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  1. Posted

    Right! I think they are one and the same .. see Robert Coxs book CREATING THE SOUL IMMORTAL for those links ...

     

    i know the first list for the mummifying, but the second seems more intriguing somehow intuitively ..

    any detail would be great thanks ... :)

     

     

    Thanks that book looks interesting - I think I shall buy. :)

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    After thinking about it more I am not absolutely sure what it was but I have seen a top down cross section of the brain and it could have been just a psychic "light" vision of my own brain. I think what it represents is the sacred marraige of Shiva/Shakti or Dragon/Tiger.

     

    My personal theory of this stuff is that we have a soul that gives life to our physical body and we also have a yin spiritual body that gets its energy from the physical body. I think if you can connect the soul to the spirit then the yin body become yang and you can become immortal over time. I think the flaming swastika is the confirmatory sign of connecting the spirit and soul.

     

    When the soul (kundalini) rises up the spine it connects with the yin body which is connected to the body at the pineal and when that happens you get a swirling torus of energy that looks like a flaming swastika to the inner vision. The four yin/yan looking things could be the left and right ventricals. The center of the swastika seemed to be centered on the pineal.

     

    I am just free thinking and writing my thoughts here.... I seriously dont know. I used to think I knew but since I failed I am not sure about anything.

     

    One of the videos above shows the Buddha with the swastika on his heart centre. I think the three Tan tiens are strongly connected through the central channel and the upper an dlower come together through the heart. (?)

     

    What do you mean Darin when you say you failed? Being not sure is a perfect position for learning. Most people who say they are sure ... well actually they are not! IMHO. :)

     

     

     

     

     

    Yes I know it is. As you can see in this pic taken from the Chinese Book of Silk (168 BC), a manual of ancient Astronomy which depicts 29 comets found by Taoist Astronomers.

     

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    Comets where good indicators of changes in the Universe, following the I-Ching precepts. Hence the swastika would be revered as a spiritual symbol.

    The swastika is well depicted in this drawing. Can anyone in here translate some of those Chinese characters. Gee I can imagine that it would be difficult to translate that stuff, probably a researcher of ancient Chinese would be able to.

     

     

    Do you think that the symbol is originally a comet? The diagram shows all sorts of shapes for comets and the swastika is only one.

     

     

     

    Here's a nice one BTW,

     

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    And Bonpo took that symbol from shamanistic groups of Central Asia and Siberia. The earliest swastica known was found in Mezin, Ukraine and it is dated 10,000 BC. It is depicted on a bird figurine carved out of mammoth tusk:

     

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    I borrowed this info from the wikipedia (;)) you can read more here:

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_origin_theories

     

    Ah - that's interesting.

     

    Clearly the swastika is very ancient and it pre-dates any of the current religions of Buddhism, Hinduism. I was going to suggest Indus Valley/Mesopotamia as it indicates here:

     

    http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/15/151.html

     

    But I think now it is older. Anyway no point squabbling about who had it first because it seems to go back to the very earliest times when IMO there was a common wisdom-teaching which is the source of all shamanism/mysticism and so on which existed afterwards.

     

    I would say it contains both the idea of rotation (sun, stars, seasons etc.) and fourfoldedness i.e. four compass directions, four seasons, four points in the year (solstices and equinoxes), four phases of moon and so on.

     

    By the way is this the dragon gate or not ( I am confused by this thread) :)

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    Allright, this is me stripped to the bone... you can even see my poop :huh:

     

    My hip is totally screwd and I have a lot of screwness up the spine to compensate. My neck is almost curving the wrong way goddammit!

     

     

     

     

    On the positive side you appear to be smiling! :)

  10. Posted

    Hi Karen,

     

    I realise it depends on the practitioner. I switched to gentle theraputic massage and physio which helped a lot. I suppose its pretty obvious that you should minimise the ionizing radiation as much as possible. I had to accompany my friend who had a MRI brain scan and that was quite terrifyingly noisy!

     

    I would like someone to look at my neck - you mentioned a particular type - do you know how I could find someone who does it??? In the UK?

     

    Cheers.

  11. Posted

    Found this info on seven neck verts.

     

    Cervical Vertebrae and Supporting Structures

    The cervical bones - the vertebrae - are smaller in size when compared to other spinal vertebrae. The purpose of the cervical spine is to contain and protect the spinal cord, support the skull, and enable diverse head movement (e.g., rotate side to side, bend forward and backward).

     

    A complex system of ligaments, tendons, and muscles help to support and stabilize the cervical spine. Ligaments work to prevent excessive movement that could result in serious injury. Muscles also help to provide spinal balance and stability, and enable movement. Muscles contract and relax in response to nerve impulses originating in the brain. Some muscles work in pairs or as antagonists. This means when a muscle contracts, the opposing muscle relaxes. There are different types of muscle: forward flexors, lateral flexors, rotators, and extensors.

     

    Spinal Cord and Cervical Nerve Roots

    Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain through the spinal cord to a specific location by way of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The PNS is the complex system of nerves that branch off from the spinal nerve roots. These nerves travel outside of the spinal canal or spinal cord into the organs, arms, legs, fingers - throughout the entire body.

     

    Injury or mild trauma to the cervical spine can cause a serious or life-threatening medical emergency (e.g. spinal cord injury or SCI, fracture). Pain, numbness, weakness, and tingling are symptoms that may develop when one or more spinal nerves are injured, irritated, or stretched. The cervical nerves control many bodily functions and sensory activities.

     

     

    C1: Head and neck

    C2: Head and neck

    C3: Diaphragm

    C4: Upper body muscles (e.g. Deltoids, Biceps)

    C5: Wrist extensors

    C6: Wrist extensors

    C7: Triceps

    C8: Hands

     

     

    Thought it is interesting that the nerves which go out from them (from spinal cord) govern all the upper body functions from diaphragm upwards. This links their function to breathing (diaphragmatic). I notice when I do focus on the neck in meditation breathing improves and as does flow down arms to hands.

  12. Posted · Edited by apepch7

    The 7 vertebrae are also connected to Sheshnag in Hinduism .. the 7 headed serpent that is the bearer of the first creation with the God Vishnu reclining on it, startign to see the universe into manifest creation

     

    In deep meditation, this Sheshnag serpent flares over the head, so one is sitting underneath its seven heads .. so one can say this is connected to the 7 vertebrae, and almost like the 7 headed serpent is an extension of the 7 vertebrae ..

     

    What were the 7 spirits of Anubis? I would be interested in correlating this with the 7 serfent heads of Sheshnag, which are connected to Ursa Major/ Pleaides, which was the home of the 7 Rishis or founders of Vedanta, the Creator Beings ..

     

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    no xrays!

     

    The seven spirits which are summoned by Anubis are connected with the seven oils used in mummification and the seven stars of Ursa Major. I see a relation to the seven chakras. From what you tell me here the Sheshnag serpent seems very similar to Neheb-kau the 'uniter of kas'.

     

    There are two sets of names for the seven spirits and they are:

    • Imsety
    • Hapy
    • Duamutef
    • Quebehsenuef
    • He who sees his father
    • He who is under his moringa tree
    • Horus the eyeless

    The second version of their names is:

    • Nedjehdjeh
    • Akedked
    • Bull whose flame was set for him who is in his hour
    • He who entered in to him who is in his hour
    • Red eyed who is in the Mansion of Red Linen
    • Radient one who comes out after having turned back
    • He who sees in the night what he shall bring by day

    I realise these are largely incomprehensible but I can supply some detail if you wish.

  13. Posted

    I knew this would come. Yes, if you do a lot of x-ray you will get cancer. But once or twice in a life has no risc what so ever. And especially not if the individual has a strong health allready.

     

    At least I dont feel a need to be afraid. I do things that are much worse than one x-ray, like eating burgers and candy and talking in a mobilephone ;)

     

    But Karen, is there no way to remove the radiation? I understand there are many products that help the body heal from radiation damage. So, one more reson to not be afraid of x-ray.

     

     

    I had an x-ray of my lower back when I was suffering from sciatica. It showed that I have a fused vertebra (5th lumbar I think) which results in a lack of flexibility in my lower back. I went to an osteopath who nearly killed me with vigorous crunching techniques :angry: ! I thought the x-ray was the most useful thing.

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    Nice thread!!!

     

    I just came home from a treatment where my atlas was corrected. It was some kind of Cranial Sacral Therapy called Rosenberger or something. And it feels gooooood! The whole body is light, flexible and free.

     

    Ive also just begun to go to a chiropractor and I asked him about the atlas method(my brother in law has done it). He said it was just a simple chiropractic techniques that every chiropractor does but that someone has taken out of context and created his own method. Just like lockfoot, he said. And Kinesology. All come from chiropractics.

     

    But anyways...on monday Im going to get an x-ray of my whole spine from hip to cranium! Its been a dream for many many years to x-ray my spine!

     

     

    Sounds like it would be good to speak to a chiropractor. Do you think they all would do this Atlas thing?

     

    Why do you want to X-ray your spine?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Apepch 7, i appreciate your wisdom on the Egyptian alchemies .. and would love to trade more insights with you as i am going / have gone into them a fair bit myself ..

     

     

     

     

    No wisdom I'm afraid just some knowledge from lots of reading and plenty of meditation!

  15. Posted

    Hi Appech,

     

    Fascinating stuff ...you said that you were going to share something about the shadow? Is that the same as the transpersonal shadow, or different? I m curious as to the correlation, as Egypt was the birthplace of western civilisation .. maybe they had the original and deeper understanding of the shadow? If so that info is much needed for todays world!

     

    Cheers,

    AK

     

    Hi AK since your post I have tried to read a bit about the transpersonal shadow and I think there is a link. However I find Jungian thought a bit figurative compared to Egyptian where the shadow would be an actual entity.

     

     

    The Shade

     

     

    The shade or shadow (shewt/Swt or shewit/Swyt) is an important part of being identified by the Ancient Egyptians.

     

    In his 'Middle Egyptian' James P. Allen says:

     

    "The shadow is an essential adjunct to the body, since every body casts one. Because the shadow derives from the body, the Egyptians believed it had something of the body - and, therefore, of the body's owner - in it. The representations of gods are sometimes called their 'shadows' for the same reason."

    The Egyptologist Lanny Bell in 'Temples of Ancient Egypt' says:

     

    "The shade was both an emanation from a deity and a reflection of divine power (light); it was drawn as a silhouette of the body, and it symbolised divinity's in dwelling of an object or being ..."

    When the deceased enters the underworld he is said to begin a new life among the shades. The shade is also said to accompany the ba when it emerges from the tomb to see the rising sun. It was illustrated as a black silhouette.

     

    The derivation of the word shu (Sw) is connected with words which mean 'empty' and 'sunlight'. The air-god Shu is also interpreted as a light filled emptiness. From this we can come to Swyt as the absence (emptiness) of light. As the Egyptians placed great emphasis on the need for 'food', offerings to sustain the dead person on his underworld journey, this emptiness (shu) normally has negative connotations. Nayler illustrates this nicely in his translation from the Pyramid Texts of King Unas:

     

    "If emptiness (shu) flourishes,

    Unas cannot take his food.

    If Unas flourishes,

    emptiness cannot take its food."

     

    Despite this negative interpretation the Shade as a part of personality was not a negative but an essential element in the make up of the being. So how can we understand this?

     

    To the Egyptians everything originally emerges from the dark watery vastness called the Nun. Indeed the waters of Nun were seen as surrounding and permeating all existence. These waters are the source of renewal because they have the power to dissolve away 'exhausted' form and to renew it, making it fresh and new. We can understand the Nun as being the un-being or void. Its waters are the underlying nature of all things. Much in the same way as we know our bodies are mostly composed of water, all things have this same nature of being composed of voidity.

     

    By extension we could say that everything has a void-nature. As conscious beings we can acknowledge that we have another side. A side which embodies our nature as being empty of form. Just as every form in existence casts a shadow, everything has a light and a dark side. A visible and a hidden aspect.

     

    As a 'ba' we demonstrate our nature as god-like, as divine and as radiant and as capable of assuming a manifest form. The reverse of this is our shade. Our hidden-ness, our un-formed and mysterious side. The two sides complement and support each other. Which is why they emerge together to greet the sun.

  16. Posted

    Hi,

     

    The 7 cervical neck vertebrae are connected to the realignment of the Atlas ... a key part of Egyptian initiations to open the Alta Major chakra at the back and base of the skull. To have this properly realigned is to correct the imbalances there which almost everyone has ... check www.atlasprofilax.com, and www. atlasevolution.com

     

    I have had this treatment and it is amazing! Its a one off adjustment that realigns organs, muscles, bones, spine, and accelerates growth and consciousness, opening one upto more incoming prana through the Alta Major. In my experience , it realigns Khat and Aufu, and allows more SEKHEM to enter the bodybrain connexion.

     

    I Am also curious about the Egyptian take on the Sahu and Shew or Khaibit ... any takers anyone? Info would eb appreciated ...

     

    Thanks!

     

    Thanks for the links Amer - indeed it does look good - especially http://www.atlasevolution.com/.

     

    Can you tell us more about the treatment and what happened. I would be very interested.

     

    I have been looking at the neck vertebrae for some time and methods to release chi (or sekhem) into the head. This is because the Egyptian system places great emphasis on connecting the head to the body.

     

    I have put a short bit about the Shew (Shade) in the articles section of here.

     

     

     

    Look in the book club area. A bunch of us read it and posted on it. I think the book is well worth having, but keep in mind she is giving you the macrocosmic view of taoism, not a curriculum or system. Some chapters I found more appealing than others like the chapter on internal alchemy, but this may be a matter of taste.

     

    Brgds!

     

     

    Ah thanks found this now! :)

  18. Posted

    In the first video it says he practices Sakhya Buddhism which is one of the four main sects of Tibetan Buddhism. The main practice is called 'the path and its fruit'. Otherwise he will be doing vajrayana sadhana on a particular yiddam - we don't know which.

     

    Sakhya Buddhism is a powerful lineage counting amongst its history the great Sakhya Pandita who is known as the Tibetan Leonardo because of his wide scholarship in all the sciences and arts. Far from being secret (although its higher teachings will be) it has many centres in UK and probably US as well. Its head is HH Sakhya Trizin. I have attended some of his teachings and he is very impressive.

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    I was wondering how the people on this board feel about reincarnation/rebirth. As for me, I am deeply skeptical about it. My reasons:

     

    1. The fact that life on Earth is relatively recent. The fact that the population of living beings has increased over the eons.

     

    2. The interregnum problem. How does a soul/personality pass through empty space to enter another body?

     

    3. Karma. If our actions are so objectively bad/good/neutral, then how is it that there are moral dilemmas in life?

     

    After I got turned on to Eastern religions/philosophies, my biggest problem has always been this concept of reincarnation. Personally, I think the only immortality is not being afraid of death.

     

    What do you guys think?

     

     

    Its important to distinguish between reincarnation and rebirth. Reincarnation is the Hindu concept of the transmission of the 'self'/'soul' or atman between different incarnations. This does imply that the atman somehow travels from body to body but of course the atman is not a physical entity. The idea that the universe we experience is composed of object separated by empty space is the product of an old fashioned scientific view. Modern physics views space as a continuum which interacts with the objects (mass) within it - see general relativity. There are no gaps in nature, as the philosopher Whitehead put it. So the atman can transmit without the need to jump any perceived gap because that gap is only a projection of perception anyway and the atman is not bound by the limits which the physical world appears to have.

     

    Rebirth, the Buddhist view is different because they do not accept that the atman is a real entity. In Buddhism it is the flow of consciousness which is continuous. This is compared to lighting one flame from another. In other words the candles may be different but the fire is transmitted. With this consciousness comes some aggregates including memories and so on. Another analogy would be a stream or river. The water flowing is the same but it appears in different places at different times.

     

    Again in Buddhism the world is beginningless. As they say 'Samsara has no beginnning but has an end (Nirvana).' The time measured by modern science is just one cycle or phase. The significant number is the total of sentient beings. This includes animals, insects, bacteria and so on and so is vast. Vast enough to be for practical purposes infinite.

     

    Karma - is not really about good or bad which are relative concepts. Karma is cause and effect in action. This means that every act has consequences. Everything you do has some kind of result. To simplify, if you do harmful things to others then this will result in more harm. Helpful things will result in more helpful things. The aim is to liberate yourself from the cycle of existence which results from confused actions. To do this you need benign conditions and these arise from the consequence of 'good' or beneficial acts. Theoretically it would be possible to free oneself even in the conditions resulting from harmful acts but this would be very difficult. The mechanism of karma is not immediately obvious because it is possible to observe harmful or selfish people getting a lot of luck and so on. This is because actions create karmic 'seeds' which only ripen when the right situation arises. Rather like a seed of a plant only grows when the soil, moisture and sunlight is right. If you see a lucky successful person who may still exhibit selfish or harmful behavior you can think that this person during previous births has been generous to others and so on.

  21. Posted

    Islam is basically a jinn energy, because it moves into your brain and starts demanding things, like 5 prayers a day and so on. This jinn also manifests externally as the community that likes to gather at the Mosque, which is the jinn temple.

     

    Of course this guy doesn't believe that, does he? But if he tried to explain how Islamoposession is not a jinn, he'd have a VERY HARD TIME if he tried to debate with me. He'd be foaming at the mouth and he'd lose the ability to sleep, but he couldn't do it. I won't seek this guy out, but if he wants to come here and try to prove that Islamopossession is not a jinn, I welcome his attempt.

     

     

    Not all Islam or Muslims are like this. There is a lot of genuine spirituality in Islam e.g. Sufis and so on. There are different paths and as someone reminded me on here recently it doesn't do to mix them. But it is overtly political and controlling to define another's religion as wrong or evil. Individuals relate well despite differences, for instance Jews and Muslims lived side by side in Palestine before the creation of Israel. But as soon as governments and fundamentalist ideologies get involved things fall apart and the shooting starts.

     

    One of the most interesting things about fundamentalist Christianity is how many things they hate. A religion founded on 'love thy neighbour, love they enemy' becomes 'hate gays, hate muslims'. How does that happen? Don't they read the New testament? The same is true for Wahadi Islam.

  22. Posted

    These accounts seem from what I have read of them to deal with people who have undertaken 'powerful' practices without having understood what they are doing or what was happening. Moving energy/chi in your body and so on can produce quite dramatic results including the ones that they mention. In fact these stories are probably very good illustrations of why you shouldn't have 'power' as the goal without understanding and compassion. I wonder why their teachers didn't help them? Is it possible that they too were subject to the same forced approach.

     

    We all seek effective techniques and practices and I quite agree that there is no point messing around. But all practice has to be approached at a level and speed which is assimilable to the individual. Good teachers understand this.

     

    Obviously it is in the interest of mainstream religion whether Christian, Islamic or other to demonize anything which is not within their control and leads to individual empowerment (in the true sense) and realization. So I think both the initial teachers and the 'exorcisers' are at fault and left some very confused individuals.