdomen telling you that you are beginning to breathe correctly. Using the belly muscles is like pump priming, that is, using the handle of a pump (the belly) to activate the pump mechanism (the diaphragm).”<br /> ~ The <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Golden Flower Meditation</a> website - JJ Semple, author.</span></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Contrast the above with the following excerpt:</span></span></div><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Breathing is an autonomic function we can consciously control. While we can’t simply decide when to slow or speed up our heart or digestion, or to move blood from one organ to another, we can choose how and when to breathe. Willing ourselves to breathe slowly will open up communication along the vagal network and relax us into a parasympathetic state.”<br />~ <i>Breath</i> - James Nestor, author.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The two orthodoxies — physical science and metaphysical science — are coming together. So how do we get everyone, every breather, to the starting line? Can we wave a magic wand?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">James Nestor wrote Breath only after gathering extensive information from a diverse number of sources and then fitting them together in an organized manner. His book offers many solutions, the first of which is to select an assessment procedure to tell you where you are — at the starting line, behind it, or out in front.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Once you have this information you can evaluate the methods for correcting your breathing disorder – the ones your assessment uncovered. The book proffers many of them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why should this matter to you? Why is correct breathing so important? You want to do this because correct breathing isn’t confined to only respiratory issues; it’s the key to a healthy body.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><br /></div><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“The best way to keep tissues in the body healthy was to mimic the reactions that evolved in early aerobic life on Earth—specifically, to flood our bodies with a constant presence of that “strong electron acceptor”: oxygen. Breathing slow, less, and through the nose balances the levels of respiratory gases in the body and sends the maximum amount of oxygen to the maximum amount of tissues so that our cells have the maximum amount of electron reactivity.<br /><br />“In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy,” said Szent-Györgyi. The moving energy of electrons allows living things to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible. The names may have changed—prana, orenda, ch’i, ruah—but the principle has remained the same. Szent-Györgyi apparently took that advice. He died in 1986, at the age of 93.”<br />~ <i>Breath</i> - James Nestor, author.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-18970583339437885852020-09-08T22:20:00.001-07:002020-09-09T13:10:06.574-07:00On Becoming Self-Aware: A Mexican-American's Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Spirituality and the magical realm of spirits, both animate and inanimate, are as a big part of Mexican culture as tortillas. Yet, when it comes to self-awareness and higher consciousness, there’s a big gap in knowledge and wisdom among many Mexicans. My painstaking journey led me to this conclusion. As a first generation Mexican-American, I reflect on the imbalanced state of the world, and it’s clear to me that the indigenous peoples’ way of life is in accordance with the rightful direction of human evolution and, by extension, with the phenomenon that drives evolution — Kundalini. And yet, so few of us understand this relationship, much less choose to take an active role in realizing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Mexicans do everything as a community (tribe). My cousins lived behind us and all the kids in the street came out to play. My tribe of family and friends were accessible to me daily. Family gatherings on weekends were a given and vacations were always with others. I knew I was safe and protected by my tribe. Because of this my childhood was blessed with much beauty and love. My tribe fulfilled my physiological needs, safety, and belonging which allowed my self-esteem to flourish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Love and Belonging</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">My happiness wasn’t just a result of being surrounded by my tribe; it was the way our tribe interacted with others, complete strangers, and those in need. It wasn’t uncommon to have immigrants knocking on our door (which was always open) asking for money or food. They would tell us their crossing the border story and their reasons for attempting it: to work in the USA and earn money to send home. My mom invited them in and shared her homemade Mexican food with them, because of this, I don’t fear people in need. My father’s generosity was equal to my mother’s kindness. He was (and still is) the chief of the family and paid for all of us to enjoy life (including my cousins). Their noble qualities inspired me.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">No wonder I easily tapped into the beauty of the world within. I had a deep connection and oneness to “Source” and the spirit world. I had psychic abilities that allowed me to connect with the spirit world. Intuitive insights came daily. I felt tingling in my body; states of bliss and joy came easy. I felt an urge to be virtuous and honest. I trusted deeply in life, no matter the situation I found myself in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">This awareness did not last. My environment changed as well as my family dynamics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">With time, the neighborhood began to get “more” dangerous and I began to be afraid, but I still felt a deep sense of safety. I learned to run or hide when I needed to. During this time my parents divorced, I was 13. My whole world was shattered because my tribe had ceased to exist. A miasma of suffering and anger took over; I became an atheist. I moved around eight times until I got married at 24.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Moving around with my mom (who hadn’t worked before) made me notice that our homes were located near highways, factories, gas stations, on big streets, etc. in other words, environmentally unhealthy areas. Finding <a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/video/spotlight-environmental-racism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">minorities</a> living in poor environmental conditions is quite common. The psychological and physical effects of being in close proximity to these toxic environments are <a href="https://nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/Global-Warming/Reports/Psych_effects_Climate_Change_Ex_Sum_3_23.ashxncbi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">detrimental to the people</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Little is being done to rectify these inequities. The stressors of unhealthy diets, negative mental states, and anti-social behaviors stem from a lack of education, self-esteem, and well-paying jobs. Lack of awareness fuels most of the ignorance in poor communities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Knowledge is Power</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">When I learned about globalization and what the USA does to “poor, undeveloped, third-world countries,” I realized that same pattern of oppression was being used to shape my environment. I understood that “free-trade” for the USA meant coercing other countries by using our power and weapons to take over those countries’ resources to the detriment of the local people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My job (as economic hit man), said my instructor, was ‘to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes US commercial interests. In the end, those leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty. We can draw on them whenever we desire — to satisfy our political, economic, or military needs. In turn, they bolster their political positions by bringing industrial parks, power plants, and airports to their people. The owners of US engineering/construction companies become fabulously wealthy.’ </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">“If we faltered, a more malicious form of hit man, the jackal (CIA), would step to the plate. And if the jackals failed, then the job fell to the military.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">”</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Excerpt From: <a href="https://amzn.to/2Re3XC5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</i></a>. ~ John Perkins. Apple Books.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I understood that this was accepted because of religious and racist beliefs. These beliefs hold little awareness of our true purpose and are actually an expression of an overweening ego trip. A force that relies on economic hegemony and superior weapons to dominate those who are not like us or do not share our beliefs creates a false sense of purpose. We have only to look around to comprehend the depths of our moral collapse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I felt the anger and rage of being oppressed and the lack of self-knowledge and self-esteem that comes with it. I believe this is why there is so much violence in poor communities. Yet I deeply feel that life does not have to be this way. I still do. So, in an effort to change this, I joined political clubs at school. That’s where I met my husband who told me that politics is not what’s going to end the suffering in the world — that only a mass movement to higher consciousness through its biological agent, kundalini, will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I had no idea what he meant. Slowly, with time and lots of questions, I began to work on myself. I did a lot of inner healing, I stopped blaming religion, I stopped blaming the government, I stopped blaming my family, and I stopped blaming the world outside of me. Through the practice of releasing, forgiving others (especially myself), appreciation and gratitude for the little things, cultivating humility, meditating, practicing kindness and love, my awareness and perceptions began to change. Because of my practice, I began to have the courage to speak, to dance, to sing, to love, and to be seen. My connection to “Source” returned; I understood that kundalini is an evolutionary phenomenon that changes you biologically. Its goal is to make you a better person through its connection to “Source,” i.e., higher consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">“The aim of the evolutionary impulse that is active in the race is to mold the human brain and nervous system to a state of perception where the invisible world of intelligent cosmic forces can be cognizable to every human being.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">”</span></span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">~ <i>Higher Consciousness and Kundalini</i> – Gopi Krishna</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Now, when I look at the world, with its poverty, suffering, hate, ignorance and the negativity that comes with it, I realize that a lack of self-awareness had created these conditions. On the other hand, compassion and altruism are highly correlated to mental well-being and higher consciousness. Preliminary research findings from <a href="https://www.kundaliniwiki.org/Kundalini_Profile_Survey_Analysis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Emerging Sciences Foundation</a> and Stanford Medicine’s “<a href="http://ccare.stanford.edu/research/compassion-database/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Center For Compassion And Altruism Research And Education</a>” have done research in this area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">We see these noble qualities expressed by the founders of the major religions, because they provide guidance on our thoughts and deeds. This is why even with our advanced scientific tools, religion still grips the masses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">We are the true creators of our own reality, what we think and believe we manifest! This is how we influence each other and the world around us. The current state of the world is a manifestation that prioritizes the economy before our own health and the Earth. This, I believe, creates and promotes fear, materialism, dogma, fundamentalism, and hateful attitudes towards others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Simpler Lifestyle</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">True fulfillment comes from blending in with nature, celebrating life together, while becoming self-aware. Many people who undergo a Kundalini awakening understand this. Once in a state of Higher Consciousness, Gopi Krishna said that we need to “<a href="https://www.sheshnaag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Gopi-Krishna-The-way-to-Self-Knowledge.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">return to the field and farm</a>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">In his letter to a friend in 1753, Benjamin Franklin, one of the The Founding Fathers of America, shared an interesting problem encountered by the English settlers who were taken captive by the Natives:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">~ Junger, Sebastian. Tribe, Twelve, 2016.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">All of humanity is undergoing a process of self-awareness one way or another, driven by what Gopi Krishna called the evolutionary impulse. Nature is asking us to reconnect, to balance, and to evolve. I don’t know all of the answers. I do know that our current lifestyles, fueled by consumption and by putting the economy before our physical and mental health, contribute mightily to the current, sad state of the world.</span></div>
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05179877375268822223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-9984748995110326992020-08-13T12:36:00.003-07:002021-06-11T09:32:55.781-07:00The Science of Breathing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is the first action a </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">newborn </span></span>baby takes upon his or her introduction to life on Earth?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Taking a breath is that essential first action. Failing to accomplish that action means life is </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">quickly </span></span>over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since activating kundalini in the early 1970s, I've wondered why so little was known about the science of breathing (if I may call it a science). Had I not learned how to breathe correctly, I would never have awakened kundalini. Had I not activated kundalini, my physical imperfections would never have been corrected. What I learned was the result of empirical research in the laboratory of my own body.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I learned breath is not only an important factor governing worldly accomplishments (ability at music or sports, for instance), it's the key to your adherence to the <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/the-blueprints-of-our-physi.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blueprint of your perfect body</a>, the blueprint for your unique incarnation. What is this blueprint? It's a perpetually updating, mutli-dimensional plan for your embodiment that includes your physical as well as your energetic bodies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At the moment of conception, the moment the sperm and egg collide, Consciousness creates a blueprint for hominization, a concept that even Catholics recognize as </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"the unfolding of a pre-existent pattern (blueprint), a making explicit of what is implicit." While in the womb, the blueprint manages the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">hominization process, which, during this time focuses on maintaining symmetry. Even before birth, temporal forces can affect symmetry, creating a separation between the blueprint and your actual embodiment.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">"Up to the moment of your birth, it stays one step ahead of your actual
embodiment, carefully matching your anatomy to the three-dimensional
form as conceived by your blueprint. At birth, this metaphysical
superintendence sleeps, allowing the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">materialistic</span> factors of heredity and
environment to guide and manage your growth through life."</span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The key to preserving bodily symmetry, or adherence to the blueprint, is breath and breathing, an autonomic process that activates at birth. Up to that point </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the formation of the embryo, the fetus, and the physical body takes place in the mother's womb.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">"From the moment you’re born, any one of thousands of stimuli — within or out of your control — can alter your growth, assuring degrees of deviation from the blueprint for your unique embodiment.<br /><br />"After activating the Kundalini-Life Force, I was able to see the blueprint of my perfect body and compare it to my actual state. Amazingly, the Kundalini Life Force recognized a deformity and immediately began to correct it. I witnessed it slowly reshape my body to the exact proportions in the blueprint.</span>" </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is the purpose of the blueprint? The blueprint acts as a template overlay for your growth through life — a continuous indicator of your actual versus your intended form.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The key feature of the blueprint is its perfect symmetry. Every creature that breathes is meant to be symmetrical, from the beginning to the end of life. It's part of the evolutionary master plan, bequeathed to energetic life forms by Consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The blueprint and your actual form are not supposed to lose sync. But what you do to yourself and/or what is done to you during your lifetime can cause the two to go out of sync.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To maintain bodily symmetry, and through symmetry, synchronization with the blueprint, one essential apparatus must function as perfectly as it did at the moment of birth. What is this apparatus, this </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">indispensable </span>mechanism?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's your ability to breathe correctly, in short, how you apply the <i>science of breathing</i> to your breathing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That's right, the key to life is breathing. Before aerobic workouts in the gym, doctrinal dissertations, football games, personal wealth, marriage and divorce there was breathing. Consciousness wants you to be symmetrical; symmetrical beings are highly energetic beings, and, therefore, more productive. And, to evolve, you must be productive in the ways you manage your energies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When I started looking for answers to my breathing issues in the late 1960s, the only </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">information </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I found</span></span> came from ancient, esoteric yogic texts. As a result, I started practicing the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">breathing </span></span>techniques in <a href="https://amzn.to/2XXV7ME" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Secret of the Golden Flower</i></a> — <a href="https://amzn.to/2DS1PwB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Golden Flower Meditation</a>. Not only did I learn the mechanics of correct breathing, such as regularity, inhaling and exhaling, breathing through the nose, I discovered the pranic energy inherent in each breath, a phenomenon that takes breathing far beyond the mere exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">As I worked my way through this meditation, I had the feeling there was a body of valuable knowledge I knew nothing about. Information pertaining to the anatomy of my breathing apparatus. After kundalini awakened, energy streamed into my skull and started pushing outwards against all the inner surfaces of my skull, especially my jaw where it appeared mandated to change the configuration of not only my jaw, but my teeth and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">my skull as well</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">. This went on 24 hours a day, the intensity increasing and diminishing according to the time of day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Much later, I would learn from reading James Nestor's book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3gUtag9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Breath</i></a>, that the skull and its contents are malleable; they can reconfigure if the right solutions are applied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I realize mentioning </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">concepts like</span></span> prana and pre-existing blueprints may sound crazy to some, but they are as real as the material world of the senses. And they have nothing to do with religion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kundalini, the instrument of Consciousness, corrected my physical imperfections, bringing my being into alignment with my blueprint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What about people who have not activated kundalini, know nothing about it, and even if they did, would never believe it is real.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trouble is, even if they did practice some form of meditation, there is no guarantee of a meaningful or successful outcome. Why? Because </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">every kundalini experience is different. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fortunately, researchers, not affiliated with any religious or spiritual belief systems, are now exploring many neglected aspects of the breathing process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is great news, a real boon to meditators and practitioners of energy cultivation techniques — a stark contrast to the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">limited </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">sources I had access to. Today, the Internet makes vital information on breathing easily accessible.</span><br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-offset-key="clrhh-0-0"><span data-text="true">The first item to catch my attention concerned <a href="https://drtheodorebelfor.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cone Beam 3D imaging</a>,a scan of the airways: mouth, skull, and teeth that reveals the condition of the breathing apparatus. These scans are done by special dentists and they show the effects of a lifetime of chewing on bad foods and breathing through the mouth. You might think the resulting data worthless in the grand scheme of things. After all, you chew, you breathe.</span></span> So what's the big deal?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most people take breathing for granted, and that's the problem. Given the many respiratory</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">issues </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">affecting the lungs that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">people today suffer from, a scan is the first step in informing the individual about his/her condition, be it the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">effects of COPD, asthma, infections like influenza, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">a deviated septum, pneumonia and tuberculosis, anatomical irregularities like malocclusion, sinusitis, allergies, and even </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">lung cancer.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MMR60p-Xjs8/X1k3oBTJhmI/AAAAAAAAEKo/ecxC1FJZktonFGOC36_degr1SsTpU6wggCLcBGAsYHQ/s2544/IncidenceRespire.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="2544" height="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MMR60p-Xjs8/X1k3oBTJhmI/AAAAAAAAEKo/ecxC1FJZktonFGOC36_degr1SsTpU6wggCLcBGAsYHQ/w625-h275/IncidenceRespire.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Incidence of Respiratory Illness (70 years)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">A scan also allows the dentist to devise corrective measures for treating and neutralizing respiratory conditions.</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Excerpt From: James Nestor. “Breath.” Apple Books. https://books.apple.com/us/book/breath/id1487371974</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next month, I'll go into greater detail on how the science of breathing </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">research </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">fits in with the ancient traditions of yoga and meditation, and how the two can work together to facilitate kundalini work.</span></div><br />
JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-16723781463067288372020-06-11T18:23:00.002-07:002020-07-17T22:14:23.285-07:00Breathing and Covid-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2020/05/will-i-still-be-eating-same-foods-after.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Previously</a>, we examined the relationship between foods consumed and the Covid-19 virus. This post examines the effects that kundalini mediation breathing exercises have on the metabolism. Do they fortify it? Do these exercises prepare the body to resist the ravages of Covid-19?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The answer is: nobody knows and there is no way to prove whether it could...at this time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sure, you can imagine a clinical experiment where selected groups that have and have not practiced <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/making_preparations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">diaphragmatic deep breathing</a> would produce results scientists can measure. We're a long way from being able to do this, both from an organizational and medical standpoint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All we have is extrapolations and anecdotal accounts. Nevertheless, I believe that the <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Golden Flower Meditation</a> breathing exercises I practice do protect me. Why? Because these exercises are the aerobics for the diaphragm. I have no scientific evidence to support this hypothesis, only the fact that while exercising, I'm able to breathe through the nose without gasping for air.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A few days ago the NPR program Fresh Air featured a Terry Gross interview with </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">James Nestor, a researcher exploring the many aspects of the <a href="https://amzn.to/2AfXKAQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">science and art of breathing</a>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can think about breathing as being in a boat, right? So you can take
a bunch of very short, stilted strokes and you're going to get to where
you want to go. It's going to take a while, but you'll get there. Or
you can take a few very fluid and long strokes and get there so much
more efficiently. ... You want to make it very easy for your body to get
air, especially if this is an act that we're doing 25,000 times a day.
So, by just extending those inhales and exhales, by moving that
diaphragm up and down a little more, you can have a profound effect on
your blood pressure, on your mental state."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ </span></span><a class="title" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/27/862963172/how-the-lost-art-of-breathing-can-impact-sleep-and-resilience#"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>How The 'Lost Art' Of Breathing Can Impact Sleep And Resilience</i> <time datetime="P36M,21S">- NPR's Fresh Air</time></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As I listened to this interview, I was struck by how much it echoes the techniques of Golden Flower Meditation:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"When you extend the belly, pushing it outward on inhalation and then pulling the belly in to expel air, you are embarking on a regimen of abdominal and diaphragmatic calisthenics. Starting this activity for the first time — whether sitting, walking, reclining, or lying down — you may feel a burning sensation. That is the muscles of the abdomen telling you that you are beginning to breathe correctly. Using the belly muscles is like pump priming, that is, using the handle of a pump (the belly) to activate the pump mechanism (the diaphragm)."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">~ <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/making_preparations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Golden Flower Meditation</i> website</a> - JJ Semple </span></span></span></blockquote>
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've found a few practical things you can use to protect yourself if you're over 70 (remember, the Covid-19 virus is 15% fatal for +80 years):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Early warning: Get an Oximeter. It warns you before the virus symptoms appear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Diet: Avoid carbohydrates. Deadlier infection rate for those who consume carbohydrates in large quantities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Breathing exercises: There's no reason NOT to practice some form of yogic breathing exercises, using the diaphragm and the nostrils. The diaphragm is a muscle, just as important as the muscles you exercise in the gym, if not more so. Make sure the diaphragm "participates" in every activity, whether walking, yoga, reclining, exercising, or meditation — breathe through the nostrils as described in the Fresh Air interview cited above.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen to it. And <a href="https://amzn.to/2AfXKAQ">purchase the book</a>. It's adapted for this day and age. In depth serious research on the lungs, the diaphragm, the nostrils, the configuration of the breathing mechanism, the importance of nasal breathing, and bodily symmetry — a topic I explore in <a href="https://amzn.to/30iverk">all my books</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">avoid misstatements, </span></span>I need to be very careful in writing this post. It could be deemed controversial. I mean, to think that there might be a connection between the foods we eat and our susceptibility to the <a href="https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">COVID-19 virus</a>! What gall! Indeed, what heresy...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Welcome to the New York Times article that introduces this assertion — that contracting</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> COVID-19 is somehow related </span></span>to diet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"But while diet-related disorders increase vulnerability to the virus,
limited national attention has been paid to lack of access to
nutritionally wholesome foods that can sustain metabolic health and
support a vigorous immune system."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/well/eat/coronavirus-diet-metabolic-health.html?searchResultPosition=14" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>How Poor Diet Contributes to Coronavirus Risk</i></a>-New York Times, Jane E. Brody, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">April 20, 2020</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don't know whether this is true or not, but I'm glad someone's started the ball rolling. We need more attempts to correlate the non-medical factors surrounding susceptibility to the virus.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not only can markers like </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"excess fat around the middle, hypertension, high blood sugar, high triglycerides and a poor cholesterol profile," and <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321044#symptoms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">low blood oxygen</a> measure health, the article seems to infer they also measure metabolism. I don't know if these elements constitute the totality of metabolism, but I do know that I watch mine, using them as two-way feedback that keeps them in a safe range.</span></span><br />
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JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-14512504473631286102020-03-22T14:00:00.000-07:002020-05-13T09:47:18.290-07:00The Biology of Kundalini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Activating Kundalini begins with biological transformation, using energy cultivation techniques to arouse the body’s hidden potential.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since kundalini is a <a href="https://amzn.to/2WzF0Fl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">biological phenomenon</a>, it needs to draw energy from a biological source in order to accomplish its purpose. That source happens to be sexual energy, the same energy source involved in procreation. How could it be otherwise? The energy used to create life is the same energy used in re-birth. What other source in the human body has the requisite supply of the necessary energy to accomplish a rebirth?<br /> <span id="goog_753837384"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nevertheless, each individual is configured differently which means outcomes do vary, not only on account of anatomical, genetic, and neurological differences, but also because the triggers responsible (meditation, tantra, shaktipat, drugs, etc.) for activating Kundalini vary greatly. Different triggers produce different effects. In fact, the rules that produce a variety of human shapes and sizes in the physical world also govern the multitude of metaphysical effects that kundalini produces.<br /><br />It is an unpredictable physiological process. For that reason, you need to study the phenomenon before presuming it's appropriate for you at the present time. There’s also a commitment/dedication component. So, is it reasonable to dedicate your time and efforts to an unpredictable process that demands commitment?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Transformation is not a single event, but a stream of energy events, each one a challenge. So much goes into completing the process: inspiration, motivation, discovery, detective work, exercise, meditation — to say nothing of frustration, disappointment, and disinformation. Choosing a viable method is vital. The path is long, hard, and uncertain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Up till now, there is no one method for shepherding a novice through the entire process that has a one-hundred-percent success rate. However, <a href="https://amzn.to/2QCxQMJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Golden Flower Meditation</a> worked for me, resulting in a full-fledged, permanent kundalini awakening.<br /><br />On the flowchart below you will notice two phases, what Ram Dass called the <i>You do it</i>! and <i>It does you</i>! phases. In the first phase, you do all the work. Whether consciously or unconsciously, deliberately or accidentally, you become inspired. Whatever! It’s up to you to find and manage the various elements. Motivation, detective work, decoding, practice are also up to you. It’s only during the last phase that things get really interesting, not that they’re uninteresting beforehand. But there definitely is a transition from the <i>You do it</i>! to <i>It does You</i>! phase.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">To put the preceding flowchart in perspective, imagine a similar chart tracing the path of a typical American doctorate level education. The process is long — getting a PhD is a grueling process — but the information is readily available. Want to study chemistry? No problem. Ten thousand college catalogues at your disposal. Get good grades in high school, find a college that suits you and you’re on your way. On the other hand, informing yourself about secret teachings such as kundalini is not as easy. There is no approved curriculum, no regulating body, no accepted practices, no Secret Teachings for Dummies guidebooks. You’re on your own. All you have is your own inspired motivation, some hint that there is something out there — something for you. Beyond that you have no idea what’s in store for you. No idea that the overhaul you are pursuing is really a biological process. Golden Flower Meditation leads to a neuro-biological overhaul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />Through my practice of Golden Flower Meditation, I discovered the remarkable self-healing capabilities of the Kundalini~Life Force. My nervous system was stimulated such that the natural chemical substances of the body were recombined and used both to correct a deformity and also to induce a higher consciousness. After successfully activating the Life Force, this amazing energy source inventoried my entire body, immediately transmitting vital energy throughout the nervous system to the deformed parts of my body. What kinds of conditions are treatable? Any condition caused by damage to nerve endings or circuits.<br /><br />How does GFM work? Correctly implemented, the active Kundalini triggers a process known as sexual sublimation that distills seminal fluid, or cervical fluid, in the case of a woman, and draws this distilled extract of sexual energy up the spine into the brain. This kicks off autonomic self-healing mechanisms that use the nervous system to revitalize neural related disorders. Normally, GFM has little effect on degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease, or stroke. However, by practicing GFM and eating more pure raw foods, the body is less likely to degenerate.<br /><br />What if there were a mechanism in the body capable of revitalizing the brain and the nervous system, of counteracting the ill effects of neurological degeneration? That mechanism exists. It’s known as Kundalini Shakti — the vital energy responsible for your incarnation. To avail yourself of it in later life for creative and for healing purposes, I practiced Golden Flower Meditation. It’s not the only method, but it is one I found to be permanent, voluntary, safe, repeatable.<br /><br />At the moment, Kundalini Shakti is in hibernation, waiting for you to activate it. A popular explanation, really a misconception, says that if kundalini is not awakened, it is dormant, completely inactive. If that were true, we’d all be dead. Kundalini has a maintenance aspect, Prana Shakti, which is always functioning. It’s actively at work on you now, maintaining your autonomic functions. The life force has two aspects: Prana Shakti maintains your basic functions such as blood flow, digestion, and breathing; Kundalini Shakti fosters self-healing while opening you to higher consciousness.</span></span></div>
JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-1463071953369705562020-01-23T14:41:00.000-08:002020-07-30T07:59:30.823-07:00Morality and Kundalini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Because we exist in an energetic universe, there is nothing to prevent an immoral or dangerous person (by society's standards) from activating kundalini. We can only hope that, once active, the impact and the immensity of kundalini experience will, at a minimum, steer the person towards a respect for the Golden Rule.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">More empirical proof can be witnessed by the way we treat one another. We've mostly thrown the Golden Rule to the dogs — this basic religious teaching is no longer observed or practiced, even lip service to it is rare.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You see evidence of it everyday. In drive-by shootings, in random attacks, Internet bullying, fake news, violence against women, economic inequality, racial hatred, whack-a-mole wars.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Can kundalini jump in and quick start human evolution or do we have to wait eons of evolutionary space/time before the brain's most grievous characteristics are eliminated — its mammalian characteristics?<br /><br />If you consider that we evolved from one-celled animals to what we are today, it is logical to assume that, given a similar amount of time, we will, once again, change forms many times over. Short-sighted animals that we are, many among us, believe that we have reached a state of perfection, that we can evolve no more. Quelle arrogance!<br /><br />It is impossible to project exactly what formal changes human beings might undergo. Nevertheless, if I were to guess what that form we might take, I'd first ask myself which mutations cause the most problems as far as human life is concerned?<br /><br />I'd have to answer: the body itself, the source of all our problems: war, materialism, money, overwrought emotions (jealousy, hate, pride, rage - ten commandment stuff). If we were to ultimately evolve into "bodiless beings," these issues become moot. This may sound crazy, but it is consistent with evolutionary purpose and process — in that evolution eliminates harmful mutations.<br /><br />Am I hypothesizing that the human body, which some of us worship, which every one of us would like to worship, is an evolutionary mistake? <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2017/10/higher-consciousness-and-kundalini.html">Kundalini tells me</a> that there is more to me — to everyone of us — than a body.<br /><br />There's a lot of mystery and confusion around kundalini, what Gopi Krishna aptly termed "the evolutionary energy." It's become a hashtag, a meme. If you activate it, you half expect it to solve your problems and change your character. Not so. If you're a bad person, you alone can change your attitudes and personality. Kundalini can provide the objectivity to see things as they really are, but it can't change your behavior. You alone can do that.<br /><br />Religion, on the other hand, is so much opinion and polemics. The challenge is to bring back that part of it common to all religions, the one moral activity under each individual's control — the Golden Rule.</span></span></div>
JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-17560741640874757732019-12-12T13:04:00.000-08:002019-12-13T11:25:38.750-08:00Awareness and Consciousness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When we think of awareness, we might cite spatial, temporal, directional, and emotional as types of awareness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's start with the spatial variety, a quality many people seem to lack even a basic sense of. Is that bad? Depends on how it affects you. In Paris, some streets are narrow and crowded: people walk directly into each other without thinking anything of it. They don't even try to avoid one another, leaving foreigners mystified. "Why don't they watch where they're going?" is a common reaction. Part of it may be cultural: the French don't respect lines; they cut right in and no one complains. What makes it even more startling to the outsider is the lines are long, but unlike, say, an American, they don't think cutting in is unfair. Welcome to Germany, where people respect lines and form them automatically.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spatial awareness is a very basic form of awareness: you in relation to objects, animals, and people. I don't know which is worse — getting upset when someone blocks the aisle or letting it get to me. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I compare this type of lack of awareness to being out of sync with the circadian rhythm; both are the result of an inflated sense of self-importance, which, itself, is the result of being over-civilized.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Which brings us to emotional or psychological awareness, the antidote for our detachment from nature and our self-alienation — the notion that when you block the aisle, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">you are aware </span></span>that you are doing the blocking, and that someone is being blocked. This is the self-awareness, the self-remembering, that <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2013/07/self-remembering-and-kundalini.html">Gurdjieff and Ouspensky</a> wrote about — being aware of self and other at all times so you can control, not only your conduct, but also your emotional response to every situation — what pathfinders like Gurdjieff and <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/gopi_krishna.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gopi Krishna</a> recognized as the doorway to the energy continuum of higher consciousness.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you stay at home, never go out, your life consists of the remote control and whatever's in the fridge. Once you step outside, however, you're in the world of emotional responses and self-awareness.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Growing up, I didn't think about self-awareness. Nevertheless, without my realizing it, my first thirty years were a quest for self-actualization and one of its offshoots — self-awareness. Everywhere I looked, every door I opened led to failure and further bouts of self-destructive misadventure, but I kept looking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, one day in 1971, I began a meditation based on <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2LEUHEK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Secret of the Golden Flower</a></i> — without any foreknowledge or expectation of an outcome, either material or immaterial. No dreams of illumination, no fantasies of enlightenment. No Facebook, no Internet, very little word of mouth, it was a much different world back then. I was on my own before anything happened and when something did, I was still on my own.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What happened was kundalini, not an awakening so much as an earthquake that shook my body and unleashed a multitude of autonomous and autonomic resources that started to retrofit my body. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here "Retrofit" is used in its dictionary definition: <i>an act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when manufactured</i>. Of course, kundalini was present, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but </span></span>like a computer program that includes a secret feature to be activated at some future date, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was dormant. </span></span></span></span>It did not <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">have to be added, only awakened</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of which, at the same time it revitalized my being, revealed to me the self-awareness I had so vainly sought.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This body of ours is something like an electric battery in which a mysterious power latently lies. When this power is not properly brought into operation, it either grows mouldy and withers away or is warped and expresses itself abnormally. It is the object of Zen, therefore, to save us from going crazy or being crippled. This is what I mean by freedom, giving free play to all the creative and benevolent impulses inherently lying in our hearts. Generally, we are blind to this fact, that we are in possession of all the necessary faculties that will make us happy and loving towards one another. All the struggles that we see around us come from this ignorance… When the cloud of ignorance disappears… we see for the first time into the nature of our own being."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ DT SUZUKI - <i><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/30/d-t-suzuki-essays-in-zen-buddhism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What Freedom Really Means</a></i></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And through this self-awareness, I became aware of the consciousness that is the Mother of all things — truly the gift that gives on giving. I was folded into it. And why not?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's in us and </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">all around us. Ready for us to become absorbed, assimilated, integrated into It free of charge. Yet, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">just as Suzuki warned us,</span></span></span></span> our connection to it is tenuous and fragile. To not avail ourselves of it carries with it difficult-to-avoid, dangerous tendencies, so ably described here by Bruce Lee.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts that are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience; they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power — God, history, fate, nation, or humanity."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">~ BRUCE LEE - <i><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bruce-lee-on-self-actualization-and-the-crucial-difference-between-pride-and-self-esteem?utm_source=pocket-newtab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Lee on Self-Actualization</a></i></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are ways of avoiding these ensnarements; mine happened to be the unwitting result of kundalini meditation that, <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/my_kundalini_experience/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">during the time I practiced it</a>, never once did I encounter the term "kundalini," proving, once again, that <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/sacred-cow-terminology.html" target="_blank">labels</a> don't much matter. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I didn't have to work at cultivating awareness; it was byproduct of the consciousness (as manifested through kundalini) that took over the superintendence of my being.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The creators of the new movie, <i>Judy</i>, made a conscious choice NOT </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to </span></span>use her singing voice. Rather they used the voice of their star, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Renée Zellweger. That's like using </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow's voice in a </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Frank Sinatra </span></span>biopic. God forbid...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What does this have to do with kundalini? Investigators such as Gopi Krishna have written about the effects of a kundalini awakening, not only on those who meditate for it or those who are spontaneously struck by it, but also as it concerns people of genius, who, they believe, appear to have been born with an operational kundalini. By that I mean the energy centers that ordinary people must cultivate, either on purpose or accidentally, are already functioning </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">at birth</span></span> in people of genius. As of yet, how this works, no one knows.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These writers have cited Walt Whitman, Einstein, Maurice Bucke, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer as examples of genius so extraordinary that some advanced aspect of physiological evolution must be at work in their beings that allows them unequaled mastery in their field, combining the ability to focus with special insight into the nature of things. This faculty manifests itself in many ways.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How did they come up with these names? Why</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the list was restricted to thinkers and philosophers </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don't know? </span></span></span></span>Nevertheless, I'd </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">like to broaden the list to include, not only to great intellects, but also writers, athletes, artists, singers and musicians.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">No mention is made of how geniuses — of the academic sort — conduct their lives. Whether: they are happily married. Have hobbies. Pay taxes. Have lots of friends. Are moody. Are on good terms with their children. Mistreat their servants. Have an addiction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The same is not true for the second group — a sample of which I nominate: Willie Mays, <a href="https://amzn.to/2q9xX86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thelonious Monk</a>, Charles Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Mozart, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, </span>Aretha Franklin, Stanley Kubrick, and yes, Judy Garland and a select few others. Their celebrity, especially for those who've lived in this era of mass media scrutiny, fed their various urges, co-opting </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and overwhelming them.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Celebrity becomes notoriety. Not for all, of course. But genius does not necessarily equate to stability, not for Mozart or Judy. Personal relations and personal affairs are often mismanaged or neglected by geniuses. Still, we wonder at their uniqueness, their one-in-a-million virtuosity. There's a big difference between average and genius. A gaping chasm that director Rupert Goold did not dare to cross. According to Internet commentary, he forced Renée Zellweger to use her own voice because he believed pantomiming and lip syncing would destroy the spontaneity of her performance. </span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That's like using someone else's voice in a Aretha Franklin or a </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Barbra Streisand or a Ray... uh-oh, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Charles </span></span></span>biopic? Hmm, hasn't that flic already been made? Didn't his performance win an Oscar for Jamie Foxx? Didn't he lip sync to Ray Charles's original music? Wasn't the result edited in to perfection? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Didn't </span></span></span>the fact that director Taylor Hackford made performance and music fit together seamlessly make it the best musical biopic ever? Can you imagine substituting someone else's voice? I can't...</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Sadly, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rupert Goold thought the lip-sync challenge too great for <i>Judy</i>, making an idea for a good film ho-hum. Yet, he even wrote into his script the most important factor in a musical picture: In the beginning of the film, the Louis B. Mayer character tells teen-age Judy that what sets her apart from Lana Turner and Ava Gardner is not glamor or beauty, but her unique voice. Evidently, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Goold didn't want to follow his character's evaluation. (PS. I think she's both beautiful and glamorous.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's not </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Renée Zellweger's fault; she has a pleasant singing voice. But she's not the genius Judy Garland was. Nowhere near, and it shows. Her voice lacks </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Judy's emotional power and color, and that doesn't even count its beauty.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That's why Ray was so good. That's why <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450188/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">La Vie en Rose</a></i>, the <a href="https://youtu.be/Y6H8KAglepk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edith Piaf</a> biopic, was so great. The producers used the real Piaf's singing voice, not some imitation. It's not only my opinion, it's Marion Cotillard's, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the star of <i>La Vie en Rose</i>, as she so cogently expressed it on the Graham Norton show</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> in this <a href="https://youtu.be/Y6H8KAglepk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube interview</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Viewers, vaguely familiar with the real Judy Garland, might be charmed by </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Zellweger's performance, might also be charmed by her pleasant voice, willing to let her performance overshadow the music. Real music lovers, however, cannot. Why not? Because the real Judy's voice is the only authentic element that connects any spoken or visual depiction to the real Judy Garland — <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland#Artistry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">her voice</a>, with its color, its quivering vibrato, perfect pitch, powerful crescendos, and breathless tremolos.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These people might also defend the director's choice, say I have no right to criticize such a wonderful performance. They be wrong on that count...and, and probably unfamiliar with Judy Garland's body of work. You can't compare Zellweger's voice to Judy's, especially if you've never listened to Judy sing.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What's more, didn't Judy have a hard enough life — exhaustively sensationalized in this interpretation — without having her legacy adulterated?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here's an incisive comment on <a href="https://youtu.be/kFzViYkZAz4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>La Vie En Rose</i></a> that sums up the musical biopic discussion:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">“Piaf's magnificent, emotional singing is fully complemented by Cotillard's balls to the wall performance. Heart and soul are in total sync here and Cotillard manages to age astonishingly well. This is a terrible tale of a child grotesquely abandoned emotionally by her parents. Piaf's will to live is inspiring even in the face of self-destruction that makes Judy Garland's own battles with alcohol and drugs seem minor in comparison. The parallels to both women are hard to ignore. The rest of the cast is first-rate, and the film beautifully evokes the eras covered in her life. Best of all there is the great Piaf recorded legacy which is well-handled here. There's no sense that Cotillard is not singing and that's a testament to the skill that suffuses this fine film. Excellent.”</span><br />
~ <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450188/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IMDb Movie review - <i>La Vie en Rose</i></a> (2007)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A few of the real Judy's most iconic performances gratefully preserved on YouTube. (You might want to click the <i>Skip Ad</i> button when it appears):</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The Wizard Of Oz" (1939) - age 17</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<i><a href="https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Over the Rainbow</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Meet Me In St. Louis" (1944)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> - age 22</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<i><a href="https://youtu.be/G1s92DlCrlg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Boy Next Door</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CreWsnhQwzY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Till The Clouds Roll By" (1946)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> - age 24</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<i><a href="https://youtu.be/UFITLxanHoU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Look For The Silver Lining</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Jack Paar Show (1962) - She's 40, seven years before her death in 1969 at the age of 47. Check out the studio audience's reaction when the song ends. (The Jack Paar Show was that era's Late Night Show a la Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Fallon.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><a href="https://youtu.be/L5vDFFiU_Os?t=1819" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Little Drops Of Rain</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the yoga and/or <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kundalini meditation</a> methods you practice, do you include specific diet and/or exercise practices? When I was twenty-two, I know I didn't. Not that I was a steak or ribs eater only; I wasn't. I ate vegetables or salad with lunch and dinner. My diet was well within the guidelines set forth by the Surgeon General at the time, guidelines that are changing all the time — sometimes even reinstating foodstuffs that were previously proscribed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Had I known then what I now believe to be true, I would have modified my diet. Why? In order to get the most benefit from yoga or meditation, you need a fully functioning body with all systems and subsystems at peak efficiency.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Trouble is, at age twenty-two, you assume that all systems <i>are</i> Go! This may NOT be the case, but telling a twenty or a thirty-something to have a checkup is a futile exercise. In case you </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">didn't </span></span>know, twenty-two year olds are immortal!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How do you measure your system's efficiency? A bare minimum would entail:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These actions give you a vital heads-up on the four major deadly diseases: cancer, stroke, diabetes, and cardiovascular. Why should you do this?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not even an active kundalini can overcome the ill effects of clogged arteries. What's more, you may appear to be functioning at a high level, but just below the surface, you have a runaway cholesterol or blood sugar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The solution? Once you take an interest in the state of your health (especially important for those practicing kundalini meditation), you can start making an effort to optimize your systems.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As you age, it's easy to misinterpret symptoms. For example, shortness of breath could be self-diagnosed as the result of aging when it's really due to the gradual clogging of arteries. The result: you tell yourself "I'm growing older. I don't have as much energy" and you forgo having a medical checkup. I know. It happened to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Clogged arteries means high cholesterol, a condition a blood test can easily detect and which, if done regularly, can not only bring your cholesterol levels down, it can, with proper diet and exercise, repair damaged arteries. At least, that's what Dr. Greger, the author of the following book, offers clinical evidence of, starting with this no-holds-barred advisory: "It’s the Cholesterol, Stupid!" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now, at age 81, I do a blood test every four months. The changes in my eating habits have jump-started my kundalini, allowing it to continue expanding both body and consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Popeye was right when he bragged that he was strong to the finish because he ate his spinach. Dark-green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest foods on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie. Just to emphasize the point, there was a study published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer entitled Antioxidant, Antimutagenic, and Antitumor Effects of Pine Needles. Edible leaves, in all their shapes and sizes, it seems, can be healthy foods. In 1777, General George Washington issued a general order that American troops should forage for wild greens growing around their camps 'as these vegetables are very conducive to health, and tend to prevent all putrid disorders.' Since then, however, Americans have declared their independence from greens. Today, only about one in twenty-five even reach a dozen servings throughout the course of an entire month. I advise getting more than a dozen servings per week.”</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">~ Greger, Michael. <a href="https://amzn.to/2LlA011">How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease</a> (p. 350). Pan Macmillan. Kindle Edition.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Only a few years ago in 2015, I believed I was in fine shape — no health vulnerabilities, no deficiencies. <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2013/01/as-long-as-we-inhabit-bodies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Was I ever wrong</a>. Since then I've become vigilant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Each kundalini instance is different from every other instance, just as every human being’s metabolic, somatic, anatomical, psychological, intellectual, and cognitive characteristics vary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wouldn't worry too much about God, faith and other religious tropes; <a href="https://amzn.to/2H9vqk3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kundalini is first a physical transformation</a> that ultimately does lead to the metaphysical and to higher consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All life phases have karmic meaning — what you were, what you are, and what you will be involved in before, during, and after awakening are equally significant. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wise men and women know the journey is just as important as the destination. </span></span>You didn't just make kundalini happen. Something led you to it. Ask yourself: Did I find kundalini or did it find me?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whatever its origin, when the kudalini process started, I gradually realized there were no religious overtones. I didn't need to believe in some dogma or faith. If I was to succeed, I needed proceed as a scientist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I read other people's accounts, not because they applied to my particular struggle. Some did; some didn't. The ones I identified with offered methodological insights into the kundalini awakening process. In turn, when I wrote <a href="https://amzn.to/2H9vqk3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">an account of my kundalini experience</a>, I provided only such information as I </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">myself </span></span></span></span>had been able to verify</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">, information about the challenges and the choices one makes as the process unfolds. I followed that book with <a href="https://amzn.to/2TMyiZg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">two more books</a>, in each instance seeking to clarify and demystify the process, making it more evidence-based than faith-based.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Your body is a laboratory; you are the subject in an experiment. How it turns out depends on your ability to observe yourself and make the right choices. You need to act like a detective, sifting the clues and the feedback you receive from your body — and they will </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">manifest</span></span> themselves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">PD Ouspensky stated:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Biology is an expression of consciousness. You started out knowing only your physical body and its surroundings. To advance beyond those barriers, you must apply Ouspensky’s precepts to your life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kundalini is the result of stimulating the human body's most powerful energy source — our sexual essences. We call this energy stimulation process <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/sexual-sublimation.html">Sexual Sublimation</a>. It consists of internalizing the energy produced by the sexual organs, distilling said energy into an etherized elixir some call psychic fuel to allow this psychic fuel to be drawn up the spinal column into the brain where it produces an eruption we call, for lack of a more global term, a kundalini experience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This energy may be stimulated in a number of ways:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By voluntarily practicing energy cultivation techniques such as yoga and <a href="https://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/">meditation,</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By involuntarily doing any number of things, up to and including doing nothing at all. It just happens on its own,</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It may also not be stimulated by the voluntary practice of energy stimulation techniques, no matter how hard you, the practitioner, works at it. There seems to be a karmic aspect that governs success in this work. At present, we know very little about why the sexual sublimation process works for some, but not for others.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whether you call it Orgone, Chi, Life Force, or some other name, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kundalini </span></span>is but a single energetic phenomenon with as many ways of manifesting itself as there are people on earth. One energy; infinite ways of experiencing it. Why is this? It's because of individual differences in people — physical, emotional, intellectual, somatic, metabolic, psychological, anatomical. The myriad variations of human vitality and form ensure that the process varies from individual to individual</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">: no two kundalini experiences are exactly the same</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In each kundalini experience — whether voluntary or involuntary, purposeful or accidental, permanent or temporary, sought after or unwanted — a distillate amount of sexual energy enters the brain and, depending on the purity of the psychic fuel and the condition of the channels it uses, the result is a variation of kundalini activation that depends on individual differences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We know that the energy cultivation techniques that induce kundalini have been practiced for centuries — before the dawn of recorded history. What we don't know is whether the new-age surge of interest in and the practice of these techniques at the present time has in any way hurried or "jump-started" human evolution. Has the widespread interest in meditation sparked a tectonic shift in evolution such that a cursory study of popular culture, social trends, world events points to the expansion of higher consciousness? Do you see it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don't. Perhaps it's a question of time. We shouldn't believe that the baser aspects of human nature have triumphed just yet. It's going to take a long time to see an </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">evolutionary increase</span></span> in higher consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Which begs the questions:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How much time do we have, and?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Should we even worry about evolution?</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Answer One: Time is running out...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Answer Two: Yes! Furthermore, you should know why the answer is Yes. It's why we're here — to evolve, as in Gopi Krishna's notion of the <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2018/01/the-evolutionary-impulse.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>evolutionary impulse</i></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, if you're not sure why you've chosen a particular spiritual path and/or practice, now's a good time to discover, if you don't yet know, why you're doing it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Evolutionary developments generally start with a few individuals of a species, scattered in time and location. Over long periods of time these developments eventually become a widespread, then permanent feature of that species as a whole. We would therefore expect that this new evolutionary faculty might already have shown itself infrequently in some individuals of the human race.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The three primary characteristics of this new faculty would therefore be 1) a direct perception of consciousness as an aspect of Creation independent of matter, 2) an ability to acquire knowledge from that consciousness without the use of the intellect, and 3) an extremely infrequent distribution of individuals with this new faculty over a long period of time."</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bradford, Michael. <a href="https://amzn.to/2l5vqcx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Consciousness: The New Paradigm</i></a> (pp. 51-52). Institute for Consciousness Research. Kindle Edition.</span></span></span><br />
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JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-64820204863392002042019-06-02T07:57:00.002-07:002019-06-02T08:11:37.672-07:00Liberal or Conservative: Are Humans Hardwired?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Having lived with kundalini for 50 years, it's natural that I compare my pre-kundalini state to its after state. What do I mean by this?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm talking about human behavior — what makes us do and believe the things we do. Having lived through a reflexive <i>pre-kundaini state</i> provides a frame of reference; I have a <i>post-state</i> to compare my <i>pre-state</i> thinking and actions to. Not that I have all the answers; I don't. But I do have some questions. For instance, what makes some of us believe that we don't need to care for the environment? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Over the last 20 years, I've started to think that humans may be hardwired to believe the things they do. If that is the case let's try to figure out what hardwired means in relation to human beliefs</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and actions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I won't cite the scientific studies; I'll stick to my own observations. Maybe I'm not being scientific enough, but the <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2019/04/capitalism-kundalini.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">worldwide weather situation has changed</a> — in some areas for the worse, in others for the better. Leaving aside the question of better or worse, can we agree on this one fact — the weather IS changing?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It seems that the people that disagree with this statement are hardwired to the extent that they reject any and all discussion, study, and/or statistics on the matter because someone in authority who they respect told them to. They are authoritarian-minded with a tendency to comply. That doesn't mean they are stupid; they're not. However, their intelligence confines them to accepting facts within a certain field, but not beyond it. For instance, they may be highly educated electrical engineers, administrators, or doctors, but when approaching a subject like the weather, outside their specific field, they bow to an outside authority that may be less than qualified to comment on the subject.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conservative: Authoritarian-Mined Nazism Destroyed Germany</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The people that agree with this statement are hardwired to the extent that they are open to any postulate and are ready to study and debate it. They are free-minded with a tendency to disagree with one another on the finer points and thereby splinter into factions. That, too, doesn't mean they are stupid; they're not. It does mean it is difficult for them to agree with like-minded colleagues because they always want to go their own way, improving and embellishing. For them, authority is always to be questioned.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Liberal: The Free-Minded French Revolution Devolved into Dictatorship</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In debate and propaganda the authority-minded have an advantage: they are of one mind in following their leaders in lockstep. The free-minded, on the other hand, are constantly bickering. Because they</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> speak with many voices, it</span></span> takes them longer to formulate their positions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What does this mean for American democracy? It means that extreme elements in both tendencies are growing more and more rigid in their stances and their beliefs. Hard wired brains are resistant to compromise.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Other signs of irreparable deadlock are:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rarely do members of one group change tendencies.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Name calling and personal attacks are the rule, not the exception.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nothing gets done.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why is this important? Compromise is the lifeblood of democracy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why is it important for those seeking illumination through energy cultivation practices like kundalini meditation? When kundalini awakens in a host body, the person wants to believe that he/she is on the road to illumination. Does this mean that kundalini will somehow magically lead the individual away from these tendencies, towards a state that is above the fray?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"One danger for those who’ve experienced awakenings of some kind is the immediate co-opting of the experience by the ego–the awakening becomes another story that bolsters the ego identification. The shift in consciousness fades and one moves back into identification with thoughts. That was my immediate experience after the psychosis. I was my thoughts again and the awakening was relegated to an experience that I’d ‘had.’"</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">~ </span><a href="https://upliftconnect.com/the-hidden-dangers-of-early-enlightenment/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Hidden Dangers of Early Enlightenment</i></a> - <a href="https://theyogalunchbox.co.nz/author/kara-leah/" target="_blank">Kara-Leah Grant</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm suspicious of <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-934252-91-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">premature claims to enlightenment</a>. For me kundalini first addresses physical irregularities and only after these are taken care of does it start to open up metaphysical vistas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm not sure that an active kundalini guarantees the individual is on the road to illumination. Quite the contrary, there is lots of work to be done on the body and on the ego. What's more, illumination is not the brass ring on the merry-go-round: I personally know of examples of both tendencies who have an active kundalini.</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The first, and also in my opinion the most ominous, of the fundamental problems now threatening American democracy is our accelerating deterioration of political compromise. As I previously explained, political compromise is one of the basic advantages of democracies as compared to dictatorships, because it reduces or prevents both tyranny by a majority and its converse of paralysis by a frustrated minority. The U.S. Constitution sought to create pressure for compromise by devising systems of checks and balances. For instance, our president leads government policy, but Congress controls the government’s budget, and the Speaker of the House (Congress’s lower chamber) sets the House’s agenda for acting on presidential proposals. If, as regularly happens, our representatives in Congress disagree among themselves, and if backers of one view cannot muster sufficient votes to impose their will, a compromise must be reached before the government can do anything.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"But political compromise in the U.S. has been deteriorating from the mid-1990’ s onwards, and especially from around 2005. Compromise has been breaking down not only between our two major political parties, but also between the less moderate and more moderate wings of each party. That’s especially true within the Republican Party, whose more extreme Tea Party wing has mounted primary election challenges against moderate Republican candidates for re-election who had compromised with Democrats. As a result, the 2014–2016 Congress passed the fewest laws of any Congress in recent American history, was behind schedule in adopting budgets, and risked or actually precipitated government shutdown."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">~ <i>Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis </i>- Jared Diamond</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'd like to believe that kundalini induces a higher consciousness that awakens inactive areas of the brain, for example, the centers that govern dialog and compromise.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That's what the founders set out to do with their interwoven system of checks and balances, believing these mechanisms would always be able to offset the twin excesses of authoritarianism and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">babelism</a>. In effect, the founders either believed we could evolve and checks and balances would provide a little nudge or we couldn't evolve and checks and balances would save us from ourselves. I'm just not sure that we have evolved. Why?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The politics of today are the politics of <a href="https://www.historyhit.com/timeline-marius-and-sulla/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marius and Sulla</a> that I read about in 10th grade Roman history class.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How little those centers of the human brain that govern politics and social betterment have progressed in 2,000 years! Could it be that these centers of the brain are hardwired, if not at birth, then over time?</span></span></div>
JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-747348604165918002019-04-26T15:50:00.001-07:002019-04-26T15:50:59.750-07:00Capitalism & Kundalini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">OZYMANDIAS</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I met a traveller from an antique land<br />
Who said: Two vast and
trunkless legs of stone<br />
Stand in the desert. Near
them, on the sand,<br />
Half sunk, a shattered visage
lies, whose frown<br />
And wrinkled lip, and sneer
of cold command<br />
Tell that its sculptor well
those passions read<br />
Which yet survive, stamped on
these lifeless things,<br />
The hand that mocked them and
the heart that fed.<br />
And on the pedestal these
words appear:<br />
"My name is Ozymandias, king
of kings:<br />
Look on my works, ye Mighty,
and despair!"<br />
Nothing beside remains. Round
the decay<br />
Of that colossal wreck,
boundless and bare<br />
The lone and level sands
stretch far away.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As a high school student, this was one of my favorite
poems in my literature book. I’m not sure that today’s student has a
literature book, much less the same reverence for English poetry that we
had. Nevertheless, this poem stood out for three very good reasons:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was short.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was easy to understand.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There was a certain majesty to the language, which, after all, is the point of poetry.</span></span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are at a juncture. We are approaching an <em>Ozymandias</em>
moment in our living history. A moment when science and logic give way
to emotion, xenophobia, and irrational forces. Facing challenges in
every area — health, economy, social, political, environmental,
educational — the greatest challenges mankind has ever faced, we seem
destined to retreat into a parochial and narrow-minded mindset.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ask yourself:</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> • Are we healthy?<br />
• Are we economical?<br />
• Do we perform our civic
duties?<br />
• Do we care for the
environment?<br />
• Do we educate our
children well?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, even in the face of dwindling resources,
shrinking markets, and worldwide health and environmental crises, we do
not have the will power to turn our lives and our destiny around. Even
though in each instance, we have the knowledge and technology to fix
these conditions.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">First thing we have to do is admit that we have done a bad
job and accept that it no longer matters who’s the greatest country in
the world. This is a holdover emotion that keeps us tied to the past. We
no longer need a <em>greatest country</em>, yet we continue to heap
praise on the “greatest generation.” Why? Quite simply, not much has
gone right since then. The “greatest generation” and nostalgia for it
are devices to keep us rooted in the past instead of preparing for the
future. Right now, the future is upon us.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />How Do We Prepare For It?</span></span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></span>The problem with capitalism is it’s largely based on <a href="http://bit.ly/cVhxMq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">psychology</a>,
on creating an atmosphere where people feel good about investing. If
they feel good about investing, they will feel good about accepting and
extending credit, and the wheels continue to turn.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Once, however, there’s a psychological meltdown so that
those self-same investors no longer feel like investing or extending
credit, everything freezes. That’s what we have today. We’re on the
brink of an <em>Ozymandias</em> moment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Try to picture such a moment. Contrary to popular belief,
they are not produced by some sort of conflagration, but by slow
collapse, the kind of collapse Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jared
Diamond, describes in his book of the same name, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_%28book%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Collapse</em></a>.
Diamond studied a series of ancient civilizations — the Norse in
Greenland, the Easter Islanders — and came up with a set of common
causes:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">an insistence on sticking to a way of life that had become no longer viable,</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the man-made
destruction of the environment.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the case of Easter Island, it meant cutting down all
the trees on the island in order to have wooden tracks and sleds for
transporting monolithic statues of their ancestral Gods (Moai) to other
locations on the island. Diamond's UCLA students wondered, “What did the
Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say as he was doing
it?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He goes on to provide reasons for these types of disastrous decisions:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1. Failure to anticipate the problem because they have no prior experience to refer to<br />
a. Failure to
anticipate on account of false analogy<br />
2. Failure to
anticipate the problem before it arrives.<br />
a. Some problems
are imperceptible<br />
b. Distant
managers not aware of problem<br />
c. Slow trend,
concealed by up-and-down fluctuations<br />
3. Failure to attempt
to solve a problem once it has been perceived.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today we have Easter Island and Greenland on a worldwide scale. Imagine Easter Island after the trees have been chopped down. <em>We still have the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moai</a>. Our way of life is safe. Everything’s the same; those naysayers are bad for bizness</em>.
Yes, everything is the same…until it turns to dust. When Captain Cook
sailed into Easter Island in 1774, he found the last remnants of a dying
civilization.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">... <em>Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />
Of that colossal wreck,
boundless and bare<br />
The lone and level sands
stretch far away</em>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When it happens to us on a much larger scale, all the
government buildings in Washington will continue to stand upright.
Everything will look the same, only it won’t <em>be</em> the same. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That’s Day One: the day after the last tree is cut down, after the
credit machine goes dry, after the sons of Ozymandias, king of kings, or
the generals of Alexander quarrel and divide the empire. You walk
outside one day and there’s rampant inflation, currency devaluation,
foreign ownership, no credit, no liquidity, no jobs, roaming packs of
looters, martial law — the invisible signs of imminent collapse, all of
which begin not to matter as the world economy and civil society
crumbles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The important buildings, the monuments, the statues are
still there. But after a while, they, too, will begin to crumble. The
only difference between us today and the ancient civilization of
Shelley’s poem is that there are no new spaces to conquer; we are
stretched to the limit — economically and geopolitically.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What’s
more, given the perilous state of our environment, we will run out of
resources, so it won’t be only a matter of the Chinese Empire replacing
the American. Why? Because world empires need resources to maintain
their hegemony, and there won’t be any resources left. As soon as we run
out of carbon-based energy, we’ll start chopping trees with a
vengeance. The entire world will resemble the barren wasteland of Easter
Island.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Think I’m exaggerating? Check out the <a href="http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people" rel="nofollow">History Channel’s <em>Life After People</em></a>
series. But before you do, I’ll go out on a limb and predict your
reaction: You won’t like this series. In fact, you’ll probably agree
with the prevailing wisdom on various message boards that "This is a
Silly Show." The conventional wisdom says it is, so it must be. Besides,
we don’t like the way it makes us feel. Uncomfortable. Inadequate.
Irrelevant. Obsolete. Impotent. Helpless. Weak. Incapable. Vulnerable.
Well, if we let things get to that point — no trees, nature completely
destroyed, economy in ruins — we will be all these things.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To avoid this, we must act — for the <em>Ozymandias</em> moment is avoidable. At least one critic on the message board got it right:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“The show is not about why or how people are gone or have
been removed. Degradation of cities and civilizations can be observed
directly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“But this show is fantasy. They don't know any of this
will happen. All these buildings could fall and decay long before the
last man standing is born. <span style="color: #f85e2c;">It has happened before to the Egyptians, the Mayans, Carthage, Chernobyl</span>. But it is only interesting because we can see it in the past. It can guide us in the future.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“This show has nothing to do with science or history. This
show makes wild speculations. It's only justification is to make us
feel guilty for existing, and to look to a brighter, supposedly more
natural, future without the species which is most offensive to nature;
Humans. You. Everyone you know.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, he/she sorta got it right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Another hallmark of capitalism: there’s no such
thing as a “status quo;” there’s only up or down. A company, an economy
are either in the black or in the red. Why? Because it’s impossible to
hold costs the same from year to year. It’s impossible to maintain sales
from year to year. Costs go up or down (usually up). Sales go up or
down, and in this economy as markets reach their saturation point and
there are fewer new markets to replace them. We will see a dampening in
sales and profits, and therefore a continuing slowdown in investment.
Declining employment. Lower tax revenues. Fewer social and community
services. Yet, with the inevitable rise in paranoia, an increase in
military spending.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How were we able to maintain such an advanced, abundant lifestyle? How did it get to the point of near collapse so quickly?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In his book, <a href="http://www.johnperkins.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Confessions of an Economic Hitman</em></a>,
author John Perkins laid out the reasons we have maintained economic
hegemony over most of the world for the last 65 years. Using a
three-tiered strategy of Economic Hitmen (EHM), CIA subversion, and
military power successive postwar governments, Republican and Democrat,
were able to create and maintain markets. As he points out, most of the
time we never had to use the CIA (jackals) or the military because our
economic strangulation techniques totally destabilized the countries we
controlled. According to Perkins, “The most common approach for EHMs is
to identify a third world country with resources our corporations covet,
like oil, water, wood, construction. Then arrange a huge loan to that
country from the World Bank or a sister organization. But the money does
not go to the people in that country. Instead, the target country’s
government uses the loan to hire US corporations to build power plants,
industrial parks, and other infrastructure projects that benefit a few
wealthy local families, as well as the US corporations, but do not help
the majority of the people who are too poor to use electricity, not
skilled enough to work in industrial parks, and basically live outside
the economic system. The country ends up owing a huge debt that it
cannot repay. So we EHM go back to the country and say 'since you can’t
pay your debts, give us a pound of flesh: sell your oil real cheap to
our oil companies, or vote with us on the next UN vote, or send troops
to support ours in someplace like Iraq.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“On
the few occasions when we fail, the jackals are sent in to overthrow
the government or assassinate the leaders we EHM were unable to corrupt.
This happened with me in Panama and Ecuador where Omar Torrijos and
Jaime Roldos were assassinated as a result. If the jackals fail too,
then the US military goes in — as they did in Iraq.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Preserve the way of life at all costs. Play golf and keep going to the mall. And keep looking backward. <em>The greatest generation. The good old days</em>.
Keep repeating the mantra: We’re the greatest country in the world.
Keep repeating it, and we won’t be. We’ll have lulled ourselves so
completely to sleep, we may never recover. We must start telling the
truth; we must start turning things around. Think in terms of: <em>this is the greatest world in the galaxy</em>, and take steps to make it so.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>Paul Krugman, NYT</i></span><br />
If Mr. Bernanke is
reappointed, he and his colleagues need to realize that what they
consider a policy success is actually a policy failure. We have avoided a
second Great Depression, but we are facing mass unemployment —
unemployment that will blight the lives of millions of Americans — for
years to come. And it’s the Fed’s responsibility to do all it can to end
that blight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sandy B. Lewis and William D. Cohan, NYT</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are in one of those
“generational revolutions” that Jefferson said were as important as
anything else to the proper functioning of our democracy. We can no
longer pretend that our collective behavior as a nation for the past 25
years has been worthy of us as a people. Many of us hoped that Barack
Obama’s election would redress the dire decline in our collective ethic.
We are 139 days into his presidency, and while there is still plenty of
hope that Mr. Obama will fulfill his mandate, his record on searching
out the causes of the financial crisis has not been reassuring. He must
do what is necessary to restore the American people’s — and the world’s —
faith in American capitalism and in our nation. But time is wasting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>Thomas Friedman, NYT</i> </span><br />
Obama should make the
centerpiece of his presidency mobilizing a million new start-up
companies that won’t just give us temporary highway jobs, but lasting
good jobs that keep America on the cutting edge. The best way to counter
the Tea Party movement, which is all about stopping things, is with an
Innovation Movement, which is all about starting things. Without
inventing more new products and services that make people more
productive, healthier or entertained — that we can sell around the world
— we’ll never be able to afford the health care our people need, let
alone pay off our debts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Obama should bring together the country’s leading
innovators and ask them: “What legislation, what tax incentives, do we
need right now to replicate you all a million times over” — and make
that his No. 1 priority. Inspiring, reviving and empowering Start-up
America is his moon shot.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Frank Rich, NYT</span></i><br />
There’s a reason why the
otherwise antithetical Leno and Conan camps are united in their derision
of NBC’s titans. A TV network has become a handy proxy for every
mismanaged, greedy, disloyal and unaccountable corporation in our
dysfunctional economy. It’s a business culture where the rich and
well-connected get richer while the employees, shareholders and
customers get the shaft. And the conviction that the game is fixed is
nonpartisan. If the tea party right and populist left agree on anything,
it’s that big bailed-out banks have and will get away with murder while
we pay the bill on credit cards — with ever-rising fees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rush Limbaugh doesn’t agree</span></i>... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stating:
“This guy from The New York Times, if he really thinks that humanity is
destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human
beings in their natural existence are going to cause the extinction of
life on Earth — Andrew Revkin. Mr. Revkin, why don't you just go kill
yourself and help the planet by dying?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rush believes human beings are living a natural existence?
Wouldn’t that be some sort of Jean-Jacques Rousseau existence? A
self-sufficient, in tune with nature, consume-only-what-you-need, <em>AVATAR</em> existence?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Funny. I don’t see a generalized espousal of this
lifestyle on our planet. I see a beginning. I see interest. I see lip
service. But no wholesale rejection of consumerism. No, <em>I’m-doing-my-part-to-overhaul</em> the very basis of expansionist capitalism, even as we face the end of expansionism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">South America? Africa? Well, we went through China
in a decade. And now look what’s happened. They turned the tables on us.
We’re the debtors. And it’s not like when we owed the Arabs. They
loaned us oil money to get a foothold in our markets. The Chinese can
keep the cash flowing until they own us, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/opinion/27krugman.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our markets, our technology, our resources</a>, our amusement parks, our media — everything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So how do we remedy our situation? We change the nature of
the capitalist model. Money, after all, is energy. We need to refine
the way this energy flows. How do we do this?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's a two-pronged effort. First, we have to implement the suggestions put forth in the <a href="http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssue&ISSUEID_CHAR=A21A9B0B-2B35-221B-67A31ECC02028315" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">September 2005 issue</a> of <em>Scientific American</em>.
And second, while there's a lot to do on the scientific and economic
fronts, there's even more to do on the humanist front. In other words,
we are not capable of making the economic, political, ecological, and
social changes detailed in the <em>Scientific American</em> article if
we apply the same limiting analyses and negative emotions that got us
into this mess in the first place. We see the results of this every day
on Cable TV.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Deadlock, gridlock, bickering, name calling, stonewalling,
obstructionism, double-talk. No common ground in spite of the fact that
we are up against Jared Diamond's <strong>Rule 3 for Disasterous Decisions: </strong><em><strong>Failure to attempt to solve a problem once it has been perceived</strong></em>. It's not like we can't identify the problems we face; we can. We simply <em>choose</em>
to ignore them. Extricating ourselves from this state of being requires
a wholesale refashioning of human nature, which can only be induced by a
<a href="http://bit.ly/QSrgC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mass change of consciousness</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">According to <a href="http://www.brucelipton.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Lipton</a> these changes involve recreating ourselves as a less needy, more connected species:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“<a href="http://www.sentienttimes.com/10/dec_jan_10/evolution.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our planet</a>
is facing what scientists are calling the Sixth Great Mass Extinction.
The previous five were apparently caused by objects from outer space,
such as comets or asteroids, hitting the Earth. This time, the cause
comes from 'inner space' — our own invisible beliefs that have spun us
outside the web of life. Beginning with monotheistic religion telling us
that we humans are superior and apart from other creatures on the
planet, exacerbated by scientific materialism insisting human technology
has the power to 'conquer' nature, we have focused so heavily on our
fitness as individuals, we have failed to recognize that our fitness as a
species is up for examination.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How do we change the <a href="http://bit.ly/QSrgC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">negative aspects of our human nature</a>?
How do we overthrow the “invisible beliefs” and negative emotions that
hold us prisoner? We cannot change human nature by any traditional or
orthodox means. Not by prayer, not by good works, not by psychology,
education, philosophy, law, medicine, science, politics is human nature
changed.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If we could change our nature merely by prayer, or one of
the other means cited above, we would have already done so for people
have been trying these approaches for thousands of years. We need a new
approach, something that’s never been done before. We need to <a href="https://www.commonsensekundalini.com/science_spirituality/changing-human-nature.html">change our consciousness</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That’s the role of energy cultivation techniques,
such as kundalini — a powerful, yet dormant biological mechanism in the
body that allows us to realize our full potential. According to Sri
Ramakrishna, “A man's spiritual consciousness is not awakened unless his
Kundalini is aroused.” Kundalini stimulates neuroplastic activity in
the brain, and consequently, the ability to see and experience life
beyond the physical dimension.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Because kundalini effects a complete overhaul of the
being, it produces a change in our reasoning and decision making
processes, and our nature as a whole. That’s what happens with a change
of consciousness. The old individual is reborn in a bio-natural sense,
as if his DNA had been modified during his present lifetime…and it has
been. We will be able to see and understand, sometimes for the first
time, the moral and logical implications of every decision. Gone, one by
one, are the old addictions, the old habits, the old beliefs, the old
emotional prisons. This new state of consciousness effects an overhaul
of human nature. Over time our negative emotions vanish. We are no
longer cogs in the machine. We are no longer mere consumers. We are
active participants in our own future.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In effect, a mass kundalini awakening can change the very
nature of our capitalistic economic system, because, once transformed,
we will no longer be a “me first” species. We will be more
self-sufficient, more in tune with our resources, more adept in creating
new ones, more sharing and more loving.</span></span><br />
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Be well, be one, be clear!</span></span></div>
JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-34275016212971089522019-03-24T11:10:00.000-07:002019-03-24T16:24:33.185-07:00Detecting Kundalini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The most difficult stumbling block to overcome in the scientific acceptance of kundalini as a real phenomenon is the ability to separate it from other phenomena and identify, not only what it is, but also have some consistent means of observing it under laboratory conditions that perform the same way in each instance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Some of the manifestations of Kundalini overlap with prana, matrika shakti, illnesses, nervous system disorders, dreams, visions, etc. and other energies which can also impact the body/mind/consciousness. If one can't identify the presence of awakened Kundalini and what makes it unique, then it gets folded in with all kinds of transpersonal experiences and phenomenon which aren't Kundalini Shakti in the classic sense."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ Lawrence Edwards, PhD, BCN Senior Fellow, LMHC<br />Author of <i>The Soul's Journey: Guidance From The Divine Within</i>, <i>Awakening Kundalini: The Path to Radical Freedom</i>, and <i>Kali's Bazaar</i> penned by Kalidas</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is true in that there are many conflicting descriptions of kundalini as described </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">above </span></span>by Dr. Edwards. It is also true that these various manifestations do not my fit my case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What happened in my case was the result of meditation practice, a</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> collection of physical exercises, that opened up a reservoir of energy, which, in turn, flooded said energy through a hidden network to my brain and to other points of my body, which then immediately started to re-engineer my body — up to that point, <i>a purely physical process</i>, visible to me, but not to medical science or to any known energy detecting instrument. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I won't go into greater detail; I've already done so in all my books, especially in <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2UT2IbV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time</a></i>. Why rephrase something when my best efforts already exists?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That this physical process would eventually have metaphysical consequences I intuited at the time, perhaps not enlightenment, another <a href="https://amzn.to/2WeTA1s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">yet to be proven condition</a>, but something more like illumination, which I perceived to be a gradual increase in understanding all aspects of life. In any case, the physical led to the metaphysical, much as I envisioned in 1971 when kundalini activated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Am I alone as to the process described in my books? As a matter of fact, no. Gopi Krishna's book, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2YjbuSB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man</a></i>, describes the same sort of eruption: the prelude, the moment, and the aftermath. When I met him in Kashmir in 1977, we discussed the similarities of our experiences and the fact that they began as a result physical exercise and metaphysics did not figure in at the beginning. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So what's the next step in detecting kundalini? Michael Molina of The Emerging Sciences Foundation is pursuing scientific measurement, which I believe will eventually be vindicated. Whether sooner or later, I do not know, but the following statement of purpose foreshadows his</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">predicted</span></span> enthusiasm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The Emerging Sciences Foundation is in the early stages of a partnering with <a href="https://psy-tek.com/">PSY-TEK labs</a> in a large-scale research study to take measurements of people undergoing a Kundalini awakening."</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nevertheless, I recently learned that what Dr. Lawrence calls "co-occurring" conditions do exist, a phenomenon that can only be observed in laboratory of your own body.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"To further compound the issues with research on Kundalini is the fact that Kundalini phenomenon can be co-occurring with other things such as PTSD, CFS, psychosis and numerous other conditions and disorders. To be able to discriminate whether something is solely Kundalini or partially Kundalini again requires a valid and reliable way of detecting its active presence."</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why had I not observed this before? Probably, because I hadn't been sick for 60 years. But when I had a heart attack in July 2018, I noticed that after the blockages in my heart arteries were cleared, there was an immediate surge in kundalini energy circulating through my body. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Correspondingly, when further relief became necessary, there occurred an immediate decline in kundalini.</span></span> </div>
JJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-35266796788026169932019-02-06T11:49:00.000-08:002019-02-08T06:48:19.573-08:00Kundalini — It's Complicated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Every week I receive comments/queries asking me to help the writer activate kundalini. Right off the bat, whether between the lines or explicitly stated, I sense that very little forethought about post-kundalini effects and consequences has been done, which augers poorly for the seeker because kundalini always complicates your life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not saying such complications are necessarily negative or harmful; they aren't. They are, however, complications, the nature of which are discussed in detail in my book, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2MUk1G9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Biology of Consciousness: Case Studies in Kundalini</a></i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For whatever reasons, be they karmic, physical, or psychological, some outcomes are not only <a href="https://www.kundaliniconsortium.org/2017/01/when-kundalini-isnt-wanted.html" target="_blank">not wanted</a>, they are harmful to the initiate. Unfortunately, eager seekers either ignore accounts of </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">harmful </span></span>kundalini awakenings or they don't do the necessary due diligence. This is especially true of younger seekers, who, like young people in any cultural or social setting, believe they are immune to the ill effects and tribulations of life...until something untoward happens.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For instance </span></span>today...I read that a 24-year-old man died when his </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/05/health/exploding-vape-pen-death-trnd/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">e-cigarette device exploded</a>, something he surely never expected to happen. Young people take risks. That's what they do. You can't expect this to change. Nevertheless, if you can't eliminate all risks you can eliminate the unnecessary ones — those risks whose "complicated" nature are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/Kundalini.Awakening.Help/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">well documented</a>, i.e., kundalini awakenings!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you only read two accounts of kundalini awakenings, <a href="https://amzn.to/2TxUHbC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mine</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/2HXKfJj" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gopi Krishna</a>'s, do yourself a favor if you're on an obsessive kundalini quest and read these two books.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That our experiences turned out to be 'net positive' in the end is not the point; the point is that our lives became infinitely more complicated and difficult to manage. There were years of struggle and discomfort.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Avoid complicating your life. You may not be predestined to awaken kundalini. Don't undergo years of exertion and torment, only to find out it wasn't for you. Don't be fanatical about it. Let it come to you...</span></span></div>
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