LEVEL 5: TRANSCENDENCE PRACTICES

Every time we fall asleep a process of overwhelming importance takes place. Our consciousness which is operating through the physical body, while we are awake, is projected out of the physical body into our habitual dimension of operation.

Historically, one of the most important aspects of dream practice has been the incubation of healing dreams in temples and power places.

In this level we examine the mysteries surrounding the process of transcendence and the crossing of interdimensional gates at the moment of death. The training for transcendence begins during life when we are still capable of taking charge of our lives.

The crossing of dimensions which takes place each time we fall asleep, is the model of transition which takes place at the moment of dying.

The sustained experience of the true nature of the mind, what is called in the Dao, “Original Mind”, is the ultimate purpose of the Daoist, Buddhist and Hindu practices.

The practices of Fire and Water have the ultimate purpose of opening the full potential of the three cauldrons. This is not a process of energy techniques or manipulation of sexual energy-it has to do with raising consciousness and developing a progressive quality of ego that evolves from [...]

It would be naïve to believe that the Union of Fire and Water practices could be successfully carried out through sheer improvisation and good luck. The I Ching, which is the Inner Guide speaking in book form, provides timely counsel on the different stages of the practice

Traditionally, the Yogas of Pilgrimage are carried out at the end of a long training to mark a transition from one state into another and to put to the test everything which has been learned and integrated.

One of the ways that the Creative Energy makes itself known when it is fully active is through silence and clarity of mind. It is not difficult during a good meditation to tune to a high frequency of Creative Energy generating deep inner silence.

In the Daoist tradition it is required of the practitioner who develops superior insights into the practices, to share it with at least two other people following the same path.