Originally Posted by aKarma  The question about the permanency of imprints is very good. I shall try to explain it here:
The points in life mentioned above are the points of "imprint vulnerability" in the individual for that particular 'circuit'. The imprint could be either positive or negative. The first two circuits call out to the Mother and Father Archetypes, but how well the actual biological parents live up to these archetypes determines the nature of the imprint. If they do a good job, a good Universe is imprinted...if they do a bad job, a bad Universe is imprinted. This life-view then continues on well into adulthood, determining a person's choices, friends, career, partner, etc. It also determines how well a person adapts to the 'higher' circuits...a negative imprint on the lower one will break under the high velocity of the corresponding upper circuit (circuit 5 is the overtone for circuit 1, circ 6 for circ 2, and so on). Another example of this imprint vulnerability comes in the first few sexual experiences a person has...the conditions under which this process takes place imprints itself on that person (eg back-seat of a car in the woods), and so whenever these conditions are replicated, the person in question always gets turned on.
The imprints are then locked by further conditioning and learning done over and above the imprints. This constant re-inforcement develops one's "reality-tunnel" in which he/she goes on to live the rest of their life. Everything one experiences is subjectively placed within the boundaries of one's particular "reality-tunnel" (one's own little universe). The power of re-imprinting does not come until a person's consciousness reaches Level 6 (metaprogramming). This is the level of 'brain-consciousness' where the person's entire memory returns...the individual can now view the entire chain of images from birth up until the present time and see where the 'glitches' in this memory-matrix appear...the 'glitches' would be areas of suppressed memories/negative imprints...the individual can now 're-live' these experiences to see why the imprint took place, and free this particular blockage of energy...this is usually known as a 'break-through' session in the therapists office and takes a lot of time to get to, however the practices of magick and yoga have figured out much more efficient ways to achieve the same result. Radical psychologists in the 1960's experimented with LSD in very controlled settings to achieve this same re-imprinting process. Remember: there is no energy shortage, only energy blockage. These circuits can be considered as the 'chakras' as well. Once the bio-energies are released from this blockage, the kundalini serpent moves upwards and opens the higher circuit. This is the wisdom behind the saying: "Let go of the past, and live in the present".
As for yoga: this is ALWAYS done from the bottom-up. A person begins by clearing the block from the 1st circuit, and moves up slowly. Any other practise which helps to clear out the bio-survival fears and anxieties of Circuit 1 will also help - a person has to use his/her own judgement as to what such activities would entail. As a crude example, lets take the game of poker: a great poker player has to master Circuit 1 by eliminating all fear from his game, Circuit 2 is mastered by eliminating all emotional attachment to the game so that he never goes on tilt, Circuit 3 is mastered by making all the right rational decisions whenever he plays, Circuit 4 is mastered by reading the other players on the table accurately, Circuit 5 is mastered by being creative when he plays, and Circuit 6 is mastered by his ability to maintain concentration all-day long so that he can inuitively read the vibes in the air (or be in the 'Zone'). This is the reason why professional poker players can sometimes appear very charismatic and 'god-like' to others, but their worship of money blocks their energy at level 6 and they fail to evolve higher. This happens to a lot of successful businessmen as well.
A very useful meditation to see how your circuits are imprinted is the following one: (taken from Robert Anton Wilsons 'Illuminati Papers')
Sit in a quiet place, and try to scan the nature of the circuit by seeing which of the two categories below it falls in. Be as honest as you can with yourself.
Circuit I
Winner: "I will live forever or die trying"
Loser: "I don't know how to defend myself"
Circuit II
Winner: "I am free; you are free; we can have our seperate trips or we can have the same trip"
Loser: "They all intimidate me"
Circuit III
Winner: "I am learning more about everything, including how to learn more"
Loser: "I can't solve my problems"
Circuit IV
Winner: "Love, and do what you Will"
Loser: "Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening"
Circuit V
Winner: "How I feel depends on my bodily knowhow"
Loser: "I can't help the way I feel"
Circuit VI
Winner: "I make my own coincidences, synchronicities, luck and Destiny"
Loser: "Why do I have such lousy luck?"
Circuit VII
Winner: "Future evolution depends on my decisions now"
Loser: "Evolution is blind and impersonal"
Circuit VIII
Winner: "In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true, or becomes true within certain limits to be learned by experience and experiment"
Loser: "I am not psychic, and I doubt anyone is" |