A good friend of mine meditated and tried to open his crown-chakra. He felt that it was blocked, locked and out of reach. So what did my clever friend do? He visualized how he blow it open with dynamite. After collecting himself and focused on the clear mental picture, he set the fuse on fire and saw it blew... I wish I had been there. My friend screamed and yelled with a headache beyond anything he ever experienced before.
He was very young when he did this and learned the hard way to respect his own potential.
Power in the hands of a madman
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Re: Power in the hands of a madman
Interesting that you'd post this right now. I'm starting into the book The Middle Pillar by Israel Regardie and in talking about his sense of the links between psychology and the ToL his suggestion is that nearly all of us have a muck down in Yesod which is thick enough to reflect a lot of the light of Kether right back up at itself. Thus the methodology of LRP and Middle Pillar are to provide a cleansing to that region by having the higher regions of each person's ToL running the sludge-skimmers (a bit like cleaning up a gulf oil spill) and from there we find less blockage from Yesod and increased quality of contact with the higher spheres.
In other words it sounds like your friend was trying to blast open something that was already working properly, perhaps meditating on a filtration system clearing out Yesod is something closer to yielding the results he'd want.
In other words it sounds like your friend was trying to blast open something that was already working properly, perhaps meditating on a filtration system clearing out Yesod is something closer to yielding the results he'd want.
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Re: Power in the hands of a madman
We are about 14 years to late but I will tell him next time I see him. 
But I agree with the cleansing part of Yesod. We all have our burden to carry.

But I agree with the cleansing part of Yesod. We all have our burden to carry.
Re: Power in the hands of a madman
I haven't read TMP in several years. When I do the exercise though, I've found it particularly helpful to do it in a martial arts "pigeon" stance: toes angled in, knees bent in the same path as the toes (it's called Yee Gee Kim Yeung Ma in the Wing Chun system, though I'm sure it or some variant - or other useful stance - exists in other systems as well). Anyway, it becomes almost like an asana - especially if you do it really slowly. It also provides a stronger root - not that you're necessarily more tied to Malkuth, but at least more grounded.
Several years ago, I took one of my friends on a guided chakra meditation to help him clear out some of the muck that Jazz referenced. Once we finished, he was in a semi-ecstatic state for almost a week. What's interesting is this person is almost asexual and had no trouble until we got to the Ajna chakra. What I'm getting at I guess is that I think that might be part of the issue in Yesod - we have, in the West anyway, however many hundreds of years running around as repressed horndogs. [rofl]
Several years ago, I took one of my friends on a guided chakra meditation to help him clear out some of the muck that Jazz referenced. Once we finished, he was in a semi-ecstatic state for almost a week. What's interesting is this person is almost asexual and had no trouble until we got to the Ajna chakra. What I'm getting at I guess is that I think that might be part of the issue in Yesod - we have, in the West anyway, however many hundreds of years running around as repressed horndogs. [rofl]
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Re: Power in the hands of a madman
That's a shoulder-width stance if I remember right? I'm starting to like the idea of standing up because laying down gets too distracting from the standpoint of physical complaints.sansao wrote:When I do the exercise though, I've found it particularly helpful to do it in a martial arts "pigeon" stance: toes angled in, knees bent in the same path as the toes (it's called Yee Gee Kim Yeung Ma in the Wing Chun system, though I'm sure it or some variant - or other useful stance - exists in other systems as well).
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Re: Power in the hands of a madman
Oh, yeah. We all do stupid shit while we're learning.
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Re: Power in the hands of a madman
Yes, approximately shoulder width. You can vary it for effect, though - the wider you make it, the more rooted you'll become (think Tai Chi horse stance as a kind of maximum width gauge).
Edit: I've actually never done the Middle Pillar laying down, was that part of the instruction in Regardie's book? It always seemed completely natural to do it standing, after the LBRP/other stuff. I'll have to try it out laying or sitting sometime just to see what happens. [thumbup]
Edit: I've actually never done the Middle Pillar laying down, was that part of the instruction in Regardie's book? It always seemed completely natural to do it standing, after the LBRP/other stuff. I'll have to try it out laying or sitting sometime just to see what happens. [thumbup]
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