"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness...the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." ~ Pierre Theilhard de Chardin
Both Jung and Sri Aurobindo believed that the soul is both individual and universal and that the physical and psychic exist simultaneously. Supra-sex you could say is the spiritual intercourse of the Global Brain—the communion of the overmind or Superman (Aurobindo). This communion is superluminal, nonlocal and probably involves instantaneous communication via scalar waves or sympathetic resonance. Supra-sex is a mysterious subatomic force that spans the globe. The experience of supra-sex makes it apparent to us irreverent humans that we live in a spiritual universe, an intelligent universe, far more profound than we could possibly imagine. There is nothing more powerful than the force of Supra-sex. It is the force of evolution and consciousness itself, the energy at the ground of manifestation. Future generations will know more about and honor it more deeply than us, for slowly humanity is being awakened by this evolutionary force.
ALCHEMICAL DREAMING
Carl Jung felt that alchemy, the miraculous science of inner
transformation, was the best system to use to understand dreaming and
individuation. Carl Jung proposed that the numinosum manifests itself
through archetypal images. He believed the Higher Self within speaks to
us in dreams, and referred to such dreams as somnia a Deo missa
(“dreams sent by God”). Jung believed that numinous dreams have
transforming and healing power and are milestones in a person’s
individuation process. By processing archetypal personality issues and
addressing personal problems such as childhood trauma, numinous dreams
have developmental potential and are psychologically helpful in
releasing individuals from pathologies as well as nourishing spiritual
transformation.
Dreams seem to affect our growth more intensely than waking life,
perhaps because the dream is intuitively autonomous and autopoietically
driven and so gives both the physiology and the soul exactly what it
wants and needs. Paradoxically in dreams there is more control over our
process, and yet this control comes from beyond the conscious mind and
ego. Apparently in REM sleep (dreaming) there is less activity in the
prefrontal cortex which represents the superego in its inhibitory and
discriminatory functions. In dreams it is the Gods that are "at play"
with us. With the removal of our prefrontal control our dream life taps
into a much larger picture than our waking mind, perhaps because more
of the subconscious and superconscious comes into view.
Although in dreams we still have our cognitive filters, they are not
the rigid familiar filters of our waking personality, which keeps our
cognitive contents within a very small bandwidth. Dreams spontaneously
take us to a more panentheistic reality of All in Being—All in
totality—All in God. Through the intuitive reality of the dream world
our perpective is more from Whole Seeing. From the rational perspective
dreams seem like a random cast of the dice, and yet from the
perspective of Whole Seeing, dreams exhibit a precise essence,
consequence, importance and potency the likes of which we rarely
encounter in “real” life except during the heights of peak experience.
Intuition is knowing something in a participatory manner and in
dreaming we literally “become the dream.” It is through the
nonseparation between dream and dreamer that we are trans-formed. In
dreaming we are both observer and content and there is a sense of the
self that becomes intensely real when it moves into the object. When
you get into the object (participate) you begin to see things you could
never dream of knowing from the purely analytical point of view. Dreams
directly show us through “amplified experience” the power of love: that
which uplifts, dignifies, maximizes liberty, ennobles and seeks a
higher good of plenitude, abundance and win/win conditions.
Like a herald of the Muse, when the mind tries to get you to become
more conscious of an important dreams it will give you a lateral often humorous zen-like prompt,
after which an important dream sequence will occur. Often automatic
writing and the running off of verbal obscurities and speaking in
tongues occurs, perhaps as the left brain language areas get fed energy
from the right side of the brain. Apparently we are collectively being
awoken through our dreaming as never before right now.
Dreams show us when we are going through an “undoing” and dissolving phase. Being pulled into the ocean is a classic dissolution dream,
as the bodymind starts dissolving itself, the known self tries to
retain its ground. During my kundalini awakening I dreamt I was being
smooshed into the beach by a huge wave that was about to suck me out,
and I was crawling up the beach to dry land. We think madness or death
lies in being pulled out to sea, but really it’s our enlightenment that
is out there, if we let go.
Both flying and levitation dreams/visions are common when we are growing into our subtle body. Heat and flame are also common themes during the peak. Alchemical dreams often have a sexual component,
but the sexuality, attraction and intimacy is greatly exaggerated to
Godlike levels. Sometimes our minds will use people we know, at other
times it is an unknown dream lover that we conjure, or perhaps we even
have a precognitive dream of someone from our future.
Alchemical dreams most often occur with peak events of metamorphosis
such as the heart-brain orgasmic conjunction. These dreams have more of
an impact on our metamorphic alchemy than our waking life does. Their
effect can last in us as a felt-sense for months, and the restructuring
they do will last for our lifetime. Notice how we can grow and
change a huge amount just by one significant dream. We have certain
dreams at specific stages of the alchemy. And there is no way of
telling if the dream creates the peak alchemy or if the rise in
metamorphic activity creates the dream imagery. My intuition is that it
is a synthesis of both, that is each is cause and effect of the other…
all we can say is that it is one thing...a simultaneous and synergistic
emergence alchemy. Eros in action.
It takes many years of alchemy before we can be strong enough to absorb
the full flux of alchemical sexual attraction without the need/desire
to act on it, even in fantasy. This is so because the life of the ego
is “exploitive,” it seeks to do something with the energy rather than
just merge into it or Be it. To the ego, love is seen as a means to an
end, not an end in itself. Eventually however the transmuted body
itself is so relaxed, open and in permanent bliss that
egoic-masturbatory ways of using spirit for petty ends are naturally
overcome. Thus we emerge from the lower entropic forms of existence to
energy accumulating syntropic forms of being and experience. You can’t
run away from fire, you have got to be prepared to turn and face it. We
have the choice to submit to Divine Will or to be diminished. All
actions we do in the world are in the attempt to balance our own
psychic chemistry.
Both in real-life spiritual relationships, transpersonal
non-relationships and in sexual dream alchemy there is a facilitation
of the marriage of sexes, poles and hemispheres. In physiology the term
“facilitation” refers to the lowering of resistance in a neural pathway
to an impulse, resulting from previous or simultaneous stimulation.
Just as Michael Persinger suggests in both romance and enlightenment
there is an increased integration of the hemispheres of the brain…an interhemispheric intrusion where there is temporary heightened communication between the two hemispheres of the brain.
Alchemical relationships do not have much to do with people as
personalities. Like a hurricane they are a force of nature and there is
little one can do about them but ride them out. The convergence and
amplification entails a rising up of the energy and intelligence of the
atom, coupled with a simultaneous effervescent emergence of the energy
and intelligence of the transconscious superconsciousness. The poor
personal ego is thus wafted to dizzying heights of the unknown, which
could be very destabilizing or reassuring depending on ones sense of
biological faith. Often dream romances remain unconsummated showing
that it is alchemical dream for brain reconstruction; otherwise the
energy would have been dissipated by having gone "outwards" a lover.
Alchemical relationships are “high energy.” Apparently in order to
avoid entropic relationship (codependency) and raise energy and
consciousness to the level of transformational alchemy, we have to
establish a healthy relationship with our own inner family and heal our
inner child. That makes a whole lotta sense.
“When we enter relationships from the place of a happy child
whose needs are met by a loving family and as an adult who knows how to
tell the truth of what he is feeling, we enter the Co-Creative
Relationship, which is true Alchemy.” http://www.alchemyinstitute.com/codepend.htm
Ego level relationships are based on the lie of Self amnesia and
utilitarian function. We are scared of the lack of centeredness and
helplessness of others, because we fear our own lack of centeredness
and connection with soul. It is the goal of our lifetime to get out of
our own way and learn how to not perpetuate self-rejection. The pain of
lack of self love awakens differentiation (Individuation) and the final
redemption in the homecoming of Self-love. If we are afraid of
ourselves we may either enter a codependent relationship or avoid
relationships altogether. We are afraid of ourselves perhaps due to
having parents who were similarly afraid of themselves. One could say
that codependency is the interrelationship of individuals who are
afraid of themselves. That is those who have not “accepted” their God
given gifts or their shadow.
Society makes these kinds of people through shame/blame religions, and
exploitive politics and the patriarchal (left-brain) bias in general.
There can be no health on any level of human existence if spiritual
power of the individual is denied, neglected, abused or decimated. Thus
self-love is the foundation of human existence. Because it is the
foundation of spiritual alchemy, creativity and generosity of spirit,
happiness is the ultimate currency in the Universe. By being afraid of
our self and Self, we cannot grow because we cannot relax or open to
Grace and tacitly experience a benign Universe—we must be constantly on
guard and looking for ways to support and protect ourselves. If we are
afraid of ourselves we forfeit our natural inheritance to breath,
relaxation and presence awareness.
Breath, relaxation and presence awareness are the essential ingredients
of transformation; this is partly the reason why true love relationship
is alchemical. There is a quickening of kundalini, heightening of the
senses, automatic purification, and the amplification of hormones and
neural activity. The cells of the body transmutate under the myriad of
influences which only spiritual relationship can bring about. It is for
this reason that Nature uses alchemical sexual dreams to bring out the
same kind of rapid transformation in the absence of real life human
intercourse. We are programmed to evolve through this mechanism because
Nature has been involved in the process of transmutation via the sexes
for nearly 3.5 billion years on earth.
STAGES OF TELOPHILIA
Spiritual Relationship
The Greek prefix telo means “the end or complete” and philia
is Greek for “love or loving.” Thus we can use the word telophilia to
represent the highest form of relationship or the union of souls or
joint alchemy. So I equate the phenomena of supra-sex with telophilia. Note these stages are the classic alchemical stages of soul development. Another name we might call spiritual relationship is psychephilia,
as psyche is both “soul” and “butterfly” in Greek and so apply reflects
the metamorphic nature of soul union. At one time I found a reference
to the word “teleiaphilia” meaning a principled friendship grounded on
shared virtue and precepts; which is a philosophical level
relationship. Telophilia however is one step beyond that being an
empathetic, synergistic relationship of all levels, including soul.
These soul-relationships may not include sex but because they amplify
kundalini they can be more energetically and intensely intimate and
transformative than sexual relationships.
Following is an outline of the stages of soul relationship but
to a certain extent all stages happen at once to varying degrees as
well.
1. MEETING—Recognition, initiation, surges of energy
in the head and solar plexus, enlivening of the genitals. Enlarging of
ones field in relation to the other, heightening of alertness and
energy level. Irresistible magnetic pull, constancy of attention and
soul urge to be in each others presence.
2. QUICKENING—Spiritual acceleration, extreme heart
opening, purging, purifying, nausea, awe, hope. Clearing, tidying up
loose ends, nest building, talking to oneself, physical exercise to
absorb tension. Alternating periods of hyperactivity (sympathetic) with
heart expanding lethargy (parasympathetic).
3. RUBBERBANDING—Alternating surrender with periods
of sensual indulgence as the ego tries to use and/or suppress the
charge. Boundary testing, uncertainty, exploration and resolution of
differences. Blowing off the cocoon through compression and expansion.
4. TOLERANCE—Bodymind gains faith, becomes stronger
quieter and more peaceful. Learns to protect and allow the intense
“opening” energy cycles of soul-merger. Rewiring to handle the
amplified energy and kinesthetic senses.
5. SURRENDER—Attraction to spiritual intimacy as soul
increasingly incarnates with the opening of the bodymind. There is a
letting go of morbid thoughts and behaviors as trust develops. Eros
progressively triumphs over Thanatos.
6. TRANSPARENCY—Proactive-YES AND Green-lighting
Spirit. With conscious joint metamorphic alchemy there is a movement
from deprivation states to co-Being. Sympathetic resonance causes the
falling away of resistance and strengthens the ability to “enjoy” love.
7. SUBSTANTIATION—Maintenance of a mature equilibrium
of holding the “We Space,” while still sustaining full individuation.
Potent, creative, cooperative partnership, mature monogamy-(RAM)
The symptoms of attraction in relationship correspond to those of the
metamorphic process and are representative of the two sides of the
nervous system in a kind of tango. Normalization of the nervous system
can be achieved through walking, deep breathing, toning, movement like
Qi gong and immersion in water. This is not to make a problem out of
love, for we can enjoy both parasympathetic and sympathetic hypertonal
periods, but in order to "assimilate" them comfortably without being
triggered into negative coping mechanisms there are a few handy tricks
we can use. Incarnation is often hard work, especially if we are used
to blocking energies and consciousness from having grown up in
dysfunctional environments.
Sympathetic hyperactivation: The stage fright like surges of
energy in the solar plexus and high blood pressure in the head can be
handled by gentle rhythmic tapping the back over the adrenal
glands/kidney area.
Parasympathetic hyperactivation: The heart expansions and low
blood pressure of this cycle creates fatigue, weakness in the arms,
softening of the neuromusculature and gives a sense of needing to get
horizontal. This condition can be eased by repetitive gentle tapping on
the chest 1-2 inches below the notch of the clavicles.
How to establish a Telophilius relationship:
First we have to talk about it for many years, then we seriously
contemplate it quietly, then we start to imagine it in 3D, then we
begin to become "attractive," then we manage to magnetize a perfect
polar partner to us, then we enter the honeymoon and think we have
found heaven on earth, then we are plunged into the hell realms to feel
the full range of our self-betrayal and self-rejection, then we learn
we specifically created exactly what we got, then we forgive all
creation and especially ourselves, and then at last we enter a true
tantric, supra-sexual, metamorphic, alchemical relationship.
http://www.breath.org/alchemy/sensation.htm —"Whatever
words we use to describe this transformative process, what we are
talking about here is, at least at one level, the process of deep
relaxation, of loosening the energetic knots that keep us bound to our
present perceptions. It is through deep, organic relaxation that we
learn to untie these knots and to let go of what is superfluous in our
lives, the unnecessary structures of thought, emotion, and sensation
that we have constructed to support or defend our self-image. These
structures not only consume our energy, but they also keep anything new
from entering. Learning how to see and let go of these unnecessary
structures not only has a beneficial influence on our health and
well-being, but it also helps conserve and produce the energy we need
for a work of inner transformation…It is the organic experience of this
essential spaciousness that embraces the various polarities and
contradictions of our lives and allows them to exist side by side in
our being without conflict. This inner, organic embrace, this sensory
acceptance of everything that we are, frees not only our body, but also
our mind and feelings, bringing us a new sense of vitality and
wholeness."
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” Henri Bergson.
“If we are going to create a more humane world, it’s important
to discover how to form sustained relationships that fulfill our
deepest needs and contribute to an atmosphere of caring that the
culture is crying for.” Hugh Delehanty,
THE INTERACTIVE FIELD EFFECT
The Third Thing
“Health was a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health
was a state where communication breaks down. When we are ill our waves
are out of sync.” 52 Lynne Mc Taggart, The Field.
By “following our bliss” as Joseph Campbell suggests we are following
the ecstatic wave of Grace in which our waves are all in sync. The Ecstatic Wave is the flow between dissolution and structure,
which is the natural speed of evolution without resistance. When we
fall in sync in relationship the field effect is magnified, so imagine
when we can do this consciously in relationship. What Grace. If
anything, kundalini is an impersonal force that is trying to get us
"connected." Connected both within ourselves and connected to the
Kosmos—to fall in sync with the universe in a perfect state of Grace.
You feed me in the Grace of your reception and depth of Grokking me,
such that I no longer know what is me, and what is you…we are so
complete in the circle of us.
In his book The Mystery of Human Relationship Nathan Schwartz-Salant introduces the concept of the interactive field,
and explains that transformative alchemy can progress once we
acknowledge the field which exists between partners in a relationship.
He says this "third field," an area encompassing the mutually
interpenetrating subconscious, conscious and superconscious levels of
both people. This shared juncture of being is not only a repository of
subjectivities, but it also has an objective character as well. And
remember we are like icebergs, with only about 1% of our consciousness
that is actually “conscious.” Exploring this interpersonal field, what
Richard Moss calls “The Third Thing,” can lead to personal growth
capable of enriching all relationships through tacit understanding of
our transpersonal (spiritual) nature.
Removing that which gets in the way of the symphony of our joint state
of Grace (being in sync) is how the container of the relationship “The Third Thing”
or the field of unconditional love is preserved. And it is through this
purified and substantiated field that we as a couple find a new
relationship to the Universe and grace the world with our presence.
“In certain relationships, the level of profound close goodness is
so great that any thing that gets in the way of that that is not pure,
clear connection will feel incredibly bad to the degree that I will
have to amend it or feel almost sick. My partner in this will feel it
too. Our inclination is to exit the relationship, or withdraw, or
become clingy, but none of those actions work except to cause further
pain. The ONLY way out is THROUGH. With some other relationships
I have, if things arise, it doesn't matter, because they are not
obscuring this pure connection. But with this one, it is spiritually
imperative that what has arisen that causes pain is dealt with. Each of
us has to take extreme responsibility for our own feelings, and be
brutally honest, completely open and non-defensive and able to listen
in a space created purposely for the healing. When the problem is
shared, the level of relief is extraordinary and it feels like a great
healing has taken place, not only of the issue at hand, but of some
greater older deeper issue that was triggered by the problem presented
within our relationship. It feels like this indeed IS the purpose of
the relationship. When these old hurts are dealt with and the air is
cleared, it is as if nothing more needs to be done.
A great, huge love is felt that encompasses the whole world and we are each completely accepted "as is".” Jacqui Denomme
“Where there is love there is no conflict, because love has no
image. Love doesn’t build images because love is not touched by
thought. Love is not of time.” 73, Krishnamurti, On Relationship.
“In some ways, the interactive field only exists because the two
people are connecting in a field of attraction, in relationship, that
is both the meeting of their own unique signatures but also higher
gradations of fields overlapping as well, which connect straight to the
divine. The amount of energy that is imbibed in the relational
auric field is dependent on the openness present in both individuals in
relationship. The largest component to that openness is a
willingness to fully inhabit the present. If that openness (and
its associated purity) is present and accessible, it does have a sort
of indestructablility as well as resilience when disruptions (or
heavier spots) appear in the field. But, like any relationship,
it will have periods of different feeling tones, anywhere from
dissonant, intense, heavy, edgy, as well as blissful, clear, etc.
As human beings, we are all gradations of energy: dense and
refined. I don't think the secret is to avoid or shun any of
these qualities, but to enjoy them as they are....all the while (for
the sake of health) exercising an awareness and intelligence with
embodying its variety of configurations.” Andy Acker
By the embrace of truth and through working on the blocks to harmony
in our interactive field we become “As Gods” as our boundaries with the
Infinite and the Eternal are dissolved.
Epistemonikon
Oh what sad iron clad defenses
Cripple our quivering hearts
So that we will not be broken by love
But be torn asunder from lack of loving
The Mystery see
Lets not even presume
The mind can know the least of things
Why limit the infinite
Kill what is not ours to kill
Why make small what is measureless
Hold what cannot be caught
No where to hide anyways
Soul has no prison
Lets stop the petty game
And live the truth
See what is really there
Beyond past's lies
Such luminous White
The music is champagne
In my blood
Epistemology or the theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy
that studies the nature and scope of knowledge. The term "epistemology"
originated from the Greek words episteme (knowledge) and logos
(account/explanation). Sophia is the highest virtue of the
"contemplative" part of the soul (epistemonikon). Aristotle proposes the human soul has two main noetic functions:
1. The ability to grasp “a priori knowledge” (epistemonikon), whose virtue is theoretical wisdom (sophia).
2. The ability to grasp truths about the changeable world (logistikon), whose virtue is practical wisdom (phronesis).
http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/neurotheology.htm —Fantastic articles based on Dr. Michael Persingers work. “If
the archetypes have a location; neurostructures that instantiate them,
it’s not impossible that we can believe in god because we have a brain
center that specializes in fatherly images seems not unreasonable.”
www.richardmoss.com/ — Richard Moss teacher of essential relationship. “Self-realization
must be lived in the context of daily human relationships with all the
joy and suffering that they entail…This is not work you can master
intellectually, because it is not a movement about strategy,
achievement and goal. It is about a prior relationship in wholeness, a
process of being that grows in faith. This will grow and understanding
will emerge gradually, leading to a new connection to yourself and life
as a whole."
Reading on Alchemical Dreaming:
Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, Edward F. Edinger; Open Court, 1985
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, and R. F.C. Hull; Princeton University Press 1981
Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice, James A. Hall; Inner City Books, 1983
Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations, Edward F. Pace-Schott; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, J. Allan Hobson; Oxford University Press, 2004
Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming, Arnold Mindell; Hampton Roads, 2002
Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul, Robert Moss; Destiny Books, 2004
Dreaming True: How to Dream Your Future and Change Your Life for the Better, Robert Moss; Three Rivers Press, 1996
The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams, and the Symbolism of Waking Life, Jeremy Taylor; Paulist Press, 1998
Inner Work: Using Dreams and Creative Imagination for Personal Growth and Integration, Robert A. Johnson; HarperSanFrancisco, 1989
Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology, Llewellyn Vaughan Lee; Golden Sufi center, 1998
Radical Intercourse: How Dreams Unite Us in Love, Conflict, and Other Inevitable Relationships, Joseph Goodbread; Lao Tse Press, 1997
Way of the Dream, Von Franz, Marie-Louise; Shambhala, 1994
The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and the Sacred Geography of the Body; Inner Traditions, 1994
Reading on Alchemical Relationship:
The Mystery of Human Relationship, Schwartz-Salant; Routledge, 1998
Lover: Embracing the Passionate Heart (Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, V. 4) by Robert A. Johnson
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul (Mythos), Jan N. Bremmer; Princeton University Press, 1987
Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul, Julius Evola et al. Inner Traditions, 2003
Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, Julius Evola; Inner Traditions, 1991
The Mystery of the Coniunctio: Alchemical Image of Individuation, Edward F. Edinger; Inner City Books, 1994
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, Marie-Louise Von Franz; Inner City Books, 1981
The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art, Julius Evola; Inner Traditions, 1995
The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy of Personal Transformation, Dennis William Hauck; Penguin, 1999
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