Dear Mystress Angelique Serpent,

in your reply to my question on the public forum you mentioned that it is best to discontinue most chi-based work when Kundalini awakens. Can explain a little why this is the case? Would this mean that e.g. Chi Kung or Tai Chi would not be beneficial at this stage? What would you recommend instead for the "body temple"? I also was curious about your opinion concerning the grounding-meditation versus microcosmic orbit. I have been practicing south Indian Kriya Yoga for more than 3 years which is in fact very similar to the microcosmic orbit and I have never experienced such intense inner cleansing and strenghtening when practicing Kriya Yoga than with doing the grounding-meditation.

Best wishes,
your Marco

  Hello Marco:

  Tai chi is fine. Chi responds to free will, and chi based practices are not surrender which is the imperative of Kundalini. In my experience, people who do a lot of chi work tend to build the ego and have a much harder time grasping the concept of surrender.

  Try this when you are grounded. Say "Goddess please give me some chi. Thank you." You will find you get more chi from one request than from a dozen chi gung workouts.

  Blessings!

Interesting. I tried it out, and it immidiately gave me headache. Too much energy from the sun?

Edward


Try this when you are grounded. Say "Goddess please give me some chi. Thank you." You will find you get more chi from one request than from a dozen chi gung workouts.

Was your crown open, Edward?

Thank you Mystress,

I tried it out as well and received a quite wonderful energy bath. This really works!

Best wishes,
your Marco

Sorry for trying to hijack the thread Marco! That's why I ran down to the internet shop, to either delete the post or to apologize. Hmm.

No, I don't think the crown was open. Tried it again now after visualizing the flower opening on the top of the head right now, and then I get no headache.

I think I've been letting the crown shut down lately. I've noticed when I'm talking with people that sometimes they start looking above my head, like they're giving me a hint "hey, don't forget to open the crown". It took a few times until I understood it. After noticing it I was getting paranoid thinking that people were looking at my head and thinking that I'm getting bald.  I even asked one friend of mine why she was looking above my head and if it was because she thought I was getting bald. Haha.

The bald-thingy is something that returns now and then. About 10 years ago, when I was 17, I went to a doctor to because I wanted her to order medication from USA because I thought I was getting bald. Ironically the doctor was suffering (?) from female hairloss. I guess she thought of me as a hypocondric lunatic.

Now I'm 27, and still not bald. Goddess please take this hair-loss paranoia, and if I'm getting bald, then please help me accept it. Also keep my crown open. Thanks.



Edward

Quote from: Marco on Apr 12, 2009, 11:56:53 AM
Thank you Mystress,

I tried it out as well and received a quite wonderful energy bath. This really works!

Best wishes,
your Marco

  Yes! *big grin*

  Most of the martial arts type chi stuff tends to focus on being the *doer* and so they reinforce ego.  We have had some martial artists and magicians in the course, and the more practice with that they have had, the harder it is for them to learn to let go and let Goddess handle stuff.  Acting for themselves and manipulating thier own energy is a trained reflex you get from any type of chi based work, makes it so much harder to remember to take thier hands off the wheel and let Goddess drive.  Learning surrender can be hard enough for most folks, but for the martial artists, tai chi masters, magicians it is so much harder. 

  I address this a little bit in the Prana and Shakti lesson, how people who focus on the white light, the solar chi based route often become so dazzled by the sun that they never look to the emptiness it abides in, which represents the Goddess void of Divine consciousness.

  Chi represents the God which represents free will.  I often remind people they are Gods of thier own lives; I do not say they are Goddess of thier own lives! The God is the I AM... Tarot card of the magician, #1.  It is about getting a new divine identity and personal power. 

  The experience of the Goddess is of not-being, blissful ecstatic nameless infinite Nothing... Tarot card of the holy fool. zero... yet, Presence. Kundalini is about letting go of identity and not growing a new one, remaining an empty vessel for Goddess to use.   

  So, really it is better to just not go there!  A little bit of knowledge of chi is useful; what you get from doing the house spell and the bubble spell for computers, is enough. Even there, the result is surrendered to the Goddess for improvements afterwards.

  The grounding too.. the solar light is chi, we give it to the Goddess; sending it to the fiery crystal.  Goddess gives back better; the uprush of Shakti.  Goddess will give you all the chi you can eat, just for the asking... but then what do you do with it?  Chi responds to your free will, empowering your ego.  Kundalini is about surrendering free will to Goddess will for you.  So give your chi to the Goddess.

  I will very rarely recommend someone get into martial arts, usually only with a male who is feeling too much the victim and out of touch with his male power.  In that case it can be balancing in the short term.

   If you want fitness, do Hatha Yoga stretches. Hatha yoga puts you more into tune with the body-mind, and the tension release from the muscles also works to clear karma. A little bit of basic yoga training is useful in the beginning to learn to stretch safely when you are new, but very soon the body becomes the teacher.  For most Kundalites, after the first few stretches the body takes over with yoga kriyas, you can abandon the set practice because you can feel how your body wants to move and flow with that. 

  Blessings!