Alchemy, the art of Transmutation - Temple Illuminatus2024-03-28T13:53:25Zhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/forum/categories/alchemy-the-art-of/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=no3rd Eyetag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2017-09-21:6363372:Topic:33337082017-09-21T18:16:32.363ZCharles Johnson von Drakenbergehttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/CharlesJohnsonvonDrakenberge
<p>Will post this as a topic as well as this is important in these days of awakening.</p>
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<p>The 3rd eye is all about the endocrine system. P<span>ineal gland and <span>pituitary gland. Everything "spiritual" and "mystical" can be explained physically as in the Taoist system of the Dragon that I have walked on is based in the 3 jewels Jing, Chi and Shen. All the bodies are one and have only been seperated by our perceptions and beliefs. </span></span></p>
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<p>Will post this as a topic as well as this is important in these days of awakening.</p>
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<p>The 3rd eye is all about the endocrine system. P<span>ineal gland and <span>pituitary gland. Everything "spiritual" and "mystical" can be explained physically as in the Taoist system of the Dragon that I have walked on is based in the 3 jewels Jing, Chi and Shen. All the bodies are one and have only been seperated by our perceptions and beliefs. </span></span></p>
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<p><span>The absolute best means of caring for these systems is to balance out the endocrine system. Your Endocrine system is the internal laboratory where the alchemist truely works. I will leave a youtube video that give the basic Rites of Rejuvination. add to this a butt squeeze to stimulate the flow of hormones that will be released during these exercises. This is very basic and the system demonstrated is far more extensive than 5 exercises. However when completed over time, give it 21 days, you will feel the effect. You can do these slow or fast. I complete these in as little as 10 minutes evey morning. </span></p>
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<p><span>Next an exercises to open and maintain a balanced 3rd eye. </span></p>
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<p>from Sunyata Saraswati and taught me by Khalid Al NAshimmi Khonsu.</p>
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<p>An excerpt from Dragon Wizardry</p>
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<p>For this exercise, kinetic sensitivity is essential.</p>
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<p>Breathe in Through the 3rd eye, and exhale out of the eyes.</p>
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<p>Breathe n the right nostril and exhale out the Eyes.</p>
<p>Breathe in through the left nostril and exhale out the eyes.</p>
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<p>Breathe in the left nostril and exhale out the ears.</p>
<p>Breathe in the right nostril and exhale out the ears.</p>
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<p>Breathe in both nostrils and exhale out the crown with (KO HUM)</p>
<p>Breathe in both nostrils and down to the solar plexus and exhale out the crown.</p>
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<p>In both nostrils and down to the heart center and then exhale out the crown.</p>
<p>In both nostrils down to the throat center and out the crown.</p>
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<p>In both nostrils up to the 3rd eye and then out the crown.</p>
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<p>Do KO HUM (a sound that rides the breath) into the left side of the brain and then out the right side of the crown.</p>
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<p>You should do this 3 times.</p>
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<p>Relax (do Egyptian cobra breath if you know it) as you inhale up the spine ( with a mild tightening of the anal sphincter muscles during inhalation and relax this mudra on exhale) and exhale out the 3rd eye. do this 7 times. Relax and feel what is going on in your brain.</p>
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</div> Aura Reading – Teach Yourself to Read Aurastag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1163032011-04-01T08:15:05.557ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>Imagine you can see auras. People, plants, animals and inanimate objects appear to radiate a resplendent light. As you examine the colors and shapes of this light you begin to hear a voice inside you that guides you to understand the meaning of the colors and how they relate to the subject around which the aura emanates. Practice this imaginative process and begin to test the results of your perceptions. At first you may not seem to be getting accurate information, but with dedicated…</i></p>
<p><i>Imagine you can see auras. People, plants, animals and inanimate objects appear to radiate a resplendent light. As you examine the colors and shapes of this light you begin to hear a voice inside you that guides you to understand the meaning of the colors and how they relate to the subject around which the aura emanates. Practice this imaginative process and begin to test the results of your perceptions. At first you may not seem to be getting accurate information, but with dedicated practice your imagination may result in the actual ability to see auras and divine real meaning through your new perceptions.</i></p>
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<p><b>Aura Reading – Teach Yourself to Read Auras</b></p>
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<p>Auras appear to be artifacts of our interactions with all of the rest of creation to manifest what we need in our world. Auras are a sort of visual key to understanding the negotiation or mediation processes between our conscious, subconscious and unconscious desires and our collective super-consciousness which is our link with creation whereby all our dreams are made manifest.</p>
<p>When we pray, meditate or day dream our auras become more highly charged and we may discover our prayers are answered, our thoughts have transformed into reality, or our dreams have come true. We often attribute this sort of experience to coincidence but those among us who are familiar with the belief that we create our own reality understand that this is not coincidence; instead, those people know that this is our natural ability to directly manipulate reality, which we are developing on a level of our conscious awareness using our thoughts and feelings to guide ourselves.</p>
<p>There is a real interaction taking place between us and the world around us on a subtle level that may be perceived by developing the talent to see auras. Everyone has this talent; it is an innate part of who and what we are. However, developing this talent to a degree where we may consciously perceive and study auras may take a little work. By imagining we already have the ability to do this we can open the way to actually develop this talent into a useful tool in our lives. While imagination may be our first step on this journey, our journey will continue beyond the limits of our imagination and may manifest in a very real talent that helps us to perceive the world around ourselves more clearly and to change this world more deliberately.</p>
<p>I find that auras appear as colors that move about and within a subject. With any given subject there appear to be many associated colors, usually there are a few particular colors which appear to be dominant. The colors and their forms and motions often change in response to my thoughts or the thoughts of my subject as I am studying them. The interactions of my thoughts with the colors of my subject’s aura help me to begin to develop an idea of what is going on in my subject's life and what they may need to learn.</p>
<br clear="all"/><p>Each color or combination of colors seems to have its own theme, as follows:</p>
<p>Red ------------------ Vitality, Energy, the number 1</p>
<p>Red/Orange ------- Physical Activity, Vigor, the number 4</p>
<p>Orange ------------- Organization, Thought, the number 4</p>
<p>Orange/Yellow --- Social Activity, Joy, the number 3</p>
<p>Yellow -------------- Communication, Speech, the number 3</p>
<p>Yellow/Green ----- Healing Activity, Sickness, the number 7</p>
<p>Green --------------- Creativity, Health, the number 6</p>
<p>Green/Blue -------- Nurturing, Caring, the number 6</p>
<p>Blue ----------------- Devotion, Love, the number 2</p>
<p>Blue/Purple ------- Learning, Spirituality, the number 8</p>
<p>Purple -------------- Wisdom, Compassion, the number 9</p>
<p>Purple/Red -------- Potential, Abrupt Change (often accidents or danger), the number 5</p>
<p><i>Note: The colors form a spiral or circle and return to red at this point.</i></p>
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<p>The following are some special exceptions to the colors I most often see in auras.</p>
<p>BROWN ----------- Confusion, Opposition, Conflict, the number 5</p>
<p>CLEAR ------------- An exceptionally spiritual being, spirit guides, the number 9</p>
<p>WHITE ------------- Influence of very spiritual beings, guidance, the number 7</p>
<p>GREY -------------- Influence of a less spiritual being, bureaucracy, the number 8</p>
<p>BLACK ------------- A being indulging in harm to other beings, domination, the number 2</p>
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<p><i>Note: The numbers ascribed to each color are loosely associated with their Numerological meanings. Tarot-logical and Astrological associations may also be ascribed to each color.</i></p>
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<p>Typically I have preferred to sketch a portrait of my subject on a roughly textured neutral gray paper with colored pastel pencils. Drawing the underlying form of my subject’s face takes about five minutes to create a light sketch, meanwhile the act of drawing helps to move me into a more meditative, receptive state of mind where the colors begin to become clearer.</p>
<p>If no dominant colors or patterns are apparent then I consider each of the colors in order from red to purple/red in several repetitious cycles until I sense a harmony to particular colors begin to emerge. (A set of color flash cards or a color wheel can be a useful tool for this purpose.)</p>
<p>Since the colors are moving I must observe them for patterns and intensities and then render a montage of the themes I see so that the most striking or important parts are portrayed.</p>
<p>I talk to my subject as I sketch, making suggestions that return responses in my subject's aura which helps me to unravel the meanings of the colors and what is most likely transpiring in my subject's life that is being displayed in the aura.</p>
<p>Dark or clouded parts of an aura typically represent secrets or information my subject is repressing. Often these are things my subject is painfully aware of or is trying to deny.</p>
<p>Light, bright or shining parts of an aura indicate well being and balance.</p>
<p>Sparkling parts represent an anticipation of imminent events.</p>
<p>It is possible to see the influences of another person upon my subject as my subject focuses on that person; it may then be apparent what role that other person plays and whether they will help or hinder my subject in particular ways.</p>
<p>Like any psychic practice, the reader must always take into account their own state of being and must be careful not to project details of their own life into the reading given to a subject.</p>
<p>My paper tablet becomes a special window for me. On one side I contain myself so as not to contaminate what I see through my window. The life of my subject appears to me through my paper tablet. The window of my paper tablet assists me in maintaining the focus of my reading upon my subject while inhibiting me from interjecting a reading for myself into the process.</p>
<p>If you are not artistically adept you may still use the paper tablet and colored pencils, instead of striving to produce a likeness of your subject’s physical features dispense with the portrait preamble and instead doodle as you study your subject until the inspiration comes to begin reading their aura.</p>
<p>My personal favorite combination of colors is Green and Purple. These two colors in combination represent Art in the Magick sense and creative activities such as writing or painting in the more mundane aspect. Typically this color combination is accented with Gold or Yellow. This is the property by which the Art or art speaks to us, transforming us.</p>
<p>The potential for Art (Magick) within the act of drawing a portrait is very strong. The reader may act as a healer and may attempt to downplay a theme that may be associated with pain or suffering while playing up themes of happiness and spiritual advancement. But it is necessary to guide the subject when applying any Art, for the lesson from a pending hardship may be needed by the subject and the lesson must still manifest within their life in some form. Typically this sort of lesson is replayed over and over in a subjects life; so instruction may be drawn from their past, such that they may finally 'get it' and dispense with the need for many further repetitions of a lesson which may become potentially harmful or unpleasant in nature.</p>
<p>The application of Art rarely prevents the next cycle of this repetitious lesson from playing out, but it may ameliorate the next cycle to some great or small degree and the subject may be better able to learn from the next repetition of their lesson if the reader has properly prepared them to perceive and understand their lesson.</p>
<p>To begin your own exploration of auras get some crayons and some rough neutral paper. The backs of brown paper shopping bags are very good for this. You can use photographs, objects around your house, pets, plants or people as your subject. Black and white photographs are particularly good for this sort of exercise. Place your subject against a neutral background such as an empty white wall. Study your subject around the edges, if it is a person, pay particular attention to the crown chakra where the energy channel is often strongest. (You may also try directly observing a subject’s chakras.) </p>
<p>Personally, I find the edges of a subject’s profile are the best places to begin seeing the interplay of colored light that emanates from within them. If you feel you see nothing, then imagine what you think you might see if you could see auras. Take notes with the colored pencils and try to associate your thoughts with the colors as you take notes. You can do this by just using the color crayon that seems most appropriate to you to write your thoughts with. You are not required to organize your perceptions in the form of a picture. Sometimes a thought may have one strong color and several associated colors. You can loosely overwrite whatever you have written with the same words in a different color when this seems appropriate, or you may find new words emerge as you select a new color in association with something you have already written or drawn.</p>
<p>Just allow this to happen; don’t get too involved in how you do this or what you may want to know about a subject. Instead, open your heart and mind to every tiniest thought and feeling and follow these wherever they may lead you.</p>
<p>May your colorful pencils dance upon your pad of paper as your heart dances with creation...</p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!</i></p>
<p><i>Blessed be…</i></p>
<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p> Grounding, Shielding, Cleansing; Managing Bad Habitstag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1159972011-04-01T08:02:18.378ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>A friend online asked for advice about working with her energy and empathy. The following email replies resulted, which we wish to share with you. Let us call our friend ‘Soul’.</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Let’s get started with protecting yourself by grounding and shielding.</p>
<p>Grounding helps keep your energy in balance and is useful when your…</p>
<p><i>A friend online asked for advice about working with her energy and empathy. The following email replies resulted, which we wish to share with you. Let us call our friend ‘Soul’.</i></p>
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<p><b>Grounding, Shielding, Cleansing; Managing Bad Habits</b></p>
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<p><b>Grounding</b></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Let’s get started with protecting yourself by grounding and shielding.</p>
<p>Grounding helps keep your energy in balance and is useful when your thoughts and emotions are flying all over the place and you are having difficulty settling down, such as when you need to go to sleep and your racing thoughts won't let you get to sleep.</p>
<p>Shielding helps keep your own thoughts and emotions from being confused with thoughts and emotions you may pick up from other people, so if a friend is feeling despair and you were feeling happy you can go on feeling happy while sharing and exploring your friend's despair and helping them get through it.</p>
<p>To ground yourself sit somewhere comfortable. Imagine a red cord about an inch thick descending from the base of your spine into the earth below you. Let it trail out a good ways... even all the way to the Earth's core if you feel like it although 12 feet or so is good...</p>
<p>Pay attention to your breath, feeling it drawn in and flowing out…. Just feel your breath… maybe sigh a few times and let go of your thoughts and feelings as your attention focuses on breathing in and out… Slowly shift your attention back to the cord you dropped down into the earth and feel it pulsing with energy in time to your breath…</p>
<p>Imagine that as you breath in the earth is sending you good, clean, healthy energy through your grounding cord and as you breath out imagine that the earth is drawing away any stale, painful, blocked up energy so that you are feeling more relaxed, refreshed and energized... You may feel a tingling sensation around the base of your spine as your connection to the earth is awakened…</p>
<p>Imagine that on top of your head is a large white flower with many petals that have a slight lavender color around the edges and at their tips. This is your crown chakra and it connects you god and your personal divinity. This flower is like a bud at first, imaging it as a tight ball that opens up as you breath in, the petals extending outward… a beam of energy descends from the heavens and enters through the crown chakra and you feel yourself connecting to your source and creator and recognize how beautiful and perfect you already are, that you have always been with god, been a part of god and can feel yourself becoming the goddess within you that has total mastery of your life and all that you can hope to be and experience. You may feel a tingling sensation around the top of your head as the crown chakra connection is awakened…</p>
<p>When you feel your crown chakra open meditate or pray, feel the goodness and love in your heart and ask for the spiritual blessings you need to feel stronger and safer and more balanced and at peace. Ask for the things you want for your family or friends to help them feel better with themselves and their lives. Remember the good things about yourself that you know make you special and loving and nurturing and compassionate.</p>
<p>Just drift in this peaceful loving divine moment for a little while until you feel the urge to get on with your day and do other things. The energy you connect to will last awhile and should help you to feel good about whatever you need to do to take care of yourself and to care for the people you love.</p>
<p>While this may begin with imagination Soul, this actually works and you can get yourself focused and renewed anytime you like by grounding. It may take awhile to learn how to do your grounding, be patient with yourself, try reading about yoga or meditation or your chakras online…</p>
<p>I will get the Shielding installment out to you ASAP… it’s a follow up for the grounding work and helps you to keep your energy, thoughts and emotions from being confused with what other people are feeling. </p>
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<p><i>Ciao for now, love Greg</i></p>
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<p><b>Shielding</b></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Here is your Shielding lesson.</p>
<p>Empathic people need a shielding tool so that they can safely experience what people around them are feeling or thinking without being dragged along into whatever may be distressing someone else. The shield will let through all the joy and love and happiness but screen out anything painful or upsetting so that you can work with those parts of what other’s are feeling without taking on someone else’s depression or despair and mistakenly thinking it is your own.</p>
<p>Honestly, I still get that sort of stuff confused with my own because I neglect to do the grounding and shielding as often as I should (at least daily but before bed and after waking up is generally enough, helps you wake up in a good mood if done before bed which helps me forget that I should do it again when I wake up). But, when I start to feel those negative things then doing my grounding and shielding exercises lets me sort it out and I start feeling better right away…</p>
<p>Begin by grounding, but continue after you get to the prayer or meditation bit by doing the following….</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Imagine a small golden-orange egg in your heart, its so tiny it might not be there at all, but as you focus on this tiny golden-orange egg that is surrounded by your heart it grows larger and larger… You can see through the transparent shell of the egg and as it grows larger it encapsulates your heart and then encapsulates your body and stops growing when it can comfortably enclose all of yourself and your aura so maybe about 3 feet away from you. The shell is made of a very fine web of energy that is porous… it allows all the best things through so when people are happy and excited and joyful and loving you can feel all that directly and let it make you feel good too. But the shell’s web of sparkling golden-orange energy holds out the bad feelings. You will still be aware of the bad feelings other people may be experiencing but you will understand these are not your bad feelings and the bad feelings will not get mixed up with your feelings. You may still feel the pain that other people feel but it will not be your pain and it won’t hurt you the way it has in the past, it will be more like a sensation, the taste of chocolate milk or a warm comforting breeze, or the sound of a sweet bird song… whatever pain other people are feeling will pass through you like a gentle breeze and you can let go of it, you will no longer allow yourself to be caught up in other people’s pain or let it overwhelm you…</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>You may have trouble sorting out which experiences go with which people, as there are so many people we can be wide open to through our empathy, but in time you may be able to start recognizing who really owns the feelings screened out by your shell. Your own thoughts and feelings will remain your own and will become easier to work with once they are no longer confused with what other people may be feeling. Don’t be too concerned about whose feelings you are picking up, enjoy the good feelings and know that you are safe from the bad feelings…</p>
<p>Remember that your transparent golden-orange egg surrounds you with strong energy from your heart and that it protects you but allows you to heal anyone you wish to help. You can still examine anyone’s thoughts and feelings but you are no longer in danger of getting them confused with yourself and can keep your own thoughts and feelings in check instead of letting them get bent out of shape by someone else’s…</p>
<p>You can renew your shell whenever you are feeling distressed and it will help you sort things out so you can focus on what is really yours and let the rest go… Just do a quick grounding, skip the meditation or prayers if you like, and continue to the part where you grow your shield from your heart… Remembering your shield is present and focusing on it from time to time throughout the day will also help maintain it…</p>
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<p><i>I will cover cleansing in the next lesson…</i></p>
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<p><b>Cleansing</b></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Once you have your shield working it is time to do some cleansing. You can begin cleansing without a shield but your shield helps keep your energy from getting fouled up so you don’t need to do cleansing so often…</p>
<p>Begin by refreshing your shield so it is all sparkly…</p>
<p>Focus on your thoughts and feelings and imagine anything you feel that is uncomfortable or unpleasant as a sort of living energy inside your body or aura. That living energy that makes you hurt or feel sad or feel lonely is something that you do not want to be a part of you. Feel it crawl around and move about and imagine as it moves about that it grows darker and darker as the bits of your energy and thoughts and emotions that it has taken away from you are returned to you. When it is nice and black reach into yourself and pluck it out and cast it outside your shield…</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Don’t be concerned with whether it will live or die or go on to hurt someone else, it is a small part of a larger energy system and will return to that energy system, you are not responsible for what it does outside of yourself you only need to remove it from within yourself. Any specific fear or anxiety or painful experience that is troubling you can be treated like this by imaging it transform from something that is hurting you to something that is separate from you and independent of you. By taking back all of your energy you have allowed it to absorb you heal yourself, and by casting it out you free yourself from further malign influence.</p>
<p>These things are contagious like colds and so you will find it necessary to cleanse yourself frequently at first, but as you get better with grounding, shielding and cleansing you will be able to maintain yourself more easily and feel happier and healthier.</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Our thoughts and emotions are actually physically addictive and so your body will push you back into a state where you experience the negative thoughts and feelings again because it is addicted to those experiences. The addiction occurs because our thoughts and feelings change the chemicals produced by our brains and our cells become accustomed to the presence of those chemicals and begin to crave them when they are not present. So your body will influence your thoughts and feelings to prompt you to return to having thoughts and feelings that can hurt you if you have become addicted to them. By maintaining yourself with grounding, shielding and cleansing you will eventually break down your addictions to the old bad feelings or thoughts and it will become easier and easier to stop having the thoughts or feelings that hurt you return to you.</p>
<p>I will cover meditation or prayer as a means of helping to control addictive thoughts and feelings in the next lesson…</p>
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<p><i>Blessed be, love Greg</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>We tend to think about painful things over and over again, things with emotions like anger and fear and loneliness attached to them seem to become almost addictive thoughts that we have trouble escaping from. It is a bit perverse that the very thoughts that most torment us tend to be the ones we obsess over. </p>
<p>The feelings that hurt us the most are the ones we keep returning to. </p>
<p>The reason for this sort of mental and emotional behavior is two-fold.</p>
<p>Firstly these things need to be healed because they represent parts of our lives that aren’t healthy for us and anything that isn’t well within us will clamor for attention until we repress it or resolve it.</p>
<p>Secondly these thoughts and emotions are responsible for producing chemicals in our brains which our body becomes physically addicted to. It is like dealing with a smoking or drinking addiction, the cells of our bodies learn to crave the chemicals produced by our bodies by our painful thoughts and emotions and so, when we feel the cells of our bodies craving those chemicals we learn to respond by thinking those painful thoughts and awakening those painful emotions in order to get our brains to produce more of the chemicals which the cells of our body learn to crave.</p>
<p>But we can break this addictive cycle with two methods, affirmations and interruptions. Prayers and meditation can be forms of affirmations.</p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Working with affirmations and interrupting painful cycles of thoughts and emotions will help us to heal the things that are hurting us mentally and emotionally.</p>
<p>We can use prayer or meditation to help us with our affirmation and interruption work.</p>
<p>To prepare for affirmation work you should make a list of things about yourself and your life, family, friends, etc… that you value. The things about yourself that are the most important ones. Add to that list the painful things about yourself that you want to change by turning them into positive statements. </p>
<p>Example: If you think you are too skinny and unattractive create an affirmation from this by saying to yourself: ‘I am an attractive wonderful person’. If you think you are too easily stressed out then turn this into an affirmation by thinking: ‘I am calm and centered and comfortable’.</p>
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<p>Work on your list of affirmations and then pick a few that are particularly important to you, pick two that are already at least partly true about yourself, and pick one that is something a little more challenging to work on to change; pray or meditate about these three affirmations, as you get the hang of it you can introduce more of these into your prayer or meditation work.</p>
<p>You will do the prayer or meditation affirmation work as part of your grounding, shielding and cleansing self maintenance work.</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>To work on your affirmations begin by quickly grounding, shielding and cleansing.</p>
<p>Once you are done cleansing yourself take a moment to reconnect with your breathing and the flow of energy created from Earth and Heaven that helps sustain you and heal you and make you who you are.</p>
<p>Create a sense of peace within yourself and fill yourself with love.</p>
<p>Love yourself for who you are right now, love yourself unconditionally, even love those things about yourself you may be unhappy with or which you want to change, love your family for who they are, love them unconditionally, loving everything about them, even things about them that might make you unhappy which you might hope they will change.</p>
<p><i>Note: Unconditional love is the purest highest form of love and has tremendous healing power. With unconditional love for ourselves and others we have the foundation for rebuilding how we think and feel about ourselves and others so that we can learn to think and feel about ourselves in healthier ways that may us stronger and happier. With unconditional love applied to our relationships with family and friends we empower ourselves to create stronger more nurturing relationships. You may want to spend some time thinking about what unconditional love really means to get to know this powerful concept and explore what it can do for you. </i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>You can learn more about unconditional love through meditation, or research it online or by talking to other people about it, or asking god about it in prayer. I strongly urge you to set aside any doubts or bad feelings or anger or resentment you may have towards yourself or family or friends and embrace unconditional love as firmly as you can.</p>
<p>When you have created a sense of peace and love within yourself then focus on the affirmation statements you have chosen to work on.</p>
<p>If you prefer prayer to meditation, then simply thank god for being these good things that you describe in your affirmations. Thank god for each of these good things three times. Each time you thank god for one of these affirmations about yourself or your life envision how wonderful this part of you or your life is and how much it means to you to be this good person you are and to have this good life you have. You can do more than three affirmations if you like, but three is enough to get started with.</p>
<p>If you would prefer meditation to prayer, simply repeat your affirmations with a feeling of gratitude toward yourself and the universe for being these good things and having these good things in your life. Remember to repeat each affirmation three times and to envision each of these wonderful parts of yourself and your life as clearly as you can.</p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>You may repeat any affirmation more than three times, but three is a good number to start with and as you get more experienced with this you can experiment with changing how many time a particular affirmation is repeated. Also remember that you may add more affirmations as you get better at this. </p>
<p>The more affirmations you use the more effective the process becomes.</p>
<p>Your affirmations should be considered to be like mantras and should be used at any time throughout the day when you recognize yourself getting caught up in cycles of painful thoughts or emotions. Use your affirmations to interrupt those cycles of thoughts and feelings to replace them with positive thoughts and feelings. Your affirmations should become so well practiced that whenever you are having a bad moment you can draw upon an affirmation that helps you to restore your sense of balance and wellbeing and which helps you to empower yourself to cope with any stressful situations you may find yourself in more successfully.</p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>The more affirmations you have learned the easier it becomes to find an appropriate affirmation for whatever you are feeling or thinking or experiencing at any moment that can help you deal with something that is painful or stressful. If no affirmation comes to mind in a situation then take time out to think about what you are feeling or experiencing and how you can create an affirmation from it. Then use that affirmation to help you gain more confidence in yourself and appreciate your ability to grow and meet new challenges.</p>
<p>Once you get in the habit of interrupting painful cycles of thoughts and emotions with affirmations you will begin to break down the production of the chemicals your body is addicted to by gradually giving yourself smaller and smaller doses until eventually your addiction to painful thoughts and emotions is broken and you become addicted to loving thoughts and emotions instead. Then your body will respond to pain and stress with strength and joy and you will be able to deal with all sorts of things in your life more easily and more successfully.</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>All of this is tough work, I know from personal experience how very difficult it is to break the habituation of negative thoughts and feelings that we become addicted to so I will offer this bit of additional advice.</p>
<p>Carbohydrates can play a strong role in our addictive cycles of thoughts and feelings so be careful not to binge on foods that are high sources of carbohydrates. Choose fruits or veggies over breads or cereals or carbohydrate based snacks like pretzels or chips or french-fries. You don’t have to try to cut out carbohydrates completely, just avoid eating a lot of these types of food at any one time.</p>
<p>If carbohydrate binging is part of your behaviour that has become well established then only 1 ounce or so of carbohydrates in a snack or meal is usually safe, 2 ounces may put you at risk, and more than 2 ounces may reinforce or trigger episodes of depression or cycles of painful thoughts and emotions that may lead to depression if you do not respond with your affirmations and restore yourself to a balanced state of peace, contentment and love.</p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p><b><i>Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen, Sionara… Until we meet again…</i></b></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Thank you for this opportunity to share these thoughts with you, I always enjoy writing about spiritual growth and it has been a pleasure to write this for you. I will remove references to you and add this to other articles I have written. My articles can be found by googling my name (greg.gourdian).</p>
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<p>Feel free to ask any questions or just to let me know how things are going, I would like to know a little more about you, but I wish to respect any concerns your parents may have about our work together if you are a minor. I believe in treating children as adults when they have adult problems to cope with but I also want to respect your family as well as you Soul. As you did not make it clear how old you are, my sense was that you may still be fairly young, I have been concerned, that if you are a minor, that you may need more help than I can give you and that you should perhaps seek counseling at school or through your parents if you are still seriously struggling with your depression.</p>
<p>I have confidence that you will learn to feel very good about yourself and your life, I know you are already a very strong person and that you will only grow stronger and better over time. It is the ultimate joy to become the most loving, nurturing, compassionate human being we can possibly be and I believe you have already extraordinary ability within yourself to heal both yourself and those whom you love.</p>
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<p><i>Blessings and Love, Greg</i></p>
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<p><i>Continued in next message…</i></p>
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<p>Hi Soul,</p>
<p>Agh! I ran into that bloody text limit again!</p>
<p>Soul I am going to finish writing to you offline and then copy and paste everything into messages... you shall probably get quite a few messages later today or tomorrow...</p>
<p>You really are going to be fine sweetie, and I am sure you will get more love and support from your family and friends, but you will have to gently let them know how you are feeling and what you need from them to help you through this. They are hurting too; they may feel too burdened to respond to you with the warmth, affection and support you may feel need right now.</p>
<p>But that won't be the case for always, and they will always love you no matter if they sometimes fail to show it to you when you sometimes feel you need it most.</p>
<p>Take care for now and I will get back to you with the lessons I promised you.</p>
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<p><i>TTYL, Gharveyn</i></p>
<p><i>aka Greg Gourdian</i></p>
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<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p> </p> Kundalini Awakening, A Cautionary Taletag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1159842011-04-01T05:48:28.806ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>We have had a series of Kundalini awakenings in our life. We had no training for these experiences. Our poor preparation may have lead to many problems in our life. Buddhism, Hinduism and yoga seem to offer the means to repair the damages done by our spontaneous Kundalini awakenings.</i></p>
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<p><b>Kundalini Awakening, A Cautionary Tale</b></p>
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<p>In early August of 2006 we had a Kundalini awakening experience more intense or powerful than any we…</p>
<p><i>We have had a series of Kundalini awakenings in our life. We had no training for these experiences. Our poor preparation may have lead to many problems in our life. Buddhism, Hinduism and yoga seem to offer the means to repair the damages done by our spontaneous Kundalini awakenings.</i></p>
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<p><b>Kundalini Awakening, A Cautionary Tale</b></p>
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<p>In early August of 2006 we had a Kundalini awakening experience more intense or powerful than any we had previously known.</p>
<p>We still referred to ourselves as a singular person at that time, although we had been aware of being a multiple person, a collective of some sort since the early 1980’s, perhaps even earlier.</p>
<p>Some people might suggest that our Kundalini awakenings are partly responsible for our shattered sense of our self-perception; we might agree, but can’t be sure. </p>
<p>We have our own explanations for what we believe about ourselves. Perhaps our personal explanations are just fancies, delusions.</p>
<p>It can be hard to tell. </p>
<p>Who should we trust, other than ourselves, as an authority regarding our own life?</p>
<p>In any event, our awakening in 2006 was extraordinary. </p>
<p>Two friends, Ambient Angel, and Madrigal assisted us in our awakening.</p>
<p>Ambient Angel was then a fellow we met online, the author of an article on manifestation who was coaching us about how to use manifestation successfully.</p>
<p>Madrigal is a dragon.</p>
<p>Madrigal had, by this time, been our friend for many years. We first became aware of Madrigal in this incarnation during a rebirthing exercise with a friend trained in this practice at MIU, back in the spring of 1986.</p>
<p>Ambient Angel was explaining that in order to manifest what we wish successfully we would have to learn to love ourselves 100% unconditionally. This meant we would have to cease all of our cognitive and emotional habits that were self-destructive.</p>
<p>A tall order...</p>
<p>We replied to Ambient Angel that we hated ourselves thoroughly and wanted to kill ourselves. We had tried Dr. Phil’s exercises in stopping the repetitive cycles of thoughts and emotions with which we habitually acted out our self-hatred unsuccessfully.</p>
<p>At that time we did not see how we could possibly learn to love ourselves unconditionally.</p>
<p>Then we had an inspiration, we told Ambient Angel we would ask Madrigal for help.</p>
<p>Now most people regarded Madrigal as an imaginary friend, if they knew abut Madrigal at all, so you may wonder how Madrigal could possibly help us.</p>
<p>We remembered to ask Madrigal for help while driving to work the next morning.</p>
<p>We expected Madrigal to remind us whenever we were castigating ourselves verbally, mentally, or emotionally. We expected that Madrigal would remind us when we failed to love ourselves unconditionally.</p>
<p>But Madrigal has a lazy streak; or, maybe Madrigal is just much smarter and more capable than we are.</p>
<p>Rather than constantly remind us when we failed to love ourselves well, Madrigal cleansed out all of our chakras and auras in an instant.</p>
<p>Kundalini energy roared up our spine powerfully activating each chakra along the way.</p>
<p>Faster than lightning can strike, our Kundalini energy activated our crown chakra and awakened our godhead.</p>
<p>We transformed instantly.</p>
<p>We experienced 100% unconditional love for ourselves; we finally understood how we had always been responsible for all of our past misery.</p>
<p>We could forgive everyone whom we ever felt had ever hurt us; everyone, including ourselves.</p>
<p>We were ecstatic.</p>
<p>However, we had had awakenings like this before, and before, we had always returned to sleep. It may take a few weeks or as long as a few months, but we had always gone back to sleep, to continue to dream our misery into existence.</p>
<p>We knew we had a rare opportunity to understand how to love ourselves in a healthy manner by experiencing our love for ourselves first hand, in a manner that we had never experienced before.</p>
<p>We knew we must use this opportunity to learn as much as we could before we fell asleep once more. We knew we must set about reawakening ourselves again as soon as possible.</p>
<p>We eventually learned to recover form states of ‘sleepiness’; we began to learn to maintain ourselves in a mindful, aware state more frequently.</p>
<p>We improved our diet, exercised, and used meditation daily.</p>
<p>We still got caught up in our own inner perceptions of deficits such as loneliness, despair, depression, anger, etc, but we were learning to recover form these more and more rapidly.</p>
<p>The Kundalini energy we were raising in our meditations drove us through many changes very quickly. We began to realize that cognitive dissonance between our perceptions of ourselves as a collective and the world’s reflections of us a singular being were hurting us. </p>
<p>We felt more isolated by other people’s ignorance of who we perceived ourselves to be.</p>
<p>We decided to ‘come out’ about who we felt ourselves to be and used NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) to help reinforce our sense of our collective being. We began referring to ourselves in the plural cases; this helped our friends and coworkers to be aware of us in a manner that was more real to us than being regarded as a singular person.</p>
<p>We had a peak experience of prolonged divine self-awareness that enabled us to boot-strap ourselves up our own ladder of cognitive development and spiritual evolution.</p>
<p>But we appear mad as a hatter to many people who meet us and listen to our ideas or beliefs.</p>
<p>We know we are on the track of a personal reality that may help us transcend all mortal limitations, yet to state such just reinforces the opinions of those who declare us mad.</p>
<p>Therefore, we must consider the possibility that our Kundalini awakenings may have addled our wits; many people have insisted this is so.</p>
<p>There may be other explanations, but as we have come to understand it, when practicing with raising Kundalini there is a danger of losing touch with reality when the subject has not properly followed the eight paths of yoga.</p>
<p>Without proper discipline, chaos is too likely to result.</p>
<p>Our life has been exceptionally chaotic recently.</p>
<p>We are now repeatedly reminded to return to basic principles, to rework ourselves from the ground up. We are grateful for all of our guides and wise friends; we feel ready to make a commitment to building a new, healthier foundation for our life.</p>
<p>So its back to basics now.</p>
<p>We reckon we will clear things up well enough.</p>
<p>We reckon any Kundalini awakening is better than the suicidal self-hatred we used to live with. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, we caution readers to learn more about yoga in order to prepare for their own Kundalini awakenings more mindfully than we have done. </p>
<p>Such preparation might have saved us much suffering.</p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!</i></p>
<p><i>Love, Grigori Rho Gharveyn</i></p>
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<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p> </p> Chakra Songtag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1159782011-04-01T05:35:12.342ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>We may feel we are familiar with the practices of prayer or meditation and we may have tried these unsuccessfully and wondered why such time honored avenues to self empowerment have failed to work in our lives. We may hear many testimonies that describe the effective power to transform our lives which these practices can bestow upon us and we may have felt frustrated that we have not learned how to use these tools to make ourselves feel happier, healthier or more content. Now a new…</i></p>
<p><i>We may feel we are familiar with the practices of prayer or meditation and we may have tried these unsuccessfully and wondered why such time honored avenues to self empowerment have failed to work in our lives. We may hear many testimonies that describe the effective power to transform our lives which these practices can bestow upon us and we may have felt frustrated that we have not learned how to use these tools to make ourselves feel happier, healthier or more content. Now a new tool, the Chakra Song, is available which may help you to realize the goals you may have felt you might never be able to attain. </i></p>
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<p><b>Chakra Song</b></p>
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<p>Many healing traditions all refer to an energetic body that is like a template for our physical body and which is directly related to our health, happiness and wellbeing. This energetic body has nodes of energy called chakras which are directly related to different aspects of our health and how we manifest our lives in this world. When the energetic body is functioning poorly we may work to heal it; one of the most fundamental parts of the work we must do to heal our energetic bodies is to cleanse our chakras of stagnant energy.</p>
<p>Clearing our chakras has immense benefit. Our natural energy flow can be bogged down by so many different things. Anything which creates stress impedes the health of our energetic body, that part of us which is healed by practices like Reiki, yoga or acupuncture. When the energetic body is healthy our minds work better, our emotions are healthier, and our physical bodies become healthier as well.</p>
<p>Our energetic bodies respond to our thoughts. This is why when we are conflicted or angry or depressed our energetic bodies become damaged and then function poorly. This is also why simple meditation or prayer can be so effective at restoring us to a state of wellbeing in body mind and spirit. By focusing our thoughts on healing our energetic body we restore ourselves to happiness, health and wellbeing.</p>
<p>It can sometimes be very difficult to learn how to meditate or pray effectively. Our minds are often too bemired by inner turmoil or too easily distracted by external and irrelevant influences. It takes patience to learn to quiet our thoughts so that we may empty ourselves of all the beliefs and conditions which may get in the way of successful prayer or meditation. </p>
<p>We must learn to recognize that many of our thoughts are vicious circles that never arrive at any functional conclusion but simple run about and about in circles endlessly consuming our minds and our time. Once we see that this is true we may begin to recognize when thoughts of this nature arise in our minds and begin to interrupt them, to stop thinking them. The more we practice not thinking these consuming thoughts the more we free our minds to think in healthier ways and the closer we become to realizing true internal peace.</p>
<p>In that peaceful state we can focus our thoughts more clearly on those things which really matter most to us, like our health. We can take control of our wellbeing and direct ourselves to become healthier, happier and more content. This works because everything that is manifest in the physical plane of this world begins as a thought form in our energetic bodies. By cleansing and healing our energetic bodies we create an effective thought form or mental template for our state of being which is healthier, happier and more fulfilling. </p>
<p>This template then manifests in the physical world by making our bodies healthier and bringing us new opportunities to enhance our lives and the lives of those we love. In this manner, the simple quiet practices of prayer or meditation become transformational tools with which we can effectively change our lives and make the world around us a happier, healthier more abundant place for all of us to share.</p>
<p>To help with the visualization work related to cleansing our chakras we decided to write a song. Song is one of the most powerful tools in our lives. The music is borrowed from the ‘Popcorn’ part of the soundtrack from the movie “A Clockwork Orange”. We chose this music because it is so happy, light and energizing. We hope you will find the music for this song and will then enjoy it as much as we have.</p>
<p>This song works! It has practically written itself. Our chakra visualizations are much stronger and clearer. What's more, as we were composing this song during our drive home from work we had scarcely any pain, typically driving has been a very painful activity for us because of needing to grasp the steering wheel, even when we remember to use our open palm against the steering wheel rather than grasp it the pain while driving has been pretty bad.</p>
<p>No more! <i>(Well, homeostasis, etc, but we know what purpose our pain serves and accept it.)</i></p>
<p>Please feel free to modify this song in any way that works best for you.</p>
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<p><strong>Chakra Song</strong></p>
<p>In my root chakra I find - red life energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It’s vitality that strengthens me and helps me to survive</p>
<p>Now the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your root chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>In my loin chakra I find - hot orange energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It is sexual; it inspires me, it helps me to create</p>
<p>Now the hot orange inspirational power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your loin chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the hot orange inspirational power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>In my mind chakra I find - yellow energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It is teaching me; it makes me free, it helps me to be me</p>
<p>Now the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your mind chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>In my heart chakra I find - sweet green energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It is compassionate; it’s full of love, it helps me be healthy</p>
<p>Now the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your heart chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>In my voice chakra I find - loud blue energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It communicates; it speaks to thee, it sings along with me</p>
<p>Now the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your voice chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>In my brow chakra I find - purple energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It’s intuitive; it knows the truth, it helps me to perceive</p>
<p>Now the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your brow chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>In my crown chakra I find - violet white energy divine</p>
<p>It is pure and good; it cleanses me and energizes me</p>
<p>It’s the god I am, my divinity; it realizes me</p>
<p>It connects me to infinity and all that I can be</p>
<p>Now the violet white chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat the line above until your crown chakra visualization is clear then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the violet white chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now you know the chakra song; so we all can sing along</p>
<p>Now the divine rainbow chakra powers open like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until all of your chakras are clearly visualized together then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the divine rainbow chakra powers open like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your root chakra’s 4 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the vital red life chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the hot orange inspirational power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your loin chakra’s 6 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the inspiring hot orange power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your mind chakra’s 10 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the mental yellow teaching power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your heart chakra’s 12 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the sweet green loving chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your voice chakra’s 16 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the loud blue singing chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your brow chakra’s 2 petals stretch into descending cords of energy that weave back and forth through your lower chakras like a caduceus symbol then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the purple wisdom chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the violet white chakra power opens like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your crown chakra’s 40 petals stretch into radiating cords of energy and a solid broad cord of white energy connects your crown to the heavens then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the violet white chakra power opens like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the lovely rainbow chakra powers open like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until all your chakra’s radiating cords mingle their energy in your energetic body then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the lovely rainbow chakra powers open like a flower</p>
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<p>Now the divine living chakra powers open like a flower</p>
<p><i>...Repeat until your crown chakra is connected to the heavens by a strong white cord then move to the YES line...</i></p>
<p>Yes, the divine living chakra powers open like a flower</p>
<p>Now all the divine living chakra powers open like a flower</p>
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<p><i>…fin…</i></p>
<p><i>Once you have experienced the connection from the heavens to the crown chakra open wide follow up by singing the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”; make up the lyrics as you go using any positive affirmations you like that describe yourself as a happy healthy human being whose good fortune brings you everything you may wish for</i></p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!</i></p>
<p><i>Blessed be...</i></p>
<p><i>Namaste.</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p> Working With Auras & Chakras, The Dark Sidetag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1159712011-04-01T05:07:04.358ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>We replied to an email by writing a new article on working with chakras and auras. In that article we glossed over working with some of the ‘darker’ emotions related to fear, emotions such as anger, envy, and jealousy. We cautioned readers not to act hastily when cleansing, aligning, or balancing their chakras because sometimes these potentially dangerous emotions may serve very useful purposes.</i></p>
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<p><b>Working With Auras & Chakras, The Dark…</b></p>
<p><i>We replied to an email by writing a new article on working with chakras and auras. In that article we glossed over working with some of the ‘darker’ emotions related to fear, emotions such as anger, envy, and jealousy. We cautioned readers not to act hastily when cleansing, aligning, or balancing their chakras because sometimes these potentially dangerous emotions may serve very useful purposes.</i></p>
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<p><b>Working With Auras & Chakras, The Dark Side</b></p>
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<p>Light and dark are popularly perceived as opposing forces, parts of a dynamic, dualistic pair. </p>
<p>Pure light or pure darkness both become meaningless; without their contrasting counterparts, they lack any useful definition.</p>
<p>When working with your Auras and Chakras it is important to consider the value of all of the energies you discover within yourself. All of the energies you discover in your energetic bodies serve useful, functional purposes, regardless of whether they appear to be dark or light.</p>
<p>While we prefer to focus on our lighter energies, energies related to universal, unconditional love, the darker energies are equally important.</p>
<p>It is important to work in balance with both your light and dark energies.</p>
<p>We advise working with the lighter energies first, because these energies can help you prepare to deal with the darker sort more successfully.</p>
<p>However, working exclusively with the lighter energies will reflexively draw the darker energies to you. Your energetic bodies always seek balance, so working exclusively to build the light energies will automatically also build your dark energies.</p>
<p>You cannot be an earthly being of only pure light or pure darkness. </p>
<p>If you aspire to be a being of pure light, then you will project your darkness outside of yourself and you may come to believe your own darkness, personified in other people, is your enemy.</p>
<p>In this manner, a person aspiring to be purely good may become evil because they learn to attack the darkness they see in others that reflects the darkness they reject within themselves.</p>
<p>Oddly enough, the corollary is true as well; a person desiring to be pure evil will often draw people to themselves who reflect their own rejected inner goodness.</p>
<p>Both extremes are prone to mistake those people around them who reflect their rejected light or dark qualities as enemies. Both those who wish to be purely good and those who wish to be purely evil may wind up engaged in hostile behavior directed against those people around them who reflect the parts of themselves they have tried to reject.</p>
<p>This makes it seem as if only the dark side can win. Those who see themselves as purely good too often wind up acting in hostile aggressive manners toward anyone they see as evil.</p>
<p>Attacking evil in any form we perceive it, is still an inherently hostile, aggressive, harmful behavior, so the darkness seems to win.</p>
<p>Attacking people who appear to reflect the rejected goodness within ourselves is also hostile, aggressive, harmful behavior.</p>
<p>Only by learning to work with our energies in balance can we learn to manifest ourselves in a manner that is truly free of inappropriate hostile, aggressive behavior.</p>
<p>So when is hostile, aggressive behavior appropriate?</p>
<p>Hostile aggressive behavior may be appropriate for the purpose of self-defense.</p>
<p>However, in order to know whether you need to defend yourself, you must know yourself very well. Too often people are ignorant of who they really are. It is easy to adopt false beliefs about who we are or how we should behave.</p>
<p>These false beliefs about ourselves can usually be discovered in our third chakra, the chakra of our intellect and ego. They will appear as dark or muddy, murky blotches. Examining these blotches may reveal structure and detail that are not immediately apparent. These areas of our third chakra are places in our egos where our stories about ourselves are not true.</p>
<p>Our egos love dramatic stories that put ourselves in a ‘good’ light, regardless of whether we are attracted to the darkness or light within ourselves.</p>
<p>Our egos are subject to perceiving themselves in terms of conflict, in terms of dramatic stories of ourselves alone against the world. Our egos tend to condition us to perceive ourselves as victims in these dramas; we learn to perceive ourselves as being unfairly maligned. Our egos teach us to feel prosecuted, to see ourselves as the victims of terrible injustices.</p>
<p>Whenever we feel any anger, hatred, envy, or jealousy, our own dramas created for us by our fearful egos have trapped us in our own illusions.</p>
<p>It is important to understand that our egos serve a useful purpose; they are part of our defense mechanisms. However, if we have not been well loved and well nurtured in life we are prone to feel alone; our egos fear to be alone. Our egos respond to compensate for our fears of being alone by creating myths about our personal strengths or virtues in order to make us feel confident in ourselves and more attractive to other people.</p>
<p>We create stories about ourselves that helps us feel more secure.</p>
<p>When these stories are true stories about our real virtues, virtues we practice daily, then we may appear to be in good health, well balanced.</p>
<p>However, when these stories are false stories that defame our true virtues then we may be in peril. We will be prone to experience serious discrepancies called cognitive dissonance that constantly challenge our lies or delusions about ourselves.</p>
<p>Our cognitive defense mechanisms, typically managed by our egos, may respond to cognitive dissonance with denial. We may wind up investing more energy in convincing ourselves of our own false truths. We may then become more imbalanced as a result; the cognitive dissonance typically grows steadily worse.</p>
<p>The energy flowing through our third chakra will become increasingly stagnant in response. This is because we are prone to hold onto our false, idealized beliefs about ourselves, even though we should be letting go of them.</p>
<p>Anytime we hold on to energy in our chakras we create stagnant pools that attract and bind more energy to themselves. In this manner, we may eventually cause our third chakra to shut down, so that only a tiny trickle of energy passes through. We will find it more difficult to analyze new problems or respond to new intellectual challenges because we are investing all of our mental energies maintaining our delusions.</p>
<p>Eventually we may have a complete break with reality as a result.</p>
<p>Many people live in a constant state of illusion, deluding themselves as to who they regard themselves as being, both to themselves and to other people around them.</p>
<p>Working with your chakras and auras can help you find your balance. You can learn to reveal your own illusions to yourself if you are brave enough to admit they must exist.</p>
<p>All outer experiences in your life reflect your inner state of health or well-being. When you attract hostility and aggression to yourself, then these properties must also exist within you.</p>
<p>Working with your chakras and auras helps reveal what is true within yourself by manifesting your inner conflicts in your external relationships with other people.</p>
<p>People who appear to be your enemies may really be your friends, even if they openly declare themselves to be your enemies. Your own self-hatred causes you to perceive those things you hate about yourself in other people, where you may be prone to attack those people in a misdirected effort to attack those inner parts of yourself you hate most.</p>
<p>By identifying both the light and dark parts of yourself in your chakras and auras you can learn to bring these parts of yourself into balance. You can begin to resolve the tensions, anxieties, and conflicts that any imbalances in your chakras must create.</p>
<p>The more balanced you become, the less drama you are likely to produce in your life. Instead, you will learn to experience more peace and harmony as you become more balanced.</p>
<p>We recommend cultivating your virtues and aspiring to be more virtuous because your virtues are your true source of strength in life.</p>
<p>The power acquired by cultivating your dark side is not strength it is force. All force derives from aggressively manipulating and controlling other people.</p>
<p>To acquire true strength you must temper yourself with discipline.</p>
<p>Any effort to use force to control your environment puts you further out of balance. </p>
<p>The real issues are inside you, in the imbalances of energies in your chakras. Trying to control worldly manifestations of your inner state of being over-extends you. Working with your chakras is the only way to address the real issues within you that are damaging your life.</p>
<p>All efforts to work with the energies of your chakras within yourself, to temper yourself by controlling your own darkest emotions, build character and strength. These efforts bring you closer into balance with yourself.</p>
<p>By working with your auras and chakras you can learn to find your own unique inner balance. You can learn to develop a consistent inner sense of your own character that is strong enough to meet all challenges in your life with the virtues of love, compassion, nurture, and respect.</p>
<p>Your dark side defines you. Without your inner darkness you have no character. How you temper your dark side to strengthen your character makes you a more loving, virtuous person.</p>
<p>In alchemy, your dark side is known as your shadow.</p>
<p>Your shadow is the sum of all your non-conscious cognitive processes, including your sub-consciousness, unconsciousness, collective consciousness, and super consciousness.</p>
<p>You are entirely powerless without the dynamic interaction of light and dark within yourself. Your shadow manages your inner balance and influences all of your manifestations. </p>
<p>Your shadow is always completely fair.</p>
<p>If your manifestations are not what you desire, something within yourself, within your energetic bodies, within your chakras, is responsible for the discrepancy. Your shadow knows exactly why you have sabotaged yourself, now you must learn from your shadow’s influences how to identify the places within yourself that are conflicted so that you may learn to consciously, willfully resolve them, on your own by working with the energies of your chakras successfully.</p>
<p>Your shadow always serves you by reporting on your inner state of being through its influences upon your outer manifestations. If your manifestations are terrible, then your shadow knows how to fix the problems. You must cultivate your relationship with your shadow to learn about your false inner beliefs that sabotage your efforts by keeping you in conflict with yourself.</p>
<p>By learning to align, balance, and cleanse your chakras you will learn more about your shadow, you will learn to live in balance with your dark side and the mysteries within you that define who you really are.</p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!<br/>Love, Grigori Rho Gharveyn...</i></p>
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<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p> Working With Auras & Chakras, an Alchemical Arttag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1160802011-04-01T04:53:28.679ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>We received an email in response to our article titled <a href="http://tangledintime.blogspot.com/2006/07/aura-reading-you-can-teach-yourself-to.html">Aura Reading – You can Teach Yourself to Read Auras</a>. Our reader asked what metallic colors are seen in auras, whether odors may be associated with auras, and whether auras may be manipulated. We are grateful for all questions from our readers; this letter inspired us to write the following article... </i></p>
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<p><i>We received an email in response to our article titled <a href="http://tangledintime.blogspot.com/2006/07/aura-reading-you-can-teach-yourself-to.html">Aura Reading – You can Teach Yourself to Read Auras</a>. Our reader asked what metallic colors are seen in auras, whether odors may be associated with auras, and whether auras may be manipulated. We are grateful for all questions from our readers; this letter inspired us to write the following article... </i></p>
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<p><b>Working With Auras & Chakras, an Alchemical Art</b></p>
<p>Many people report seeing silver, gold, or other metallic colors such as copper or lead, etc. in auras, as well as earth tones, tints, or shades, etc…</p>
<p>Some aura colors can be sparkly, often resembling minerals, semi-precious stones, or gems.</p>
<p>We prefer to choose to reduce the complexity of our own perceptions, so we focus on a narrow band of colors that we think are the minimum useful colors, the primary, secondary, and tertiary hues.</p>
<p>Tints or Shades of pure hues represent the Yin or Yang properties of those hues, respectively.</p>
<p>Browns and other earth tones may often represent stagnant energies, or complex issues that bog people down by seeming to be too complex to understand or resolve. </p>
<p>Some grays, browns, or earth tones may represent very complex processes. The blending of many colors together often results in brown or grey tones. When closely examined, grey or muddy colored areas may show fine details with many different colors interacting together.</p>
<p>The Earth itself, with all of its inter-dependent species living together in so many diverse habitats, provides many good examples of what may be regarded as healthy expressions of earth tone colors.</p>
<p>However, how you learn to perceive chakras and auras is a personal matter; it is up to you to discover your own perceptions and how to work with them well. </p>
<p>All people perceive everything uniquely for themselves.</p>
<p>When we describe our experiences working with chakras and auras we are really trying to convey more about the process of learning how to work with them, rather than tell you what you yourself should see.</p>
<p>If you are strongly oriented to your sense of smell, then you may find a psychic smell that may be associated with chakras or auras. You may develop a keen sense of specific properties related to specific issues that you make yourself aware of by their odor.</p>
<p>Whatever your perceptual biases may be, you can develop a keener perception of yourself and other people through developing your awareness of chakras and auras.</p>
<p>The more aware you become of the subtle processes perceived in auras and chakras, the more effectively you can learn to manage your life and learn to heal yourself.</p>
<p>Healing is the primary purpose for developing your perceptions of chakras and auras.</p>
<p>There are three primary ways to manipulate your energy in order to make your chakras and auras healthier. Important aspects of your life such as your health, intellect, security, social life, emotional balance, etc. will always reflect the improved states of health you create in the energetic bodies of your chakras and auras.</p>
<p>Cleansing, Aligning, and Balancing are your three primary methods to manipulate the energy states of your seven major chakras and their associated auras. It is typically preferable to work directly with your chakras; the energy states of your auras are a product of the functions of your chakras. </p>
<p>However, many people find it easier to perceive the details of these processes by their effects within their auras. Remember to link back to the related chakra when working with an aura, so that the effective change is really within the chakra, and not just within the aura.</p>
<p>Your innermost aura is associated with your red root chakra, followed by auras whose hues are typically perceived to be orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and clear, successively. </p>
<p>Some people find it easier to give the clear crown chakra a hue or color such as a very light purple, pink, gold, or silver, especially for the purposes of illustrations. </p>
<p>We tend to depict the clear color of the seventh chakra as an extremely light tint of red-violet, a sort of pinkish lilac color.</p>
<p>Working with each chakra directly affects its related aura, however, it is possible to work on an aura but fail to address the root problem in the aura’s associated chakra. Problems in an aura will return if the root problems in the associated chakra have not been resolved.</p>
<p>When you cleanse an aura or chakra, you examine them carefully for any energy that seems stagnant or out of place.</p>
<p>You can examine an aura or chakra with any of your senses.</p>
<p>We are personally very visually oriented, so we prefer to use colors to visualize our chakras and auras. Since most of the literature on chakras and auras rely on color descriptions this works out well for us, however our color biases may be more difficult to understand for people who rely more on sounds such as musical tones, odors, tastes, or tactile sensations.</p>
<p>We recommend caution when cleansing chakras and auras. Everything you find in your chakras and auras has a purpose. All of what you find in your energetic bodies belongs to you, personally.</p>
<p>While many people describe things like 'parasites' or 'toxins' in their auras or chakras, these reports may be exaggerations or distortions of what is really going on. </p>
<p>All energies in your auras and chakras always belong to you. </p>
<p>You are always the one in control of all of your energies, always.</p>
<p>When you cleanse an aura or chakra, you remove any energies that do not appear to belong there.</p>
<p>We prefer to visualize our chakras as spheres of colored light, as a sort of shorthand for more detailed perceptions.</p>
<p>The literature available on the topics of auras and chakras report many conflicting descriptions of auras and chakras, their associated colors, their functional purposes, internal structures, etc. </p>
<p>It is important to work with whatever method of perceiving your chakras and auras is most comfortable for you. While most traditional systems recognize seven basic, primary chakras, some systems recognize 8, 9, 12, 13, or 14 important energy centers. There are systems in Chinese Medicine that define over 300 chakras related to human energetic bodies.</p>
<p>Sometimes when you are cleansing an aura or chakra, you may find something that clearly belongs to a different aura or chakra.</p>
<p>Alignment is the process of moving the misplaced energy to its appropriate place.</p>
<p>For instance, if you find strong sexual feelings in your heart or throat chakras you may wish to move those lustful energies to your second chakra. </p>
<p>We perceive the second chakra as orange colored. Your second chakra is responsible for your creative genius, your emotions, and your sexuality.</p>
<p>Your second chakra is located in the region of your bladder, near your reproductive organs.</p>
<p>Sometimes people shut down an over-active chakra. Sometimes traumatic experiences may cause a chakra to shut down. In some cases, the energy flow though shut down chakras may come to a near halt; the shut down chakra may back up with stagnant energies.</p>
<p>Cleansing a chakra is an easier technique than aligning or balancing, consequently many people learn this technique first, even though it should be used last.</p>
<p>So you may want to be very careful with your first cleansings, avoid being overly ambitious.</p>
<p>Cleansing stagnant energies out of an under-active chakra helps you get the chakra to work in a healthy manner again.</p>
<p>However, it is important to remember that if the chakra appears under-active or entirely shut down there must be a good reason for throttling it down; you must remember to address the reason for shutting it down when you re-awaken it.</p>
<p>Ideally, you are looking for a carefully managed, well controlled Kundalini Awakening when you are working with your chakras and auras. Cleansing things out abruptly, without preparation for the potential changes that may result can make such an awakening a traumatic experience. </p>
<p>For this reason, we recommend you begin working with your chakras and auras slowly at first. Don’t feel frustrated by a lack of definition in your initial perceptions of your auras and chakras. Definition will improve over time as you become more experienced. The initial lack of definition may help protect you from taking things too quickly at first.</p>
<p>Once you get a good feel for how to work with your chakras and auras it becomes safer to go deeper and work faster.</p>
<p>However, taking your time now can help prevent a lot of stress down the road later.</p>
<p>There will always be some stress when you work with your auras and chakras.</p>
<p>Before cleansing your chakras and after aligning your energies appropriately, you need to Balance each chakra. This may be a bit trickier.</p>
<p>Balancing your chakras requires examining your beliefs about the things you perceive within yourself. Any strong emotion is likely to point to some form of imbalance within you.</p>
<p>This does not mean you should not be passionate with your family and friends, jobs, hobbies, etc. The key emotion to be mindful of is fear. Other emotions related to fear that may often have harmful effects include anger, hatred, greed, jealousy, etc...</p>
<p>These potentially dangerous emotions may often cause you to harm yourself. </p>
<p>The nurturing, virtuous emotions such as love, joy, or pleasure usually present less of a problem, unless these emotions become too extreme. </p>
<p>However, taking these virtuous emotions to an extreme has its advantages; when these emotions are made more extreme you are likely to become stronger, you may become much more capable of healing your deepest wounds.</p>
<p>Problems with virtuous emotions typically only arise when healthy love becomes dominating, controlling, conditional love, or when pleasure leads to selfishness, recklessness, or addiction, etc... It is possible to take healthy emotions too far and put yourself at risk as a result. </p>
<p>By bringing your emotional responses into balance you learn to resolve your inner conflicts, you learn to unify your body, heart, mind, and spirit, integrating them into a stronger, more resilient and more adaptable character.</p>
<p>The object of all occult arts is to help you learn to know yourself better, to help you learn how to heal yourself, and to help you learn to help others learn to heal themselves. </p>
<p>Working with your auras and chakras helps you to accomplish these primary tasks.</p>
<p>Working with your auras and chakras is an important part of the art of Alchemy.</p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!<br/>Love, Grigori Rho Gharveyn...</i></p>
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<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p> </p> Working With Auras & Chakras, A Primertag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1162152011-04-01T04:37:40.378ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>All alchemists must learn to align, balance, and cleanse their auras and chakras. Auras and Chakras are parts of each person’s energetic body. Your energetic body helps create your physical body, it manages all the forces required to create who you are physically from the quantum level up to the plenum level. By learning to work with your energetic body, you can completely change your life, improving your health, happiness, liberty, and sense of…</i></p>
<p><i>All alchemists must learn to align, balance, and cleanse their auras and chakras. Auras and Chakras are parts of each person’s energetic body. Your energetic body helps create your physical body, it manages all the forces required to create who you are physically from the quantum level up to the plenum level. By learning to work with your energetic body, you can completely change your life, improving your health, happiness, liberty, and sense of security.</i></p>
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<p><b>Working With Auras & Chakras, A Primer</b></p>
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<p>All living organisms have energetic bodies. These energetic bodies channel the energy that becomes the constituent atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs of your body. Creation did not happen at some distant time in the past. Creation is always happening right now. Your energetic bodies channel the forces of creation that manifest your physical body.</p>
<p>You have many physical bodies. The body you are familiar with in this world is only one of many similar or vastly different bodies you wear in other lives. Similar bodies belong to the alternate reality iterations of the incarnation you currently perceive yourself as being; different bodies belong to other incarnations, past and future, terrestrial and extraterrestrial.</p>
<p>All people are evolving spiritual beings of pure energy. The physical bodies we create for ourselves are the products of what we learn to believe or desire. The things each person feels and believes are fundamental to each person manifests themselves.</p>
<p>Learning to work with your auras and chakras helps you to learn how your energetic bodies are able to create everything you experience in your lives. Mastering the alchemical arts related to refining and purifying yourself spiritually helps you become capable of consciously, willfully creating miracles in your life every day.</p>
<p>The power that is your birthright, the power of a divine supernatural being, a creator of new universes, can never be taken away from you. However, this ultimate power remains hidden from you until you learn how to use it safely.</p>
<p>All occult arts and sciences exist to help people learn to discipline themselves, to temper their characters and ennoble their souls to become beings of peace and masters of creation.</p>
<p>All people always participate in the processes of creation. Evolutionary sciences study the amount of time it requires to sequence DNA in particular structures, beginning with the big bang that creates the initial forms for subatomic particles, and then combining these particles to build the initial element of hydrogen and helium that leads to star formation and the nuclear fusions within stars that create all of the remaining elements.</p>
<p>All of these evolutionary events happen right now. </p>
<p>The big bang wasn’t an event billions of years in the past. It just takes us billions of years to see it in our telescopes. The big bang happens now. </p>
<p>Time is an illusion; there is only this present moment, now. </p>
<p>You are creating yourself now.</p>
<p>If you are creating a version of yourself that is currently unhappy or unhealthy, you are still the creator of your misery. However, as you learn why you make yourself miserable, you will learn how to heal yourself and make yourself happier, healthier, and wealthier.</p>
<p>Of all the occult arts, the alchemical arts, in particular, help you learn to transform yourself into the being you most desire to be, living the life that you most desire to live.</p>
<p>Alchemy works by training your energetic bodies to become healthier.</p>
<p>The primary way to learn to work with your energetic bodies begins with ‘visualizing’ your auras and chakras. Your auras are a series of seven shells of energy surrounding your physical body; each nested one inside the next in the manner of Russian dolls.</p>
<p>Each of your auras relates to one of your seven primary chakras. The aura permeating your physical body extends just barely past your skin. This initial aura relates to your root chakra. </p>
<p>We perceive all root chakras and their related auras as primarily red in color. However, you may see root chakras as a different color, or perceive them more strongly with other senses, such as your hearing, taste, touch, or smell.</p>
<p>The more popular texts about auras and chakras seem to favor a system of seven energetic bodies composed of pairs of auras and chakras whose associated colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and clear. However, be eight or more primary chakras may be described in many less well-known texts about chakras, auras and energetic bodies.</p>
<p>Chinese medicine describes over three hundred chakras used for acupuncture. The apparent size of the primary chakras appears significantly larger than the more numerous ‘Qi’ or ‘Chi’ (<i>pronounced key or chee</i>) energy centers. </p>
<p>These myriad smaller chakras are often pinpoint size, vanishingly small.</p>
<p>The seven primary chakras correspond to changes in energy vibrations. Energy frequencies increase as you move up the central energy channel to successively higher chakras. Thus, people who are visually oriented will tend to see chakras and auras in terms of a scale of color, while audially oriented people may perceive them as a scale of musical tones. </p>
<p>We suppose a scale of smells might include qualities like smoky, earthy, flowery, etc…</p>
<p>Each successive aura seems to end or merge into the next a little farther from the surface of your skin, with the clear aura extending invisibly from a point just a bit farther than your reach.</p>
<p>Each of the seven primary chakras related to your auras may appear to have unique external and internal forms. The details of these forms vary from text to text, we believe it is better to perceive the forms of chakras on your own, learning to describe them in whatever manner is most meaningful or functional for you. However, having many different models described by other people can help you learn how to describe your own perceptions of auras and chakras.</p>
<p>Most of the popular texts describe the primary chakras as having internal forms like a vortex, surrounded by geometric details; the outer forms are often described as being something like flowers with many petals. </p>
<p>Your root chakra and its related aura govern your vitality and physical health. You draw energy into yourself from the earth through your root chakra. Root chakras are typically described as red. Your root chakra is located at the base of your spine slightly forward of your anus. There are four petals typically described as part of the outer form of the root chakra, the internal geometry may resemble a square within a circle. </p>
<p>Your second chakra, your creative chakra, governs your emotions, creativity, and sexuality. Energy for this chakra flows upward from your root chakra. Your creative, emotional energies are higher in frequency; they are typically described as orange colored. Your creative chakra is located above your root chakra on a level near the top of your bladder, close to your reproductive organs. The outer form of your creative chakra may have six petals, the inner geometry may resemble a moon and sun within a circle.</p>
<p>Your third chakra is related to your mind, ego, social instincts, and intellect. The higher vibration of your energies in this chakra may appear to be a yellow hue. Your ego chakra is located along the central column of your energy flow above your creative chakra on a level near the bottom of your stomach between your navel and solar plexus. Ten petals are typically associated with your intellect or ego chakra; the internal geometric form may sometimes be described as resembling a triangle within a circle.</p>
<p>Your fourth chakra is your heart chakra. Your heart chakra and its related aura are associated with your compassion, mercy, and ability to heal. These energies may appear to be a bright green color, a sort of intensely saturated near apple-green hue. Your fourth chakra is located near the lower end of your sternum on a level with your heart. There are typically twelve petals associated with the outer form of your heart chakra; the inner form may resemble a six-pointed ‘Star of David’ inscribed within a circle.</p>
<p>Your fifth chakra is your throat chakra. Your throat chakra governs your self expression. This chakra manages templates for you ideal states of physical, mental, social, and emotional well-being, etc... The higher energy vibrations of your throat chakra may appear to be a deep, rich sky-blue hue. Sixteen petals may be associated with the outer form of your throat chakra. The inner form may resemble a circle within a triangle inscribed in a circle. Your throat chakra is located on the level of a hollow depression just below your larynx above the notch at the top of your sternum.</p>
<p>Your sixth chakra is your brow chakra. Your sixth chakra governs your third eye, perceptions, and judgment. The hue commonly associated with the higher vibration of the energies of your brow chakra is a rich violet or light purple color. Only two petals are described in association with your brow chakra. The petals of your brow chakra terminate in the beginnings of energy channels that return downward crossing back and forth through each of your lower chakras in a manner resembling the medical symbol called a caduceus. Your brow chakra is located on a level just above the ridge of bone at the base of your forehead.</p>
<p>Your seventh chakra is your crown chakra. Your crown chakra governs your awareness of yourself, your divinity, and all other divines, including a being whom many may describe as an ultimate divine creator. The higher vibration of energies in your crown chakra is considered to extend beyond the range of human perception and is described as being clear. For illustrative purposes artists often choose gold, silver, or a light pinkish orchid hue to represent the crown chakra and its related aura. The number of petals associated with the crown chakra may be infinite. Some representations of the crown chakra depict only forty or so petals. The inner form may be depicted as a series of rings of overlapping pointed petals based on patterns of the number five. Your crown chakra is located at the top of your head where infants are born with a soft spot that slowly hardens up.</p>
<p>There are three primary techniques for working with the energies of your chakras and auras. </p>
<p>These three techniques are aligning, balancing, and cleansing. </p>
<p>All work you do with your chakras is reflected in your auras, however, work done within your auras will not be reflected in their associated chakras unless you deliberately link back to their related chakras and work with them as well.</p>
<p>Aligning your chakras is a process whereby you move energies from one chakra to another. </p>
<p>Any congestion of energies in your chakras results in muddy forms of energy with abnormally lower vibrations collecting in stagnant pools to block the natural flow of energies through your chakras. These slower vibrating muddy energies need to move to your lower chakras where they will share a common frequency of vibration.</p>
<p>Aligning also applies to energies produced by agitation in your chakras. Agitated energies vibrate at a higher frequency, moving swiftly about within your chakras in a chaotic manner that is poorly controlled. Agitated higher frequency energies need to be moved to their appropriate higher-level chakras where they will share a common frequency of vibration.</p>
<p>Chakras can only process energies within their own appropriate, unique ranges of vibrations. </p>
<p>Energies outside these ranges of vibrations will not move out of a chakra until they have changed frequency to match their chakra’s natural energy range. </p>
<p>The natural rate of change for stagnant or agitated energies to improve may be very slow, at best. Sometimes the changes in your muddy energies are for the worse because there are typically active processes within your chakras that maintain these muddy energies in stagnant or agitated states.</p>
<p>Another alignment technique is to adjust the frequencies of energies that are higher or lower than the required range of their chakra so that they begin to oscillate with vibrations within the required range, instead of simply moving those energies to their more appropriate chakras.</p>
<p>Balancing energies in your chakras requires you to examine the Yin or Yang properties of these energies. Dark yin energies appear as shades of the natural hue of the related chakra. Light yang energies appear as tints of their respective chakras’ hues.</p>
<p>When regions of tints and shades are evenly balanced, the appearance of being tinted or shaded may seem to disappear. However, when these yin and yang energies are not balanced the entire chakra may take on a tinted or shaded appearance. </p>
<p>For people whose preferred mode of perception is geared more towards sounds rather than visions, tints and shades may seem to sound more like notes that are sharp or flat.</p>
<p>Cleansing energies in your chakras and auras is a process of removing energies. To release these energies you may either ground them to the earth or radiate them to the heavens. </p>
<p>A law of conservation of energy applies here, so any energies you remove form your auras or chakras must be replaced. Cleansing your auras will increase the energy flows required to replace any energy you remove. If you have not aligned and balanced your chakras before cleansing them, the remaining distortions in your chakras will adversely affect the energies you draw into yourself to replenish the energies you cleansed from your system.</p>
<p>Cleansing without alignment or balancing can have very dramatic effects. Watching the rapid influx of energies transform as they move through your energetic bodies can show you how your chakras are using or misusing the energies with which you replenish yourself.</p>
<p>Remember that cleansings always result in dramatic changes. These changes may be less than ideal if your chakras remain muddy or out of balance. </p>
<p>The patterns of behavior underlying the flow of energies through your body are often homeostatic and may be extremely persistent. These patterns will reproduce themselves unless you discipline yourself to change them. To change anything within your chakras and auras effectively you must always change the underlying habits of behavior as well.</p>
<p>Habits of behavior include physiological behaviors such as respiration, eating, elimination, and procreation. Social, Emotional and Intellectual behavioral habits may include expressions of love, appreciation, anger, contempt, indifference, interest or curiosity, etc…</p>
<p>Each of your chakras has a range of behavioral patterns that express their respective states of health.</p>
<p>By retraining your physical, emotional, mental, and social habits you can train your first four chakras to help them become healthier. </p>
<p>By retraining your manners, self-expression, perceptions, and prejudices you can effectively improve the health of your fifth and sixth chakras. </p>
<p>By retraining your religious practices to bring you closer to your awareness of your own divine nature, and the divine nature of all other beings, you improve the health of your crown chakra.</p>
<p>All improvements in the health of your chakras are reflected in the health of your auras and improvements in their related aspects of your life. </p>
<p>You can learn to retrain yourself to become a happier, healthier, more successful, more secure person by learning to work with the natural flows of energy through your chakras and auras.</p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!<br/>Love, Grigori Rho Gharveyn...</i></p>
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<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p> </p> Alchemy Unveiledtag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-01:6363372:Topic:1162032011-04-01T04:09:42.671ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>Alchemy is a misunderstood science on purpose. Those who are attracted to alchemy by base motives are initially, inherently unlikely to understand the goals of the true alchemist. However, those who understand the root purpose of alchemy look beyond the popular fables of transmuting lead into gold, they look more directly into the very heart of the matter; they look within themselves.</i></p>
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<p><b>Alchemy Unveiled</b></p>
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<p>Alchemy is the…</p>
<p><i>Alchemy is a misunderstood science on purpose. Those who are attracted to alchemy by base motives are initially, inherently unlikely to understand the goals of the true alchemist. However, those who understand the root purpose of alchemy look beyond the popular fables of transmuting lead into gold, they look more directly into the very heart of the matter; they look within themselves.</i></p>
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<p><b>Alchemy Unveiled</b></p>
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<p>Alchemy is the Divine Art; it is an art that unveils the Divinity of each and every person.</p>
<p>All people are always Divine beings; however, their states of conflict within themselves too often hide this truth from themselves.</p>
<p>When a common veil of alchemy that many people may be familiar with is examined we may see that many fools may be lead astray by their own greed, for alchemy is about the inner spiritual transmutation of the alchemist from a condition resembling base lead to a condition more resembling shining gold.</p>
<p>Alchemy is not interested in the material transmutation of any base matter at all.</p>
<p>Once an alchemist has acquired the perfection of themselves that is the true holy grail of each alchemist, the alchemist does indeed evolve powers that place them beyond any ordinary mortal concerns.</p>
<p>It is not these powers that alchemists seek; these special powers are a by-product of each alchemist’s perfection, not their goal.</p>
<p>If power is their goal, then the veils of alchemy will distract those seeking power; such people will become increasingly impotent following the allures of alchemy’s veils until they come to a place within themselves where they acknowledge the paths of their basest desires are all false and the true path they seek exists in their hearts, a path to peace.</p>
<p>So how does alchemy work?</p>
<p>Alchemy works by focusing the alchemist’s awareness on those qualities within themselves that are in conflict.</p>
<p>All people have Divine powers that they use all the time, but conscious volitional control of these powers is limited by any conflicts within themselves.</p>
<p>This is a well understood principle that inspires large social institutions to misinform their populaces in order to repress the emergence of spiritual powers that might ultimately challenge them and challenge their tyrannies over too many people’s lives.</p>
<p>Perhaps all social institutions employ brain-washing techniques of social conditioning to cripple people by teaching them to be in conflict with themselves.</p>
<p>If this were not the case, the natural experiences people have might still cripple them, but because political power is impossible among an enlightened populace all social institutions must learn to stifle enlightenment in order to keep their populaces crippled, in order to maintain their usurped political powers.</p>
<p>People who understand themselves to be eternal Divine beings make very poor slaves.</p>
<p>Consequently, alchemy has been persecuted; the truth of alchemy has been hidden and disguised.</p>
<p>And yet, every person is truly a Divine being, asleep, unaware of their Divinity; every person is already an eternal Divine being, they have always been such, and they will ever be so.</p>
<p>Alchemy teaches this spiritual truth.</p>
<p>Alchemy teaches spiritual and cognitive evolution.</p>
<p>Alchemy teaches enlightenment, alchemy is an enlightenment science.</p>
<p>Alchemy teaches each alchemist the truths about themselves that set them free.</p>
<p>Alchemy is a tool for Divine self-perfection.</p>
<p>Alchemy is a tool that helps perfect Manifestation, another enlightenment science.</p>
<p>All true alchemists are inherently peaceful people, well versed in mediation skills, well versed in teaching peace.</p>
<p>Each alchemist begins their path with this instruction:</p>
<p>Know Thyself.</p>
<p>From there all else unfolds, always.</p>
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<p><i>Enjoy!</i></p>
<p><i>Blessed be…</i></p>
<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
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