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- From: rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski)
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- Subject: tagi, kundalini, and AB's taciturnity
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:49:16 GMT
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- Tagi asked me to post AB's kundalini techniques. Well, first off,
- in true Theosophical form, she discouraged premature awakening of the force.
- Exactly when would be appropriate, I don't know, but Theosophists seem to be
- incredibly patient. Which I am not.
-
- IF she ever explained how we're supposed to get the big bad serpent
- up and running, I haven't found it. Then again, I have vague references to
- about seven of her books, none of which promise to be light reading. However,
- I HAVE found many admonitions not to do various things, like use the power
- with any degree of self-interest, attempt to waken it "prematurely," focus
- on one particular chakra in meditation, etc.
-
- Z. Landsdowne wrote an interesting little compliation of AB's work
- on the topic, which I find roughly as useful as the Manhattan phone book when
- it comes to awakening the serpent power. Doubtless you are all now laughing
- up your sleeves. "The little misadept, unpurified, uncompassionate carnivore
- occultaster! Obviously the intentional blinds have befuddled the unworthy
- one slavering outside the precincts of the sacred ashram!" Right on, baby.
- Unworthy and slavering, that's me. Especially before my morning caffeine.
-
- Sigh. It's enough to make one go back to the Middle Pillar, or else
- to crack open Avalon's _Serpent_Power_ and starting poking oneself in the
- tummy. But before we leave the topic, what the hell HAVE I found that's
- worth posting?
-
- Well, there are these webs between the chakras that prevent the vril/
- od/prana/chi from flowing. Otherwise we might get clairvoyant before we've
- reached the Forty-Ninth Evolution of the Root-Race past Atlantis with a
- full Svastika Spiral on the Past Hemi-Incarnation. Goodness knows we wouldn't
- want THAT.
-
- These webs are slowly, slowly loosened by purity and strict abstinence
- from naughty thoughts -- except by folks like Crowley, who pierce the webs
- and drown in their own adrenachrome and bad karma. But we know better than
- they do, don't we, class? Yes we DO.
-
- Chakras can be opened or developed: these are different processes.
- Landsdowne defines a lot of spare terms without explaining any observable
- difference. At this point Rick goes back to Thermodynamics and lets his
- chakras take care of themselves.
-
- Probably the best book to check out is _Esoteric_Healing_, by Bailey.
- Other titles might be _The Rays and their Initiations_, _Initiation_Human_&
- _Solar_, etc. All by Alice Bailey. Enjoy. Tell me if any of it makes sense
- before you start snoring from that inimitable Theosophic prose ... mellow
- as opium-raving, but not quite as lucid ...
-
- All seriousness aside, the Theosophists are lovely people, and I'm
- sure their work is useful to people less crass and self-serving than myself...
- but I still don't think I'm going to renew my membership...
-
- If any of you have made sense of kundalini systems, I would love to
- hear about it. Even if I have to get humble and work hard.
-
- Luck
- Rick
-