PAUL IN SPAIN OCTOBER 2004
 Paul, our latest ENERGY ENHANCEMENT graduate says....“After developing my ENERGY ENHANCEMENT practice the method I now use for grounding negative energy is quick, efficient, and experientially extremely rich – I don’t think it will ever get boring because the focus of each meditation, now I’ve reached the 3rd Level, is totally unique.
What I love about the way I meditate now, with the Energy Enhancement training, is that it’s so much more structured and focused - a clear intent is set out at the beginning of the meditation and by the end, it’s done! The techniques are so powerful, and I can feel the energy change as I ground the negativity from the focus of meditation. When clearing relationships I can feel atmospheres of untainted, pure energy enter me, like a huge, expansive, windswept sky. I really feel lighter!
The visualization of the energy is a wonderful indicator of progress – everything in life has markers of progress through stages and cycles: seasons pass, fruit ripens, skin ages, rivers flow, wars begin and end. With other meditative techniques the markers of progress are general, such as a sense of well being, and specifically within that moment.
In Vipassana meditation, sometimes you get a flow, sometimes not. In Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana meditation, sometimes you engage, sometimes not. It is difficult to gauge where you are on the path, and therefore what challenges you now face.
The Energy Enhancement teachings set out such a clear structure towards spiritual progress, with each stage having to be focused on and cleared before the next can be attempted, that I have a much clearer idea of where I am and the tasks that must be accomplished before I can move on.
Along with all the indicators of the other techniques, such as bodily sensations, senses of well being and general demeanor and mood, Energy Enhancement traces particular problems to particular energetic blockages so that you can locate and solve them in a focused way.
Along with that it allows you to see where you are in the evolutionary stream, and as you move through the stages you gain more energy to do more work, not only in meditation but also in life, so you remain in touch with what you must do at every stage. Now I can efficiently focus my meditation on the areas I need to work on in order to free up more energy so I can work on harder areas… and so on.
It’s much quicker, and very thorough, because of that focus. Things are not left behind for the sake of speed. The course progresses very naturally from one stage to the next."
A billion times more effective.
Paul, Thomas Kline and Maddy taking a look at the 3000 year old Greek and Roman site of Empuries
The testimonial below is from a University student, Paul, as above. People doing Energy Enhancement come from all ages and walks of life. At the same time we had a Yoga Journalist who was doing an article for a famous yoga magazine who went away very happy, comfortable and impressed, the article will come out and will appear on the website, and also a 62 year old person from Canada.
OCTOBER 2004 TESTIMONIAL - A billion times more effective.
Well, here is a missive from our Universtity Student a week or two after he finished the six weeks he spent with us in full time meditation. He is on his way and working hard to cleave to the path of his Soul. And what more needs to be done than that. Well, plenty. It is only by taking the feedback from life that we can adjust our passage, quickly, to that path which is thinner than a razor. Every time we go off the rails we have to adjust otherwise the resulting train wreck is terrible to behold.
Our University Student was one of our best students so far in that he worked hard and completed so much of the course whilst he was here and this resulted in him becoming so much more self reliant and in touch with his Soul. He had many spiritual experiences which he chooses not to talk about probably because of Gorakh's teaching, Be Silent!! He is not yet enlightened but stands a good chance of being so in this lifetime if he continues on the Path. He is lucky, and to be spiritual you have to be lucky!!
People of the essence, in contact with their Soul, tend to be rough diamonds in that they use each moment to teach everyone around them about soul contact. In that they have no choice. The soul knows that, 'As without, so Within', and as the Soul shows the ego of the other unto itself, there is usually a little jarping, a little conflict. This has the effect of seeming rough when really people need to ground their own selfish competitive egos.
For that reason People of the Soul create too many dificulties in normal life and work best in a soul teaching situation.
PAUL, ENERGY ENHANCEMENT - FOCUS AND INTENT
Here is Paul on his Energy Enhancement course. He’s been with us for a time and has had some wonderful experiences:
“After 5 weeks of developing my practice the method I now use for grounding negative energy is quick, efficient, and experientially extremely rich – I don’t think it will ever get boring because the focus of each meditation, now I’ve reached the 3rd Level, is totally unique.
What I love about the way I meditate now, with the Energy Enhancement training, is that it’s so much more structured and focused - a clear intent is set out at the beginning of the meditation and by the end, it’s done! The techniques are so powerful, and I can feel the energy change as I ground the negativity from the focus of meditation. When clearing relationships I can feel atmospheres of untainted, pure energy enter me, like a huge, expansive, windswept sky. I really feel lighter!
The visualization of the energy is a wonderful indicator of progress – everything in life has markers of progress through stages and cycles: seasons pass, fruit ripens, skin ages, rivers flow, wars begin and end. With other meditative techniques the markers of progress are general, such as a sense of well being, and specifically within that moment. In Vipassana meditation, sometimes you get a flow, sometimes not. In Mindfulness of Breathing and Metta Bhavana meditation, sometimes you engage, sometimes not. It is difficult to gauge where you are on the path, and therefore what challenges you now face.
The Energy Enhancement teachings set out such a clear structure towards spiritual progress, with each stage having to be focused on and cleared before the next can be attempted, that I have a much clearer idea of where I am and the tasks that must be accomplished before I can move on.
Along with all the indicators of the other techniques, such as bodily sensations, senses of well being and general demeanor and mood, Energy Enhancement traces particular problems to particular energetic blockages so that you can locate and solve them in a focused way. Along with that it allows you to see where you are in the evolutionary stream, and as you move through the stages you gain more energy to do more work, not only in meditation but also in life, so you remain in touch with what you must do at every stage. Now I can efficiently focus my meditation on the areas I need to work on in order to free up more energy so I can work on harder areas… and so on. It’s much quicker, and very thorough, because of that focus. Things are not left behind for the sake of speed. The course progresses very naturally from one stage to the next.
There is never a sense of having no direction in meditation. I have a friend who is a practicing Buddhist, and he has come to the stage where he is fairly content with life. He asks himself “Why do I meditate?” because the techniques he is using don’t allow him enough visions and scope to really progress – they are good techniques, and give definite results, if practiced with dedication. He thought enlightenment was too quixotic a goal, perhaps. But there are initiations on the path to enlightenment – if you know them you can mark your progress – this is very important – the heart must be set upon the highest goal, but there are many signs along the way. You can read more about these in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Swami Satchidananda, and on the Energy Enhancement site. It’s helpful and good to know these signs and understand what they mean. The first thing to do is to remove all the energy blockages in your system so that you can increase your level of energy. Now I have done this I have enough energy to clear the negativity from all my relationships, on the way to an initiation called the mastery of relationships.
Now I’m near the end of the course I feel confident I can go home and integrate all I’ve learnt into my life. Since I’ve been here I’ve worked through some difficult times, but I’ve got through them and my mood, energy and sense of well being have been given a boost rather like having an atom bomb explode in my bottom.
The removal of all the negative energy in my system has put me in touch with my own flow of untrammeled energy. Removing these negative energy blockages have yielded some brilliant results, which I was not expecting. At one point, after removing a blockage in my base chakra I experienced an extended sensation of orgasm which was totally delicious! It was just a sign that my energy flow had increased and the work I had been doing was finally complete on that particular area.
Energy Enhancement is truly an atom bomb, extremely powerful stuff. When I return to real life I will be in such a kick ass state, I want to go dancing and engage with existence! Yes! The clouds have parted!
But seriously, it is great. What more can I say? I don’t want to oversell it, so I’ll simply say that in the end it’ll make you feel better, you’ll meet two wonderful people and have a great time. My spirits have been lifted and my mind expanded since I’ve been here, and I have a strong feeling inside that life will simply go on getting better and better for me and for everyone I know.”
Dear Satchi,
I've decided to write a testimonial in the form of a letter to you, because I feel that personalises it - I guess I just have something against marketing, not because I have a blockage, but because of the damage I feel marketing does in terms of influencing certain modes of thinking, communication and relationships.
In my view marketing speak is the newspeak of 1984, the means by which the ideologies of the corporations and their free market capitalism are perpetuated by the very form which language takes... not only what is said but how it is said. T.S. Eliot once said that poetry is all about finding new ways to say the old things.
Now we want to express ourselves and all sorts of prefabricated market talk can come into our heads, especially about being happy with things, all from the superabundance of advertising we are pummeled with every day. It's worse in England Satchi, believe me. There's a lot of talk in the air about England really going downhill, young people and old people talking about leaving the country.
I think the pollution has got noticablely worse here. If things are to change it will take a great poetic event, whereby language can begin to free itself. So really this is my poetic sensibility getting a bit peeved at the pathological aspect of marketing! I don't want to borrow its phrases or its attitude. So I thought I'd write you a letter!
Well, the longer I spend at home the more I see how tremendously good for me the course was - it was tough, and I think it's important for people to know that it's tough. - it requires work, discipline and an openness and will to learn, and provides the perfect environment for the development of these qualities, which are really wonderful qualities to have.
Well, most people find it really easy but sometimes, in order to deal with certain personalities we have to give them Tough Love in order to help their Energy Enhancement Course. It couldnt have been that bad, the guy is still speaking to me!! Satchidanand
I like how you left me to find out so much on my own and forced me to be strong, but then were different with James and Joseph because you gave them what they needed. There was no molly coddling! Well, Devi molly coddled me a little bit, but you know...
I am experiencing Devis banana and ginger milkshake withdrawal.
It's funny, since getting back I've been going through an adjustment period, which is a great learning process of integrating all I've learnt in training into everyday life. I've noticed how much I've moved on in the relationships I meditated on during the course. (This is Energy Enhancement Level 3, The Mastery of Relationships - Satchi)
One of the relationships in particular, where the person is very damaged and can be very violent and aggressive, has improved massively. He still has a lot of negative energy about him but I don't feel so affected by it now, and can move my life on without being held back by the relationship.
And when I make a move on I am noticing how generous life is and how it meets me halfway when I take a step in the right direction. One of the strongest things I've noticed is that I identify with my body, mind and emotions a lot less than when I came on the course. I don't get in a rut so easily, and if I do it's never for long. Remembering what I truly am and not identifying with the egoity of mind so much means that I can see that everything and everyone is the same thing - in disguise as different things!
As we Ground all our Negative Energies, Level 1 Initiation 3, we find that we are grounding the selfish, competitive ego. And it Goes!! E GO! Satchidanand
I no longer care as much what people think of 'me' as a result - it doesn't matter. All that matters is that I remain true to my work, why I am here, and that this involves the well being of everyone I know. Some things I know all I can do is meditate on, and working physically or with words is either impossible or not effective unless it has the energy of meditation behind it... I understand what you said in our chat about language now.
Karma Yoga comes about naturally when we ground out the Negative Energies. We then have the ability to know that if we do anything, 50% of the people will say that is very bad, and 50% of the people will say tha it is very good. Karma Yoga means that we decide what to do and then remain unaffected by criticism, and unegotistical, humble, when praised. Satchidanand
I was saying not to get so hung up about language and that the main thing was the intention behind it, and the energy with which we imbued it. I told the story from Gurdjieffs book, Meetings with Remarkable Men, about the two monks who travelled from Monastery to Monastery giving lectures. The first charmed all the monks and the birds from the trees with his wonderful speach. The second was rough and spoke bluntly. Yet after a month it was the rough monks speach which remained in everyones mind. The charming monk spoke a wonderful confectionary based on the Mind. The rough Monk spoke from his Essence, from his very Soul. Satchidanand
I'm also enjoying using my emotions and strategies properly, rather than them using me! I've been expressing anger in certain situations where previously I would have held back. It's amazing how powerful this natural emotion is when used properly - I can let go, I don't seethe and remain angry or get angry with myself or a nearby wall or the next unfortunate person whom I encounter. In fact, I 've noticed that what happens when I use anger in this way is that the other person is disarmed, the situation is quickly diffused and sometimes even becomes amusing! Keeping a sense of humour about you is definitely 'the business'.
This is Energy Enhancement Level 2 - working with the Strategies. Here we teach that we all use these strategies, The Poor Me, The Violator, The selfish Competitive Star etc, but we use them unconsciously. Really, the strategies use us or we are afraid of them. Unconscious use of the strategies can really destroy our lives. By grounding all the negative energies in these strategies we gain the power of using them from ourselves, consciously, in order to pursue our Soul Path. Satchidanand
Obviously I am constantly learning, making mistakes and getting used to living this new paradigm and feeling it out more fully with my own experience. But I can genuinely say that I am happy - it's not a struggle, and I don't feel buried under a mountain of turd every time something goes wrong. I don't berate myself as I used to. I'm grounded and practical and getting on with stuff!
Laurence (President of the University Buddhist Society) said when he saw me he was immediately struck by how solid and grounded I appeared. Life is very exciting at the moment actually, I'm moving to London next week and have so much going on I can barely catch up. I've got a temp job for the moment as a postman would you believe! So I'm making up a load of poetry flyers to put through people's doors on my rounds, spreading poetry around!
Thank you so much Satchi and Devi!
How are you? Hope everything is well. Feel free to take what you want out of this letter to put in a testimonial, I expect you'll edit it a bit anyhow, because some bits, like this, are no good for testimonial. I hope there's something in it that you think is useful, but this is what I've given and I'm happy with it! So there you go.
Part 2.
The testimonial you wrote up is great!
Good news! Me and my girlfriend have got back together, and I have spent the last few hours working and researching for the poetry website. The next stage is to give my other girlfriend a dead rat...
As part of the Mastery of Relationships I was explaining how Mel Gibson managed to make movies with some of the most beautiful and sexy women in the world and still remain married to the same woman for many years. Apparently he was very attracted to some big staress he was working with, Julia Roberts I think, so what did he do? He gave her a present in a beautifully wrapped box. And when she opened it she found it contained a dead rat!! Scream and laughter. Mel Gibson has the reputation of being a big practical joker, particularly with women. Good technique hey? It gets the relationship off the sex and into the practical joke and having fun together. Satchidanand
It's all going along nicely. Here's a few more bits of testimonial that Energy Enhancement is the Mutt's Nuts.
I'm moving to London in a week or so to move in with my friend who is a director and producer for the BBC, and who wants to make a program about my poetry website project to go on TV!
AMAZE! It seems that I am being blessed with amazing luck.
Last night I turned up to see a student show which had sold out, with no money and no student card to get into the building where the show was playing.
I got in through a back entrance that happened to be unlocked, met a friend who got me a ticket that had been cancelled and ended up with a front row seat!
The show happened to be about wolves, and the set was a forest. Earlier in the day I had taken a shamanic journey and met a wolf in a forest that looked exactly like the set.
During this shamanic journey I realised that Energy Enhancement is about a billion times more effective than shamanic journeying and started to do Energy Enhancement within the meditation. It seems to involve a lot of pottering around on the astral planes without having much of a direction, meeting rather annoying characters who are only seem to want to waste your time. But is was instructive and revealed to me the beauty of detail within the different planes. I think sometimes it's interesting and revealing to work in an actual visualised location, as that can provide higher perpsectives to everyday life, but for travelling and blockage removal it's best to work energetically, in pure light as we do in Energy Enhancement.
Hope all is well!
Happy day!
love and light,
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