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    I have a friend who does healing with her hands. She helped me when I hurt my leg. She told me she used to use God's energy but it was too much for her and she had to switch to using her own. I can't judge that personally. She did help me.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    I have a friend who does healing with her hands. She helped me when I hurt my leg. She told me she used to use God's energy but it was too much for her and she had to switch to using her own. I can't judge that personally. She did help me.
    That is interesting. I am not an expert, just an amateur who has dabbled in this briefly. Doing the research though, it does seem to me that the most effective method of healing was what JC did, allegedly. He sent forth the Holy Spirit to do the healing for him and also relied on the faith of the person he was healing, so they effectively healed themselves, often miraculously. In these cases, the winning combination was the power of the Holy Spirit combined with a sort-of self-hypnosis, where the sick convinced themselves that they were healed and their conviction was manifested through divine power.

    This isn't consigned to Christianity either, there are many stories in Hinduism, where a particular god, such as Indra (Zeus) or Krishna not only healed someone, but even brought people back from the dead. That does seem to be quite similar to what JC has supposedly done. It may all be a myth, but it is a valuable teaching nevertheless.

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    Quote Originally posted by Chris View Post
    The thing about energy healing that really gets me, is that it is such a natural thing. Mothers perform energy healing on their children every time they touch and comfort them. Trees provide natural healing and energy transference to all living things around them. Just being physically close to someone else results in an exchange of energy between two people and has healing properties. What gifted energy healers do is that they enhance this natural effect, by tapping into the source energy of the universe. One can train oneself to become a better conduit for this universal energy, through meditation and the right lifestyle.

    I suspect some of the people you mentioned, who were gifted healers, but got deathly sick themselves, used up their own stores of energy for healing and that is what killed them in the end. It is important to exercise restraint as no one's energy reserves are unlimited and the healer must give himself time to recuperate and recharge his batteries so to speak, after each healing session. If he neglects to do that, he will pay the price. This applies to all types of spirit work, whether it is psychic reading, channelling, astral travel, remote viewing, etc... They all cost the practitioner in terms of energy and if he cannot recharge himself due to stress, overwork, wrong lifestyle or nutrition, he will certainly pay the price.
    I TOTALLY am with you. The other aspect to "psychic" ability is that it cannot be produced on command without ego involving itself. To have a miracle is when it is needed and one is open...

    That is why IMO one must have no attachmnet as the "performer".

    I love this kind of discussion....thanks

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    I have a friend who does healing with her hands. She helped me when I hurt my leg. She told me she used to use God's energy but it was too much for her and she had to switch to using her own. I can't judge that personally. She did help me.
    I am only curious as to how she can do much of that without self harm?

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    My friend would call the Holy Spirit the Shekinah. I feel like she may have said that she does draw on that energy. She's an Orthodox Jew.

    She said that it was trying to use God's energy directly which caused her trouble. That would be YHWH. So my understanding is that she uses her own in conjunction with the Shekinah. I don't recall anymore exactly how she explained it.


    I would simply say self-healing rather than self-hypnosis, although I see how the term works.
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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    My friend would call the Holy Spirit the Shekinah. I feel like she may have said that she does draw on that energy. She's an Orthodox Jew.

    She said that it was trying to use God's energy directly which caused her trouble. That would be YHWH. So my understanding is that she uses her own in conjunction with the Shekinah. I don't recall anymore exactly how she explained it.


    I would simply say self-healing rather than self-hypnosis, although I see how the term works.
    Ah yes, we are talking about the same thing then.

    Shekinah is the Divine Feminine in a Rabbinical and Kabbalistic context. She is a goddess, but also a universal form of God, the divine manifestation of his power in a female form. It is the very same concept as the Shakti in Hinduism and I suspect that the words have similar roots. If you do the research, it is clear that the Holy Spirit is the female part of the trinity and in fact was based on earlier goddesses that have been largely written out of the bible as it became monotheistic. Asherah chiefly, who was El's wife or consort. Their children were known as the Elohim, or the "Sons of God" as we now know them. This completes the trinity, which was originally made up of El, the father, Asherah, the mother and Holy Spirit and their Son(s), the Elohim.

    I wrote an awful lot about the female aspect of God on this forum, particularly from the Hindu perspective as that is the only remaining living tradition we have, the others are much harder to grasp as we simply don't understand them any more.

    I said this many times, but Shakti is the Holy Spirit, and from the Jewish Perspective, she is Shekinah. There is no difference between the two, we are talking about the same thing here. It is worth studying the literature on both Shakti (especially in her localised form as Kundalini Shakti) and Shekinah (especially the divine feminine role she fulfils in the Kaballah), as there really are an amazing amount of parallels between the two.

    It is the Shekinah / Shakti that makes things like energy healing and psychic readings possible. She is also responsible for inspiration (just think about the Muses), divine grace and all manners of miracles.

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    A couple of videos from Gopi Krishna on the phenomenon of Kundalini Awakening. He was probably the foremost expert who bought it into public consciousness in the West, not least by allying himself with Quantum Physicists and giving a speeches at the UN, not just about Kundalini, but how it would lead to an evolution in human consciousness and the transformation of our species into a higher state of being.


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    I wanted to write a bit about artistic inspiration and how it relates to the Goddess, which is Shakti and the Kundalini mechanism in the body.

    Gopi Krishna has long maintained, that Kundalini is the mechanism responsible not only for the evolution of the human mind and spirit, but also for religious and artistic inspiration. In this, he had some support from psychology, particularly in the work of Jung and Freud, who saw the link between the sexual urge or libido and inspiration. Libido is in fact the lowest level of the Kundalini energy, when it rises from the base chakra, to the second chakra, which is responsible for sexuality and reproduction. That step is crucial and unavoidable, which is why sexuality and artistry are often so interlinked and inseparable. However, libido is just the basest, most primitive form of Kundalini energy, a fact that Freud was unable to recognise, though Jung certainly had an inkling of it. Religious orders recognise the importance of going beyond the libido and transmuting sexual energy into a higher form of spiritual energy. This transformation is central to most religious and spiritual disciplines, but most especially to Yoga and Tantra. In Tantra, the sexual urge is actually stimulated to increase the flow of energy available for transmutation into a higher vibrational, spiritual form. In my own experience, the red-orange energy of libido gradually changes colour, or in other words, frequency, until it reaches a clear white colour by the time it reaches the top of the head.

    In Tantra, sacred prostitution, sacral orgies, and sexual-spiritual practice with a fixed partner still happen today, all for the same purpose. The rather pornographic images carved onto some Hindu and Jain temples, often showing sacral orgies in graphic detail, serve the same purpose. It may seem rather frivolous and self-indulgent from the point of view of an outside observer, but these sexual-spiritual practices are anything but, they are about raising energies and vibrations to a higher level.

    It has long been observed, that a heightened libido and artistic inspiration and ability often go hand in hand. Freud has his own explanation for this of course, but the missing link seems to knowledge of the transformative powers of the Kundalini mechanism.

    Which takes us to the Muses and inspiration. We imagine that there is some sort of female goddess or nature spirit that is behind inspiration and that is correct. She is the Goddess Kundalini, or Shakti. She is sexual, but she is also divine. Her energy is highly pleasurable and loving, but it also contains vast stores of knowledge about how things are. When an artist, scientist or religious figure is inspired, he connects to this vast store of higher knowledge. It is what Plato called the world of Ideas. This is where all our ideas come from. We recognise this when we connect to a higher source through the crown chakra. Some people will even experience a sensation of heat and light just above the head, even if only momentarily. We depict this process in cartoons by showing a lightbulb lighting up just above the head. All this inspiration comes from the Goddess, the female creative energy of the Creator, by which creation actually takes place. Enlightened people have a constant, unceasing connection to this divine source.

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    Like I said in my previous post, The Goddess is inspiration herself. She is the muse that inspires the poet. When the Kundalini Shakti activates, she has a mind of her own and she speaks to us. She is the local aspect of a universal force, she is both inside us, part of us on a micro, personal level, but she is a universal consciousness on the macro level and the difference is only in the way we perceive her. When she speaks, I imagine she sounds something like this:

    The Goddess Kundalini speaks.

    I am That, which has created the universe. I am the female that separated from the male at the beginning of Creation. He creates, but through me, for I am His power. I move through the universe and it is through this movement in myself that things Are. Without the Energy that I am, there would be nothing, I am what is, was and will be. It is my dance that makes the world go round. The planets spin and so do particles, they swirl and whirl like hurricanes, going round and round and vibrating in a spiral pattern. I whoosh around everywhere, moving, creating action itself.

    The Creator gave me his initial power, with his intent to be. He was unmanifest and wished to experience the world, therefore he created it, out of his own imagination, to please himself and to experience a multitude of forms. I make up all those forms in His Image and according to His design. I am present in everyone as the Shakti, the female creative force of the Universe. They call my by many names, I am The Goddess, The Kundalini and the Holy Spirit also.

    I pervade all and I know all. You come from me and return to me at the end of creation, until the Creator tires of his inactivity and solitude, to restart the Dance of Creation again.

    Do not ever fear death, for I am with you always, you cannot die, for you are thought and beyond that, consciousness. Seek me out always and return into me, then you can transcend suffering and realise your true Self and True purpose.

    I dwell in the heart, but also in every molecule of your body. I am the DNA in you, for I swirl and whirl in a spiral pattern, like two snakes dancing around a pole. The double Helix is my power made manifest. I reside in you at every level.

    Never think you are alone, for you can never, ever truly be alone. I am always there for you.

    I leave you now in the Love and Light of the One Infinite Creator and I shower you with his blessings.

    The Goddess Kundalini has spoken.

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    Meditation has been a key focus of mine lately. What is it and why is it so important in spiritual development?

    Science has very little to say on the subject, though Sam Harris has made some attempts to explain what it is all about from a purely materialistic perspective. His point of view is noteworthy, but extremely limited.

    Most people would describe meditation as a state of mind. Buddhists in fact differentiate between several states of mind, some of which are normally only achieved through meditation, though on rare occasions they can occur through the normal course of a person's life.

    Single-pointedness is perhaps the best-known example of a meditative state of mind that we also experience in our daily lives. It is the ability to concentrate on a single thing at the exclusion of all other sensory inputs. Typically, when we are in this state, we are so absorbed in a subject matter that we are literally blind and deaf to everything going on around us. This is in fact a state of mind that is usually necessary to reach a meditative state.

    The Buddhist and Yogic literature on this is extensive. Personally, I am more interested in the energetic aspect of meditation. It isn't possible to separate mind from matter. Consciousness flows as a form of energy, it isn't separate from the energetic makeup of our universe, it is very much a part of it, obeying the same rules. As they say, energy flows, where attention goes.

    It is important that we describe consciousness as liquid in nature. We talk about a stream of consciousness, a flow of thought. We also ascribe the properties of light to these phenomena. We talk about enlightenment, a bright or dull person, a dark soul, a brilliant thought and so on. I believe what most people think of as "energy", "thought" and "consciousness", refers to the same substance, a liquid light that has some peculiar electromagnetic properties. It does express itself physically as electrical activity in the brain and nervous system, but that is just one level of it. As you move to a higher density of vibration, it takes on the property of coherent photons, or liquid light in other words. This is an additional state of matter, currently unknown to science, as it probably falls into the spectrum known as Dark Matter and Dark Energy. We can all feel it, but it remains elusive to our crude scientific instruments at present.

    Controlling the flow of this thought-matter-energy is what meditation is all about. What we think and feel manifests as energy flow in our body, regulated by the Nadis (channels of energy roughly corresponding to the nervous system) and the Chakras (Interdimensional vortices of energy which transfer energy from lower to higher dimensional spacetime and vice versa). Blocks in these energy transference and regulatory mechanisms result from Karma, wrong action and thought, leading to disease of both the body and mind, as well as the consequences of these blocks in what we call "bad Karma" or misfortune.

    It is important to meditate regularly to clear these blocks and keep the energetic system in working order. The power of Kundalini lies in the fact that it activates a dormant base or primal energy, which has been there since creation. This serpent power is a lot more potent than regular bioenergy, which we know as Prana or Chi. Its extreme power is indicated by its heat and the convulsions it can cause in a human body as it burns away impurities (Karma) and basically flushes out the nadis and chakras.


    An even higher order of power is released when the Serpent pushes through all the way to the top of the head and breaks the veil between heaven and earth. Heaven isn't "elsewhere", it starts at the top of the head and expands into infinity. From this higher realm, there is a drip-drip release of this heavenly substance known as Nectar, Ambrosia, Soma and Amrita.

    As described before, it is hot and cold at the same time and it floods the brain and eventually the whole body causing an extremely pleasurable sensation. It also opens up the brain and human consciousness in general to higher levels of reality, not least by activating the pineal gland / third eye. There is a sensation of heat and a distinct buzz in the third eye, whenever it is active. The third eye is what enables remote viewing, precognition and communication with higher entities. It can also be used as a spiritual weapon under the right circumstances.

    All these things and more are available to anyone if they seriously devote themselves to a spiritual life and meditate regularly.

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    Good timing, Chris.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    Good timing, Chris.
    Thanks, but why? Has something specific happened to make you say that?

    Edit: Oh, I see, it is 11.22 and the time stamp is 11.55

    Yes, that is typical of the working of Kundalini… I didn't even notice it until you brought it up
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    It was a personal comment, and I didn't look at the time stamp until after. Even better

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    It was a personal comment, and I didn't look at the time stamp until after. Even better
    She can be rather spooky in that way. Sometimes nothing for weeks or even months, then suddenly I'm overcome by a sudden urge to express her wishes. She controls everything from the background and expresses herself through whoever is willing and receptive to her.


    I'm curious about how the timing affected your personal circumstances. Is this private or can you share? Only if you want to of course...

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    Much happening nowadays in n on the group meditation front, feel it is due to less fear around these matters or more empowered and knowed self people abounding, imo when two or more are gathered in my/thy name ( Gods name ) is part of this.

    Quote Originally posted by Chris View Post
    Meditation has been a key focus of mine lately. What is it and why is it so important in spiritual development?

    Science has very little to say on the subject, though Sam Harris has made some attempts to explain what it is all about from a purely materialistic perspective. His point of view is noteworthy, but extremely limited.

    Most people would describe meditation as a state of mind. Buddhists in fact differentiate between several states of mind, some of which are normally only achieved through meditation, though on rare occasions they can occur through the normal course of a person's life.

    Single-pointedness is perhaps the best-known example of a meditative state of mind that we also experience in our daily lives. It is the ability to concentrate on a single thing at the exclusion of all other sensory inputs. Typically, when we are in this state, we are so absorbed in a subject matter that we are literally blind and deaf to everything going on around us. This is in fact a state of mind that is usually necessary to reach a meditative state.

    The Buddhist and Yogic literature on this is extensive. Personally, I am more interested in the energetic aspect of meditation. It isn't possible to separate mind from matter. Consciousness flows as a form of energy, it isn't separate from the energetic makeup of our universe, it is very much a part of it, obeying the same rules. As they say, energy flows, where attention goes.

    It is important that we describe consciousness as liquid in nature. We talk about a stream of consciousness, a flow of thought. We also ascribe the properties of light to these phenomena. We talk about enlightenment, a bright or dull person, a dark soul, a brilliant thought and so on. I believe what most people think of as "energy", "thought" and "consciousness", refers to the same substance, a liquid light that has some peculiar electromagnetic properties. It does express itself physically as electrical activity in the brain and nervous system, but that is just one level of it. As you move to a higher density of vibration, it takes on the property of coherent photons, or liquid light in other words. This is an additional state of matter, currently unknown to science, as it probably falls into the spectrum known as Dark Matter and Dark Energy. We can all feel it, but it remains elusive to our crude scientific instruments at present.

    Controlling the flow of this thought-matter-energy is what meditation is all about. What we think and feel manifests as energy flow in our body, regulated by the Nadis (channels of energy roughly corresponding to the nervous system) and the Chakras (Interdimensional vortices of energy which transfer energy from lower to higher dimensional spacetime and vice versa). Blocks in these energy transference and regulatory mechanisms result from Karma, wrong action and thought, leading to disease of both the body and mind, as well as the consequences of these blocks in what we call "bad Karma" or misfortune.

    It is important to meditate regularly to clear these blocks and keep the energetic system in working order. The power of Kundalini lies in the fact that it activates a dormant base or primal energy, which has been there since creation. This serpent power is a lot more potent than regular bioenergy, which we know as Prana or Chi. Its extreme power is indicated by its heat and the convulsions it can cause in a human body as it burns away impurities (Karma) and basically flushes out the nadis and chakras.


    An even higher order of power is released when the Serpent pushes through all the way to the top of the head and breaks the veil between heaven and earth. Heaven isn't "elsewhere", it starts at the top of the head and expands into infinity. From this higher realm, there is a drip-drip release of this heavenly substance known as Nectar, Ambrosia, Soma and Amrita.

    As described before, it is hot and cold at the same time and it floods the brain and eventually the whole body causing an extremely pleasurable sensation. It also opens up the brain and human consciousness in general to higher levels of reality, not least by activating the pineal gland / third eye. There is a sensation of heat and a distinct buzz in the third eye, whenever it is active. The third eye is what enables remote viewing, precognition and communication with higher entities. It can also be used as a spiritual weapon under the right circumstances.

    All these things and more are available to anyone if they seriously devote themselves to a spiritual life and meditate regularly.

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    Quote Originally posted by Aianawa View Post
    Much happening nowadays in n on the group meditation front, feel it is due to less fear around these matters or more empowered and knowed self people abounding, imo when two or more are gathered in my/thy name ( Gods name ) is part of this.
    Perhaps I'm wrong, but it does seem to me that the collective consciousness is gradually shifting. It is only a small number of people at present, but they do have an outsized influence. Even a small number of people regularly meditating and raising their energies and vibrations to a higher level can have a profound effect on the collective. The gentle influence of the denizens of heaven is the driving force behind it, I feel. They work in subtle and mysterious ways, but they will succeed in raising humanity and the whole planet to a higher level, I'm sure of that.

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