What is life?

Now, Is the time to rise!

2009-02-01T09:44:00.000-08:00

Wake up all of us, I know there are a lots of us wondering what is life and I know a lot of you are reading this, so starting by today lets share our life journey philosophy. By knowing all of you, we will get to know myself as a whole. Doesn't matter who you are, a lawyer, a policeman, a thief, a prostitute, a woman, granny, a swinger, a gay, bi, hetero or just a kid, we all have something to tell about life. All we need to do is just ask for an upgrade and that makes the system more advanced and has a roadmap to its higher purpose. So, I just gonna start by saying "Life is like a dream", I like the song.. All comments and posting are welcome, just share what you think the life is..

Happy Belated New Year!

2009-02-01T07:01:00.000-08:00

Hi there!

Have been away from computer for more than a month. It was really refreshing and rejuvenating. Just got back from Indonesia where I had met lots of spiritual Gurus. Amazing, really amazing... I have learnt lots of new things in life like no other.

To really know about yopurself, you need to bring out your trueself. We say we know ourselves but does the world knows who we are? Do the neighbors in your neighborhood know you? Do all the staffs in your office or work area know who you are? Does the people in your country know you? What about the world? The sky, the moon, the air, water, fire and earth? Think about it.. Just between the humans, I would have lots of respect to Obama.. I hate politics but at one point almost the whole world knows Obama..

So, again it is about being balance between being somebody and nobody, if you know what I mean..

Thoughts and Actions

2008-12-21T20:29:00.000-08:00

So.. Where did it comes from? All the brilliant ideas that make up the world comes from the same source. Whether it is a good or bad idea, it all comes from the same source. Universal conciousness (mainframe) as I would like to call it. but anyway it is not the topic that I would like to discuss here.

What I like to highlight here is the two different path that you take when you do somthing. It is all from the thoughts that comes to your brain. Sometimes you just do not know what you have done or did for certain tasks or activities in your daily life. For example, I had signed up for Kenjutsu and Iaijutsu class recently which I had never thought of. But later I discover my hidden skills that is awaiting for me to discover.

Sometimes, you do things which you had planned for and you know what you are doing. And sometimes, so many things in your mind that you are planning to do later. Seconds by seconds the thoughts come to your mind and you are determine to do it but there is also external force that can overule your plans. For example, while you were in shower, you were thinking of going to the gym with your buddy but once you fisnish off your shower, you got a call from someone you love telling you that someone is very sick and need your help. So there goes your plan..

You see.. even one second or a minute later is not beyond our control. So, learn to absorb the external force which will bring you back to be the King to your body and the King is God itself.

Back to Hypnosis

2008-12-01T20:59:00.000-08:00

Now, that many of you had email me on this subject since I did promise to write an article on simple technique to hypnotise. To start with lets do it with someone you know like your own family or friends.

Now, I am presuming that most of your close mates will look at you with slightly raises eyebrows if you launch into a lecture on how nice it is to relax...now.

So, as a solution, don't say a great deal...
A great starting point is the hypnotic gaze induction, now this has nothing to do with magick or the occult; it is just refocusing your eyes so it appears to them that you are looking through them.

As you seem to look though the, they usually begin to enter a mild trance just through that, try it on yourself in a mirror and see if you don't start to feel a little out of focus!

Now, after you have been gazing though your now slightly entranced friend for a moment or so, you can begin to verbally deepen the state, maintaining the gaze. I find that with family and friends, those who are familiar with your non hypnotic speech pattern, using the quotes pattern helps 100 fold...

So instead of saying "now as you sit there, noticing your breathing..."
You can say "you know...there are some weird people in the world...I was on a bus the other day...and someone sat next to me...looked me right in the eyes... and said for me to notice my breathing...he said that he wanted me to Breath deeper...and relax...and what was the strangest thing...I did relax..Now."

Remember to use your own words, and mark out your embedded commands by perhaps a drop in tonality or a specific gesture.

This should hopefully induce a light trace state, if now... just continue, the great thing about this is that if it doesn’t work, no harm is done and you can try again.

"And as I sat there...on the bus...this man...kept telling me... to feel relaxed...to think about the gentle movement of the bus...and to breath deeper still... and feel so relaxed"

So, hope fully we have the basic trance induction, there are literally 1000s of conversational inductions you can use, soon I will collect what I consider to be the best in a specific article, but for now, just do that or something similar to induce the conversational trance.

Your wok here should follow the ABS protocol.
A=attention, (this is done through the hypnotic gaze"
B= Bypass the critical factor (This is done though use of the quotes pattern)
S=Stimulate the unconscious (this is done though the suggestions to relax)

Now that we have followed the crucial ABS formula, it is time to do our trance work.

This depends on your intention, if your intention is just to practice, then you can do what you like as long as it is positive, and not objectionable (break these rules and risk annoying the critical factor, breaking the trance state and getting slapped)

Your intention should be themed to help them, some examples of what I have done include general happiness, helping a friend with exam nerves, helping a family member before a job interview etc.

With the trance any positive suggestion you give will multiply in strength by dozens of times after you have induced the light trance, so just give them positive suggestions, still be subtle and indirect as a rule, for example for the simple happiness theme "and as I sat there, in the bus...I couldn't help hear...the strange man...telling me to..Feel so happy...and I felt a sense of comfort...in his suggestions...and couldn't help...allowing myself...to feel really good...really feel good...as i listened to the words he spoke... strangely enough...i did seem to feel happy...perhaps for no reason...which i new of"

And now that you know the basics of inducing a trance and giving positive suggestions to your family, it is now time to some much more covert stuff...

Have you ever been ranted at by a family member or friend? Has someone close to you ever really lost it, flew off the handle and gone n an emotional rant?

Now often times you deserve, and in those cases it is best to shut up and take it on the chin. However, if they are going too far, and it is best for both you and then if they stop it; it is time to employ the famous pattern interrupt. The interrupt is also great for getting people out of other negative states, such as fear, sadness, anger and such like.

Now really any random statement will do, but it helps to be congruent, say it as if it was something meaningful, this will double the effect.

A simple interrupt alone however will not do much good. This creates a small opening in their consciousness, which if you don't fill returns back to the old negative state that you don't want.

So to fill it you quickly have to re frame the situation, in the small opening assume the role of the one who is in charge, and quickly move them out of the negative frame e of mind.

For example...
Break the negative state with a non-sequester like "the dog meowed in the rain last Tuesday."

Quickly step up to them and say something like "now pull yourself together, you know it will be fine, now sit down and you'll be fine"

And hopefully that will help you out, you have followed the ABS formula to a degree:

A: The congruence and importance place on your non-sequester by your tonality grabs their attention

B: You have bypassed the critical factor by creating a small gap of blankness as they struggle to understand what you said

S: you have stimulated the unconscious by taking control f the situation and giving them positive suggestion.

Now, you have some powerful tools here for creating dramatic positive change in the live of those close to you.

You have read about them, it is time to get out into the real word and start doing them, and your induction don't need to be as weird as a scary stranger on a bus, tailor them to who you are speaking to.

Is there such thing as bad luck?

2008-11-27T20:32:00.000-08:00

One day, it just happens that you wake up late for work and there is a very-very important meeting/presentation that your boss had asked you to attend at 8 a.m. Then you had a car problem, the battery's dead. You need to call for the breakdown service to get the replacement battery. By now the time is already 8 a.m. and you are running late.. So, how do you deal with this situation??

Little that you know that all these problems are coming and that there is no way you could have prevent it earlier. Actually, all have been planned for you on that day to be like that and it is not what it supposed to be. No problem! It is in accordance to the master programmer who wants it to be that way. So what happen to create your own destiny? Why it didn't go as what you had planned?

The system that we live in is an equilibrium by itself where it creates hormony by balancing the positive and negative. If you noticed, the night before you had a party or some good time or happy hour which had gone a little extreme. And the next morning, the universal system just correct the situation and brings you back to the balance state. You need to realise that the things that happened to you are all self-inflicted. The way to accept the balance state in the act is to let it be and think positive on all the causes and effects. For example, if it wasn't your car's battery dead, you might had gone out at 7.15 am and hit the road. And at 7.20 am you missed the red light and had got you into an accident. However, you really do not know wheather the accident will happen or not. but if you look deeply you will know it.. Another thing you can just get exploded with the situation and rush to take a cab to the office just to meet the 8am. You only noticed that you had left the latest presentation slide at home and endup showing the outdated slides.

The question is how do you deal with the master programmer plan since it seems bad to your eyes. It is how you react to the situation that is important because the actions that you take will determine the scenario. So coming back to the situation, you chose not to react negatively and waited for the car's battery replacement. You reached office calmly at 8.30 a.m. and amazingly the meeting has not started since they are still waiting for the big boss that is late on that day. Now you have time to set your presentation slide and have a sip of coffee while waiting. It's not a bad day after all..

Source of the Force

2008-11-18T18:45:00.000-08:00

What make the shape of a certain thing? Quark is the smallest particle of atom which is in a form of light. It can be formed into any shapes and in everthing that we see. It is the force that bind them together in any particular shape. Ever wonder why identical twins can feel each other's feeling? Because they are alike.. so how to be alike and able to feel the vibration.

However, we are only able to see the outer layer (physical) because we are using the eyes and interpreted by the brain. But if you look from the heart you will see what is beyond the shape, beyond the physical (material). The question is how do we see it from the heart?

Try this.. take 1 card from the deck and try to guess? Did you guess the correct number? No.. that's because you are still trying to use your brain. Now, shut down all your physical cues and transform yourself into light quark. Back to the same source, in energy form we are all the same. So, you wont do bad things to others once you realise that you are only doing it to yourself. Look at many to one and one to many.

Feel yourself as a card, and try to feel the new form that you are now. Feel the weight and density of the new form you are now and look at youself what is written on your body. Now, for you that have tons of experience in meditating, you know that the mind will interfere and influence your judgement. So, blank yourself and feel the vibration in you until you can feel you are just a wave of vibration. At this moment you are just the witness. Nothingness is life..

I'm Back!

2008-11-02T23:12:00.000-08:00

Dear Readers,

Thank you for the emails, comments and support that have inspired me to keep on writing. I know it has been a long time since the last time I wrote something on this blog.

Well, it has been a hard time for the past couples of month. Have been helping out someone I love to go through the life and keep on fighting. It is not easy for a healer to help someone when the patient does not believe in you or in what you practice. It just like doing hypnosis, it wont work if the person is not a suggestive person and it is like hitting a concrete wall.

Same thing here, I did transfer tons of my chi but it was rejected by the body and I know it is a sign..

Anyway, I will share what I've learn and allevation to the higher level after going through the tests in life.

rgds,

Ultimate Alarm Clock

2008-06-02T01:50:00.000-07:00

Dear readers,
Thank you for all the comments and emails. Really appreciate it. Been soo busy lately with my new project on Healing a Kidney Renal Failure patients. It is time consuming and involve lots of energy. I will be sharing the experiences and results on the Healing journey.

rgds,

Law of Attraction - Your Wish is Your Destiny

2008-02-22T03:43:00.000-08:00

THERE ARE two great principles: the attraction of like to like and the attraction of opposites. Looking at nature we see that if there is one speck of dust on the wall all the dust will collect there. Where there is one grain of wheat much wheat grows. Where there is one little rose plant there will be a great many rose bushes. It may be hard for us to find one fly in the room, but if there is one fly we shall see that there are other flies near it. It may be difficult for us to find one ant, but if there is one ant there will be other ants near it. Where there is one sparrow there will be many sparrows. In the jungle where there is one parrot there will be a great many parrots in the same part of the forest. However much dogs may quarrel and fight, where there are three or four of them it is there that they enjoy being. The rabbit does not delight in being among sparrows, nor does the donkey rejoice in being with serpents.

This shows us that like is drawn to like, to its affinity. This is the reason why nations and races have their peculiar characteristics and attributes: for ages people of like character and like qualities have collected together forming one group. The French are unlike the English, the English are different from the Swedes, the Swedes differ from the Germans. It is not difficult for a person whose intelligence is exercised in this direction to tell at once in a crowd a Belgian from a Frenchman, a Rumanian from an Italian.

In India every province, every district has its peculiar character. A Gujerati will always like to be with another Gujerati. Where there are two or three Gujeratis they are happy, they do not want a Punjabi in their company. The Bengali is not like the Madrassi. When a few Bengalis are together they do not want a Madrassi, and the Madrassi enjoys being in the society of Madrassis; he does not want a Bengali to be there. Why? Because each rejoices in his own element.

Families also have their likeness which comes from the like attributes being drawn to their like. In India where great attention is paid to heredity this is traced very far. The first reason for the attraction of like to like is blood relationship. At the present time relationship is much less thought of; we do not know who our relations are. It is however a great bond, as it is said: the blood is the same, the form is made of the same element.

The second reason is the affinity of occupation. A farmer who has been tilling the soil all day, in the evening will want to be with other farmers with whom he can talk about the crops; he does not want to sit among literary persons. A soldier always wants to be with other soldiers. A sportsman wishes to be with sportsmen; he will not like to be among the learned in whose society he feels out of place. A literary person always seeks other literary persons. A musician likes the society of musicians. I have experienced this myself. Sometimes there were Indians among my audience, people from my own province, but they were less appreciative than Western musicians. The Western musician perhaps did not understand the words I was singing, but he was a musician, his interest in the music made him akin to its being.
The third reason is the similarity of qualities. A brave person will like to be with other brave people; he will not like to be with cowards. A kind person will seek other kindhearted people. The affectionate are drawn to the affectionate, not to the coldhearted. A quarrelsome person will seek out another quarrelsome person to fight with. Like is always recognized by like. If there are two thieves in a company the one will at once recognize the other. If a thief goes from Paris to New York it will be very easy for him to find a brother there. For another person it will take a very long time, but the thief knows at once, 'This is a thief, this is my brother'.
A cruel man attracts the cruelty of others. If we deceive another ever so little we shall at once find others who deceive us. Deceit may not be in our nature - but we have deceived. This is the secret of the punishment of our sins. It is not that God gives us a certain punishment, but by our wickedness, by our evil thought we attract the same wickedness, the same evil thought from others to us. The evil that we do brings the same evil upon us from others. A little kindness in us attracts the kindness of the kind. A kind person meets with kindness wherever he goes, even among the cruel. A least little generosity on our part attracts the generosity of the generous. By the repetition of the names of God, by impressing upon our soul the kindness, the mercy of that infinite goodness we create in our soul those qualities and we attract to us the kindness and mercy of that goodness under all forms and names.

Besides the attraction of like to like there is the law of attraction of each to its opposite. There are two great forces in nature: the creative force and the receptive force that answers to it, or the active force and the passive force, jalal and jamal. This can be understood from the law of rhythm. In every rhythm there is the stronger beat and the weaker beat, the returning. In two-four time, for instance, we count one-two, one-two, the strong beat and the beat that has just as much force as to counterbalance the other.

We can also see this in the forms of protuberance and cavity. The representatives of these two forces in nature are the male and the female. But in every man some qualities are male and some female; in every woman some of the qualities are female and some male.

We can see that the ears receive sound; they do not create. The eyes are creative. The nose perceives the odour; it cannot create. The nose can tell us the flavour of a thing much sooner, much more exactly than the palate. The lips, the mouth, create, and they are attracted to each other. When the ears hear a sound, the eyes at once want to turn to see what it is, from where it comes. The nose at once wants to interfere with what the mouth does. It says, 'Do not chew that any longer. I don't want it', or it says, 'Do justice to that; I like it; it is nice'.
We can see that, when our right hand takes hold of something, the left hand wants to help it. When our right foot goes out, the left foot at once wishes to join it. When we fold one arm, the other arm wants to be folded too. One leg inclines to cross the other. In India there is a superstition that it brings bad luck to sleep with the legs crossed. Everyone knows it, but it is most difficult for anyone to get out of this habit because it is so natural.

Often a person would rather be with his opposite than with one who is nearer his own level. When two who are of nearly equal strength meet they are not harmonious to each other. Students of breath will readily understand this; they know that there is a more active breath and a less active breath, and when both become of equal activity there is a sort of fight. If one person is a great singer and another is teaching voice-production they can agree together. There is no competition between them; the one wants to show himself, to show his voice, the other does not. But if there are two great opera-singers, a tenor and a bass, they will never agree; there is rivalry between them, they both want to be something.

A wise man will rather have a foolish servant than a halfwise one who will interfere in his orders. There is a story of a servant who, when sent to fetch the doctor, went first to the undertaker. He was thinking of the future! If he cannot be among the wise, a wise person will rather be among the foolish than among the half-wise. I have often seen that the simple one with a simple faith can be inspired and become illuminated, while the intellectual is always reasoning and does not advance one step. This is why scientists and mystics never harmonize. The scientist says, 'If you know something, I know something too. If you are something, I am something also'.
There will always be some societies, some associations that we like and some that we do not like; some that do not like us and some that appreciate us, because we always like only our own element. There is nothing surprising in this and nothing to blame; it is the law of attraction.

The Sufi makes himself harmonious with all; he makes himself the element of all. He activates the element that is within, and that element is love. We can learn this from the Bible which says that God is love. The differences and distinctions are external, but from the beginning man is so trained to see the differences that he does not see the unity underlying. People have said, 'We are of this race, we are superior, you are inferior; our religion is superior, yours inferior; our nation is great, yours less'. This was the cause of the present war. The nations of Europe had reached the same level; if one made a good airship another made one better still; if one made a good submarine another made one better still. If the one was strong another wanted to be still stronger.

People have said, 'By being strong, by a strong rule, we shall unite the world'. What a mistake! We can see what happens when we try to rule our family with a strong hand. It will never be united. It is only love that can unite the world. It is the only way in which the union of mankind, universal brotherhood, can be brought about.

Anyway, to make it happens instantly, you need to have a very strong energy in you to manifest the thoughts. And most importantly this law of attraction is also responsible for karma and reincarnation. So, think carefully what you wish or else you might get stuck in this earthly plane and matters.

Mentalist vs Spiritualist

2008-02-04T00:35:00.000-08:00

Where is the border? Nowadays, lots of motivational speakers coming out with seminar on self mastery or self improvement of personal growth. Many of the talk will end up on how to remove the negative energy or emotion and lastly program the mind to be positive towards achieving goals.

The process will normally starts by identifying the current issues or states and accepting what you have emotionally and mentally. This is a parapsychology technique and concept of mastering the mind. As you know our mind is the world with the hemispheres similiar with the real world. To simplify, the mind is divided by left brain and right brain. As you know, the left brain is responsible for the concious stuff and the right brain is the subconcious mind. The potential is the subconcious mind of where the gold mine is located. Your subconcious mind remember all the events happening in your life and if you allow yourself to go deeper you may get into your past life.

By mastering your mind, you can walk between the thin line of having conciousness while you are in your subconcious. Great powers are discovered in this state of mind like remote viewing, astral travel, etc. So, dont be slave to your mind, master it and it will serve you.

So that's all about the power of the mind and when it reach to its maximum ability, then there is another powerful entity which sits above the mind and body. It is the soul..to be continued

Hypnosis

2008-01-23T17:20:00.000-08:00

Have you been hynotised before? The answer is yes and you just unaware of the hypnosis act in your everyday life. Hypnosis is a natural, though altered, state of mind.

The conversation in the office, mall and especially when dealing with sales, when you are driving and pass your turn-off because you haven’t been paying attention. Everyone goes through natural, altered states before they fall asleep, and as they come into wakefulness.

All hypnosis is actually "self-hypnosis." You are allowing the hypnotist to guide you into your deeper and broader memory and other resources. Since it is a 100% consent state, no one can hypnotize you against your will. You are free to reject and receive any suggestion at any time.

Currently, hypnosis is used in many clinical environment for healing of phobia, after surgery treatment, depression, stress relief, etc. To some extent a hypnotist is also used to find a missing person by hypnotising a subject to retrieve a certain information. Would like to know who you are in your previous life? You can also use hypnosis for past life regression.

In next posting I will illustrate a basic hypnosis technique to start with and explain why it works.

Happy New Year

2008-01-02T16:41:00.003-08:00

So how you can achieved what you want to be happened for the next 12 months? You need to do some ritual as some may call it. Well, that ritual is actually is a tantric hypnotherahy (mind programming). It is a self hypnosis and insertion of programming to your unconcious mind. All the best..

The Mental Plane

2007-12-20T18:32:00.000-08:00

With this lesson you will learn how to join and align three elements: the elements of fire, water, and air. Below I repeat the key words for each one of these elements:
Fire:

Hot and dry, positive and electric, expanded light energy. Will, the world of emanation, or caus equilateral triangle.

The Hebrew letter YOD in the Divine name.
The Salamanders, fire spirits or fire elementals.
The Divine spark that is at the root of all manifestation.
Water:

Cold and humid, negative and magnetic, concentrated life energy. Emotions, the world of formation, or the astral plane.

The regular pentagon.
The Hebrew letter HE in the Divine name.
The Undines, water spirits or water elementals.
The formative potential of desire that interacts with the Divine will.
Air:

Hot and humid, positive and magnetic, expanded life energy. Mind, the world of creation, or the mental plane.

The square.
The Hebrew letter VAU in the Divine name.
The sylphs, air spirits or air elementals.
The creative potential of (mental) structuring that links the desire to manifest with the Divine will to manifest.
Earth:

Cold and dry, negative and electric, concentrated light energy. Consciousness, the world of forms, the material plane.

The pentagram.
The Hebrew letter HE in the Divine name.
The gnomes, earth spirits or earth elementals.
The synthesis of the other elements that results in conscious manifestation.

Why Astral Travel Must be Explored

2007-12-20T18:27:00.000-08:00

It is because you need to find the happiness which is within and the peace is not achievable if you start to look outward. What you do next is to explore the various realms within. These realms connect with the astral planes. Your sphere of protection will be very useful when you start travelling in this realm.

In this inner workspace you are aware that you are the ruler of your energetic universe. You know that from this workspace you can reach the astral dimension of any energetic form, or realm, of the universe. Once you have estaer comes to you. This may be sounds, touch, visions, thoughts, etc. Your memory is stronger and this will help you recall most of these experiences so that you can write them down after you will have removed yourself from this realm. Some students like to interact with fire elementals, or Salamanders. This type interaction may take the form of a conversation, of a telepathic communication, or anything else.

The main purpose of this experience of astrally travelling through the elemental realm of fire is to get a good understanding of it. Once you have extensively explored that realm, you may connect with it whenever you want to do so. This experience takes the function of being like a utensil. However, this utensil does not have a material object as its focal point like other magical utensils. It is anchored within the realm of your inner workspace. Your access to the fire is a flaming triangle or whatever other shape you like to use. Gradually you will establish many such anchors, or gates, within your inner workspace. In this lesson you will learn to establish gates for the four elemental realms. If you study other forms of magic, you may open up realms to the various energetic hierarchies: the Runes, the planetary spheres, the realm of various groups of entities, mythological realms such as Christian saints, Voodoo deities, Egyptian gods, Tibetan deities, etc.

You may leave this realm whenever you feel a need or whenever you want to do so. For the first time, your astral travel in the realm of fire (or any other element) should not exceed 15 minutes. Gradually you may extend the time of your exploration to one hour. You need to know that it is not important how long you stay in a specific elemental realm, but it is the intensity of experience that counts.

While you explore your inner realm astrally, you do this with the awareness that it is connected with your outer realm and that both are connected with the cosmic realm of the element.

Laws of Structural Links

2007-12-05T22:39:00.001-08:00

1 The Basic Principle of Magical Transfer and their Technological Use: Distance is a result of structural differences. This means, in other words: The flow of life energies follows similar structures. In practical application: If you have two identical designs, chi (life energy) can flow between the two designs.

2. If you take an object that was part of a person such as hair, you can establish a bridge of energy with that person. This is so because the genetic code that you find in a hair cell is identical to the genetic code of all other cells of the body of that person. The use of hair, fingernails, blood, or similar things resulted from experience.

3. We can direct life energy with our mind. This is so because our mind can generate structures. If we visualize a person to whom we send life energy, we generate in our mind a structure that's similar to that person. This structure connects with the target person and a flow of energy to that person becomes possible.

4. Equivalent Structures: Equivalent structures are not near identical. They result from determining a well-specified frame of reference as a "universe" for a specific set of effects, energies, or individuals. Individual settings of this frame of reference determine to what event, effect, energy, or individual, the now modified frame of reference connects.

5. Equivalent Structures in Nature. Nature gives us a wide variety of examples of what we call equivalent structures. I each of these cases you can use one system to determine characteristics of the other. The way to determine these characteristics is the result of research into the specifics of the equivalent structure, statistical comparison, and development of models that make translation possible. Good examples are iridology (for diagnosis and to tell about characteristics of the person, even to foretell future trends), foot- and hand reflexology, ear acupuncture, and astrology. In the latter the zodiac and heavenly bodies take the aspect of a large radionics device. The astrological zodiac is a naturally occurring frame of reference. It compares to a huge radionics box that connects with everything on this planet. We can not set the "dials" of our planetary system, but we have other ways of using this radionics device of cosmic proportions. We can calculate in advance the positions of the elements of this radionics box, the planets. Then we can determine the kinds of zodiacal energies that connect with any given individual at any given time. After we determined the nature of the zodiacal energies we can interpret them as trends that are valid for the individual.

6. Artificial Equivalent Structures. There are several symbolism's and devices that humans have developed to be equivalent structures. Whenever our mind determines something to reflect a "universe," i.e., a system that we perceive as closed such as a human being, we can use it as a symbolism that we can use to represent equivalent structures. In such cases the map becomes a structural link to the territory it has the potential to describe. The tree of life is one such device. Other frames of reference are symbolism's of any kind, notably alphabets, Enochian tablets, and mythologies. The radionic device is a more recent development of a frame of reference that allows the establishing of equivalent structures. It is well known that the wiring diagram of a radionics type device establishes a structural link in the same way the radionics device itself does. If you regard this phenomenon in the light of structural links, you have no problem understanding its reason.

We can use artificial equivalent structures to connect with specific energies of a higher order (such as zodiacal energies) which we can then use to generate specific trends. If we connect such a generated trend with a structural link to a person we can influence the trends that this person experiences, i.e., we can modify the "destiny" of the person.

The nature of the cosmic frame of reference, the zodiac, gave rise to a new technology: We have developed a frame of reference that, with specific settings, can connect with the system of cosmic zodiacal energies. This allows us to generate any trend of our liking that we can then project to any target of our liking.

We can use artificial equivalent structures for readings and for practical magic.

The fact that a specific artificial equivalent structure is extremely useful and can be applied universally does not mean that this structure "is" the universe. Such nonsense compares to saying that a map is the territory it represents or our language is the universe. The success of specific magical mappings leads quite often to such assumptions. In the cases where the impact of the mapping is on specific psychological characteristics of the human species and where it fits smoothly some of the existing mechanisms of socio-economic suppression, religions are born. (YES!! From the preceding follows that religion is a result of magical technology that was misinterpreted by primitive humans!)

TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF ARTIFICIAL EQUIVALENT STRUCTURES TO ANYTHING INCLUDING HOE OF THE UNIVERSE, YOU CAN TAKE ANY SET OF ELEMENTS, ARRANGE THEM IN A SPECIFIC MANNER AND ASSIGN SPECIFIC SYMBOLIC VALUES AND MEANINGS TO THE ELEMENTS AND TO THE WAY THE ELEMENTS ARE ARRANGED. DETERMINING FACTORS FOR THE OVERALL SUCCESS ARE FLEXIBILITY AND SYMBOLIC ADJUSTMENT TO THE "UNIVERSE" THAT THE EQUIVALENT STRUCTURE RELATES TO. THE MODEL THAT WE MAKE OF THE UNIVERSE IS A DETERMINING FACTOR

Some of the artificial equivalent structures are true symbolisms while others are simply arrays of symbols. In a true symbolism the structure of the set is important. The position of each element of the symbolism in relation to all others is of significance. Where such a relation is not present, we speak of an array of symbols. Examples of true symbolisms are the tree of life, the tarot, mythologies, the entities of Bardon's spherical magical system, and the Eighteen Sacred Futhork

Runes (the Armanen system - available from HSCTI). Examples of arrays are the Enochian system of magic, the entities of the Lemegeton and most other grimoires, all Runic systems besides the Armanen system, and many of the "artistic" representations of the Tarot.

It is irrelevant whether you "channel" the system of artificial equivalent structures (as is the case with the Enochian system of magic) or feel it as mythology or develop it logically.

Most channeled AES are arrays rather than true symbolisms. The process of the technological evolution of the symbolism remains the same in any of the cases, channeled and logically developed or mythological. Furthermore it is important to realize the following: that an artificial equivalent structure is comprehensive (i.e., there is nothing that you could not apply it for) does not imply that we could not establish infinite many other such systems.

Too many good metaphysicist fell into the trap of accepting some specific system as the "only truth" just because it proved to be comprehensive. A useful map is not a god! The tree of life is not the universe. A mandala is not "all there is to know."

On this place I want to remind the eager traditional magician of something important: What I said above shows clearly that the "mystery school approach" is a thing of the past, if not ridiculous. The invention of the radionics device and the individual approach of creating our own sigils and systems of equivalent structures should LONG AGO have helped us free ourselves from cumbersome "traditions" that take too smoothly the aspect of organized religion.

Everything is connected

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Structural Links

A radionics expert once stated that radionics is part of ceremonial magic. He considers the tuner a solidified thought form and the rates representing agreements with the subtle nature spirits.

I can agree with such an animistic approach. In the old times, people thought of lightning being a "god." In fact, they considered practically all natural phenomena, even the planetary energies, as being anthropomorphic gods, i.e., gods that look somewhat like humans. Still in our days most people have a concept of a gaseous mammal above the clouds, usually bearded and of the male sex who "made it all" with "his" hands.

At some point in human history, natural scientists began to develop models that were less anthropomorphic on the one hand and naturally more useful on the other. From such expansion of scientific concepts, they developed new technologies.

Some people may be quite correct if they say that cars are gods that transport us; provided that we appease them with some liquid called gasoline and that we know how to touch them correctly.

It is okay. for humans to satisfy themselves with an animistic approach. With this approach, they are able to use some techniques of magic and radionics if they the “correct tradition" (which means religious tradition) that tells them how to do what.

We have another, more useful, option. We can begin to analyze magical and radionic procedures in scientific terms. That's exactly what we have begun to do in the previous lessons. Naturally, we will find soon that a structural approach has more potential than the old animistic model could ever offer. Such approach will prove to be more useful in many respects. Above all, it will lead us to an understanding of magic and radionics that can easily rid us from the straitjacket of stale traditions. At the same time it will allow vibrant creativity to expand our magical powers to levels that traditionalists are incapable of conceiving.

Practice #19: A cattle prodder

With the following experiment, I am making a point or two. Some people felt upset about me ridiculing certain practices. I suggest to those folks to convince their priests (or whomever) not to ridicule all that has value for me. Then we may talk again. Above all, no one who does not want to do so is required to perform the following experiment!

First, let's fantasize ourselves into an imaginary journey: Imagine yourself traveling to a tribal society somewhere in New Guinea. It needs to be a tribal society that has never heard about civilization as we know it. Among your equipment, you have a cattle prodder that causes electric shocks. Since you know some of the religious beliefs of that society you make some image at the right time (the sacred time of the year) and in a traditional shape. Then you connect this image with your cattle prodder. Chances are that with such a contraption you can convince these people of your divine nature or of your spiritual connection with their sky of gods. It all works because of several reasons: First of all, those good folks have no idea of electricity, but they certainly can feel the shocks. They may think that the shock they get is the power of their gods. Another important facet of your experience is that you adjusted to the existing belief structure. If you did not do it, they would. That could be quite risky since electric shocks are somewhat painful and the connection with a demonic force is always an easy-to-do assumption.

As far as the feeling of life energy is concerned, most of America and Europe compare well to the jungles of New Guinea. Few people know that life force exists. Still less know that they can feel life force. The majority of people deny the very existence of life energy. When selling my Orgone generators I let people feel the energy. This made me realize that about 90% of the people feel life force whether they believe in it or not.

All of this naturally is a fertile ground four our cattle prodder experiment. All you need to do is adjust somewhat to the existing mainstream religion.

I did the experiment in the following way. In a Christian bookstore, I bought a cross that measured about 6 inches in length (the funny thing was that it was made in Communist China. When it comes to money some of these commercially adept folks obviously live deal with the devil!). I drilled a 1/4 inch hole from the top to the center. Then I took a small jewelry type crystal and broke it in two. One half of it I inserted into the hole. I stuffed some paper on top of it to hold it in place. Then I plugged the hole with wood filler the same color as the cross. The other half of the crystal I put on the well of an operating Chi Generator. Now the cattle prodder was in operation and ready for use.

What I did next is having my Christian acquaintances feel it. I made a few commentaries about the power of their God coming from the cross.

Most people feel the life energy when they hold the palm of their hands about one inch above the center of the cross. When they feel this energy under the appropriate circumstances, they are quite logically induced to think that it truly is the power of their God that emanates from the cross. When they feel a slight breeze rather than warmth, I like to continue with the fun by referring to the passage in the Old Testament that mentions how King David felt the presence of God as a gentle breeze. A cattle prodder like this will sure provide you with a lot of fun. Perhaps you may even become inclined to organize a church.

Why does this cattle prodder work? The answer lies in the crystal. The two parts of the crystal form an excellent structural link. The obvious linkage consists of the breaking surfaces that are very similar. A second linkage may be the subtle structure of the crystal itself: intricacies of the crystal grid that are the same throughout the original crystal. It is identical in the two parts. From the previous lesson, you know that the person who holds the palm of the hand above the center of the cross will draw life energy from the Chi generator where the second half of the crystal serves as a structural link. The near identical structures of the two crystal parts make the transfer from Chi generator to cross possible. Instead of the crystal, you may work with a scribble or any other graphic design that you copy twice. Put one of the copies inside the cross and the other copy into the Welz Chi generator. Then have fun with your friendly neighborhood fundamentalists! If this is not your idea of having fun, feel free to skip this practice!

Equivalent and Near-Identical Structural Link

In the first lesson you have become familiar with the idea of structural links. Structural links connected with the target and structures represented the magical action. We have realized that life energy connects through equivalent or identical structures and that it allows transfer through the same type structure.

In the following we work with the two concepts of identical and equivalent structure, then we practice a few simple experiments. To get a practical "feel" for what we are telling you is more valuable than a thousand words!

It is easy for you to understand the concept of an identical structure. We have identical structures in case #1 where a hair (ideally with follicle) connects with the person, because the genetic code in the cells of the hair is almost identical to the genetic code in all other cells of the organism from which the hair comes. Therefore life energy transfers from the hair to all other cells of the organism. Likewise we have an identical structure in the case of practice #19. If we limited ourselves just to the concept of identical or near identical structures, we would already have a wealth of technologies at our disposal. However, experience teaches us that this idea of structure takes on a much wider meaning. This is quite obvious in the case of the charismatic church. The visualization of a person shows hardly any structural identity with the person itself. It's an appearance that our brain cells give us after a series of abstractions. This appearance results from memories. In some way we can say that our memory allows a structural linkage that involves the dimensions of time. A similar thing happens in case #4, where the names are written down.

It will be good now to go through the practices in lesson 2 to explain the workings of life energy and how the magician can use it. From an understanding of these practices we will then be able to work out new magical technologies.

Practices #1 and #2: The structural transfer may be ignored. Life energy seems to have a capability to stay connected for a while.

Practice #3: Life energy flow follows mental commands. Later we will learn that life energy may take on a shape that you "tell it" to take. In a strong field of life energy you can photograph this shape with any camera such as a Polaroid camera. You may expand the exercise by commanding the energy bridge to form an arch rather than a straight line.

The fact that you can mentally direct life energy is obvious in cases #4 and #6 of lesson #1. This capability is possible because life energy transfers through equivalent structural links. The near identical structure is typically of the same material. The equivalent structure is of other material. Clothing that is used in some magical operations to influence people represents a near identical structure, because it contains skin rubbings of the person. A photo on the other hand is an equivalent structure. There are ways of making very effective equivalent structures that are not as obvious as photos. Radionic rates are a good example. So are specific sigils that you can create to connect with a person or with a specific action.

Practices #5 through 14 are all transfers by way of equivalent structures.

Sometimes magicians use the word "symbolic representation" when talking about equivalent structure. With this they mean something that represents persons, groups, events, or specific magical energies or entities.

An old assumption of magicians is the following: If you have the true name of something (such as a spirit), then you have control over it. As a consequence of this hypothesis many magicians have developed mantras of power, i.e., phonetic expressions, that connect with specific entities of with specific action. Experience has taught magicians how they should call specific energies (entities) to action. A mantra, or "true name," of course, is an equivalent structure.

Equivalent structures may vary depending on the circumstances, the cultural background, the magical system and the specific symbolism or design system used. The most frequent bases of equivalent structures are graphical outlines (sigils), sounds (mantras and, of recent, sound pitches), dance forms, special mixtures of incenses, dolls, astrological chart representations, radionics devices, and symbolism such as Runes and the Tarot. In this previous description of equivalent structures we have recognized another important factor: The matrix of the equivalent structure. This matrix is any structure (such as a set of symbols as in the Tarot) that the magician may arrange to establish a structural link.

Many of these matrices are "artificial" ones. That means that humans established them according to their belief systems. Although such matrices are excellent, they are not an absolute need for magic in general.

The zodiac is a good example for a natural matrix. Its settings (planetary positions) at a specific time determine the characteristics of a human being that is born under these settings. In a more generalized effect, astrological positions establish a field of connections with energies of a higher order. This energy field establishes the trends that influence the action of everything in its realm. We will come back to this later and we will show how we can generate our own astrological trends with relative ease, especially when we use a Welz generator for this purpose.

The connection of equivalent structures with the target or with an energy of a higher order (spirit, entity, etc.) results sometimes in part from the functioning of our brains. This is especially true when we use letters of the alphabet or numbers as elements of such an equivalent structure. Our mind recognizes some object as a general matrix for an equivalent structure (a "universe") and then establishes the specific setting of the matrix that ensures contact with the target.

From a technological point of view, we have available a wide spectrum of equivalent structures that range from pure visualization or imagining (mental images) over the making of sigils, the use of natural structural links such as incenses, oils and herbs, all the way to the near identical structural links.

The radionic device is an excellent example of a system of equivalent structures that are totally arbitrary. But then again some of the symbolism, alphabets, sound systems, etc., are arbitrary bases as well.

It seems that if, with our minds, we decide that something represents the universe - or that we declare something as symbolizing the universe (or the totality of our environment), then we can devise partial systems of it that represent the elements of this universe. For instance if we decide that the radionic box represents the human body, then we can determine a system of settings (the radionics term for setting is rate) that represent the various parts and sub systems of the body.

Equivalent structures are the result of conventions. The capability of our minds to generate psychic linkage may be at the root of the functioning of equivalent structures. On the other hand we can get a good linkage with a near identical structure (such as a hair) and then develop a system of equivalent structures (rates) for the body from which the hair is coming and its specific systems. If we do not have the linkage of the hair, then the setting for the liver may also bring in zodiacal energies that correlate to the liver (Jupiter energies in this case).

Diosctance is the Result of Structural Differences

When we say that distance is a result of structural differences we need to include both, similar and equivalent structures. The more similar the structure, the closer are the objects as far as the transfer of life energy is concerned.

The living being establishes distance by means of its shifting structural linkages. Therefore the living being practices magic at all times.

From the structural concepts that we have established above follows that closeness is not only within the three dimensional space that we see and in which we move. Quite often we are too involved with this habitual concept of space while completely ignoring the "magical closeness" that life energy opens up for us. We may only become painfully aware of the powerful consequences of such "closeness from outside our three dimensional space" at times when we are the victim of a spell that someone has cast from thousands of miles away. Even then we are more inclined to think in terms of the "miraculous" rather than accepting the obvious. This compares to the zoologist who admires the "capability of a butterfly to smell a female that is several miles away and to find his way there." To smell means to pick up traces of chemicals. Directional smelling is even more difficult, especially when there is nothing to smell! A high school kid can calculate the amount of molecules of the female's scent in the air some five miles away to prove that the academic zoologist's statement is absolute nonsense! Why not accept that there is something different from "smell" and "normal sensory perception" out there? Structural linkage that bridges visual space is a very valid concept that explains a lot of things easily. .

Mastering Fire and Water

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Fire and Water

In this lesson you are going to align the two basic elements that appear as opposites: fire and water. The interaction of fire and water is at the root of creation eternal of things that become manifest and conscious.

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The workplace around yourself

Before you are going ahead to align fire and water it will be good to expand your outer realm so that it includes utensils that connect with both elements, fire and water. Before that you are going to work with the water element by itself.

As in the previous lesson, you have a circle around yourself. The table is outside your circle. Lay out a triangle on the table. You may surround this triangle by a circle.

Put a cup with water inside the triangle. You may put the cup on an elemental design that represents water: the pentagon. As soon as you begin with your operation this set up is going to connect with the realms of the water element.

To boost this process you visualize yourself drawing energy from the water element and to push it into the triangle. Imagine this energy being blue. Proceed to do so until you feel good about what you have achieved.

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The workspace within

Your next step is to establish an inner realm that connects with the water element. Again you imagine being in a space of your choosing. In front of yourself you see a blue pentagon that is formed with water. This pentagon is your gate into the realms of the water element. Imagine this pentagon opening up and you going through it to explore the realms of the water element. As you are looking around yourself within this realm you will notice changes in your surroundings that correspond to the water element. Move yourself through this realm and explore whatever you see there. Open up your awareness to whatever will come to you, be it visions, sound impressions, feelings, and thoughts. At a later time you may recall your experiences in the water element and write them down for your record. If you see spirits of the water element, interact with them. They may give you valuable information concerning your work with the water element.

The purpose of this experience, of course, is that you become familiar with the energies that are in the realm of the water element and to understand the overall importance of this realm. With practice you can have this realm present for your magical work whenever you desire so.

Leave the realm of the water element whenever you feel an urge to do so. While you are in this inner realm be aware that this realm connects with your outer realm and with the cosmic realm of the water element.

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Being One with your Will and with Your Emotions

After you have mastered both realms, the realm of the fire element and the realm of the water element, you can proceed to practice the second step toward consciousness of Oneness.
For this practice, imagine yourself in the center of a circle, or sphere, that surrounds you. In front of yourself you see a flaming red triangle. You notice that this triangle is an ever present gate to the fire element. In it you see many forms of fire, perhaps also fire spirits and any other things that connect with the fire element.

Now you mentally repeat to yourself six times:
I am all will.

You may imagine the words written in front of you in flaming letters. You may feel the heat of the written words. You may imagine hearing the sounds of fire. The more sensory imagination you include the better the results will be. Each time you say "I am all will" you focus on your inner realm of fire. Next you say once:

I am One.
Repeat this sequence at least three times.

Next you see a blue watery pentagon to your left side. You know that this pentagon is your ever present gate to the realm of the water element. In it you notice water in many of its appearances, one within the other like three dimensional transparencies. You may also notice Undines, or spirits of the water element. This time you will not pay them any particular attention.

Next you repeat mentally to yourself six times:
I am all emotions

You may imagine these words written in front of you in blue watery letters. You may feel the coolness and humidity of water. You may imagine hearing the many sounds of water. The more sensory imagination you include the better the results will be. Each time you say "I am all emotions" you focus on your inner realm of water. Next say once:

I am One.
Repeat this sequence at least three times. You may interrupt here or you may proceed as follows:
Repeat six times:
Will and emotions are aligned and One
Repeat one time:
I am One

Again you repeat this sequence at least three times. Keep up the connection with the realms of the elements. You will find your individual way of doing this.

It is O.K. to repeat more often than just three times for each sequence. You may also practice each section (fire and water) individually.

More on four elements and its archetype

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The Divine name and the process of manifestation

The Divine name as expressed in the elementary polygons is a perfect expression of the world as we experience it. Consequently, identifying ourselves with this Divine principle means to gain control over the energies of a higher order that desire manifestation.

The triangle relates to the spark that sets things in motion. Its correlate within ourselves is our will. In the cosmos it is the world of emanation. It is the power to say the "there is" ("let there be").

We find its opposite in the water element, as expressed in the pentagon. The five is the second figurative prime number. The qualities of water are cold and humid, as opposed to the hot and dry of fire. It correlates to our emotions. In the cosmos it is the world of formation. Water represents life while fire represents light. Water and fire are considered to be the basic elements while the other two elements are regarded to be interactions between the two primary elements. Water is desire to manifest that goes with all life. It is desire and formation. Fire is will to create.

The air element is interaction between fire and water. It creates the matrices that are necessary for manifestation. It structures, organizes, and adjusts. Anything that you intend to create needs a mental form that determines its relations within the planes of existence. It is dual, relating to both fire and water and allowing the interaction of these two primary elements in the process of manifestation. The square is a geometric shape that lies between the triangle and the pentagon. The four is no prime number. It is 2 x 2, the double of a prime number or a prime number multiplied by itself. It expresses the dual nature of our thinking, but also the organizing of all there is perceived into the four elements, again 2 x 2. The four represents the structural qualities of the mental plane that we perceive. You can see our mind as a sensory organ that perceives forms in the mental plane. It is a sensory organ that orders the many other perceptions that we receive and that continuously abstracts from the primary impressions and from primary abstractions on the objective, unspeakable, levels so that we can function in our environment.

The earth element finally is manifestation that springs from the interaction of fire with water. This is beautifully expressed in the second geometric shape with five points in a circle, the pentagram. This shape is a pentagram that is surrounded by five triangles. It is coter the world of consciousness (the material plane) from the world of desire (the astral plane) and to manifest there, usually on the etheric level. The evocative magician uses a triangle in which the astral being can manifest. The astral being that is symbolized by the pentagon gains the quality of the triangle so that it can become manifest in consciousness. In the process of evocation the pentagon transforms into the pentagram.

The earth element as symbolized in the pentagram then obviously is the synthesis of the other elements, or planes. Things have to be conscious to exist. The pentagram contains the other elements. All elements are traced within the circle that represents the universe as a whole, conscious and non conscious. Keep these relationships in mind when you proceed to practice oneness with the Divine.

Learn How To Direct Life Force

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You had your first experience with directing life energy when you practiced seeing it with the wand. For some the following practices you will need a partner. To be more effective you need also learn a preliminary practice that employs your capability to imagine. Anything that you image is structure and life energy follows structural principles easier than space-time distances. This characteristic of life force opens up truly fantastic potentials for the person who learns to use it.

The whole science of magic is a result of this characteristic of life energy! Our mind creates structures in continuous sequence! This is the reason for the fact that magic is as old as mankind. Earliest man already realized that events sometimes followed visualization.

Learn How To Feel Life Energy

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Practice #4: Take the wand and point it to sensitive parts of your body.

1. Feel one end of the wand with the palm of any one of your hands. To feel the life energy, hold the palm about one inch from the end of the wand.
2. Point the wand to the wrist of the hand, again one inch away.
3. Hold your fingers in front of the wand, one by one.
4. Point the wand toward the area of the forehead that is in the center between the eyes, one inch away.
5. Do the same thing with any other area of your body.

The feeling that you get is your individual experience. Some persons feel a tingling. Others feel a slight cool breeze. Most persons feel a gentle warmth. What you feel depends very much on what group of nerve endings respond first.

The person who is kinetically oriented responds with a feeling of a tingling or breeze while the visually oriented person feels warmth. What happens in this experiment is the following:
Your life energy field is stronger than the energy field of the wand. Therefore you draw life energy from the wand. When this life energy enters your body it stimulates the tactile nerve endings in your skin. You experience this stimulation of nerve endings as a feeling of warmth, a tingling, or a breeze. You have this feeling even though there is no wind or high temperature between the wand and your body.

Learn How To See Life Force

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Although this is not absolutely necessary for your beginning of magical practice, it is good if you learn to see life energy.

Practice #1: Hold both hands in front of you, about one foot from your eyes. Do so with a neutral background such as a wall. Have the fingers of both hands touch each other. Now very slowly pull the hands apart and see the "strings" that are still connecting the fingers that separate from each other. For some people it may take a bit of training, but it's not difficult.

Practice #2: Hold one end of the wand in one hand and touch the other end of the wand with the index finger of your other hand. Slowly pull the index finger and wand apart from each other and observe the "luminating" bridge, or string. If you have seen the string, you know why I call it "luminating."

Practice #3: Same as before, but pull apart rather rapidly, up to four inches. Chances are that you see a short emanation from both, the finger and the wand. Now you give the mental command for the two emanations to join into a luminating string. This is your first experience to direct life energy with your mind.

Practice of Astral Exploration

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A traditional magical law says that repeated use of a magical utensil will tie specific energies to it. These energies will then be available whenever the utensil is part of your magical set up. With the utensil, therefore, there is no longer a need to actively and consciously draw the energies that the utensil represents. The utensil becomes a focal point for the energies that it represents. Its presence alone will ensure the drawing of the energies from the realms that the utensil represents. In other words, the utensil becomes a structural link with the realm that it represents. This means that your conscious and active mind is free for other things that are not routine whenever you use a utensil. This is the reason why magicians use many utensils in their ceremonies.

For the same reason it is to your advantage to establish an outer workspace when you practice with energies of a higher order such as the elements. The outer workspace as a whole will take on the aspect of being a complex utensil. It is a focal point for the energies that you are going to draw in your work.

In your work with the elements you arrange the outer workspace with the specific symbols that connect with the elements. The type arrangement that you choose will determine how easy it will be for you to draw the specific elementary energy

Protective Measures
Protective measures are good for any kind of magical work that evokes energies of a higher order. Explorations of the elemental realms are no exception. The main reason for protective measures in elementary work is that these energies may become too strong for you to handle when you are unprotected. With the protective measures you prevent the energies that you call from taking over after you have triggered them.

One of the most common practices of protection is the tracing of a circle around oneself. Of course it is not the circle in itself that protects but the intent that you project into this circle. Therefore, just tracing a circle will do nothing. You need to trace the circle and charge it with the idea of protection. You may set up such a circle by laying out a rope in circular fashion around yourself. Take a rope between 20 and 30 ft length. This gives you a circle between 6 and 10 ft diameter. After you have put the circular rope on the floor or ground, you imagine a sphere around yourself with the circle marking the position of this sphere. Project life energy into this sphere together with the visualization of the protective qualities that this circle has. You find more details about protective practices in my course "magic of the future" which is the first scientific approach to magic ever.

At a later date, when you will be grounded in your experience of Oneness, the outer circle will be unnecessary, because your Oneness with the Divine makes you the ruler of the energies of a higher order. At that point you will be fully protected by reason of your authority.

The Altar
For your work in this lesson, i.e., to explore the realm of the fire element, it will be good that you use symbolic representations of the fire element. You put these utensils onto your table, or altar, which you place outside your protective circle.

First you draw on the table a truing. This triangle confines the space where helpful fire elementals may materialize. Charge the triangle with the idea of retaining the elemental energies that may manifest in it. Then put objects into this triangle that represent the energies with which you are going to connect, in our case energies from the realms of the fire element. The simplest thing that symbolizes fire is a burning candle. You may also add a small triangle as the geometric shape that symbolizes the fire element and a wand. The wand represents your will. As you know your will is the manifestation of the fire element within yourself. Your will connects with the causal plane, which too is a representation of the fire element. If you are familiar with the Judeo-Christian Cabalah you may add the Hebrew letter YOD.

You keep in your mind the awareness that this your outer realm will draw energies from the cosmic realms of the fire element as soon as you light the candle. When you light the candle you may speak out something to the effect of drawing energies from the realms of the fire element such as "I am lighting this candle. Its flame will bring the energies of fire into this space." A very powerful method is to establish a custom tailored mantra that will instantly draw fire energies into your realm. This mantra will be an individual one for you. You can establish this mantra with a mantra generator, a new device that I have invented. You may purchase the mantra generator from HSCTI, P.O. Box 666033, Marietta, GA 30066.

The next thing you do is building up power in your outer realm. See yourself drawing fire energy from the universe and projecting it into the triangle. Do this practice as follows: Have your left arm stretched out away from the triangle, palm up. The right arm points toward the triangle. Breathe slowly and consciously. Knowledge of breathing techniques such as yoga is an advantage. While you inhale, visualize fire energy from the universe enter your body through the palm of your right hand. While you exhale, you project this energy into the triangle. You may give this energy a red color. Project more and more red into the triangle as you keep breathing. Proceed until you feel good about the amount of fire energy that you have accumulated in the triangle. You know that an accumulation of fire energy in the triangle will enhance your experience of the fire element and the realms of the will.

The Workspace Within Yourself
Now that you have established the outer realm, you proceed to establish a space within yourself where you can work with the elements and experience their astral realms. This is your inner realm of the elements. You will gradually expand this inner realm to be your inner realm of Oneness.

With your imagination you set up an inner realm that has if for your purposes. You need to feel good in this inner workspace. First you give this realm an outer form. You may imagine yourself being in a clearing in the woods, a beach, a temple, a mountain pear, a cave, of anything else that you like. You may change the looks of your inner realm at any time.

Next you imagine your realm being surrounded by a protective sphere, or bubble. This bubble will stay around you wherever you move in your inner realm.

Astral Travel
What you do next is to explore the various realms within. These realms connect with the astral planes. Your sphere of protection will be very useful when you start travelling in this realm.

In this inner workspace you are aware that you are the ruler of your energetic universe. You know that from this workspace you can reach the astral dimension of any energetic form, or realm, of the universe. Once you have estaer comes to you. This may be sounds, touch, visions, thoughts, etc. Your memory is stronger and this will help you recall most of these experiences so that you can write them down after you will have removed yourself from this realm. Some students like to interact with fire elementals, or Salamanders. This type interaction may take the form of a conversation, of a telepathic communication, or anything else.

The main purpose of this experience of astrally travelling through the elemental realm of fire is to get a good understanding of it. Once you have extensively explored that realm, you may connect with it whenever you want to do so. This experience takes the function of being like a utensil. However, this utensil does not have a material object as its focal point like other magical utensils. It is anchored within the realm of your inner workspace. Your access to the fire is a flaming triangle or whatever other shape you like to use. Gradually you will establish many such anchors, or gates, within your inner workspace. In this lesson you will learn to establish gates for the four elemental realms. If you study other forms of magic, you may open up realms to the various energetic hierarchies: the Runes, the planetary spheres, the realm of various groups of entities, mythological realms such as Christian saints, Voodoo deities, Egyptian gods, Tibetan deities, etc.

You may leave this realm whenever you feel a need or whenever you want to do so. For the first time, your astral travel in the realm of fire (or any other element) should not exceed 15 minutes. Gradually you may extend the time of your exploration to one hour. You need to know that it is not important how long you stay in a specific elemental realm, but it is the intensity of experience that counts.

While you explore your inner realm astrally, you do this with the awareness that it is connected with your outer realm and that both are connected with the cosmic realm of the element.

Practice: Being one with the will
After you have explored the realm of fire you proceed with the practice that follows. In this practice you need not establish your outer realm. If you do decide to make an outer realm, do it in a simple manner: Set a candle and the elemental triangle on your altar.

Next you establish your inner realm. You imagine yourself being there inside a circle (bubble) that surrounds you. This is your circle of protection. In front of yourself you see a flaming triangle that is the gateway to the elemental realm of the fire. The triangle also represents the fire element and your will. Inside the triangle you see fire in its many forms, like transparencies one within the other. You may see some of the fire spirits, or salamanders. You know that fire connects with your will and with the world of emanation. You are aware of your strength and that you are the dominating force of the energies of fire that are in your universe.

Now you repeat to yourself for six times:

I am all will.

Each time that you repeat, you focus on the fire in your inner realm.

Next you say one time:

I am one.

Again then you repeat for six times "I am all will," then once "I am one." Keep repeating for five to ten minutes. Think the words slowly and attentively.

End the exercise with a brief meditation. In this meditation wait for things to manifest in your experience: feelings, visions, etc.

The Four Elements

2007-10-22T03:24:00.000-07:00

It's in us and everything, so how do we control and balance it?

The first step in working with a psychology of the four elements
involves creating elemental sensations within ourselves through
force of imagination. The sensation relating to each element has to
be fully felt. Once we can generate a particular sensation in
ourselves by will, we can then tie that sensation into the basic
qualities of the element. This approach illuminates many aspects of
the astral body which modern psychology fails to consider.
In regard to each of four elements, I refer you to my separate
essays on finding the sylph, gnome, salamander, and undine in
yourself. Though these articles derive directly from working with
elemental beings, I present the results as meditations which require
that you venture no further than the domain of your own
imagination.
Also see my different dialogues with the elemental beings. For all
their metaphysical explorations, these are not platonic dialogues.
They take place in a state of trance in which I encounter and wrestle
with the inner core essence of these marvelous spirits of nature. Yet
though I present these stories as journeys into invisible and magical
realms, the elemental beings embody treasures of spirit and feeling
which are part of our own nature.

Fire

We practice seeing and feeling fire. We evoke the sensation of
intense heat within ourselves. The basic procedure is to imagine
that our bodies are hollow inside and so able to accumulate any
energy we wish. When we are done, we imagine that the energy
dissolves again into the universe. Let us talk about the difficulties
with this concentration exercise.
Some individuals will be hesitant to work directly with fire. This
may be because fire is dangerous. It can burn you.
It may also be that they are uneasy with the idea of developing
their will and power. They may feel it is hard enough keeping one's
desires and impulses in check. If you develop your power, you
immediately run the risk of abusing that power. Passions out of
control may end up controlling you and causing all sorts of harm to
yourself and others. These concerns are very important and
individuals should listen to their own consciences on these matters.
You will recall from Greek mythology that Zeus chained the titan
Prometheus to a mountain crag and had hawks tear out his liver.
Zeus was mad at Prometheus for giving fire to the human race.
Each day the titan's liver would regenerate only to be torn out again.
The liver can be seen as representing natural growth and spiritual
consciousness. In bestowing the gift of fire to humanity,
Prometheus was giving power without the spiritual ability to know
how to use it wisely.
One way to work with the element of fire is to review fire in all
the ways it exists in nature, in society, and within ourselves. Life
was able to appear on our planet because of the heat and light of the
sun. But it took billions of years for this to occur and the earth had
to have a stable orbit and the right distance from the sun.
There are many forms of fire which exist in nature. The volcano
and forest fire are impersonal forces and extremely dangerous to
life. And yet the fire in the earth moves continents, uplifts
mountains, creates islands, and provides a variety of ecological
habitats. As civilization has developed, we have learned to use the
wood, coal, coke, oil, and gas fires turning their heat to productive
ends. Consider the history of technology and both the positive and
negative purposes to which fire has been dedicated. Fire itself, like
a knife, can be used for healthy or for destructive ends.
Consider also the importance of warmth and heat to the human
body. For the past thirty thousand years, we have managed to
survive ice ages, winters, and freezing environments. We have
developed clothing, insulation, and various heating systems to keep
us warm. We have used fire to cook and produce many new kinds
of food.
The point is that if you imagine your body filled with fiery flames
and heat you encounter a racial memory of all that fire means.
When you are evoking fire within yourself through the force of your
imagination, you need to make peace with both its productive and its
destructive aspects. You have to be comfortable with your ability to
use its power in natural ways which fulfil spiritual purposes.
On the other hand, try as they may some individuals will find it
hard to form a sensation of heat through concentration. They may
visualize a fire in front of them. They can just as easily see a fire
inside of their bodies. But nothing happens. There is no sensation
of heat which accompanies this imagery.
If, for example, the individual repeatedly places his hands near a
fire, he is still unable to get his nervous system to reproduce the
sensation of heat through concentration. The problem here is that
the individual's concentration on the mental plane is unable to
produce astral sensations. The astral body adds feelings of life and
immediacy to the imagery. When your concentration is effective on
the astral plane, as in a dream, you feel you are really there amid
whatever your visualize.
There are any number of ways of resolving this difficulty.
Basically, the idea is to become the fire. Make the fire part of
yourself. Treat fire as an extension of your own aura. Nourish it.
Care for it. Offer it welcome. Invite fire into yourself so it finds a
home and a place where it can grow strong.
For example, take some time to imagine you are collecting some
dry leaves and wood so that you can start an open fire out of doors.
Give your full attention to the match as it ignites and then starts the
dry leaves and wood burning. Assist the fire by placing small twigs
into the flames so that it can take hold. Then place a pan of water
over the fire with the intent you are going to bring the water to a
boil.
Assume the role of the fire like a cheerleader who encourages her
team to succeed. Become the heat which starts small bubbles and
then larger ones to appear in the water until the water finally boils.
Then imagine this entire visualization has taken place within your
own body. If in some way you can place emotion into your activity,
then it is easy to full the sensations which occur on the astral plane.
The heat in the fire then moves from a mental picture to an actual
sensation which is intense enough to feel real.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, there are Tibetan yogis who
visualize fire and manage to increase their body temperature by
seventeen degrees. This is no longer just a perceived sensation.
Scientists have measured it with a thermometer.
The next step is to imagine and believe quite clearly that the
presence of this element within yourself is the same as embodying
will. In psychological terms, fire radiates urgency, power, and light.
It is full of conviction and it dissolves fear. Because of its warmth
and dynamic presence, it gathers others to itself. It offers leadership,
courage, and a zest for living life.
Consider the affirmation: "I am a strong and assertive individual.
I present myself in a clear and convincing way to other people." It
is possible to form a picture in your mind that you indeed embody
these qualities. But others may still see you as a whimp. They may
treat you like you are helpless and ineffective.
The reason for this is that you have failed to create an astral
component for this thought form. Your aura does not radiate any
power or charisma. The task is to combine the mental affirmation
with an astral sensation which radiates fiery power. Others will then
immediately feel the warmth of your aura and a source of power
within you which can take charge of any situation.
Again, there is the other extreme. Some individuals will find it
easy to produce in themselves the hot, burning sensation of a fire.
Some individuals with ease can imagine the entire world as one vast
sea of flames and feel that heat extending around them for miles.
They can do this because they have a natural ability or else they
have a vivid astral imagination.
But there may be a downside to this. If they expand the fire
element in their auras, they may lack the ethics, character, and
commitment to use this force wisely. Sometimes at a red light, an
individual in one car with casually glance at someone in another car.
The second person may have an astral body full of fire which is
ready to ignite. The glance is like striking a match. The encounter
results in violence.
In this case, the feeling of power with its urgent need to act and to
dominate the situation produces negative results. The fire has not
been channeled through an alert and clear mind. Blind emotion has
taken control.
Consequently, when the fiery element in the astral body is easily
stimulated, the individual has to spend more time working on the
mental plane. The purposes for which will and power are to be
used must be carefully reviewed. The individual has to identity and
commit himself to core values which are persuasive enough to hold
the negative aspects of fire in check.

Air

As with fire, you imagine your body is a hollow space and that only
the air element exists within you. You might imagine yourself to be
like a helium balloon so you feel weightless. You feel yourself float
up into the sky. The sensation of weightlessness and floating is
basic.
Then you extend your imagination further. You imagine the
winds are part of your body. The vacuum into which air flows is
like your lungs exerting a pull as you inhale. Actually, there is a
rhythmic flow in the winds and the seasons which is like breathing.
Like a sylph, you probe and search for the harmony underlying air
movements and weather patterns.
And finally you become the winds. If you open your mind and
meditate, you become the trade winds, the north wind, the
hurricane, the thunderstorm, and the tiny gust that twirls the leaves
in your garden. In meditation, there is no light or energy the mind
can not find and reproduce to some extent within itself. Becoming
familiar with the sky is just a matter of practice and taking time.
The air element can also be overdeveloped within an individual.
If you make astral contact with the air element or communicate with
sylphs, there is a tendency for the other elements in yourself to be
shoved aside. This may lead you to a part of yourself which is wild
and restless. It is impersonal, distant, and aloof. It is not at all
concerned with the worries and responsibilities of human beings. It
knows itself to be free and so it no longer cares about the demands
of society, personality, or human feeling.
An individual with this passive aspect of the air element may be
alert, detached, and balanced within himself. But he can also be
insensitive to the extent of becoming amoral. This is not new
information. Psychology talks about psychopaths and authors write
about individuals who have lost their connections to others.
However, the phenomenon I am describing derives from an astral
enchantment. Part of the individual's astral body is no longer
focused on human existence. The individual perceives the way a
sylph perceives or as the fairies of lore who enchant human beings
to come away with them to the inner planes. As William Butler
Yeats describes it:

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Again, psychologists such as Carl Jung have written about a circle of
enchantment which holds human beings in enthrallment. The
individual is haunted and possessed by what is unfilled in the past,
by the unmet needs of childhood and family. He does not see the
actual situations he enters and other human beings as they are but
only a distorted reflection, an illusion seen from afar. Giving and
receiving, bonding, and intimacy are twisted and bent because the
heart is incomplete.
But the enchantment of air is slightly different. The individual has
an over abundance of the air element which lacks positive
expression. There is nothing a matter with having a sylph's
heightened awareness. The Dalai Lama's weather controller
possesses this as did ancient druids.
The sylph's sensitivity can take the form of a detachment which
blends freedom with a delight in pure perception. It is a thrilling
experience as are hang gliding and parasailing. It is easy when you
feel this relaxed and free to say to yourself, "I am not a human
being. The life within me is altogether different that from what
others feel and see." When we are at play or entertained, we may
temporarily feel the same thing. We give ourselves permission to
forget about the rest of life for the duration.
But this suspending of daily demands, besides being a way to
recharge ourselves, has a productive side. An altered state of
perception enables us to see the world in new ways. The challenge is
to share this with others.
The poet does this. He perceive the delicate fragility and the
hidden beauty shining within each moment. When he writes or
speaks, he is sufficiently distant that he can savor pure feelings. But
he knows these feelings can only be expressed, found and met,
within the details and specific experiences of our lives. Each poem
is a steppingstone leading across the stream separating humanity
from the realms of fairy and the astral plane.
The artist does this. He says, "Behold my art. It is a creation of
my imagination. Its images are a mirror capturing the light I see
reflected in life." And musicians do this when the music is just
right. They are no longer aware of themselves. The notes carry
them along. The song takes on its own life and they are within both
the human plane and another domain.
Too much airy substance in the soul tempts us all to let go and
forget our ties to others. Legend tells us of a race which could not
longer compete with human beings and so retreated from our world
to become a race of fairies. But even to these we might now say,
"Return again and dwell among us. Share with us the things you
see and know that we too might behold the beauty of the world
around us." The remedy is not to retreat into detachment and a
realm of inner peace but to create new ways of sharing heart to
heart.
And finally there is the basic problem of developing astral
sensitivity. Many individuals see no further than the activities of
their daily lives. The consequence is that their emotional life is
limited in scope. In fact, most religions guide their practitioners into
a few sets of sacred experiences which are charged with astral
energy. Conversion, devotion, rapture, and commitment are
controlled and channeled in acceptable ways. Other profound
emotional experiences are labeled taboo and placed off limits or else
are ignored and considered to be irrelevant.
But if you look at a cloud it is constantly changing. If you focus
on a feeling within you and give it enough space to move, it will
continuously transform. Feelings are like the waters of the earth.
They run in underground streams. They are in the lakes, the seas,
the clouds, the rivers, the rain, and the ice caps.
A sylph is aware of every aspect of a changing cloud and yet the
sylph remains detached. To work with the air element is to have
both inner balance and a sensitivity to every nuance and aspect of
feelings. Developing this sensitivity is something which psychology
shares in common with magick. Elsewhere I write about the method
of focusing which bridges the gap between transpersonal psychology
and magical practice.

Water

To develop the sensation of water which is cold and wet, imagine
you are swimming and diving in a stream, river, lake, or ocean. It is
possible to extend your meditations along these lines until the
sensations of water become quite strong. At some point along the
way, imagine yourself becoming the water surrounding your body.
Feel the swimmer and the diver moving through your space. And
again feel the coldness of water within your body as if your body is
hollow inside.
In my various stories about my encounters with the undines, I go
into detailed descriptions about their specific astral natures. The
four I describe are all loving, receptive, sensitive, empathic, healing,
and nurturing. Also, they each have a slightly different way they
communicate the bliss and ecstasy within the water element. These
undines are very enchanting and possess many magical secrets
relating to the water element.
From my experience, undines extend their auras out into the
watery domains surrounding them. If they wish to create an
atmosphere like a wondrous festival full of dancing and song, the
water is magnetized to express their feeling. If they wish to
communicate a profound state of oneness and love, again, the water
element becomes a vehicle which carries and amplifies their
intentions.
Our task in exploring the psychology of water is to do something
similar. Once we can clearly produce the sensations of cold water in
and around ourselves, then we imagine that this watery expanse acts
to express our feelings. Water absorbs, releases, flows and
circulates energy. In a similar way, our aura encompasses and
revives the life of those with whom we have contact. It produces a
magical space in which individuals are free to be receptive to each
other and to feel acceptance and love.
As with the other elements, we now combine the energies of the
mental and astral planes. We need a clear definition and
commitment in our minds to all that water represents in its highest
sense. Again, the qualities are love, healing, nurturing, sensitivity,
acceptance, clairsentience, serenity, tranquility, purity, and so forth.
And we need a total and complete conviction that we exist within
and are a part of a magnetic watery field of energy flowing through
us and encompassing ourselves and others as well.
Both the mental and astral planes with their different approach to
water must then be united in a natural way. Part of our success in
this endeavor will arise from our study and appreciation of other
individuals who express feelings and ideals of love in their
personalities. And part of our work will involve recognizing the
great variety of sensations and ways in which water exists in the
world of nature. Again, I have given examples through poems and
stories of ways the undines have sought to deepen my understanding
of the environment and element of water in which they live.
Ultimately, their domain and their range of activities are also our
own.

Earth

If we conceive of fire as will, air as intelligence and clarity of mind,
and water as love and affection, what then shall we make of the
element of earth? In way can earth represent the integration and
strength of consciousness?
The granite boulder is stable. It retains its shape, its form and
mass, and only very gradually changes. The precious stone is harder
and more enduring and yet its structure permits the energy of light
to pass through it. Ice is water in a solid form. Its molecules though
fixed cover a wider expanse so that it floats. Air is in water and
water is in the volcanic magma as it explodes. As the heat is
released, the flowing lava turns to stone.
Plants grow on the rich nutrients of volcanic islands. Topsoil
develops and then forests. The land mass provides an environment
where life can flourish.
Consciousness integrates the different aspects of ourselves. It is
the enduring and stable landscape where our soul and spirit
accomplish their tasks. Consciousness sets priorities, identifies
values, and applies its resources and time to productive ends. There
are conflicts between values, goals, desires, and different
individuals. Consciousness uses the understanding of air, the will of
fire, and the empathy of water to arrive at practical and satisfying
solutions.
The main sensations we are after with the earth element are
weight and density. You imagine yourself as a little more heavy.
Like a tree, you are rooted in the ground. Like a boulder, you are
solid and easily resist external influence. Increasing your sense of
weight and being grounded are part of the arts of Aikido and also
Tai Chi Chuan.
With the right piece of rock, there is a sense of time being
suspended. You remember the past. Your endure for ages. Even
the far future feels near at hand. The earth element has a stronger
continuity. Past, present, and future form a continuum. The events
of life occur along a time line. You do not have to rush anywhere.
You just use the present moment in the best way you can.
I place my hand on a standing stone five thousand years old.
There is nothing fancy about this stone circle. It seems quite casual
like an afterthought the way it is set down at the end of a cow
pasture on Mull Island, Scotland. But I think to myself that all the
events of human history from the Egyptian pyramids to the present
unfolded while these stone have stood here and waited.
Consciousness can take the events of our lives and give them
order and definition. It can say, "This relationship and that event
are important to me. They always will be. These ideals I live for--
they are what give my life purpose. You see, amid all the changes--
the accidents, the failures, and the wrong turns--there is a core set of
values within myself which I uphold and experiences which I
honor."
Fire is tenacious but earth is persevering. Water offers love and
support, sweet intimacy and pleasure. But earth builds and provides
those things which satisfy our deepest desires. The air element likes
to think and to reason. It offers clarity so vast that the thought
process is lost in the illumination. But the earth element knows in its
heart that it is alive and participates in those purposes which endure
through all ages of time.
Earth cuts to the bottom line. It is not distracted by the urgency
and rapacious hunger of fire and all the issues surrounding the
maintenance of power. It is not so easily distracted by the
enchantments, romance, and passions of love. And though it too
seeks and reaches for peaks of understanding and illumination, it
does not fly off content to be detached or aloof.
Earth stays focused on the concrete and practical ways we can
materialize our ideals and operate in an effective manner in
accordance with our core values. It leaves behind a legacy. It
provides a foundation upon which future generations will build.
And if this sounds too abstract, then we can apply the same to our
own lives. In each stage of our life, we act with integrity and
accomplish our basic tasks. Then we are able to move forward and
succeed with what comes next.
In summary, this is only a tiny introduction to the psychology of
the four elements. I have not discussed here the ecstasies of the
four elements. And there are the four divine attributes relating to
different elements--omnipotence, enlightenment, omnipresence or
all-encompassing love, and immortality.
I have suggested elsewhere that the twelve signs of the zodiac
and astrology also provide insight into the four elements. An
important step in this area will be identifying for each of the twelve
signs of the zodiac its corresponding elemental sensation. Then that
rich set of symbols and interpretations can be integrated into the
psychology of the elements. To do this will require a shamanisticapproach to the symbols which characterize the zodiac signs.

Religion and Technology

2007-10-08T21:05:00.001-07:00

At the dawn of mankind, religion was technology and technology was religion. To some extent this still holds for some of the "primitive" peoples of our times who have not yet been touched by technological advancement nor have their senses been destroyed as a result of indoctrination by organized mass religions.

At a relatively early point in human evolution a split occurred. Things that people saw as "tangible" they considered to be "technological" while that which was not tangible belonged to the realms of the Divine, later religion.

Science attempted to discover structures and natural laws in the tangible world while the metaphysical systems and theologies attempted to describe that which is going on in the intangible world. The more scientific thought advanced in recent times, the more things that were supposed to be tangible turned out not to be that tangible after all. At the same time new scientific systems developed that began to probe into the many worlds of things intangible. The seemingly sharp demarcation between that which is religious and psychic and that which is technological and scientific proved more and more to be arbitrary, if not illusionary.

On the other hand, researchers on the metaphysical side became more and more aware of the usefulness of scientific models and of scientific rigor. Most metaphysicists of our times however are not yet fully aware of the usefulness of this beneficial development. Most of them are still exhibiting a total lack of scientific training. Some even go sop far to carry hostility against scientific thought and methods. Sadly enough, it is the scientific half wits, or quarter wits, that control much of the metaphysical thinking of our times. The time for change is more than necessary. This is so because more and more people open up to the fact that things spiritual and psychic are as valid as things that are scientific and technological, in fact that the two are inseparable. We have to come to the conclusion that a spiritual, or inner, reality that is independent of or in contrast to an outer, or scientific, reality does not exist. Both realities coexist.

Again psychic technologies and spiritual advancement as well as material technologies may be considered to be facets of one and the same evolutionary process. For humans to achieve their fullest evolutionary potential, they have to include both technologies. The result of such a development is an all inclusive metaphysical technology, or a technological metaphysic. This is a discipline that can be the way to interact with all accessible levels of consciousness, or existence. It is interaction that reaches from the material planes all the way to the realms of energies of a higher order and energies of the realms of creation. We are at the threshold of an all encompassing and true magic.

Remote Influencing Or How Hexes & Curses Work

2007-10-05T11:09:00.001-07:00

I have heard people talking recently about remote influencing. All magic is remotely influencing something. Magic is manipulating your environment. You can use the energy to make something good happen or you can use it to hex or curse someone. I will mainly talk about negatively influencing someone in life.
Everyone has what I call an energy signature. This is the vibration, pitch, colors and combined tones that says what they are in this lifetime. These can be changed or influenced by our decisions in life. They can be changed by the negative emotions and addictive behaviors. This pattern can be changed or affected by hexing or cursing.
This energy signature forms a line for the length of the person's time on this earth. I call this the person's time line. The time line has other lines joining it and splitting off from it. The lines splitting off from it are decisions that the person makes about their life. The moments when there are multiple decisions on the choices in a person's life is called a node. My best description of nodes is to glue a bunch of string to a balloon. Let the glue dry and then pop the balloon. You will then have an idea of what a node looks like.
All the time lines run together in a river and there is support for this theory in different literature. The Buddhists mention it in their literature for just one example. Choices are flexible and can be changed; but the only time this normally happens is in a node. Decisions cause a course of action to be set in someone's life and the only way to change it is to go to a different course of action. This is done in a node.
I stated in the magical theory how spells work. Hexes work within these guidelines. The different types of hexes are these.
1. Violent action causing death or injuries.
2. Mental damage.
3. Affecting everything around the person causing them to only be able to make bad choices.
There is a gray area in this category involving snooping or spying upon another person. If you believe someone is trying to snoop or spy upon you to find out some fact. The easiest way to stop this is to visualize all of your thoughts bouncing around like hot popcorn seeds. You visualize them as hard little pellets and the person trying to do this will have a violent headache.
One other method is to match the victim's energy signature and attempt to lay the person's influence over the victim's. The way to stop this is by sealing the aura or sending out an extra high pitched vibration. The energy signature will be impossible to match especially if you make your aura vibrate differently to different vibrations until the person leaves you alone.
The hexes to cause violent harm to happen to someone can be remedied and are normally very simple. This again is the voodoo doll or other basic methods. They don't match the person's energy signature except by using something of the victim's and can be undone by a simple spell.
The hexes to cause mental damage and to affect everything around the person are a lot harder to correct. Everyone broadcasts what type of person they are in their aura and by their energy signature. Some people can shield this by setting up personal wards so nothing can influence it. The normal person is vulnerable to attack by others who know how to throw hexes. The first thing is they match the energy signature. The second thing is they see what the time line looks like and what choices are branching off from the time line. They then block every choice that can be said to bring good energy or good luck to the victim.
A lot of the people casting the hexes can't see this consciously but that is what the hexes are designed to do. Hexes and curses are designed to make the person miserable for the rest of their life that fall into this category. They make people treat them differently because it is like a bad smell coming off of them. They broadcast a energy signature that is different from what the person is like in real life.
Con men and actors are good at projecting this energy signature and hiding their real energy signature without even thinking about this fact.
The hexes incorporating this into the spell are very complex and hard to undo. The person undoing this type of hexes has to be able to open up the good choices again for the person and remove the other influences.
A lot of methods involve taking a piece of the victim's etheric self. The person undoing this type of spell has to be able to travel in alternate realities and dimensions to retrieve the piece of the victim's self. The simple hex-removers or banishing will remove a lot of this but at times a expert is needed.

Understanding Entities & Defending Yourself

2007-10-05T11:01:00.000-07:00

There are many as many different types of entities as there are cultures and different people on this planet. They all have certain similarities even with all the diverse cultures and different climates. We have a tendency to ignore all of the myths and legends as superstition or tall tales. I believe that there is a lot more truth to these myths than anyone really knows.
Entities can be put into two major groups and divided into subgroups after that. These are:
1.Good entities
a.Angels
b.Gods
c.Helpful spirits
i.elemental spirits
ii.planetary spirits
iii.ancestral spirits
2.Bad entities
a.Demons
b.Gods
c.Dual-natured spirits
i.elemental spirits
ii.planetary spirits
iii.ancestral spirits
Most of this is self-explanatory except for the helpful and dual natured spirits. Elementals can be of either good or bad intentions. It depends upon the elemental and how you meet them. The basic types are air, water, fire and earth. They have elementals that can be considered blends of the different types of elements. The best thing to do is to leave them alone unless they come up to you and volunteer to help.
Planetary spirits are next. They also have a dual nature and there are good and bad spirits. Some demons have planetary and elemental aspects to them. The planets are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Moon, Sun, Neptune, and Uranus. A good book on astrology or candle-burning will tell you the different aspects. You can tell by the subjects listed why they are considered to have a dual nature.
Ancestral spirits are also included in this description because they have a dual nature. There are many cultural and tribal legends about how to appease the ghosts of the ancestors. There are also many tales about avoiding angry ghosts in every culture on this earth. Included in this are earth spirits that are animal based or nature based. You also hear tales of helpful ghosts and earth spirits. Voodoo provides a ready base about dual-natured spirits. The voodoo loas have dual natures and can do good or evil depending upon how they appear and which loa is aspected.
All of these spirits that are of a dual nature can do good or bad. It all depends upon their nature and the circumstances of when and where you meet them.
I also have to mention that I am including the gods in both groups because of the many legends and myths that show different gods that do different things. These things are not always good and every culture has a good versus evil theme to their legends.
In the world of today there have been many new and different types of entities evolving. The types and appearances have changed but they seem to have one thing in common. Our environment is not natural for them. They seem to have an elemental or planetary nature. They aren't very smart and they seem to mainly be drawing energy off of human beings for their own uses. These minor spirits are capable of damaging the health and environment of anyone that they attach their links too.
The main reason the methods of self defense work is because of the nature of all of these entities. Every thing has a certain type of energy. This includes rocks and stones as much as people. Everything can absorb the energy of events that happen around it. You can pick up a volcanic rock and hold it in your left hand. Sense the impressions you get off of it.
These entities need a certain type of energy to be able to exist in our environment. I have observed that when a person has an entity of the negative or bad sort attached to them-they also have similar problems. The entities seem to feed off of what would be called the bad emotions. These emotions are anger, rage, suspicion, jealousy, hate, lust, greed, fear, envy and all of their variations. I would like you to think how many people are visible nowadays showing these emotions all of the time. No one seems to know what they are as a person anymore. I wonder how many of these people have entities attached to them.
Every method that you can find in books or by researching in libraries that are used for magical self-defense changes the vibrations present in an area. This makes it so the energy for these entities to survive isn't present. They have to leave and go elsewhere to exist. This is essential for getting rid of crossed circumstances and entities. You banish the energy that is used to make it possible for those things to happen.
The next question is always "How can I do that-everyone always has bad things happen to them." It is true that as long as we're alive nothing is going to go perfectly all of the time. We can make life a lot easier on ourselves by just using some simple methods.
The first thing to do is use self-introspection. You have to impartially look at yourself and be sure that this is how you want to act. You then know when you are being used by something else. You know when it isn't in your nature to act the way you're acting. You can also see how your life might be being influenced by negative influences. If you can truthfully say this isn't me and no one has things like this happen. You can then take the next step.
The next step is to observe everything. I always suggest looking at things out of the corner of your eyes to see if anything seems to flicker or move. Observe your charkas and see if there anything dark or nasty attached to them. Do you feel energy being sucked out of your body or drained all of the time. Does everything seem to be put on hold or delayed in your life? What is your emotional state all of the time. Write down everything you observe and see if you could be being influenced by something else. You can notice these entities also when you can't seem to quit being in a negative mood. I call it a negative mood when any of the above emotions are a constant in your life. I find a lot of the people who are affected by entities can't remember the last time in their lives that they were happy or felt safe.
I then suggest that if you really believe you are being hexed or have an entity attached to you that you do research. There are many different things that raise the energies and the vibrations in an area. The higher pitched vibrations are better. Music is just one of them. There are many books in bookstores and libraries with methods of banishing or exorcising a place or area. If you don't believe you can handle the problems yourself talk with someone else that can give advice or help you.
You decide what method you want to use and decide when to do it. Don't vary the instructions or change the method. Do it exactly the way that it says to perform the method. If you do change it write down what you do and keep a record of it. This is very important as no one can help you if they can't figure out what you've done.
You do everything correctly and then look at your space. You can see the energy glowing a brilliant color that is friendly and welcoming. Your aura has changed colors and looks brighter. All of this happens because you raised the energy vibrations to make it where good spirits want to be there to help you. Any good energy and spirits always feels right and welcoming. Harsh energies and colors mean that you still have work to do. Murky energy and colors mean a problem also.
The whole key to making any of these methods work is to have the high vibration energy around you and in your space. It provides a barrier so none of the negative forces can enter. It also makes it so anything that can enter will have good intentions and be helpful to you. I hope that this article has been helpful to you. You can also bring good into your life by using these methods.
1. You have thoughts and feelings that are unusual for you or you feel that they aren't your own feelings.
2. You feel that everything around you is going wrong and you have no way to figure out why this is happening.
3. You are having an extreme change in physical health and no energy at all for doing the normal things in your life.
This can be a factor in normal life but not all the conditions at the same time when you've been seeing something out of the corner of your eye. There are many different types of problems that could be just dismissed as normal life until all the factors are added together.
Problems with people can't be categorized as quickly as entity problems. The most obvious one is who do you have mad at you and what do they know. You then have to ask would they be willing to hurt or harm someone using what they know. I can truthfully say that most people who know magic of any sort do not go around throwing hexes or curses on someone. They are normally people who work hard upon themselves and their flaws. The few people that do this have given most of the other people a bad name.
The symptoms to watch out for if you have been hexed or cursed are diverse. There are people who effect others lives and are willing to do it.
1. Did they threaten you with magic? All the people I have met who do this let you know what they are doing. They want you to fear them because they can use that emotion to make their spell work.
2. How is your life going? I have noticed most hexed people can talk about their miraculous escapes from death or other problems in life. You hear them talk and then everyone thinks "How could anyone have that many things go wrong at once."
3. Have you been having multiple nightmares of people or things causing you to be upset.
4. Do you occasionally hear chanting, or smell incense and odors. I have noticed that most people being hexed hear or know the people are doing things on some level.
5. Do you see things out of the corner of your vision. I also have noticed that people do occasionally see images of things or people. You don't have to be trained to notice this.
I have helped many people in the past and hope to help more in the future with psychic problems. All of those people would have been able to change their lives for the better if they had known how to defend themselves. I have heard many people say you attract what you deserve. This is not true as a lot of the people that have been victims with these problems are really nice, decent people. The people who try to do the most good sometimes have the most problems.

TRAINING TO SEE AURAS V4 Part 7

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25. Practise and time:

It takes practise to see the human aura, so don't be
disappointed if you fail, or see very little the first few
times you try. If you managed to see the aura of the original
blue book, you CAN learn to see the human aura.

Using this training method stimulates the brow centre, which
is responsible for all types of non-physical sight. With
use, it will grow in strength and seeing auras will become
progressively easier to do. It may take weeks, before you get
your first, proper glimpse of the human aura, if you have
poor natural ability for this - but with practise, as I did,
you WILL eventually be able to see it.

I suggest that you practise the mental opening and stimulation
exercises, and observe auras for at least a few minutes every
day. This will stimulate your brow centres development.

26. Spontaneous auric sight:

You will find there will be days when auras are very
difficult to see. You will also find there are days when
auras just appear around people and objects, without any
conscious effort on your part to see them. You will find
this happening at odd times, when your brow centre is, for
some reason, very active. You may be sitting down talking to
someone, and all of a sudden you will see their aura, or
the aura of their clothing, with no effort at all.

Episodes of strong, spontaneous auric sight, will happen
frequently, once you begin stimulating and developing your
brow centre, through the practise of observing auras.

A letter showing this:

Eric: "I have been practising your method daily, for over
a month now, but have not succeeded in seeing much of a
human aura, until now. I can usually see the auras of
colours and plants, and can see my own aura fine. Up
until now, I have only been able to see the auras of
colour, the etheric and some patches of distortion around
people, when I try and see their auras.

Yesterday, I was working on my computer, and my girlfriend
came into my room. She had just showered and was getting
dressed. I just looked at her and "BOOM!!!" there was this
huge aura all around her. It was really beautiful and solid
looking. It was mostly green around her body with a yellow
glow around her head. Oh - there were some red and orange
patches around her hips and stomach.

I was not trying to see her aura. I was trying to finish
my work and was very tired, what with exams coming up the next
week. It just appeared around her like magic.

What happened, how could I see it without trying to? I tried
the next day, but couldn't see it again. What happened?"

Me: Bravo Eric! You are doing extremely well. What you saw
was the full living aura of your girlfriend. I take it she was
naked when you saw it? This would have helped you to get a
better view of it. This is spontaneous auric sight, caused by
all the practise you have been doing - seeing auras. This
will happen more frequently, from now on. It will just happen,
from time to time, when your brow centre is very active, for
some reason or other. This is a sign your brow centre is
responding well to the exercises I gave you, and developing
nicely. Your dreams should also increase in frequency and become
much more vivid, with more lucid dreams etc. This is another
sign of your brow centre developing.

This, above, is a good example of spontaneous auric sight. Eric was
tired and relaxed, when it first happened - the perfect state for
seeing auras. He had been practising auric sight exercises for several
weeks. This had stimulated his brow centre, causing bouts of spontaneous
auric sight to happen.

Eric was lucky enough to have a naked subject for his first
view of an aura, showing him the full human aura, with no
interference from clothing etc. With Eric, this sort of thing
happened every few weeks, for about a year. It then
increased in frequency, happening about once a week, on
average. Sometimes this only showed him a patch of colour on
someone, for a few seconds - at other times, he sees a full
aura.

After Eric had this first bout of spontaneous auric sight, he
found it much easier to see the human aura, when he tried. He
still cannot see the whole aura - when he wants to - unless it
happens spontaneously. He can now, though, see bands and
patches of colours in peoples auras, that he could not see
before.

27. Close:

I have taught many people to see the aura using this, above,
method. The fast results, in the early stages, help to build
confidence and keep interest high. This ensures enough work
and effort is put in to get the desired results - seeing the
human aura.

Once you have seen your first aura, you have taken your first
step into a much larger, and more colourful world. If you
practise and graduate to seeing, even a glimpse, of the
illusive human aura, then you are making very good progress
indeed, and your brow centre is showing it's development -
through your increased ability. The next step from this is to
develop clairvoyance. This is the ability to see the more
subtle energies in the world around you. These energies
contain within them: karmic influences, life conditions, the
results of past actions, and future events and probabilities -
plus lots of other exciting and interesting stuff. This
energy is seen, clairvoyantly, as metaphoric imagery, full of
richly symbolic meaning. This is seen as anything from a
simple still picture, to a full coloured, motion picture
quality, mind's eye vision.

------------ Robert Bruce -----------------

TRAINING TO SEE AURAS V4 Part 6

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* Back to the coloured book:

While you are gazing steadily, with a relaxed focus, at your
blue or red covered book - recreate the same mental action,
as described above. Shift your bodily awareness to the area
between your eyes. Feel this area with your mind -
concentrate all of your sense of feel, your bodily awareness,
on this area.

Tip: Lightly scratch the skin directly between your eyes, and
just above it, in the centre of
your brow, with a fingernail. This will help you to
zero in on that spot with your bodily
awareness.

Shift your bodily awareness to the area between your eyes -
concentrate on being aware of that area!

Mentally lift this whole area - as if you were trying to force
your eyelids to open - but do not allow the muscles in this
area to tense up or respond in any way (this is all mental).

Isolate the mental command that lifts your eyelids. Observe
yourself closely. Imagine your eyes are very heavy, and let
them close on you, and open them a few times. Observe which
muscles you use to do this. Use this same muscle command -
with your mind based bodily awareness, in that area - but
without letting your eyelid muscles obey.

Do this over and over again - lifting, lifting, lifting - as
if you were lifting a heavy shadow from behind your eyes .

Repeat this action, over and over, but do not allow yourself -
or any muscles - to tense up or respond. This is a bit tricky
to, start with, but easily mastered with a little practise.

This mental opening action is _very_ important. It is the
first step in learning how to control your brow centre and,
later, the rest of your energy body - if you decide to
progress to developing full clairvoyance and other psychic
abilities.

In the early stages, it does not matter if you feel you are
lifting too large an area over your brow. Even if you are
lifting right across the whole front of your forehead - it
will still have an opening effect on your brow centre. With
practise, you will be able to narrow the focus of this mental
opening action - to the brow centre area alone.

If you keep up this mental opening action, you will stimulate
your brow centre - forcing it to become active. Your steady,
relaxed focus, on your subject, will tune your brow centre
into the energy given off by it. This energy will be passed
along to the sight centre of your brain. There, it will be
interpreted as a sight picture - a bright band of coloured
light.

Tip. When you have isolated this opening action, and can do
it mentally, you will find one side of the veil behind your
eyes easier to lift than the other - usually the right is
easier. Basically, his feeling is caused by the two
different hemispheres of your brain - one is much easier to
use than the other. If this is a problem, use a clockwise
swirling mental action, over the site of the brow centre, to
stimulate it. By clockwise, I mean clockwise from the
inside. Use the same mental muscle command we talked about
above, as with opening tired eyes, but swirl it, as if you
were mentally stirring that area with a pencil.

It is best to alternate between the main opening
action, and this swirling action, when trying to activate
your brow centre. The main opening action is still needed
to tune your brow centre into an aura.

Note. Remember: all these energy stimulation exercises
depend upon localised bodily awareness, specifically -
localised surface awareness on the skin. You have to FEEL
these mental actions happening, in order to make them effective.

Your first aura:

While you are doing all the above, patiently keep up your
relaxed gaze, just to the side and past your subject. After a
while (anything from a few seconds to several minutes - in the
early stages) you will see a faint shimmering in the air,
around the book. Then, you will see a pale, narrow band of
light build up, close to the edge of the book. This is the
books etheric aura.

*Stay relaxed!

*Don't change your focus - in any way!

*Don't look directly at it!

*Blink if you have to - it will come back quickly!

Soon, a bright-yellow aura (blue book) or bright-green aura
(red book) will start building up, from the pale, etheric band
around the book. If you change your focus, tense up, or look
directly at it - the aura will vanish instantly.

The aura has to be observed with your peripheral, or side
vision.

If something happens, and the aura disappears, don't worry.
Continue observing it, calmly, and patiently and it will
reappear.

In the early stages, the aura will tend to disappear quite a
bit. This is quite normal. Keep at it and this will happen
less and less, as you master the viewing technique.

Step 3:

Once you have completed the first steps, gather several
books and wrap them, each in a different primary colour.

The brighter the colour - the brighter the aura - and the
easier it is to see.

Study these coloured books, one at a time, and write down the
colours you see.

Observe the books, two at a time, and watch how their auric
colours affect each other.

Move them around, mix them, sit them on top of each other,
observe them all in a row.

Step 4:

Get a pot plant, or some fresh flowers, and study their aura.
The aura you will see around them is a living aura. Keep in
mind the effects of the auric colours from the petals and
leaves. The orange hue you will see, around the green parts of
the plants stems and leaves, comes from the auric colour of
green - the same as with observing a green book. Some of the
other colours, with flowers, will come from the colours of the
petals.

You will see a more distinct etheric and a stronger
shimmering, optical effect around the plant.

Living auras are more subtle and, thus, a little harder to
see, than a simple colour's aura. With practise, though, the
auras of plants will become much easier to see.

Step 5:

Observe the aura of a tree. Pick a good sized tree that you
can view, highlighted against the sky. It is best to observe
it with the sun behind you, early in the morning or late in
the day. If
the sun, or any strong reflection, is in your eyes, it will
make this very difficult to do.

The shimmering around the tree will be much more imposing and
intense, than with a small plant. The colour of a tree's aura
will also be influenced, not only by the colours of the leaves
and bark, but also by the colour of the sky itself. On a
sunny day, a tree's aura will appear to be a shade of blue.
On a cloudy day, it will appear to be creamy-grey.

Viewing distance: Experiment with this, as it depends upon
the size of the tree. Make sure you can see the entire top
of the tree in your field of view. You need to be, approximately,
three times the height of the tree away from it, or more.

A tree's aura can be huge, depending upon the size of the tree
and how strong it is. At the top of the tree's aura you can
sometimes see a fountaining effect, as if it's aura were
slowly spraying up out of it. I am not sure what causes this,
and I have not seen this with every tree I have observed.
Some people say it is the tree's spirit, or a nature spirit
living inside the tree, that causes it. Some trees do seem
to have a kind of consciousness within them, so this may be
true.

Step 6:

For the next step, use an animal, any animal: a dog,
cat, kangaroo, camel, lion, tiger, elephant, etc, if you have
access to one. Try and observe them when they are resting.
Animal auras are not as colourful as human auras, but they
are still very good practise.
Keep in mind, that the colour of the animals coat will affect
the colour of it's aura.

Disease can be detected in the aura of an animal, the same as
with a human subject. This makes observing them very good
practise, for diagnosing the early signs of disease in an
aura.

Step 7:

Observe your own aura: This can be done outside, with the Sun
behind you, or inside, against a neutral background. Hold
your arm out and study your hand and forearm. You can also
lay down and observe the aura of your feet and legs.

Step 8:

A human subject:

In the beginning, it is best to observe the human aura in two
stages:

Stage 1:

Have your subject wear a colourful shirt, dress or jumper -
anything will do. Use any colour but blue - do not use blue -
as this will flood and hide the yellow of the intellect, the
colour most commonly seen around the head area.

Make sure their upper neck area is bare. Observe their
shoulder area, using the same setting and technique, as with
the original book. You will see the colour of the shirt
easily, building up around their shoulder.

*Make sure you continue to do the mental opening action - with
all these exercises.

When the shirt's aura is clear around their shoulder area,
shift your gaze slightly higher - so you are gazing past their
bare neck area. Keep the shirt's aura in view - don't change
what you are doing - and see what other colours you can pick
up around their bare neck.

This exercise makes sure your eyes and brow centre are working
together, as with the book.

Do not focus directly on your subject's neck! All auras must
be gazed at and observed with peripheral vision.

You should begin to see a slightly different colour, building
up near the top of their shirts auric colour - around their
bare neck and head.

Now, shift your gaze slightly higher, so your line of sight is
level with their head area. Keep your gaze relaxed and don't
change anything. You should see some yellow around this
area.

When you see a little, ask your subject to do some mental
arithmetic, or think hard about something. See if their aura
brightens when they do this.

Stage 2:

Get your volunteer to remove some of their upper clothing.
Study a bare skin area, against a neutral background - the
same as with the book. The upper arm and shoulder area is
the best place to start your observation.

With bare skin, the first thing you will see is a slight
shimmering effect, a fuzziness in the air near the skin.
Next, you will see the etheric aura build up from their skin.
This looks like creamy, pale-blue smoke, clinging to their
skin. This is quite distinct and normally about half an inch
deep.

Hold your focus and the aura's main colours will begin to
build up, and out, from the etheric aura. It will first
appear as a narrow band of colour, highlighting the edge of
the etheric aura. This will appear and disappear, grow and
shrink, quite a bit. This part is very frustrating, but keep
at it and it will get easier. The colour will slowly grow
larger and become thicker and more well defined. Hold your
focus and it will grow to several inches or more thick. The
main aura may vanish and reappear many times, as I said, while
it is building up. This is caused by blinking and minute
shifts in your focus, and cannot be helped.
Tip:

The brightness of a person's aura has a lot to do with their
mood and how they feel. If they feel happy and full of
life, their aura will be much stronger, larger and
brighter. Try playing their favourite music, or crack a few
jokes and have a good laugh. This will help to energise their
aura and make it easier for you to see it.

24. Another letter:

Here is another email letter. It describes a very unusual
first sighting of an aura:

Rick: "I want to relate to you an event yesterday that was
kind of unusual.

I was sitting in church, just staring at the choir,
when I saw an incredible white light, sort of like a
shadow, and three of the choir members had this white
light shooting up to the ceiling and turning blue and
green. It was like looking at a bright, multicoloured X
ray.

It was an awesome experience. I had a chill run down my
spine and I thought "WOW!" and blinked - and it was gone.

Question: What the heck was that -- I assume it was
an aura?"

Me: You were, by the sound of it, in a very relaxed
state, and carried away, uplifted, by the spiritual
singing of the choir. This must have stimulated your
energy body and brow centre, causing spontaneous auric
sight, making it possible for you to see the choir's
aura, while it was flaring.

What you have seen is the human aura flaring, in an
excited state. This is a rare and truly beautiful sight.
I have only ever seen this once myself.

The flaring aura's of the choir would have been caused
by a charged, devotional atmosphere in the church, and
the hymn the choir were singing at the time. This must
have stirred deep spiritual feelings and uplifted them.
The white, changing to blue and green, rising auras you
saw, came from their throat and heart chakras. These
are higher spiritual colours and are affected by emotions
of spirituality and love.

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21. Spirit Energy:

There is always a lot of spirit energy and activity,
surrounding a dying person, in the days and weeks prior to
their death. The amount of this spirit activity seems to
depend greatly upon their belief system, as well as their
moral, spiritual and psychic development.

The strongest I have ever felt this - high level spirit energy
and activity - is around dying children. Children seem to be
a lot more aware of their spirituality than adults give them
credit for. We, adults, seem to lose so much of this
awareness - of our spiritual and divine nature - as we grow
older.

I have been in the presence of many dying children. The only
way I can describe this is that, at these special times, I
have been in a holy presence - far beyond my poor
understanding of reality. Children gain a special kind of
wisdom and a high level of spiritual understanding - and
they have no fear of death.

Accidents:

I have never had the opportunity to observe the
aura of someone dying, shortly after an accident, so cannot
comment on this aspect of death.

Premature death:

I have, though, known healthy, vital people,
that have died suddenly, from strokes, heart attacks and brain
aneurisms. I have observed them, in the days and weeks prior
to their premature deaths. I have noted similar changes, as I
might expect to see in a dying person: very milky-pale-blue
expanded auras, silver and white sparks, and lots of spirit
energy and activity around them. These people, though, were
not sick. They were all, healthy, vital people, but there
was something quite different about them - an indefinable
atmosphere. In all cases, they seemed to know, intuitively
(but not consciously) that their time in this world was nearly
up. They all did certain things, tidied up their affairs, or
made things right in some way, in the days and weeks prior to
their death.

22. Why Most People Fail To See Auras:

The most common reason why people fail to see an aura, is
simply the way they go about it. The human aura is _not_ a
good training ground for the beginner.

This is what usually happens: Your volunteer sits and waits,
for a very long time, while you struggle and strain for a
glimpse of their aura. You are trying to relax and
concentrate - and master a tricky visual technique - all at
the same time. You subconsciously worry about what they
are thinking of you. Are they getting bored? Are they
getting impatient? Do they think you foolish, a failure, or
both? This kind of pressure causes subtle tensions to
build up within you, that effectively negate the relaxed
state needed to see the aura. Trying to get results, under
this kind of pressure, as a beginner, is next to impossible.

Here is an email letter from a young man. It shows some
common misunderstandings, when auras are first encountered:

David: "I was sitting in economics class, when I started
to see a faint white glow around the lecturer's head
(not really though, I can't really describe it), it was
surrounding the sides of his head.

And, I could also see a similar one, coming
from one of the students sitting in front of him,
except the student's had a sort of bluish tinge to it.
I kept looking, and a bright yellow glow appeared around
his head. Then I started to see a similar white glow
coming from some of the computer monitors, that sit on
the desks. At first, I was hoping that I could see
auras, but then when I saw it on the monitors,
I had my doubts."

Me: Every living and non living thing has an aura,
including monitors. The reason you saw them when you did
is (let me guess) You were bored, tired, very relaxed,
maybe day dreaming a little. Your eyes were tired,
heavy, and you were having trouble keeping them open?
These are the PERFECT conditions for seeing an aura!

David: "That's exactly how It was! The discussion sort of
went off topic and wasn't all that interesting to me."

"Anyway, I was wondering if you can tell me if
I actually did see their auras. I tried staring at
myself in the mirror to see my aura, when I got home, and
tried to see a friends aura, but it didn't work. I
haven't been able to see an aura, since that day, a
week or two ago. As for some of my questions. I
was wondering what colours non-living objects give
off - is it white? How come the aura was brighter
around their heads?"

Me: You did see the aura! The colours given off by non-
living objects vary with the colour of the object, but
inanimate objects, generally, have a simple pale, creamy
aura surrounding them. The aura you saw, surrounding the
heads of the people around you, was their etheric aura -
which is a pale, creamy colour, usually with a pale blue
tint to it.

The human aura is brighter around the head area, for two
reasons:

1. Clothing blocks the aura.

2. The head area is usually bare (no clothing to block it)
and is where the yellow of the intellect is most active,
which is quite easy to see. This yellow varies in
intensity, according to the degree of mental activity going
on at the time the aura is seen. This, mental activity,
brightens the aura in the head area. Maybe the student you
observed was really on the ball that day?

The main point of showing you this letter is: David began to
see the aura, with no trouble at all, when he was tired and
not trying to see it. He was tired, bored and day dreaming
(a very relaxed state). David was struggling to stay awake
and forcing his eyes to stay open. This _forcing_ his eyes to
stay open, creates a strong mental opening action, at the site
of the brow centre - between the eyes. This stimulates the
brow centre and combined with a relaxed, un-focussed gaze,
causes spontaneous auric sight to occur.

When David tried to see an aura, later at home, he could not -
because he was wide awake and trying, and was no longer in a
relaxed enough state for auric sight to work.

Keep this, above, in mind - when you first attempt to use
auric sight!

23. How To See An Aura: (basic technique)

To see the aura, you have to be able to relax and
concentrate, at the same time, and there is a trick to
focusing your eyes in a special way.

* An aura must be gazed upon - not looked at *

Light:

First, you need plenty of good, soft light to train in, not
dim, but good soft light. It is very important not to have
any strong light shining or reflecting into your eyes. It is
best to have light coming from behind and above you. If you
have, say a window, flooding light into the room, in your
field of view, while trying to see an aura, it will distract
you and make an aura much more difficult to see. A hundred
watt bulb, coming from above and behind you, is fine.

Step 1:

Get a book and cover it in bright, primary blue or red
paper. Stand it upright, on a table, six or seven feet from
you (about 2 metres). Experiment with the distance until you
find what is just right for you, but the minimum distance
should be no less than 4 feet (1.2 meters). Make sure you
have a plain, fairly neutral background. Do not view it
against a brightly coloured wall, or garish wallpaper. If
the wall colour is wrong, hang a sheet of neutral coloured
paper or cloth on the wall, as a backdrop. A bed sheet, or
some sheets of butchers paper, taped to the wall, will do
fine.

Notes:

A.The book is only a prop for the coloured paper, i.e., it
is the aura of the coloured paper you are going to look at
- not the aura of the book. Using a brick, covered in
coloured paper, would give the same result as would hanging
a piece of coloured paper on the wall.

B.The auras of the colours blue and red are, by far, the
brightest and easiest to see.

C.The brightness and tone of a colour's aura varies with
the shade and tone of the colour used, so use bright
primary colours only.

D.You can use any brightly coloured item for this: clothing,
kitchen canisters, toys, or even tape squares of coloured
paper directly to a wall.

Step 2:

Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and relax. When you
are calm, look at the book. Focus your eyes on nothing,
a little to the side and just past it. This is as if you
were gazing at, but not focusing on, the wall behind it.

The whole idea is to totally relax the focus of your eyes and
view the subject with your peripheral, or side vision. By
side vision, I mean just to the side of your normal focused
area of sight (a couple of inches only) not out of the corner
of your eye.

Gently hold that gaze and relax your eyes. Get used to that
relaxed focus and try not to strain or tense your eyes or
forehead while doing it. Concentrate! You need an
intense, but very relaxed and steady gaze, similar to day-
dreaming.

Blinking:

When you need to blink, do so, or it will cause your eyes
to tense, burn and water. Blink normally and without changing
focus, and DO NOT become preoccupied with it. Blinking
will cause the aura you are viewing to disappear - for a
second or two only - but it will reappear quickly - if you
stay calm and hold a relaxed focus. Learning to hold your
focus, while blinking normally, is an important part of
learning to use auric sight.

Brow centre opening technique:

It is necessary to use some type of brow centre opening
exercise, in order to stimulate your brow centre into a
receptive mode. This allows you to receive the energy
surrounding your subject - as auric sight. It is possible to
see the aura of colour without doing this, but it is very
difficult to see a living aura, without first stimulating and
opening your brow centre.

*** Please pay _very_ close attention to what follows! ***

Remember what it is like to be very, very tired - totally
exhausted? Remember what it feels like when you haven't slept
for days, and can hardly keep your eyes open?

Remember what it feels like when your eyes keep trying to
close on you? Remember what it is like to have to wrestle
with your eyes to keep them open?

This causes a sensation, if you observe yourself closely, much
like you are trying to lift a heavy, shadowy veil, from behind
your eyes. When this happens, the muscles of your eyes are
not responding very well, so the action becomes almost
entirely mental.

Stop for a moment and remember what this feels like.

Wrestling to open tired eyes causes a strong mental opening
action, at the site of the brow centre - thereby stimulating
it.

How this works:

This mental opening action, focuses your bodily awareness at
the site of your brow centre.

When your bodily awareness is focussed at one area of your
body, and you manipulate that area with your mind, you
stimulate your energy body in that area - in a dynamic way.

If this mental opening action is continued for long enough,
and put enough mental effort into it, your brow centre (your
third eye) will begin to open.

If you carry out this mental opening action, when you are
relaxed, and have a subject in your field of view - and you
are not looking directly at your subject - spontaneous auric
sight will occur.

The mental opening action given here is similar, only _much_
stronger and more effective than the normal, visualisation
based, chakra opening techniques; taught by most other
teachers of psychic development and energy work.
Visualisation based energy work, on it's own, is weak and
obtuse and very difficult to learn and use.

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The Primary Energy Centres And Their Colours

+--------------+--------+
| Chakra Name | Colour |
+--------------+--------+
| Base | Red |
| Spleen | Orange |
| Solar Plexus | Yellow |
| Heart | Green |
| Throat | Blue |
| Brow | Violet |
| Crown | Gold |
+--------------+--------+
Table 2: Names and Colours of the
primary energy centres (chakras)

Locations of the seven primary energy centres (major chakras)

1. Base: base of spine (between anus and genitals)
2. Spleen: navel area
3. Solar Plexus: base of sternum
4. Heart: centre of chest (over heart)
5. Throat: base of throat, just above where it joins the chest
6. Brow: exact centre of forehead (between the eyes)
7. Crown: whole top of head, above the hairline

Notes:

Each primary is best thought of as - roughly the size of your hand.

Each primary has more than one functioning part (or petal).

The _exact_ location of sensations felt, when a primary centres is
active will vary slightly - depending on what part of that centre
(or petal) is active. E.G. The spleen centre is usually felt
between the tummy button and pubic line. The brow centre is often
felt between the eyebrows, instead of on the actual brow.

16. Basic Hue Classification:

The basic hue of an aura is it's dominant colour. This is
the most visible colour of the multiple energies generated by
all the chakras (mixed together) creating a general, overall
colour. There are, of course, many different colours in any
person's aura, but the basic hue is usually seen first.

Many people suggest that people can be classified, as being a
particular type of person, by the basic hue of their aura.

For example:

Red - sensuality, vitality, raw energy.

Orange - emotion.

Yellow - personality power, mental power, intellect.

Green - spirituality, love, affinity with nature,
natural healer.

Blue - highly spiritual, religious, natural teacher,
healer.

Violet - very highly spiritual, psychic, clairvoyance,
religious, teacher and healer.

Gold - highly advanced spirituality and psychic
abilities - an adept.

I have found this method of classification to be both unfair
to the person being classified, and extremely misleading.
The basic meanings of the individual colours are well known -
as above. I find the human aura to be such a complex and
changeable engine, it just cannot be classified in such a
simple way.

For example: if a person, with a predominantly blue aura, is
experiencing an emotional crisis, their aura will be flooded
with large patches of orange. This is a temporary state only,
and once the crisis is resolved, their aura will revert to
it's natural blue.

There are so many things that can temporarily change the
appearance of an aura - sometimes just for an hour or more.
Devotional worship, for example, generates high minded
feelings and deep spiritual love. An unstable, emotional,
dominant and violent person, who's aura is, say, naturally red
and orange, with streaks of black in it - can generate higher
spiritual colours, during worship. These will temporarily
flood their aura, giving them the appearance (to auric sight)
of being a very spiritual person - but hiding their "true
colours" and hence, their true nature.

Jock:

Blue: Jock was a young man I knew, several years ago. He was
an extremely vital, sensitive man, but was very unstable,
having a lot of problems. Jock was a deep thinker, and we
would often expound upon the meaning of life and the nature of
the universe, together. At times like this I would often see
a lovely spiritual blue, surrounding him.

Red: Now, once Jock had a few drinks in him (alcohol), he
could become extremely aggressive, violent and dangerous - at
the drop of a hat. At times like this, I would see his aura
change dramatically, in moments, to a bright, angry red, with
big orange patches and black streaks in it. Not a trace of
his original blue aura would remain. This, red, orange and
black colour, would stay with him, until he calmed down
completely and sobered up.

Dan:

Dan was an old friend of mine, with a naturally green aura.
When Dan has a problem, his mind goes into overdrive, trying
to find a solution to his problem. His aura then changes to
bright yellow, flooding strongly through his aura. This
reverts to it's original green, very quickly, once he has
found a solution. I have often observed this, while playing
chess with him. Every time he gets into a sticky situation,
his aura floods yellow.

Gardening:

When I have been gardening - having a lot of
physical contact with plants - the aura around my hands and
forearms changes to a lovely green. This green fades away a
few hours later. Close contact with plants seems to have an
effect on the energy body. Maybe this is where the old saying
comes from "Having a green thumb" - for gardening.

These examples demonstrate the changeable nature of the human
aura, in a very general way. An aura is a variable reflection
of the energy activity going on within a person. This
reflection is detected by the brow centre of the observer, and
interpreted, as coloured bands of light, by the sight centre
of their brain. Health, mood, emotion, strong thoughts,
drugs, and other influences, stimulate many different energy
patterns in the primary and secondary energy centres. These
different patterns change the overall quality of the energy
being reflected into the aura. This generates many different
colours - which changes the auras dominant colours.

17. The Human Aura And Colour:

The human aura is very sensitive to colour. It reacts to
the colours of clothing worn and to the colours of it's
surrounding area. Colour affects the subtle flow of energies
within the energy body. This accounts for our strong
natural likes and dislikes, when it comes to choosing the
colours we wear, and those that surround us.

This sensitivity varies, from person to person, depending upon
how sensitive they are and how sensitive their aura is.
Women, generally, have more delicate and sensitive auras than
men. They are, therefore, far more sensitive to the effects
of colour, than men are. Colour can have a strong effect on a
very sensitive person. If they wear a colour that clashes too
badly with their aura, it can make them physically ill.

The effect of colour on the emotions is well known. Wall
colours are carefully chosen, in hospitals and other
institutions, to calm agitated people and put them at ease.
Soft pastel shades of pink and blue are the most frequently
used colours for this, because of their well-known calming
effect.

18. Clothing:

It is impossible to get a clear view of an aura through
clothing. The auric colours given off by any coloured
clothing react with the wearer's aura. This causes
interference that blocks and changes the natural flow of
energies within an aura. For example: a blue shirt will
flood the wearer's natural aura with yellow - changing it's
appearance.

Even neutral coloured clothing will block and dim an aura -
making it dull and difficult to see. If, for example, you
observe the aura of a person wearing a red shirt: their aura
will contain a great deal of green. This shows why bare skin
is best, in order to get a clear view of an aura.

When a coloured material is worn, the band of colour seen
close to the material is the reverse auric colour of that
colour. The aura's real colours will be seen building up from
the outer edge of that colour. The reverse auric colour of
the material, and the true colours of the living aura, affect
each other - changing their natural colours.

19. Disease:

This shows up in the aura in many different ways, sometimes
weeks or months before any physical symptoms appear. An ear
infection, for example, will show up in an aura as a
gradually thickening shadow over the ear and side of the head.
This can be seen several days before any physical symptoms
appear. The shadow will begin as a light-grey smudge,
gradually thickening and darkening. It will eventually change
to a murky-green patch, about the size of your hand. As the
infection worsens it will become shot through with red and
orange streaks, flecks and sparks.

A shadow in the aura is the first sign of _any_ approaching
health problem.
Murky-green, with red and orange streaks, flecks and sparks,
is common to infection.

20. Death:

When a person is dying, their aura undergoes dramatic
changes. I have observed the auras of people, dying of
terminal cancer and other diseases, in the weeks prior to
their death. The first noticeable sign is when the aura fades
and begins to grow weaker and paler. Next (with long term
illnesses) a week or so before physical death, the aura begins
to expand and change. It changes into a beautiful (very pale)
milky-blue, shot through with faint, tiny, silver and white
sparks. These sparks flash and twinkle throughout the aura.
Each spark is only visible for a fraction of a second at a
time.

*Note: The aura of a dying person is a very pale milky-blue.
It is VERY pale and faint and VERY difficult to see. It is
quite common to see a pale-blue aura surrounding a healthy
person, and this does NOT mean they are about to die. The
aura of a dying person is quite different from a normal,
healthy, pale-blue. It is all one colour, much larger than
normal, very milky and very faint.

Closer to the time of death, the aura begins to pulsate,
swelling and shrinking erratically. At times it will fill
the entire room, becoming more of an atmosphere than an aura.
At other times it will be so shrunken as to be almost
invisible to auric sight. It grows paler and finer by the
day, and the tiny silver and white sparks become finer and
increase in frequency.

There is a great deal of activity in all the energy centres,
at this time. The energy body is preparing itself for the
final separation - of the physical body from the non-physical
body (or spirit). There are, at times, faint surges of colour
and faint coloured sparks, like pastel fountains, surging and
falling from the primary centres. They spasm and shudder and
begin generating a much higher and more refined type of
energy. This change heralds the imminent and final
separation, of the spirit from the physical body - what we
call death.

The above is 'not' to be mistaken for the normal pale-blue and
sparks that can be seen in a healthy human aura. The above
observation is not visible to any normal level of auric sight,
but requires some degree of clairvoyance, ie, the ability
to see mind's eye visions.

At some time (variable) before physical death, the aura will
become almost invisible to auric sight. Only a faint, very
pale glow will still be seen, close to the skin. This is
residual etheric matter, clinging to the physical body. There
is, however, still intense activity going on within the energy
body, but this is now far beyond the reach of normal auric
sight.

The aura is now reflecting itself into a much higher level of
reality - another dimension. Clairvoyant and astral sight are
necessary, in order to see any more energy activity, during
the final stages of the death process.

At the actual moment of death, if you are watching closely,
you will see a very faint, pale mist, surge up out of the
body, and quickly vanish. This is the spirit leaving the
physical body. That faint mist is residual etheric matter,
clinging to the spirit body, as it departs.

The actual timing for these changes in the aura to occur,
depend greatly upon the type of illness, the duration of it,
and the strength of the dying person. These govern the speed
of the actual death process. With some conditions, this whole
process can happen very quickly, often a matter of hours.
With other conditions, this may happen over several days,
weeks or even months.

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10. Peripheral vision:

Auras are seen with peripheral vision (side vision) and cannot
be seen by directly focussing on them. To see an aura, you
have to look to the side and past your subject. Peripheral
vision is extremely sensitive to movement, much more so than
direct focussed vision. It can detect minute movements that
your central, focussed vision will not see. Peripheral vision
is also sensitive to many other types of subtle energy that
surround us.

Most people have had the experience of catching sight of some
movement - out of the corner of their eye - only to see
nothing when they turn and focus on it.

What happens is:

1. They have seen an aura building up from a coloured
object.

2. They have seen a spirit entity (ghost) manifesting near
them, and have detected it's energy with their more sensitive,
peripheral vision.

11. Dr Kilner:

An English doctor, Dr Walter J. Kilner, in 1911, used colour
as an aid to stimulating auric sight.

Dr Kilner, researched the use of auric sight, as an aid to
diagnosing the health of his patients. He used dicyanin
screens for this. Dicyanin is a dye product of coal tar.
These screens consisted of two pieces of glass with dicyanin
dye sandwiched and sealed between them. He found that by
using these - aura goggles, as he called them - he could
stimulate the ability to see the human aura.

He would stare, for a few minutes, through these screens, at a
bright light. When he looked away, he could see an aura
surrounding his patient. He would then note any changes and
abnormalities in their aura, and compare them with other
observations, taken of healthy people. This allowed him to
detect disease, in the very early stages, before the actual
symptoms of that disease appeared.

Dr. Kilner used several different coloured screens, and
combinations of them. Different coloured screens showed him
different aspects, or layers, of an aura.

He also used strips of brightly illuminated, coloured cloth.
He would stare at one of these strips, after preparing his
eyes, by looking through one of his screens. These strips
caused a phantom strip, of a different colour, to appear in
his gaze. These were like small windows, that could be moved
around by shifting his gaze, highlighting different parts of
his subject's aura. This gave him a different view of their
aura, in that part.

How this works: By looking through these screens, at bright
light, Kilner flooded his eyes with the slow auric colour of
that screen (it's reverse colour). This made his eyes
hypersensitive to that particular auric colour, enabling him
to see that colour in his subject's aura. Different coloured
screens would allow him to see different colours in an aura.
The use of the strips of colour, then enabled him to see the
slow auric colour (reverse colour) of the coloured strip,
minus the original colour of the screen he was using - showing
a small band of an entirely different colour, in the aura.
This small band of colour could be moved around the patient's
aura, by shifting his gaze, like a small window, highlighting
the area it covered.

One interesting thing about Dr Kilner's work is this: After
using these screens for several months or more, he found he
needed to use them less and less. By continually straining to
see auras, with his aura goggles, he stimulated his brow
centre, and mastered the visual technique needed to see the
aura. He eventually gained _full_ auric sight, i.e., he no
longer needed the aura goggles to see auras.

If you would like to get a copy of Dr Kilner's book, you will
find it contains many fine colour plates (paintings) showing
the aura, as seen by himself and his associates. These show
the different effects that can be had using combinations of
different coloured screens and coloured strips.

Kilner's book is listed, in the book I read, as:
Kilner, Walter John. (1965). "The Human Aura."
(New Ed.). New York: University Books. I was
quoted $300.00 US, for the purchase of this book.

Note: I cannot comment on the effectiveness of using genuine
aura goggles, as I have never actually seen a pair. I did,
however, experiment with a pair I made myself, many years ago.
I used two pieces of glass, covered them with a deep blue dye,
and sealed the edges with windscreen sealant. I followed
Kilner's instructions, staring at a bright light through this
screen, etc.

I found this made my eyes _extremely_ sore, and so, after
awhile, discontinued using them. They did work, however, and
showed me some interesting auric effects. I considered it was
not a healthy practise, though, due to the painful burning it
caused in my eyes, and the possibility that it could damage
them. In his book, Kilner gives a warning about this nasty
side effect - burning, sore eyes.

12. The Human Aura:

The human aura is an energy field that surrounds the human
body, and reflects the subtle life energies at work within and
around it. This is something like the magnetic field that
surrounds a simple magnet. Like a magnetic field, the aura is
generated within physical matter - but is also affected by
it's surroundings. The energies flowing through the aura make
us what we are, and are in turn affected by our surrounding
life conditions and life style. The aura reflects the
activity of our organs, health, mental activity and emotional
state. It also shows disease - often long before the onset of
physical symptoms.

The strength and properties of an aura are determined by the
amount of, and the quality of, the energies flowing through
it.

13. The Main Aura:

The main human aura is banded around the body - strata like.
Imagine a person with thick, coloured hoops of light dropped
over them, and you get the general idea. The main colours of
the aura emanate from the primary energy centres (major
chakras - or psychic centres). The individual bands of
colour are difficult to see, unless you have very well-
developed auric sight, and are observing under optimum
conditions.

14. The Etheric Aura:

Close to the skin is the etheric aura. This is often called
"The vitality sheath".
It is seen (with auric sight) as a pale, narrow band, next
to the skin, outlining the body. This is usually no more than
half an inch wide - depending upon the vitality of the
subject. It looks like a dense layer of pale smoke, clinging
to the skin. This is the visible part of the energy body,
in it's contracted state.

During sleep, the etheric aura expands and opens (becoming
larger and finer) in order to absorb and store vitality
(cosmic energy?) within it. After sleep, the energy body
contracts and forms a dense sheath surrounding the body,
close to the skin. This holds within it the stored energies
we all need for living.

In a way, the energy body is like a living storage battery.
During sleep, it automatically sets itself on recharge,
replacing the energies that have been used up.

15. Energy Centres (chakras):

The primary energy centres (chakras) are the non-physical
organs of the energy body. There are at least seven primary
centres, and over three hundred secondary and minor centres,
scattered throughout the human body. All together, they form
a complex network of non-physical energy components. These are
all joined together by interconnecting pathways, or
meridians.

These centres, and their interconnecting pathways (meridians)
were charted by the Chinese, and other Eastern races,
thousands of years ago. Modern versions of these charts are
still widely used today, in many types of alternative medicine
and body work, i.e., acupuncture and reflexology.

Primary energy centres are attached to major internal organs,
glands, nerve ganglia and the spinal cord. Secondary and
minor energy centres are attached to joints, glands and nerve
clusters, throughout the body.

There are active centres - transforming and manipulating
energy - feeding other energy centres and taking care of life
processes - both physical and non-physical. There are
storage centres, communication centres, and centres designed
to absorb energy from other energy sources around us.

Some energy sources: Food, water, oxygen, sunlight, planetary
energy, cosmic energy, love, sex, music. Some of these energy
sources are very subtle, but all are necessary for us to live
a balanced life.

Energy centres are invisible to the naked eye but can be felt,
quite strongly, when they are active (as a pulsing, thrumming
sensation). When energy is consciously drawn from one centre
to another, through the connecting meridians, this can be felt
as: A rushing water sensation, a spreading warmth, a tingling
feeling, or a combination of these. Energy centres (chakras)
can also be seen - with auric and clairvoyant sight - as
whirling vortexes of intensely coloured light).

Every energy centre has important individual functions, in the
energy body. It also works in conjunction with all the other
major and minor centres. Each centre is an individual, but
integral part of the energy body. They all work together, for
the good of the whole energy body; just as all the physical
organs, brain, heart, liver, kidneys, glands, etc, work
together for the good of the whole physical body.

The energy body is extremely complex. It is, in a way,
similar to an electronic device. Energy flows into the
electronic device, and on through connecting pathways
(meridians) that are etched into the circuit board. These
connecting pathways (meridians) carry energy on to all it's
electronic components, (chakras), diodes, resistors,
capacitors, etc. Energy is continually being changed,
enhanced and transformed, by these components; to serve a
multitude of different purposes, required by the device, as a
whole unit, to function properly.

A single energy centre, is very much like a single electronic
component. It takes in energy from the components around it,
and changes the value of it. It enhances this energy, in
various ways, transforming it into something different, that
is needed by the whole unit.

Each energy centre (chakra) takes in the different types of
energy it requires, from other energy centres in the energy
body, and generates a completely different type of energy -
with a different value and colour - according to what is
required.

The strength of each primary energy centre, in any particular
person, depends upon that person's individual makeup; their
nature, health and life style, as well as their spiritual,
moral and psychic development. The energy generated by all
the chakras at once, is reflected into the aura, mixing
together and causing the dominant hue of the aura. This,
dominant hue, is the part of the aura most commonly seen with
auric sight.

TRAINING TO SEE AURAS V4 Part 2

2007-10-01T08:23:00.001-07:00

4. Auric Theory:

My theory is: that light is necessary for the brow centre to
tune into and focus on auric energy. An aura being a visual
representation of this energy, created by the sight centre of
the brain.

This appears to be the only logical explanation for auric
sight.

5. The Complexity Of Normal Vision:

The process of auric sight may sound very complicated, but is
really _very_ simple, when you compare it with the process of
normal, optical sight - that simple, visual thing we all take
for granted. Look around the room you are in now, look out of
a window - what do you see? Think about all the millions of
objects and colours and tones you are seeing - all at once -
in incredible three dimensional detail. Think about how, no
matter how fast you turn around, your brain keeps up with the
fantastically complex image you are seeing. Your eyes pass on
an _incredible_ amount of information to your brain - but your
brain interprets it all instantly. Normal optical sight is
an incredibly complex and powerful ability. Compare this,
with the few colours and swirls of light you see in a human
aura - no matter how beautiful and complex it might seem - it
is still a very simple picture. There is really no comparison
between these two abilities - normal optical sight is vastly
more complex, and requires much more of the brain's power,
than auric sight does.

To recap the above: Auric sight is linked to and depends
upon normal optical sight, in order to function. What you
see, when you see an aura, is your brain's interpretation of
reflected energy, emanating from your subject. Your eyes are
used to tune and focus your brow centre into this energy. An
electrical representation of this energy is passed to your
brain's sight centre, where it is interpreted as a sight
picture by your brain. In the case of an aura, your brain
shows you coloured bands of light surrounding your subject.

6. Light And The Aura:

Light is necessary in order to see the main aura of anything.
Living auras react in the presence of light - expanding and
brightening. This reaction is most noticeable when a living
aura is exposed to sunlight. You could say that auras are
photo-sensitive.

I have made extensive observations of this light reaction. I
have observed the auras of people inside a house, then
immediately taking them outside, into the sunlight. The
living auras of people expand in sunlight, and are much
brighter. They fairly sparkle with life in strong, direct
sunlight. I have seen auras expand to several times their
normal size in sunlight.

Another interesting observation, that adds weight to this
argument, that auras are not light - but that light is
necessary, in order for auric sight to work: the main aura
cannot be seen in complete darkness. If auras were indeed
light, why is it necessary for there to be light, in order to
see them? This shows that light and normal optical sight are
an important part of auric sight.

Note: In total darkness, it is possible to see some slight
activity around the energy body, close to the skin. This is
almost invisible, but looks like tiny, very faint strands and
sparks of bluish light. This is very faint and most
noticeable around your own fingertips, when they are brought
together in front of you.

It is also possible to see small but intense points of light,
coming from fully active primary energy centres (chakras).
These must be _extremely_ active for this to be seen, and you
must also be very focussed on your subject. This takes a lot
of skill to do, and the subject must be very developed -
energy wise - in order for this to be observed. This is far
easier to see if there is a little available light, even if
you can only make out vague shadows - it gives you something
to focus upon.

To observe any part of the energy body, in darkness, memory
based visualisation is used to focus the brow centre into a
subject. You have to know exactly where the subject is (in
total darkness) and be able to accurately gauge their
distance, shape and position, and see them clearly in your
mind's eye.

I think, for the above, that both astral sight and
clairvoyance play a part, for those that can see energy
activity in total darkness. This appears to be the only
logical explanation for this phenomena.

Note: Light is _not_ necessary for clairvoyant or astral
sight to work, but the eyes and their normal focussing ability
are still used, but with memory based focussing and
visualisation, instead of normal light based focussing. You
can see with astral and clairvoyant sight, just as well in
total darkness, as you can in full light.

7. Viewing Method:

The same basic technique, used to see the aura of colour, is
used to see all other types of aura, including the human aura.
This same technique is also a part of full clairvoyance.
This is why looking at the auras of colours is such good
training for seeing the human aura. The aura of colour is far
denser and easier to see than the human aura. This allows the
auric viewing technique to be learned much easier and faster,
than does practising on the more difficult human aura.

8. The Auras Of Colours:

The auras of colours

+--------+---------------------------+
| Object | Auric Colour |
+--------+---------------------------+
| Red | Green |
| Orange | Pale Green |
| Yellow | Pale Blue |
| Green | Orange |
| Blue | Yellow |
| Indigo | Gold |
| Violet | Pale Gold |
| Pink | Iridescent Green |
+--------+---------------------------+
Table 1: Auric colours given off by
some normal, physical colours.

The exact shade and tone of a colour's aura varies a great
deal, according to the shade and tone of the colour you are
observing. Auras are also affected by the background colour
against which they are highlighted, when observed.

9. Afterimages:

Auric colours are similar in appearance to after images.
Afterimages are generated by staring - for twenty seconds or
so - at a brightly illuminated colour, and then quickly
closing your eyes, or looking away.

It is commonly thought: that afterimages are generated by
colour depletion, of the rods and cones in the eyes, caused by
staring at one colour for too long. This generates the
reverse, or negative colour, of that colour. An afterimage
stays in sight until this colour depletion is corrected, and
the eyes return to normal.

I disagree with this theory - and for very good reasons.
Afterimages are generated by staring for a long time at a
coloured object - for twenty of thirty seconds, or more. This
is why I disagree with this theory: When auric sight is more
advanced, the aura of a colour can be seen clearly, almost the
instant a coloured object is glanced at with auric sight. No
prolonged staring is required to produce an aura.

I have just done a test, while sitting here typing this.
Across the room from me, about seven feet away, is a chair.
Hanging over it's back is a bright-blue shirt. I have done
no exercises to stimulate my auric sight, at all. It is early
in the morning now, about 6am, and I have not long woken up.
A clear, dense, yellow aura begins to appear in just under
four seconds (I timed it). This is, surely, far too short a
time to generate an afterimage? I did this several times and
it became faster and easier to do, and the aura brighter, each
time.

Now, you could say that my eyes are becoming depleted of the
colour blue, by continuing to do this, thus more easily
generating the yellow aura. So, I turn around and look at a
red shirt hanging on a hook behind me, on the other side of
the room. This time, a clear, dense, bright-green aura
appears in just under five seconds. This is _far_ too short a
time to generate an afterimage? Now, when I am on what I
call, a clairvoyant high, the auras of colours appear to me,
almost the instant I glance at them - within one second.
There is no appreciable delay at all, they are just there,
ballooning out from colours, as I look at them.

The auras I see, around colours as well as people, do drag
slightly at my eyes, creating a kind of afterimage effect if I
stare for too long at it. This effect is similar to how a
normal afterimage behaves - dragging and following my field of
view.

Now, when I observe the aura of a person, I normally ask them
to remove some of their clothing. This gives me a much
clearer view of their aura, without the interference caused by
the colours of their clothing. I see clear, bright colours in
these auras, building up from bare skin. My point here is
this: bare skin has _no_ colour that can generate any kind
of coloured afterimage.

To be truthful, though, the auric colours I see around
colours, as well as people, are often still visible, hanging
briefly before my eyes, when I look away or close my eyes.
This _is_ a coloured afterimage - but created by staring at an
aura's colour _not_ at a physical colour.

Another interesting point: the colours of any afterimages I
get, when observing living human auras, are exactly the same
colours, as the colours of the aura I am looking at - there is
_no_ reverse colour effect at all, with a bare skin, living
aura.

So, if colour depletion, of the rods and cones in the eyes, is
solely responsible for afterimages, how can this happen?

A better way of explaining the reverse colour afterimage
effect is: (slow auric colours).

By staring hard at a colour, the auric colour of that subject
is slowly impressed upon the sight centre of the brain. It is
_not_ the eyes that are depleted of colour, but that the auric
colour has been impressed upon the brain's sight centre.

The afterimages that appear, when you stare at primary
colours, are the same as the auric colours generated by those
colours. The similarity in these colours - rather than
contradicting the validity of the auric colour of colour -
supports them. Why would they be any different?

You will, in the early stages of training to see auras, cause
quite a strong after image effect. This will drag and follow
your eyes, and still be seen when you close your eyes or look
away. This is the slow auric image effect - caused by staring
so intently, and for so long, while trying to master the basic
technique for seeing auras.

This after image effect lessens in stages. Once the basic
technique is mastered, most of the afterimage effect
disappears. Then, as the brow centre develops further, being
stimulated through use, the afterimage effect decreases
steadily, until they are hardly noticeable.

There will, however, always be a slight afterimage, of sorts,
when you really study an aura. This is unavoidable when you
gaze intently upon an aura, trying to discover it's secrets.
The nature of auric sight, and the involvement of the normal
optical sight process, will always cause a slight afterimage
drag - or slow auric image, as I call it. This happens, even
when auric sight develops into the advanced stages.

Final note on afterimages:

The way the aura builds up is also, totally unlike the way an
after image appears. It builds up, mushrooming bright colours
from bare skin - it does not just fade slowly into sight - it
grows before your eyes. The colours of a living aura do not
begin as a pale shadow, fading into view and then slowly
deepening and growing brighter. They are one consistent
colour, from their first appearance as a thin outline,
highlighting the etheric aura, close to the skin, to their
full size - often more than two or three feet wide. Auras
are also, not just a slight outline of colour around the skin,
but large, vivid bands of colour, with thickness and depth to
them. And, finally, while an aura is building up, if you
shift focus slightly, or blink, it disappears instantly - only
to reappear a few seconds later - an after image does not.

TRAINING TO SEE AURAS V4 Part 1

2007-10-01T08:21:00.000-07:00

Robert Bruce

(C) Copyright 1990

1. Opening:

This article takes a fresh look at auras - what they are,
where they come from, and shows how anyone can learn to see
them. Seeing auras is not as hard as you may think - if you
go about it the right way. This is an easy step by step guide
to doing just that. It starts right at the beginning, with
the easiest to see of all auras - the aura of colour - and
working up, in easy stages, to the more illusive and difficult
human aura.

An aura is the most visible part of the subtle energy
processes going on within all physical objects. All matter
has an aura of some kind - even a humble rock - but it is
pretty dull when compared with the complex interplay of
rainbow colours that make up a living human aura. Auras
emanate from all physical objects, life forces and colours,
as well as from many other energy sources.

The first step in this tutorial makes use of a little known
fact - that colours have auras.

Every colour has it's own unique aura. This is of a
completely different colour from the original. Auras, given
off by bright, primary colours, are much denser and far easier
to see than any other type of aura. Using the auras of
colours, as a training aid, has most people seeing an aura the
very first time they try.

I have been able to see auras for many years. I was not born
with this ability, but taught myself - the hard way. It
took me several years before I could see enough of an aura to
make it a worthwhile practice! I know the problems inherent
in developing auric sight, and this new training method is
designed to help overcome them.

2. How Auric Sight Works:

Auric sight - as with all forms of clairvoyant sight - depends
upon the eyes and the normal optical sight process to work.
Physical and non-physical sight are very closely related.
They are both forms of perception that allow our brains to
perceive energy, of one type or another, as a sight picture.

Here is why:

A. Normal sight:

Eyes receive light - light being a type of energy. Eyes
focus light energy onto light sensitive nerve tissue at the
back of the eye, connected to the optic nerve. Basically,
this light sensitive tissue changes focussed light energy into
a stream of complex electrical signals. These signals are
passed, via the optic nerve, to the sight centre of the brain.
The brain then interprets these signals into a rich visual
picture - what we call normal sight.

B. Auric sight:

The brow centre receives a more subtle type of energy than
light. This type of energy can only be received by the brow
centre (often called the third eye or brow chakra) when it is
active and tuned in to receive that type of energy. The brow
centre is situated directly between the eyes and is intimately
connected with normal optical sight.

Energy received by the brow centre is passed along to the
sight centre of the brain - the same as with normal sight.
The brain interprets anything it receives in it's sight centre
as a visual picture. It interprets auric energy as a sight
picture - as coloured bands of light surrounding the subject.

* The eyes are the organs for normal optical sight (a
physical organ).

* The brow centre is the organ for non-physical sight (a non-
physical organ).

Both these organs, above, are situated in the same general
area, i.e., the brow centre is situated in the brow, directly
between the eyes. The common location and similar function of
both organs (sight) suggests there is a close relationship
between them, i.e., the eyes, the brow centre and the sight
centre of the brain are linked. My research confirms this:
that all forms of non-physical sight are closely linked with
the process of normal optical sight.

Although there is a relationship between optical sight and the
brow centre - an aura is definitely _not_ any type of light.
Some people believe auras are still light, but light at a much
higher frequency than normal light - that is only visible to a
clairvoyant. If this were true, though, it would be possible
to detect and measure this light with the sophisticated
electronic instruments available today. There are scientific
instruments, electronic cameras etc, that can be tuned to
detect _any_ part of the light spectrum - no matter how
refined. For example: infra red, ultra violet, x rays, gamma
rays, etc, all these can be detected - but auras cannot.
Therefore, it is logical to suppose that auras are _not_
composed of any type of light.

3. Aura Cameras:

But there are aura cameras - you might say - that can take
pictures of the human aura? You might even have a picture of
your own aura, taken at a psychic fair. How can this be?

An aura camera does NOT take an actual picture of an aura.
It cannot actually see an aura. It merely creates the
illusion of an aura on film.

How an aura camera works:

A. Sensors are placed on the skin - or fitted into a
chair so they contact the subject's skin. These sensors
measure the electrical resistance in the skin (galvanic
skin response). Electrical resistance in the skin varies,
according to salt and moisture level. These levels are
affected by many things: diet, fluids, health,
temperature, sweating, emotion, mood, activity, etc.

B. These readings are fed directly into a small
electronic processor, attached to the camera (usually a
small black box) and interpreted by it. This processor
then generates a pattern of electrical signals, from these
readings, according to how it is programmed.

C. This pattern of signals is then fed into a specially
modified camera. Inside the camera, an optical colouring
device creates a variable pattern of coloured lights, and
beams this directly onto the film, as the picture is taken.
This gives the illusion of a colourful aura surrounding the
subject - according to the pattern generated by the initial
readings.

Because of the way these cameras are set up, you will rarely
get two pictures exactly the same. This is because of the
large number of coloured patterns possible, that can be
generated by slightly different sensor readings . It would
be rare to get two identical sets of sensor readings from one
person and, therefore, have two identical aura photographs
taken in the same day.

An aura photograph is the camera designer's idea of what your
aura _should_ look like - according to their research. This
research is based upon linking clairvoyant observations with
the galvanic skin response on test subjects. The designers
have attempted to give a specific colour value to different
patterns of galvanic skin responses.

An aura photograph, therefore, is an electronically created
illusion - not an actual photograph of an aura.

Basic Palmistry Part II

2007-09-26T13:58:00.000-07:00

Palmistry, also known as Chiromancy, is the art of telling a person's fortune by looking at the lines and bumps on a person's hand. However, since the 1920s, the art of Chiromancy has come a long way.

Chirognomy is a related science in which hand shape; finger shape, fingers, nails and the texture and consistency of the flesh are examined in order to get a glimpse into the inner workings of the personality.

Dermatoglyphics is the study of ridge patterns and formations found on the fingertips and palm itself to detect and diagnose inherited diseases. However here we are dealing with what I would call the Romany Reader Basics of the Art.

In an earlier New Age Notebook called Basic Palmistry I identified the major lines and mounts of the human hand. In this article we are going to examine other kinds of markings and characteristics that are common indicators of personality, temperament and fate.

Bubbles and Loops - Bubbles and loops that occur on life lines, heart lines and fate lines indicate significant episodes in your life or a life that is broken by many odd experiences. Strong clean lines without bubbles are always preferable if you are looking for a serene and quiet life.

Broken Lines - These usually indicate that a life will be disrupted in an upsetting manner. A broken lifeline can mean an early or tragic life. A break in the head line can mean a period of insanity or mental illness.

Crosses and cross-hatching: These marks on any mound or area of the hand often represent stressful influences, events or people. Usually the influence is a significant or important relationship. The deeper the line the more traumatic or life-defining the experience is said to be. The nature of the event is determined on which mound you find the cross or cross-hatching.

For instance, if you have a lot of cross-hatching on your Mound of Lower Mars you may encounter a lot of war or violence in your life. Crosses and cross-hatching on your Mound of Apollo can indicate troubles with career, confidence and success. On the outer edge of the hand, just below the little finger and the Mound of Mercury such marks are said to indicate how many children are in your future. If horizontal lines or cross-hatching occurs on your thumbs or fingertips it is a sure sign that you are under too much stress.

Attachment lines: These are lines that occur above the heart line and wrap from the side of the hand and extend out beneath the little finger. This is supposed to indicate the number of significant relationships or attachments you will have in your life.

Healer Stigmata: a long horizontal line that is crossed by three shorter lines indicates this. It is a symbol of natural healing abilities and usually occurs on the mound of Mercury just below the little finger.

Squares: If you find a square on your hand it means that you are a teacher or natural born leader and meant to enlighten others. The area of interest where you will excel is indicated where it is placed on a mound. For instance, a square that is found on the mound of Mercury indicates a career in teaching or education. A square found on the Mound of Venus below the thumb can indicate a nurse, doctor or healer.

Feathery light lines: These can be found all over the hand and are usually an indication of failing health. If the lines travel up from the wrist to the little finger it can indicate a chronic disease or disability.

X's: X's found anywhere in the palm usually indicate travel. If it is found on either of the Mounds of Upper or Lower Mars or on the plain of Mars it means traveling as a result of war or a military career. An X on the mound of Venus (below the thumb) means relocating for love and on the mound of Jupiter an X can mean relocating for reasons to do with career advancement.

Triangles: Triangles anywhere on the palm indicate a decent upbringing and emotional or intellectual strength. This once again depends which mound the triangle is found on. For example: a triangle found on the Mound of Venus indicates emotional strength and understanding when it comes to love. A triangle found on the mound of Saturn beneath the third finger indicates incredible physical and emotional endurance during times of trouble.

The Ring of Solomon: This is a line that circles the base of the Jupiter finger (index finger) and is found in the hands of those who are said to be psychic. It is also believed to represent royal blood or ancestry.

Stars: A star-shaped hatching of lines can mean that you will enjoy especially good fortune wherever that star is located. For instance if you have a star on your Mound of Venus, it can indicate fame. A star on your Mound of Mercury can mean success at relationships. Wherever you find a star on your hand, you are most likely to find good fortune unless it is located on the mound of Saturn beneath your third finger. In that case, it means a life of arrogance and pride without the prizes. Palmistry, also known as Chiromancy, is the art of telling a person's fortune by looking at the lines and bumps on a person's hand. However, since the 1920s, the art of Chiromancy has come a long way. Chirognomy is a related science in which hand shape; finger shape, fingers, nails and the texture and consistency of the flesh are examined in order to get a glimpse into the inner workings of the personality. Dermatoglyphics is the study of ridge patterns and formations found on the fingertips and palm itself to detect and diagnose inherited diseases. However here we are dealing with what I would call the ?Romany Reader Basics? of the Art.

In an earlier New Age Notebook called Basic Palmistry I identified the major lines and mounts of the human hand. In this article we are going to examine other kinds of markings and characteristics that are common indicators of personality, temperament and fate.

Bubbles and Loops - Bubbles and loops that occur on life lines, heart lines and fate lines indicate significant episodes in your life or a life that is broken by many odd experiences. Strong clean lines without bubbles are always preferable if you are looking for a serene and quiet life.

Broken Lines - These usually indicate that a life will be disrupted in an upsetting manner. A broken lifeline can mean an early or tragic life. A break in the head line can mean a period of insanity or mental illness.

Crosses and cross-hatching: These marks on any mound or area of the hand often represent stressful influences, events or people. Usually the influence is a significant or important relationship. The deeper the line the more traumatic or life-defining the experience is said to be.

The nature of the event is determined on which mound you find the cross or cross-hatching. For instance, if you have a lot of cross-hatching on your Mound of Lower Mars you may encounter a lot of war or violence in your life.

Crosses and cross-hatching on your Mound of Apollo can indicate troubles with career, confidence and success. On the outer edge of the hand, just below the little finger and the Mound of Mercury such marks are said to indicate how many children are in your future. If horizontal lines or cross-hatching occurs on your thumbs or fingertips it is a sure sign that you are under too much stress.

Attachment lines: These are lines that occur above the heart line and wrap from the side of the hand and extend out beneath the little finger. This is supposed to indicate the number of significant relationships or attachments you will have in your life.

Healer Stigmata: a long horizontal line that is crossed by three shorter lines indicates this. It is a symbol of natural healing abilities and usually occurs on the mound of Mercury just below the little finger.

Squares: If you find a square on your hand it means that you are a teacher or natural born leader and meant to enlighten others. The area of interest where you will excel is indicated where it is placed on a mound. For instance, a square that is found on the mound of Mercury indicates a career in teaching or education. A square found on the Mound of Venus below the thumb can indicate a nurse, doctor or healer.

Feathery light lines: These can be found all over the hand and are usually an indication of failing health. If the lines travel up from the wrist to the little finger it can indicate a chronic disease or disability.

X's: X's found anywhere in the palm usually indicate travel. If it is found on either of the Mounds of Upper or Lower Mars or on the plain of Mars it means traveling as a result of war or a military career. An X on the mound of Venus (below the thumb) means relocating for love and on the mound of Jupiter an X can mean relocating for reasons to do with career advancement.

Triangles: Triangles anywhere on the palm indicate a decent upbringing and emotional or intellectual strength. This once again depends which mound the triangle is found on. For example: a triangle found on the Mound of Venus indicates emotional strength and understanding when it comes to love. A triangle found on the mound of Saturn beneath the third finger indicates incredible physical and emotional endurance during times of trouble.

The Ring of Solomon: This is a line that circles the base of the Jupiter finger (index finger) and is found in the hands of those who are said to be psychic. It is also believed to represent royal blood or ancestry.

Stars: A star-shaped hatching of lines can mean that you will enjoy especially good fortune wherever that star is located. For instance if you have a star on your Mound of Venus, it can indicate fame. A star on your Mound of Mercury can mean success at relationships. Wherever you find a star on your hand, you are most likely to find good fortune unless it is located on the mound of Saturn beneath your third finger. In that case, it means a life of arrogance and pride without the prizes.

Basic Palmistry Part I

2007-09-25T10:56:00.000-07:00

Palmistry is an ancient art and one that has many systems of interpretation. It is also an intuitive art that is easily learned just by learning a few basics about the symbolism that is represented by the lines that run across the palm, the mounts (or fleshy parts) of the palm and the structure of fingers.

In some systems, the right hand represents who you are today and the left hand, everything that you were born with when you came into this world. For "palmistry on the run" though it is best to read the hand that the person writes with, as that would be considered to be dominant hand.

In palmistry, the hand as a whole is divided into three different sections. The Fingers represent the mind and the higher self. The middle of the palm represents day-to-day life and the conscious mind. The lower half of the hand represents primal instincts, health and basic drives of the subconscious. Palmistry is all about proportion, symmetry and distortions of what would be considered to be a perfectly formed hand.

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at their thumb and fingers. The thumb has three phalanges. Its tip represents will power. A club shaped thumb indicates criminal tendency. Pointed or long tips indicate creativity and intelligence. The middle phalange represents logic. The longer the phalange, the more efficient and strategic the person. The fleshy part at the base of the thumb is called the Mount of Venus, which represents empathy, emotion, grace and compassion. The fatter and fleshier this part of the hand is, the more sensitive and compassionate the individual.

The index finger correlates to the planet Jupiter and indicates good fortune and career. The middle finger is related to Saturn and limitations and restrictions in life. The ring finger is called the Apollo. It relates to self-expression and intelligence. The pinky finger belongs to the planet Mercury, which is about your ability to communicate with others and sustain relationships. The longer and straighter the finger, the more good fortune a person can expect to have in these areas. All these fingers have their own mounts, which are located on the palm right below each one. The more developed or pronounced these fleshy mounds are beneath the finger, the more developed that trait is in a person.

The Mount of Jupiter below the index fingers represents ambition, leadership, religion, honor and love of nature.

The Mount of Saturn below the middle finger represents sanity, sobriety, wisdom, introversion and karmic events such as good or bad luck.

The Mount of Apollo below the ring represents confidence, creativity, impulsiveness and extroversion.

The Mount of Mercury below your little finger has to do with ability to sell yourself, communication, quickness, connection as well as writing and mathematical abilities. Sometimes the Mount of Mercury will be feathered with short vertical lines that are called Lines of Affection. These sometimes indicate the number of deep emotional connections or significant relationships in a person's life.

Right below the Mount of Mercury (below the little finger there are two more mounts. About half way down is the Mount of Upper Mars, which reflects your temperament: if this mound is fleshy then the person tends to be more courageous or war-like. Below that, near the base of the hand is the Mount of Luna (also known as the Mount of the Moon). This mound reflects such qualities as generosity, warmth and imagination. If it is over pronounced it can indicate a tendency to madness.

Below the Mount of Jupiter (follow the index finger downwards) lies the Lower Mars, which deals with aggression, hostility and capacity for evil. The center of the palm is called the Plane of Mars. If the plane has a dip in it you are calm, cool and collected. If it is raised or flat you are more likely to display a bad temper.

The Heart Line cuts laterally across the upper palm between the mounts of Jupiter and Mercury. Loops, bubbles, cuts and breaks in this line indicate relationships and episodes occurring in a person's love life.

The Head Line is normally positioned and can cut across the palm or curve downward. It is an indicator of intelligence and mental health. An optimum Head line runs straight, is deep and has a long extension almost to the other side of the palm. This more the headline curves downward towards the list, the less control the individual may have over his or her emotions.

The Life Line usually circles the thumb and begins under the mount of Jupiter and extends to the wrist. It encircles the Mount of Lower Mars and Venus and in most cases ends at the base of the hand. This line indicates major life events as well as the health of the subject. The longer this line is, the longer the individual will live.

The fourth main lie on the palm is called the Line of Fate (also known as the Line of Faith. This line runs vertically from the middle of the base of the palm and up towards the middle finger. It is an indicator of material and financial strength. The deeper, stronger and less broken the line, the more likely the person is likely to be successful. It also indicates a serious, business like nature.

The line of Apollo is a vertical line that is found on the upper part of the Mount of the Moon. It has been called the line of the Sun, and the line of Brilliancy, and to it has been ascribed the gift of great artistic talents, wealth and fame. Not every hand possesses this line.

The line of Mercury has been variously called the line of Health or the line of Liver. It is found either on Mount of Mercury or the Plain of Mars. If there is no line you are probably blessed with excellent health. Strong markings in this area indicate troubles with health.

There are many Minor Lines that don't appear in every hand but one of the best known is the Girdle of Venus that starts between the Mounts of Jupiter and Saturn and ends around the little finger. This line looks like a loop circling three of your four fingers and its presence is supposed to indicate beauty and luck in romance. The hand is filled with all kinds of markings, lines, feathers, stars, and crosses --each with particular meanings.

As a rule of thumb (no pun intended) any time you find a marking on a mound, it usually indicates that something special is going on in that department of your life. Next month's New Age Notebook will go into more detail about the meanings of these symbols in the hand.

Cultivating the Spirit

2007-09-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

Water is the most impressionable natural element. Throw a pebble in a lake and watch the ripples. A slight breeze will send a wave of vibration through even a puddle. Water is sensitive to heavenly energy as well. The heat and light of the sun cause fluids to rise and fall in trees, creating the seasonal changes. We all know that the moon determines the ocean's tides. Lumberjacks find it difficult to control logs on a river during the full moon, as the logs tend to get washed ashore. However, during the new moon, logs flow towards the middle of the river. Similarly, the moon controls the tides of blood in the human body, causing menstruation to synchronize with a particular phase of the moon and affecting the thinking and dreaming of both men and women.

This impressionable quality of water allows us to see and know the world. Water forms a transparent film through which light enters the eyes. It transmits sounds through the inner ear. As mucous and saliva, it allows smell and taste. Without water to help carry messages across the synapses, there would be no sense of touch. When the whole body moves like water, as in the practice of Taiji Quan, we cultivate sensitivity and permeability to the qi of heaven and earth. We becomes aware of what the Lakota Indians call the wochangi, "the spiritual influences of nature."

To move like water is to return to the source of being. Mankind evolved from a watery environment. The human embryo looks like a fish during its early development. The first crawling movement of an infant is an undulation, like a tadpole learning to swim. According to most religious traditions, water is the first element (in both importance and order of creation). "God breathed over the face of the waters." Brahma, the world creator, floats on a lotus in Vishnu's abdomen. In the Buddhist Lankavatara Sutra, the "universal mind" (alaya-vijnana) is compared to a great ocean.

Perhaps the most important message of water is change itself. "Everything flows," said Heraclitus, "You can't step twice into the same river." The human body, like the body of the earth, consists mostly of water and is therefore in a state of constant flux. The intellect creates an illusion of permanence; we freeze the changing processes of life into concepts. But for health of body and mind, we must learn to flow with life, to ride the currents. We discover that the Buddhist principle of "impermanence" presents not a reason for despair but an opportunity for more sensitive and intelligent living. Taiji Quan can help us to, in the words of the Diamond Sutra, "Awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere." Through Taiji Quan practice we discover that "Go with the flow" is more than a metaphor. It is a spiritual practice and a way of life.

Remote Viewing

2007-09-19T12:24:00.000-07:00

Remote viewing is a fancy name for telepathy or clairvoyance, the alleged psychic ability to perceive places, persons, and actions that are not within the range of the senses. If a "beacon" is used to send psychic images, it is said to be telepathy. If no beacon is used, then it is clairvoyance. The term seems to have been invented by physicists Dr. Russell Targ and physicist/scientologist Dr. Harold Puthoff to describe their work with alleged psychics for the U.S. government in a project known as Stargate.

Remote viewing is a kind of psychic dowsing. Instead of a twig or other device, one uses psychic power alone to dowse the entire galaxy, if need be, for whatever one wants: oil, mountains on Jupiter, a lost child, a buried body, a hostage site thousands of miles away, a secret meeting inside the Pentagon or the Kremlin, etc.

Ingo Swann and Harold Sherman claim to have done remote viewing of Mercury and Jupiter. Targ and Puthoff reported that their remote viewing compared favorably to the findings of the Mariner 10 and Pioneer 10 research spacecraft. Isaac Asimov did a similar comparison and found that 46% of the observation claims of the astral travelers were wrong. Also, only one out of 65 claims made by the remote viewers was a fact that either was not obvious or not obtainable from reference books (Randi 1982).

Targ and Puthoff, whom Randi refers to as the Laurel and Hardy of psi research, were not put off by the fact that Swann claimed he saw a 30,000 ft. mountain range on Jupiter on his astral voyage when there is no such thing. It is hard to imagine why anyone would have faith in such claims. If I told you that I had been to your home town and had seen a 30,000 ft. high mountain there, and you knew there was no such mountain, would you think I had really visited your town even if I correctly pointed out that there is a river nearby and it sometimes floods? Swann, in a lovely ad hoc hypothesis, now claims that astral travel is so fast that he probably wasn't seeing Jupiter but another planet in another solar system! There really is a big mountain out there on some planet in some solar system in some galaxy.

The CIA and the U.S. Army thought enough of remote viewing to spend millions of taxpayers' dollars on "Stargate." The program involved using psychics for such operations as trying to locate Gaddafi of Libya (so our Air Force could drop bombs on him) and the locating of a missing airplane in Africa. The mass media, ever watchful of wasteful government programs, did not exhibit much skepticism regarding remote viewing. Typical is the reporting in the Sacramento area. TV news anchors Alan Frio and Beth Ruyak led their nightly Channel 10 program on November 28, 1995, with a story on "exciting new evidence" that remote viewing really works. The same story had appeared that morning in the Sacramento Bee in an Associated Press article about "Stargate" by Richard Cole. "A particularly talented viewer accurately drew windmills when the sender was at a windmill farm at Altamont Pass," Cole wrote. The "talented viewer" was Joe McMoneagle, a former army psychic spy and part of the Stargate project. Cole based his claim on the testimony of Dr. Jessica Utts, a statistics professor at the University of California, Davis, who was hired by the government to do an assessment of "psychic functioning." Channel 10 interviewed Dr. Utts, who confirmed that there is good reason to believe that Joe McMoneagle does indeed have psychic powers. Utts coauthored several papers with physicist Edwin May, who took over the remote viewing program of Stargate from Puthoff in 1985. So, she was not a disinterested party.

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said: "The CIA is reviewing available programs regarding parapsychological phenomena, mostly remote viewing, to determine their usefulness to the intelligence community" (Cole 1995). He also notes that the Stargate program was found to be "unpromising" in the 1970s and was turned over to the Defense Department. At one time as many as sixteen psychics worked for the government and the Defense Intelligence Agency made them available to other government departments. One of the psychics, David Morehouse, was recruited when he took a bullet in the head in Jordan and started having visions and vivid nightmares. He's written a book about it (Psychic Warrior) and it is sure to be better received by true believers than Mansfield's disclaimer.

Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-73) saint and mystic

2007-09-16T22:19:00.000-07:00

The Jesus of your spirit is inside you now.
Ask that one for help, but don't ask for body-things...

Don't ask Moses for provisions
that you can get from Pharaoh.

Don't worry so much about livelihood.
Your livelihood will turn out as it should.
Be constantly occupied instead
with listening to God.

Rumi, Mathnawi II:450-454

~~

Listen for the stream
that tells you one thing.

Die on this bank.
Begin in me
the way of rivers with the sea.

Rumi - Coleman Barks - from "Say I Am You"

~~

You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.

What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.

It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.

So- I've brought you a mirror.

Look at yourself and remember me.

- Jalaluddin Rumi
~~

Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, Suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.

Rumi - The Essential Rumi - Coleman Barks

~~

Oh! Supreme Lover!
Let me leave aside my worries.
The flowers are blooming
with the exultation of your Spirit.

By Allah!
I long to escape the prison of my ego
and lose myself
in the mountains and the desert.

These sad and lonely people tire me.
I long to revel in the drunken frenzy of your love
and feel the strength of Rustam in my hands.

I'm sick of mortal kings.
I long to see your light.
With lamps in hand
the sheikhs and mullahs roam
the dark alleys of these towns
not finding what they seek.

You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing your praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart.

Rumi - 'The Love Poems of Rumi' - Deepak Chopra & Fereydoun Kia

~~

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with a thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quiteness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.

The speechless full moon
comes out now.

Rumi - The Essential Rumi - Coleman Barks

~~

The Morning Wind Spreads
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell.
We must get up and take that in,
that wind that lets us live.
Breathe before it's gone.

Rumi - 'The Essential Rumi' - Coleman Barks

~~

Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
At times I give myself up to thought purposefully;
but when I choose,
I spring up from those under its sway.
I am like a high-flying bird,
and thought is a gnat:
how should a gnat overpower me?

Rumi - Mathnawi II, 3559-3561 - 'Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance' - Camille and Kabir Helminski

~~

I wonder
from these thousand of "me's",
which one am I?
Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice
I am completely filled with the thought of you.
Don't lay broken glass on my path
I will crush it into dust.
I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand,
reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger.
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.

Rumi - "Hidden Music" - Maryam Mafi & Azima Melita Kolin

~~

Happy the moment when we are seated in the Palace, thou and I,
With two forms and with two figures but with one soul, thou and I.
The colours of the grove and the voice of the birds will bestow immortality
At the time when we come into the garden, thou and I.
The stars of heaven will come to gaze upon us;
We shall show them the Moon itself, thou and I.
Thou and I, individuals no more, shall be mingled in ecstasy,
Joyful and secure from foolish babble, thou and I.
All the bright-plumed birds of heaven will devour their hearts with envy
In the place where we shall laugh in such a fashion, thou and I.
This is the greatest wonder, that thou and I, sitting here in the same nook,
Are at this moment both in ‘Iraq and Khorasan, thou and I.

Jelaluddin Rumi, in The Mystics of Islam, translated by Reynold A Nicholson

~~

Awakened by your love,
I flicker like a candle's light
tryin to hold on in the dark.
Yet, you spare me no blows
and keep asking,
"Why do you complain?"

Rumi - "Whispers of the Beloved" - Maryam Mafi & Azima Melita Kolin

~~

My heart tells me it is distressed with Him,
but I can only laugh at such pretended injuries.

Be fair, You who are the Glory of the just.
You, Soul, free of "we" and "I,"
subtle spirit within each man and woman.

When a man and a woman become one,
that "one" is You.
And when that one is obliterated, there You are.

Where is this "we" and this "I"?
By the side of the Beloved.
You made this "we" and this "I"
in order that you might play
this game of courtship with Yourself,
that all "you's" and "I's" might become one soul
and finally drown in the Beloved.

All this is true. Come!
You who are the Creative Word: Be
You, so far beyond description.

Is it possible for the bodily eyes to see You?
Can thought comprehend Your laughter or grief?
Tell me now, can it possibly see You at all?
Such a heart has only borrowed things to live with.

The garden of love is green without limit
and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy.
Love is beyond either condition:
without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Rumi - Mathnawi I, 1779-1794 - The Rumi Collection - Kabir Helminski

Poetry

2007-09-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

There is no difference in the destination,
the only difference is in the journey.

- Inayat Khan

I see now
that all creatures
have perfect enlightenment
- but they do not know it.

- Buddha

Until you become an unbeliever in your own self,
you cannot become a believer in god.

- Shaikh Abu-Said Abil-Khair

The important thing is not to think much,
but to love much;
and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

- Saint Teresa of Avila

All the violence, fear and suffering
that exists in this world
comes from grasping at "self".
What use is this great monster to you?
if you do not let go of the "self",
there will never be an end to your suffering.

- Shantideva

In the pursuit of learning,
every day something is acquired.
in the pursuit of Tao,
every day something is dropped.

- Lao Tzu

Wasn't me..

2007-07-26T11:43:00.000-07:00

No boss is bossy enough,
No ego is boast enough,
No power is strong enough,
No words are loud enough,

Time To Learn

2007-07-26T11:33:00.000-07:00

Past, Present and Future is now,
Places and Space is here,
It is only now and here.

Return to the Source

2007-07-26T11:22:00.000-07:00

It's now, no later, don't wait, what you need to do is always remember who you are...

Everything and Everytime

2007-07-26T10:59:00.001-07:00

Who is willing?
I give birth,
I dont just born,
I am eternity,
I cried and I smiled,
I love and beloved,
I am rich and poor,
I am evil and good,
I am the life & death,
I am Yin & Yang,
Alive...
Who am I?

Who own us?

2007-07-26T10:59:00.000-07:00

Everything belong to you,
Lonely in this journey,
Don't leave me alone,
Tired of swimming millions of ocean,
Realise there is air to breath,
But I'm too weak to even control my own breath,
Everthing is yours...

Still alive..

2007-04-16T12:32:00.000-07:00

Body, mind and soul. Natural is in the mind but soul is just unnatural.

Finding God

2006-12-17T06:49:00.000-08:00

There are names and characteristic associate to it. Should it be caring, merciful and loving which have been shown through mankind it is the closest we can get. To be really close to Him, we need to be in total denial of our own existence. There..in losing ourself, we found ourself and about how far we can accept who we really are. It is the realm of timeless and spaceless. Let it go..

Mentalist

2006-09-20T10:30:00.000-07:00

I have been away to indulge myself in Mentalist realm. I had personally test the methods used by Darren Brown and Banachek in order to understand the effect.
It is not a trick as it is about knowing yourself and the way the world (brain) is operating.
It is about overcoming the reality by breaking the normal thought process (broca - middle part of the brain logic circuit) with psychological approach or force.
Mind reading is just a physiological thought reading without physical cue and only using the physical feeling (touches) and environment sensations. The truth is in the subconcious thought and the body never lies.

Confidence Level and Faith.

2006-05-03T13:38:00.000-07:00

Just like to share and empowering others. We r confident when v know that the path chosen has been destined and it had happened for a reason. And they r multiple level of confidence. (2bcont'd)

Ju57 b <3w and 4lw4ys...r3m3mb3r -im.

Freedom..

2006-04-22T02:13:00.000-07:00

Such a big word for people who understand it. Majority is on the physical world of financial freedom. Minority is on the spiritual world of detachment from the world. Both are stuck in slavery. Alone, 0.03% is on the both world which understand it as One from the tests that have been given had given a birth to agony and love in knowing the trueself.

Fate or Destiny?

2006-04-22T01:18:00.000-07:00

In knowing ourself, life just became ourself. Some said that the destiny had been set the day you were born and if you look into the astrology you might figure it out. The entire events of your life is in the frequency. It's answered when u start to understand why you are here and in that particular events.

Then you start to receive the concoiousness and power that comes with responsibility. No matter how many time you deny, it will keeps on coming until u are awaken of who yourself really is. It is a trust bestow unto you to create balance to the world. It is the world of truth and it's painful. Someday I just feel like shit and someday I feel like quiting, someday I fell like stupid working around the clock and just feel like stuck here waiting..

However, there's nothing that I can't do but I'm not to be mentioned caused I'm unsaid and hidden.

Know yourself.?

2006-03-30T08:58:00.000-08:00

What is your name? Neo? Eddy? Ali? Raja Soorian? Ng Wah Shu? They are all names, so they are all the same. So who is Neo? It is a character of soul resurrection. It's the same for the rest of the names. The character of the true self. The character can be anything but with messages.

Death, brain dead?

2006-03-26T05:02:00.000-08:00

Without really knowing and experience death, you won't be able to understand the meaning of life. Death is something that we fear as human being due to lack of exposure and knowledge of the life force (essence). We fear because we are attach to the world and its surroundings (work, families, etc.). Thus, we need to detach from our surrounding including our own body(bodyless) by shuting down our senses. Even if we can feel the body movement, it is the work of the pure energywhich has its own program from the devine as you merge with the universe and not letting the mind and body interfere this relationship.

Seeking reality...

2006-03-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

Which is which? Is what we see or the unseen?

Psychic, are we?

2006-02-28T18:50:00.000-08:00

They say we are all psychic and were born with it, you just need to learn and develop that built-in features. And if you look closely, it is about the soul being reborn and learning to use its own senses. Just like a baby learning to use hearing (clairaudience), seeing (claivoyant), feeling (clairsentience/psychometry), etc.

Reincarnation...

2006-02-27T02:56:00.000-08:00

Are you sure you are not somebody before this? Who are you in your previous life time? You just need to know yourself and remember who you are.

Do you believe in magic?

2006-02-24T09:59:00.001-08:00

Is magic just a gimmick and trick? Magic is magic. It is one of the many stations through out the spiritual journey. Just don't stay there too long, it will just delaying your real destination.

OOB

2006-02-19T19:23:00.000-08:00

It's just a state of mind and if you can sleep with conciousness u can get out from your body. Body asleep but mind awake...

Healing

2006-02-18T08:07:00.000-08:00

What are we healing? Yin?

Martial Art

2006-02-13T20:18:00.000-08:00

Where does it lead to?

Metaphysic

2006-02-12T20:38:00.000-08:00

Science beyond science.

First was the Word, and the Word was God

2006-02-10T22:37:00.000-08:00

...And if you open the still older scriptures of the Vedanta, you read in their verses that in the Creator there was that word, or that vibration. And when we come to the Quran we read there, 'First there was the word 'Be' and then it became.' The religions of the world, the prophets and mystics who existed thousands of years ago, knew of these things. Today a man comes with a photographic plate and says, 'Here I have a photograph of sound. This shows how important is vibration and its action upon the plate.' He does not realize that it is something which has always been known, only it has been spoken of in spiritual terms. What has been spoken man does not think about. What is being spoken he thinks is something new. But when we realize, and Solomon has said, that there is nothing new under the sun, we begin to enjoy life, seeing how time after time the same wisdom is revealed to man. The one who seeks truth through science, the one who searches for it through religion, the one who finds it through philosophy, the one who finds it through mysticism, in whatever manner they seek truth, they find it in the end.