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What do Bruce Lee, Jahn Warner, & Rutger Hower have in common?Dragon Exercise~
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Dragon Exerciseby Jim Slagle Quiet serpent, coiled, asleep;
resting in unconscious deep.
Does this image, of sleeping snake with eyes still closed
Convey the situation as clearly as we supposed?
Or is this sleeping one more actively reposed? Let us now one
moment take
To see this is a lively snake,
I am the one asleep.
The serpent is awake. This is a serpent that will not be leashed.
It is an unlimited, immortal energy. It is merely a fantasy to
imagine that such a powerful force can sleep! It is always active
in our lives, even when we think it is asleep. If we think it is
asleep, it is merely finding its creative expression through our
unconscious actions. While the kundalini remains unconscious, it is
a serpent. Only by raising it to consciousness can it become a
Dragon. -Daniel Watson Most of us are probably are already adept at
our own individual techniques for directing and moving creative
energy. We develop these techniques naturally as part of our
struggle to cope with the mundane problems of daily living. Perhaps
we don't always consciously realize the remarkable extent to which
we really do more and direct energy. One way to approach this
Dragon Exercise is to presume that it ushers in access to a new or
more intense experience of vital energy. An alternative perspective
is that this exercise merely brings into conscious application a
process with which you are well acquainted. What heretofore may
have been practiced unthinkingly can be engaged with deliberate
intent. There are many ways to approach The Dragon. Perhaps you
will enjoy this one: Begin Grand Terminus Phase One - Human Begin
by switching on the juice, whatever that means to you. Perhaps you
have a favorite chi-kung technique that you would enjoy using for
this purpose. Move some electricity. Switch on a little heat. Build
a fire in any way that pleases you. (Perhaps you can try this
exercise using different "fire starters"; perhaps it might be
useful to play whatever method - familiar, or made up in the moment
- strikes your mood at the time). Now, dare to be a little wild,
and let this lively force flow through the internal pathways and
channels within your body. Now, wilder still, let it begin to
emerge from the crown of your head. Although we will be connecting
with distant realms in this exercise, for the moment let us keep to
a more localized focus. Accordingly, let this energy emerging from
the crown of your head remain within your immediate sphere of
influence, entering back into your palms. In this way you can
create a whirling pair of wheels that spin at whatever speed you
choose. Keeping this first circuit still spinning, let now add
another. This will be getting even wilder, so perhaps you should
take a breath or two, to brighten the existing flow. Now let
additional streams emerge from the crown and circle back into the
soles of the feet. These can be like streams, or like electron
shells, concentric spheres. Energy now rising up the spine is
flowing out the crown. It circulates around such space as you have
given it, entering back through four entry ports: two palms, two
soles. At each such interface the entry can be smooth, or perhaps
you may care to add some embellishment at any of these points. As
the artist, the composer of this dance, add whatever flourishes or
swirls or such may suit your mood. Regardless of your changing
style, be it ornate or austere, your tweaking the energetic flow in
ways you find delightful exert a powerful allure to Dragon energy.
This is the fabled "short cut to big energies by walking through
delight." Complete this phase by adding now the fifth and final
circuit, flowing up the spine, and out the crown, then arcing down,
entering the base of the spine. This is the micro-cosmic orbit. You
are running vital energies through a human vehicle. This is a
wakeful human state. Spending time here creates magic. Phase Two -
Earth What you have going now is the starting point for what we
next suggest. Keep the first phase orbiting in all its channels
throughout this next step. Out of all this lively, fiery dance,
send a powerful beam of your own essence deep into the Earth. Run
the orbits. Crank the fire. Press them down upon the core of the
deep Earth. Dread not dark energies there, but accept them as they
are. Light and Dark are indeed opposites, as are such polarities as
masculine & feminine, empty & full, freedom & destiny,
etc.. One may tend to favor light over darkness, but from that it
does not follow that Light=Good and Dark=Evil. (For example,
Feminine=Dark=Evil is obviously malformed, notwithstanding any
consequences of pestering the wrong women with such an idea) At
this place, deep in the earth, are dark energies which can be
helpful. It is important to know how to use them constructively. It
is not "dark energy" but, rather, that which separates, and names
things as "evil" that is Evil. -Daniel Watson Technical Note 1:
Some traditions associate Earth, feminine, and darkness. Things
buried in the symbolic unconsciousness of Earth may be things one
might prefer to leave buried without visitation. That might tend to
make this exercise a bit appalling, but what better time or place
to encounter such things? You are dancing your fire in two places
now: in your body, which stands upon the surface of the Earth, and
also at the planetary core. Technical Note 2: The earth's center of
gravity is in direct contact (orbitally speaking) with the Sun's
center of gravity. This is not a Sun meditation, but you are
fooling with what might be termed a "sunspot" here. The moon is
also similarly involved with this center. It may also be worth
mentioning that Sun's center of gravity orbits the galactic C.O.G.
Press it, dance it. If you are new to this, you might experience
fatigue like a T'ai Chi Ch'uan beginner learning to practice the
Horse stance. Well, if you know what to do about that, you know
what to do here. When something at the center of the Earth (a
bubbling spring, a swirling fire, or what ever form it takes)
presses back then it is time for the next phase. Phase Three -
Heaven Building on our prior steps, keep everything so far
established continuously intact as we proceed. Now draw your
personal energy, with darkness of deepest Earth combined, back up
through the bottom of the spine, up along the channel where all the
other orbits are flowing. This new beam of energy, shoot out the
crown, and send it out to heaven. Wildly our dance began, but
wilder still it now becomes. This energy to the heavens send, then
goose it upward more, sending it to dwell and dance among the
stars. Phase Four - The Dragon When the earthly downward beam began
to press back against you, you knew it was time to proceed to the
next step. In this same way, you will know when your connections
with the Stars are well established. Then we are ready to approach
the grandest phase of all. Dancing the skies are energies of Earth
and Heaven now combined. Draw this down -- around or over, through
or past -- existing orbits, so that you are now running a
macro-cosmic orbit in parallel with the micro-cosmic orbit of which
it is a part. Dare to stand here and endure this fire: this is the
Dragon. Little will I tell you about the Dragon now.
Learn of this by your own practicing. When done, find your own way
back. Conclude Grand Terminus Finally, here are a few closing
remarks about this exercise, derived from concepts now in
development for a new book being written by Robert Moore, PhD.
(http://www.robertmoore-phd.com): To practice exercises of this
sort implies that one is taking one's spiritual energies seriously.
This can get one in touch with extraordinary creativity. It is in
fact essential that as many people as possible achieve this, for
only in this way can much practical work, desperately needed in
this time & age, be accomplished. The psychic energies one can
access (by taking one's energies seriously) are so intense that
certain definite forms of containment are needed. Otherwise,
instead of becoming profoundly creative, one might slip away into
psychosis (not the spiritual goal!) or become tediously inflated
and grandiose (also not helpful!). Definite forms of containment
include: Mental Containment - meditation, prayer, reading of what
ever inspirational, philosophical, scriptural etc. material works
for you. Behavioral Containment - particularly physical exercise of
diverse sorts, including yoga, stretching, aerobics, martial arts
forms of many traditions, and more. Relational Containment - keep
company with friends who do love you, and neither hate you for your
achievements, nor idealize you because of them. Their generous
appreciation for all your triumphs & frailties will help you
welcome the mortal being that you are despite the immortality that
dances with and through you as you stand in the presence of the
great Dragon. Jim Slagle is a regular contributor to
SwordMagick.com and has been with us since the spring of 2003. Jim
has a great gift for putting the powerful emotions that can appear
with the introduction of a blade and many of his tales can be found
in his featured column, Encounters with Notable Blades.