Alchemy
There are infinite ways of converting darkness into light. Why is it then that people do not find any of them? One important standard for deciding which person is ready for the healing process is founded on the answer to this question. People do not find any of the infinite ways to convert dense energy to light because they are not choosing light; they are still rooted in density.An understanding of the chakras should illuminate this point. The Chakras are closely related to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – which states that in the stages of a human’s development, a person ascends through a hierarchy of sources of energy ranging from biological, safety, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization.Let me get back to the chakras again. I would like to establish a few points before any of this starts to fit into place. As an energy worker, I am willing to speak out and generalize on certain specific ideas at the risk of ridicule and even ending up being wrong. My truths are my truths, coming from my experiences and my perspective. Only. Its validity ends where my awareness ends, and whether there’s value in any of these for you, is all up to you.I’ve worked with more than a thousand people after almost two years of going around the Philippines sharing the energy I found in Palawan. Based on those experiences, I notice two kinds of people.The first of the two is highly receptive to the Inner Dance. I’ve touched several people for just a few seconds on their crown before they stand up and start dancing as if they have been trained to do these intense yet comfortable movements professionally their whole lives, even if they never did them once. Others react so well to it that seemingly impossible sicknesses are healed after a few minutes only. Others almost instantaneously activate within themselves a sense of bliss that lasts for days and weeks on end.The second kind is just the opposite. No matter how long I work with some people, nothing happens. The longer I work on them, the more I get zapped to the point of wanting to just drop on the floor and just lay there.What is the difference between the first and the second?I’m not in a position to say that those receptive to the Inner Dance are better people than those who have a resistance to it. What I am in a position for is to make observations from all my past healing sessions and be able to say what makes them different from each other, in regards to their backgrounds.This is going to be complex enough as it is. Let me go straight to the point. The first category have a certain looseness about them. A looseness as to the way they see life. They are those who’ve undergone certain experiences that have led them to believe that there is more to reality than what they see with their human eyes, hear with their ears, smell, touch, taste and often think about. They are people who are not as concerned about the outer, as compared to the inner. I would like to call them The Inner People.The second category have a certain firmness about them. In regards to how they see the world, they are rigid and unyielding as to their set beliefs. For them, the world is static and they work hard at investing a great bulk of their energies to maintaining these truths. They believe that truth is objective, is measurable and static based on truths that are defined by society. For the sake of context, I will call them The Outer People.Not to be too mechanical about it, I’m pretty sold on the idea that we all have in us, an Outer and an Inner Life. To varying degrees. So let’s not put people in boxes too easily.Now, let’s go back to the chakras. The lower chakras are denser than the subtle chakras located near the upper regions of our body. Depending on our stages in life, our life experiences depend on what reality we believe in. If a person’s reality is much chauffeured by his sexual drive, his reality might revolve around this part of the hierarchy of needs we might label the sex chakra. If it is family that defines the person, her needs and satisfaction of needs might revolve around that part of the hierarchy that mostly corresponds to the solar plexus, the heart and the throat chakras.If a person is fine with where he or she is at in that hierarchy – if you ask them if there anything more to life than what you are experiencing now, and he or she says yes – then the Kundalini, the Sekhem, the Shakti energy will keep still in that precise level of reality the person defines him or herself on.I’ve been talking about blockages all this time. I cannot think of a better way to explain why some people’s blocks are just too difficult to remove. The level of Kundalini in which a person resides is determined by beliefs, which in turn is conditioned by the person’s loves and fears. Sometimes, people revolve around certain life patterns because they habitually avoid certain fears or are attracted by certain loves. These patterns often determine which level of reality people believe and consequently live in.Thus, blocks can also be seen as a resistance within a person to move to a different level of reality based on something they are afraid of or because of their addiction to something they believe they love. If a person is “stuck,” it is because their desire to move to the next level in the hierarchy is far outweighed by their tendency to remain in the level they are in.The Inner Dance is really just a manifestation of change. Those who are receptive of the energy provided by the Inner Dance often attest to certain bodily changes more commonly associated with the rising of the atrophied Kundalini energy or the shakti (feminine) energy from the base of the spine to the crown. Here are just some of those inner and outer changes:Either a great feeling of hunger or just the opposite – some people lose their addictions to dense food and transition to lighter food intake such as vegetarianism, raw food, or fasting A short phase of physical cleansing or even sickness (healing crises). Those who undergo this experience withdrawals of toxins both bodily and mental. A feeling of discontentedness as to various aspects of work, the levels of human relationships, etc. Climate changes within the body. Slight fevers or chills. Opening of the pineal gland; seeing visions, having vivid dreams, feeling a new awareness of the world around A readjustment of levels of energy. Bursts of energy are followed by stages of needing to rest Moody people also claim to find a sort of balance regards their swinging emotions. A tendency to become introspective at various times of the dayThese are just a few symptoms of both Kundalini rising and the Inner Dance. Upon seeing this, the logical take would be to ask, “what’s the point of undergoing all those?”The Point. When I was living in Palawan, those symptoms were just a few that I experienced. I moved to Kalipay beach at the age of 28. For two years, my body was subject to all kinds of discomforts. At times, I would lie in bed for weeks not moving, fasting for days on end. Walking along the beach, I would just cry for no reason at all. After a few months of living on mostly raw food, my skin would break out in rashes. If you were to direct the question now hanging in the air to me, what would I say? What was the whole point in going through all that?Before I set out on the journey that led me to this kind of work, I was a fairly negative person. I was moody. Many called me “masungit.” My body was heavy, as heavy as the negativity I couldn’t shake off my head. I had many bad habits and some addictions I’d rather not talk about. No matter how hard I tried to change my life, nothing seemed to work. Without my two years of cleansing myself in Kalipay, and that one year walking around Mindanao, would I feel as light as I do now? Would I be able to let go of the world’s distractions and devote my waking life to healing?Would I still be working as a marketing person six days a week to accumulate enough money that would pay for my rent, fast food, parking tickets, fossil fuel and tune ups for my car, clothes while I live in a polluted city whose noise levels won’t allow me the clarity of thought I’ve been searching for, the bulk of my adult life?It’s a complicated world, and nothing works like we think it does. Like machines. Like cause and effect. Only God knows how I would be now if not for Kalipay, that Mexican stranger, that long walk, and so on and so forth.What I do know is that the road to a cleaner and better life is not always comfortable. From my experience, healing isn’t always a happy-happy joy-joy thing. True healing takes determination, courage, wisdom, and a lot of work (without always having to work).Let’s go back to Kundalini, the chakras and all that jazz. Without complicating things, the Inner Dance is a travelling of the “Who Am I” from density to light. It is as simple as that. Without the same looseness that inner people have, outer people will have a hard time changing. The experience will be very much like a camel trying to pass through the eye of a needle.That said, what makes Inner People loose?The Dark Night. St. John of the Cross said it best. He coined the term, the Dark Night of the Soul. It is that moment in time when you have regarded the great institutions of life – economics, politics, religion, education, even family – and realized that even though there is nothing wrong with any of these, there is a limitation consciousness that prevents us from finding in them alone, a state of unity. It is when you have come to the profound realization that there is something essential missing in life that cannot be found in books, in romance, in TV shows, in burgers, in drugs, in a nice house, a fast car, an expensive vacation, or by memorizing prayers.The Dark Night is a long simultaneous process of doing two things.Letting Go of IllusionsAccepting a Greater TruthThose who are able to survive these Dark Nights are the ones who get tired of looking outwards for happiness, for satisfaction. Instead, they look for truth (what some might even call God) from within the Self. The Buddhists say it nicely too. They often pronounce that “despair clears the way.” Continued, John of the Cross
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