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PVK, 1984, January, Cambridge (not, to be precise, Boston) Tape 1 of, if I recall, a Healing Seminar. ---------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTER: Ohayo Genuine El Cheapo MCR-924 Cassette Recorder From the Top of the Midrahov Shop COUNTER #: ELAPSED MINUTES: {000} 00 {100} 08 {200} 15 {300} 22 {400} 28 {500} 34 {600} 39 {700} 43 {750} 45 {765} 46 (END TAPE) ---------------------------------------------------------------- [NOTES FILED OFF TO =pvn84jb1] SIGNIFICANT ERRORS NOTED ON PASS 2 ARE MARKED BY text* (dual exclamation marks, start and stop, thus !text* highlight a particularly striking passage; they do not indicate an error ] [I had hitherto used !text! to highlight striking passages , and should go back to that.] I think my transcriptions are quite accurate; I'd bet that I don't have more than 3 'significant errors' per transcribed tape; I'd also bet, at higher odds, that I don't have more than one. A 'significant error' is the omission or mis-take of substantive term; I make many more errors with terms of only stylistic significance. N.B.: I have assumed this is from the Abode, and so put an 'a' in the docname; but a passing referene to 'Boston', even tho it's not met with the appropriate laugh, indicates that this seminar was in the Boston area -- ie Cambridge, since there's nothing in Boston now that they tore down Scolly Square, and the North End too -- in the '50's, I think -- I did attend one at one of the Radcliffe outbuildings -- somewhere just off Brattle St., near Mercer Circle if I recall -- Saphira Linden of the Boston SO would have organized it, so she's bound to have the Master of this Tape -- especially if the Abode doesn't have it -- So anyhow, it's the last less-than-ten-minutes before the start of PVK's lecture at -- the dreary modern cafeteria in Harvard Yard, opposite the Coop -- and the Abodeniks who came down with him, and a few hangers-on like me, are down in the gents hurried washing our face, and gargling, and so-on -- the usual ablutions from Islam, or rather a sort of secular approximation of same, tho I at least didn't realize taht that was their source -- and I turn to Gedalya Persky and say, it reminds me of the minutes before running an (indoor) track race, when everyone's hurriedly getting themselves ready} ------------------------------------------------------------------- N.B.: This tape is unusual, in that PVK makes many 'false starts' -- says something, then takes it back (as oone can tell by but only by rhythm and voice intonation, sitting at the lecture, one would barely notice that -- to rephrase it more accurately -- I think this is because here he is doing a bit of intellectual development of the concepts, and accordingly speaking a level faster than usual in many places -- I use [[double-brackets]] to set off those 'false starts' -- meaning, things PVK said but seems to have immediately withdraw in favor of another phrasing -- not that in general thely're false, just that he found a more precise phrasing, or sometimes wanted to make a different, or more complex, point -- so occasionally they can be useful -- Like, I use [single brackets] in accord with the editorial convention -- these are words that the speaker did not say, but which are helpful here to bring out the sense he intended -- See, I need {squiggly-braces} to set off my own interjections, and (parentehses) are needed to punctuate parenthetical remarks -- tho mostly I use for that -- dashes -- or even, commas,.} like, that ain't optimal Start transcription (sa), of PVK, January 25 1984, Abode, Tape #1 Tape name "Healing with Light" (C) (P) 1983, Sufi Order, Santa Fe, Tape quality is quite adequate. ------------------------------------------------------------------ START TAPE 84JA1 SIDE A: PVK LEADING MUSICAL CHANT: Kyrie, Eleison. PVK: And now a Muslim chant: PVK LEADING MUSICAL CHANT: Ya Nabi, Salaam Eleikam Yes, Dear Ones: I hope you will agree with me if we will spend most of this evening practicing rather than just talking about theory. I have in the post gone very much into the theory of healing with light and sound -- so much so that there was very little time remaining for the actual practice. Of course, I'm sure that most of us have heard of cases of rather miraculous healing, have taken place -- unaccountable for by the normal -- scientific knowlege that we've accumulated. So that the minds of people in the space age, or wholisitc age, is very open to alternative forms of medicine. Of course it's a very challenging -- to scientists to try to account for what's going on -- and it's possible that -- hopefully if we did know more about the processes, perhaps we would be able to heal more efficiently. I'm not sure about that: maybe it's just as well we don't know how it works. I wouldn't dwell too much on the mechanism of it, rather than the spontaneity. So researchers refer to alternative forms of energy, like psi energy, or tai chi energy. Personally, I think it is -- at least for those of us who are sceptical about healing with any ?fine? [or?: 'by']means, whether it's magnetic force, or light, I think it's comforting to be at least au fait with some of the latest research on the subjects. For example, Proessor Mattayama in Japan has measured the actual magnetic field in the area of the chakaras of contemlatives, -- but I think the most exciting aspect of his research is what we might call 'mind over body' -- the fact is that when a person concentrates very strongly on a particular chakra, the ammount of energy in the magnetic* field in that area is increased tremendously. Now his more recent research is even more exciting, and I myself visited his laboratory in Tokoyo, where he has installed a photoelectric cell. And he's able to measure of course the amount of photons that are emitted by the different parts of the body, particularly of course the chakras, but of course the most interesting aspect of his research is that if a person -- generally it should be a person who's used to meditating -- concentrates very strongly on a particular chakra, the amount of luminescence produced is great enough in order to produce a [or: 'the'] reaction in a photoelectric cell, so that ultimately of course, one can measure the amount of light that we radiate. And I think the day will come that, quite apart from alpha-[wave] meters, we'll also be having bio-luminescence meters, and/or photon meters or whatever, and be able to measure the amount of light we emit. Which is a good thing, because it should persuade us -- convince us -- that what we are doing is really tangible, and in fact -- bio-feedback is ?always? [or: already] useful in some way. And then of course it might also help us to direct energy in a particular way. I don't think that -- and at least most scientists today would doubt -- would doubt that the body -- bodies of all organic beings does emit photons, but -- the ------- actually, mind-over-body is not that clear, and that's an area where we feel we have to work. However, this is apparent by studies that have been made with plants, as you know, by Clyde Baxter, who showed that -- even his thinking about causing damage to the philodendrum caused a reaction in the philodendrum that one could measure as an electromagnetic field. {84ja1-N1} And the -- what is more, Mrs. Wohl [or?: Wald] has been exposed to a lot of research -- you know Mrs. Wohl is a very wonderful healer -- and she was subjected to a lot of researrch in laboratories -- and was found that she was able to -- for example, cause some kind of patterns in a cloud chamber -- you know, a cloud chamber is -- like they place methyl alcohol in what they call an alcohol mist chamber, and -- on a block of ice -- and there are emission of certain amount of vapours -- {A100} but she's able to produce patterns within this vapour -- even at a distance of several miles, which could not be accounted for by the presence of a magnetic field. ?A? Magnetic field would cause patterns, but not at that distance, of course . And she was able of course, to -- well, change the colour of crystalization of copper salts, and -- the hydrogen bonding of water, and surface tension of water, and -- I'll spare you a lot of the details, which are I -- very, very I think convincing. And even enhance the growth of seeds into plants, and so on. {84JA1-N2} I imagine that in the case -- most frequent cases of healing, it is simply the electromagnetic field that is operating, I mean, peoples -- you know, the body does generate a certain electro- magnetic field -- perhaps -- it may be the other around; it is very well possible that the body is formed within the electro- magnetic field {84JA1-N3} {84JA1-N3} {N.B. (sa): PVK seems to develop this notion extensively in Zenith lectures -- that the body is formed within an electromagnetic field as 'template'.} -- and that seems to be the conclusion thatt one arrives at when learning about the research made at the -- at Columbia University on the regeneration of bones with -- that are -- fractured bones, for example, in older people they don't grow very fast -- in a coil, a magnetic coil. The extraoridnary thing us of course is that they have been able to -- Dr. Becker, and so on, have been able to regenerate a limb, for example, that has been amputated from a rat -- which -- I mean, well you could do that with a frog, but not with a rat -- which shows that the -- our capacity of regeneration has -- regenerating the body -- is in some way connected with our electro-magnetic field -- and we seem to have lost the faculty of the more primitive animals and plants have -- and somehow by the artifice of - you know, appending a dynamo or something X? to your electro-magnetic field, one is able to enhance the electro-magnetic field. So one thing is clear, and that is that the body is -- let's say, the electro-magnetic field is like the mold in which the body is formed. But , as you see, some of the properties that some of the healers were able to exhibit -- although very close to the properties that would be produced by a magnet, are still -- differ from that, in that for example there's action at a distance, for example -- so we're dealing with something far more complex than anything that falls within the normal purview of science. For me what is very interesting is a subject of research in Russia during the last years [ie, immediately prior to 1984]. You know that the, of course -- all organic matter is continually disintegrating, to the extent that the electrons are stripped of their protons -- of their nucleus -- the atoms are stripped of the electrons, let's say -- and finally, that can be measured by Kirilian photography as you know -- that is, what the Kirilian photograph measures is actually the amount of free electrons and protons -- and also the ionization of the air in the area of the - - of the film. One doesn't use a lense, ass you know, but it's simply the fact that all organic material -- matter -- is continually disintegrating, to some extent. Now the extraordinary thing is this - again, mind over body -- healers who have been examined show a rather abnormally large corona, from their fingers for example -- but at the moment when they consider healing a person -- then immediately the coronoa becomes very bright, and much larger-- even just at the thought of healing. And -- then of course one can measure at the same time the brain waves -- and it has been found that at the moment when a healer even considers healing a person -- it's [or: is] just about preparing him/her -self to heal -- the brain waves are -- shift immediately from -- very quickly, like in the case of Mrs. Wald, very very fast, from beta to alpha, and even right down to theta, which means they are slowed down tremendously. So that actually what the healer is doing is getting into a state of meditation. Now that kind of a process, which consists in the -- well, the distintegration of matter, and the free electrons, is called 'bio_plasma', by the Russians. And so it's of course generated in a -- I mean, it's happening all the time, but of course enhanced very much in a high-frequency field. That's why it's possible to photograph the corona much more easily in a high-frequency field, but it's happening all the time. Now what interests me is -- well, the influence of the electro- magnetic field let's say of the body, upon the bio_plasma -- bio_plasmic emanation -- which means that -- and of course the effect of mind over body, so that if we are -- concentrate very strongly on our magnetic field, we will increase the bio-plasmic emanation. {84JB1-N4} {84JB1-N4}{N.B.: Elsewhere, eg Zenith, PVK leads practices that involve concentrating on one's magnetic field.} These emanations -- which [as] I said, are free electrons and protons -- (?)and(?) ionized material -- form streamers -- which - - what do they call them -- 'plasmoids' --- which move in -- at large distance in space. And that would account for the fact that some healers are quite successful in healing, at a tremendous distance. Now what we want to do -- Now the second point I want to make is that -- the bio-plasmic field is like I suppose, the mold in which the aura is being formed. And that -- you see, bio-plasma is simply a phenomenon of electrons and protons, whereas the aura is photons -- and as you know, in nature there's a continual exchange between photons and electrons. {A200} Now that's as I much as I -- Well, I'd like to say something more -- -- [about] the physical aspect of what we'rre doing -- According to Schroedinger, the body -- the fabric of our body is composed of what he calls aphasic crystals, liquid crystals, that is -- aphasic, they can change their phase, their frequency, whereas in a mineral crystal of course the phase of the electrons can't be changed, the atom can't be changed -- all that does ever change is of course the electrons that absorb light from the environment and consequently free themselves from their shell, or the orbitals within their shell -- and are able to start dancing - - and as soon as they have expended the eneergy they fall right back where they were -- like if you had an aunt who inherited a -- given you a -- you had inherited a fortune from your aunt, you probably wouldn't clock in every morning in the typing pool, you'd go on a world tour -- but once you've expended all the money, you might find yourself right back to where you were before. {84JA1-N5} So that's exactly what the electrons do. And that accounts for the fact that a crystal does not simply reflect, or refract light; it emits light -- out of its own body -- you see -- and so do we - - We are continually absorbing light from the environment, a process that in the plants is called photo-synthesis; we don't have the same -- we don't have chlorophyl in our blood, but we have something like it, rather similar, which is carotene; and we have the ability of course to absorb light -- and there are many physical functions in the body that could never happen without light. For example the formation of Vitamin D, for example, or -- well, many other processes within the nervous system -- calcium, the fixing of calcium -- Light is used in therapy -- in medical therapy. For example, children with ?bilobodin? are given blue light to correct their inability to fix bile, for example -- Radiation is used -- I mean, high-frequency* radiation is used in cancer therapy, but -- I came across, some time ago, a very wonderful man who was doing radiology, in a hospital -- but he said that the amount of light that he was using would never be accepted by his -- supervisors -- if they knew the kind of use that he was making of light -- he said, I'm healing with light -- I'm not destroying the cancer cells, I'm building up the immune system -- {84JA1-N6} Now that gives us a great clue to what we want to do -- we want to learn how to use -- the energy of light in a creative way, instead of in a destructive way. I know that light is used in Russia -- use laser beams in acupuncture, for example; and I think there are a few people in America who do it -- I don't know how legal it is -- with apparently good results -- but I think it is playing the Apprentice Sorcerer, but -- it's one of the techniques used now in -- one of advanced techniques used now in ccancer therapy is using -- is threading laser beams through glass ffiber into the area of the body which is affected in(?) the cancerous growth -- But then we won't go into that too much -- I'm thinking much more in terms of the use of light in order to, as I say, enhance the body's regenerative facultiies, rather than the use of light in order to destroy those -- cancer cells. There are other methods for that, and there are many new discoveries at this time, and I can't announce all -- many of the things that I know myself, because they haven't yet been accepted by the medical profession; but I can assure you that there are -- that the healing of cancer is really within hand, within reach, at present -- I would say -- if you are healing -- either a cancer patient, or a person with any kind of heart trouble, I would be very careful about using -- the laying-on of hands -- because -- just because of the bio-plasma, which is, as you know, infra-red radiation, rather than the higher frequencies of light; and if we're working with light, we will have to know how to tune the emission -- either from our hands, or whatever, through our eyes, or whatever part of the aura we use, according to the kind of frequency that the organ requires in order to -- to be healed. I mean, exactly in the same way as you can enhance the regenerative forces in a limb, for example, to regenerate, by using a magnetic field, a magnetic coil -- electro-magnetic coil -- in the same way, you could use light -- but you know, the advanced research now in the subject shows that the frequency of the field [sa: ie, the colour(?) of the light] is very important -- and for each organ there's a particular frequency -- and so if one knew the 'language' of the cells of the body, one would be able to, let's say, communicate to the cells what one would like them to do -- like, you'd be able to call upon a response of the cells -- you'd be able to "sing the body electric" [a quote from Walt Whitman] -- and if that is so with the electro-magnetic field, then it is even more so with light. {84JA1-N7} I would say that healing with light - and when I say, 'healing with light', I'm not talking about using laser beams and so on, because that -- {A300} well, you can read all about that XXX -- but the particular kind of emanation of the body has qualities -- that of course you can never repeat -- in an artificial -- by an artificial transducer -- Perhaps you know -- this is one last detail then -- perhaps you know that the colour of a ruby, for example -- of course you know that the colour is of course -- what we call colour is -- the mind's appreciation of the frequency of light. And maybe most of us know - I hope you do know -- that in fact the whole universe is immmersed in light -- and if the Universe originated in the Big Bang, which is a very tremendous radiation - - outburst of radiation -- and that radiatiion is spread throughout the Universe. And you know that what we -- we think that we are perceiving objects -- in fact we don't perceive objects at all --- all that happens is that there is an interference pattern that builds up between the light that is emitted from our eyes and the light that is flouresced -- or refracted, or reflected, or whatever -- from the objects -- [or better] -- from the so-called 'objects', because in fact the very word 'object' is a concept of the mind. There's no such thing. These are props which enable us to -- live in the nitty-gritty. So that really speaking, what we call 'vision' is an experience of communion, of light with light -- I mean, it's an interference pattern, an interaction between our light and the light of the environment. And together with that 'inter-face-ing', there's of course an 'EXchange' which takes place, so that perception is never just soley perception, there's always a certain anmount of absorbtion of light from the environment -- and a certain amount of radiation on our part that takes place -- and sometimes an alternation between the two. Now of course what we want to learn to to is to absorb light from the environment -- like the plants do, of course -- photosynthesis -- And certainly we'll want to learn how to radiate and how to direct that radiation the way we want it, for the purpose of healing a person. What is more -- and this is -- Yes -- Well, let's complete what I was saying about the ruby(?)-- So -- you know that of course in the atom -- like sodium for example -- it is the the unpaired electrons -- what they call the venous electrons -- that are -- let's say, on the outer shell, that are kind of loose, and let's say less bound -- and that will more easily absorb light -- and forming a vapour. Now in the case of the ruby for example -- well, of course it's made of molecules, which is a crystal of course, with lattices of molecules -- and of course you know that , a crystal is one of the great marvels of life. You know, that the -- that the molecules should have ordered themselves in perfect lattices is -- is an expression of the harmony of the universe. And it's because these molecules form more or less perfect lattices, that light is able to pass through -- depending upon the frequency of the wave of course. And is also refracted. So . So they're not just transparent, but they refract light and reflect light, and what is more emit light and transmit light. Now the ruby ?has? [a] particular radiance, of red, and is due to several factors you see -- when you have a molecule, of course, the unpaired electrons are paired, of course -- I mean the valence electrons are paired, with one another, and consequently -- it would take a lot of energy to stir, let's say, the electrons, that have got very very stablized, you see. But the -- one of the reasons for the fact that a crystal can -- can emit light, that is, can flouresce, is because there are -- there are free unpaired electrons, sometimes in the smaller shells. Now I'm really talking to physicists here, because most people don't know what I'm talking about, I think. And secondly, because of something that is very interesing: namely that within the -- ruby is a kind of aluminum oxide -- but within that there are little impurities, due to presence of chromium. And that chromium -- well, let's put it, trying to make it short -- is -- gets embedded in octra-hedron of oxygen ions, and the consequence is that -- well, there is a distortion due to the fact that somehow the aluminum and chromium electrons are kind of attracted by the oxygen -- oxygen plays a very -- I would say, if I may -- risk being very unpopular with the ladies -- oxygen plays a very 'feminine' role in the chemistry of nature. It has a kind of a luring effect, an attraction upon the hydrogen -- that causes a kind of stress situation -- {A400} [Note (sa): The class laughs. One has to -- only for pleasure not for additonal scientific nuance, hear PVK's intonations here - - quite subtle. Again, I do now think thatt a [verbatim, of course!; optionally with an appended edit] transcription must be conjoined with an audio disc copy of the tape, preferably the original tape.] and it is that stress situation that causes the crystal to be -- let's say, sensitive to light -- and consequently it is, this time, it is the paired electrons that get displaced -- So that's what they call 'lagen-field'. There are many other causes for colours, but we won't -- it's not a course of physics here this evening. But what is interesting is that if, as Schroedinger said, the body is comoposed of -- the fabric of the body is very much like that of the crystals, it's aphasic crystals -- therefore truly enough, the cells of our body are capable of flourescing, and that's the cause of the aura. Flourescing -- that is, absorbing light from the environment, and re-(e)mitting it, transformed. What is more -- and that's another particularly interesting point -- phosphorescence. Phosphorescence is nott the same thing as flourescence; phosphoresene is the ability to burn the substance of your body to produce heat -- Ah -- to produce light. Like the glow-worm for example, or some deep-sea fish. This is the secret of the Tibetan practice 'tumo'. {84JA1-N8} The ability to kind of -- you know, the Tibetans will kind of sometimes sit through the night in the snow -- it gets even colder than Boston -- in the high Himalayas -- and they have compettions to see how many sheets they can dry on their back, that have been plunged into the icy water -- {84JA1-N9} It's -- and they demonstrate the ability of the body to increase its temperature -- simply by will, at will -- it would be very practical, if one didn't have to have central heating, one would just produce heat out of one's own body. {84JA1-N10} But one be burning potatoes, instead of coal. I mean, one would -- it's one's own food that will be -- onee will need more food in order to produce that heat -- it has to come from somewhere(!) -- {84JA1-N11} But that ability can be used -- not jsut to emanate -- to emit heat, but to -- that same energy that can be emitted in the form of infra-red light [ie, as infra-red, which is called light but perceived as heat] can also be emitted -- transmuted into higher frequencies of light. {84JA1-N12} And consequently we could enhance the light of our aura, not simply by the light that we absorb from the environment, but also [[from the light of our own body]] -- from the energy of our own physical body. So: Let that be then, a preface to what we're going to do: And then of course we'll have to go into working with sound -- There will be points of course where the use of light and sound are -- are joined together -- and so occasionally I will have to refer back to the theory again -- So: Mind over body: that is, the ability to to modify physiological functions -- not by an act of will, but by an act of imagination. I know that one of the claims of yoga is that there is no function of the physical body that cannot be controlled by the will. I must say that: I've come to point when I disagree with that. It is not the will that does it; it's visualization. For example, if you visualize that you have -- imagine that you have ice cream in your left hand, and a hot cup of tea in your right hand, after a few -- practicing every day for a half-hour, after about a month you will -- if you measure the temperature of your hands, you will find that there's a tremendous difference hetween the two. That's not your will: you couldn't will your right hand to be hot and your left hand to be cold. And if you visualize it, yes, that's the way you do it. In fact, if we drive a car, it's because of our visualization, it's not because of our will. We'd never be able to -- master all the muscular motions that we need to drive a car by our will -- never. That's a great secret: If you're able to lift your arm, it's not because of your will, {84JA1-N13} it's because you can visualize your arm being lifted. And this the secret of 'mind over body', particularly in healing. {Comment (sa): That would seem to have implications for the design of possible therapies for restoring function to persons who have suffered partial paralysis.} That being so, I hope you do not think then that we are simply indulging in imagination if we apply creative imagination to the practices of imagination. {A500} So -- I would like you to start by being a little aware of your magnetic field -- magnetic field of the body -- the life field of the body -- Well -- Visualizaiton might be a little helpful. You've all -- at school you've all, I suppose, learned how to place a magnet on a piece of papaer, and throw some metal filings around the magnet, and observe the kind of patterns that are formed by the filings. {84JA1-N14} Well, that's exactly what happens around the body. And inside the body. A beautiful pattern, which obeys certain harmonic laws which are -- very complex of course -- but if I may make a first attempt at defining them, I would say this: Well -- again -- once more, for those who are a little bit familiar with physics -- they conform to Schroedinger's patterns of nodes in an atom. The same thing that is to be found at the atomic level is to be found at the microscopic level. First of all, you may be aware of -- a kind of centrifugal force that extends -- centripetal -- no, centrifugal, I'm sorry -- that keeps on moving out and out and out -- you see -- ?of you? -- and -- the opposite, when you inhale -- you may experience centripetal -- that is, an involuted force -- so -- so, alternate between inhaling and exhaling -- as you inhale, concentrate on a kind of contraction of the energy field around the shoulders for example, around the body -- and while it's being contracted, it seems to be enhanced by all the energy that one draws from the enviroment, so it's like -- pumping a tire, for example {84JA1-N15} Pressure is increased, and then as you exhale then -- right, then the energy reaches further and further -- of course there's no frontier to the electromagnetic field -- it peters out, the further one gets -- but you may {84JA1-N16} Experience how you can consciously extend it [ie, extend your magnetic field ] You see, my experience of rishi's, in the Himalayas, and dervishes, has shown to what extent -- humans beings are able to develop a TREMENDOUS magnetism -- the plants seem to flourish in the presence of these beings {84JA1-N17} Now this is again, purely -- not an act of will, but an act of visualization -- I think it's good to concentrate on -- communicating life wherever you go -- {84JA1-N18} Like "Where e'er you go, the blushign flowers shall arise, and all things shall flourish" -- as you know that poem -- [ie, a libertto of Handel ] That's as you exhale. As you inhale, I think it's useful to realize that -- there is more energy in outer space [[per square]] -- per cubic centimeter than there is -- in the environment of the planet -- that's one of Dr. David Bohm's remarks {84JA1-N19} So that what one is drawing into one's magnetic field is -- is of course the energy of outer space; but maybe that is the energy that manifests as the electro-magnetic field of the planet. {A600} You know that of course there's a contnual exchange between our electro-magnetic field, and that of the planet -- Or: Our electromagnetic field is a part of the electro-magnetic field of the planet, so -- as you inhale, you're drawing energy from the electro-magnetic field of the planet into your electro- magnetic field, and as you exhale, you're doing the other way 'round; you're -- extending your electro-magnetic field into the electro-magnetic field of the planet. And that of course extends right into -- that of the whole universe. All right. Now: Perhaps you realize that -- the point of junction between the electro-- I mean, every point of the body, every part of the body is a point of junction between your electro-magnetic field and the electro-magnetic field of the planet. But if you're sitting cross-legged, it is the point at the bottom of the spine that is the point of junction par excellence -- and so now we're dealing with a new -- I spoke about the first pattern, which Schroedinger calls the S-pattern -- that's the centripetal-centrifugal -- and now we're talking about another pattern, that he calls the P_pattern. There's polarization between the top of the head and the bottom of the spine -- the -- SAHASARA(?) chakra, and the MULHADARA chakra -- So -- As you inhale, draw energy through the spine upwards, and -- one should transmute that energy as one goes along, -- and as one exhales one does the opposite, one draws a finer form of energy, which I like to call 'CELESTIAL ENERGY' -- ?but which the? Ancients used to call 'PURE SPIRIT' {84JA1-N20} downwards, down through the spine. So now you're dealing with two -- a polarization of energy, a grosser formm of energy through the bottom of the spine, and a much finer one descending from the top of the head. Ok, now we could start making -- learning something about whirling energy -- For example, if you take your left hand -- your right hand {84JA1-N21} and place it [ie, your right hand] in front of your heart center - - and make an unscrwing [ie, counter-clockwwise; for one tightens a screw clockwise] motion, you'll be 'churning' the magnetic field - - I hope that you are able to feel a churniing effect -- like just churning milk, for example. I hope you can feel that -- {84JAN1-N22} Make -- not just a circular motion, you can even make a spiral motion, moving away -- but it's anti-clockwise, it's unscrewing -- Ok -- now you can do the same thing with your temple, for example -- your -- on the right side of your [forehhead] -- the right temple -- you could again do this -- unscrewing motion -- and the temple is certainly(?) more sensitive!, you may feel the magnetic field a little stronger there -- {A700} And you could do the same -- the opposite motion with the left hand -- I don't know whether you can co-ordinate your hands, to do these -- motions that are opposite -- it's a very good exercise in co-ordination -- {A710} [END RECODING ON SIDE A, I THINK [YUP, END SOUND SIDE A] [END TAPE SIDE A] {A762} [END PASS 2 (PROOF-READ AGAINST TAPE) OF SIDE A. ================================================================== [START TAPE SIDE B] [START SOUND] [SOME TEXT-LOSS ON TAPE-FLIP] //?see bit? cleared, like. Ok, and you can do the same thing on the top of the head -- you can make an unscrewing motion on the top of your head -- and that's much more ?centripetal? -- you can feel the magnetic field much stronger at the top of the head -- So -- it will take away your headache, if you have one. Now you can place your hands -- the palms of your hands -- close to ?one? another -- and be aware of the magnetic field -- there's some -- a way of kind of enhancing one's field -- and then you'll find, if you try to press your palms, it's kind of difficult; there's a kind of resistance. Like pressing a rubber ball. Right. Now, if you place your fingers of one hand opposite those of the other, and keep on pulling them apart, you will feel a kind of a - - tension betweeen the fingers. Like theree's a stream_line of energy that is being -- wrenched apart, between the fingers. Ok. So we have been working so far doing -- at least getting a little bit aware of the -- electromagnetic field. Now let us see if we can [[do a first -- ]] make a first attempt at working with the aura and the magnetic field. So: [[As you exhale -- well,]] As you inhale, could you consciously absorb light from the environment. You know, when you're sun_bathing, for example, [[you're -- ]] unconsciously you're opening the pores of your skin to receive [[this -- ]] the light of the sun. {84JAN1-N22a} Now one can do the same thing if one imagines that the universe is a universe of light -- now, it is, but most of us don't realize it. For example, at this particular moment, there's not just the light that is -- the electric light, the artificial light in this hall - - but light from the -- stars, and from thee galaxies -- the center of the galaxy -- {84JA1-N23} and from the [other] galaxies, of course -- is reaching into this room, passing through the walls -- very high-frequency light -- hurtling through space at the speed of 186,000 miles a second -- And so, even if one were to sit in the absolute dark, at least what appears to be dark -- one would still be in some way -- impacted by the light of the universe. Even in a very dark cell. I remember a sanyasin in India living in a -- he hadn't come out of that dark cell for about -- more than 10 years -- most people would not be able to do that -- Ok. So -- now -- you -- There's a way of -- it's not just opening the pores of the skin, but -- lending oneself to the action of light upon one. Absorbing light. One finds that -- !people with schizophrenia are very often people who are -- well, blocking the action of the light of the sun upon the fixing of calcium in their -- in the sheath of their nerves -- there's a psychological refusal of light -- a blockage of light -* {84JA1-N23a} and the -- when you're meditating you -- lend yourself to the action of the light -- if you do not simply think in terms of the -- [half-laugh:] artificial light around yoou -- but if you think of the light of the stars -- it's again, mind over body -- you're opening yourself up to the action of high-frequency light, rather than -- the lower frequencies of light. Now remember that it is the nerves that are -- the nerves are much more light-sensitive and [[have much more bio-luminesence -- ]] they carry much more bio-luminesence than -- than other parts of the body. And then the nuclei of the cells, rather than the -- external part of the cells. And consequently the area [[that is the most -- ]] that absorbs light, and also radiates light most -- is really the brain and the main trunks of the nervous system -- [[that is the -- ]] You know, there are three main trunks, one in the center of the spine and then the two lateral ones -- the afferant and efferent {B100} nerve [systems] -- or the systems of the sympathetic and para- sympathetic system. So then, I would -- concentrate on -- that kind of axis of your body, which is the spine -- and particularly [[this -- the way that it -- how can I say it -- ]] the way that it blossoms forth as a kind of flower at the top -- in your skull, of course, as your brain -- ?form? the brain; it's like a flower -- And you might do this -- you might be aware of the colour red at the bottom of the spine. And of course the auras of people differ, but on the whole there's a kind of -- principle, whereby the -- the aura is very much follows the same kind of sequence as the spectrum, or the rainbow, except it's upside-down, the opposite of the rainbow -- that is, red at the bottom, and -- blue and violet at the top -- and a kind of a diamond-like -- diamond-like hues right at the top of the head, above the skull as a matter of fact -- and then a lovely golden colour in the heart center -- and then green in the throat center, and orange in the -- well, the -- solar plexus, ANNAPURA Chakra -- So there you have a polarization* of light, going from the infra- red to the ultra-violet -- and it's just like a flame -- there's burning intensely -- Now you could enhance the combustion of this flame by -- "burning intensely" -- that's the word of JELAL-AD-DIN RUMI X -- "burning, burning, burning" -- you can just simply BURN intensely -- imagine that there's a hot braize at the bottom of the spinal cord -- like burning coals -- and then it gets ccooled as you get further up, into a very lovely, heavenly blue -- in the area of the eyes -- and X?* violet in the area of the third eye -- a cool light -- Now if we come back to the centripedal/centrifugal -- distribution, let's say, of light -- then you'll find that it is the heart center which is the real -- center of the aura -- it's very much like a sun -- {84JA1-N24} and you can radiate that light -- consciously, and willfully -- far and wide -- this is where I find that it is very useful to know that, not only are we affected by the light of the stars, but -- the light travelling from our aura eventtually hurtles through space at the same speed as the speed of the light of the stars that reaches us -- that is, 186,000 miles a second -- just imagine, that the light of our aura can eventually hit a star -- except that of course there's a wave-interference pattern that it forms, but the extraordinary thing is that, as you know, waves are of course able to extricate themselves from the wave-interference pattern, totally unscathed -- light waves, for example -- [MIC NOISE -- a reverb ] PVK: See what happens So -- burning brightly -- reaching light out into the -- into the -- into(?) space. Now remember that -- we're doing this just now -- I don't know how familiar most of you are with meditation -- but if you were to do this every day, you would find that your aura would increase trenendously. I remember a Being in India -- who was just -- he radiated light just -- oh -- actually, one could -- it was just like a body within -- within a light. If you entered into his cave, the first thing you saw was light, and then you'd realized that there was a body within this light . It's a matter of practice: if we were to practice with light every day with light for hours at a time, you would find that your aura would increase tremendously -- in radiance. And this is the sine qua non, of course, of healing with light. Now there are other factors that we must take into consideration. And that is that there are moral considerations: like having resentment against people, or hatred against people, or giving expression to violence -- will immediately destroy one's light; and of course untruthfulness, or any kind of manipulation will of course destroy one's light. So that it's not good enough just to practice with visualizations of light; but one has to undergo a real catharsis within one's being -- SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE: Can't hear. [Although the sound level on the tape, at least in my G2, is fine] PVK: -- one has to undergo [PVK TO THE SOUND ENGINEER: Can you put it up a little bit] a catharsis in one's being -- so that one {B200} [PVK TO SOUND ENGINEER: Yes, it's not -- it's not happening [although the sound level on my tape is more than ok, and seems slightly augmented] [REVERB ON TAPE. PVK TO SOUND ENGINEER: Now it's a bit too high. Yes. PVK TO AUDIENCE: Can you hear me now. Is that all right.] PVK: [A bit of reverb on the sound] All right. Now we can pass on to the next pattern in Schroedinger's patterns, and that's -- he calls it the D-pattern - - and it is like -- the atom is quadriated,, it's broken up into four -- [PVK TO SOUND ENGINEER: Can you bring it down a little bit; it's too high now. It's a bit to high. Ja.] {84JA1-N25} and like you could cut an apple in four, for example. So you have cardinal points, you see. And those cardinal points are represented by the arms and legs. You will find them of course in the kabala -- Chesed and Din and, you know, Chochma and Binah, and Hod and Netzach -- you have these cardinal -- two cardinal points -- structures that are interconnected. We won't go into that, because -- well, it would be very ineresting; but there's very much for us to do this evening. Ah -- this is interesting for healers, because of the use of the arms, particularly, for healing. The ability to radiate the energy, not just centrifugally, but in four cardinal directions -- the energy that is radiated through the legs can be polarized into the infra-red, and reaches right into the earth, acts as a kind of earth {84JA1-N26} {84JA1-N26} {Comment (sa): Sic, 'acts as a kind of earth'; but maybe PVK here means: acts as a kind of 'ground' [in the electrical sense; a kind of 'grounding'.]} And then the arms can be used, not simply -- and the hands, the palms of the hands and the fingers -- can be used not* simply as instruments to communicate the magnetic field, but to communicate light. So -- could you think of this now: You know the St. Andrew's Cross -- and if you're on your own, perhaps some time meditating, you could stand up and form with your body a St. Andrew's cross, you see -- and then really -- literally reach out with your arms and your legs -- you could also do it lying down, on your back -- and -- reach out with your arms and legs -- stretch out your arms and legs -- and consciously radiate light through the tips of the fingers, and through the tips of the feet, you see -- and gradually you learn how to -- thread the energy into the -- into the arms and fingers. OK: Now what we want to do now is to determine the kind of frequency of light that is required for a particular -- to heal a particular organ. And that is -- there are, as far as I know, no norms -- in medicine for example: where, in which case, does a doctor use infra-red radiation -- it can be used in those infra- red lamps, of course -- and in which case would a doctor use ultra-violet -- well, generally speaking, as I said, to destroy cancerous cells; but blue* light is already used in the case of children -- babies -- and laser beams are being used, as I said, in -- as acu-points. But very much of it is trial and error, for the moment. Now the beauty of the human being is of course that we have a built-in bio-feedback system, so we should be able to FEEL what is the kind of frequency that is required in this particular case. Now it's very subtle; it's not just red, or blue, or something like that, but it's a matter of a very fine distinction in the kind of colour, the grade of the colour -- whether one does it consciously or unconsciously, [of] that I'm not absolutely convinced -- but -- I would invite those of you who are interested in working with healing to simply experiment -- you know, all research is experimentation -- and -- it takes a lot before one reaches a definite conclusion about these things; it's a very enigmatic area, of research. But I would advise you to -- if you have a guinea pig that is prepared to serve you -- someone who has a headache, for example -- or a stomach ache -- and you're able to work with -- not just your magnetic field, as I say, because that's just -- well, that's too easy, I mean -- but I mean, the future forms of healing will be using light and sound. At least that's what I would like to predict. So you could for example work with -- experimentally, like -- supposing that you were working with blue light, then I would say -- you should not use your hands; I would ssay, you would use your eyes -- and there's a practice that one can do with the eyes, which -- perhaps we could do now, if you like: Imagine that your eyes are beams, or rather than they emit beams - - two beams, like the headlamps of a car --- into the dark -- and those beams are cast at infinity -- so now you're not using your eyes anymore as instruments of perception, but you're using them as -- {B300} as I say, as headlamps of a car. Can you do that. {N.B.: This is a practice which PVK has often led.} So you imagine that those beams are breaking through the dark. And if you like, you can imagine that the photons are hurtling through space, at the speed of 186,000 miles a second. Concentrate all your attention on this. Now I would say that -- you know, according to the Tibtans, the -- at least the third eye, is an emanation of the crown center. They don't consider the AJANA Chakra as being a Chakra on its own, but simply one of the poles, let's say, of the -- of the crown center. The eyes of course are an extrudance of the brain. So they're of course related to the energy of the crown center. What I would suggest doing is this: As you inhale, you turn your eyeballs upwards, press the bottom of your tongue against the palate, and -- concentrate on an area above the head. And -- maybe you will be sensitive to the particular emanation of bioluminescence at the top of the head, which is, as I say, much more in the range of white light, which is a mixture of different colours of light. But if you -- if you follow this up a little bit, you might find that there seems to be like a -- like an -- spectrum surrounding this clear white light. At least some -- coloured reflections within the -- in the periphery of it -- something like a rainbow. You know, that within the diamond, for example, there are reflections of blue, and green, and so on. It's very very subtle. So -- that is as you inhale. Now as you exhale, then I would consciously thread that energy -- that light energy -- above the crown center, down into the eyes, you see. And then forward into, of course, into outer space -- so that it is really the light from above the head that you are projecting forward, rather than the light of your own eyes, you see. I think that's important; I see some danger in using hypnotic power, or what I call 'Luciferian light', which is -- like, thinking that one is radiating light out of one's own being, rather than simply tranducing(?) [or?: 'translucing'] the light of the Universe. In a particular way. {84JA1-27} Now the acid test consists in being able to open one's eyes while one is consciously casting light forward -- without allowing the eyes to be forced into focus by the presence of the objects in the room. Now if you can do that -- It's very difficult; you have to overcome the natural programming of the eyes, that simply respond to the environment -- The best way of doing it is to -- close your eyes as you inhale, turn your eyeballs upwards, and reach right up, way above your skull - -I mean, concentrate way above your skull -- into what the Church -- Ancient Church Fathers used to call 'the Uncreated Light' -- though it's not light in terms of physics -- or maybe one would have to go into advanced physics, like 'worm-holes' and so on -- except that !there are several universes intercepting one another* -- [sic, 'intersepting', but maybe a mis-speak for 'intersecting' -- except that it does sound as if PVK started to say 'intersecting' and then took that back for 'intersecdting'] {84JA1-28} And then only open your eyes as you -- as you exhale. And as soon as you find that -- you begin to see the objects, then of course you should -- inhale again, and close your eyes -- you'll find that the objects look like a blur-- but the less you perceive the better; if you concentrate very strongly on reaching out light, well then you won't be very much aware of the objects at all. Now what I suggest is that you imagine that the two beams are blue light -- beautiful sky-blue -- you know that this is the kind of colour that yogi's see during their practices -- JABA -- {B400} and also people doing astral projection see bodies in a -- blue bodies, light blue -- I think all it means is that one is attuned to high-frequency light, instead of the lower-frequency light of the infra-red and so on, and even the yellow -- or it may mean that beings of a superior nature have gone through a process whereby -- of catharis, whereby only the higher-frequency light of the aura persists, while the rest -- has been eliminated. Anyway: Imagine that the blue colour, then -- Now this is just -- a thesis, and you could try it out yourself -- a hypothesis -- You could try emitting blue light into the third eye of a person who has a headache. Now I want to point out that when Mrs. Wall, [or:: Wohl?] for example, started to heal, her brain waves shifted from the Beta to the Alpha and even to the Theta, which means that she got into a state of very deep relaxation. And it has been found that the effort that one makes in order to heal, stands in the way of the healing. There's a kind of arousal that -- due to -- well, the excitement of, you know, the satisfaction of healing -- which would bring one right back into Beta again. So the healer is someone who -- well, of course in the language of healers, one becomes of course an 'instrument' of the Divine Power of healing. Now I believe myself that -- we're all the Being of G_d, so I -- as Ibn 'Arabi, the great Sufi metaphysician says, we are both that which is manifest, and that through which it is manifest. And therefore I don't believe that we are just the instruments of the Divine Power of healing -- but the fact of thinking so will make one passive, and -- it would counter any kind of ego-trip that one might be [or: bring] in -- into healing -- so in that sense of course it's very useful -- but what I do mean is that there is -- it's very important to reach a point of great quietude, and peacefulness, and not try to impact ?with? the person, with your being. I think it's -- the best way to do that is to be very deeply moved by the -- the Splendour of the Heavens. I'm not just talking -- well, I suppose I am talking metaphor -- but you see, if you watch the whole process of life, -- the way the Sufis do, that is, you sense that which transpires behind that whih appears -- then you will earmark a kind of a -- a quest -- the pursuit -- ?a pursuit? -- the pursuit of excellence -- in everything, the way things happen; and you'll realize that ultimately , the ultimate goal, although it's far from being reached, is Splendour. And I find that healing is part of that -- the energy of healing is enhanced by ecstacy. You can't do it in cold blood. Just wanting to do it with your will. If you're moved -- as are the healers I have known -- by the marvel of the Universe -- then -- and you concentrate on the higher part of your aura -- the area around your eyes -- as I said, the eyes emit a blue light -- in the more advanced aura -- and for those of you are inclined towards a Catholic -- or a Christian, have a Christian background -- I remind you that of course it is the coolour of the Virgin Mary. The immaculate. And one can only emit this {B500} blue light if one's whole being is -- dedicated to a very pure cause. And I find that it makes it easier to -- to open one's eyes and thrust blue light forward, if one is in a state of what the Sufis call 'Hal', which is intoxication by the Splendour of the Universe. And then the person is -- as I say, one isn't trying to impact the person, one is -- as a matter of fact -- you see, if your eyes are offset -- you know, !nobody likes you to scan their face* anyway, so it's -- if you -- if your eyes {84ja1-n29} are offset from their usual focus -- and they're not totally scattered -- for the moment they're scattered, but if you get them a little bit closer to -- the way they would be if you were looking at the face, but just offset -- so you can't actually distinguish the features too well, but you're not -- your eyes aren't too scattered -- then you'll find that you begin to perceive the 'eternal face' of that person. And that -- the 'Countenance', ?as I? say, rather than the face -- and that Countenance is so beautiful, is so beautiful that you are moved by the beauty of let's say -- of G_d, manifeseting in this person. And the consequence is that your -- the light that you emit is going to be absolutely in attunement with -- with the -- how can I say, the higher parameters of that person -- the higher aspects of that person -- because the aspect that materializes, normally, in the body and in the personality, is a very small and inadequawte fraction of the reality of the Being, which is far richer than anything which could be -- that manifests. {84ja1-n30} So that one is really -- one is healing the body through the mind, or through the soul -- rather than simply healing the body, if you understand what I mean. I -- personally I don't like to make these distinctions, between soul and body, and mind and body, because they evidence our tendency of categorizing, of thinking in terms of concepts -- But let's say that, one could say, there are several -- 'frequency_levels', of one's being -- and we're touching upon the very high frequency -level -- which will affect the lower ones -- again, these words are -- concepts, of course. Now -- if you find that the colour that a person needs is a -- a golden colour, like -- that's the radiance of heart, like a solar -- the person is in need of a solar form off energy -- then of course that's where the hands are very useful. But now remember this: I talked about the cardinal points -- there are several cardinal -- 'structures', let's say -- criss-crossing within the body. {84ja1-n31} Perhaps you remember the six wings of the Seraphim -- {84ja1-n32} Well, those wings are -- the emanations, streamers actually, emanating from the temples [of the forehead] -- that's one pair of wings -- perhaps you know that there's the Greek picture, or statue of the heaad, with one wing, a streamer coming from one of the temples [SIRENS OUTDOORS, IN BACKGROUND -- So this surely ain't the Abode; and probably is in Cambridge, just off from Harvard Square] Of course these are emanations from the bio-luminesence of the brain that -- in that area [of the temples of the forehead] of course there's less bone-structure, and so the emanations are able to filter through much more easily -- {84ja1-n33} And then the second pair of wings is actually the -- the shoulder- blades, that are depicted as the wings of the angels. And curiously enough, {B600} those emanations are -- those wings, let us say, are generally folded in the case of most people -- because -- they form a kind of mantle of light -- I'm talking metaphorically of course, also - - but according to the Sufi's, we protect oour backs with a mantle of light --- perhaps you know, there's an area that is extremeley sensitive, just beteween the shoulder-blades in the back. It is the point where Parsifal -- where the lance of Parsifal struck ?Afortras? [I don't know the legend] -- in the Grail legends. It's a point of junction between thsoe two wings, those protective wings, where one is very vulnerable. And that's a point where -- if you escape, if you're not facing a problem, that's the place where one is affected -- one is running away from a problem, there's a great tension there, in that part of the body -- if there's pain, of course, you feel it in the solar plexes, but if there's a fear -- and as I say, if one isn't facing a problem, then that's where it is. Now -- when there is no fear, one opens one's wings -- one stretches one's wings -- like the eagle stretches its wings -- and you can do it literally -- you can literally -- working with light, you can literally stretch the wings of your aura behind you -- believe it or not -- and the conseqeunce is that the radiance through your arms is increased -- so that when you're healing with your hands, don't just concentrate on your hands -- remember that the energy of the hands is balanced by the energy of the wings -- that are invisible, of course -- and I would suggest then thinking of the heart center as being of course the center of that -- St. Andrew's Cross -- yes, it's the St. Andrew's Cross -- it's a -- there are four points here -- and the heart is experienced as being a golden sun, you see -- and that is a -- be a very intense concentration -- can you do that now -- just concentrate on the -- like a miniature sun -- which extemds far and wide, so it's not just limited to what you imagine -- the heart plexus to be -- Ok now: Reach out with your hands, palms forward, and -- still conscious of the heart center, as a sun -- and then you'll be conscious of the tremendous radiation -- a kind of golden radiation that comes through the palms of your hands, and also through the tips of your fingers -- and remember, still, be conscious of the wings at the same time -- open the wings, behind you -- that's right -- Now this is a practice that AIKHANATON used to do -- Aikhanaton -- perhaps some of you are familiar -- he was a Pharoh in Egypt, and he was a precursor of the New Age -- he lived -- too early {B700} somehow, his Message came too early, and it didn't live very -- it(?) was very short-lived -- but he had this vision of -- well freeing oneself from the -- from the cult -- I think it was, of the Ram {84ja1-n34} And it was a solar -- a solar cult -- the arms, that are like the emanations of the sun, in the heart -- {84ja1-n35} reach out towards the sun and the sky. And there was this wonderful communication between the sun and the sky -- and the sun and the heart. It's something that one has to experience -- Hazrat Inayat Khan once said -- just imagine -- the sun looking at the sunflower -- and recognizing something of itself in the sunflower. And the sunflower looking at the sun. And recognizing itself in the sun. That's a very beautiful metaphor. So: Discover the radiance of your heart by thinking of the sun -- and of course in the Zoarastrian tradition the -- we have several souls -- I mean, a whole hierarchy of souls -- and one of them is derived from the sun. As a matter of fact, perhaps you realize that of course !our bodies are formed out of the fabric of the planet, which -- belonged to the companion star to the present sun.! You know that of course originally there's always a binary system with two stars, companion stars, and one of them remained the sun that we know, and the other was -- has become strewn into rings, which coagulated into planets. So that our bodies are formed out of the [[companion sun to the star --]] companion star to the sun. And so even our bodies have a -- have a solar origin. And realizing one's solar origin gives \\ [END SOUND SIDE B] [END TAPE SIDE B] {B756} [RECHECK END OF G1] [RECHECKED G1: NO TEXT-LOSS FROM G1 TO G2; BUT THERE IS A NOTABLE REDUCTION IN TONE QUALITY. I USED A SONY TYPE 1/NEC1 90 I THINK IT WAS AN EL CHEAPO: DIDN'T EVEN INCLUDE A LABEL SHEET.] =============================================================== End Pass 1, sa Mevo Modi'in, 30 May '04; 10 sIvaN Spelling checked. 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