Meditation Breakthrough
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Date: Posted 3 years before Jul 19, 2016
Tobe Terrell 3 years ago
I am a student of Tobe Terrell’s @ Zen Center Ashtanga Yoga with ocean breath pranayama.
During yoga – Kundalini rose so quickly I blacked out – seeing vibrations with many colors – my sons (2) as babies – then I was awake – disoriented _ Tobe was there to comfort me. I Finished yoga – with ocean breaths then went into an instant meditative state – on another plane again for the 5th time – geometric shapes – frequencies and golden Buddha floating by – galaxies streamed past me – utter peace and contentment –wonder and awe at times. I can feel every cell alive in my body. At one point I found myself slowly ascending out of liquid energy breaking through the center of a lotus flower, sending ripples forever out & away…sheer joy & such utter peace & tranquility beyond words…. I am light.
I worked today and found I could instantly enter the gates of heaven again – close my eyes breath deeply. I am at peace. Other energies are around me – some without form – feelings of tremendous joy & serenity accompanying these energy sources. I’ve had no interaction with what I see – just observing.
I am grateful beyond words. Today I am silent. I don’t know how long I will remain silent perhaps until prompted to end my silence…I am learning more than I expected from the silence.
Tobe suggested that I might write Michael in hope of an explanation & insight. However, as I write this I find I am in need of none – I will let this unfold as it will- staying in the moment without anticipating or guessing what will come next?
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing this really meaningful experience as advised by Tobe Terrell. There is a system of lineage gurus whom we are accountable to and who help us in making more progress and in integrating the transcendental experiences we have with kundalini.
Particularly in the case of Tobe, I introduced him in some breath infusion methods which I learned from Yogi Harbhajan Singh, beginning since around 1972. Actually on the physical plane, I met the yogi for the most three times but we kept in touch on the subtle plane, and even currently I see him now and again.
Tobe learnt a few methods from me and he made very rapid advancement which is unusual. Recently Yogi Bhajan has in the astral world expressed to me his appreciation for Tobe’s sincerity and persistence in practice. The point is that we have some accountability to our yoga gurus who assist us by showing these methods.
The process we use is adapted from the kapala bhati / bhastrika pranayama system. This is an ancient system from India, but it has certain nuances and special subtle techniques which one either has to discover or be told about it by a yoga guru. The truth is that some of this can be discovered but some of it one has to learn from an advanced student or from an accomplished yogi.
One important thing to know is that usually we do not teach anyone this. Why? Because we try to get some instructions from the yogi guru even if he or she is not physically present.
I showed Tobe a few things but it was being done on behalf of Yogi Bhajan or on behalf of another yoga guru, depending on what technique it was. So we are always in this personal way conducting the practice.
In the future please keep me posted on your experiences. In fact, if you can keep a journal and write down your experiences sometime after each practice, that would be a service both to yourself and to others who have a keen interest in these transcendental experiences.
Please see these comments about your experience below. Your statements are in bold print:
During yoga – Kundalini rose so quickly I blacked out
Kundalini rising and black-out experience are two separate incidences because the blackout occurs due to kundalini’s effect on the buddhi intellect orb which is a psychic organ in the head of the subtle body.
In some cases what is called a black out is not really a black out.
There are three types of these experiences as follows:
Black-out
White-out
Gold-out
In some cases the student may experience a throbbing in the head after the experience. In some cases the student might even have a slight headache.
In a real black out the student actually loses all trace of consciousness for some seconds, for the most about 3 minutes if it is that long. Then the student returns to objectivity with the realization that there was a skip in time, where the student knows that he or she missed those seconds or few minutes of existence history.
After this happens, the student might be dazed for a short while, wondering what happened, knowing however that something did take place. Some students recall only that there was a dark vast space or a dark-grey vast chamber.
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What is the cause of this type of black-out?
This is caused by the kundalini force striking the buddhi intellect orb with a negative energy charge with an apana energy charge.
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What is apana?
This is the subtle counterpart to carbon dioxide energy. While dong the breath infusion it may happen that this negative subtle energy is not extracted from the body, in which case, if it is pushed down from the navel and it goes around the pubic curve to the kundalini at the base chakra, it might, if it is powerful enough of a charge, cause kundalini to move. Then because it is empowered by this negative charge, it will cause a black out when it enters the head and hits the buddhi intellect orb.
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How to prevent this from happening?
One has to master the locks and must also learn how to look down in the body during breath infusion so as to see what kundalini is about to do. The basic locks are the navel lock, the sex lock, the anus lock, the neck lock and the mind lock. If these are applied efficiently, then the student will see kundalini just when it begins to move from the base chakra. The student’s response to this should be a tightening of the locks, especially of the neck lock and mind centering lock.
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A white out is when a student finds that kundalini has entered the head and the student feels as if he or she is in a sheer shimmering whitish energy. This may be experienced as a mild bliss force, like being in a cosmos which is filled with smiling happiness all around.
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A gold-out is when a student finds that kundalini has entered the head and has caused the core-self to be surrounded by a bright golden shimmering spiritual energy which is in all directions and which has a full bliss aspect to it. While in this experience, the student feels formless as if he or she has no beginning or ending and as if he or she cannot determine where the existence begins or ends. This is entry into the brahman effulgence location which is outside of the subtle and gross material worlds.
Gold out occurs because the breath-infusion-charged kundalini has struck the brahmarandra crown chakra with full force.
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As a student, it your duty now to be sure that you learn the locks particularly the mind lock and neck lock. You must also try to practice breath infusion with the eyes closed or with a blind fold so that you get yourself accustomed to looking down in the body while you are doing the exercises. Certain vigilance internally is required of each student, so that there is no spacing out.
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– seeing vibrations with many colors – my sons (2) as babies – then I was awake – disoriented _ Tobe was there to comfort me.
This experience with the infant energy form of the sons is great. You should read about the experience of Krishna and Devaki, where Lord Krishna, after freeing Devaki (his biological mother) from prison, was asked by the mother for the return of her six sons. Krishna went to another dimension and brought the six sons back as babies. Then Devaki nursed them and was satisfied by that.
Please study the stage of the return into the disoriented situation. This is very important because at the time of passing from the physical body for good, you might also find yourself in some other dimension with some serious disorientation.
Take time to go back over this to see what happened as to if some of your memories were left behind, if some of your tendencies were left behind. In other words if you pass through immigration at the airport, what items did they take out of your luggage. At least know what is taken out and know that you won’t be using those until you leave the country and those items of contraband are returned by the immigration authorities.
If the spirit is its memories, if it is every one of its tendencies, then how is it that it can be deprived of these? This type of study falls under the category of kriya yoga practice.
With mastery of the locks these experience may continue but without the disorientation.
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I Finished yoga – with ocean breaths then went into an instant meditative state – on another plane again for the 5th time – geometric shapes – frequencies and golden Buddha floating by – galaxies streamed past me – utter peace and contentment –wonder and awe at times. I can feel every cell alive in my body. At one point I found myself slowly ascending out of liquid energy breaking through the center of a lotus flower, sending ripples forever out & away…sheer joy & such utter peace & tranquility beyond words…. I am light.
These are experiences due to the awakening of the crown chakra. You must have reached the Tushita heaven where the buddhas reside. It is a wonderful place. Just imagine if you were going to live there fulltime just as you live here fulltime.
There is a story in the life of Buddha, where one of his relatives was hesitant to enter the renounced order to abandon the householder life which was the tradition at the time. So this young man who was just to be married asked Lord Buddha to please allow him to stay back in the householder life and not to become a bhikshu beggar monk who spends the whole life as a bachelor.
This guy complained to Buddha about how he loved a girl and wanted to marry her. Then Buddha caused this guy to go to the Tushita heavenly world. There the guy saw all these angelic women whose bodily beauty was beyond compare.
So when he saw Buddha again the guy said that he would become a monk because he said that his girlfriend now appeared to him as if she was a baboon.
The point is that we have settled for this planet as if it is the only existence.
There is another story about the king of some heavenly astral places. This deity is called Indra. Once he made some grievous mistake. As a result he lost his glory and took birth as a male pig.
After a while, the leader of the deities wanted to have this one person return to the heavenly world but the guy said that he was not interested because he had a female pig for a wife and had several children pigs by her. The point is that so long as we do not experience anything higher, we will go on thinking that this world is everything.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
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Dear Beloved 3 years ago
Great experience! Thanks for sharing. This is definitely not an ordinary experience and I hope you will have more like this, but keep in mind these are rare and cherish this one in your memory. Please keep sharing more.
