| | Dont know if kundalini enlightenment is the same as MCTB 4th Path or AF. Each use different descriptions
Some of the steps in the practice, depending on the teaching they are different
Breath practices - learn how to breath first off naturally with the diaphram, this will increase your vitality, chi, energy, higher frequency, subtle awareness what ever you want to call it - reverse breath - yoga breath 1:4:2 - vase breathing as in gTummo
This will purify the channels, karma
When done correctly this will seal the body mind and lines of tension will develop, you usually see the dantain represented as # - Line of tension - nose to between the balls and anus, line of tension around the girdle - you will get the idea from here you can start drawing the chi in from outside through the skin along a line of tension out from the dantain, you can start to absorb the natural elements, chi = awareness, you can start to expand your awareness beyond feel the energy/vibration of the earth and how other people push/pull on your energy when you come near ( have verified thru my own practice)
Strecthing Practice Some type of qigong, yoga - again this body is chi/awareness and this works the facia creating space
Standing Practice Stillness practice and the movement of chi thru the body. Feel a ball of energy up on leg out the opposite arm over to the other arm down the opposite leg
Mantra The chakras are assoicated with different sounds, some sounds move chi/awareness into the chakra, some vibrate the chakra, some move the chi out
Transmission of Teachings
Meditation Any form of insight practice gTummo Rushen - external and internal Elements tregchod toggel
Posture for Togel There are postures recommended which are the same postures they recommend in death. Once you get going posture isnt essential
Once the central channel opens, channels cleared, energy is higher the flow through these subtle Kati channels may be experienced. In the Tibetan traditions there are said to be anywhere betweeen 4 and 6 channels (can't quite remember) but these are associated with different stages of progress and functions. Names such as lasso lamp, the lamp of the pristine absolute nature, the lamp of the empty bindu, and the lamp of self-arisen wisdom. There is a difference between Nyingpa and Dzogchen
Dark Practices
Then near the end there is a fasting phase - state of bigu where the meditator will eat nothing but these herbal pellets that have been infused with chi/awareness/prayed over
Jalu/Rainbow Body
Heres a different description from the "Holistic Vision" Newsletter
Nestor's teaching: the structure of consciousness and the inner sense
Nestor's statements about eye floaters differ significantly from the ophthalmologic explanation: for him, these spheres and strings emerged from consciousness; they form a coherent structure on which we project our material world like on a screen; they are directly connected with our will; and ultimately, our pure egoless consciousness fits into one such sphere in this structure. Whether our eye floaters have a material counterpart in the eye (or the brain) is irrelevant to Nestor. For him, we see these spheres and strings not with our eyes but with an “inner sense” or the “third eye”, as he sometimes calls it. He characterizes this inner sense as an eye that gradually opens up through the withdrawal of the external senses as experienced in concentration exercises. Therefore, initial symptoms of floaters indicate the beginning of the opening of the third eye. The degree of openness of the third eye depends on the average consciousness of a society of a given time and culture, but also on individual efforts. The fact that many people see floaters in our contemporary Western societies means, according to Nestor, that many people already have a connection to their inner sense – even if they don’t work with it consciously.
With such statements, Nestor ascribes an extraordinary meaning to the visual phenomena called “floaters”: they are a spiritual phenomenon, and thus a directly perceptible starting point for our own spiritual development, for the realization of the world and of our true selves. But what made Nestor utter such claims? First, he emphasizes that his statements about the spheres and strings are grounded in his own seeing. In this regard, it is important to understand that his description of the spheres and strings differs from the one of most other people. He doesn’t see isolated small dots and strings that drift away permanently, but large, bright spheres and tubes which he is able to hold in suspension and, therefore, to see clearly. His claim to deal with what is commonly called “floaters” is based on his experience of the transformation of the small movable dots and strings into large spheres and tubes.
The zoom effect and the layers of consciousness
According to Nestor, this transformation is connected to his consciousness development which, in turn, results from a specific lifestyle, including an ethical attitude, a natural and balanced diet, physical exercises, breathing exercises, concentration and meditation practices, as well as ritually altered states of consciousness. This way of life leads to the accumulation of energy and to the opening up of the body. That way, a seer is no longer forced to give off his energy solely through bodily and mental actions, but is able to release it directly as a relaxing prickle or ecstasy into the environment. If this energy release is intense enough, the visual perception changes: in the moment of ecstasy, an object perceived shines up and “zooms in” abruptly. Thus, the visual field of a seer (the “picture”) shows less of the world, but the objects looked at appear bigger, more focused, luminous and colorful. This observation is the reason for Nestor to assume that our visual system consists of several “layers” lined up one after another on which those processes are enacted that we collectively call “our world”. Each layer corresponds to a specific state of consciousness, showing each time the same “world”, which is, however, seen and experienced very differently. Basically, human beings are able to experience the whole spectrum of consciousness, but because of our education our focus is fixed on a single layer, shared by most people. The lifestyle and the bodily and mental exercises of a seer dissolve this fixation and allows for a penetration of these layers. Any individual capable of changing his or her visual perception and consciousness by focusing on unfamiliar layers is, in Nestor’s term, a “seer”.
The process of “seeing” is goal-oriented insofar as the seer acts to increase his energy metabolism both, in the short term and in the longer term to bring about more intense states of consciousness and to see the “picture” closer and more detailed; this process is experienced as a forward movement within the shining structure. This means that a seer, gradually or abruptly, penetrates the layers of consciousness, and, in the long term, that he focuses on new spheres that appear in the upper and rear part of the “picture”. Nestor calls this spiritual and visual forward movement “the path in the shining structure”.
The constellation of spheres and the “source”
The path in the shining structure is a path of reduction: in the beginning we see a large quantity of dots and strings which move before our eyes without any recognizable order or obvious meaning. After the “leap into the left side of consciousness”, i.e. the first ecstasy of a human being that releases a great amount of energy and zooms in the picture and the structure to a large extent, the spheres of a seer become increasingly less but bigger. The seer recognizes that his spheres are arranged in a constellation revealing fundamental principles that we find in both, nature and culture.
Besides this constellation there’s a second phenomenon that makes the shining structure meaningful: the “beginning of being” or “source”. It’s a sphere at the end of the path in the shining structure. According to Nestor, this is the sphere into which we enter, both when falling asleep and when dying. The entering into this sphere means to become one with the structure, and therefore to become one with the whole picture. Nestor’s path is thus a mystical path: the seer believes that we lost the primordial unity with the picture in the process of embodiment and of becoming individual and separate personalities. The way in the shining structure leads back to this unity. The intention of a seer is to approach this last sphere and, if possible, to enter it consciously and before physical death. |