Practical Steps to Enlightenment - CLOSED

[Dogon]

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Dear Friends

In this thread I will publish a concise text about the different steps of a spiritual journey.
The material will be clearly structured, so that you easily find the topic that you need.

Everything I publish here is based on my own work, personal experience, teaching, therapy and the exchange with clients, students, friends, dead people, astral and spiritual beings.

I have published these articles on Avalon, and will edit them for Nexus if needed...
...my personal learning process is going on...

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Any blissful moment,
when everything is absolutely perfect for you,
when you're overwhelmed with love and joy,
when you peacefully permeate the Universe - this as a moment of enlightenment.

Moments like this happen - and disappear - probably / hopefully most of us have experienced them.
This is like these little samples we get in stores as a temptation... Shall we buy it?

I would like to tempt you... And I would like to support you.

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The spiritual journey has always been and still is the most exciting and the most satisfying 'project' in my life.

It's been my main topic for at least 35 years.

So it is not just hot air when I say: There is logic! The steps are describable and doable - but the experiences are sometimes difficult to describe...

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I know, you're no beginners.

But after teaching for many years I know how many questions arise on a spiritual journey. And maybe here and there you find some helpful information.

Good to know:

1. There are smaller and bigger moments of enlightenment.
2. Every Chakra can be enlightened or not.
3. Enlightenment can be achieved and is not just an "act of Grace of some unknown God."
4. Enlightenment is not permanent. - It can be lost - otherwise we wouldn't be here.

Best wishes, Dogon

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[Dogon]

Index:

(I will add the number of post - maybe the sequence still change..., may be there is Q&A in between. )

• Chapter 1: Introduction post 9
  Concentration in the third Eye Post 4 / 11
  Chapter 2: Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana Yoga
  
  A. Karma-Yoga Post 12
  B. Bhakti-Yoga Post 13
  C. Jnana Yoga Post 14
  Chapter 3: About sleeping and dreaming Post 15
  Chapter 4: Chakras
  
  A. Overview: personal chakras, astral and spiritual levels Post 17
  B. How the chakras and the realms relate to each-other, Post 24
  Chapter 5: Practical work with the Chakras
  
  First Chakra, the root, Post 25
  Second Chakra, the Hara Post 28
  Third Chakra, the Solar Plexus Post 30
  Metaphore: Chakras as Family Post 31
  Fourth Chakra, the heart Post 32
  Fifth Chakra, the throat Post 41
  Sixth Chakra, the third eye Post 42
  Chapter 6: The astral Spheres, Introduction
  Chapter 7: Lowest astral Level, Level 7, Post 46
  Chapter 8: Second astral Level 8, Post 48
  Chapter 8: More to Level 8: Astral Sexuality, Post 50
  Chapter 8: More to Level 8: Techniques, Post 51
  Chapter 9: Third astral Level
  Chapter 10: Intermission
  
  ... taste the sweetness of a little Meditation, Post 57
  Audio-Meditation: Male approach - means step by step, Post 58
  pdf: all text till 19th of may, Post 59
  The Higher Self, Post 60
  Addendum to Level 10, Post 62
  Chapter 11: Divine Love and Compassion on Level 10, Post 61
  Chapter 12: Joy and playful creativity on Level 11, Post 63
  Chapter 13: Unlimited awareness and spiritual understanding on Level 12, Post 65
  
  Going home, Post 68
  In moments of grace... Post 69
  Chapter 14: The Numinous, Level 14, Post 80
  
  1. What happens before entering (melting) into the Numinous? Post 81
  2. What might happen after we come back from the Numinous? Post 83 and 85
  3. How could this influence our existence? Post 86
  Chapter 15: GOD, Post 88
  1. Often people start with a Self-made GOD, Post 90
  2. The all powerful astral God's, the Elohim of the old Testament, Post 102
  3. The heavenly helpers, Post 103
  4. Highest spiritual beings, Post 108
  
  Friendship, Post 110
  More on Friendship, Post 115

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I hope you enjoy this work

Love, Dogon

[Dragonfly]

danke!

[Dogon]

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But let's first take the concentration to the third eye.

This is a point in the center of your head.

If this is new for you try this:

Visualize an apple! The apple appears on your inner screen or somewhere in front of you. This is how we see, using our inner eye/s. It is always a little bit like through a glass with steam on it. - You will get used to it...
The place from where you project the image is your third eye. - The position can slightly change, because the third eye belongs to your energetic body and not to the physical.

This concentration will have a activating effect on the two glands pituitary and pineal, which are on the same level, and actually close together.

At the beginning this concentration can be very exhausting. If so, go there for short durations, again and again. Or how I described it in some other post:

Stay playful!

Don't sit there too long trying very hard to be still...

Be more like a honeybee, getting tiny amounts of the sweetest nectar here and there.

Your nectar shall be: "I'm a free spiritual being."

Have a drop of this nectar again and again - just one sentence - just one glimpse of joy - love - gratefulness...

And you do this from your third eye. And it's all fine to feel the resonance of the sweetness in the heart.

Slowly this 'muscle' becomes stronger - and at a certain point this will be your natural window through which you look into the world.

This is the seat of your consciousness.

Don't worry - we will balance it with the other chakras.

Enjoy your day - it is a beautiful one -

Dogon (Sepia)

[Amer]

Thank you for the teaching you'll impart to us here- I'm really looking forward to it, coming at a time when I was so looking for a direction like this. I've been trying to quell all the accumalated noise inside my head lately to see what's underneath- is it just me or is it downright hard to shut out the (internal) noise and just BE? I know there's something within us all that could be a source of strength and knowing that would probably change the way we live our lives to a substantial degree.
I shall be a humble student

[Luke]

Looking forward to reading more

(practice, practice, practice)

[Dogon]

Thank you for the teaching you'll impart to us here- I'm really looking forward to it.. [...]

I shall be a humble student

Thank you for being here!

No reason to be a humble student. I see you on the same level. As beings we are exactly the same.

As people we know different things well or not so well, means we have qualities and flaws.
I have spent almost my whole life with this kind of studies - and if you can pick out certain things that are useful to you that's great.

You have your things that you can do well and I'm not able to...We all do our best.

You will never find me putting myself higher than you.

Love and respect, Dogon / Sepia

[Dogon]

Looking forward to reading more

(practice, practice, practice)

Well, with my postings I would also like to give people orientation to say:

- This I know
- that I'm able to do
- this is completely natural to me
- that I have understood many years ago...

Practice is only needed where something is lacking.
And you Luke are very awake, aren't you?

Love, Dogon / Sepia

[Dogon]

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1. Introduction

Now doubt, we all are coming from a divine source, I call it the Numinous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numinous

It's Unity: no observer - no subject. That's why it cannot be described.

What ever you say about the Numinous is wrong and right at the same time:
It's nothing - its every thing - it is not...
It's eternal - it's a permanent now...
It's everywhere - it's nowhere - actually it is beyond space and time...

So why is it at all interesting to understand and experience it?


If you have your anchor in the Numinous, if you give this divine source first priority you are connected to the source of endless love.
And after healing your personal aspects this very essence will be pouring out of you - always...


The goal of all spiritual work is not
to melt into the numinous and disappear for all times...

Beings might desappear and take a break (I go there during the night, when my body sleeps), but then they prefer to be here in one way or the other.


There is no other source.

Not even for 'devils', 'demons', Reptilians, any ET's...
Beings are beings - all divine, if you like it or not.

Experiences have transformed them to different, more dense qualities of consciousness.
Some beings have become destructive because their constructive attempts were not successful.
They have been programed or hypnotized in astral spheres or maybe even during a lifetime.

We all got some programming, that's normal. They separate us from Einlighenment, make us forget, or even make us insane... more or less - hmmm :twitch:


The chance to heal and get rid of programming is there, because the divine sparkle cannot be destroyed.
(But it can be very difficult or even impossible to reach within a lifetime, I'm sorry to say - - - )

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All the spiritual realms and all the astral spheres are mirrored in our personal chakras.
So every Chakra has a more subtle equivalent. - More about this later.

When we enter this body we first make the connection with the third eye and from there we in-carnate - we enter the flesh (carne means flesh.)

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In a ideal situation we learn to use all our tools:

That means we live in all our Chakras and enjoy the treasure of these abilities.

Less ideal, and actually the common situation:

Only 2 - 3 Chakras are in use -
The used Chakras are somehow damaged and in bad shape -
The person is emotionally thrown back and forth, up and down, feels pushed around, is more or less limited or even disoriented.

So one of the main issues here is to get access to the chakras and to provide the means to heal them.

The use of a hammer is obvious. A Chakra is a bit more complicated. But there is logic in it.

Hope you're with me on this ride.

Dogon / Sepia

[Luke]

Practice is only needed where something is lacking.
And you Luke are very awake, aren't you?

Bit like difference "knowing the path" and "walking the path" in my case.
I can conceptualize a lot of things. The big picture that allows for future growth (as opposed to "this is scary"/"I need to run away somewhere"/"We are doomed" thinking). There is lots of growth in the "future" (keeping in mind that it is circles/cycles/expansion not linearity).

But that is pretty much "knowing" part.

But then, once in a while, somebody will give you a simple exercise to do. something that take all the faraway musings connect to that part of you that knew them already. Like door opening .. the one you struggled with for a long time. That is the practice part. Right tune, thought, feeling. NOT the brute force. Need to get it RIGHT.

Ok. enough thread hijacking,

[Dogon]

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Concentration in the third eye

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Did you find your third eye as described in post 4?

Go there often during the day -

- specially if you tend to get lost in worldly things, emotional conditions and attachements.
Do it on a sharp inhale - come back inside to a place not bigger than a pea -
maybe repeat once or twice - or longer. What ever you need to get a good concentration. -

But if you feel a tension you immediately relax and watch (or visualize) the energy flowing down through your body into the ground.

• It is like sitting quietly at the banks of the river Ganges, watching the flow - remembering that you are a free spiritual being.
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• And just before you become one with the flow (and get lost ) you start concentrating again on this spot not bigger than a pea - or if you prefer you create the image of a little flame there.
  .
• We train a muscle here, and this is crucial for any spiritual work coming up later.
  .
• At the beginning it is 'concentration' or 'relaxation' - you go back and forth (1 min. - 1 min)
  .
• But at some point you will find out that it becomes 'concentration' and 'relaxation' both qualities there at the same time, a relaxed focus, absolutely natural, no tension at all.
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• After about 2 - 5 minutes you allow the breath to flow freely in it's natural speed and size - even if it's very small. Trust your body, it will take what it needs.

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Coming back to the third eye is coming home! Uuuuuuh - what a joy.

Get yourself comfortable:

• Sometimes it is like a cave - and you sit here in silence like a golden Buddha
  (any Buddha-Smiley around?) -
  .
• Sometimes it's more like a mountain-top, the vastness of space above you -
  .
• Sometimes it's like sitting in the upper room of a light-house...

So every now and then you come back inside on an inhale, and on the exhale you keep the concentration, but at the same time watch the energy flowing, releasing, clearing down through your body and into the ground.

Short sequences are fine. Even if it is only 30 seconds.

But at the end of the day, take some more time and make sure that the downward flow of energy is free.

(Create energetic openings in the middle of your feet and hands - by intent. - Yes it works, don't worry.)

Would you like to say " I am "?
It's a very old indian Mantra - you can gently repeat it -
or just know and feel, that you are (beingness).

All best wishes, Dogon / Sepia

[Dogon]

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2. Chapter: Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana Yoga

Meditation can be done in numerous ways. These 3 represent the three main principles.
Each of these ways can lead you to some kind of enlightened state - but they are not identical.

Best is we travel on all of these three paths in one lifetime...
The Triad makes it complete. It is possible, trust me.

Most probably you are almost halfway through
Otherwise you wouldn't follow this thread on this forum... But nobody tells you.


A. Karma Yoga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_yoga

This is the path of selfless action and selfless service.
Be in 'The Here and Now' and do everything with your full presence.

Concentration on the Hara (2. Chakra), in the middle of the belly below the navel, like you do in Zen-Meditation.
You watch your breath. You are an observer. If there are any thoughts you let them pass like clouds.

In order to do Karma Yoga, you don't have to sit on a pillow and to follow the Zen-rules. Zen is just one possibility.

May be you had your Karma-Yoga-Time already, or are having it again and again without knowing it?

For example

• when you play the piano, any instrument
• when you cook or clean,
• when you hike or sing,
• when you make love - *harrumph* - - - all things can be done in many different qualities...

Always choose the best, the clearest, the purest, most truthfull, the most loving way to do things and your spirituality will progress.

Making love when you are in love is - - - - - many things, - - - - - and it can be the greatest preparation for spiritual practice.

Remember how it was, when your skin touched the skin of your partner for the first time...?

The quality of your experience depends from your ability to focus and to relax at the same time...
This warm hand gently supporting your back... your neck... the lips touching for the first time...

(Careful: There is only one first time... it's most precious!)

Remember the Movie Avatar:
The plants are communicating with each other through light. Every persons steps on the roots would create a fireworks of light, hundreds of signals were runnung through the roots to other plants...
This happens in your body between the cells. A universe on its own...

Focus and relaxation - love and compassion - surrender to the highest quality of your and your partners essence - one-pointedness - let go - enjoy.

hmmm - isn't spirituality exciting?

And you know what? You don't even need a partner for that.
And you don't even need to touch yourself.
The fireworks of love is always ready to start, sometimes from the second Chakra, sometimes from the heart.
It's a divine quality - pure - eternal - be with it - enjoy -


Karma yoga is a good technique. Many good experiences possible, no doubt.
You learn to sit still, to focus, you are in the 'Here and Now'.

Be careful not to get caught up in rituals.

In the best case a ritual is a stepping stone -
but very often it becomes a trap.
People stay attached to rituals... and after some time all what's left is an empty form.

Many of the 'serious' Zen-People sit far too heavy on their pillows
to ever open up to the indescribable lightness and love of the spiritual essence.

Don't spend to many years or decades on Zen - there is much more to discover.

Every technique has its values... learn it, grasp the benefit... and go on...

Best wishes, Dogon / Sepia

[Dogon]

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B. Bhakti Yoga:

This is the path of love and devotion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhakti_yoga
Concentration on the heart, (4. Chakra).

Bhakti Yogis and Yoginis (that's how you're called when you're on the Journey of love and devotion) see the creation as 'God' spread out in form.
So they not only serve selflessly (to overcome the Ego like in Karma Yoga) they serve out of love and devotion to any aspect of the creation.

Do/did you live Bhakti when you are/were with your kids, in your garden, in nature?

It's always there when your heart widens
maybe because you see the beauty in nature beyond description -

- and every tree seems to smile at you, every insect, or every cell of your body... You are aware that life is full of miracles and you're there in awe.


In Bhakti we often find orientation by addressing our love to 'someone', this might be Jesus or some a great Mystic...

Oh yes, they are around... have always been in all cultures...
like points of orientation. Humans are never left all alone!

But they have to be searched... You have to take the initiative if you want to learn from them.
They don't get involved in worldly things - but grant spiritual freedom.

To mention some of my beloved friends in Heavens:
Anandamayi Ma, Ramana Maharshi, Shri Nisargadatta...

(I'm not so familiar with too many Mystics, of course there are many more.)

Note: Their verbal teaching might not fit into your life, into your culture.
They talked to their audience at that time.

But if we meet them in our meditation - once we're able to open our heart - the highest qualities will be there for us to learn...

All these spiritual qualities are also inside of us - but it is easier to look into a mirror first.

Once this heart-love is lifted up and has become spiritual love you will get in touch with the most precious quality of all.

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During Bhakti we are often close to tears.

Things touch easily - and the negativity in this world is hard to bear.

(We have to become 'angels', to be in this world and never loose touch with love...)

Those who stay too long on the level of the personal heart and don't reach the spiritual heart often are like little kids, a bit naive, not really on their feet, not balancing out with their head...

Then it is time to bring the concentration up to third eye.


Check out your heart:

Have you been able to give love and compassion to the molecules as described here?
http://nexus.2012info.ca/forum/showt...itual-approach

Fine - you are ready for the next step

If not - come with us anyway.

I wish you a heartfelt day, Sepia

[Dogon]

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C. Jnana Yoga: The path of knowledge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnana_yoga

This is what I teach.
Jnana leads us to a deep understanding on all levels.

All veils slowly desappear.
We are able to see, to know, to perceive, to understand
because this is our very nature to do so.

The spiritual knowledge makes us strong and humble at the same time.

A little example:

I had the privilege to meet Maharaj Charan Singh (1916 - 1990), a perfect spiritual Master in India.
(The only reason I didn't mention him on my little list earlier was because he is not very well known in the west.)

It was a huge audience, several hundred-thousand people. - The Master would walk on stage together with some other people, like a personal Secretary or maybe an Organizer...

These other people - although they were pure souls - had much more masses or surface (I don't know how to explain...) than the Master himself. There was a significant difference:

The Master seemed to be the most humble person of all of us, and still radiating great dignity at the same time. To experience this is extremely touching...

For most people it is very difficult to recognize spiritual quality.

In our world big Egos are impressive and successful. We are used to recognize Ego-Power and charism - but Spirituality is something completely different...

A truly spiritual person is absolutely open and relaxed, straight forward, no mysteries, no secrets... and for those who search for miracles this simplicity is actually kind of boring .

An astral person (means a person who uses astral forces) will always create a fascinating surface.
And for this purpose secrecy suits well: 'I know something that you don't know (because I'm very special) and I will give it to you if you... kiss my feet - or so... Manipulation is the main tool, often difficult to see...

Behind the brilliant surface you will always find lies.

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In Jnana Yoga we concentrate on the third eye. This activates pineal and pituitary gland.

Here is the seat of consciousness, the best place to be focused during the day.

From here we can look - into the physical body
- into the world, the reality
- or into the astral universes
- and into the spiritual realms.

If the instinctive leves (first, second, third Chakra) and the feeling-aspect (fourth Chakra) are integrated, we can be at our best in the third eye.


I wish you a great day, Dogon / Sepia

[Dogon]

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Chapter 3: About sleeping and dreaming


People do very different things while sleeping.

-> not even sleeping is that easy


If your third Eye is open or not - that makes the main difference.


A. People with a closed third eye...

About 80% of the world population -
and probably 0,1% of the people here on Nexus have a closed third eye.

If it is closed the viewpoint / the focus-point sinks down during sleep and merges with the cells. These people more or less turn into a vegetable during sleep.
(Don't feel offended - it happens to me from time to time as well.)

During the R.E.M. phase they somehow surface and digest emotional issues from their physical lives. This is the original meaning of "dreaming" when we are caught up in self-made stories.

And dream-analyzers will tell you: It's all you. The tree, the bench, the river, the other person who sits with you on this bench - it's you because the images come from inside of you - nobody else around.

This might be true or not - I'm not going into this any deeper, this is the Psychologist's job.

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B. People with an open third eye...

As soon as your third eye is open and you start doing spiritual work (in a very broad sense) you will mainly enter astral or spiritual universes while your body sleeps.

The astral Universes somehow press in on you...
The spiritual Universes always give you a lot of space and you will get in touch when when the frequency of your consciousness is subtle enough.

(The second is always pleasant so there is no urge to talk about this in detail now, I will do so much later...)

Astral beings have their intentions, emotions, problems -
Spiritual beings are loving and don't want to pull or push you. They will always wait for you to express your free decision.

Astral beings often take us into their own cinema - you may like the movie or not.
They do this, because they don't have a different reality than this one,
or because they are ordered to confuse, frighten or devaluate the dreamer...

Depending from your state of being during the day you will be drawn to a different 'theater', to a different frequency. (There are exceptions to this as well!
Sometimes the astral beings are so powerful, that they enter your space anyway.)

• If you are mainly centered in your first Chakra and this one is hurt:
  You often have fears about your life, your health, about dying; your existence (Job, house, food, money...) the movie will be all about those issues:
  
  Someone will hunt you - you're standing on a cliff the tiger behind you - someone stole all you possessed - your house is on fire - you loose your job etc.
  .
  
• If you are mainly centered in your second Chakra and this one is hurt:
  You are emotional about belonging to a group, to the family, you would like everybody liking/loving you... You need a lot of reassurance from others...
  Or it is about sexuality: Your desires, you attracting others... feelings of being rejected, hurt, abused...
  
  In your dream you might be thrown out of the group, standing alone, nobody loves you, you might even be ridiculed...
  Sexuality: Well, I don't have to tell you about any sexual 'movies'... All is possible on astral level. - As long as you enjoy it, all is fine. But there can be a lot of abuse...
  .
  
• If you are mainly centered in your third Chakra and this one is hurt:
  You are a fighter, sometimes you win - often you loose.
  (That's a rule, it's not only about you. If you fight against 10 people only one can win, and all the others want to have their turn as well - sooner or later - maybe in another lifetime. Law of Karma: you will meet your oponent again...)
  You are busy to show how brilliant you are. You create a golden surface around your Ego and try to polish it every day.
  
  
  (Very demanding - better let go of it.
  As humans we are never perfect. As beings we have always been and will always be.)
  
  Okay back to topic.
  If centered in the third Chakra you will fight even more on astral plane. And believe me, there will always be one that is stronger than you! Those who don't have bodies fight with different means...

The real solution is to do deep healing work on Chakra 1, 2, 3. Once they are enlightened one cannot take you into these cinemas.
This work we will start in the next chapter.


Solutions that I can offer at this moment

• Before you go to sleep clean up your day. (You might call it Psycho-Hygienic)
  
• Find love inside of you - or calmness, serenity...
  
• Of course the best is to feel spiritual, unconditional love inside of you.
  It's there, because it is the quality of your very core.
  
  This changes your vibration in a way that you are no longer detectable for astral beings. -
  .
• Give yourself a program: "I wake up when I'm drawn into an astral cinema!"
  
• Once you wake up, you can then consciously finish your dream.
  
  
  Remember what Morpheus said to Neo? (MATRIX)
  
  "Some laws can be bent, some can be broken!"
  
  
  This is it!
  Do it in an awake state. This shall be your training!
  Soon you will be able to do it in your dreams as well (lucid dreaming).
  Then it will no longer be necessairy, because you will no longer have this kind of dreams.
  
  Examples:
  
  
  • If the tiger is behind you - spread your wings and fly.
  • If someone follows you and wants to shoot you - all right - turn around, spread your arms, say: "Do it! - You cannot kill me, because I'm an eternal being." - Be aware that you don't have a physical body to protect. Nothing will happen. (Has to be trained.)
  • If you run behind the train - not needed. You can place yourself where ever you want to be.
  
  
  Have fun finishing your dreams in the most pleasant possible way.
  
  

See you soon, Dogon / Sepia

[Icecold]

Glad to have you here Sepia.

Your work is in tune with the raison detre of Nexus.

Informative and Instructive. A valuable resource.

Thank you.

[Dogon]

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Chapter 4: Chakras: Overview. Personal chakras, astral and spiritual levels.


Our personal Chakras are manifestations within your body
and represent a spiritual or astral quality of consciousness.

This means before these bodies existed at all - an extremely long time ago, or just before we incarnated or after we have left a body, these realms, these universes always exist.
(To be more precise: only the spiritual realms are truly unperishable... the astral spheres are more closely related to time and space. )

Most often 'dead people' will more or less continue to do what they did on earth within the astral spheres - (very similar to what I described above on dreaming.) They just get involved into similar games as they played here on earth.

For those who are longing for love the spiritual spheres might be accessible for a certain time. But all will return as long as attachments are existing, as long as there is unsolved Karma.
Karma can have such a strong 'magnetic' force that there is not much choice of where to incarnate...

But all can be solved in this very life.

Free beings also sometimes chose to come back into this game again... -
But more often they choose to offer their love and wisdom and assist all those who want to get free - with no exception. (They are certainly not the ones who punish...)

* * * * * * *

The following model I have created over 10 years ago.
It represents a two-dimensional overview about a complex reality. -
It's just a model not more, not less. But some of the logic becomes obvious.



http://ruth-huber.ch/model_en.gif

[Dogon]

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Chapter 4 B: How the chakras and the realms relate to eachother

The instinctive Chakras relate to the astral realms:

First Chakra relates to level 7
Second Chakra relates to level 8
Third Chakra relates to level 9

Compare it to an analog clock or an astrological chart
and how the hours / the houses are opposite to each other.

The next three Chakras relate to the spiritual realms, to your higher self

forth Chakra relates to level 10: means the personal love and unconditional love are closely related.
fifth Chakra relates to level 11: playfulness, joy, dance with sound, light, movement...
sixth Chakra relates to level 12: In the third Eye we have an overview over this level of existence, on level 12 we have the complete spiritual overview.

And here you reach the Essence, the numinous

If we withdraw in the deepest meditation every attachment and lean towards the numinous within us we might be overwhelmed by an indescribable bliss...
and if we allow it we will merge into the numinous...

The "I" will die - for some seconds or minutes or hours - (duration doesn't make any difference).

And we will be 'reborn' knowing who we truly are and where we come from.

[serpent]

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Chapter 3: About sleeping and dreaming


People do very different things while sleeping.

-> not even sleeping is that easy


If your third Eye is open or not - that makes the main difference.


A. People with a closed third eye...

About 80% of the world population -
and probably 0,1% of the people here on Nexus have a closed third eye.

If it is closed the viewpoint / the focus-point sinks down during sleep and merges with the cells. These people more or less turn into a vegetable during sleep.
(Don't feel offended - it happens to me from time to time as well.)

During the R.E.M. phase they somehow surface and digest emotional issues from their physical lives. This is the original meaning of "dreaming" when we are caught up in self-made stories.

And dream-analyzers will tell you: It's all you. The tree, the bench, the river, the other person who sits with you on this bench - it's you because the images come from inside of you - nobody else around.

This might be true or not - I'm not going into this any deeper, this is the Psychologist's job.

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B. People with an open third eye...

As soon as your third eye is open and you start doing spiritual work (in a very broad sense) you will mainly enter astral or spiritual universes while your body sleeps.

The astral Universes somehow press in on you...
The spiritual Universes always give you a lot of space and you will get in touch when when the frequency of your consciousness is subtle enough.

(The second is always pleasant so there is no urge to talk about this in detail now, I will do so much later...)

Astral beings have their intentions, emotions, problems -
Spiritual beings are loving and don't want to pull or push you. They will always wait for you to express your free decision.

Astral beings often take us into their own cinema - you may like the movie or not.
They do this, because they don't have a different reality than this one,
or because they are ordered to confuse, frighten or devaluate the dreamer...

Depending from your state of being during the day you will be drawn to a different 'theater', to a different frequency. (There are exceptions to this as well!
Sometimes the astral beings are so powerful, that they enter your space anyway.)

• If you are mainly centered in your first Chakra and this one is hurt:
  You often have fears about your life, your health, about dying; your existence (Job, house, food, money...) the movie will be all about those issues:
  
  Someone will hunt you - you're standing on a cliff the tiger behind you - someone stole all you possessed - your house is on fire - you loose your job etc.
  .
  
• If you are mainly centered in your second Chakra and this one is hurt:
  You are emotional about belonging to a group, to the family, you would like everybody liking/loving you... You need a lot of reassurance from others...
  Or it is about sexuality: Your desires, you attracting others... feelings of being rejected, hurt, abused...
  
  In your dream you might be thrown out of the group, standing alone, nobody loves you, you might even be ridiculed...
  Sexuality: Well, I don't have to tell you about any sexual 'movies'... All is possible on astral level. - As long as you enjoy it, all is fine. But there can be a lot of abuse...
  .
  
• If you are mainly centered in your third Chakra and this one is hurt:
  You are a fighter, sometimes you win - often you loose.
  (That's a rule, it's not only about you. If you fight against 10 people only one can win, and all the others want to have their turn as well - sooner or later - maybe in another lifetime. Law of Karma: you will meet your oponent again...)
  You are busy to show how brilliant you are. You create a golden surface around your Ego and try to polish it every day.
  
  
  (Very demanding - better let go of it.
  As humans we are never perfect. As beings we have always been and will always be.)
  
  Okay back to topic.
  If centered in the third Chakra you will fight even more on astral plane. And believe me, there will always be one that is stronger than you! Those who don't have bodies fight with different means...

The real solution is to do deep healing work on Chakra 1, 2, 3. Once they are enlightened one cannot take you into these cinemas.
This work we will start in the next chapter.


Solutions that I can offer at this moment

• Before you go to sleep clean up your day. (You might call it Psycho-Hygienic)
  
• Find love inside of you - or calmness, serenity...
  
• Of course the best is to feel spiritual, unconditional love inside of you.
  It's there, because it is the quality of your very core.
  
  This changes your vibration in a way that you are no longer detectable for astral beings. -
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• Give yourself a program: "I wake up when I'm drawn into an astral cinema!"
  
• Once you wake up, you can then consciously finish your dream.
  
  
  Remember what Morpheus said to Neo? (MATRIX)
  
  "Some laws can be bent, some can be broken!"
  
  
  This is it!
  Do it in an awake state. This shall be your training!
  Soon you will be able to do it in your dreams as well (lucid dreaming).
  Then it will no longer be necessairy, because you will no longer have this kind of dreams.
  
  Examples:
  
  
  • If the tiger is behind you - spread your wings and fly.
  • If someone follows you and wants to shoot you - all right - turn around, spread your arms, say: "Do it! - You cannot kill me, because I'm an eternal being." - Be aware that you don't have a physical body to protect. Nothing will happen. (Has to be trained.)
  • If you run behind the train - not needed. You can place yourself where ever you want to be.
  
  
  Have fun finishing your dreams in the most pleasant possible way.
  
  

See you soon, Dogon / Sepia

Hi Dragon, I really appreciate your lectures. I would like to add a statement....

often I have a feeling that I am in kind of game - current reality. Everyone around me is helping me to play it and to understand it. Just like movie "the game". But it is not a shared play.

At the point you know the rules it becomes easier. You don't fall into the traps, so speak. The funny thing is that "bad" is not bad and viceversa for good. You have to be very vise to use negative polarity. At the end you have to. Who preaches about total love, in my opinion is not in knowledge. Love has also negative connotation.

I interpret dreams like timeout. Normally you are out of your body. Exactly the same as movie avatar. There are different levels of these experiences. Just like you described. It depends how much energy you have within to enter in particular "room".

serpent

[Dogon]

Hi Dragon, I really appreciate your lectures. I would like to add a statement....

serpent

Hi Serpent

Thank you for adding your statement and taking part on my thread.

My name here is Dogon. This is an african tribe, great culture, with ancestors coming from Sirius B.

It might be worth to check it out.

Best wishes, Dogon

[Chuck]

Hello Dogon,
Besides an apple, are there any particular symbols to focus on that have an added benefit to health of body and spirit while exercising the third eye?

Thank you my dearest for re-igniting a passion... a dream that has been ignored while pursuing a mid life crisis. heheheh

[serpent]

Hi Serpent

Thank you for adding your statement and taking part on my thread.

My name here is Dogon. This is an african tribe, great culture, with ancestors coming from Sirius B.

It might be worth to check it out.

Best wishes, Dogon

Dogon, for sure. Yes, I do know the tribe.

I am so sorry, I don't know how I miss that - lapsus.

serpent

[Ruffian]

pretty helpful

[Dogon]

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Chapter 4 C: Personal Chakras 1 - 6 in different qualities


Every single Chakra can be enlightened.

But at the beginning of our work they might be in many different states:

• The Chakra can be in use (by you) - or not.
  It is well possible, that one or even two or three of these tools have not yet been 'taken' by the owner of the body, so there is 'nobody at home'.
  .
• If we have taken the tools, means we are present in a Chakra
  - it can still be almost empty - or it can have too much energy -
  so we are either in need or in overflow
  .
• A Chakra can be relaxed or tight
  .
• Often a Chakra is wounded
  .
• Sometimes Chakras are overpopulated
  which means that other beings have taken a seat in one of the Chakras...
  It's better to free these beings and become a proper owner of this body and of all the energetic centers.
  (At the moment "freeing beings" cannot be our issue - but by deciding, that you take this body for yourself you are all ready in a stronger situation and get more space.)
  

My definition of an enlightened Chakra is the following:

• We have experienced many different qualities and we found ways to really heal these wounds (not to just brush the issue under the carpet)...
  .
• ...and finally we find yourselves in a balanced or even blissfull, relaxed quality.
  We are fully aware of your inner richness and are self-sustaining.

Of course we are social beings and exchange with others on all levels, this is our nature as humans.

But we are not emotionally dependent.

And now it is really time to get practical

[Dogon]

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Chapter 5 A: Practical work with the first Chakra

The first Chakra has instinctive Quality:
Survival and existence are the topics here.

It is a male center, willing to fight or flight: The Adrenaline helps us to react by reflex -
only later on we will think also.
Thinking is not first Chakra's task.

Wether a person runs or fights depends from training, age, emotional or mental conditioning...
For some a spider is enough to run for others even a crododile wakes up fighting instincts.
This center is there to protect our body.

During birth this Chakra is definitely active - but should be able to relax later on.

Note: Many people love adrenaline pulsating through their system: I'm not going into this, because it doesn't support spiritual Meditation.


Exercise for the first Chakra

Sit solid on your chair or pillow - and in this body.
As a spiritual being that you are you slip right into this suit.

Inhale into your third eye - hold for some seconds - exhale and visualize the energy running down through your body and into the ground. Repeat until you feel the ground under your feet and the flow of energy through the system. (5 minutes maybe. I prefer short sequences to stay playful.)

Be aware, that the lower part of your body is building a bowl,
fill it with energy, fill it with your presence. (Keep the focus in the third eye.)

If you perceive a relaxed solidness everything is fine.

If it tingles it is in survival-mode and might need some calming work.

Maybe you are able to communicate to this chakra, that it is safe at the moment (I hope you are...)
and that you as a being take responsibility.
For the long-term questions of survival you better use your head!

If you say: "This is my body" - "This is my life" - does it ring true? Have you taken it?
Are you willing to look after your body?
Are you willing to take responsibility for your existence?

-> or do you delegate the responsibility? Should others take care?

As far as you are able to do so, you should take this responsibilities yourself.
This is a source of great strength.
This is how you get on your own ground and are no longer standing on someone else's ground.

This center will be quiet and solid when we feel safe.

For every person this means something completely different.
So find out, what you need to feel safe - and still know, that you will die one day.

With my best wishes, Dogon / Sepia