Esoteric philosophy and exercises.

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These writings have been born out of the need to communicate esoteric wisdom without divulging secrets of initiation.

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Philosophy, the Abstract God, and the Personal God.

Bhakti Yoga- the Devotional Yoga-practical exercises.

Pranayama- Controlling your Bio-Energy.

Psychic Healing, Theory and Exercises.

PHILOSOPHY, THE ABSTRACT GOD AND THE PERSONAL GOD

[ank] According to the Bible, God created man in His own image; and according to some cynics, man creates God in his own image! Both statements are true in their own field. Man, a creation of God, has all the potentialities to become himself a creating God. All life in the Cosmos partakes of the Divine Life, and once evolved to its utmost possibilities through eons of transformations, each individualized living being will create its own Cosmos! This wonderful message was given to occident, by the Christ, when He exhorted us to: "Be then as perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect." There is no way to escape the conclusion! In India, that idea was known from antiquity.

People conceive God or Goddess, as the highest ideal that they can imagine; although in many cases the priesthood uses the idea of God to instill fear in common people to control them. In conceiving God/Goddess, people have to use symbols and material representations otherwise common people can not relate to Him/Her.

From primitive people with primitive unsophisticated gods, to the highest ideals of Vedanta Advaitism, we can see all the gamut of conceptions of a deity that escape human comprehension.

Philosophers have always try to comprehend the nature of our Creator, and they have concluded that the Supreme Reality behind all creation is unknowable. That is why that Supreme Reality is referred to in non-personal terms, as: THAT, EXISTENCE, etc. In the Bible we find God calling Himself: "I am that I am," being only Existence! In the First Commandment, God demands that we do not try to represent Him in any way!

All that is well for a philosophical approach to the Divinity; but what about the devout, mystical, person who wants to reunite with the Divinity through Love? The mystic can not express his Love to an unknowable, unfathomable Reality beyond comprehension. The solution then, is to use a personification of that Reality. Every religion offers their own version of that personification. In Christianity we have the Father Divine who is a very good symbol for men; but what about women? Women should use the image of the Divine Mother, or Mother Nature. Because we are sexual beings, when we practice mysticism, we have to use an image of the Divinity that is according to our own sexual reality. If we try to unite through Love to a divinity of the opposite sex, our own sexual realities become perverted.

For the philosopher, or the Raji yogi, the conceptions of the Supreme Reality need not to be changed. Here we are relating our own spiritual consciousness with the Cosmic Consciousness, and our own individuality with the Divine Identity.

Please refer to the next article on Bhakty Yoga to further understand the mechanism of the Mystical Transformation.

BHAKTI YOGA, THE DEVOTIONAL YOGA, EXERCISES.

[ank] In Sanskrit the word Bhakti means Devotional Love. Bhakti yoga is then the Union with the Divinity through devotional love. In occident we have the Christian Religion that is the Path to God through the practice of the two commandments of Christ.

In both cases the rules and practices are very similar. For the devout to achieve the Union with the Divinity, he or she must:
First, be completely sure that there is nothing in the material world that is more important that the ideal of the Divine Union. The devout should review in his or her mind every family and friend and ask if God is more important than them. If he or she has to renounce to parents and friends to achieve the Divine Union, is he or she willing to do so? Is God more important than a profession and its rewards? In one word, can the devout renounce to every love and possession to achieve the Divine Union? At the beginning of this mental-emotional exercise the postulant will hesitate in renouncing to some things or persons. If that is the situation, then the devout is not yet ready!

Once the devout has renounced to all family and things of the material world then he or she is ready to continue. Let us be clear in one thing, the renunciation that we are talking here does not mean to abandon family, friends and things. The renunciation is internal, in your emotions and thoughts. You have to make believe that there is a condition to your ideal of Union and that is to lose your family, friends, and things. If those conditions were real, would you still want to unite yourself with God?

Second. Once you have mentally renounced to every thing that you possess in this world then, in meditation or prayer, transfer the love of family, friends, and things, to the Divinity. From this time on, you Love only God, with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your energy. Your spiritual exercises then consist of withdrawing all loves to the One Love of your life: the Love of God! You have to practice this Love of God at every moment, or as soon as you get a brake from your daily activities.

Many of you might think and feel that renouncing to love your parents, for example, is wrong. Read again the First Commandment of Christ, and you will see that the Love of God has to be absolute!

The esoterical explanation here is that every living being or thing that you love, occupies part of your emotional energy, and forms an emotional attachment to that being or thing. All these loves exist in a world of three dimensions and are reflections of the lower Astral World of four dimensions. Now, to achieve the Union with God through Love, we have to ascend to an Emotional World that exist in the borderline between the fourth and the fifth dimensions. To accomplish that, we need to redirect all our emotional energies spent in loving so many things and beings and focus it in One, the Love of God! Once we have channelize those energies into the One, by the constant practice of that One Love, we will eventually break the barrier from the fourth dimension, to the fifth! At that moment our consciousness experience an indescribable ecstasy and we become Illuminated! There are many degrees of illumination. Every ascension to a superior dimension is a process of Illumination!

Third. While you are practicing the renunciation to your family, friends, possessions, etc.; you must also practice in a personal level the love of our neighbor. This step relates to the Second Commandment of Christ: "Love thy neighbor as you love thyself." This is of course, pure, platonic love. How can you see a beautiful neighbor of the opposite sex and not experience sexual love? The solution is this: you consider from now on that every woman is your sister, and every man is your brother! In your meditations or prayer, review all the people you know, and one by one, greet them with the feeling: I love you brother, I love you sister.

Esoterically speaking we all are part of the Universal Life. No matter what part of the Cosmos you are, all living beings are created by the One Creator! The Creator is our Parent and all living beings all over the Cosmos are our brothers and sisters; yes, all living beings, not just humans, or humanoids, but animals, plants, bacteria, etc. You will now understand St. Francis of Assissi when he called brothers to all animals he met!

In a superior realm or dimension, all Life is One Life! Life is one of the creations of God. By practicing the love to all living beings, we are transmuting, subliming, our own personal and sexual loves into that Cosmic Love.

Fourth. Now you are practicing the Two Commandments of Christ, and following the rules discovered by all the mystics of all the times. Now you are a bhakti-yogi.

Fifth. As the time passes by and you continue with your daily practices of love, your personality will experience gradual changes. One day, in an unsuspected moment, you will enter the Light of an ecstasy that will transform your entire personality and life from that time on! While in the ecstasy, time and space will not exist, you and the Divinity will be One! You will know that all life comes from the Divinity and you will feel the union with all life! Once you come back from your ecstasy, then you will be aware of how much time has passed by. It can all happen in one second, or in minutes! Time is not important, your consciousness can now tune superior dimensions and receive knowledge, wisdom, and love that are beyond the realm of common humans! You might for the first time be able to do things that were never possible before; like writing poetry, writing about the nature of God, or about our physical world, or prophecies, or heal the sick, or speak in tongues, etc. These are referred in the Bible as the "Gifts of the Holy Spirit" Do not think that you will have all the Gifts, but only those that are in harmony with your personality! Also the quality of the ecstasy will depend on your personality and previous karma.

KARMA From the esoteric point of view, every time that a human asks for the Kingdom of God and its wisdom and powers, he or she is asking to pay the accumulated unpaid karma of centuries! Yes, soon after you experience your ecstasy and receive the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, you will also begin paying that karma of centuries. It will be hard, it may be horrible, depending of how evil you have being in past lives; but be sure that you will pay! There is no escape from this law!

If after you consider all these, you still want to experience the Union with God, you just have to practice what I explained in this article and if God wills you will succeed. It does not depend on you, the person, but in the Will of God! Dominus Boviscum! Let God be with you!

PRANAYAMA, CONTROLLING YOUR BIO-ENERGY.

[ank] Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning: Control of bio-energy; where the word: prana, means in this case, the life energy that all living beings have.

We all know that we can stand about a month without food, about a week without water, but less than 10 minutes without air. We derive our energy mostly from air. What the Hindu yogis discovered millennia ago is that with our mind, we can increase the amount of energy that we absorb. To do so, we need to synchronize our minds with our bodies; this is accomplished by using the rhythmic breathing technique.

We must begin by learning the nature of prana, or energy. Then we must learn the yogis complete breathing technique, the Rhythmic Breathing, and finally putting all together, the charging of prana and directing it to a given organ or the whole body.

The Nature of Prana. Prana, or energy has manifold manifestations. The source of prana is in the Mental or Fifth dimensional world. Electromagnetism, bio-energy, gravitation, etc., are but a few of the manifestations of this cosmic energy. One kind of prana can be converted into any other; and the Cosmic Mind does precisely that.

The Yogi Complete Breathing Technique. There are many ways that we breathe: upper torso, lower torso, middle torso, etc. To fill our lungs we must begin our breathing by filling the lower torso, or abdominal breathing, followed by the middle and then the upper torso. To facilitate this complete breathing we must keep our spinal column erect. Practice this type of breathing until it is second nature in you; just by doing that you will feel more energetic and healthy.

Rhythmic Breathing. Take your pulse and start counting it in a rhythmic fashion: inhale counting 4, hold your breath counting 2, exhale counting 4, hold counting 2, and so on! Notice that the inhalation and exhalation have the same amount of pulses, and the holding the breath is half the count of the inhalation or exhalation. So if you are using 6 pulses to inhale, hold during 3, exhale counting 6, and hold counting 3. Repeat this exercise many minutes at a time using the complete breathing technique. While practicing the exercise your whole mind must be focused on the rhythmic movement of your lungs and the idea that your mind is synchronized with it. This mind-body-synchronization is the foundation of pranayama. Practice it until you can breathe without counting your pulses, since your mind is now accustomed to establish the rhythm with your body.

Charging prana. Once you have learnt the whole technique of complete breathing and rhythmic breathing, you are ready for the final step.

Begin the rhythmic breathing while you tune with your mind and emotions the universal prana. Imagine and feel the whole Cosmos full of an amber colored living energy. Once you feel it, every time you inhale, let your body absorb this living energy inside your body. Hold your breath imagining and feeling that prana is absorbed into every cell of your body, replenishing your nervous system, and recharging the "batteries" of your body. When you exhale imagine and feel that you are expelling worn out substances from your body. You can imagine these substances to be of a dark color, because that is what they look to the clairvoyant. Once you hold your breath again, switch your attitude to receive again more prana. This whole process is then receptive of prana, replenishing your body with that received prana, expelling the worn out substance from the body and switching again to the reception of prana.

Psychic Breathing. This technique uses all the above described knowledge plus alternates the nostrils in the breathing process. I am not going to enter into these teachings since they are mostly used to awake kundalini, the serpent fire, or the Fire of the Holy Spirit; which I do not recommend unless supervised by a real Raji Yogi.

Note: When I speak of "expelling worn out substance from the body" I do not mean physical substances. Our physical bodies have a counterpart in a so called "Etherical Body," or Energy Body, or Etheric Double, etc. This energy body looks similar to the physical body to the clairvoyant; but it is formed by energy of different classes that help maintain our physical bodies healthy, growing, etc., and our minds functioning in our bodies. Every organ of the physical body has its counterpart in the energy body. When the energy body has problems, it reflects in the physical body as sickness. The energy body emanates an aura of energy that tells us how healthy it is. This body also has a circulation, assimilation, and excretion of energy substances. This energy body is the foundation and control of the physical body.

When in meditation and using pranayama, we are working at unison with our physical, energy, and mind and the substances that we are expulsing belongs to the energy body which in turn benefits our physical body!

Note: Our human bodies have different patterns of circulating energy and one of the differences is produced by our gender. For that reason when men are practicing pranayama they should charge prana entering it from the head down to the feet; and when women are practicing they should enter the energy from the feet up to their heads! When discharging the worn out substances of the energy body, men should imaging sending it to the deepness of the earth; and women could imagine expelling them to the air of the planet. These instructions are very general, each individual will discover what work better for him or her.

When sick, you can focus your charged energy in the sick organ. Although it is advisable never to wait till you are in the acute part of the sickness because a that time it is difficult to practice pranayama. You should charge energy at the first symptom of discomfort.

If you daily practice pranayama you will have a healthy, magnetic, optimistic nature, and energy will seems to emanate from your body and personality!

At least you should practice pranayama until it is second nature in you. In that way, when you need it, you will have its benefits.

In the coming article you will learn to use pranayama for healing other people.

I recommend that you read the book: The Hindu yogi Science of Breathing, by Yogi Ramacharaka, and published by the Yogi Publication Society.

PSYCHIC HEALING- THEORY AND EXERCISES.

[ank] When using bioenergy, or prana, in healing yourself or others, you are practicing Psychic Healing. It is assumed here that you have already mastered the Pranayama exercises from the previous article; if you have not, you are wasting your time, and should go back and practice them.

Preliminaries. To be successful in psychic healing we must be proficient in various techniques.
First. We must learn why the person is sick.
Second. We should teach the sick person what he or she needs to change in his or her life so the sickness will not reoccur.
Third. Once the person understands the reason of the sickness and is willing to effectuate the necessary changes, then and only then we should continue with the healing.

We should be proficient in charging prana, discharge that prana through our hands, visualize the sick person, establish telepathic communication with the sick person's spiritual self, get the OK to heal the person, effectuate the healing. This is, briefly, the whole process!

Projecting prana through your hands. Exercise: Position your hands in front of you, with the palms facing each other but without touching. Rhythmically breathing, charge prana and send it to the space between the palms of your hands. You will feel warmth increasing in your palms, and very soon you will feel the energy accumulating in the space between your hands. Once this occurs, begin separating your hands without losing the charge between the palms. You may need to stop many times in the separation of the hands until you charge enough prana so you can feel it strong again. You can practice many times, many days, until you can hold the charge when the palms are separated let's say by two feet.

Once you have master this technique, you can practice healing in presence of the sick person, applying the jet of prana to the affected organ and thinking-feeling that the prana is penetrating the organ, reviving it and reestablishing health. You can mentally speak to the cells of that organ telling them: "Here you have the energy you need, reestablish health immediately." The cells of our body are receptive to the telepathic thoughts-emotions. So in conveying your thoughts-emotions of healing imagine the cells understanding your desires and quickly obeying you!

Visualizing the sick person. When you are not in the presence of the sick person, and you know the person; imagine him or her as vivid as possible. It helps if you make believe that you are close to the person so you can perceive his or her breathing, perfume, or any other personal characteristic.

If you do not know the person, because somebody asked you to "pray for his or her health" then you use the person that asked you as a tuning devise to tune the sick person. It is tricky, more difficult, and you have to use all your intuition, but it can be done! Gather all the info about the sick before you try this approach.

Tuning the spiritual self. Once you feel that you are in the presence of the sick person, sort of release it while you tune your mind to his or her spiritual self. Visualize the rays of communication between the person and his or her spiritual self. The more developed that you are, the easiest is going to be for you to do this. If you are not developed in higher dimensions, then you can sort of invoke the presence of the spiritual self of the sick person until you feel that you are in contact with it.

Now, ask the spiritual self to tell you why the person is sick. If it is a simple transgression of the physical laws, then there is no problem to heal.

If the person is ill because of a karmic debt, then you must understand what is the lesson the person needs to learn to be healed. Once you know it, then ask the spiritual self that if you help the person to understand it and comply with it, will the spiritual self allow and help in the healing? Once you obtain the OK, you follow the procedure.

After the healing, make sure the sick person realizes the promised changes; if he do not do it, then the sickness will reoccur and there will be no chances to heal it again. Make sure the sick person understand this very clear!

If the person is self punishing for whatever fault, or guilt feeling, and in reality the person does not want to be healed; even when consciously the person pretends that he or she wants to heal; then forget it! You will never succeed in healing such cases!

If people want to be healed but they are not cooperating in the treatment, and want somebody to do a miracle without they doing anything for themselves, forget it! They are human parasites, they do not deserve to be healed, and they will never learn to keep themselves healthy. Never lose time with cases like this one or the former!

Effecting the healing. Once you get the OK to heal from the spiritual self, then you go back to the person, again imagining him or her as vivid as possible. Locate the organs affected by the sickness and send prana to them, while you tell the cells of the body that you are sending them the needed prana so they should do the healing instantly. Imagine the person completely recovered, with the organs healthy and energetic, and the person happy feeling healthy again! Sustain that image as much as you can, with faith that the person is really feeling as you are imagining. It does not matter how far away the sick person is; as long as you can sense him or her close and alive, the healing is being produced the same as if you are treating him or her in person!

Depending on the gravity of the situation, you should telepathically check on the state of health of your patient in about 12 hours or next day, and repeat the treatment as necessary. If possible, get confirmation on the state of health of your patient from the person who contacted you.

NOTE: Never advise a sick person to discontinue their doctor's treatment. Always make sure that the sick person is under proper medical attention. Never fall on the trap of cheap people or beggars that want to avoid paying a medical professional their right dues, by using you as their only recourse. Never charge any fees for your healing; and never receive any donations for them. You are doing a spiritual work and it is a gift that you will lose if in any way you receive anything in return!

If you are not qualified to tune the higher self, or spiritual self of the sick person, you can go on with the rest of the steps; at least you will be doing some good!

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