1) What do you mean with other visualization techniques? If you mean a magical system I do practice it along my CGD practices but not as a regular daily practice, only when I need to and also how I recommend doing it. I should state that. It did come out from my practice in a way. In CGD we don't use the telluric energy, we just recognize it and use it as a balancing force instead of getting rid of it like the HOGD, so as such there is not explicit use of it. There is not and explicit moving of energy around the human energy system nor working with energy centers involved either to my understanding and personal experience. It does have an energy component and use of the centers at the soles of the feet but in a natural implicit way. Say, it's one thing to implicitly breathe consciously by becoming aware of the breath and doing it with intention, even though you always do so and quite another to do elaborate breathing techniques. The energy of the earth is always flowing and in contact with your soles, we are just doing it consciously but we are not working with the telluric energy in a concentrated way (like you do in the opening of the SoP where you bring it into yourself and fuse it with the solar current) nor with the centers explicitly (we are not concentrating energy in them, nor opening them) but rather using the visualization technique in the same way that a stretch does to the muscles. You are not exercising them, just massaging them and moving them a little. That said however, I do encourage divination to figure out if it is something that would go well with you since I don't have field data of how it interacts with other people other than myself, but it is not something I am particularly worried about.
2) You are understanding it correctly even though my instruction were not clear! It is indeed classic western meditation posture as in the egyptian statues. What I attempted to explain was that not only should the feet be on the ground but the weight of the legs should not hang from the chair but rather the weight of them be mostly carried by the feet so that your buttocks carry the weight of the torso and the feet carry the legs. The thighs of course, since they are in contact with the chair resting in it. This is important so that the posture is very stable and grounded, the chair only being a platform for you to hold the position. This reinforces the purpose of the exercise which is to be solidly placed upon the Earth. English is only but my second language. I am aware sometimes it is weird. How would you put it?
3) I was not aware of that. This was an original organic development from my practices but I am not surprised it converged, it is a common imagery to see trees and their roots as a symbol of grounding. That said, from the perspective of western magical systems it seems more sensible to me to include the legs and the centers at the feet in classic meditation posture rather than the Mulhadhara chakra, which is of course the one at the perineum. It seems a little odd to me, because in the yoga practices I know the energy is meant to go upwards into the higher chakras, not reinforcing the lower chakras. Yogis usually imagine the telluric current flowing into the perineum upwards, not out of it downwards. But then again, I've not read the book nor know their system.
Many thanks for the thought provoking questions, Augusto
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Date: 2022-02-23 07:27 am (UTC)1) What do you mean with other visualization techniques? If you mean a magical system I do practice it along my CGD practices but not as a regular daily practice, only when I need to and also how I recommend doing it. I should state that. It did come out from my practice in a way. In CGD we don't use the telluric energy, we just recognize it and use it as a balancing force instead of getting rid of it like the HOGD, so as such there is not explicit use of it. There is not and explicit moving of energy around the human energy system nor working with energy centers involved either to my understanding and personal experience. It does have an energy component and use of the centers at the soles of the feet but in a natural implicit way. Say, it's one thing to implicitly breathe consciously by becoming aware of the breath and doing it with intention, even though you always do so and quite another to do elaborate breathing techniques. The energy of the earth is always flowing and in contact with your soles, we are just doing it consciously but we are not working with the telluric energy in a concentrated way (like you do in the opening of the SoP where you bring it into yourself and fuse it with the solar current) nor with the centers explicitly (we are not concentrating energy in them, nor opening them) but rather using the visualization technique in the same way that a stretch does to the muscles. You are not exercising them, just massaging them and moving them a little. That said however, I do encourage divination to figure out if it is something that would go well with you since I don't have field data of how it interacts with other people other than myself, but it is not something I am particularly worried about.
2) You are understanding it correctly even though my instruction were not clear! It is indeed classic western meditation posture as in the egyptian statues. What I attempted to explain was that not only should the feet be on the ground but the weight of the legs should not hang from the chair but rather the weight of them be mostly carried by the feet so that your buttocks carry the weight of the torso and the feet carry the legs. The thighs of course, since they are in contact with the chair resting in it. This is important so that the posture is very stable and grounded, the chair only being a platform for you to hold the position. This reinforces the purpose of the exercise which is to be solidly placed upon the Earth. English is only but my second language. I am aware sometimes it is weird. How would you put it?
3) I was not aware of that. This was an original organic development from my practices but I am not surprised it converged, it is a common imagery to see trees and their roots as a symbol of grounding. That said, from the perspective of western magical systems it seems more sensible to me to include the legs and the centers at the feet in classic meditation posture rather than the Mulhadhara chakra, which is of course the one at the perineum. It seems a little odd to me, because in the yoga practices I know the energy is meant to go upwards into the higher chakras, not reinforcing the lower chakras. Yogis usually imagine the telluric current flowing into the perineum upwards, not out of it downwards. But then again, I've not read the book nor know their system.
Many thanks for the thought provoking questions,
Augusto