chris
17-10-2007, 03:11 AM
I just thought I’d write out a rite so you can thank me but never practice however it might feel nice to add it to your collection of awakening techniques. Of course, the true awakening is the acquisition of techniques just like collecting unread books is broadening your horizons.
This rite or meditation has a few advantages since you’re not invoking outer energies but working solely with your own sexual energies, hence you do not need to banish or cast a circle...
This ritual has been so widely spread that the origins are completely unknown but similar meditations have been written about since history began.
The occult origins are quite obvious; the Taoist’s used this as one of their primary meditations and called it the circulation of the microcosmic orbit (literal translation) other Chinese Taoist alchemists called it the heavens-gate meditation (but is a little debased). Many yogis called it White Tantra and the Gnostics used it as such, the western alchemists used it but in a much more symbolic fashion. There are so many variations on this rite but the themes are very close.
http://www.painetworks.com/photos/em/em1756.JPG
All you need is a Pungi, a reed basket and a king cobra like this dude above…
Just shitting you…All you need is an active imagination.
Let’s start off with a brief look at the virtues of the sexual fluids. In yoga the sexual fluids were regarded as the product of much refinement of matter, in Vedic medicine the sexual fluids came after bone marrow, which is the highest source of vitamins and minerals animals body, the prize food of carnivores are the balls, marrow and brain (and eye’s)…
http://www.humboldt.edu/~storage/goddess/protected/public_html/CH/alchemy.2.jpg
Throughout tradition, the sexual fluids have always been said to rise up through the spine and be the progenitor of the hormones and more subtle energies of the vital body. The sexual fluids are not solely created in the testis, for the most part they are collected and stored there, the sexual fluids are created from the bone marrow and float around in the blood for the most part (that’s how they replenish so fast, after sex)…However, there are two ways for this energy to go, up or out.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/540/kundaliniyogavr7.jpg
It was the work of most of these mystical religions to direct this energy upwards (Save Aleister Crowley). The yogis called the refinement in the brain of these energies convert into Ojas and this fed our astral bodies and also created higher hormones. The alchemists used to term, second puberty or Renaissance in the brain and the Taoist alchemists would describe the transmutation as crystallisation of the body of light. I’ve heard some references to the fountain of youth but I can’t really find reference to it being traditionally called that (only a modern viewpoint on it)…These sexual energies have many resonances and in the higher realms are often depicted as Dragons and Serpents in artwork, these symbolically climb the staff of hermes (the caduceus ) which are also represented exactly as the Ida and Pinga and sushumna nadis which are the left snake, right snake and central column representing the three main avenues for the kundalini to travel in Hindu philosophy.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4231/caduceuschakra1xi.gif
Storing of this energy has been one of the most underlined philosophies in all religions everywhere ever (Save Aleister Crowley) from the Knights Templar (of old) to the Sharmans. It is pretty logical to understand why, just like it is logical to have enough bricks to build a house or water to fill a pool…
The meditation
I’m going to explain more to how the old alchemical Taoists did it because it’s simple, symbolic and not fancy pants. Please don’t call me out with your attachment to the chakra system and how science has proven them. The science is in fact very weak on the subject but Yogis do like to overplay the nerve build-ups in those regions as proof, yet there are a lot of build-ups of nerves, the Taoist cauldron philosophy is suitable enough. If you want to do it to the chakra system by all means do it how you like it but although people on here have said that I am fixed and dogmatic on my philosophy, they are the ones that stick rigidly to things like chakras just because they are the most well known.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clauspat/tree1s19.jpg
It is not fixed, it is lucid however there is a rigidity that symbolism depends upon. When you start to understand the symbolism then you can start to incorporate your own style.
Even though Magic is a lot looser than practical alchemy you really want to start out on a good basis. You might think because Ice cream is nice and a turkey sandwich is nice, they might go together but in reality a turkey and ice-cream sandwich would taste pretty nasty.
This rigidity has been completely lost in newage philosophy and people are making all kinds of turkey and ice-cream sandwiches, you might be able to make sounds with notes but to make music you need to adhere to a few of natures rules, Karl Jung never reformed music.
However, if you like going around art exhibitions looking at pickled sharks and unmade beds then I suggest a course in Jungian newage euphemistic psychology and your moto should be "fake it ‘till you make it" and your progress shall be marked by your change in ego, change in name and scenery. Go out on healing journeys and share with others the “What’s” that have been passed onto you by like minded people but never contemplate the “how’s” because that will necessitate the why’s? and why not’s? which are not in your lexicon because your being told to be euphemistic in your approach and you always win, never loose and to loose is to question your win and therefore the why’s? are dangerous as that will lead to because hence you shall rethink what you thought was the "what" and the "who" that gave you the what’s in the first place, which usually is a guru in a similar position as you.
Seriously now...To be trapped in newage psychological thought is a real problem, the earth was built down not up. If I were to be in newage thought then I’d start worshipping the maggot for they are the true ancients and the fall will be now referred to as our evolution.
Mutability is part of a larger stability and Of the heav’n’s rule, yet, very sooth to say. But we the dogmatic will not get in the way. So make your spiritual soup and add a sprinkle of magnetic healing to your Buddhist stock while serenading to Melchizedek and if all else fails, drop in 10ounces of psilocybin’s and reach the height of mental clarity while trying to describe it in the vocabulary of a retard (always fun).
Afterwards lecture me on the "what’s" because I just love to hear the what’s...:(
But I digress…
If you have not read my first thread on meditation, you need to read that because there is no point practicing without it, you will loose probably 50% of your concentration without even knowing it.
Here’s a link to it.
Ancient Meditation (http://davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11193)
Okay, so once you’ve put on your lab coat and your snug as a bug. Start the meditation…
Imagine a light in your testicles; you could use a symbol of a serpent or fiery dragon.
Imagine very strongly this light travelling up your spine. You can also let it go through the lesser channels or however you wish but the very strong visualisation and intension is most important.
Feel it, feel the connection between the testies and your spine and how they function.
As the light reaches the first Tian (cauldron) indicated as the first point in the middle of this dudes body, release energy relating to the functions surrounding it.
http://www.universaltao.50megs.com/microc2.JPG
Proceed to the next, and again release some energy at the second tian.
Then proceed up to the brain centre, the pineal gland and hypothalamus and when the energy hits this centres, let the spontaneous eruption of energy flow throughout your body.
Then you’ve probably tightened up so stop and readjust your lab coat, you can do this while your meditating as well…If you feel yourself tensing up, hold that thought and relax...This is of great importance.
Now you are free to repeat the exercise.
This is one of the old rites of mystics. If you are persistant with it then this is one of the most direct ways to raise your consciousness, not much more to be said than that...You'll probably have experiences, especially regarding alchemy, this process is very alchemical and you'll probably be finding yourself dreaming of old labs and heat and fire, making prescious powders and all sorts of stuff. Obviously you'll get a lot of serpent, dragon and pheonix symbolism in your dreams.
http://www.utopiasprings.com/bosch2.jpg
The key is to feel it, even though it will slightly raise and you won't feel it, you can certainly feel it also leaving your testies and moving upward and spreading. I'm also not talking about feeling it as in not feeling it, I'm saying feeling it like ice cold water running up the Ida, fire up the Pingala and electricity up the sushumna.
http://www.the-ancient-wisdom.com/phoenix1a.jpg
Just got to write something on trying. Although you can probably try very hard at this exercise and overtime it will get you results, you need to be in a state where you are not trying. You will probably find yourself doing this accidentally at night before going to sleep and have really powerful experiences (or perceivably so) but you need to be able to do this while in meditation.
To practice and to become proficient is good but to do something effortlessly is great.
As Buddha said that desire is the root of suffering, the irony is that the desire to end desire is the most stubborn desire of all…To achieve something without desire is to achieve something quite remarkable.
Have you ever thought about beginners luck? Not understanding the difficulties of a game is a powerful thing and the way to destroy the natural skill of a person is to congratulate. The way to end desire is a hard one to achieve, yet to understand weakness is to understand desire, to feel desire is to go without and then you’ll know it’s pull, try not eating and see how crazy you are, though far from death your mind might be in a state of insanity, yet to rid yourself of toxicity and addictions is to dig a quarry of non attachment to fill with whatever you don’t desire to achieve (but do achieve easily). Will is the magician’s most powerful ally and to build this will is to be strong indeed, to face your addictions is to build will and to rid yourself of them is truly unique.
I hope I have quenched some thirst for how, forget what and let it come to you, free of external source but from within. However knowing and doing are two very different things.
By now, I’m surly talking to myself:rolleyes:
This rite or meditation has a few advantages since you’re not invoking outer energies but working solely with your own sexual energies, hence you do not need to banish or cast a circle...
This ritual has been so widely spread that the origins are completely unknown but similar meditations have been written about since history began.
The occult origins are quite obvious; the Taoist’s used this as one of their primary meditations and called it the circulation of the microcosmic orbit (literal translation) other Chinese Taoist alchemists called it the heavens-gate meditation (but is a little debased). Many yogis called it White Tantra and the Gnostics used it as such, the western alchemists used it but in a much more symbolic fashion. There are so many variations on this rite but the themes are very close.
http://www.painetworks.com/photos/em/em1756.JPG
All you need is a Pungi, a reed basket and a king cobra like this dude above…
Just shitting you…All you need is an active imagination.
Let’s start off with a brief look at the virtues of the sexual fluids. In yoga the sexual fluids were regarded as the product of much refinement of matter, in Vedic medicine the sexual fluids came after bone marrow, which is the highest source of vitamins and minerals animals body, the prize food of carnivores are the balls, marrow and brain (and eye’s)…
http://www.humboldt.edu/~storage/goddess/protected/public_html/CH/alchemy.2.jpg
Throughout tradition, the sexual fluids have always been said to rise up through the spine and be the progenitor of the hormones and more subtle energies of the vital body. The sexual fluids are not solely created in the testis, for the most part they are collected and stored there, the sexual fluids are created from the bone marrow and float around in the blood for the most part (that’s how they replenish so fast, after sex)…However, there are two ways for this energy to go, up or out.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/540/kundaliniyogavr7.jpg
It was the work of most of these mystical religions to direct this energy upwards (Save Aleister Crowley). The yogis called the refinement in the brain of these energies convert into Ojas and this fed our astral bodies and also created higher hormones. The alchemists used to term, second puberty or Renaissance in the brain and the Taoist alchemists would describe the transmutation as crystallisation of the body of light. I’ve heard some references to the fountain of youth but I can’t really find reference to it being traditionally called that (only a modern viewpoint on it)…These sexual energies have many resonances and in the higher realms are often depicted as Dragons and Serpents in artwork, these symbolically climb the staff of hermes (the caduceus ) which are also represented exactly as the Ida and Pinga and sushumna nadis which are the left snake, right snake and central column representing the three main avenues for the kundalini to travel in Hindu philosophy.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4231/caduceuschakra1xi.gif
Storing of this energy has been one of the most underlined philosophies in all religions everywhere ever (Save Aleister Crowley) from the Knights Templar (of old) to the Sharmans. It is pretty logical to understand why, just like it is logical to have enough bricks to build a house or water to fill a pool…
The meditation
I’m going to explain more to how the old alchemical Taoists did it because it’s simple, symbolic and not fancy pants. Please don’t call me out with your attachment to the chakra system and how science has proven them. The science is in fact very weak on the subject but Yogis do like to overplay the nerve build-ups in those regions as proof, yet there are a lot of build-ups of nerves, the Taoist cauldron philosophy is suitable enough. If you want to do it to the chakra system by all means do it how you like it but although people on here have said that I am fixed and dogmatic on my philosophy, they are the ones that stick rigidly to things like chakras just because they are the most well known.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clauspat/tree1s19.jpg
It is not fixed, it is lucid however there is a rigidity that symbolism depends upon. When you start to understand the symbolism then you can start to incorporate your own style.
Even though Magic is a lot looser than practical alchemy you really want to start out on a good basis. You might think because Ice cream is nice and a turkey sandwich is nice, they might go together but in reality a turkey and ice-cream sandwich would taste pretty nasty.
This rigidity has been completely lost in newage philosophy and people are making all kinds of turkey and ice-cream sandwiches, you might be able to make sounds with notes but to make music you need to adhere to a few of natures rules, Karl Jung never reformed music.
However, if you like going around art exhibitions looking at pickled sharks and unmade beds then I suggest a course in Jungian newage euphemistic psychology and your moto should be "fake it ‘till you make it" and your progress shall be marked by your change in ego, change in name and scenery. Go out on healing journeys and share with others the “What’s” that have been passed onto you by like minded people but never contemplate the “how’s” because that will necessitate the why’s? and why not’s? which are not in your lexicon because your being told to be euphemistic in your approach and you always win, never loose and to loose is to question your win and therefore the why’s? are dangerous as that will lead to because hence you shall rethink what you thought was the "what" and the "who" that gave you the what’s in the first place, which usually is a guru in a similar position as you.
Seriously now...To be trapped in newage psychological thought is a real problem, the earth was built down not up. If I were to be in newage thought then I’d start worshipping the maggot for they are the true ancients and the fall will be now referred to as our evolution.
Mutability is part of a larger stability and Of the heav’n’s rule, yet, very sooth to say. But we the dogmatic will not get in the way. So make your spiritual soup and add a sprinkle of magnetic healing to your Buddhist stock while serenading to Melchizedek and if all else fails, drop in 10ounces of psilocybin’s and reach the height of mental clarity while trying to describe it in the vocabulary of a retard (always fun).
Afterwards lecture me on the "what’s" because I just love to hear the what’s...:(
But I digress…
If you have not read my first thread on meditation, you need to read that because there is no point practicing without it, you will loose probably 50% of your concentration without even knowing it.
Here’s a link to it.
Ancient Meditation (http://davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11193)
Okay, so once you’ve put on your lab coat and your snug as a bug. Start the meditation…
Imagine a light in your testicles; you could use a symbol of a serpent or fiery dragon.
Imagine very strongly this light travelling up your spine. You can also let it go through the lesser channels or however you wish but the very strong visualisation and intension is most important.
Feel it, feel the connection between the testies and your spine and how they function.
As the light reaches the first Tian (cauldron) indicated as the first point in the middle of this dudes body, release energy relating to the functions surrounding it.
http://www.universaltao.50megs.com/microc2.JPG
Proceed to the next, and again release some energy at the second tian.
Then proceed up to the brain centre, the pineal gland and hypothalamus and when the energy hits this centres, let the spontaneous eruption of energy flow throughout your body.
Then you’ve probably tightened up so stop and readjust your lab coat, you can do this while your meditating as well…If you feel yourself tensing up, hold that thought and relax...This is of great importance.
Now you are free to repeat the exercise.
This is one of the old rites of mystics. If you are persistant with it then this is one of the most direct ways to raise your consciousness, not much more to be said than that...You'll probably have experiences, especially regarding alchemy, this process is very alchemical and you'll probably be finding yourself dreaming of old labs and heat and fire, making prescious powders and all sorts of stuff. Obviously you'll get a lot of serpent, dragon and pheonix symbolism in your dreams.
http://www.utopiasprings.com/bosch2.jpg
The key is to feel it, even though it will slightly raise and you won't feel it, you can certainly feel it also leaving your testies and moving upward and spreading. I'm also not talking about feeling it as in not feeling it, I'm saying feeling it like ice cold water running up the Ida, fire up the Pingala and electricity up the sushumna.
http://www.the-ancient-wisdom.com/phoenix1a.jpg
Just got to write something on trying. Although you can probably try very hard at this exercise and overtime it will get you results, you need to be in a state where you are not trying. You will probably find yourself doing this accidentally at night before going to sleep and have really powerful experiences (or perceivably so) but you need to be able to do this while in meditation.
To practice and to become proficient is good but to do something effortlessly is great.
As Buddha said that desire is the root of suffering, the irony is that the desire to end desire is the most stubborn desire of all…To achieve something without desire is to achieve something quite remarkable.
Have you ever thought about beginners luck? Not understanding the difficulties of a game is a powerful thing and the way to destroy the natural skill of a person is to congratulate. The way to end desire is a hard one to achieve, yet to understand weakness is to understand desire, to feel desire is to go without and then you’ll know it’s pull, try not eating and see how crazy you are, though far from death your mind might be in a state of insanity, yet to rid yourself of toxicity and addictions is to dig a quarry of non attachment to fill with whatever you don’t desire to achieve (but do achieve easily). Will is the magician’s most powerful ally and to build this will is to be strong indeed, to face your addictions is to build will and to rid yourself of them is truly unique.
I hope I have quenched some thirst for how, forget what and let it come to you, free of external source but from within. However knowing and doing are two very different things.
By now, I’m surly talking to myself:rolleyes: