The origin of occult knowledge

[Tutor]

Thank you, Tim. I'm afraid I didn't follow all of that, but I believe I got the gist. The knowledge is ancient, and if it were to disappear it would come back, because there is truth to it? Am I right?

truth to it? nah

truth is within each of us as us? yes

we are 'it'

perhaps...

[CFTraveler]

I didn't read all the posts because my eyes hurt, so I'll just put in my two cents, based on personal observation and the reading of many articles on the energy body.
I think that I agree with CW (or have traditionally) until I was in deep meditation and saw actual glowy things where the chakras are classically represented.
Now, whether the 'glowy things' have anything to do with everything that has been written about them, I'm not sure- but I'm convinced the colors associated with them are just symbolic assignment according to the chromatic scale, the bottom ones being assigned longer wavelength light (low f) and going up as you reach the higher chakras.
Now, it's entirely possible that ancient eastern religion associated these colors because of their own clairvoyance, or simply associated them because they 'made sense'.
Either way, it's kind of already a given when it comes down to cultural conditioning.

[ThePoliteSkeptic]

Traveler, thanks for your input. I suppose, like the origin of words, tracking down ancient knowledge can fall somewhere between tricky and impossible.

[CFTraveler]

You betcha.

[ThePoliteSkeptic]

We're obviously logged on at the same time. I can tell this because checking my email it a little like walking on a treadmill.

Ta ta for now.

[CFTraveler]

Ha ha don't worry, you don't have to jog longer, I'm on my way out.

[baalixan]

Interesting. I have to assume this was during an out of body experience? Just because it's hard to see the crown of one's own head otherwise.

it was actually during a deep meditation, bordering on entering a trance. i was doing energy work and it started to glow white. although it was not an out of body experience i was able to direct my focus upwards and see a good portion of it, and it probably helped to see it being that when it did "light up" the light from it spread around my body almost like a shell or cacoon. i could feel it on the top of my head, though, when looking at it it was actually located a few inches above the top of my head.


I agree that alot of it is ancient knowledge, how ever, like tim said it is a truth that resides in all of us, and even if concious knowledge of such things disappeared, it would re-emerge. growing up I practiced meditation because i knew that buddhists, taoist, and shaolin monks did it(i've always had great respect for them) but i had no idea of energy work or anything else but i managed to learn a good amount of it on my own. it wasn't until later on that my experiences were labeled when i actually researched and studied up on various techniques and the like.

[ThePoliteSkeptic]

So, you practiced energy work before you ever learned about it?

[baalixan]

i started meditating when i was 9 or 10, and was doing energy work with in two or so years after that. wasn't very good at it then tho, haha. had my first concious obe when i was 13.

[ThePoliteSkeptic]

Were you expecting the OBE? As in, did you know that it was something that might happen, or were you trying for it?