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Things have been rolling along quite well. The last time I cultivated for this long, I ended up with a girlfriend. But this time the results are much better…I got a job! That’s what I’m talking about. The energy is all a part of the same thing, the same system. Being able to understand that there is no limit to the amount of energy in this world…just a limit of time. And the problem is that it takes a month or more to properly cultivate a good energy state. I feel like I’ve activated to the heart and throat chakras right now. But that is really just scratching the surface. There has been 3 NE’s so far during 006 and I have no problem with that. But one thing I’ve noticed for sure, is that exercising at the gym and singing is a completely different ball game. I think the gym is a mix of the first chakra all the way up to the heart chakra. Please note that I label the chakra numbers relativistically depending on the goal of the energy flow.

Since I am only 30 years old for one more day, it is important to reflect on life and see if I’ve actually learned anything of true value. One thing that I’ve learned is that cause and effect, sin, karma, and energy are all quite real. By taking notes and listening to my mentors and body itself, I’ve come to understand that backsliding is not a powerful bear that will forever stalk a man in his endeavors. Backsliding is exactly what it sounds like. It is a slippery mountain that has strong gusts of wind pass through it. At first, I was not strong enough or well equipped to even make an attempt to tramp the mountain possible. But now I’ve built some shoes with strong treads, listened to others about correct posture, and exercised the muscles in order to make that mountain seem at least traverse-able in the near future.

Have their been outflows during 006A, yes there has been. But none of them have been full outflows that would require me to reset the cycle to a 007. So for that I’m glad.

I’ve been able to read longer sessions of complicated books like. “The Tao of Physics.” Also other books on Ancient Sumerian history and language have been part of my reading regiment. Blogging has become more constant, and the content produced has been more substantial than brief updates and minor commentary.

The old zen koan of the overfilling cup of tea applies here. I’ve emptied the tea cup and overfilled it so many times than now I’m simply ready for a larger cup of tea.

Being Catholic, I’ve had to come with the equilibrium of what I’ve learned from Catholicism and what I’ve learned from Buddhist philosophy and also Hindu wisdom imparted by friends and gurus. Even though these different things seemed taboo to mix and strange, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am a seeker and always will be. So basically if anyone has a problem with anything I’ll just redirect them to this blog.

There was this AWESOME game called Sid Meyer’s Alpha Centauri. In that game there was a way to have citizens of a city become either a worker, or a disgruntled rebel or a doctor. But some citizens later in the game could actually become luminous people and send positive healing energy to the cities they are in. Unfortunately, I chose the leadership style of eternal suffering by using a “Punishment Sphere” which forced the entire population into permanent fear. This really did a great job of limiting crime and maximizing productivity, but no transcendent citizens were allowed to exist and evolve within such a draconian regime. So I couldn’t reap the benefits of those citizens.

I think it might be high time to replay the game and see what happens if those types of people are allowed to flourish. It could probably be interesting.

Now, cultivating for a little over a month in a cycle made of Swiss-cheese is no where near becoming a transcendent luminous person. But now I have another goal, since I was able to finish school. I know I want to do good work and that seems like it will be very doable. But continuing to cultivate, even though the initial objective has been met is very appealing.

So now the mountain looks a little different. There are plateaus and paths and some have been carved out by others and some need to be chiseled and blasted with dynamite. The whole process is making me re-evaluate the purpose of my existence and especially how I plan on carrying out this existence.

When I was in my late teens and early 20’s, I had this notion that the world was hurt or damaged in some way and it needed to be fixed. Then in my mid to late 20’s I felt powerless and weak to do anything and everything seemed daunting and overwhelming. The past two years have made me realize that the world is extremely complicated, but there are certain systems that we can count on and predict. Also, there are large groups and pockets of people as well as talented individuals that are in the same boat. So my purpose in life has changed to trying to do some big thing, to just picking small steps and focusing on them, and then actually completing the small step that I set out to do. This can be with the help of others or by myself entirely.

By taking a more relaxed, and energized approach to life, I’ve been able to accept help from family members, teachers, mentors, spiritual leaders, and friends. And the end result is that there is less guilt in my life. And that’s pretty good.

There’s less of that feeling of, “I’m on borrowed time.” It hasn’t completely gone away, but it is manageable. And that tiny peace of mind has been worth…well, I can’t even imagine a numerical or physical value for it. So, let’s just say that I’m not interested in giving it up anytime soon.

-Tyler

Lumberjacks to the Max

Ok, so I’m 2 weeks into 006A and things are going very well. I’ve finally learned a few things that could end up being quite useful. The first thing is that I heard a long time about that energy cultivation has to do with the amount of food, water, sunlight, exercise and meditation…and restraint from outflows. I used to think that resisting outflows was the most important part, and it still is. But there are strategies that can be employed that help with the process. One thing that I’ve found through experience, is that food intake is huge. The amount of food and the quality of the food is extremely important. But what is more important than that is the current psuedo “temperature of the furnace.”

Timing is everything when it comes to cultivation, and when it comes to food, that axiom couldn’t be even more true. It’s not just about how much food one eats or the quality of it, as much as the timing in which it takes place. Even though this cultivation round has only been churning for 2 weeks or so, I’m at a much higher energy level than I was even during 005B. The reason for this is because I’m paying closer attention to food intake. By eating too little food, the fire of one’s digestive system looses metabolic power. And by eating too much food at the wrong time, one can smother the flame of his cultivation. So I’ve been exercising when I feel like I’ve eaten a lot the previous day. Then I go into the workout after only eaten a small bowl of cereal (by my standards). And then when I get done with the workout I’ll eat a protein and vitamin bar and then eat lots of food throughout the day and even into the evening. If I feel fat or groggy the next morning, I just listen to my body and exercise the areas that didn’t get engaged in the workout the previous couple days. And if I’m too sore to workout, I simply walk around town for hours throughout the day.

By doing this I’ve been able to limit NE’s to 1 in this two week period, which was near the beginning. And I’m not worried about that at all. Also breathing has been excellent. For a couple weeks I was transitioning from listening to my guided meditation video and listening to music instead. This worked slightly, but now I’m getting back into the guided meditation. I like how the video is only 10 minutes long so when I drift and then come back I’m not hearing anything and it is a smooth landing.

All this combined with even more water intake makes this whole process seem to have a light at the end of the tunnel. It now longer seems like I’m taking shots in the dark.

The next important thing to discuss is sunlight. Sunlight is extremely tricky to talk about because it is basically radiation that can do harm or do good. What I’m realizing is that one doesn’t need a tremendous amount of it in order to gain the benefits. But I find that being in the sun around 15 minutes – 20 minutes at a time every couple or few hours is a good place to start. I’m still learning a lot about this part of things and my findings aren’t as concrete as my analysis of food intake. But so far I can say that sunlight is the bottleneck. You can increase the amount of exercise that you can do, or increase the amount of food intake. But to overdo on sunlight can cause physical problems and turn you into a burnt raisin. So I’ve found that sunlight goes hand and hand with restraint from outflows. Once you expel sunlight energy through an outflow, it’s gone. So it is best to choose wisely.

Today at the gym I felt something that was pretty cool. I was doing some back exercises and after a decent set I took a quick break and felt an energy surge. And I just slowed down and let it sink in, and when I did, with my feet flat on the floor…I could feel through my sneakers the entire vibration of the whole gym. Every stair climb to every step on a treadmill, it was very serene and made remember what a friend once said. He said that Zen masters who attained a high enough sensitivity could eventually feel ants crawling along the ground from meters away. Also what I felt was nothing in comparison to that, it was at least a start…a reminder that I’m on the right track.

One thing to consider is whole, are we really alive, is this some sort of holographic universe thing. I tend to find contemplations like these fun. But it actually doesn’t matter if the world we live in is real or not. The more I think about it, the less I worry about whether or not this universe is just sensory inputs and information…the more fun I have. That being said, there are some distinct advantages to evaluation the universe as information alone.

To put this into perspective, let’s say that everything is just information. Ideas have some information in them…and so do cheeseburgers. How much information is in each greatly depends on the person who shared the idea with you and the quality of the barbeque sauce in the cheeseburger.

When we exercise, we are telling the body what areas to work on. Think about it, lumberjacks usually attain a certain strong body-type because of their profession, it has some things to do with genetics but I think people put too much emphasis on that. So what’s going on is that everyday these lumberjacks go to work, they are using certain muscle groups. And the exercise that they do sends information to the muscles and tendons and nerves that these things need either more blood or nutrients or that they aren’t powerful enough to get the job done quickly. So eventually the muscles get developed in those areas.

What is interesting is that food is a form of information. And drinking water is a way to help decode that information and help integrate it into your body of information. That being said…what is sunlight? Well, if cheeseburgers are information from cows and bread, then sunlight is information from our nearest star called, “Sol.” You DO NOT want to give that energy up. That information is from space, bro!?! Think about it, our sun gets energy not only from its own nuclear fission and fusion reactions that happen within itself, but it also gets some of its radiation from the light from distant stars. There is absolutely no guarantee that 100% of the sunlight we receive comes from our solar system alone. It is much more likely that a very very minute percentage of our sunlight comes from other solar systems and perhaps other galaxies entirely. This helps to explain why surfers and people who enjoy beach volleyball have a certain “glow” about them. They are absorbing information from the celestial heavens.

So there is a balance that can be struck. Sometimes engaging in an outflow may be straight up better than becoming bitter with energy cultivation. 005B ended because I needed to have 100% of my brain focused on graduation from school. I USED the energy that I had spent over a month to cultivate in order to bang out a great paper. And it worked. But if I was more adept at energy cultivation, I could have written the paper and maintained the energy flow as well. But I’ve found that this is a process, and creating the occasional illusory city along the path is perfectly all right as long as one realizes that one is doing so. Anything less is backsliding. And doing that often is a form of backsliding as well, because it is a form of self-justification.

So if water helps to decode the information, then meditation helps to debug the information. This is how a computer programmer goes through lines of code to weed out syntax errors. Or how a gardener will comb a garden for weeds. There are also things that happen during meditation that I’m just scratching the surface on. I’ve definitely found that the longer one has been cultivating, the better the meditation is. When I tried meditating a week ago it was uneventful. But last night I saw a strobe and other things. And a few weeks ago into 005B there was some serious ET stuff going down. I don’t even know where to start with that puppy.

Oh right! This reminds me, thanks for bringing up the ET stuff. You know how scientists are trying to look closer and closer into the fabric of the universe? We have mathematicians and physicists trying to evaluate and examine the tiniest particles and create theories. And the farther they look, they come up with things like quantum theory and other such things. These theories deal with coping with strange phenomenon when looking at very minute and small pieces of information. There are issues with the observer and the observed, the experiment and the experimenter. Well, that process is a way of tickling the very fabric of the universe itself. These scientists are taking a feather to being that we are all a part of and in return the universe gives us a puzzle to play with. The more I read about it, the more it seems like a dance than a mining excavation.

Well, meditation is very similar to the scientists of quantum mechanics…except the roles are reversed. In this case, the still person who is trying to relax and chill is the one that experimented on by the universe itself. As humans in everyday hyper-society we constantly say exactly what we are feeling either through our blogs, tweets, jobs, conversations or even our scents and smells through exercising and pheromones. But when we meditate and get very quiet, we are playing hide and go seek with the universe. It is so used to knowing everything about us, that it gets curious in us. The deeper the state of stillness and the more relaxed the concentration, the more the observer becomes interested. Eventually, some things may revealed to make us simply laugh or smile.

-Tyler

YES! Finally made it to 005B! Last time I wasn’t able to make it past the 30 day mark. But now I realize that Latte’s are my Achilles heel here. The only time I had a NE was after I had a latte no joke. That was compounded with how I wasn’t exercising as much that week. That was because I was sore from doing this exercise thing the week before. Overall I’ve been tired but I’m finally starting to get back into the swing of things.

It’s funny how many things count as outflows. I’ve been playing Heroes of Newerth again with my pals and that is a serious brain drain. But I’ve had enough energy to do writing as well. I just sent out my fourth short story from my pipeline to prospective periodicals and I am extremely excited. I’m keeping a database of all my stories that get sent out so that way I can keep the pipeline of science fiction cooking. And honestly, the energy cultivation has really helped in order to keep the creative vibes flowing freely.

Last night I was really pumped and I was having trouble sleeping after I sent out a medium-length short story. So I basically has three choices, one was to engage in an outflow, the other was to lie in bed and waste time, and the final choice was to listen to some relaxing music and meditiate until I calmed myself down.

So I turned off all the lights and meditated to a song by Can from their Album, ‘Tago Mago.’ The song is called, “Halleleuwah” and it has a bass line that seriously boggles the mind. After listening to the song I must have drifted deep because I didn’t snap out of it till 3AM. By then I was completely relaxed and I went to bed and literally woke up before my alarm at 7:58 AM. So I ended being able to get to school early, that’s a good thing because there was a ton of traffic.

I’ve noticed another thing with all this exercise and cultivation that my eyes have become more clear and less dull. I can breathe very easily through the nose now too. Someone mentioned that pressing the tongue on the roof of the soft palate in the mouth can help with congestion and it worked.

-Tyler

A mirror can have tremendous value

Arrrgh. Wish I didn’t have to have 005A here. I was hoping to be on 004C instead. But this is ok. Everything is cyclical and at least I haven’t gotten sick again. Energy Cultivation is a process that is pretty much a huge part of my life, and it feels like every second counts. I’m seeing time and effort in a different light, and the clock is ticking.

The amount of radiation and pollutants and even pollen-count in the environment is significant. And from what I’ve come to learn from the nuclear disasters both recently and throughout the last century have made me realize one thing. And that is that I’m going to have to strengthen my immune system from the inside out through behavior and diet in order to survive whatever is coming next.

We have shifts happening with the magnetic poles of the Earth and this is having consequences. One of those consequences has to do with the amount and types of electromagnetic radiation coming from the Sun an other sources. Fortunately, the human body is an amazing piece of machinery. And if I Cultivate enough, I “might” be able to counteract some of the environmental changes that are happening. This is of course if my rate of change is equivalent to the environmental rate of change.

That’s why I’m doing any of this Energy Cultivation in the first place. It isn’t about being anything special. It’s simply about surviving to be able to participate in whatever is going to happen next.

I’m noticing massive sensitivity changes to simple things like even a sample-sized cup of black coffee. The digestive and energy-level altering realities make it very clear that the stuff is a mind and body altering substance. That’s what I think the writer meant in the movie, “A Scanner Darkly” when he said, “…even chocolate?” Everything becomes a trip when the body becomes sensitive enough.

Have there been productivity benefits to this Cultivation process? Yes, definitely. I have been making tremendous progress with schoolwork, the music video, science fiction writing and overidon.com. And have I been able to do any of these things without the support of my friends, family and spiritual guides? I don’t think I could have. There are simply too many ways to justify backsliding for me to go solo.

Community is a huge part of any success. And one of the biggest resources that a community can share with a person, is a mirror.

-Tyler