Akashic energy, otherwise known as ether in Hermetic practice, manifests as a dark purple energy whose primary sensation is a penetrating vibration. Akashic energy is most often represented in tantric Buddhist iconography as a thin purple line surrounding the body…
A friend recently asked me for a reading list of books I suggest to others wanting to learn about meditation and the yogic arts. Interestingly, few are practice books. Most deal with violence, foreign cultures, historical figures and a side…
Vital energy is associated with the energy center located in the lower abdomen, manifests in a clear light, often tinged yellow, color and is typically warm and enervating. Some systems refer to this as chi, prana, or etheric energy. This…
Equilibrium, often referred to as magical equilibrium, is a state of poise and balance achieved through stacking the elements in the body in equal amounts. When achieved, equilibrium results in the relaxed and poised, yet fully aware state that makes…
What are the energies? Some describe the energies as a frequency, others use the term vibration, and people who have mastered the art of the Chinese metaphor describe them in a way that says a lot without saying anything at…
Heart centric awakening – this uses the point in the center of the chest between the nipples and is the foundation of esoteric Mahayana Buddhism, Christianity, some schools of Hermetic practice, Judaism, and some Sufi schools. During the course of…
People who complete one of the four basic power building systems tend to have lives that border on what most people read in fiction novels. Over a period of 20 plus years, I’ve had the sometimes pleasure of studying with…
The electric current acts as the primary projective force in creation, splits into both fire and air energy, is called yang in Chinese Taoist theory, exists at all three levels of existence (material, astral and mental) and is primarily trained…
The vast majority of meditative, and yogic, practitioners in the West obtain their training from Eastern sources primarily out of China, India, Japan, Thailand and Tibet.[1] While many practitioners of these systems have decades of experience, learning from these systems…
Theurgy: means ‘divine-working’. The first recorded use of the term is found in the mid-second century neo-Platonist work, the Chaldean Oracles (Fragment 153 des Places (Paris, 1971): ‘For the theourgoí do not fall under the fate-governed herd’). Thaumaturgy: means the…
