Psychedelic Yoga

Psychedelic Yoga
The Application of Yoga Meditation Techniques to the Use of Psychedelic Sacraments

By Sri Brahmarishi Narad


The fact that psychedelic drugs induce a greater sensitivity to subtle spiritual and psychic energies, and speed up the influx of impressions from deeper levels of consciousness, raises the immediate question of how these energies can be properly understood and handled. Obviously, if these energies are not guided, they can do more harm than good. The application of traditional Yoga meditation techniques while under psychedelic experiences provides a constructive solution to this problem.

According to Yoga philosophy, the most spiritual and powerful aspect of man’s nature is the faculty of attention or consciousness. The most fundamental aspect of man’s free will is the choice as to what he allows his attention to dwell upon. The attention always has to be on something, but we can choose what we allow it to dwell upon.

The goal of all Yoga practices is to discover and directly experience what the attention or faculty of consciousness in man is. The yogi seeks to know that principle by which all else is known. This goal is achieved by observing the observer or placing the attention on the attention itself. This may at first seem very abstract and hard to grasp in terms of practical application, but there are workable, time-proven methods for achieving this state of pure consciousness which when consistently applied and practiced are bound to yield results.

It should be constantly remembered during a psychedelic session that whatever perceptions, thoughts and even hallucinations occur, they are all the creations of one’s own mind and consciousness, and are filtered through one’s own instrument of perception. These perceptions are patternings of our own psychic energy. We give energy to whatever thoughts and feelings we allow the attention to dwell upon. Wherever the power of attention is focused, it generates mental and emotional energy in the form of its own lower overtones, thus feeding and energizing the thoughts and emotions which the attention dwells upon. It becomes clear that the key to remaining in control of a psychedelic experience is in controlling the flow of attention. Distractive experiences can be avoided in the first place, and the flow of attention can be properly directed by the use of Raja Yoga techniques of meditation. The following is a description of several such techniques which can all be applied while under the influence of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, DMT, hashish, psilocybin or other consciousness-expanding drugs.

At this point, let us consider a basic rule to apply in case of paranoia or other unpleasant or frightening experiences while under the influence of a psychedelic drug. Realize that whatever you may be thinking, feeling or experiencing is being experienced by the consciousness within you. Then place your undivided attention on that consciousness which is experiencing whatever is happening to you. This process returns your consciousness to its own pure nature and disengages mental and astral thought forms. These destructive thought forms then dissipate and are dissolved back into the homogeneous, vibrational energy of the plane of energy substance from which they were originally molded. The strong light released by consciousness observing itself helps to quickly dissolve and dissipate destructive thought forms. This happens because the strong lower overtones of pure consciousness which are generated cancel out the discordant, out of phase vibrations of destructive thought forms.

If the attention wanders while practicing any of these meditation techniques, immediately bring the attention back to the process of meditation, and do this as many times as is necessary until the attention remains centered on the particular form of meditation which you are practicing. Inexperienced meditators have a tendency to fight distractions, which in itself, becomes a distraction. The attention can only dwell on one thing at a time. Simply bring it back to the thing you are meditating on.

Another way of stopping distractions is simply to temporarily suspend the breathing process by neither breathing in or out. Since breathing is intimately tied to every biological process in the body, the instinct to survive (developed over billions of years of evolution) will interrupt the flow of attention into distractions and bring it to center on the awareness of the cessation of breathing. It is then an easy matter to resume normal breathing and to center the attention on the particular form of meditation being practiced.


Sound Current Meditation

Focus your full, undivided attention in the center of your brain where the pineal gland is located. Listen with your attention for whatever sounds present themselves. After awhile, you will hear sounds of various tones and pitches. At first, you may only hear the low hiss of random molecular noise in the ears, but in time, definite tones will present themselves like sustained notes on an organ. This sound is perceived directly by the brain and the subtle bodies themselves, and not through the outer physical organs of the ears. It is the sound of the vibration of conscious energy as it flows through the physical body and as it vibrates and circulates within the subtle bodies.

You should focus your entire undivided attention on the sound of highest pitch that you can hear, and let it draw you up into higher and higher states of consciousness; also let the sound reveal and intensify the spiritual light. The better your concentration is, the louder and more distinct the sound will become.

Experience the vibration of this sound expanding until it includes your whole head, your whole body, and ever-expanding volumes of space surrounding you. By this means, you will tune into the music of the spheres, and your whole being will become a receiver and transmitter of the harmonious rhythm of the universe. When you open your eyes after such a meditation, you may find your surroundings filled with blazing light.

In the beginning, the sound current may appear in one localized part of the head; most likely in one of the ears. You should not listen to the sound current in the left ear because this is psychically harmful. Listen to it in the right ear, and gradually try to move it to the center and top of the brain. From this vertex center, known as the Sahasraram Chakra (whose associated gland is the pineal body), allow the vibration of the sound current to fill the entire head and to then expand beyond the head into the surrounding space. This is one of the classical methods and can lead to the highest type of experience.


Meditation on the Light in the Head

To practice this form of meditation, close your eyes, and observe your inner field of vision by focusing the attention at the point in the center of the forehead, just slightly above the point between the eyebrows. This location is called the Third Eye Center or Agna Chakra. It is related to the faculty of clairvoyant vision. The physical manifestation or anchorage point for the Agna Chakra is the pituitary gland, which is located in a bony cradle in back of the root of the nose.

When you close your eyes, look steadily into your inner field of vision until light, color and patterns begin to appear. (This is looking with your attention and not with the physical eyes which should remain relaxed.) When most people close their eyes, initially they see a black void, but by looking steadily into this void, various colors and patterns will begin to appear. When this happens, simply observe them with your full, undivided attention as if you were intently watching a movie. Then periodically focus all of your attention within the smallest point that you can see in the center of your field of vision, and pierce through that point. After you have done this, the light will again blaze forth from the point in a new burst of energy, and you will find yourself at a higher rate of vibration or plane of energy. With continued practice of this form of meditation, you will become immersed in a blazing sea of light; and you will become a center from which that spiritual power is radiated.

By concentrating the attention in the Sahasraram Chakra or Thousand-Petalled Lotus, located at the top of the head, an experienced meditator can release an even more powerful radiation of light and spiritual energy. (It may take more work to activate this chakra; the beginner can get more immediate results by looking through the Agna Chakra or Third Eye Center.) The Sahasraram Wheel is the highest chakra; called the "Doorway to the Infinite" and the Brahmarandra or Hole of Brahma, it is the most powerful and spiritual of all the centers that can be awakened in man (with the possible exception of the Heart Chakra which is considered by some yogis to be of equal importance). When the Sahasraram Chakra is fully activated in a perfected yogin or saint, the white fire of Cosmic Kundalini descends upon him and blends with his own rising kundalini force, and the white light of spirituality radiates for miles around.


Meditation on the Chakras

By focusing the attention on various locations within the body, where the chakras are located, it is possible to activate these chakras and facilitate an increased flow of energy between the higher planes of energy and the subtle body, thus releasing an increased amount of spiritual energy. There are seven major chakras in the body which link together the physical body and the subtle energy bodies.

The chakras are revolving vortexes of energy which act as mechanisms for the absorption and radiation of spiritual energy. In the physical body, they relate to glands and major nerve centers. In the etheric body, they are like wheels with flower petals which are created by a sort of stroboscopic effect of the revolving energy. The etheric chakra flowers are connected by a sort of funnel-like stem to the gland or nerve plexus to which they belong. In the astral body, the chakras appear as whirlpools of energy, like the eddies in a stream of water or in a basin of water when the stopper is pulled out. In the mental body, they appear as converging lines of light.

The Muladora Chakra is at the base of the spine and is the seat of the Kundalini Fire Wheel when aroused, which in the advanced stages of yoga, rises up through the center of the spine and activates the highest chakra in the cerebral cortex called the Sahasraram Chakra.

The next chakra is called the Sacral Center or the Swadisthana Chakra. It relates to the adrenal glands and is related to the absorption of pranic vitality, which is in the air. The air absorbs this energy from solar radiation. There seems to be some differences of opinion between various texts as to whether the Muladora Chakra or Swadisthana Chakra relates most directly to the sexual functions.

After the Swadisthana Chakra, comes the Manipara or Solar Plexus Center, which relates to the digestive functions and vitality of the astral desires and feeling emotions.

Next in ascending order is the Anahala or Heart Chakra, which relates to the source of spiritual energy and the higher emotions of love, altruism and benevolence.

The next chakra is the Vishudha or Throat Chakra, which is related to the thyroid gland and has to do with the power of speech and relates to mantra yoga and the capacity for artistic creativity. This center is activated by chanting and singing.

Next we have the Agna Chakra, which is located on the forehead, just slightly above and between the eyebrows. It is related to the pituitary gland and the subcortical areas of the brain. The Agna Chakra has to do with the higher mind faculties of clairvoyance, scientific reasoning, willing and philosophical thought. Development of the chakra awakens the ability to see and regulate astral and mental forces on the superphysical level.

Above the Agna is the Sahasraram Chakra or Thousand-Petalled Lotus, which is related to the pineal gland and the cerebral cortex. It’s located at the top of the head. It relates to the sound current and the faculty of clairvoyant hearing, and is the most spiritual of all the chakras. When this chakra is fully developed, union with God-consciousness is possible, and Illumination takes place.

By focusing the attention in any one of the chakras, the lower overtones of the concentration of consciousness in that location activates that chakra and increases the energy flow in it, making possible a conscious entry into the superphysical planes of energy. Meditation on the first three chakras, namely the Muladora Chakra, the Sacral Chakra and the Solar Plexus Chakra is not recommended because this can arouse lower emotions and sexual passions. This can allow entry to undesirable astral influences and cause psychological unbalance. It is better to work with the Heart Center, the Agna Chakra, and the Sahasraram Chakra because these are the most directly related to the unfoldment of superconsciousness; and when awakened, will automatically develop the lower chakras by changing the glandular balance of the body and by circulating new pranic forces through the energy channels or nodies of the etheric body as well as purifying and strengthening the astral and mental bodies.

The hormones which the pituitary gland secretes, regulates the other glands in the body including the thymus gland, the thyroid gland, the adrenal gland and the sex glands as well as other glands. Once the pituitary gland is fully activated by the development of the Agna Chakra, all other glands are brought into proper chemical balance, thus helping to properly develop and raise the vibratory rate of all the lower chakras.

In Kundalini Yoga, an advanced yoga practice, concentration is done on the Muladora Chakra at the base of the spine in order to arouse the Kundalini Fire and bring it through the center of the spine to activate the highest chakra, the Sahasraram, at the top of the head. If however, the Kundalini Fire is prematurely aroused and not properly directed, great damage can be done to the nervous system and to the etheric body. If the Kundalini force is not properly directed upwards, it can revert downward causing abnormal sexual desire and perversion. Therefore, arousing the Kundalini should only be done in advanced stages of yoga when a great deal of purification of the subtle bodies has taken place and soul control over the personality is well established.


The Combination of Mantra Yoga and Meditation

When doing Om chanting or other mantras, it is possible to activate various chakras. By chanting at varying pitches, you will make different tissues in the body vibrate, thus stimulating the nerve centers and the glandular centers, and activating the chakras associated with them. With a bit of experimentation, you will find which tones or pitches vibrate which parts of the body and which chakras. When this has been ascertained, then chant with full force while meditating in the chakra you wish to activate.

The sound waves create vibration patterns in the etheric, astral and mental atmosphere, which you can develop the ability to see. They are multicolored and very intricate and beautiful, sometimes forming geometrical patterns and mandalas made out of threads of light. Music will have a similar effect. Just listen to the music during a psychedelic session while observing the inner light through the Agna Chakra or Third Eye Center. Then watch the color patterns change and develop with the music. Classical music and Indian ragas are especially good for this purpose.


Meditation on the I Am Principle

In the practice of this form of meditation, consciousness is made to dwell upon itself. When properly and successfully practiced, this is the most powerful and highest form of meditation. While focusing in the Heart Chakra or in the Sahasraram Chakra at the crown of the head, place the attention on the attention itself. If any distractions come in the form of thoughts and perceptions of a specific nature, then immediately concentrate your attention upon that consciousness in you which is the experiencer of those thoughts and perceptions. Even the manifestation of spiritual light and sound current should be regarded in this way. The sound current and the light are merely the lower overtone manifestations of the pure consciousness upon which you are meditating. The more you hold your attention steady in concentration upon itself, the more the light, sound current, electrical sensations in the body, feelings of magnetic force, sensations of weightlessness, etc. will manifest automatically. If, however, you allow your attention to become distracted by any of these manifestations, then you will be subject to the limitations of the thing by which you have been distracted; and the focusing of pure consciousness will be interrupted so that all of the things which are the lower overtones and by-products of the focusing of pure consciousness, possibly including the psychic manifestation which distracted your attention, will also stop. Seek ye first the kingdom of pure consciousness and all of these other psychic manifestations will be added unto you.

Placing the attention on the attention itself can be done in any location in space since pure consciousness, which is the same as God, is an omnipresent principle. In the beginning, it will be found easiest to do this in one of the chakras, preferably the Heart Chakra or the Sahasraram or Head Center. The Agna Chakra or Third Eye Center located on the brow can also be used with good results, but it is better to use the Sahasraram Chakra if you can activate it.

With practice of this form of meditation, your pure consciousness will experience itself as a blazing sea of white light extending infinitely in every direction. The pure consciousness itself is crystalline and colorless, but it generates the white light, which is the simultaneous presence of all of the colors which are the specific lower overtone rates of vibration, which the pure consciousness generates.

The placing of the attention on the attention itself in a specific chakra brings about a condition in that chakra, in which its vibration structure is harmonically and geometrically aligned in all of its planes of manifestation or rates of vibration. This creates common node points in the inner plane structure of the chakra. Vibrations of different frequencies and different wavelengths all begin and end together at these common node points. This is made possible by the fact that the wavelengths of the various vibrations and their frequencies all bear exact mathematical rates to each other, like the notes in a musical scale. Any vibrations which are out of phase in terms of their spatial distribution or vibratory rates are automatically canceled out by interfering with other waves at the common node points. Where several wavelengths, both short and long, begin and end their cycles together, it is possible to slip through the dimensions and to experience the higher spiritual rates of vibration and approach the Atman, which moves with infinite speed. At these common node points, the exchange of energy from one octave or plane to another also becomes possible, allowing a flow of energy from the higher dimensions into the lower dimensions. Thus, a transmutation of those vibration patterns which exist on the lower dimensions into the higher ones becomes possible. The soul is then able to control the personality structure, making it a fit instrument of spiritual expression in the affairs of men. This form of meditation develops one-pointed concentration.

Since the use of psychedelic drugs stimulates the flow of a great amount of energy from higher planes into the lower planes, any thought and emotion patterns created during a psychedelic session are strongly imprinted and have a great deal of energy incorporated into their vibration structure. These thought and emotional patterns then act as powerful unconscious conditioning factors in our daily lives. It is therefore of the utmost importance that constructive imprints are made during a psychedelic session. Remaining in control of the attention can ensure this.

In this regard, I would like to give a few final points of advice. Try not to focus the attention from one thing to another too quickly. Stay with a thought or meditation process until it is complete. Don’t panic if frightening visions or hallucinations occur. Fear will make you concentrate on them all the more and thus feed them with the power of your attention. Remain detached and place your attention on that consciousness within you which is experiencing the hallucinations. Remember at all times that God exists in you in the form of your own power of attention and that power when properly directed, will control all lesser forces.

It is believed by some researchers that psychedelic drugs stimulate the secretion process of the pineal and pituitary glands, which are known by yogis and occultists to be related to the Sahasraram and Agna chakras (which are also called the Thousand-Petalled Lotus and the Third Eye Center). This stimulation increases the flow of energy between the etheric body and the physical body. It may be that psychedelic drugs place the cells of the physical body under stress so that they must speed up their activity to overcome the stress. When the cells increase their activity, their vibratory rates increase, thus putting them harmonically in resonance with the higher rates of vibration on the subtle superphysical planes of energy. This process makes possible the expression of a higher level of consciousness through the glandular system, brain and nervous system.

The increased physical cellular activity requires more work and activity in the etheric body to sustain the stepped-up activity of the physical body. The vibratory rate of the etheric body is thus accelerated, requiring an increased activity in the astral body to sustain and remain harmonically in tune with the etheric body. The increased vibratory rate of the astral body requires a stepped-up activity and increased vibratory rate in the mental body. This in turn more fully tunes the mental body in to the power, love and wisdom of the soul. Thus an alignment of the whole being on all planes is facilitated, and a more rapid exchange of pattern imprints and energy between the various octaves or planes of energy takes place.

It may also be that psychedelic drugs have a chemical structure such that they are perfectly in resonance with the lower overtones of certain key frequencies in the higher planes and can therefore act as a point of entry for the reflection of these vibrations in the physical body. They would therefore help to create common node points in the vibration structure of several different dimensions.

Not only is the love, wisdom and power of the soul brought to bare in the life of the personality, but the fine organization of the physical body, the etheric, astral and mental bodies, which have been produced by the evolutionary process, are harmonically reflected and preserved in the soul. While the physical body is the least permanent, the densest and composed of the substance of the lowest plane, it is in terms of evolution, the newest and most highly organized in terms of structure. Therefore, a complete replica of it made out of the energy substance of the subtle planes, is an evolutionary gain for the soul and subtle bodies. When the physical body is sufficiently vivified by the influx of energy from the higher dimensions, it begins to create higher overtone reflections of itself in the akasha or energy substance of the higher planes, and thus its pattern is preserved and made immortal.

Therefore, when properly used, psychedelic drugs help to speed up the evolutionary process. When man has evolved to superman, he will, under the direction of the superconscious mind in accordance with God’s will as it manifests in evolution, take an active part in the molding and directing of the evolution of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Even today, his vibrations intimately affect for good or bad, those kingdoms in nature.

[iamfree]

What an awesome read. Thankyou Roo.

Excellent...!! These days i like to use a small mush dose and then let the power of meditation carry me up to a full blown trip level...very beautiful and i never feel all used up the next day...

awesome, another good read from the rooster, yeah
here comes the rooster YEAHHHHHH!
good old alice n chains,
wait add made me lose track of thought.

Yea I remember that tune! LOL!

"Excellent...!! These days i like to use a small mush dose and then let the power of meditation carry me up to a full blown trip level...very beautiful and i never feel all used up the next day..."

AH yes! You know this secret! If you keep this up over time you will find yourself in an indescribabe place. After that you walk 3 inches above the ground.

I'm printing that out right now to read often!

This answers a lot of questions and articulates things that I've experienced far better than I could.

"Focusing the Attention on the Attention itself"..now there's something that I innately understood, but couldn't really articulate, thus not really being able to "Get it".

Cool...I plan on eating a nice dose of freshies Friday night, so I'll defintely try to apply some of this then.

I have been playing with this tek for about a year or so.

Trust me on this. It has lead me at least, to some states of "reality" that go far beyond anything shrooms or meditation have done for me.

I just cannot describe where this has taken me. Well beyond the normal shroom trip. I literally had that "leaving the matrix" experience. It was like NOTHING else I have experienced.

It was what I have been looking for all these years. I really do not have the time to meditate for hours on end, but using this tek I know what meditation can really do. LOL! If you use this tek be prepared for an earth shattering experience. Nothing like a normal shroom trip. In fact when "it" happens you go beyond the trip. The normal shroom visions disappear and it is like you are lifted beyond that. The same tek can be used with Ayahuasca also with the same results.

When I first started playing with this all I got was an extreme state of bliss. As I worked with this over a few trips this state became deeper and deeper. Then something totally unexpected happened. The closest description I can give would be like a bang or a pop in the center of your being, you see a flash of light and you go way beyond your mind and body. You exist in this light without mind, memory, etc. Time has no meaning in this place. This goes way beyond the normal "time distortion" effects of the shrooms.

Had to read this many times to even start the journey of understanding...Thanks ROO. You are always enligtening...Pun Intended.

LOL!

I am CRAZY!!

[solar]

Yeah, thanks Roo. I wondered where you found this piece, so after a search I found it at many sites including the Lycaeum, which included this bit of info:

"The following article originally appeared as an uncopyrighted set of mimeographed sheets sometime during the late 1960's, which was freely distributed on a limited basis, probably in San Francisco."

hehe I thought everyone had read this. I first found it over deoxy.org while tracking down mckenna material. Leave it to Roo to post it.

Peace...

LOL! Dont think everyone has read everything. If you find something interesting, bring it here. Be it a new entheogen, a new tek etc.

Believe it or not I have met many shroomers who have never heard of McKenna, Maria Sabina, Ott, etc.

Someone posted this on my site quite a wile ago.

[Hippie3]

new to me

[mrg.]

What's up with the sound in the head coming from the right ear is good and the left ear is bad???

Meditation Newbie.

[mrg.]

According to a summary on psychology,
the left hemisphere of the brain houses the neural networks for speech.
(People balancing an object on their right index finger, fail/have more trouble to hold it in balance if they are asked to speak. The left part of the brain also controlling the finger).
So I imagine that we 'hear' speech with the left ear better as well, as the neural connections from the ear to the speech networks are shorter in the left hemisphere.
Also I guess that the inner sounds (our own sounds/words/thoughts) in the left part of the brain are 'intermingled' with the outside sounds (e.g. words of others) that became allready memories (neural networks).
So really listening to your inner self (so to speak), would be less masked/more 'pure' when listening to the inner sounds closer/in your right ear ...
I imagine a lot ...
HTH,
mrg.

[mwillis71]

How bout this one from the same web-site?
The Clear White Light
by Master Subramuniya
A Western Mystic's transcendental experiences
Introduction
The experience of the clear white light is a mystical vision seen with the mind's eye as vividly as one would see with the physical eyes. We are always seeing light with the third eye in some degree. Close your eyes and envision a large tree standing alone upon a hill covered with flowers bursting out of lush green grass in the field around. Imagine the scene taking place on a sunny day; the clear crisp air in the high altitude brings forth the images distinctly. Put a cloud in the sky for contrast.
The light you have been seeing, as you have been creating these suggested images, one at a time, with your thoughts inspired by what you have been reading, is the inner light flooding through the external mind. Remove the cloud from the picture - the flowers, the grass, and the tree. Inner light alone would remain. This inner light intensified one thousand times would be called "the clear white light".

The Clear White Light
Whenever man comes to a point in his evolution where he has sufficient mastery in the mind to produce "things", he suffers for the lack of peace. In his activities on the mental spheres in conceiving, planning, gathering the forces together, and finally viewing the outcome as a physical manifestation, he has exercised an intricate control over the nerve fibers of his awareness. Thus caught in this pattern, he must keep on producing to ensure his mental security, for, should he stop for a moment, the whiplash upon his senses as the generative functions of the third dimension cease to be active would cause paranoic depressions, sometimes almost beyond repair. The man looking into the where and when of the future, blending his energies with those who are also striving to evolve into a more ramified state of awareness can easily suffer if he keeps going, producing, aquiring, and believing that materiality is reality. Evolution of the species takes its toll, for as man's awareness expands, he is no longer content projecting into the where and when of the material consciousness.
As he seeks some reward of peace for his efforts, he begins to look into the past for solutions, the there and then of it all. He finds himself born into a cross section of awareness between past and future, having experienced both of these tendencies of the mind, and this causes him to reflect. Philosophy holds few answers for him. Its congested mass of "shoulds" and "don'ts", though profound if followed, he knows have proved more to the philosopher who clarified his own thinking about them on paper than to the reader who has yet to complement with inner knowing its indicated depths. Occultism is intriguing to him, for it shows that there are possibilities of expression beyond the senses he has become well accustomed to using. But again evolution, rounding his vision, causes him to discard the occult symbolism, laws, and practices as another look into the past or future of the mind's depths.

The idea of yoga, union through perceptive control of the flow of thought, and of the generative processes of a perceptive idea before thought is formed, is most satisfying. The cognition of the actinic processes, or his life currents, intrigues him, and he looks further into the practive of Advaita Yoga techniques and finds that peace is gained through a conscious government, first, of the life currents through the body, and second, of the realms of ideas as they flow into thought. And while remaining the observer of it all in the eternity of the here and now, he fully realizes that time, space, and causation are only indicated through holding an off-balanced consciousness of past and future.

The feeling and realization of the here and now intensity of consciousness becomes intriguing to him, and he works daily with Advaita Yoga techniques to strengthen psychic nerve fibers and perfect his artistry in maintaining this awareness. Many things fall away from him as he expands his consciousness through the classical practices of meditation. He loosens the odic bonds of family and former friends; magnetic ties to possessions and places fade out until he is alone - involved only in the refined realms of mind and in the actinic flow of energies. Even if, occasionally, his awareness is brought into a habit pattern or a concept of himself as he used to be, he views it with his new stability in his recently found inner security of being whole. But this, too, quickly fades.

Whenever darkness comes into the material world, it does not affect this centered, enlightened man. He sees light within his head and body as clearly as he does when in states of materialistic consciousness he looks at a glowing light bulb. While involved in innersearching some hidden laws of existence or unraveling the solution to a problem of the outer dimensions of the mind, he sits viewing the inner light, and the light shines through the knitted law of existence clearly, showing it in all its ramifications as well as shining out upon the snarled problem and burning it back into proportionate component parts.

Thus becoming adept in using his newly found faculties, be begins to study the findings of others and compares them to his own. This educational playback process elucidates to his still doubting intellect the "all rightness" of the happenings that occur within him. He finds that during the past eight thousand years men have from time to time walked the path of enlightenment, and he begins to see that he has yet far to go as his light often is dimmed by the pulling he experiences from the past, by the exuberance he shares with the future, and yet the fawn-like instability of the "here and now" eternity he has most recently experienced.

Now, in the Aquarian Age, when many men are being drawn within, it is emminently easier to attain and maintain clarity of perception through the actinic light within the body. Only a short time ago man looked at the external world through his physical eyes and registered it as real. Social and cultural structures were the controlling forces. Now a new race, the actinic race, looks through the veil of the outer mind and sees the game of it all, inevitably finding that when the rules are known the game may be entered into joyfully, resulting in winning applause. For through the Advaita Yoga techniques perfecting the conscious use of the will power, the energies can be drawn inward from the outer mind, and awareness can bask in the actinic light, coming into the outer mind only at will, and positively.

Occasionally young aspirants burst into experience indicating a balance of intense light at a still higher rate of vibration of here and now awareness than their almost daily experience of a moon-glow inner light. It is the dynamic vision of clairvoyantly seeing the head, and at times the body, filled with a brilliant clear light. When this intensity can be attained at will, more than often man will identify himself as the actinic force flowing through the odic externalities of the outer mind and understand it as a force of life more real and infinitely more permanent than the external mind itself. Occasionally, through his newly unfolded extrasensory perception, he may clairaudibly hear, within, the seven sounds he previously studied in occult lore. The sounds of the atomic structure of his nerve system and cells register as voices singing or as music of the vina, of the sita, or of the tambura. Instruments to duplicate these sounds for the outer ears were carefully tooled by the Himalayan rishis of Asvaita Yoga thousands of years ago, including the boom and jill of the tabla, and the flute.

As psychic centers in his cranium burst open, he will hear the shrill note, likened to a nightingale singing, and then an inner voice, indicating direction and elucidation to his external consciousness like a breath of air. This inner voice remains with him as a permanent yoga of the external consciousness, an ever-ready guide to the unraveling of complexities in daily life. Should he come out too far into materialistic consciousness, the inner voice may be falsely identified as an unseen master or a god talking into his right ear, but, when in the clarity of clairvoyantly seeing white light and at the same time clairaudibly hearing the inner sounds, he knows that it is his superconsciousness, his inner self. Occasionally, in a cross section of the sixth dimension of the inner mind, when light merges into transcendental form, the young aspirant may view the golden actinic face of a master peering into his, kindly and all-knowing. He is looking at his own great potential.

When eftya, the clear white light, becomes more of a friend to his external mind than merely an occasional vision or experience and can be basked in during the four contemplative tyaasem periods of the day, then the nourishment to the entire nervoius system, as ambrosia, bursts forth from the crown chakra, kammakadeesareh kashumlinga. This is sometimes identified as "the peace that passeth understanding", but he who reaches this state can never explain it adequately. The highly trained Advaita Yoga adept, through techniques imparted to him from his guru, intensifies the clear white light to the brink of God-Realization, Emkael. His entire body is faded into a sea of blue-white light, where present, past, and future are recorded in the linear depths, or layers. He sometimes sees himself seated or standing on a lotus flower of shimmering light, in an actinodic clear transparent neon plastic-like body outline as his consciousness touches in the rhythm of a heart's beat into the Self, Emkaef.

Keeping this continuity alive and not allowing the external consciousness to reign, the young aspirant lives daily in the clear white light, eftya, having occasionally more intense experiences as just described, until he attains the maturity of the nerve fibers essential to burst his awareness beyond itself into the ultimate attainment of Self-Realization, Emkaef. This is only known and identified by him as an experience experienced. It is only recognized by others as he maintains his point of reference: the mind is only illusion, everchanging and perpetuating itself by mingling concepts of past and future into the present; the only reality is timeless, formless, causeless, spaceless, the Self beyond the mind. He knows that the mind is made from a consciousness of time, and that is creates, maintains, and defabricates form and exists in a relative concept of space. The Self is the only reality and is an intensity far greater than that of any phase of the mind.

The young aspirant just becoming acquainted with the path of enlightenment may wonder where he is and how much he has achieved so far. There are a few cardinal signposts with which he may identify to know he has touched into the inner realms of his mind. Should he ever have experienced a here and now consciousness so intensely that the reaction to the experience can cause states of depression, he can fully impart to himself an award of achievement. Then he must decide to strive even more diligently than before to maintain a conscious awareness of the here and now. The ability to see the expernal world as transparent, a game, a dream, encourages the aspirant to seek more deeply. When the moon-glow light within the center of his head appears during his tries at meditation, he may acquire the perceptive ability to cognize intimately the inticate workings of another's external and subconscious states of mind as well as his own. His ability to recognize his guru and identify himself in the actinic flow from whence the master infuses knowledge by causing inner doors to open is another signpost that the aspirant has become an experiencer and is touching in on the fringe or perimeter of transcendental states of mind.

Many on the path of enlightenment will be able to identify some of these signposts through their personal experience and recall many happenings that occurred during their awakenings. But remember, the recall and the experience are quite different. The experience is here and now; the recall is there and then. However, by identifying the experience and relating it to a solid intellectual knowledge, the ability will be awakened to utilize and live consciously in states of superconsciousness. After acquiring the ability to consciously live superconsciously, one is then able to work accurately and enthusiastically in the materially structured world, while holding the intensity of the inner light. When one gains perceptive awareness into the mechanical structures of the world, he is able to work out quickly in meditation experiences of the external mind or worldly happening through finding their innerversity aspects, rather than being drawn out into the swirl of them. In doing so, the cause and effect, simmereh, experiential patterns of the aspirant's life that tend to externalize awareness into congested areas of the mind will clear up, as more and more of the actinic flow of superconsciousness is maintained and as the bursts of eftya become frequent.

Those among the youth of today - and there are many - who have had some measure of attainment will be the leaders, businessmen, politicians, and educators of tomorrow as the Aquarian Age comes more into fulfillment. They will be able to work effectively in all states of the mind. They will consciously identify from the clarity of their vision with the overwhelming power of the white light within the body and through the mind. Still others will become the mendicant renunciates, sages, the catalyst teachers, the pundit philosophers, all working as individuals together to keep the perspective and teachings of the path of enlightenment alive and vibrant on the earth yet another eight thousand years.

Remember, when the seal of the kammakadeesareh kashumlinga is broken and eftya, clear white light, has flooded the awareness of the aspirant, there is no more a gap between the inner and the outer. After this experience, when awareness is entangled in uncomplimentary states of the external mind, it can refocus within through meditation and move into eftya, the clear white light. The aspirant can be aware that in having a newfound freedom internally and externally, there will be a strong tendency for the subconscious mind to reconstruct for itself a new congested program by reacting strongly to happenings during daily experiences. Even though one may think one is playing the games of external life, there is a tendency of the instinctive phases of nature to fall prey to the cumulative reactions caused by entering into them.

Therefore, an experience of inner light is not a solution; one or two bursts of eftya, clear white light, are only a door opener to transcendental possibilities. The young aspirant must become the experiencer, not the one who has experienced and basks in the memory patterns it caused. This is where discipline enters into the life and vocabulary of this blooming flower. This is why monasteries house disciples apart for a time. Under discipline, they become experiencers, fragmenting their entanglements before their vision daily while they do some mundane chore and complete each test and task that is set before them. The natya is taught to withdraw his reactionary habit patterns in eftya, the clear white light, four times each day - during the kanef tyaasem - at six in the morning, twelve noon, six in the evening, and twelve midnight. He clears the reactionary conditions that inevitably occur during the day with actinic love and understanding so that they do not congest of condense in his subconscious mind. Otherwise a new set of confused congested forces would build up and propel him into third dimensional outer states of consciousness, leaving his vision of eftya as an experience in memory patterns retreating into the past.

The young aspirant can use this elementary Advaita Yoga technique of going over the day at the end of the day in an internal concentration period, holding his awareness in the thought flow of just the current daily experience, not allowing it to waver into unrelated thought areas. When a reactionary condition appears that was not resolved with love and understanding during the day, it will melt away, usually, under the power of a perceptive flash of understanding, as the aspirant turns to the inner light.

Thousands of young aspirants who have had bursts of inner light have evolved quickly. Assuredly, this has been their natural, though sudden, flow of evolvement as it has occurred. This oversensitization of their entire consciousness so suddenly intensified into transcendental realms has caused the materialistic states to decentralize the attachments of their present life pattern, educational interests, and plans for the future. A springboard is needed, a new balance must be attained; that is, a new balance in relating to the materialistic world, for the physical body must still be cared for to unfold further into the human destiny of Emkaef, the realization of the self beyond all five states of mind. Enlightened seers are turning inward to find new ways of bringing forth knowledge from inner realms to meet creatively man's basic needs and to bring through to the external spheres the beauty and culture found only on inner planes. Thus are heralded the Golden Age of tommorrow and the illuminated beings of the future who, through the use of their disciplined third eye and other faculties, can remain "within", within eftya, the clear white light, while working accurately and enthusiastically on the material plane seeing it all the time as the obvious dream world.

When the aspirant realizes that he is the force that propels him onward, he will welcome discipline as an intricate part of his internal government so necessary to being eftya.

It is a great new world of the mind that is entered into when first eftya dawns, giving birth to a new actinic race and immediately causing the aspirant to become, in inner consciousness, the parent to his parents and his grandparents. When he lives in the fourth and fifth dimensions, in an expanded inner state of consciousness, he must not expect those living in dawmf and dawf, third dimensional materialistic consciousness, to understand him. On this new path of "the lonely one", wisdom must be invoked to be able to look through the eyes of those who believe the world is real, and see and relate to that limited world in working with them as if it were real, thus maintaining the harmony so necessary for future unfoldments. To try to convince those imbedded in materialism of the inner realities, only causes a breach in relationship, because it represents a positive threat to the subconscious security they have worked so hard to obtain.

First we had the instinctive age of valuing physical strength and manly prowess, followed by the intellectual age, facts for the sake of facts, resulting in the progress of science. Now we are in an age of new values, new governing laws, an actinic age, with a new understanding of the world, the mind, and most of all, the Self, beyond eftya. Understanding is preparation for travel, for it is an age of the mind, and in the mind, much more intense than the speed of light, exist spheres which rishis and seers are only willing to speak of to those who have the inner ear with which to listen.

The individual awareness of man tends either toward light or toward darkness, expanded awareness or materialistic values. Depending upon the self-created conditions of his consciousness, man lives either within eftya, the clear white light of the deep consciousness, or in the external mind structure which casts darkness upon his inner vision.

The uninitiated might ask: "What is it like to be in eftya?" The young aspirant may reply, "It is as simple as sitting in a darkened room, closing the eyes in deep concentration and finding the entire inside of the cranium turning into clear white light." At first it may be only a dim, moon-like glow, a pale flicker of several different colors, but then it becomes as bright and intense as the radiance of the noonday sun, then crystal clear and white. It depends upon the composition of the mind's states of reactionary patterns as to how the light in the cranium will first appear.

Of course, eftya is not absolute, for it is found in the fifth dimension of the mind. Light invariably implies the existence of shadow, the third dimension. The shadows that sometimes dim inner light are the instinctive functions that hold the physical body intact. These are represented as attributes in the external mind and character of man.

Attachment, for instance, holds our cells together; it is also the root of much suffering, because attachment to material objects or people keeps man's awareness externalized, incapable of expressing itself in full freedom. Man who is caught in the magnetic forces of the third dimension of the mind is prone to resentment. Not being able to cognize various fears as they occur, he stores them up into a conscious resentment of all threats to the false securities found in attachment. Resentment burrows deeply into the outer subconscious layers, undermining much of a person's creative endeavor. The reactionary conditions resentment is capable of agitating are subconscious and cast many shadows over clarity of perception for long periods of time.

Those who resent are often jealous, another shadow or character weakness which stems from feelings of inferiority, a limited view of one's inner self. After one burst of eftya has occurred, the force fields of attachment, resentment, and jealousy are shattered. As increased control of awareness is gained, an expanded consciousness is maintained which frees man little by little from ever again generating the magnetic holds consuming his consciousness in these shadows.

When man allows his external thinking and action to settle into uncreative static conditions, pressures build up, and the undisciplined subconscious releases itself to anger, an emotion which renders a man blind to the existence of inner light in any degree.

Fear is another shadow which causes man to be unable to face a critical moment, even in the intimacy of his deepest meditation. But fear is a protective process of the instinctive mind, which allows time to avoid temporarily what must later be faced. Fear, an intense force in the mind's structure, as well as the body's, must be handled positively, for when man thinks under the shadow of fear he causes his fears to be manifest. The flickering shadows of worry brought on by allowing awareness to jump irrationally in the external mind from one subject to another, never focusing on any one point long enough to complete it, must be handled through disciplining the flow of awareness in the external mind. Worry provokes the darker shadow - fear. Fear, when disturbed, causes anger, resentment, causes a jealous nature. Hence, the constant play of awareness between eftya, and the shadows.

By becoming conscious of the way in which the mind operates in even a small degree, the young aspirant to light finds it easy to fold back the shadows into shafts of clear white light.

Eftya Ookanashum
When we are in ideal surroundings in the rehnam, we can balance the passive and the active currents of the body - the physical energies of the body and the intellectual thought energies. First, do the simple pranayama of breathing easily in and out in an even rhythm, nine beats to the inhalation, hold one beat, and nine beats to the exhalation, hold the breath for one beat. This steady rhythm will soon begin to transmute the thought energies and forces and you move into the state of pure awareness aware only of itself.
As the thought energies become quieted and regulated, you will hear a ringing about an inch above the right ear. This is the sound of the nerve current of the thought energy. And as the body energy becomes quieted and regulated through sitting quietly, you will hear a ringing about an inch above the left ear. This is the nerve sound of the physical energies of the body, slightly different from the tone of the thought energy. The direction of the thought energy flow is up; whereas the body energy flows downward. When the energy in the two is balanced, a circle is formed, creating a force field in which the pure life force flowing through the spine and out into the nerve system is regulated.

Now, to bring the life force into power, listen to both tones simultaneously. It may take you about five minutes to hear both tones at the same time. Next, follow both tonal vibrations from the ears into the center of the cranium, where they will meet and blend into a slightly different sound, as two notes, say an "A" and an "E", blend into a chord. The energy of these two currents is then flowing in a circle, and you will enter the golden yellow light of the life force current. Play with this light and bask in its radiance, for in it is your bloom. The unfoldment progresses from a golden yellow to a clear white light. Should you see a blue light, know that you are in the thought current. If you see a pink light, that is the color of the body energy. Just disregard them and seek the white light, in the tone of the combined currents until finally you do not hear the tone anymore and you fully burst into the clear white light. Thus you enter intense experience of awareness aware only of itself, on brink of the Absolute. Samadhi with seed or consciousness, which is the culmination of this particular practice in contemplation.

After doing this for a period of time, you will find that the exterior world will seem transparent and unreal to you. When this happens you have to learn to bring your consciousness back through meditation deliberately into the processes of inner knowing and thought, and back into the exterior world through concentration, to make the exterior world seem real again.

Now is the time for students who have worked diligently in concentration and meditation and in clearing up personal problems to enjoy the contemplative life and be happy in their attainment of the bliss that is their heritage on earth.



Glossary
Actinic: Self-effulgent, having the quality of radiant energy, of subtle inner mind.
Actinic Love: Self-effulgent overflowing love for all humanity.

Actinodic: Having the property of both actinic and odic forces, or of actinic force piercing the odic force fields.

Advaita Yoga: Non-dualistic philosophy of the Hindu Vedas. Man is not man, man is God.

Adept: One who is practiced and has a certain amount of attainment.

Aquarian Age: Time period defined by planetary configuration, influencing the mind of man.

Awareness: Man's individual sense of perception.

Catalyst-Teacher: A teacher who inspires the student to practise and change.

Consciousness: That which pervades the mind-form.

Dawf: Confused subconscious state of mind. Awareness revolving within deep problem areas, unable to loosen itself, out of touch with the superconscious mind.

Dawmf: Experiencing the world, its values, and objects as real and permanent. Awareness being totally content in this state of consciousness.

Eekaef: Intense experience of awareness aware only of itself, on brink of the Absolute. Samadhi with seed or consciousness.

Eftya: Brilliant transparent clear white light as seen during deep contemplation.

Emkaef: Self-Realization. Awareness aware only of itself, dissolving. Only the Self remains.

Guru: An enlightened teacher of the Classical Yoga system of Self-Realization.

Initiate: One who has been accepted as a personal disciple of the guru.

Innerversity: Coined word implying the activity of meditation or learning from the inner world of consciousness.

Kaef: Pure awareness, aware only of itself.

Kalebasa: Breath; breathing exercise for meditation, pranayama. Breathing nine counts in, holding one, nine counts out, holding one, eyes crossed looking at the nose, counting on the heartbeat.

Kammakadeesareh: Crown chakra. There are seven chakras, or subtle force centers connected to the major nerve plexus of the central nervous system. Chakra in Sanskrit means wheel, as the motion of these force centers can be seen as rotating wheels of energy. The crown chakra, or saraswara, is situated at the top of the head and is said to have 1008 petals which symbolize the different powers or aspects of the mind.

Kanef: Contemplative life-style.

Karmic: Of karma, the cycle of action and reation which causes the experiences and encounters of one's lifetime.

Karehana: Physical energies of the body.

Kashumlinga: Chakra. A force center within the psychic body of man.

Mind: Mind is form ever creating form, preserving form, creating new forms, and destroying old forms.

Natya: Student, sishya, chela of a guru.

Nefmem: Private chapel for meditation in the home.

Odic: Having the property of magnetic, reflected energy of the gross mind.

Ookanashum: Assignment given by the guru to his natya, the working through and final accomplishment of which helps the natya arrive at full control over the flow of awareness.

Rishi: Profound mystic or sage.

Simmereh: Cause and effect principle of karma.

Simshumbese: Pure life force flowing through the spine and out into the nerve system.

Tyaasem: Four meditations periods of Kanef. Held daily at 6 a.m., 12 noon, 6 p.m., and 12 midnight, A time for contemplation and chanting shum.

Vumtyaoode: Intellectual thought energies.



Appendix
SEVEN DIMENSIONS OF THE MIND

SEVENTH DIMENSION
Awareness expanded into endless innerspace.

SIXTH DIMENSION
The rarefied area of mind where forms
are conceived of inner sounds and colors.


FIFTH DIMENSION
Awareness of forms in their totality
in progressive states of manifestation.


FOURTH DIMENSION
Awareness cognizing the interrelated forces
of the fifth, fourth and third dimension.


THIRD DIMENSION
The interrelated magnetic forces that exist
between people and people and their things.


SECOND DIMENSION
All physical objects that you can see and touch.

FIRST DIMENSION
The inside that you can not see or touch of physical objects.





OmegA
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension

[mwillis71]

Almost forgot. For those of you who like this kind of stuff, I posted the link a couple days ago but here it is again. http://deoxy.org/

[mrg.]

Thank you very much.
Body and Thought (tone in left versus right ear).
Great reading!

mrg.

[Hippie3]

both actinic and odic forces ?
never heard of either.