I would recommend learning to meditate in a safe proper manner. Although many people can get away with it I can recount the experiences of a few of my friends that have suffered terrible physical, mental and spiritual consequences by (1) meditating or overstimulating the chakras too much (2) improperly raising kundalini (3) taking drugs with or without the aforementioned spiritual practices. As Always, to be on the safe side, spiritual progress is best wrought through meditation in moderation and plenty of service. A few words of caution from reverand Howard Ray Carey commenting on the teachings of Djwahl Khul are below which serve to illustrate my point:
'Quite a number of groups and individuals, thinking of the wonder and beauty of the light which can enter when the centers (chakras) are properly opened, are these days concentrating on the base center (chakra), seeking by diligent effort to raise the serpent (kundalini) fire up the spine to the head center. Here is where we need a strong word of caution. For if the opening of the centers is forced, either through drugs or meditation on the centers, much harm can be done. For the kundalini can rush up to the brain before there is readiness for it, and thus cause brain damage; or it can rush into the sex glands and produce the extreme kind of sexual pressure which no amount of sex can satisfy. And drug abuse often produces so many holes or tears in the protective etheric web that the individual falls prey to a great variety of entities on the lower astral planes which may decide to come in and take up residence, sometimes taking over control of the individual's thoughts and actions in ways which produce most distressing consequences. Such damage is extremely hard to repair' - Howard Ray Carey
Let us take note of just a few of the many urgent words of warning which the Tibetan Master Djwahl Khul issues through the Alice Bailey books:
'The whole subject of the centers (chakras) is dangerous if misunderstood; the centers constitute a menace when prematurely awakened or unduly energized.' (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 336)
'I sound here a solemn word of warning. Let a man apply himself to a life of high altruism, to a discipline that will refine and bring his lower vehicles (physical, astral, mental) into subjection, and to a strenuous endeavor to purify and control his sheaths (physical, astral, mental). When he has done this, and has both raised and stabilized his vibration, he will find that the development and functioning of the centers has pursued a parallel course, and that (apart from his active participation) the work has proceeded along the desired lines. Much danger and dire calamity attends the man who arouses these centers by unlawful methods (drugs), and who experiments with the fires (such as the serpent fire or kundalini) of his body without the needed technical knowledge. He may, by his efforts, succeed in arousing the fires and in intensifying the action of the centers, but he will pay the price of ignorance in the destruction of matter, in the burning of bodily or brain tissue, in the development of insanity, and in opening the door to currents and forces, undesirable and destructive...
In these matters concerning the subjective life, it is the part of discretion to move with caution and with care. The aspirant, therefore, has three things to do:
- Purify, discipline and transmute his threefold lower nature.
- Develop knowledge of himself, and equip his mental body; build the causal body by good deeds and thoughts.
- Serve the race in utter self-abnegation.
In doing this he fulfills the law, he puts himself in the right condition for training, fits himself for the ultimate application of the Rod of Initiation, and thus minimizes the danger that attends awakening of the fire.' (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 162)
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