Asceticism Part 2: Physiological

Asceticism Part 2: Physiological

 According to the Taoist teachings of China, the radiant energy of the cosmos is concentrated within the body of men in the form of a spiritual essence. - The Astral Body, Benjamin Walker p. 50
 

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Where does physiological apply in asceticism?

The human body is an enigmatic projection of its own sovereignty.This quality humans contain within themselves is a inquisition we should consider in dire objectivity. The means to ascertain this "soulful" treasure is something that can be compromised by monetary commerce or adorned on a t-shirt. This process is a cyclical advancement in Reflexivity.This advancement is an achievement of the "Self;" this self, I discuss, is representative of one's own 'soul.'

The ascetic techniques to gain this power is what i will discuss in this blog. I want to emphasis this as a "Diet." This "Diet" should be a perpetual, steady process of unveiling and procuring the 'Self" with knowledge, nourishment, and vitality in the body-mind-spirit aspects of ascetic practices.

Mind you all, I live in a Western culture, however, I will have the word "Diet" represent a nuance, refreshment, a progression in detachment. I wish for this blog to implement the enlightenment of one's "Self" through techniques of detaching one from habitual practices that have de-allowed health in mind-body-spirit.

Henceforth, I will discuss information from a couple of sources based: the seven Chakras,  the astral body (auras), and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. All these source will focus upon ascetic practices in reference to the body-mind-spirit; this cohesion in the vessel will propagate the very things that the physiological science invest in educating the masses in health of mind-body-spirit. The human body is a vessel of conscious and unconscious qualities that produces quantities of sovereign matter.Now,  let's see what qualities, in matter of the vessel, we will find resources for ourselves and the environments we reside.

Before I begin this inquisition, let's take a trip back for just a minute or two. For instance, have some of you read Reflexive Thought #11.  I wrote this about a couple months ago, last year to be exact. In this blog, I introduced a term "the Pleasure Ion." As I defined, the Pleasure Ion is the developing elation the body cultivates from the spiritual energy within; an energy that is procure from physicality within the human body from either an conscious or an unconscious euphoria.

Too add, I mentioned the three derivatives of obtaining the Pleasure Ion - these derivative are in pursuit of what would represent a "life force" or "euphoria;" they are:

• Mind (Synergetic) - the active state of imagination projecting the will of one's quality in existence within the vessel.
• Body (Kinetic) - the active motion in physical exercises and physical therapy of the vessel from the use of energy within.
  
• Spirit (Cardiotic) - the active respiration of the breath cycling throughout the vessel in a continual process of surplus-storage of energy within.
  

The application of these three derivatives will bring into fruition the qualities the vessel contains within. This discovery of the Self,  while resident on the earth, is the unique embodiment of the Pleasure Ion.

This minor piece of review should wet the senses just a bit. The Pleasure Ion represent a small icon of what you can discover in ascetic practices of the mind-body-spirit matter. There is another bridge you must cross, in order, to ascertain this wealth of knowledge. This fountain of vitality is awaiting your arrival. If, you want to know how to get there, then you start by reading the information below. This will start the journey on to the path of enlightenment. Shall we begin?

CHAKRA

Chakras are the body's energy stations. These stations are located in seven areas of the human body. Each locations have single function: http://www.chakraenergy.com/chart.html. These Chakras are great suppliers and stores of energy.

The flow of energy in your body is connected to emotional and physical events that result in bodily reactions. Thus, in Hindu and Buddhist tradition thought it is believed that body is contain in two different forms: a physical form and a energy form.

Leaning how to regulate this energy is a basic tenement in aligning the seven energy centers known as Chakras. Practicing simple meditation and yoga technique will allow this alignment to continue its even flow. This alignment will allow you body energy to continually maintain benefits in your physical survival, your sexuality, your ambition, your drive, your feelings of compassion and love, your ability to communicate, your imagination, and spirituality.

Therefore, you should practice different techniques in yoga, meditation, a diet rich in leafy green vegetables, drink plenty of water, drinking herbal teas such as peppermint and sage, chakra or sensual massage, aromatherapy, and writing a journal of your dreams.

THE ASTRAL BODY

 
Gerhard Dorn, an alchemist, expressed the belief that men have in them an invisible substrate unlike anything found in nature that represented their essential selves. "Within the human body," he said, "there is hidden a certain metaphysical substance known only to a very few." (Cavendish (1967), P. 173)

The idea of Chakras is to storage and supply energy in the vessel-we know as the human body. The Astral Body is like a 'fluidic spirit' separate from the physical state of the vessel. The Astral Body represents the non-physical state the body contains in life and in death.

In producing this Astral Body, there are certain exercises you could practice to procure the Astral Body such as: rhythmic breathing, looking inward mentally, and concentrating on the space between your eyes. These same technique are used as warm-up exercises during Hatha Yoga-I remembered these techniques when I practiced Hatha Yoga at SFSU under Instructor CAUGHLAN

These techniques, along with a slough of others, are central to the existence of the Astral Body; also know as "aura." This aura would be more like a vehicle of the soul. It protects the body from invasions of certain creating an imbalance of both forms-this being the physical and astral.

Furthermore, the Astral Body is a shield, protector of the Self, the soul. This form is just as important as the physical form. Anything that penetrates the Astral field into the physical will cause havoc to the balance created by the ascetic practices maintaining health. The importance of Astral Body is just as dire as the alignment of the Chakras.

TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD 
(Below is Part 1 & 2 of the movie by narrated Leonard Cohen based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead)
PART 1

 

PART 2

The Tibetan Book of the Dead offers an ascetic guidance in mythological realms of the Self. The book mentions the Five Elements. These elements are: Fire, Air, Water, Earth, and Ether. These elements are the function essential to the path of Enlightenment and Emancipation , as stated in the Bardo Thodol.

However, the Buddhist view declares there are the Three Buddha Bodies, which are standard analysis of the mind-body-spiritual continuum in attainment of enlightenment-in terms of Reflexivity the projections of the inner state of the Self.

These Three Buddha Bodies are:

• Truth Body: Phase: Death; Sleep-State; Waking Trance.

• Beatific Body: Phase: Between; Dream-State; Waking magic Body.

• Emanation Body: Phase: Life; Waking-State: Waking Gross Body.

These Buddha bodies are attained through ascetic practices of yoga, meditation, and diets consisting of herbal teas, vegetables, and fruits, etc. Thus, you can learn through these concepts how to enter from one state to the next. You will learn how your body can be a guiding tool, an vessel of alchemy.

Also, there is the Body-Mind complex in Tibetan Book of the Dead, which are projected in three forms:

• Gross (the body of the flesh, blood, bone, and other substances that can decode the five main elements).
• Subtle (this roughly correlates to the central nervous system).
• Extremely Subtle (the indestructible crop; tiny energy pattern existing normally in the center of the heart wheel or complex).

This information represents what the vessel can accomplish in a physical-to-non-physical forms. It entails the quality that is contain and the quantity of sovereignty within the vessel.

PROJECTION

All three sources that I choose for this blog are just small in comparison for the number of other things one can practice to achieve this perfection, enlightenment in body-mind-spirit unification. There is so much more you can learn and I hope the information I have provided can help guide some of you in the direction you seek for wherever your journey will take you.

My main function is for any who read this to ascertain these practices, and philosophies as a "Diet" of the Self. Yes, even the soul needs a bit of a tune-up.

These ascetic physiological practices are central to any one's longevity. The answer has always come from within. The solutions have always existed within. The journey has always started from within. There is no substitute for such a phenomenon, the Self. It's unique in its conceptualized existence. If, you choose to live in an ascetic manner you will have to devote your total attention, give your utmost sacrifice, and have complete patience. This is essential in an "Diet;" you must be willing to sacrifice whatever is necessary to ascertain the desired result.

This isn't something that will happen in an instance. The practice from beginning to end will result in what you have given to it. Whether whole-heartedly or half-assed, the result is the projection of your complete attention to detail, to practice, to everything you have provided in this transformation of the Self. If, you have confidence in your ability to ascertain goals this will not be a problem. If, you lack confidence, and want to change your life, this is just the exercise you need to reflex upon in projections. This is the "Diet" you would need to eliminate the body-mind-spirit of its malignancies.

The present is at hand. The opportunity is revealed. The only thing left is to decide: you want to live or do you want to die? This is the first step in asceticism: learning to detach, letting go of the present self in its dysfunction. Yes, non-acceptance of your defeated state. This is a "Diet" of the Self.

This video is Sarah M. Moser. She represents Eclipsism, yet, exemplifies the Pleasure Ion. This exemplifies one of the projections ascertained by this "Diet" of the body-mind-spirit.

Now that we may have a bit clearer understanding of the effective state of asceticism  in the physiological realm, let's pose another inquisition: the psychological. They go hand-in-hand. Therefore, this is the question to consider for the next blog: How does asceticism influence the psychological? Here is something to reflect on until my next blog; the way the mind can develop a sharp outlook on the Self, the culture, and the environment its surround upon daily. What projections would one's psyche gain from this experience?

REFLEXIVITY TERMS

Pleasure Ion: the developing elation the body cultivates from the spiritual energy within; an energy that is procure from physicality within the human body from either an conscious or an unconscious euphoria. 

Projection: is an icon, quality that is ascertained from a reflection; the conclusive detail from an observation of phenomenon or isotoric epsidoes, etc. 

Eclipsism: is the total embodiment of SELF, of culture, and of environment developed by rigor through practice, sacrifice, and study of a physicality, physical discipline, in order, to obtain knowledge and enlightenment via the human body.

REFERENCES

Rosen , B. (2007). A gaia busy person's guide chakras: Finding balance and serenity in everyday life. London, UK: Gaia Books Ltd.

Walker, B. (1977). Beyond the body: The human double & the astral planes. New York City, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited.

Thurman, R. (1994). The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation through understanding in the between. New York: Bantam Books.

Coculturation & 

Cultural Transformation: 

What more do they 

entail in the observation of culture?

As I stated in the previous blog coculturation is the process of acculturation and enculturation by influencing, an individual or a group with initiation into a culture based on their beliefs, attitudes, creeds, politics, and social rules while existing in that culture's environment."

From the lexicon, I, further, want to clarify what coculturation provides, compared and paired with acculturation and enculturation, in the process of cultural transformation. Now, cultural transformation is when an act or a process changes an individual, a group, or an event as they are conforming to a foreign culture's norms, beliefs in the guise of appearance, nature, and characteristics while gaining acceptance within the culture parameters in foreign or native environments.

In coculturation, there is a process that exist for an individual or a group who is evolving in this phenomenon. There are three phases in the coculturation process:

• Phase 1 (Primary level): This is the beginning stage where one have been introduced into the culture by an epiphenomenon. The time frame is 6 months to 2 years.
• Phase 2 (Secondary Level): This is the intermediate stage when one is progressing through the process of a cultural within the parameters of the epiphenomenon. The time frame is over 2 years to 5 years.
• Phase 3 (Third Level):  This is the advanced stage when one has progressed the process of the cultural within the epiphenomenon to full bloom. The time frame is over 5 years to 7 years.

I want to inject that Phases 1 and 2 are developed within the parameters, range of the acculturation and enculturation processes; but Phase 3 is the prudent stage, in which, time allows the individual, the group, or the event to cultivate the required knowledge and trust necessary for existence in a culture's environment, in order, to strike relativity in a native stance compared to having a novice, foreign stance of the culture, itself. 

Phrase 3 is probably the most important, because the definition states "one have to live in that foreign culture and environment, in order to achieve total cultural transformation." However, Phases 1 and 2 can be accomplished outside of the foreign culture in the native culture the observer exist in (counter-culture, cultural club or organizations for examples).

One has to complete all three phases to be considered totally "coculturated." For example, a student(s) at a high school who join a Spanish club are in the process of only Phase 1. Depending on the length of time as a member and the amount of training in the language and cultural history and ideas, one can only begin to tap into Phase 2 and possibly Phase 3. Although, there exist foreign exchange programs for students to live in the foreign culture for a semester or a fiscal school year; allowing these student(s) time to develop an understanding of the culture in it's raw environment. 

The thing here is some student will remain to live in the culture's environment while others return to their native environment with the experience and training oof the culture's language and ideas. That key piece of evidence is where coculturation hits a snag of sorts with this limbo in only Phase 1 and 2; once one steps into Phase 3, there is there is the totality of commitment to consider. One has to be truly engulfed in the process to be "culturated (transformated)."

In truth, coculturation can only be achieve if you follow the Phases completely. There are no short-cuts. if, one wants to be "ethnated" they must allow total commitment and follow the process to total completion. If, one can't finish Phase 3 then the reward will not come into total fruition of coculturation.

My next blog will be based on a phrase I call the "pleasure ion." One wonders what does it mean? What does this principle of pleasure refer to? Well, you will have to wait until the next blog.

Here is a little clip to introduce one to what may be a pleasure ion:

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 Strength & power 

aren't overt in prominence, 

nor subvert in dominance, 

but transverse 

in omnipresence.

REFLEXIVE THOUGHT #11:

THE PLEASURE ION 

HOW DOES IT REFLECT THE SELF?

After watching this video, could you define what this phenomenic entity is? The person in the video name is Jade Blue Eclipse; in her own way, she has exemplified the totality of the Pleasure Ion. How is does this term apply in Reflexive Psychology? First one would ask, what is the Pleasure Ion? The Pleasure Ion is the developing elation the body cultivates from the spiritual energy; an energy that is procure from physicality within the human body from an conscious to a unconscious euphoria. 

This euphoria can be experience like an extra-sensory sensation within the human body. One could ascertain clarity from Gustav Fechner's the 'pleasure principle' theory that states"action is determined by the degree of pleasure or displeasure." This dual-consciousness, nature encompasses both conscious and unconscious thought and action within the realm of physicality. The human body and the mind contain a force and a spirit that is pragmatic in unity; within the human body, there resides a storage of energy that is procured. This procurement will grant the human body the ability to complete exercises in physicality beyond the reaches and the parallels of basic imagination.

Whatever physicality is performed, whether it be routine or recreational basis, there are three  levels one can experience to enhance their 'life force' or 'euphoria'  in pursuit of the Pleasure Ion:

• Kinetic- The motion the body gathers from the procurement of the energy (this focuses on the body in motion supplied by energy of movement based on diet of food/herbal consumption).

• Cardiotic - The atmospheric cultivation of energy from the heart vessel through the body (This focuses on the oxygen, the air the human body can respirate while developing techniques that siphon oxygen throughout the body procuring energy to stabilize heart activity; anti-inertia).

• Synergetic - The combination of atmosphere & of motion to attain a supra-level of physical elevation; an out-of-body/mind-experience imperceptible by the naked eye & the conscious mind (This is the combination of both that translate into a being of supreme formation of body, mind, and spirit).

These three levels of the Pleasure Ion complexity can be performed by any technique that involves breathing, movement, or both at the same time, in order, for one to experience this electric fusion of body,  mind, and spirit. The atmosphere becomes the environment that enhances the body which is the cultured in its physicality (physical exercise, discipline). This is reflexive of the human body's ability to tap  into a supra-level of creative expression in physicality, and intellectual pursuits.

One thing that could better represent my explanation of 'energy' would be Chakras. In brief, chakras are defined as the seven centers of spiritual energy in the human body according to yoga philosophy. These spiritual centers aid the body's development of energy fluidity to keep a balanced body, acute mind, and prolonged spirit. If, you have all these chakras in synch then the body, the mind, and the spirit is in total coalesce with the SELF, the environment, and the culture the body inhabits. (For further information here is a chart to check out: http://www.chakraenergy.com/chart.html )

From this balancing of the body, mind, and spirit, there exist this clarity of the SELF; thus, the self will elucidate every action, every thought, every moment, and every sensation that applies in the inhabiting environment you confine your existence. It's omnipresence sought in conscious to unconscious effervesce. This is how reflexivity applies to the SELF. This elucidation will obviously influence the SELF and energize practice of these physicality's. This procurement, this energy become contagious from many aspects of the individual in their behavior, their attitude, and their presence. The value of this biological alchemy is the rewarded in achieving goals while in pursuit of further boundaries to maximize the body's potential.

Culture. This I must clarify further. Culture will apply to the exercise practiced (physicality or physical discipline). Examples include the following: Yoga, Karate, Contortionism, Gymnastics, Ji-Jitsu, Kickboxing, Kung-Fu, Tai-Chi, Jogging, Cycling, Running, Swimming, Meditation, Capoeira, Taekwondo, Dancing, Weightlifting, Erotic Dancing, Wrestling, and Weapons training, etc. This list is micro in comparison to how many exercises exist for one to attain the Pleasure Ion. 

One more thing I would like to add, is the video of the Jade-Blue Eclipse. She is the phenom that lit the epistemic touch for this blog and topic on the 'Pleasure Ion.' Her physicality is the prime exemplification of the Pleasure Ion. A matter of fact, I want to intensify this phenom's importance with an expression applied in the Pleasure Ion known as Eclipsism. Eclipsism is the total embodiment of SELF, of culture, and of environment developed by rigor through practice, sacrifice, and study of a physicality, physical discipline, in order, to obtain knowledge and enlightenment via the human body.

She was a walking, fire-breathing Pleasure Ion; she sacrificed herself to her discipline for the achievement of total perfection in body and in mind. I can't question her spirit for it is represented by her actions; she irradiated evolution and supra-consciousness. She become more than just Pleasure, she became a treasure of her virtues. 

There is a value in what one can do with the body and the mind in unity for there exist a natural, pure energy from within. The Pleasure Ion is the body's lost treasure. This treasure is what Jade-Blue Eclipse and many other people have developed in their experiences of the environment and the cultures they represent. This development continues to be the driving force in the nature of human existence; yet a questionable one in explanation of human body's abilities. Humans continue to search for that ultimate high. The one ecstasy that is never-ending, and always available. Hey, we already have this contained in our bodies. 

Our cultures and our environments will dictate certain habits, arouse certain curiosities, present certain delights to capture our attention from the true homage of natural ecstasy. This is the nature of the Pleasure Ion, to arouse one's body into heights attainable by diligence. The reflexive nature is it's in our hands. We decide how we want to obtain this pleasure and how much we can learn from it.

The remaining question, the reflexive perspective, is at what cost? Is all that attention to something abstract worth the time? Will this time pay off  in rightful accord? Well, the question of biological and of psychological health is always something we all should consider regardless of the cultures we inhabit and the environments we dwell in. This is, truly, a reflexive thought, yet, does this thought answer questions about the physical unknown of the universe? The human body? The human mind? The human spirit? This inquisition is no different from others; it opens the doors to new avenues to seek out further truths pertaining to the ultimate question of truth. Knowledge, a whole treasure to pursuit as in the Pleasure Ion. Or, is knowledge the truth drive of the Pleasure Ion?

  

To end this, here is another video of Eclipsism in action by Sarah M Moser & Matz displaying the Pleasure Ion in action: