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Does anyone have any information on whether cultivating the astral/light body in an awake state can lead to kundalini rising or enlightenment?
Maybe the question is somehow too general?
If the Daoist material is not enough my suggestion would be to get for example these four books for the basic information:
Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation By HARISH JOHARI
Kundalini Tantra by SWAMI SATYANANDA SARASWATI
Dharana Darshan by SWAMI NIRANJANANANDA SARASWATI
Theories of the Chakras : Bridge to Higher Consciousness By HIROSHI MOTOYAMA
Advanced pranayama and asana practice is not to be found from these but easily from some other books.
Still to trying to make it clear: asanas work with musculoskeletal system (asana, mudra, bandha) and pranayama with breathing and energy system.
These should be regarded as prerequisite for more advanced activities.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for my broken English.
Après le portrait type des morphinomanes, la morphinomanie chez les femmes, le luxe et le morphinisme, voici un cas d’école des méfaits de la morphine sur un poète fin-de-siècle, à savoir Édouard Dubus (1864-1895), mort pathétiquement d’une surdose à 30 ans près d’une pissotière de la Place Maubert à Paris. Ce cas entre la catégorie des morphinomanes par snobisme raillé ici. Influencé par Baudelaire, de Quincey, les drogues, les paradis artificiels et l’occultisme (Huysmans le cite dans un texte hilarant et moqueur), Édouard Dubus cristallise tous les excès de la fin de siècle décadente. Dubus est l’auteur d’un unique recueil, Quand les violons sont partis, un titre aussi poétique qu’un roman wagnérien d’Elimir Bourges. En 1905, son recueil est réédité, augmenté d’une poignée de poèmes inédits dont “Les ailes folles”, qui résume bien la pensée de l’auteur, pas si talentueux que ça et très drogué. Pour obtenir plus de renseignements, lire l’ouvrage indispensable d’Arnould de Liedekerke (REP), La Belle époque de l’opium, à l’origine un travail universitaire comme on voudrait en voir plus souvent, c’est à dire passionnant et lisible.
-http://tomblands-fr.blogspot.fi/2010/11/edouard-dubus-poete-morphinomane.htmlCharenton was a lunatic asylum, founded in 1645 by the Frères de la Charité in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, now Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charenton_(asylum)No news of the occultists-except for the unhappy Dubus, who is in the grip of persecution mania and spends his time defending himself against phantoms which are trying to kill him. What do you think of that for a terrible punishment? That kind of madness is incurable. From what Bois tells me, I gather that before he was shut up at Charenton he was boasting it was he who had struck down the Father of Lyons. If he wasn’t lying he’s paid the penalty soon enough. As for Guita, we know nothing except that since he’s been deprived of his best auxiliary he’s gone to ground. His punishment seems slow to come, but doubtless we shall see it in time.
-JORIS-KARL HUYSMANSAn electric battery is a device consisting of two or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Each cell contains a positive terminal, or cathode, and a negative terminal, or anode. Electrolytes allow ions to move between the electrodes and terminals, which allows current to flow out of the battery to perform work.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(electricity)Fruit wines have traditionally been popular with home winemakers and in areas with cool climates such as North America and Scandinavia; in Africa, India, and the Philippines, wine is made from bananas.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_wineA drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces. A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the lower end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop. Drops may also be formed by the condensation of a vapor or by atomization of a larger mass of liquid.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_(liquid)Regular breathing is known to be of great importance for our health. What does regular breathing mean? It means that our cells have to get a lot of oxygen. Indeed, breathing is connected with everything we do eating, running, talking, stressing and changes depending on it. We often hyperventilate due to now days workload, oxygen delivery to the cells decreases and hypoxia occurs.
-http://smart-breathe.com/for-healthy-people/The term high voltage usually means electrical energy at voltages high enough to inflict harm on living things. Equipment and conductors that carry high voltage warrant particular safety requirements and procedures. In certain industries, high voltage means voltage above a particular threshold. High voltage is used in electrical power distribution, in cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to demonstrate arcing, for ignition, in photomultiplier tubes, and in high power amplifier vacuum tubes and other industrial and scientific applications.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_voltageMains electricity is the general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply. In the US, electric power is referred to by several names including household power, household electricity, house current, powerline, domestic power, wall power, line power, AC power, city power, street power, and grid power.
The two principal properties of the electric power supply, voltage and frequency differ between regions. A voltage of (near) 230 volts and a frequency of 50 cycles per second is used in Europe, most of Asia, most of South America and Australia. In North America, the most common combination is 120 volts and a frequency of 60 cycles. Other voltages exist, and some countries may have, for example, 230 volts but 60 cycles per second. This is a concern to travelers, since portable appliances designed for one voltage and frequency combination may not operate or may be destroyed by another.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity…does anyone have any information on whether cultivating the astral/light body in an awake state can lead to kundalini rising or enlightenment…
I personally have impression that these UT/HT formulas are safe when one is careful.
…the term high voltage usually means electrical energy at voltages high enough to inflict harm on living things…
Yes this seems to be problem with that so called KUNDALINI.
…kundalini rising or enlightenment…
If one again thinks something else…let’s say Bible.
Yes, what did Moses experience there in the Mount Sinai?
And what happened to Jesus with John the Babtist?
If these narratives are at least to certain degree true, what about then?
So for example with Jesus it would have been so that his Kundalini was not ascending or that is not so important, because what was important was that the Holy Ghost was descending.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for my broken English.
BOOKSTORES ARE FILLED today with paperbacks that describe the chakras, the energy centers through which Tantric yogis guide the Kundalini to attain realization.
The book you are about to read is one of the earliest in that genre. It was written more than five hundred years ago in Sanskrit by a Bengali yogi named Purnananda. We know this book was highly esteemed through the centuries because it was the subject of numerous commentaries.
In the early 1900s, a manuscript of this text was obtained by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). He translated it into English and included it as part of his famous book The Serpent Power which was first published in 1919.
Avalon’s translation is reproduced here exactly as it appeared in The Serpent Power. However, we have omitted or changed some of his footnotes and added a few of our own.
We have retained Avalon’s spelling cakra even though
chakra is more usual today.
The copyright on this translation has expired.http://realization.org/page/namedoc0/scn/scn_i.htm
http://realization.org/page/namedoc0/scn/scn_0.htm
http://www.aghori.it/woodroffe_the_serpent_power.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHKB3n8rNk
Kundalini can also awaken spontaneously, for no obvious reason or triggered by intense personal experiences such as accidents, near death experiences, childbirth, emotional trauma, extreme mental stress, and so on. Some sources attribute spontaneous awakenings to the “grace of God”, or possibly to spiritual practice in past lives. A spontaneous awakening in one who is unprepared or without the assistance of a good teacher can result in an experience which has been termed as “Kundalini crisis”, “spiritual emergency” or “Kundalini syndrome”. The symptoms are said to resemble those of Kundalini awakening but are experienced as unpleasant, overwhelming or out of control. Unpleasant side effects are said to occur when the practitioner has not approached Kundalini with due respect and in a narrow egotistical manner. Kundalini has been described as a highly creative intelligence which dwarfs our own. Kundalini awakening therefore requires surrender; it is not an energy which can be manipulated by the ego.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#Unpreparednesshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4xiT67GrbY
It has come to our attention that Namkhai Norbu has instructed his students together with him to engage in Vajrakilaya practices and to recite thousands of mantras aimed at the destruction of Dorje Shugden. Vajrakilaya practices should be done with the sublime motivation of reaching the highest enlightenment in order to bring benefit to all sentient beings, and not used for any destructive purposes. He and group of students have been engaged in this holy practice of the Yidam Vajrakilaya for unsavory purposes. How can any Buddhist practice be aimed at the harm or destruction of another being spirit or human? Compassion is the basis of all Buddhist practices taught by Buddha in Sutra or as Vajradhara in tantra. I cannot gauge his motivation exactly but results do show clearly.
-http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/news/refuting-chogyel-namkhai-norbus-provocations/When kula kundalini awakens like an angry hissing serpent, body consciousness, inner consciousness and ego are not present and the yogic powers start running behind the yoga aspirant. Now the Guru alerts his disciple because the triumph thus gained can be deprived of temptation. This state is called “Tripura Sundari” because it encloses the gross, subtle and causal body. A person who knows the truth behind this surpasses all the three worlds. The moment kundalini touches anahata chakra, the lotus heart starts to bloom.
-https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090918083007AAzstmDNo news of the occultists-except for the unhappy Dubus, who is in the grip of persecution mania and spends his time defending himself against phantoms which are trying to kill him. What do you think of that for a terrible punishment? That kind of madness is incurable. From what Bois tells me, I gather that before he was shut up at Charenton he was boasting it was he who had struck down the Father of Lyons. If he wasn’t lying he’s paid the penalty soon enough. As for Guita, we know nothing except that since he’s been deprived of his best auxiliary he’s gone to ground. His punishment seems slow to come, but doubtless we shall see it in time.
-JORIS-KARL HUYSMANSSorry for my broken English.
Sorry also using totally obscure morphinist-satanist as a kind of rhetorical device.
In this there would seem to be something quite illogical.
Is the immediate result meant to be always similar whether somebody is doing good or evil?
HOWDY
120. Killing, attracting, fascinating, paralyzing others, causing hatred among others, enchanting and inspiring others, cultivating, donating, being enraged and disturbed and buying and selling.
121. The solar swara is auspicious for attracting (calling) spirits, hostility, killing the enemy, using the sword while fighting the enemy, sensual pleasure, having an audience with the king, eating and feasting, bathing, general dealings and accomplishing outstanding deeds.
122. The wise should always do the following activities during the flow of the solar swara: eating, gratifying the senses, stimulating the appetite, captivating women and going to bed.
123. All cruel and harsh works, and various types of works requiring dynamism are successful during the flow of solar swara. There should not be a second thought about it.
124. If the left swara flows one moment and the right the next (if you cannot decide whether it is ida or pingala), know sushumna is flowing. At this time no action can give worldly profit. Shoonya swara deastroys all actions (arouses non-attachment).
-SHIVA SWARODAYAShiva Swarodaya is one of the tantric texts belonging to Hinduism, also termed as Swara yoga by Satyananda Saraswati. It is also termed “Phonetical astrology”: the “sound of one’s own breath” and is written as a conversation between shiva and parvati.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Swarodaya_/_Swara_YogaSorry but my suggestion is that the last verse can be interpreted also differently (translation above is by Swami Muktibodhananda).
So saintly person, whose sushumna nadi has become permanently active, cannot sin as stupid normal sinners are sinning.
… at this time no action can give worldly profit…
This could as well be understood that saintly person cannot produce, in that kind of situation, negative karma.
But it’s also somehow dangerous idea if that makes somebody too arrogant.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for my broken English.
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-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_ScientificJohn Abele is an American businessman and the co-founder and a director of Boston Scientific, a medical device company.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_AbeleHe had the most amazing collection of tools. He had a chemistry lab, he had an electronics lab, he had a miller so he could mill and shape steel or wood or plastic, he had an extruder so he could work with polymers. He would literally make his own polymers or at least mix different polymers in order to get what he wanted. As a result, he was kind of a renaissance person, technologically as well as intellectually.
-JOHN ABELEItzhak “Ben” Bentov (also Ben-Tov) (Hebrew: éöç÷ áðèåáý) (August 9, 1923 May 25, 1979) was a Czech-born Israeli American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry. He was also an early exponent of what has come to be referred to as consciousness studies and authored several books on the subject.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_BentovSorry for my broken English.
This guy is very interesting from the point of more scientific type of research dealing with KUNDALINI.
He could have probably contributed very much for example to so called biofeedback training, in the yogic sense, if he wouldn’t have accidentally died quite young.
HOWDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbeK_6ATxQ
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/biohacking-care/
The big question about biohacking is, what is it? Thats a question my editors and my friends all asked me as I prepared a story for the PBS NewsHour on this new biology term. And when I answered them, they still didnt quite get it. So Ill try again, with some help from the folks I talked to in recent weeks.
Biohacking is a fairly new practice that could lead to major changes in our life. You could it call citizen or do-it-your-self biology. It takes place in small labs mostly non-university where all sorts of people get together to explore biology. That could mean figuring out how the DNA in plants affects their growth, or how to manipulate genes from another source to make a plant glow in the dark. It often is aimed at producing a product, like the chairs and building blocks that artist Philip Ross makes by feeding mushrooms a meal of sawdust or peanut shavings. It is experimenting on the cheap, usually without the benefit of a fancy university laboratory, and it often involves DNA and genes. If you dont know enough biology to take part at first, you learn it along the way.
Ron Shigeta runs Berkeley Biolabs, a biohacking site in Berkeley, California, where dozens of would-be biologists gather frequently to hack around. He says biohacking is a freedom to explore biology, kind of like you would explore good fiction. As for the hacking part, hacking is kind of like the freedom to sort of dig deep into something, just because youre interested in it. The whole idea of biohacking is that people feel entitled, they feel the ability to just follow their curiosity where it should go and really get to the bottom of something they want to understand.
The whole idea of biohacking is that people feel entitled, they feel the ability to just follow their curiosity where it should go and really get to the bottom of something they want to understand.But hacking also has a negative connotation; when someone hacks your computer, you want to send him or her to jail. But thats not exactly what biohacking is. Drew Endy, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford, who considers himself a biohacker, says I come from a tradition where hacking is a positive term, and it means learning about stuff by building, and trying to make things and seeing what happens.
And Eri Gentry, who founded the Silicon Valley biohacking venue BioCurious, explains further: The word hacker comes from MIT where hacks would be cool little tricks that you would play on each other, so when youre done with your homework, youre staying up all night, and youve got to have something to do, so they might coat the ceiling or the roof of a building in tin foil. So this was a hack, and hackers came to be known in the 60s and 70s as the guys who were making the first computers.
Yet another concept of hacking comes from a totally different source. Dave Asprey, a computer security guy, considers himself a biohacker. Basically he hacks into his own body. Heres what he says: There are two perspectives on biohacking. One is that biohacking is something you do to biology, outside of yourself; youre going to change a cell; youre going change an amoeba and make it glow in the dark. The other perspective on biohacking, the one where I spend my time, is that you can hack your own biology, and you can gain control of systems in your body that you would never have access to.
Asprey who has received attention online and at conferences says he has used biohacking and new technical measurement tools and a low-toxic coffee he produces (Bulletproof) to alter his cognition, his weight and his general health. He takes supplements, applies electricity to his brain and his muscles, to improve his body and his mind.
He has not had his work evaluated by peers or duplicated by scientists, or published in scientific journals. But he maintains that he is a professional biohacker, so I spend most of my time sharing what Im doing with people and I write about it online.
Whether Asprey belongs in the category of biohacker, is unclear. But Gentry of BioCurious would admit him to the club.
I see a distinct difference between the biohacking that Dave does and the biohacking that were doing. But if biohackers like Dave Asprey want to tinker with their own bodies, thats where we draw the line in the lab. Dave is interested in making himself an optimal human being, and much credit to him, he said. I think what he does is great.
Which gets us back to the original question: What is biohacking? Since its a citizen-run pastime, you decide.
Biohacker Dave Asprey demonstrates a headband that he claims electrically stimulates blood to reach the front of the brain to improve cognition. Photo by Jason Lelchuk
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/biohacking-care/
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