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I train a form of chi gung and have experienced both the hair raising and also the opening of the pores. Both seem to be energetic phenomenon associated with the energy body on a physiological level.

As for conscious "control" of the phenomenon, i notice when I sit up straight, or while standing, focus on slightly sitting down, and standing up at the same time I can produce the hair raising feeling up the back of my neck to my crown.

I experience all the phenomenon you stated while doing the chi gung standing meditation. These are signs of the bodies energy system being 'turned on' and 'tuned'.

pharmakeia

being seeks not through attachments.

attachments seek being seen thru seeing being.

mastery mystery is the bliss of sacrifice.

pharmakeia

Find what is natural and amplify it.

Of coarse sex is natural.

There are many people 'experimenting' with sexual alchemy. The science of somatic space that some say is the soul. After careful observation most men will find chakra / vibration awareness is increased immediatly after sex, but decreased overall for 3 days following. At this time the body is recovering natural energy reserves and is re-filling the [energy pools] which the body naturally fills through breathing, eating and walking, and expends thru various human endeavors. It's no wonder the old taoist systems focused so much on breathing, standing & moving meditations and heabal / dietary formulas.

So what happens after 3 days and your horny again? Get some basic common sense and inquire as to the origin of your "primal feelings".

After which chakra and energy meditations take on warmth or even menthol sensations as nervous energy is again pooled into the appropirate channels [meridians] and circulated around the body in overflowing abundance thanks to the secret spark within.

You have to ask yourself what happens when you only attach the ecstatic experience to the habitual process of orgasm, how does that effect your awareness of ecstatic well being the rest of the time?

The ability to not only be energy aware, but to continue to oxygenate the flame is the job of the breath. Tantric action needs relaxed and normal breathing. Abdominal breathing is used to calm the mind and expand awareness into the nervous system, but only Love connects past barriers unexploitively. Awareness for the sake of knowledge is not a self-less act, as soon as you hang on to anything, including awareness itself or any abstraction that isn't present in the 'mysterious union of opposites' tension is created through that attachment. Disattachment from the outcome is full interaction in the moment. The paradox of the Bride and the Bridegroom.

pharmakeia

Any attempt to do energy work in an room that's not seasoned is still energy work. But I challenge a seeker to listen to the music under harmonic influence (such as a amphitheater) or right under high voltage power lines.

It's not hard to see. Quit ignoring the facts of non-interactive laziness and the consumptive habits of western civilization breeding "messes" that "settle".

You are what you surround yourself in. Including being a mess.

pharmakeia

If you "use" sex because of psychological attachment, i.e. compulsive habit, fetish, addiction, etc.. you'll be hard pressed to breath through the wall true abstinence creates for many men and women.

The continued media exploitation of feminine sexuality has brought with it a cultural detachment from the true lessons that genuine femininity has to teach, and mans ability to learn from it. Why? Because of mass hypnosis/addiction you dummy.

The idea that nature could possibly take it's course in the face of the simplest of frustrations. Sex. Pure observation of this raw natural process, even for a season, is a window to learning the natural elemental interactions of the Temple of the body. So how does an active transcendence of perceived dualities occur? By unifying them in the whole of necessity, through a dissolution of the subject object relationship through direct perception, rather then an abstraction of further dividing and analyzing a compartmentalized hologram of reality.

That this leap is made through simple observation is blurred by the mediation meditations of reality around us. That patience and timing are not a part of pop-contemporary social reality, creates an illusory phenomenon that truth and thus our relationship with it is rapidly changing.

In other words simple interactive relationships around us is sadly not what's being fed down the attention tube of the mechanized mind of the MTV/McPorn consumer.

There is a level to relationship that occurs with the impressions of essence. In the letting go of habits that channel and transmute energy, an awareness of this essence grows. As the space between the lines of awareness are filled, a genuine desire to relearn what was once impressed on the subconscious spawns. By seeking our origin in this reality we call life experience, to retrace our steps back, we learn the route we took to get where we are today. Previous assumptions are made obsolete by interactive realization of the moments in which we are living in the past. Realizing the present is allowing natural wisdom to guide us along a realized creative path. Neither accepting full control of choice of reality, or dull predestination. Steps taken are by Pushing off the Foundations of where we Rest, and Relaxing into our Motion and Destination.  Many have traumas that get in the Way. That they are not willing to let go of. Often times because of the inability to understand or downright refusing the paradoxical nature of Tragedy and Sacrifice as it occurs in the impression of metaphors around us.

The doorway of vulnerability in the human spirit, unifies all existing dualities and paradoxes into a mysterious need for Love.

pharmakeia

My apologies Lickerish. There is a difference between reading empathetically and vampirism.

Possible the colors you see have to do with your own lense of awareness.

Gotcha. I misunderstood the intention of your post. My apologies. I have had dealings with ill-intentioned vampires before. I have no tolerance for them.

pharmakeia

Try easy. Not hard.

Also there are standing, seated, laying down and martial chi gungs. Obviously each chi gung is for cultivating the relationship of the practioner to the activity (of standing sitting, laying or martial actions) and focusing on the activity (or inactivity) in and of itself. Food for thought.

pharmakeia

The ideal time for practice in many traditional chinese energy work forms (chi gung) is at dusk or dawn. There are other systems that divide the day into 4ths, dawn, midday, dusk, midnight.  

The reasoning behind this is that dusk and dawn are natural transition times of the earth, and that energy work is working with natural transitions within the body. Thus as above, so below and all that.

Feng Shui works with understanding the transitional convergences of life and landscape to create harmonic wells of energy benificial to the "spirituality" of the practitioner.

Anyways, all this could of coarse be used to be more selective about the time and place of energy work, as increased energy at the incorrect time can obviously be of detriment to the practiioner at times.

pharmakeia

As Joseph Campbell said: "Attach any meaning to any symbolism you want, but recognize that your meaning is a product of your condition".

The subconscious has many images to draw upon and the altered state many levels in which to observe a variety of psycho-physiological phenomenon.

By attempting to define internal phenomenon I believe we search to put an experience in a box thus limiting future experience based on our "conclusions" about previous ones.

Perhaps you should simply let the experience be what it was, and move on in your practice, continuing to explore the revelance of what is meant to BE in existance and see how internal exploration changes the relationships around you, hopefully for the better.

pharmakeia

Correction: The physical movements of martial arts unifies mind and body into one unit. The way it's suppose to be. There is a serious dose of dualism in your framework below.

Good answer Mobius.

The actual physical learning of most martial arts is more for conditioning.  The removale of fear through familerization with it.  Like being hit.  But most everything else can be learned through reading and practice.  You may need a guide sometimes to point out errors you can not see.  Training reflexes can also be more mental than physical.  Part of the biggest thing is anticipation.  A Sensei that I had one time encoraged us time imagine as we were walking down the street.  IE.  Your walking, la la la, and some begins to walk past you.  Imagine what that person could in a attack.  And how you would defend.  As it turns out it is very natural for people do think in this manner, but as always it is what you do with it that matters.




"The conciesness of self is the greatest hinderance to physical action." - Bruce Lee.


David Rogalski
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Cultivate Peace. What do you loose yourself in? What have you loved to meditate before you moved into a busy lifestyle?

If your throat chakra won't close would you consider going to an experienced accupuncturist?

Have you tried singing with the music for a while? Or humming?

pharmakeia

You should video it and put it on the net. - the TeleKenisis I mean.

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Sounds like another attempt at the philosophers stone. We naturally resonate with what we put in us. I.E. Homeopathic medicine?

You might as well smoke pot, it'll probably work better.

pharmakeia

I dont see why you would consider it a social skill, powered by society, it just doesnt seem logical..

For some reason we've allowed abstract geometry to control and channel our lines of natural human relationship energies. As pink floyd said " bring down the wall!"

Just something else to keep the imaginary ferris go wheel going round.

daem0n took the words outta my mouth.

There is most certainly a connection. Could end up being a technocratic double edged sword.

1. Feeling as though you are in a pressure cooker or in intense energy; feeling stress. Remember, you are adjusting to a higher vibration and you will eventually adjust.  

What higher vibration are we adjusting to? With over 50% of humanity living in densly populated cities, a lot of the vibrations experienced as "higher" are harmonics produced from sources that are not "natural" and we are plainly not in control of.

There is plenty of discussion on the effects of being surrounded by 60hz (120v into your house and CRT's), not even mentioning the effects of  microwaves, high voltage powerlines, or the resonant wave (sounds like the ocean kinda?) of background noise generated by the "mechanism" that makes up a metropolitan city.

Old patterns, behaviors and beliefs are also being pushed to the surface. There is a lot going on inside of you!

Perhaps this is the actual root of stress, and as we naturally age we become aware of vibrations that existed before us, and that became a part of us. Our core memories are not of places and events and people, they are impressionstic hints of distinctly human attributes. Thus the giving up of old patterns, behaviors, and beliefs is nothing more then remembering your youth, remembering your childhood, remembering prelingual life, kinesthetic mileposts like walking or crawling or turning over, and finally the inner set of primary experiences you have as an infant, possibly your birth trauma (ever wonder why it's hard to remeber the first two years of your life?)...  and at the point of conception a remembered awareness of source of life that will satisfy your thirst and leave transformative changes thru a Voice heard through Silence.

When it comes down to it, genetic structure is resonating. If we not only have the ability to remember our own past, then on a cellular level we have the ability to remember our genetic past (hmm... could we equal this to ancestor worship?) and some say remember the past of everyone on the planent thru the Akashic record. (a vibrational plane full the memory of the whole human race - a further source of debate over the memory of past lives)

I digress.  

There is a divide between the sanctity of life in the womb and the responsibility of facing death. Life and Death is a part of "stress". Stress is a reaction to something you did not expect. If you expect no outcome, any return is easily accepted as a gift. Thus life and death are a daily process and required for growth of the human soul.

2. A feeling of disorientation; not knowing where you are; a loss of a sense of place. You are not in 3D anymore, as you have moved or in the process of moving into the higher realms.

By studying harmonics disassociation can be avoided. Uncontrolled disassociative effects due to self induced hypnotism invites an opportunity for the suggestive nature of some states to be pressered by environmental factors. For example the traditional model of the "bad acid trip" is usually a poor choice in environmental or psycho-social setting. This "bad trip" results from a convergences of particular events which create "stresses" that can not be balanced by the conscious mind due to the  dopamine being inhibited by the brain and lsd filling all the transmitter sites. Understanding set and setting, the right time and place, and what constitutes healthy spirituality is more then just trying to "see how far you can go". It's a relationship. True cultivation in this plane is relationship based.  

3. Unusual aches and pains throughout different parts of your body. You are purifying and releasing blocked energy vibrating at 3D while you are vibrating in a higher dimension.

Either that or the vibrations all around us are actually causing the blockages and it would be better to feel nothing at all.

4. Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m. Much is going on in your dream state. You can't be there for long lengths of time and need a break. Also, more highly evolved individuals spend more time on the Earth plane, and you are highly evolving.

Find Sleep Fascinating. We ignore much communication while sleeping. I would say that if you find something that helps you sleep better and wake up more rested you should keep cultivating that.

5. Periods of deep sleeping. You are resting from all the acclimating and are integrating, as well as building up for the next phase.

I think this can be included with number 4. As ones natural awareness of cycles increases, the sleep cycle will become more benificial and the seeker has many natural realization about the multiplicity of functions and levels there are to sleep and how we slip in and out of a level of consciousness on a daily basis that we are taught is just a "fantasy world" as part of our primer into "adulthood".  

6. Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, TV, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. You also overwhelm very easily and become easily overstimulated. You are tuning up!

Again I think there is a good possibility this is related to #1

7. You don't feel like doing anything. You are in a rest period. Your body knows what it needs.

Can be mistaken for "depression" and can lead to cycles of "binge and purge" similar to that of an addict. Balance and moderation allows for healthy cultivation of relationships. Improper periods of activity following heavy chakra work can drain the metabolism of energy. You must balance physical and spiritual into one action. You are a whole person, not three seperate beings. You have various relationships with differnt dimensions, but you work as a whole through total and complete relationships.

8. An intolerance for lower vibrational things (of the 3D) reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. They literally make you feel "sick" inside. You are in a higher vibration and your energies are no longer in alignment. You are being "pushed" to move forward.

This is a regugitation of #2. Proper understanding of reality is a proper integration of reality, subjective / objective, lets face it the subject object relationship is up for lots of discussion, but the integration of spiritual reality into consciousness is the difference between sananity and insanity.

9. A loss of desire for food. Your body is adjusting to a new, higher state of being. Also, part of you does not want to be here anymore.

Fast. ... the second and third part of this observation is actually a suggestion by the author. This list is laced with trying to connect physical phenomenology with core internal desires that are uniquely human forms of "coping" with reality, and I feel I must make the observation that dissassociation is a real state of being, but integration empowers the individual while dissassociation limitss ones responses to "vibrations" in any given plane.

10. A sudden disappearance of friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better!

This is very connected to my response to #9 . Also by connecting loss of diet, dissassociative behavior and loss of personal relationships into one conceptual box of "ascending into a higher realm" the practioner rusn the risk of developing some very bad habits for as long as the really believe they are "ascending" and that this is the source of the problems they keep facing over and over and over again.

Running from your "problems" or dissolving relationships doesn't solve problems. Unless you change your internal patterns they will cycle yet again. Real relationships evolve. One way relationships decay. And watch out for vampires.

11. You absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. When you try to do your usual routine and activities, it feels downright awful. Same as above.

Death hurts sometimes. But the tree doesn't save a branch that isn't getting any sun. That's the law. The law of missing the mark is death. Be thankful to be reborn.

12. Days of extreme fatigue. Your body is losing density and going through intense restructuring.

Could be a result of "extremes" in other parts of life, and a resultant backlash on the metabolism of the body. Related to my comments on #11. Often yogi's and chi gung practitioners dmust endure "relearning" how to breath, eat and walk. The 3 essentials to learning the art of living, thus leaving behind primary habits and replacing them with active participation in the basic music of life. Breathing, Eating, Walking.  

13. A need to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar. Weight gain. You are requiring an enormous amount of fuel for this ascension process.

Eating often is wise. These "symptoms" of low blood sugar are of someone who has a poor diet, sleep and/or exercise habits. Most likely addicted to sugar and white flower products as well as many other processed foods. This is an individual who should immediately start training on a physical level to channel their new found "energy" into producing health and longevity in their here now physical self.

14. Experiencing emotional ups and downs; weeping. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and we releasing a lot.

I've noticed this occuring during intense meditation, but also under normal stress conditions at work. One must note if they are releasing pent up trauma, and also if their genuine response to stresses are transforming.

15. A wanting to go Home, as if everything is OVER and you don't belong here anymore. We are returning to Source. Everything IS over. (But many of us are staying to experience and create the New World). Also, our old contracts have been completed.

I bet you wish you took the blue pill.

16. Feeling you are going insane, or must be developing a mental illness of some sort. You are rapidly experiencing several dimensions and greatly opening. Much is available to you now. You are just not used to it. Your awareness has been heightened and your barriers are gone.

personality functions with the boundards of the somatic sense of embodyment. As our awareness expands the dissapation / expansion of ego surprises us as observers and we are left with a blank slate, left to start afresh, or left grasping in schizofrenia.

17. Anxiety and panic. Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behavior patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. These patterns and behaviors you are losing are not needed in the higher realms.

See #2

18. Depression. The outer world may not be in alignment with the New, higher vibrational you. It doesn't feel so good out there. You are also releasing.

I'm sensing a pattern.

19. Vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams. You are releasing many, many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy. Many are now reporting that they are experiencing beautiful dreams.

This "symptom" is crafted more as a suggestion, and should have been included with the previous observations of dreams made earlier, which at that time would have made it clear that the author is just as interested in confirming his own cosmological framework as he is in "re-assuring" an audiance experience subjective phenomelogical experiences.  

20. Your plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a completely different direction. Your soul is balancing out your energy. It usually feels GREAT in this new direction, as your soul knows more than you do! It is breaking your "rut" choices and vibration.

Read Feldenkrais "Spontenaity and Compulsion"

21. You have created a situation that seems like your worst nightmare, with many "worst nightmare" aspects to it. Your soul is guiding you into "stretching" into aspects of yourself where you were lacking, or into "toning down" aspects where you had an overabundance. Your energy is just balancing itself. Finding your way to peace through this situation is the test you have set up for yourself. This is YOUR journey, and your soul would not have set it up if you weren't ready. You are the one who finds your way out and you will. Looking back, you will have gratitude for the experience and be a different person.

Welcome to growing up with the reality of a compartmentalized spirituality meditated by western technocracy.

Sound familiar to anyone ?

Very

pharmakeia

Author and PhD Rupert Sheldrake wrote a book called "7 Experiments that could change the world". One of the chaptors discusses premonitions by animals that their owners are returning soon. Good book.

pharmakeia

research haarp and tell me the "conspiracy nuts" wern't saying something along the lines of "holigraphic images in the ionisphere" 15 years ago. But hey, those conspiracy nuts are nuts.

pharmakeia

Get yourself a solid book or chart on acupuncture point location. There are major and minor points. They are used for health purposes in many disciplines. Often times if one lights up, circular massage or direct pressure on the point is beneficial.

You can tell if it's an energy blockage if you put your hand over it and the sensation stops.

pharmakeia

As you continue to become more aware, you'll be aware of the ravages of improper action on the here nowness of yourself and the impressions it has made on the whole you through your life. The somatic impressions on your mind/body space exist as the impressionist undercurrents of asubconsious river of past information that "controls habit" more then produces growth oriented order and organization.

Thus any regressive memories that surface can be benificial to the seeker who questions the source of their current state of BEING.

Transformation is an interesting topic as it relates to instant karma.

pharmakeia

Pod: True Worship brings true adventure my friend.

Acting in life is an act of will. Introspection is not devil worship. That is if one were to believe in a devil to begin with, but if we were half devil and didn't know it, now that fruit would have really played a trick on us now wouldn't it.

Whats your thoughts on the gnostic cosmology of us being sparks of source suck in matter? The gnosics of coarse being strongly dualistic in their philosophy, believing matter to be purely evil, and spirit purely good.

pharmakeia