Quote: Hi Justin. Thought for a minute you were pasting a piece of one of my previous messages - there's an amazing level of similarity there between limited visuals, psychic ability, working with kundalini, sexual responses and diet. Right down to language and having to be careful with a low GI diet as a consequence of a tendency to candida and blood sugar issues.
Haha maybe i'm your doppelganger (i'm sure that spelling is probably way off). I do remember some of that above stuff you had earlier talked about, but i didn't realize it was that similar.
Quote:My visuals seem to arise in a state like lucid dreaming, but right on the edge of sleep. No way can I hold it if I'm tired, I just drop off and blink out. It often happens that I'm just getting into something, and the lights go out.
Yeah, i've wondered if maybe i'm not going deep enough or something. Dunno, i know that nutrition can affect dreaming in remembering them more vividly etc., i wonder if those same nutrients might help increase waking visualizing?
Quote:My 'extra' is perhaps that my endocrine system is a little messed around. Mercury was in the mix, although there were probably genetic and upbringing issues too. My thyroid and thyroid hormone utilisation were messed up for many years, nowadays I'm on synthetic thyroid hormone after removal of my thyroid due to a fortunately encapsulated cancer.
I remember that part. Dunno. In a way i guess i'm similar in that i've dealt with a really imbalanced and over toxic body for a long time, especially growing up in this latter generation and in this country.
Quote:My experience is that I also experience flashes of visuals, but not the cinerama of some of the guys here. Lots of psychic stuff too - wall to wall synchronicities, RV ability, lots of intuitive knowing, occasional more interesting psychic stuff.
I occasionally get the movie-dream type stuff, but it's somewhat rare. Maybe i grasp after it too much, or maybe it's really not that necessary to begin with if i'm still receiving info in some way?
Quote:Comes and goes a little - if life gets hectic I tend to lose some of it, if I'm nice and relaxed it works and the feeling is very obvious - a sort of soft, almost blissful ease with an edge of sadness, rawness and emotional opening. I don't really know what the factors are but I've wondered if there's not more to it than just mood. I'd not thought of exploring the link with diet, which in my case is more to do with health.
Diet could definitely be a factor. Check out Cosmic Journeys, and the chapter, "Control: the foods we eat (or something like this). Rosie's guides repeatedly emphasized to both Rosie and Bob Monroe that in order to open up more fully and holistically to nonphysical perception that the body had to be more balanced and strengthened, i.e. through diet, occasional fasting, etc. Cayce's guides seemed to indicate this time and time again as well, though at the same time they also said it's not so important what goes into a body as what comes out figuratively speaking.
On numerous occasions, i've gotten guidance to eat a food called "Mummy food" in the Cayce literature. Cayce's source recommended it a few times to a few individuals and said it would be almost a spiritual food for such developed bodies as those they were addressing. One of the main ingredients in Mummy food is Figs, and its interesting to note that S.G. Buddha supposedly sat under a Bo tree (a type of fig tree) while doing all that meditation and becoming enlightened. Wonder what he ate when he got hungry?
Anyways, i'm getting the candida issue rapidly more and more under control, and i plan to commence on eating mostly Mummy food and fresh, live raw foods and see what happens. As well as doing some more fasting.
Generally, the more live, fresh, and raw foods you eat, the more energy and vitality your body will have, which opens up energy to do other things.
Quote:The retreats in darkness we've previously discussed seem also to be a powerful trigger as a result of triggering effects involving glands like the pituitary.
Prolonged darkness affects more the Pineal gland, and things like Sun gazing when the Sun is near Sunrise or Sunset can help to stimulate the Pituitary gland more so. The Pituitary gland is the "master" gland, both physically and spiritually speaking, and though it sits lower than the Pineal in the body, it's actually the endocrine gland that more so corresponds to the Crown Chakra.
The Pineal more so to the 3rd eye/Anja Chakra, but in reality they are so interrelated that they both kind of correspond to both Chakras in different balances. BUT Pituitary is Golden and resonates to a faster vibratory energy than does the Pineal.
Quote:I've tried the Cayce kundalini method in the form I read of it, and some variants like breath of fire from books (Dave recommended a Hatha Yoga pradipika) and a yoga class, making the pot (working with muscles in the abdomen and posterior) and so on but not as yet very seriously - I've been cautious given that one hears stories that uncontrolled release of kundalini can reputedly leave one badly messed up and ill.
Yes, i believe people have to be really careful when trying to use these. Cayce's source also cautioned people to only open up in this manner, when focussed on the highest within self and that a cleansed mind AND body and open heart were first necessary. I didn't avoid trying this so much out of fear, but just intuitively i didn't feel ready for it. I go more by inner intuition than intellectual curiosity usually.
Quote:This after many years of Buddhist shamatha style meditation, and a well established practice - maybe 40 min daily with the odd miss. Some work with Hemi Sync CDs too.
My experience is that the kundalini produces quite an intense raising of energy - to the point where it can easily be felt, and where visually people and objects start to develop auras. Sometimes leading to a complete white out. It's never progressed to complete loss of the physical, but I've not persevered for longer then maybe twenty minutes.
Lordy, twenty minutes! I do one set 7 times (feels right), and that probably only takes a few minutes at most.
Quote:Kundalini energy seems to be right at the centre of our journey. Philip Gardiner's DVD explores how it crops up all over the place. 'Secrets of the Serpent - In Search of the Sacred Past'
www.gardinersworld.com The DVD seems to be just a documentary like review, but it is interesting and brings home how pervasive it is. All the great civilisations, traditions and many historical figures seem to have worked with it. Also how orthodox Christianity sought to stamp out the knowledge, and how as a result it was driven underground.
Yup, i like the Egyptian images of the snake which goes to the top of the head and then drops down between the eyes. It seems the Egyptians knew what Cayce talked about, that it's really the Pituitary and not the Pineal gland which is symbolically or energetically the highest gland in the body.
Quote:The falling away of the urge for sex does occur, as does a significant overall energisation and a change in physical appearance - people start to comment on how well you look. It seems in effect to be a diversion of what expresses as sexual energy - it's not by accident that tantric and other ritual sexual practices have always been used by secret esoteric societies and so on are in this space too.
It seems to my mind, that a lot of the knowledge has been twisted, misinterpreted, or misunderstood along these lines. Lot's of times they seem to become just another vehicle for satisfying the Earthly and ego appetites. It's interesting but you hear about so many supposedly enlightened teachers who turns out have a raging sex drive, which kind of makes me doubt that their kundalini is flowing in a complete and balanced manner. More than likely, it's like what you mentioned a little bit above, where prematurely raised K. can cause all kinds of issues and havoc on both the body and on the mind and emotions.
Quote:This broad scenario has continued for me for many months, I've been quietly plugging away in the hope that something more might happen, but not so far. I'm sure it's important not to get results oriented or fixated on exotic experience either, hence the easy pace.
I practice this and mediation in general, with the intention and motivation that it helps me to become a clearer and more positive channel of blessings and help to others. If it doesn't help one to become more loving, there is no point in doing stuff like this. Either way, kind of like you said there is no rush, and it's best to just let this stuff mostly develop on its own as more of a side effect and not as a central emphasis or intention/desire.
Quote:Some of you guys seem to have the facility to produce visuals relatively easily, not sure why.
Yup, i've wondered about that too. It just may be that some folks are wired a bit differently than others. It could be analogous somewhat to physical senses and the different emphasis's and capacities in different senses that people have. Interestingly, Cayce's guides matched up the different races to various major physical senses and seemed to imply there was some kind of general, collective influence of the bodies of different races more towards one than the other.
For example, the Black was said to correspond more to taste, the Asian to hearing, the White to sight or vision, the Red to feeling, etc.
Because i have a pretty strong Celtic descent, which i'm pretty convinced is more related to the Red (originally Atlantean race, but more commonly related to certain Mid and Eastern North Native American tribes) though obviously has been heavily mixed with the White, maybe there is a different emphasis than folks with a more purely White descent? Don't really know, but bodies, races, etc. are kind of like a reflection of interweaving individual and collective karmic tendencies over periods of time, mixed in with some more purely environmental pressures and influence factors.