Dr. Richard Moss

[Guest guest]

For anyone who's interested, this is classic Richard Moss stuff (he's

linked to on Jerry's Nonduality Site).

 

Reprinted under the "Fair Use Doctrine" of copyright law.

 

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Higher Energy and Self Transformation

 

In order to understand the notion of higher energy, we have to consider

that what we call a human ego, which gives us the sense of a separate "me",

is actually a way of filtering and even repressing a vast dimension of

aliveness. If we think about the speed of growth of a fetus, we see that

something is working there, something incredible is generating this life

with tremendous energy. As an infant we are very open, without much

structure or boundary defining inner from outer. But gradually, as we begin

to differentiate into a separate self, this openness and much of the energy

that flows through us at this time has to be repressed or our egos would

drown in the vastness and we would remain mostly unconscious in a vast sea

of being.

 

However, later in life, once our egos have been strengthened by the demands of

living, there comes a point where we begin to be called back to

relationship with this universal source of energy. Awakening is the process

by which the ordinary ego structure is gradually dissolved into

relationship once again with the larger pool of consciousness that we

originally emerged from and to which we eventually return at death or at

times of Fundamental Realization or Awakening. It is simultaneously a

process of regression or weakening of the ego structure defining the

separate self and of surrendering or becoming transparent to the Universal

Source. This higher source could be likened to warm water, and the separate

self to a sugar cube. To the sugar cube part of ourselves life can be well

characterized: we understand who we are, what our roles are, and how to

perform them. Our perception of the world is fairly

stabilized. But suddenly the evolutionary process takes the sugar cube and

begins to immerse it in the warm water. For the deeper self this is coming

home, what bliss, what freedom! But for the sugar cube there is a profound

sense of dread, a sense of loss of self caused by the ego's identification

with the dissolving of the familiar contours of its sugar cube identity.

It's only much later that gradually we begin to identify with the limitless

warm water.

>From the point of view of our ego, the early process can be very

challenging. We can be lifted into ecstasies or plunged into terrifying

abysses. The body vibrates and trembles as if there were atomic reactors

placed in one another of the energy centers of the pelvis, chest, neck and

head. There can be symptoms of all kinds: irregularities of heartbeat,

trembling, hormonal changes, strange sensations and pains that come and go,

a sense of energy currents moving through the body, and so forth. In the

East this is called the awakening of Kundalini. But the pattern with which

this process moves is varied and can be far different than it was

originally recorded by the early Eastern mystics. In my experience it

rarely, if ever, follows the traditional yogic description of a gradual

progression up the spine through the chakras. At first, living

this is a challenging process of extreme highs and lows. But over time it

becomes integrated and stabilized and we see that we are now looking at a

human life that carries something far more than before. Something radiates

from this individual as a living presence, and there is a vitality that is

not the intensity of youth, but a pervasive aliveness, quiet joy and calm.

 

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