30.11.05

 
Dreamscape -

I am in a beautiful dream. My brother and I are guests of the Sufi Master, Rumi. We are located at a Dervish Center, which perhaps, is somewhere in Konia, Turkia. We are invited to stay at the Center while travelling in the region. Rumi personally administers our stay. He gives us a tour of the Center, all the while giving us Teachings on the Path. When our tour is over, we are invited to rest. We lay on elaborately decorated, arabesque patterned sleeping platforms. During our time of sleep, I dream that I am in a dream, wherein Rumi is sprinkling Holy Water over us as we dream. This is my impression. In fact, I can actually feel the physical drops of water being sprinkled on me. I enter a deeper mystical state where a series of wonderful visions come into being. The internal sensitiviy is almost beyond description. Subsequently, we awake and decide to perform ritual ablutions. On completion of our tasks we emerge once more onto the grounds of the Dervish Center. We are greeted by other seekers and become engaged in conversation.

For me, this dream is a kind of blessing, and a remembrance. This is the kind of dream I have experienced before, while I was intensely engaged in Sufi Studies. The current experience is a way of spanning the normal space-time continuum.
posted by Ronn 03:12

28.11.05

 
Excerpt from, Traveller On The Path -

Work on Faculty of the Self as related to the Body

In this area of work, we develop the concept of learning how to focus awareness in the body. Cultivating this special awareness allows a practitioner to experience the dynamic of Qi (pronounced as 'Chi' in Chinese), or Ki (pronounced as 'Key' in Japanese), as the flow of subtle and dramatic sensations within the body. This unique energy of Essence called Qi, has tremendous potential for healing, as well as self-defense.

For refinement of the Self with respect to the body, the best forms are bodywork conceptualized as meditation on movement. Movement here can range across the spectrum from extremely slow to rapid action. Most sports activity, if practiced with the intention of focused concentration, can be placed in this context, along with disciplines of dance, Feldenkrais methods, and similar studies.

From a spectrum counseling perspective, the emphasis is on Orental Martial Arts. Three styles in particular are recommended: Aikido, Qigong, and Taijiquan.

There are, of course, other martial forms such as the various styles of Karate, Kung Fu, Ninjutsu, and so on, which all provide beneficial ways of training the bodymind. The three preferred styles mentioned provide almost immediate access to the concepts of channeling energy within the bodymind through focused attention, which helps a practitioner in actualizing intention.

Of the three, Aikido demands the most rigorous physical activity initially, while Chi Gong, and Tai Chi are readily accessed by almost anyone, of any age, providing tangible, and sometimes dramatic health benefits directly. These disciplines are synonymous in terms of providing ways in which practitioners can learn to harness, channel and project energy within and outside the body as this flow is related to internal healing, and external protection.

Roughly, the meaning of terms are as follows:

Aikido = The Way of Harmonious Energy
Qigong = Working with Internal Energy
Taijiquan = The Supreme Ultimate Fist
posted by Ronn 01:55

 
Excerpt from, Traveller On The Path, from Infinity Publishing -

Study and practice of Self-Observation, as well as other meditation forms, requires patience in understanding and realigning one's personality quirks and traits, as these qualities are affected by the unfolding fluid dynamics of the Faculties within the Stages of the Self.

The spectrum counseling matrix of methodologies used during the heuristic phase of work, is applied in terms of those techniques which facilitate unification of the Faculties. Psychoanalytic and pychotherapeutic approaches are not specifically concerned with Faculty purification processes, however, for some people the effects of these disciplines may be a pre or corequisite for spectrum counseling work.

A certain degree of disciplined intentional consistency toward Self-Exploration is necessary for one to flourish in spectrum counseling practice. Preliminary psychotherapeutic efforts can be useful in this context, depending on a practitioner's needs. Analysts and therapists may find that spectrum counseling is a valuable resource in their personal development.
posted by Ronn 01:26