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      White Light Exercise from a Dream

      White Light Exercise from a Dream

      This particular Dream may well be a classic. I was shown a White Light Exercise which seems to work. Dream Literature is full of instances where people have been given special knowledge in Dreams, but we more often read of such occurrences than experience them ourselves, but here is an Experience.

      While my father was alive I did not get along well with him, but as the years since his decease have gone by, my relationship with him in Dreams has been improving. Last night we were sitting at the old dining room table. He was at his customary seat, but I was not at my old seat but, significantly, at the seat ordinarily assigned to the oldest brother – apparently I have been promoted. In the Dream my father tells me that he will show me an exercise for communicating without the use of this small device that was set up close to the window. All I could infer about this machine was that it emitted white light. So my father begins this exercise, and it is quite simple – he takes a deep breath and then hisses out the exhale, and then his entire cranium begins to glow with White Light. So I begin to hiss out my breath and my brain case takes on the same glow of White Light. It was like our brains became filaments for the White Light and I could see our brains glowing.

      Incidentally, I am a High Initiate of Kundalini Yoga and so I know what it feels like to have an open Crown Chakra. And when I awoke, I had an open Crown Chakra. Then, throughout the day, I tried the Exercise a few times. It is easy to do, but there are a few details. It seems that the proper ‘hiss’ involves having the tip of the tongue positioned close to roof of the mouth at that spot that is the best compromise between the forward position which sounds very ‘sssssssssss’ and the position further back which is more purely ‘shshshshshshsh’. Coincidentally, that sound that you would be making is very close to what they call ‘White Noise’.

      It really does seem to open the Crown Chakra. Now, the thing I have found about the White Light is that one can see it while in the Dream State, or even while in the hypnogogic state, but while awake it resolves into a feeling of a pressure sensation.

      Now, what was that which was said about ‘communicating’. It could be that any advanced Spiritualism depends upon having some facility with this White Light, so perhaps any real psychic abilities or even resource to effective prayer may require this White Light.

      However, much of the Literature concerning the White Light supposes that it can be collected and transformed down into something of a more tangible substance – The Elixir of Life – which can descend down from the head to the rest of the body, and aid in development of the lower chakras and in one’s general health. We all know how plants grow through processing light. So perhaps we can grow spiritually by processing this Spiritual White Light. If an Elixir substance does eventually form up, then perhaps one would then need to learn how to open the Gate which resides at that swivel point in the head at the top of the spine – one can discern it if one take about 5 minutes to focus inward upon it. It is a bit like peeling an onion, as one concentrates further into that Swivel Point, eventually one arrives at the Gate which is perhaps smaller than a pea, and it vibrates back and forth at a speed corresponding to your heart rate. From that Gate one can learn how to manipulate the Kundalini or Qi Energy which becomes tangible after we once discern it at that Gate (which is why they call it the ‘Gate’). When once the Energy becomes discernable and perceptible, then we can direct it either down into our body or up over our heads. With the Energy up over our heads, it gives the sensation of having a Halo which one can actually feel – not the simple ring Halo that is consistent with Traditional Christian Art, but more like the more substantial Halos presented by the Buddhist representations.

      Not only is this White Light Exercise appropriate for waking applications, but more particularly it may be useful to try in Lucid Dreaming, since it would be in such a context that the White Light would sure to be visible.

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      Forgive any ignorance that may come across in this post, I am rather new to viewing dreams as more than just random images collected from my waking life and I know little about Chakras despite an earlier interest. I suppose I should really shake my sloth and delve deeper.

      I found your post extremely interesting and will most certainly attempt this white light excercise when I have the opportunity. Perhaps I will need to explore and work on Chakras in waking life beforehand, but you have certainly rekindled an interest.

      Fascinating to say the least.

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      Originally posted by Peter Diggs
      Forgive any ignorance that may come across in this post, I am rather new to viewing dreams as more than just random images collected from my waking life and I know little about Chakras despite an earlier interest. I suppose I should really shake my sloth and delve deeper.

      I found your post extremely interesting and will most certainly attempt this white light excercise when I have the opportunity. Perhaps I will need to explore and work on Chakras in waking life beforehand, but you have certainly rekindled an interest.

      Fascinating to say the least.
      Actually you can do this hissing exercise often during the day, of course, when you are out of ear-shot from other people who would find it amusing or disturbing. But just as in the dream, the hissing almost immediately brings up the White Light. Now, of course, dreams are always more intense and immediate than ordinary life (I am the one who brought the phrase to this Page, "A few seconds of Meditation in a Dream are worth a thousand hours of waking meditation", as it was once told to me by a Dream Guru). Nevertheless, it seems to take only 2 or 3 hisses for the Power Sensation to climb up onto the top, back and sides of the head.

      But, anyway, I should catch you up on Instant Self-Initiating Kundalini Yoga. The premise to it is found in the Unpanisads (somewhere) "In the presence of a God or Saint, the Eye of Wisdom will open". What this means is that in the vicinity of a wide open chakra, other chakras nearby will open up in sympathy or resonance. And each person will feel it, though they will ignore it as though it were just a painless headache. It comes as a pressure sensation in the forehead, mild enough to hardly notice unless one is prepared to recognize it.

      Perhaps this Exercise, of hissing, can replace this other technique, of stalking Holy People until one feels one's Third Eye Chakra open, but maybe not. Anyway, if one visits different Spiritual Events or goes to hear guest lecturers on Spirituality, it pays to keep one's mind on what is happening in one's forehead. Often the strongest Chakras are not always those of the Nominal Guru... sometimes the devotees and assistants are actually stronger and more open than their boss. But your job would be to recognize your Now Open Chakra, and then by paying attention to it periodically through the day, to keep it open. The sparks have to be fed and nurtured until you have a complete and continuous flame. Being able to re-open this Agna Chakra (Eye of Wisdom, Forehead Chakra) is an important first step. Then come other other steps.

      But perhaps this Hissing White Light Exercise may serve as a substitute for stalking Holy Men and virtually stealing your First Initiation from them. I am not the one to tell. My Agna Chakra is always open and so I would not know if the Hissing Exerice would reach over to a and open a 'cherry' Agna Chakra.

      What is remarkable about this Hissing exercise, is that it does not seem to rely upon energy from the Kundalini System, which is after all based upon the physical biological sumblimation and transformation of grosser energies up until they are rarer and more ethereally spiritual energies. This Hissing Exercise seems to draw the Energies by Communication directly from the Spiritual Realm. Really quite Revolutionary.

      I wonder that my Father found out about it from somewhere. I suppose that once he was dead, he became aware of my Spiritual Interests and then went about the Three Realms asking around until he found something that would come in handy for me.

      Oh, and it occurred to me that my description of the seating arrangment may have not been clear enough -- that people may suppose it a coincidence that the Father and the Eldest Son position at the table would be coincidentally close by, and not deliberate of indicating honor or rank. But in my House, it seemed that the Mother was in the Position of Honor, with the oldest sitting at her arms, and then going back down the table to the youngest to the end where Father sat. So, in the Dream, with my Father at his end of the table, I was sitting in the last chair on the side of the table all the way down at the other end... not convenient at all in having a conversation with my Father, but only interesting in regards it being the Position of the Oldest Brother.

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      thank you for sharing this remarkable dream.

      I appreciate your specific description of how to make the sound.
      "we may accept dream telepathy as a working hypothesis." Stephen LaBerge, page 231 Lucid Dreaming 1985

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      Originally posted by Asclepius
      thank you for sharing this remarkable dream.

      I appreciate your specific description of how to make the sound.
      I'd be curious to know if the Exercise seems to work for anybody. Practiced in a dream, one's head should light up with a White Light (not all light is white, you may have noticed), but while awake, there should be a pressure sensation at the top, back and sides of the head.

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      Leo,
      when I make this sound while sitting up in ordinary consciousness I definitely notice an openning feeling in the crown chakra.

      Lieing down in light meditation, I found it difficult to continue with sound. There was a tendency to hold the tongue to top of mouth and focus on nasal breathing (this may just a form of laziness on my part.)

      I'm interested to try in lucid dream.

      I had a meditation teacher once who suggested making a buzzing sound to help open the third eye/ ajna chakra - but I never noticed that technique working for me.
      "we may accept dream telepathy as a working hypothesis." Stephen LaBerge, page 231 Lucid Dreaming 1985

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      Originally posted by Asclepius
      Leo,
      when I make this sound while sitting up in ordinary consciousness I definitely notice an openning feeling in the crown chakra.

      Lieing down in light meditation, I found it difficult to continue with sound. There was a tendency to hold the tongue to top of mouth and focus on nasal breathing (this may just a form of laziness on my part.)

      I'm interested to try in lucid dream.

      I had a meditation teacher once who suggested making a buzzing sound to help open the third eye/ ajna chakra - but I never noticed that technique working for me.
      It is a bit surprising that in my over 40 years visiting with various Spiritualist and Yogic Movements, I had never come across any 'Hissers'. Even though we have known about 'white noise' at least for the last 30 years. Not that this hissing exercise is not an exact reproduction of white noise, it is a wonder that nobody had tried it up until now.

      I was nice to have my father helping me out in this way. While he was alive he saw my Spirituality as a huge wast of time, but now that he is on The Other Side, I suppose now he has a different perspective upon it.

      And, yes, I will definitely put it on my Lucid Dreaming Checklist, to make sure the exercise is repeatable, and also to investigate into what my father might have meant by "Communicating".

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      Fascinating to receive such from a dream. I will try the exercise tonight. Thanks for sharing this Leo!
      My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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      There is a certain practice in Spirituality which advances the notion that one should simply listen to the Sounds which ring inside of one's head... see this website:

      http://santhakar.tripod.com/santmat/shabd-1.html

      Now, this White Light Exercise which was told to me in this dream, gave me some new insight into this Shabd Yoga. What happened was, when I was tired of hissing, I began to listen to the various sounds in my head, and I realized that one could select individual 'tones' to listen to, but one could also go beyond the individual tones and pay attention to the White Noise in which it was all more or less suspended. And THIS, listening to the background noise 'hissing' behind all of the tones and various ringings in the ear, that selection of Attention was instrumental in greatly increasing the Sensation of my Crown Chakra.

      One may infer from this that just listening to White Noise would be helpful. Maybe, but maybe not. Years ago I was required at times to bunk down in tents and dormitories with a great deal of other men, some of them very noisy. My countermeasure was to by a small radio with headphones and to select 'empty air' to listen to, which is virtually the same as White Noise. This White Noise presented a wall of sound which all the chatter and racket could hardly pierce through, and so I could sleep. But I notice no spiritual benefit at the time. I'm sure I would have noticed if my dreams had been favorably influenced by this practice of sleeping with white noise pumping into my ear channels. However, it may be that all of my Great Spiritual Worth of this Moment is all owing to that White Noise Initiation I had conducted upon myself, unbeknownest at the time that it was so powerful in unlocking such a great potential. When I was simply glad to fall asleep, maybe I was not cognizant of the sensations on the top, back, and sides of my head.

      Hmmmmm, I still have a radio. I'll have to tune in some White Noise....

      Hey, that's not so easy. Finding empty space is difficult, but there is a lot of empty space in the AM Band, and it tends to have more background noise than FM (one of the engineering advantages of FM to begin with). But in the AM Band there is quite a variety of available noise. It took me awhile to find some noise that seemed to approach the quality of noise that this White Noise Exercise seems to indicate is the proferred texture.

      I'll give it a shot. I'll take a short nap...

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      Ok, I tried the exercise described in the above post by Leo. I did it for about 10 minutes then turned in to bed. I noticed a dramatic change in the clarity of my dream recall the next day. I also achieved a greater amount of "self confidence" or power in my dreams.
      My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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      Originally posted by OvErEchO
      Ok, I tried the exercise described in the above post by Leo. I did it for about 10 minutes then turned in to bed. I noticed a dramatic change in the clarity of my dream recall the next day. I also achieved a greater amount of \"self confidence\" or power in my dreams.
      Cool!

      But to be fair, we could allow a good 3 days worth of Placebo Effect to make any New Technique seem substantially effective. But the Placebo Effect typically weakens after 72 hours. If you still have a benefit after more than half a week, then we know that we really have something.

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      I was thinking back upon the original Dream, particularly upon the 'communications device' that my Father had been instructing me on supplanting. You see, it was emitting plenty of the White Light that could be gotten also by the hissing exercise. Over the last few days it seems to be a working correlation that by listening, or rather by meditating or contemplating upon the sounds I can hear inside my head, when I can focus on what sounds most like the White Noise sound similar to the hissing sound, then the Crown Chakra seems to open approximately as well as when the Hissing Exercise is engaged in.

      Of course, it still remains to try it in a Dream.

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      tried in LD

      After a few months of practising LDs, I finally had a LD with enough stability, lucidity, and duration to try out this exercise.

      In the LD, I was able to make the sound twice. The first time nothing unusual happened. The second time, the dream faded on me.

      So it doesn't seem to assist me in LD.

      However, I do find it a useful technique when I am meditating, if my crown chakra is not adequately open. I make the sound 3 to 4 times, and it works.

      Leo, thanks again for sharing this technique learned in a dream.
      "we may accept dream telepathy as a working hypothesis." Stephen LaBerge, page 231 Lucid Dreaming 1985

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      i remembered to try this while in a lucid last night. it was quite interesting. it took a few attempts to find the right balance between 'ssss' and 'shhhhhhh", but once i did something strange certainly happened.

      it felt as the backside of my head (from the base of my skull to the top) "disintegrated" into a 'warm fuzz'. which lasted for the prolongation of the breath. obviously there is no need to breathe in the traditional sense in a dream, but i couldn't quite convince myself of that, and thus could only maintain it for 7 seconds or so before i 'ran out of breath".

      obviously, this could only be the power of suggestion, but it was compelling enough for me to plan further experiments.

      as well, at one point later on in this dream i was skimming along the powerlines above the road which leads to my house. i began to rise against my will, and when i looked down the visuals started to fade. so, as this ends lucids 95% of the time for me, i decided to close my eyes and intone AUM.

      the dream persisted as i floated in a black void, chanting the sacred syllable 6 or 7 times. it was peaceful.


      leo, i am interested in further experimenting with mantras in the dreamstate. i am particularly desiring to permanently open my third eye, so if you have any suggestions i'd certainly give them a go i have been attempting to do so in the waking state, but seem to be thwarted despite my best efforts. it feels like trying to light kindling with a burnt out match...


      “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
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      No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin

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      Re: tried in LD

      Originally posted by Asclepius
      After a few months of practising LDs, I finally had a LD with enough stability, lucidity, and duration to try out this exercise.

      In the LD, I was able to make the sound twice. The first time nothing unusual happened. The second time, the dream faded on me.

      So it doesn't seem to assist me in LD.

      However, I do find it a useful technique when I am meditating, if my crown chakra is not adequately open. I make the sound 3 to 4 times, and it works.

      Leo, thanks again for sharing this technique learned in a dream.
      Hey, thanks for trying it.

      but let me ask... have you practiced it much while awake?... to see if you could get the sound right enough to 'feel' something in your head. As Ashter pointed out, just the right mix between 'shshshshsh' and 'sssssssss' has to be achieved before it seems like the top of the head is disappearing... that which in a Dream translates into the presence of the White Light.

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      Originally posted by Asher
      i remembered to try this while in a lucid last night. it was quite interesting. it took a few attempts to find the right balance between 'ssss' and 'shhhhhhh", but once i did something strange certainly happened.

      it felt as the backside of my head (from the base of my skull to the top) "disintegrated" into a 'warm fuzz'. which lasted for the prolongation of the breath. obviously there is no need to breathe in the traditional sense in a dream, but i couldn't quite convince myself of that, and thus could only maintain it for 7 seconds or so before i 'ran out of breath".

      obviously, this could only be the power of suggestion, but it was compelling enough for me to plan further experiments.

      as well, at one point later on in this dream i was skimming along the powerlines above the road which leads to my house. i began to rise against my will, and when i looked down the visuals started to fade. so, as this ends lucids 95% of the time for me, i decided to close my eyes and intone AUM.

      the dream persisted as i floated in a black void, chanting the sacred syllable 6 or 7 times. it was peaceful.


      leo, i am interested in further experimenting with mantras in the dreamstate. i am particularly desiring to permanently open my third eye, so if you have any suggestions i'd certainly give them a go i have been attempting to do so in the waking state, but seem to be thwarted despite my best efforts. it feels like trying to light kindling with a burnt out match...
      Oh... here are a few cut and pastes concerning Kundalini Meditation:

      Self Service Shaktipat

      It is a wonderful convenience in many contemporary Yogic Systems that the Power of Spiritual Initiation can be passed as easily as by the touch of an authentic Guru. Otherwise, we can envision years of doing the kind of breath retention exercises that are calculated to have most effect in direct proportion to the amount of brain damage they inflict. Samadhi being passed by the Touch of a Master definitely passes Critical Scrutiny better than any method of attainment which could well be described as ‘holding one’s breath until one gets lightheaded and passes out’.

      So, Shaktipat is a very good thing. But we are left considering the availability of Gurus. Many people have the perception that such Shaktipat Gurus are a rare commodity, and then, even when they are found, may be either too expensive to retain, or may impose a too forbidding a regiment of conditions in their implicit contract for Services. For instance, one of the best Shaktipat Gurus I had ever met was old Kirpal Singh of the Surat Shabd Organization, but he wanted actual vows of sexual celibacy in return for his Initiation, and that was way back during the height of the Sexual Revolution. Well, it would have been difficult to give away Bags of Money on those conditions. I and many others waited for more accommodating Gurus.

      But are the Gurus entirely necessary? While still believing that nothing is more Spiritually conducive than being protégé to an Authentic Guru, I must admit that for someone seeking their Spiritual Beginnings, a Guru is not entirely indispensable. One may make due without. And in this regard, I have found that Shaktipat may be more available than is generally supposed. Years ago I read in a translation of a passage from the Upanisads that “In the presence of a God or Saint, the Third Eye will open”. Well, the very evening that I read that, I saw a Poster advertising a Lecture to be given by an itinerant shaktipat-style Guru. One can guess what happened. I felt my Third Eye open in his presence. It was not an overwhelmingly dazzling feeling. Indeed, if I had not been prepared by my Reading to anticipate such a feeling, I suppose it would have been subtle enough to evade notice or slight enough to dismiss as a painless headache. But since I was watching for something of that nature, I felt it. Seeing this as a validation of this Guru’s credentials, I enlisted for his Initiations. And the Shaktipat given officially was not much stronger than what had been felt merely by being in his presence. What this should mean to the keen observer is that Shaktipat can be gleaned from the Spiritual Atmosphere without necessarily all the trimmings and ceremonies that the Gurus would have you suppose must come directly from their hand.

      But, one might still suspect that “Gods and Saints” are very rare entities. But not at all. Since my Third Eye has become open and sensitive to such things, I find that any number of people are walking around with Chakras open and radiating enough in order to resonate with the Chakras of those within their vicinity. Ordinarily it passes without notice – a pressure sensation in the forehead, or in the case of an open Heart or Throat Chakra, a pressure sensation in those corresponding locations.

      So, how can a person take advantage of these Atmospheric Shaktipats? Well, simply by being aware. If one is uninitiated but would like to be as one who is Initiated – with open Chakras and control over one’s Energies, Kundalini and Qi – then one need only visit venues and activities where one might suppose one could meet under the same roof with some moderately spiritual people. In Sanskrit I think it is called Satsang – the beneficial effect of being in Spiritual Company. If one notices that slight feeling in the Chakras, then the Technique for Auto Initiation is to focus on that Sensation and to hold onto it. Ordinarily, such feelings are ignored and allowed to pass. But if caught by awareness and focused upon, they can be as effectively enduring as any Initiation given at a Weekend Retreat for the price equivalent to that of a downpayment on a car.
      A long time ago I became an initiate of Kundalini Yoga, so I can give you a few tips on opening up your Agna (third eye) Chakra.

      Once I read in a dusty old Treatise translated from the original Sanskrit that "in the presence of a God or Saint, the Third Eye will open". I remember it because it has proven true again and again and again. The trick, though, is to understand as to what it is referring. The reason I remember so well was that the evening after I read that passage I met this itinerant Guru and felt a pressure sensation in my forehead. That was all it was -- a Pressure Sensation. No Lights. No overwhelming Bliss or Ananda. Just a feeling of pressure. Later on when I received the official Initiation, the pressure was not significantly different. And then the Practice of the Yoga was to simply concentrate or meditate on that Pressure Sensation so that it would be fixed and permanent, in the sense that it could always be summoned there at will.

      Do you need to find an Official Guru? It certainly could not hurt, and could probably help. but my feeling is that there are a lot more "God and Saints" than anybody suspects. There are people walking around with very Open Chakras who are radiating Spiritual Energy, and if you are open, when you are in their presence, your Third Eye will open up by itself. YOU WILL FEEL A PRESSURE SENSATION IN YOUR FOREHEAD. And if you are not paying attention for it, then you are likely to disregard or perhaps not even notice it, as though it were the mildest of headaches.

      Sometimes even reading a particularly cogent passage from a Spiritual Book, or in thinking of especially powerful Saints or Gurus from the past, the third eye will open, that is, there will be that feeling of Pressure.

      So, simply go about your ordinary business, but remind yourself several times daily to keep some attention on what goes on in your forehead -- up slightly between the brows. And if you ever feel a slight pressure sensation, then lock onto it immediately -- rub your finger into it; make a buzzy noise with your mouth and modulate its tone until it resonates into that Sensation Point. For the first day, try not to let it totally go away -- remind yourself to keep the sensation open. Rub it with your finger and use that buzz tone to vibrate it. If you can keep it there for just a solid day, and bring it back after a good nights sleep, then you got it. Then, meditate on it for about 10 or 15 minutes morning and night. After about a week you may begin to feel some heaviness in your head, or even a headache. Great! Now you will want to bring it down. Get a nice glass of cold water and drink it, and feel that the Sensation is attached to in and that it drops down, all the way to your lowest vertebrae -- your little triangular tailbone. Reach back there and rub that little tail bone and feel the Sensation there. And keep it there for a couple of weeks. Learn to keep the energy down. That is your Safety Practice. Before the Energy gets to strong to handle you must learn to be able to pull it down at will. So don't keep the Energy up because you think you might be missing something. You have your entire life to raise up the Energy. For a couple of weeks you need to work on the certainty of being able to lower the Energy.

      If you do not feel any sensation in your head -- in and around your brain, then my advice here might be a bit incomprehensible. but if you do feel some sensation in your head, this is what you should do: If your Energy Sensation is up in your forehead, then use your will to guide it back along the top of your pallet to the back of your pallet to the Swivel Point at the top of your spine. That point is easy to locate -- you just swivel your head around, and, well, the swivel point is the swivel point. Put the energy sensation there. Point your tongue up to that point. Now, it will feel as though the energy sensation is about the size of a golf ball or a bit smaller. What you will now try to do is bring the energy down lower and smaller, as though penetrating the layers of an onion. Smaller smaller smaller -- it will take awhile. The energy will seem as though it is stuck at a particular size, then suddenly shrink down a bit more. Still you want it to center on that Swivel Point. Eventually it will be about the size of a pea and you will feel it oscillating back and forth like a pendulum. This is really the Key to Kundalini. Once you find that Spot, you can move the Energy anywhere in the body -- up to the Crown Chakra, or down to the heart, or in fact anywhere. But you want to move it down to the heart. That oscillating you feel is the top of the Heart Chakra anyway, so all you would have to do is let the energy just sink down into the Heart. That should give you a bit of stability.

      There is also a trick you could use, and I've only found one other person who could do it. It is to flex a muscle in your head in order to start a roaring noise. The muscle is back there at the top of the pallet close to that swivel point, and the roaring noise is great at collecting Energy. It think it may be a reflex like rolling ones tongue or wiggling one's ears and not everybody can do it. It really is a muscle and not a mental phenomena, because it gets fatigued and one can only hold the flex for 7 or 10 seconds (though I’ve heard people say they can do it longer).

      Do you know any Mantras? Or you can try an easy Power Meditation -- simply count up from 1 to 24 for each of your spinal column bones, moving your concentration up the spine as you count. Your Kundalini Energy, your Chi, will follow up during the count. Now, such power meditations are a hundred times more impressive during a Dream than while awake, making them always an interesting experience when you can remember to do them while dreaming.

      There is another trick that I developed because I could never really find out what the Buddhist One Finger exercise was, but in experimenting around I found that by twiddling the thumbs -- twirling the thumbs -- right thumb counterclockwise and left thumb clockwise, for just a minute or so, when you stop, the subtle Kundalini Energy centers in the spine and rises up. I think that the Thumb Nadis are in the Central Channel and that by exercising the Central Nadi Channel at the thumbs, it is exercised everywhere else as well. But the energy only stops after you STOP the exercise, so don't twirl your thumbs for a couple of hours... that would be to miss the point.

      Oh, yeah, regarding all of these Kundalini Exercises... if you feel it at all, then you've done enough for the evening. If you get lightness of head or a headache, then take it back down and let it recide in the tailbone for a few weeks, and keep it there. There's a good visualization for taking the Energy down -- get a glass of cold water and take a few gulps, and visualize the energy following the swallows all the way down to the tailbone. Even if you do not get a headache, its a good idea to learn how to pull the Energy Down... its sort of "safety-net" practice when working with the Kundalini. And keep this in mind if you have any mysterious fevers in the near future -- the energy can manifest as heat, which means that you favored the right side of your spine. Take it down and move it over to the left and that will bring your fever down almost instantaneously.

      You should be able to get to the point where you can more or less summon the energy sensation. You are allowed to cheat and point your fingers into the Third Eye Chakra. In fact any pointed object can only help. I once studied Pyramid Power and discovered that there is nothing special about pyramids except that they come to a point. The pointier the better, the steeper the better. Cones work even better but the stupid egyptians could not carve a curve. But for you uses a ballpoint pen would be a perfect Magic Wand.

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      I just came across your thread, Leo, and I have to say that your technique looks very promising. I will be sure to try it throughout the day and in my dreams.
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      Agreed. Good stuff, Leo.
      I'll be giving it a try, periodically.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Leo View Post
      White Light Exercise from a Dream
      This particular Dream may well be a classic. I was shown a White Light Exercise which seems to work. Dream Literature is full of instances where people have been given special knowledge in Dreams, but we more often read of such occurrences than experience them ourselves, but here is an Experience.
      While my father was alive I did not get along well with him, but as the years since his decease have gone by, my relationship with him in Dreams has been improving. Last night we were sitting at the old dining room table. He was at his customary seat, but I was not at my old seat but, significantly, at the seat ordinarily assigned to the oldest brother – apparently I have been promoted. In the Dream my father tells me that he will show me an exercise for communicating without the use of this small device that was set up close to the window. All I could infer about this machine was that it emitted white light. So my father begins this exercise, and it is quite simple – he takes a deep breath and then hisses out the exhale, and then his entire cranium begins to glow with White Light. So I begin to hiss out my breath and my brain case takes on the same glow of White Light. It was like our brains became filaments for the White Light and I could see our brains glowing.
      Incidentally, I am a High Initiate of Kundalini Yoga and so I know what it feels like to have an open Crown Chakra. And when I awoke, I had an open Crown Chakra. Then, throughout the day, I tried the Exercise a few times. It is easy to do, but there are a few details. It seems that the proper ‘hiss’ involves having the tip of the tongue positioned close to roof of the mouth at that spot that is the best compromise between the forward position which sounds very ‘sssssssssss’ and the position further back which is more purely ‘shshshshshshsh’. Coincidentally, that sound that you would be making is very close to what they call ‘White Noise’.
      It really does seem to open the Crown Chakra. Now, the thing I have found about the White Light is that one can see it while in the Dream State, or even while in the hypnogogic state, but while awake it resolves into a feeling of a pressure sensation.
      Now, what was that which was said about ‘communicating’. It could be that any advanced Spiritualism depends upon having some facility with this White Light, so perhaps any real psychic abilities or even resource to effective prayer may require this White Light.
      However, much of the Literature concerning the White Light supposes that it can be collected and transformed down into something of a more tangible substance – The Elixir of Life – which can descend down from the head to the rest of the body, and aid in development of the lower chakras and in one’s general health. We all know how plants grow through processing light. So perhaps we can grow spiritually by processing this Spiritual White Light. If an Elixir substance does eventually form up, then perhaps one would then need to learn how to open the Gate which resides at that swivel point in the head at the top of the spine – one can discern it if one take about 5 minutes to focus inward upon it. It is a bit like peeling an onion, as one concentrates further into that Swivel Point, eventually one arrives at the Gate which is perhaps smaller than a pea, and it vibrates back and forth at a speed corresponding to your heart rate. From that Gate one can learn how to manipulate the Kundalini or Qi Energy which becomes tangible after we once discern it at that Gate (which is why they call it the ‘Gate’). When once the Energy becomes discernable and perceptible, then we can direct it either down into our body or up over our heads. With the Energy up over our heads, it gives the sensation of having a Halo which one can actually feel – not the simple ring Halo that is consistent with Traditional Christian Art, but more like the more substantial Halos presented by the Buddhist representations.
      Not only is this White Light Exercise appropriate for waking applications, but more particularly it may be useful to try in Lucid Dreaming, since it would be in such a context that the White Light would sure to be visible.
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      I heard that you have been banned. But if you are reading this somehow, it seems to me that you are a genius. Thanks for sharing

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