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Harmonic Energy Body Question (Corrected and spell checked!)From: pema
Subject: Practice
Date/Time 2007-01-20 03:29:09
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MessageHey all,
I've been away for awhile, but have checked out the recent postings. I wanted to start a small thread to check out your experiences and insights on arranging a 'universal energy body.' For a number of years I struggled a bit working between Western Magickal, Hindu, Tibetan, and Taoist practices that I felt all had worth, and probably had some common roots. For me they offered a complementary set of practices that balanced me and helped me full both destinies. Still, the Taoist seemed to approach things from a bottom up perspective (earth-centered) and the Western lineages worked more from a top down approach (space-centered) This relates to the water vs fire paths that you often hear Michael speak or post about. The given approach (from the top or from the bottom) influences the language used in the path, the likely pitfalls, the likely biases, and the preliminary arrangement of the energy body before stabilizing into what each tradition refers to as the 'immortal body, light body, diamond body, etc.'
So, I've been sitting with a cauldron full of seemingly contradictory practices and faithfully stirring the brew while looking for a middle way that fits my needs. In the past couple of years something has begun to precipitate that seems fundamental, and surprisingly it is quite harmonic.
I've been seeing a lot of posts recently on different email lists about the 'diamond body.' For awhile I have known that to truly accomplish this great work one would need to go 'As deep as you go high, and as inward as you go outward' to eventually find the same 'essence' in both locales. The question of what happens in between, becomes a matter of how you arrange yourself to be in harmony or resonance with the ‘whole’ all the way through your being down to the light that pulses out from the two strands of your DNA. It seems that there are harmonic relationships based on the Fibonacci series, Phi, and Pi which serve as the blueprint of the energy body, and that can then mirror or resonate with the structure of the inner and outer universe. Such an energetic structure stands in the middle resonating in both directions until there is a continuum between 'heaven and earth.' This is speaking in a linear metaphor, when in actuality it is likely more holographic.
So with that verbose prelude, I ask, 'Has anyone noticed how the basic energy body of the Taoist system mirrors a harmonic musical system based on the Fibonacci series and Phi?'
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, etc
It started to click for me once I got the eight vessels going in conjunction with the Kan and Li practice. I found the hidden 9th, then I noticed the 12 meridians with the hidden 13th. The vesica pisces as taught by Michael for helping the Kan and Li began to connect as the 3 expanding out to the five elements and then on to the 8 (with hidden 9th).
For those that don’t have much experience with the Western alchemical tradition, they often use geometric forms or sacred platonic solids as harmonic resonators with elemental forces or as containers for such energies. In their tradition the dodecahedron is related to ‘spirit or ether,’ the icosahedron is related to water, and the icosa-dodecahedron is a nested form that is the shape of the earth grid, or the energy body of the earth.
Perhaps due to what I have practiced before, the Taoist energy body with its stable ‘gyroscope’ of the microcosmic orbit, belt channel, central channel, and out ward expression of the two inner side channels to create a L/R loop, and its ability to embody the ratios of 3, 5, 8 (9), 13 (12 +1) has started resonating with the platonic solids within and around me as a container- it is somewhat fractal, holographic, and recursive.
I am sitting with it and watching it link up as I do more practice, but it has the sensation of connecting levels of my being and tuning my little hologram of reality to the larger or deeper picture.
One of the important things that I have noticed in cultivation is the downfalls that occur when one has ‘gaps’ in the system. When I speak of gaps I mean levels that aren’t integrated in the continuity of the system. This usually leads to strange compensations, seeking the energy of the missing level outside of oneself, demonizing that level, control trips of trying to banish or dominate that energy outside of oneself, etc. That being said, I have noticed a gap in this process in myself, and was offering this out to see what you all might have to say. It will likely resolve itself with continued practice and patience, but I thought this would spark some interesting discussion.
The gap: the number ten is often attributed to the ten heavenly stems and is seen as the yin/yang aspect of the five phases. There is an energy building in me that appears to be trying to resonate with the icosa-dodecahedron of the earth grid. This shape is the union of an icosahedron (platonic solid for the element of water) and the dodecahedron (platonic solid for ether). It has 30 vertices, 32 faces, and 60 edges. Twelve of the faces are pentagons, 20 are triangles, six decagons create the structure through interlocking rings. Does anyone know how this structure (which is the supposed structure of the earth grid) resonates with the energy body of the Taoist system? I would guess that it would, given that the Taoist system is so earth-centered. I can feel 12 pentagrams with the hidden 13th (man) as center. The rest hasn’t connected yet. I am not sure how the heavenly energies are incorporated (ie. is it a double of the ten heavenly stems as triangles ( 20 + center for 21)or of the six decagons that create the structure?)
Possibly this is simply mental masturbation, but it does feel like a fundamental resonance is establishing itself. I am interested to see what you all have to say.
Sincerely tuning the radio to broadband,
Pema
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