I think I'll stay away from the celibate issue, because the subject matter is so bruising around here. I will say that it has been my experience that the proper use of sexual energy is an essential ingredient in accessing more refined experiences of conscioussness. This has been my direct experience.
But, on slightly different subject, some of the most powerful, (yes, subjective) experiences I have had, have come about from meditating in a full lotus postition, sometimes with, sometimes without, sometimes without the hands on the knees in a mudra position. I have read that this posture has the effect of purifying the nerves. Now, I don't know exactly what that means, but I will say that my physiology felt transfomed when meditating in this position for long periods of time, (half hour increments). Then I would usually have to come out of that posture for a while. Now, it also just occurred to me, that sitting in this full lotus position could very well help in purifying the nerves of the body, but may not necessarily have an equivilent effect on the mind. Don't know. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > I seem to want to say something about this. For those who are skeptical, this will probably give you more fuel, but for those who experienced it, it was really something. > > The longer many of us were with M, especially doing the program and being celibate, the more refined and develop our perceptual abilities became. He used to talk about this a lot. It was like we could extract valid information from the energies and molecules on and around people and could see what was happening on the subtle, energy planes. The whole universe of things flying around on the energy levels became visible to us. It's certainly not easy to describe. To try to point to this, I'll relate a tiny, somewhat different story concerning Mother Olson. She sometimes, God bless her, gave me M's leftovers when he and I were in her home. (Thus taking in a master's energy is a very sublime way to do so.) > She once said, with a chuckle, as we were walking silently along in the evening somewhere and she was perceiving my perception of the gravitas and size of her aura, "Yes, I'm like a whale." > > I'm not sure why I'm putting this here, but if someone else who experienced this kind of thing would care to comment, I'd appreciate it, not so much for any kind of validation, which is totally unnecessary, but perhaps more for nostalgia or camaraderie. >
