qigong and schizophrenia

because this is the true self

all smiles )

NOT the complex round of hatred, battle, competition, jealousy, lust, and passion

which one might think was as much the true self…

remember: NO ANIMOSITY

>>>question, can dissolving into the
>>>golden ball of light in the inner smile be ungrounding?

In short, the answer is YES, although typically in practice
it tends not to be.

There are two types of grounding.
One is the physical grounding, of being deeply in your body
and feeling physically connected to the ground.
The other is energetic grounding, of being centered and
anchored in your true core self.

Typically, when one does “grounding practices” such as
standing meditation, you get deeply physically grounded,
which makes you deeply energetically grounded.

However, these don’t have to necessarily go together.
In particular, if you do the Michael’s Yin dissolving
into your energetic body at the end of the internal inner
smile, you are–by its nature–grounding yourself energetically
into your true core self BUT you are most certainly not
physical grounded. In fact, you couldn’t be more ungrounded.
While your body is still connecting to the earth, you are no
longer anchored to your body.

For most folks, this is not a problem, because the typical
reason why we get physically grounded to begin with, is to
get energetically grounded into our core true self . . . which
is what we are doing when we dissolve in the Inner Smile.

However, there is a definite transition taking place.
You disconnect from your physical body during the dissolving,
and then reconnect to your physical body (supposedly with
a healthier signature) afterward. Not only are you physical
ungrounded in the dissolved period, but when you return, since
your body and energetic signature is slightly different, you
will be less physically grounded than you were before. It’s
like sleeping in your bed after you wash the sheets: it is
still your bed, but it sort of feels a little different than
you are used to and requires a little adjustment.

Because of the overall benefit of having a body with a
healthy new signature and the benefit of the meditation of
energetically grounding into your core, for most people
this is a trade-off worth making. The benefits typically
outweigh any temporary physical ungrounding–enough so that
most people don’t even notice it.

However, I’m personally not sure what could unsettle or
destabilize a person that has schizophrenia, or in particular, YOU.
Things that most people are OK with, may not necessarily be for you.
It could be the case that the meditation is perfectly fine,
you will get a lot of positive benefits, and will have no problems.
On the other hand, it could also be the case
that you could have a problem. Consequently, I hesitate making
any kind of recommendation that “this is good” or “this is bad”,
especially in your situation.

Just take things slowly, observe carefully, and if anything
seems destabilizing or uncomfortable, discontinue the practice.

Qi,
Steven

This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather,
which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in
Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold
letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are
made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of
otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If
you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval
tome.
And yet between the book’s heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It
goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking
for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure — taking place
entirely in his head — he finds it again.
Some people feel that nobody should read the book, and some feel that
everybody should read it. The truth is, nobody really knows. Most of what
has been said about the book — what it is, what it means — is the product
of guesswork, because from the time it was begun in 1914 in a smallish town
in Switzerland, it seems that only about two dozen people have managed to
read or even have much of a look at it.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/philosophy/message/19046/

In Jewish Kabbalistic cosmology, the Kelipot are metaphorical “shells” surrounding holiness. They are spiritual obstacles receiving their existence from God only in an external, rather than internal manner. Divinity in Judaism connotes revelation of God’s true unity, while the shells conceal holiness, as a peel conceals the fruit within. They are therefore synonymous with idolatry, the root of impurity through ascribing false dualism in the Divine, and with the Sitra Achra (ñèøà àçøà “Other Side”), the perceived realm opposite to holiness. They emerge in the descending Seder hishtalshelus (Chain of Being) through Tzimtzum (contraction of the Divine Ohr), as part of the purpose of Creation. In this they also have beneficial properties, as peel protects the fruit, restraining the Divine flow from being dissipated. Kabbalah distinguishes between two realms in Kelipot, the completely impure and the intermediate.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qliphoth

In chapter six of this book he discusses reincarnation and Kabbalah. Here he writes that most mentally ill people are in fact not mentally ill, but are in fact possessed by evil spirits. He commonly refers to these as clippot or blockages.
I know a woman who has been locked away in a psychiactric ward twice because she felt that she was being bomdarded by evil spirits and I can testtify that she is as normal as any who are deemed mentally fit. That definition, in itself, is suspect. I believe that between 70 and 80 percent of all who live display “abnormal behavior” at one time or another and that in most of those cases an invading spirit of evil is the cause. Rites of exorcism might heal far more of the “mentally ill” than all of the drugs and electro-shock therapy employed by the psychiatric community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Berg#Mental_illness_and_possession_by_evil_spirits

Schizophrenia is a condition of the mind that has consequent effects on the body. Perceptions and awareness are altered with the person often hearing voices, feeling persecuted and becoming suicidal. The cause is still a controversial issue. Cultural perceptions in different countries affect the incidence, treatment and possible outcomes for sufferers. Yoga has been shown to give many positive benefits to people with the disease for maintaining balance and harmony in their lives. However, there needs to be a lot of further research and verification of the effects and benefits of yoga for this condition.
-http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1997/esep97/schizo.shtml

This article is easy to associate with Swami Shivananda Saraswati and Swami Satyananda Saraswati so, to start with, it’s in the healthy direction.

Satyananda for quite reasonable causes have wanted to point out certain similarities between Kundalini awakening and psychotic behaviour or even schizoprenia.

On the other hand I’m not sure how advanced psychiatry is as a science. Many it’s practitioners could be in their own way stupidly arrogant when they actually are still too ignorant. First of all you have to make money.

When Jung started to go crazy, in western occult terms, he simply became a Dweller of the Threshold!!!

Or one could also say that he just met the Lesser Guardian of the Threshold!!!

Sorry fo my broken English.

HOWDY

Ps. DWELLEROFTHETHRESHOLD=BABEOFTHEABYSS?

this is natural selection filtering soft and and hard because hard protects

hard vs soft produces maximum intensity

this is not neutral

it means separating the phallus from the anus.

it also weeds out softness