Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Awakening the Illuminated Heart

A few months ago I attended an "Awakening The Illuminated Heart" workshop.  I think I shall finally get around to writing some notes here so I do not forget the important material.  These notes should not replace someone going to the workshop, but it can give the reader some idea of what to expect.

So herein this post I have three goals 1) Introduce the ideas of creating from the heart, the merkaba, and why they are important; to whet the appetite of those so inclined to learn more about the subject.  2) Write some notes for myself to remember the important material.  (In the class they did not give any handouts or pamphlets... no hard materials whatsoever!)  3) Relate some aspects of my personal experience that I think are sorely lacking in the mainstream material on the topic.

First for the those of you unfamiliar with this, I will tell you why the material is important.  We are living in a time of transition, from living in a polarized world to a world of unity.  In this polarized world we create using the brain.  The problem with this creation process with the brain is that inadvertently, in the process there are always unintended consequences that cause pain and suffering.  But when we create with the heart we create with love and unity, in harmony with all of creation, such that there are no unintended consequences.  In the next few years, when we transition to 4D and 5D reality, those of us who cannot find the place in our hearts to create with love will be lost.  The creation process based on the brain will not be available anymore in the new dimension.

The final goal of the workshop, after healing and preliminary exercises, is to activate the merkaba, an energy field around ones body that allows one to create with the heart.  The idea is that one must first create the merkaba, and then after that one can create anything else, the merkaba having been activated.  The information has not been released yet, but eventually I hear we shall be taught how to use the merkaba to transition to a different dimension.  How exciting!  If there is a workshop for that then I will certainly attend.  Maybe the people who take the time to learn this will be able to transition before most people do.

There was an older process of creating the merkaba with the 17 breaths and mudras and what-not, but now there is a newer simpler way that creates the merkaba perfectly from the heart, instead of from the brain, that is perfect and permanent.

There is also a theory that when the earth magnetic field collapses due to the pole shift, everyone's memories could be erased -everyone except those who are protected by a merkaba field.  So doing this work may be crucial to being prepared for the next few years.

This is my own personal theory: perhaps by consciously learning how to create the merkaba, perhaps by some 100th-monkey-effect, it will help other people spontaneously develop theirs, so perhaps doing this work is a great help to other individuals who would not have the opportunity to attend a workshop.

For a fuller treatment of the subject read Drunvalo Melchizedek books, also there are plenty of videos on youtube. 

So here are the basic steps of creating using the heart:
  1. Make sure the eight beams around the head are active and pulsating in sync.
  2. Connect with mother earth and father sky.
  3. Travel to the sacred tiny space in the heart.
  4. Have an intention of what to create.
  5. Start rubbing the roof of the mouth with the tongue, the little bump far back in the center where the hard palate ends.  Keep doing this until the end.
  6. With simple intention, turn the pineal gland forward to connect with the third eye chakra.
  7. Ideally, one should see a green spiral or vortex eventually, but that is not necessary.
  8. Breathe through the prana tube, with prana continually coming in from both ends at the same time and meeting at the heart.  (There is no exhaling of prana).
  9. Feel the the beams connect to the created halo and the full energy system connected.
  10. Observe the images and inspiration that come to mind.

So what does it feel like to create the merkaba, to create with the heart?  I am disappointed in the lack of information on the internet about actual experiences by ordinary individuals, so I will write about my experience.  First, to remove the temptation to continue on with qualifiers in every sentence (e.g. "maybe", "I'm not sure but", "it was only a subtle feeling, not 100% it means what I think", "your experience may be different but") I shall just state here I am not 100% sure about all this, and get it out of the way.  The teacher said she could definitely sense that we had all succeeded, but part of me can't help being skeptical, I would think at least one person in the class would not succeed at first.  But the teacher really really did not seem like the type of person who would lie.

I wish there were more dramatic sensations with this process.  I wish that the moment of merkaba activation was marked with the flailing of limbs, rolling around on the floor and speaking in tongues, objects being telekinetically thrown about the room, but it was nothing like that.  Perhaps that would unpleasant but it would obviously impress itself on the mind better.  The sensations I relate here were subtle, only definite enough that I am compelled to note them and relate them.  I am not especially psychic, but I have the knowledge and experience to know to pay attention to the little things.

Okay, finally: here it is, my experience:

The process is relatively easy, requiring only a light altered state like simple day-dreaming.  I really wanted to see the green light and vortex but the things I could clearly see, (as if with my physical eyes not my daydreaming minds eye), were usually short-lived and unclear.  At one point I did see a vortex, a dynamic flowing oval-shaped thing like water circling down a drain.  I always give up on getting any stable visual image, and continue on the next step of breathing prana, and then that is when things get interesting.  I start seeing more colors and lights and shapes in my visions, and eventually I feel warm and tingly all over.  Then I call that done.  This creation from the heart is supposed to be a sexual process between the brain and the heart, so it makes sense to get some feeling reminiscent of climax/orgasm at the end.  It apparently worked for creating the merkaba even though I forgot about the halo, etc. at my first run-throughs of the process.

After finishing with the first process of creating the merkaba, I opened my eyes and got up, surprised to feel like I have a thin flat round solid white disk all around me.  With conscious intention I could sense the counter-rotating pyramids, but spontaneously mostly I just felt a flat white disc centered at my torso that stretches a long distance.  Usually people equate "merkaba" with the star tetrahedron, or a flying-saucer shape, but the most vivid part I can sense is just a simple flat disc, like wearing a some strange, extensive skirt.  I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror after the merkaba creation process, and felt like I looked different, more "clean" or something.

The next time I went to bed, I had some vivid experiences of hearing voices, sleep paralysis, a unique shifting energy motions throughout my body.  The next day I got absorbed in my thoughts, as if I were channelling and downloading information on various topics.  I thought a lot about angels for some reason.  Angels never really appealed to me, they just seemed like mindless, sexless, automatons.  After ruminating that day though, now I have a new appreciation of them, now I see them more as like sophisticated, wonderful robots that were created with great love and care by the cosmic super genius that is "god".

I found myself egotistically fantasizing about showing off my merkaba, about attracting black helicopters, and being detected on sensors and explaining the reality of it to the uninitiated, thereby blowing their minds.  No black helicopters for me though.  The MiB must be used to us merkaba activators by now.

Completing the workshop marks a new era in my spiritual development.  I used to always wear a pentacle/pentragram pendant made of silver that I was proud of.  To me it symbolized having completed all of the pathworking meditations on the Tree of Life, all 22 of them.  Now a pentagram seems a bit quaint to me, it is almost a symbol of polarity.  Often one gets the impression that after this life, after this dimension is just a vast nothingness, that our only choices are an unpredictable chaotic world full of suffering, or a boring static world where individuals just sit on a cloud worshipping god for all eternity.  But now I have an exciting image of the future, of a new world where one can create, live, play without polarity and suffering.  A future that has everything good that we have now, and the potential for even more.

I always hid that pentagram pendant under my shirt, wanting to avoid attention from those who would call me a devil-worshipper or something.  Now I wear lovely elegant heart pendant that I am proud to show off.  Everyone knows what the heart is, and what it means.

I look forward to exploring this new way of being, and experiencing how complex, sophisticated, engaging, and exciting creating with unity instead of polarity can be.