One is a man who stimulated the kundalini and had a rising that left him unable to work for years with little in the way of positive benefits, as far as I could tell from the account he wrote.
The class that Foxfires seems to refer to is where spiritual love has flowed (from the heart or an over-lighting entity) into an emotional structure not well suited to that energy. This can over-energise previously traumatised emotional structures and result in excessive forcing of distorted emotional flows. Relationships rapidly deteriorate under such conditions.
Another example (or class of examples) is where the aspirant has connected with spiritual forces without sufficient progress in purifying the mental processes. This can result in excessive energising of the entity controlling the personal mind. Examples have appeared on Masonic forums from time to time.
These dangers are referred to in the 30th ritual where the candidate is warned that proceeding may open him/her to dangers unknown.
One is a man who stimulated the kundalini and had a rising that left him unable to work for years with little in the way of positive benefits, as far as I could tell from the account he wrote.
Perhaps it was simply something that he had to go through to enable him in the longer term? After all if our world needed clones we would all experience the same at the same(ish) time. It might just be that it was essential for this to happen in this manner. After all just because it does not appear to be positive form one perspective does not mean that it isnt from another.
>Perhaps it was simply something that he had to go through to enable him in the longer term?
Man y years ago I used to do a kundalini exercise involving slow breathing. I was getting pretty good at it when suddenly my body refused to do it. So I stopped. (The book in which I read the exercise said that the reader should contact the author before doing the exercise but he (Macdonald-Bayne) was deceased)
A few months later an AMORC friend commented that I had damaged myself with some exercises. I had not told anyone about the exercises.
Later I read that such misapplied exercises can lead to damage in the seed atoms and hence damaged bodies in later lives.
Later I read that such misapplied exercises can lead to damage in the seed atoms and hence damaged bodies in later lives.
Doesn't mean that it is true, and even if so, it is all valuable experience.
Paul I really should not be concerned about it, wht you did you did for a reason, and it would most likley have led to growth somewhere. Might be better to place less reliance on what has or hasnt worked for others, and to simply follow your own intuition. As someone who has done precisely this, yes I have read Bardon, Bailey etc, but ultimately their words were for different times, and as with any evolving landscape the terrain evolves and adapts as time passes. Hence even if true when written, and if you assume for everyone at every stage of evolution at that time, then it might or might not remain so. For you or for any of us, it is only, from my own experience, following your heart that you progress, even if that progress is not immeidatley obvious to others who view you through a different lens. Anyone can write anything Paul, it does not mean that it is necesarily true.
And in your speciic case if it is true, well it was a valuable learning experience. While leaving the cycle of incarnation is highly desireable and achievable, when you are standing there at the gates/being invited to walk with the gods (depending on your religious philosophy) and you look back at life, all of its twists and turns are rather exciting. Without all of the mistakes, you would never have learnt so quickly.
I have been observing a friend who is challenged with the transition between "willingness to be at-one with all" and "the will to be at-one with all".
He asked for some "prayer" so I provided some intervention and then observed that the shells (hard structures) surrounding his heart and mind were reduced to about 50% coverage.
Today I passed him in the street and noticed that the shells had been replaced, even more extensively than before, so that the heart is now 90% enclosed and the mind about 99%.
It seems that openness and therefore vulnerability to others are too painful at present.
Nevertheless I expect that the pain of isolation will drive him forth out of his (egg) shell as there is no more food within.
I recall a young man who was doing rather well - close to being a genuine 3rd degree initiate - when he ceased to progress and put on a lot of weight. At the time I observed with interest that his spiritual group had difficulties as a result of this, even though he was more advanced than they.
It was necessary for all the group to move forward for the group to function properly. This may be an important lesson for Masonic lodges.
After some years his de facto wife who was beautiful inwardly and outwardly, left him. Now 3 decades later he is gaunt and unhappy-looking, working for a US multinational, and seems not to have progressed inwardly - as far as I can tell from his Facebook photos.
When I look at his mental system there is an unusually large structure that isolates the personal mind from the soul structure. It reeks of karma.
I recall another young man who also got stuck spiritually. So eventually he went to live in another region in the hope of breaking through. He did make some progress and then got stuck again. So he came back to the first place and made more progress. When I look at him on Facebook he is doing better than the first man I described, but I tend to think that his progress has slowed right down - as if there is too much heart pain for him to tackle at this stage.
