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I have always had a skeptical take on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar but could never find any objective explanation for it until I came across this commentary on him at
http://www.yunusnews.com/node/486.
After reading it many of my feelings about him not being genuine were validated. Likewise, I am very skeptical of many large organizations with a guru like Shankar at the helm. After reading this article, I am even more skeptical of “The Art of Living” movement and the supposedly “new” breathing technique of Sudarshan Kriya.
I sensed that the “C’s” were not impressed by “AOL” or Shankar but seemed to give a thumbs up to Sudarshan Kriya. Since this type of breathing is nothing new and in fact has been previously well documented in “The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath” by Yogi Ramacharaka, maybe some research on the similarities found here as well as others, might be a good path for the QFS to come to some consensus.
For example, I have been rereading
Michael Topper’s the Mother book, Life Power and Magnum Organum writings. When I first read the new “C’s” session 09 June and the group’s interaction with Craig, I flashed on “ Whole –charger breathing”. If you can get Topper’s Magnum Organum the breathing technique is described in detail on pages 499-506 of the Matrix IV. What struck me most about this type of breathing was the emphasis on proper technique and allowing abundant time for a smooth natural progression in order to achieve a balanced change in ones energy systems. I then flashed on the “C’s” comment about “AOL” not being
balanced and their warning about “eye gazing”.
All throughout the session I connected with the thread of clues the “C’s” were giving, which Laura highlighted. For me,
uniting (combining) specific techniques (use the right ingredients, recipies, actions accelerate growth) to connect to “a higher source”
(the mother stone) for guidance through the Crown Chakra
(the Orion reference) by moving (uniting) energy from a selected lower chakra level in order to communicate with the “source” to acquire knowledge, so as to accelerate growth. The “C’s also said
that as people learn the practice and implement it, their own awareness can grow along with “being”. And if there is parallel growth in knowledge then the Kriya ( Breathing technique) will enhance this knowledge, thus the protection.
Finally, the references to
Paleochristianity made me think that possibly these early human groups had successfully combined the physical techniques, we are trying to identify and learn to do, in balance with their knowledge accumulation to be able to connect to a “Higher Source” for guidance.
I found this description of “Whole-Charger” breathing by Michael Topper to be an interesting east-west perspective.
Whole-charger breathing as outlined in past issues of the T-Bird, furnishes an ideal first step since its oxygenation of the system and ionization of the bloodstream generates a very rapid metabolic economy for the overall, mind-body complex; through this deeper more integral economy (spontaneously powering a subtle shift in ratios-of-emphasis across the autonomic systems in favor of the parasympathetic, correspondent with the ideal value ofPhi aligning subconscious current-centers in exact proportional equivalency with the Conscious axis from which they spring), a surplus "charge" may be quickly accumulated at the vital-physical battery of the solar plexus. High negative ionization-potential translates into greater magnitudes of negatively entropic—pattern-building—synergic energies, or subtle "pranas", drawn directly into the economy of the system through electron surplus (electrons are the atomic "void-navels" or points of physical ingress into the transdimensional infrastructures finely coding and "building out" variable nucleon patterns "from the inside"). While the pH factor tends to average-out the ionization potential, the prana drawn in through it doesn 't neutralize but accumulates, each energy surplus reinforcing and adding to the average across the solar voltaic at the manipura. That surplus charge in conjunction with the deeper metabolic economy, means proportionately less bioelectric energy need be invested in the hormonal and neurochemical cycles conventionally claiming the available energy-capital; the surplus may be used to power glandular chemistries of a higher integral order, manufacturing hormonal keys to complex-dimensional "locks" of the plexiform centers only present previously as dormant/pre-coded potential of the biogenetic pattern.
Unlocking of those threshold values of the multidimensional being, generates a progressively deeper (functional) congruence between subconscious systems patterning the mind/body networks, and the Conscious axis itself. Such a deeper, multidimensional alignment and integration doesn't mean a more rigid-inflexible structure; on the contrary, deeper integral harmony of the autonomic with the conscious systems imparts to the former greater available values of the latter, so that the essential indeterminacy belonging to void-consciousness allows for expandingly elastic degrees of freedom in the variable patterning of memory-codes and subconscious circuits.
The resonant harmonics of the sine-wave patterns emerging from this integral alignment are highly non-linear; reflect a deeper ratio of emphasis on gestalt, right/brain perceptual and cognitive patterning; magnify the presence of theta and delta, incorporating the normal beta functions; and express the presence of an operative mind/body complex progressively functioning monitored already, owing to brain/mind access through signature thought-structures, one may avoid punitive pain-center stimulation etc. by varying the intensity, depth, time intervals, locations and accompanying activity relative to performing the exercise. Experimentation is the only means of determining the optimum combination of factors.[/quote
