Void awakening – this focuses on the throat and is the most uncommon of the four. Primarily seen in some Taoist schools and as a subset of Vajrayana Buddhist practice. Hermetic practitioners view this as the power of Daath, Binah…
Five methods are traditionally used to change a man’s perception of his environment: death, drugs, duress, dreams and meditation. Death Stories of people staring down on their own body on the operating table or looking through the front windshield after…
Three primary power centers exist within the body. These are the center of vitality in the lower abdomen, the astral center at the solar plexus level and the mental center in the head. The center of vitality is subject to…
Functionally speaking practitioners of the various schools of meditation largely utilize seated, and to a much lesser degree standing, methods of training the energies associated with their systems. For efforts centered around out of body projection and astral energy effects…
Found knowledge is a common theme in esoteric writing. Some random person makes contact with a random entity who proceeds to share various “wisdom of the ages with them.” Most of the time what gets revealed is, well, not very…
The nature of practice changes as we age. When I was younger the practices linked to the power center in the lower abdomen, the lower dantien as espoused in Asian practice, made up the majority of what I did. The…
Astral energy, where to start with this one… The astral level of existence is one in which the sensation of the passage of time is suspended, but the spatial aspects of perception are largely retained. Emotion is sourced from here…
he mental realm of existence is where perception of both time and space begin to break down. Traditionally this is associated with the energy center in the head. The subtle body associated with mental energy is normally the one most…
The ability to concentrate is largely a learned skill for which both physical and cerebral methods exist. All of the available methodology is uncomfortable to one degree or another. One of the biggest crimes against boys, and young men, to…
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…
