Friday, January 14, 2005
Energies of Advanced Students
After I wrote the above entry, I discovered that my experiences paled beside those of some of my friends. J., for example, told of simply looking at an illustration (from "The Secret of the Golden Flower") of a Buddha with five Buddhas seated over his head, each of which had five more Buddhas rising above him. After she saw the picture, she discovered that she too could project the energies upward in five channels which emerged over her crown. When she felt of them, they were like waving feathers. When she taught her sister the same technique, J. could feel only four of the channels above her sister's crown. At this point, her sister explained that she hadn't sent the fifth one up yet. J is the friend who also feels extreme energy when she simply holds hands with two others in her kundalini circle. Her energies run constantly.
J. also described a form of "color therapy" with a practitioner who simply applied "color essences" to her own hands before giving J. an energy treatment. J. later spoke of seeing pink at the time the practioner was using the pink essence (unbeknownst to J.)
My other friend, who teaches chi gong, described circulating the energy through various parts of her body by mentally doing various chi gong postures. I had heard of older yogis in India who do yoga mentally once they get too old or fat to do the physical asanas. But I had not heard of this friend's approach to chi gong before.
So it seems one does not have to be an advanced yogi in some obscure part of the world to have very unusual energetic experiences. I think that more and more people will experience such states as kundalini becomes ever more prevalent among us.
I might add that both of my friends approach all energetic phenomena as sacred practice. It is not a mere amusement for either, for each feels she is part of a process larger than the individual experience.
I feel that such accounts reinforce the idea that we are collectively raising the vibrational level of ourselves and of the earth, as part of the ongoing process of human evolution, even in the midst of the widespread chaos and disorder on the planet.
J. also described a form of "color therapy" with a practitioner who simply applied "color essences" to her own hands before giving J. an energy treatment. J. later spoke of seeing pink at the time the practioner was using the pink essence (unbeknownst to J.)
My other friend, who teaches chi gong, described circulating the energy through various parts of her body by mentally doing various chi gong postures. I had heard of older yogis in India who do yoga mentally once they get too old or fat to do the physical asanas. But I had not heard of this friend's approach to chi gong before.
So it seems one does not have to be an advanced yogi in some obscure part of the world to have very unusual energetic experiences. I think that more and more people will experience such states as kundalini becomes ever more prevalent among us.
I might add that both of my friends approach all energetic phenomena as sacred practice. It is not a mere amusement for either, for each feels she is part of a process larger than the individual experience.
I feel that such accounts reinforce the idea that we are collectively raising the vibrational level of ourselves and of the earth, as part of the ongoing process of human evolution, even in the midst of the widespread chaos and disorder on the planet.
