There’s been much confusion caused by my latest articles, so I’d better make it worse by explaining the complicated underlying mechanisms. 🙂

There are some schools of thought, most of them contemporary, that advocate building up the pranic layer which they see as a bridge-level between physical and astral, the theory being that as this bridge thickens, solidifies by the increased amount of energy, the connection between spirit and body will become better. Furthermore, they attempt to then “raise the frequency of vibration” essentially by stimulating the emotional context that is consistent with this thickening of the pranic body. A typical way to do this is by stimulating emotions in the high sexual spectrum – love, adoration, infatuation, that kind of thing. The theory is, if you connect this type of energy with transcendence, you form a bridge that brings spirit into the matter. An alternative to sexual emotions is a semi-ecstatic lovingkindness, embraced by other schools of thought that prefer to stay away from sex. I won’t name names but if you’re reading this you probably know who they are.

In reality, it doesn’t work. The method doesn’t produce people of high sophistication and spirituality; rather, it produces happy zombies, who all look like rubber-stamped generic template of a cult member. To me, this is anything but surprising, and now I’m going to explain why. Be warned: the explanation might be involved.

The first thing I need to explain is the difference between plant life and animal life. Apparently, the way spiritual entities incarnate is very different between the two. With animals, you get a central, integrated consciousness that seems to have a single-point incarnation interface; you have a nervous system that connects to the senses and muscles and, apparently, this central nervous system is what makes all the difference. My working theory is that it’s about the cytoskeleton consisting of microtubules, which seem to be “the secret of life”, because DNA is merely a “storage drive”, and the microtubules actually do everything. They are the reason why a single-cell organism can evade obstacles, gather food etc., without actually having a nervous system. Those microtubules exhibit properties that are very strange, and there’s a theory of them exhibiting quantum computing properties, essentially they interface matter with information. As I would put it, they seem to be the primary instrument of connecting matter and astral, by creating the intermediary dimension (non-integer Hausdorff value) also known as prana, or vital energy in some circles. I can’t actually know if it works exactly like that, but I do know that there’s some property on a cellular level that performs that function. That part I could verify personally, and the rest is a hypothesis. But let me go on. This cellular property of connectivity to the astral substance seems to be concentrated in the neural tissue and the fact that microtubules seem to perform all the computational functions of a neuron and there’s much more of them in neurons than in other cell types seems to lend credence to the hypothesis of the microtubules providing the fractal-dimension connectivity which makes it possible for the physical matter to interconnect with a spiritual higher-dimension reality. The molecular biology of it all is a bit over my head but I came very close to all this simply by observation of how prana behaves.

Unlike the animals, the plants don’t have a nervous system, but they exhibit certain awareness and responsiveness, which seems to exist on a completely different level than anything you can witness in the animal world; although, it’s not completely true. The basic sensation experienced by a “happy” plant that’s been watered is very similar to the basic sensation a human feels when removing tight shoes. There is a certain degree of non-neural sensations that we experience simply on the tissue level, and that kind of sensation is what plants seem to have. They don’t seem to have a central, unified consciousness that incarnates in them, but rather their individual cells create individual connections to astral kalapas that are inherently conscious and this creates the basic ability to experience sensations.

So, with animals, including humans, things function on two basic levels. We have tissue-level primitive connections to the astral, and we have neural-level connections to the astral, which are much stronger, centralized and organized. The combination of the two creates our experience of spirit that is aware and active in matter.

So, finally I come to the point. When you build up the physical excitement level with hormones and what not, you can increase the non-neural interfacing to the astral, essentially whirling up the connection between matter and astral, and you get more prana in your system, but the kind of prana that you get is parallel to your neural-astral connection, and not only that it doesn’t contribute to the bridge between body and spirit, it raises the noise floor and actually interferes with your vertical. But that’s not the only problem; those exercises for building up prana by increasing the sexual emotions actually modify the activity in the central nervous system in such a way that the lowest parts of the brain are kept active and their interfacing with the spiritual matter is increased, while the activity of the higher brain centers is suppressed. The chakras that are usually perceived in the body seem to have more to do with the parts of the brain that are active, and the chakra-sensations in the body seem to be merely a reflection. So essentially, those exercises aren’t bridging spirit and matter and creating a thicker bridge to the higher levels; what they are actually doing is suppressing connectivity to the higher aspects of reality by artificially increasing the lower brain functionality. Some will try to tell you that heart-centered emotions are really high functionality, but from where I stand it’s merely mammalian biologic emotionality and is about as spiritual as any other animal emotion. True, it will all light up when you’re having a spiritual experience, but that doesn’t mean much. If you piss your pants with fear it doesn’t mean that pissing is the way to re-create fear.

Now, I know why people thought it would be a good idea. They had a high spiritual experience that made their entire system active, and they thought that by reproducing the parts of the heightened activity that they can access from below, they will be able to re-create the spiritual experience. I don’t know, that might have actually worked here or there but from where I stand, it’s a cargo cult and it so incredibly doesn’t work. The fact that your heart is pumping when you’re running doesn’t mean that you can artificially make your heart pump stronger and that will automatically make you run fast. The fact that your cock was hard when you saw some girl doesn’t mean you can make the girl re-appear by making your cock hard. It doesn’t work that way.

And the thing is, the yogic traditions for the most part know that. True, they do include some cargo cult aspects but for the most part they understand that reproducing symptoms won’t reproduce the experience, and instead they are working on building up the basic resources and working on the spirit-side of things. Rajayoga, for instance, builds up mental faculties and the ability to focus will, and bhaktiyoga tries to create the intellectual anchors for attaching to God by telling stories that intend to form connection-points in the human brain, and then, if connection is established even partially when a student receives initiation and has a spiritual experience, mantras are used to re-iterate on that and keep the connection working and make it stronger. It’s all much smarter than it can sound when it’s explained by someone who doesn’t have an idea about the underlying mechanics of things, but the concept of an enlightened guru who is a living presence of God, and can initiate the experience in a student who can then iterate and expand on that, it’s very old and it very much works.

So, now that I explained why force-building prana by re-iterating some emotion doesn’t work, let’s see what actually does work. In my experience, all traditional yogic techniques teach some part of the necessary skillset. Rajayoga teaches the stability, strength and reach of mind; learning mathematics and science is actually more effective for accomplishing the same goal. Hathayoga tries to purify and steady the basic, low-level biological interface to the astral, in order to minimize interference and create a steady, calm flow of energy that will not interfere with attempts at meditation and the higher aspects of yoga. Jñanayoga activates the high cognitive aspects of consciousness and simply aims to activate the maximum and extend it. This won’t work when there’s too much interference from the lower sources, but when combined with the techniques that calm the system it works great. The same goes for the initiation-based mantrayoga. It won’t work if the system is too messed up, but if you make good preparations with other techniques first, and then light up a spiritual experience inside a recipient’s mind, he can then re-iterate and expand on that. There’s endless variety of ways in which those basic components can be combined in order to produce specific effects, which is why there’s such an abundance of various yogas.

So yeah. It’s all rather complicated, but there are actually good reasons why some methods work while others fail, and it’s not merely accidental. Do have in mind, though, that everything that can actually be described in this manner is essentially baby-yoga, the beginners’ stuff that is very quickly surpassed once you get to understand how those things work, gather enough spiritual experience and improvise your own specific combination of techniques that work the best for you. At a certain point you no longer practice yogic techniques, you simply shift the focus of consciousness and wield power.