The Beyond

A person's Spirit exists within the 4th energy level and beyond (Higher Energies), maintaining only a tenuous connection into the Deep Mind through the most subtle levels of the Deepmental. That connection is variously known as Deep Mind Intelligence, Conscience or the Active Force of the Spirit.



Beyond the Deep Mind - Beings express themselves simultaneously over 3 levels. Humans are based (essential existence) on the Deepmental level, develop consciousness within the Deepemotional level (initially sub-conscious) and are fully functioning on the physical level (after about 7 years old).

Only after the 3rd initiation (Human#4 or conditional enlightenment) does the base of a person's existence move to the 4th energy level, the consciousness begins to develop on the Deepmental and the person becomes fully active within the Deepemotional realm. Then the body is no longer necessary for continuing development and after death that person does not usually re-incarnate in the physical world. They initially withdraw fully to the Deepmental but will usually re-incarnate within the Astral (Deepemotional) as the essential being or Intelligence can only further refine itself through the interaction of consciousness within the Deepmental and activity within the Astral.

At the 4th initiation, essential being is based on the 5th energy level, consciousness begins to develop on the 4th and the person becomes fully active on the 3rd, the Deepmental. While they retain a connection into the Etheric and Astral levels as long as the body lives, on its death they withdraw fully to the 4th energy level, where after a time they will almost certainly re-appear on the Deepmental to further their inner refinement. Occasionally these people will choose to re-incarnate into the Astral, or even the physical realm, in order to help evolving beings on those levels.


Diversions - There are 2 main situations that prevent a person reaching beyond themselves towards the Divine. The first is too little concentrated effort so that the self on these 3 internal levels does not really change and grow in awareness, power and intelligence, so the first step on the inner path is never quite achieved. For the few whose effort is intense enough, then the second situation is that the ego - which naturally expands along with this internal growth - diverts the process for its own preservation and benefit, producing limits in the development of those who are on the path. Ego exists externally as a personality structure within the brain consciousness. It is more or less semi-conscious, depending on the training of the person involved. This external structure take the place of true inner strength and serves as an interface with outer life. It hides the deeper parts of the self from the ruthless forces of the outer world. The ego also exists across the full range of the 3 levels of the Deep Mind. This prevents a person from truely understanding themselves. It exists necessarily to prevent the pain and confusion of facing simultaneously the mass of inconsistent beliefs, wishes and ideals of which an udeveloped person's unconscious internal world is composed.

To begin the process of inner change a certain intensity of effort is required. The inner structures of the mind on its 3 levels are resilient and will hold or recover their shape in response to light pressures. In the beginning training perhaps once a week will certainly not produce any significant internal change. Twice a week is a minimum and at least 3 times is ideal. As inner growth and strength appear the intensity should be gently increased. Physical or etheric pressure is generated by yourself through the intensity of practice. Deep Emotional pressure is created by attempting to follow what is given to you from a higher level (initially your outer teacher, later your inner teacher) instead of being driven by your own hidden motives. Subtle transforming pressure on the Deep Mental arises when a clear intention is maintained in all things, towards the Divine Beyond. This opens the way for the Higher Self (Spirit) to gradually complete the transformation of the inner being on the 3 internal levels.

It is only according to the refinement within each of the 3 internal levels of the Deep Mind, that this downflow of higher energies can transform the inner being. Typically the first 14 to 21 years rely mostly on effort from the outside in, while subsequently over the next 14 to 21 years the increasing strength of this connection into the Beyond gradually takes control of progress on the Path.



Ramanamaharshi speaks: "So long as the ego lasts, effort is necessary. No one succeeds without effort. The few who do succeed owe their success to their perseverance. But your effort can extend only so far. Then the Beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there. No effort can reach it."

Universal Mistake

Universal Mistake – Today and throughout history, the universal, even natural mistake, is to take the quiet mind as the basis of meditation. It arises when people, who have not gone through decades of training with a good teacher (who has themselves passed through a decades of true training), take it on themselves to teach what the 'believe they know' is meditation. Though this was warned against by the Buddha and every genuine teacher since, still whole systems are devised, teachings promoted and books published, which are based on the brain state of no-thinking. As the old Yogi Mounimaharaj of Rajasthan said: "All realised beings say the same thing - but who listens to them?" No-thinking is not No-mind (Empty-mind, Buddha mind, Deep Mind). When the Deep Mind appears, it is independent of whether the thinking mind is quiet or remains fully active. It is also independent of outer emotions and physical movement. The true test of the development of the Deep Mind is its ability to remain fully functioning as the outer activity of thoughts, feelings and movements within yourself and those around you, press in upon you. Only long training under a true teacher will lead to this.



Ramanamaharshi: "Setting apart time for meditation is only for the spiritual beginner. A person who is advancing enjoys the deeper state whether they are busy or at rest. While their hands are in society, their deeper self remains aloof."

Daily Dying

Close Down to Wake Up – To begin the process take 3 full deep breaths. Each out breath let the mind close down as if going to sleep. The tensions of the body melt away. Then the superficial-mind closes down further. The troubles of outer life are forgotten. The mind passes through the quiet watchful state and continues deeper (Don't be tempted to rest in that quiet state). The mind continues deeper, outer awareness passes away.

As the dreamy state first begins to appear, concentrate in the hands and feet looking for sensations of tingling, fullness and warmth. Continue breathing deeply. Each out breath go deeper and intensify the fullness and warmth allowing it to grow into the arms and legs, then into the chest, then down through the trunk to rest in and around the base of the trunk, the perineum (Base Centre).

Allow a cloud of light to form in and around the perineum. Intensify the light as the mind gently sinks deeper. At this stage the superficial-mind has been closed down and the Deep Mind has begun to awaken. The tingling, fullness and warmth appear due to the energetic stimulation of the pain, pressure and heat sensors. In this deep condition visualising light will help to connect into the reality of the body's energy field, (whereas in a superficially quiet state visualisation may lead to an imaginary disconnection from reality).

Personal Energy Sphere – The Personal Energy Field (Large Dantien) is centred in the chest and extends to arms-length in all directions. It has 3 levels – the Lower Dantien centred on the abdomen, the Middle Dantien centred on the chest and the Upper Dantien centred on the head. All personal refinement takes place within this sphere which is the unique space in which all movements of the body, energy and Mind fully concur. After long and correct training, at a high level, all forces from outer life on the 3 levels are received and neutralised within this sphere of our own Deep Mind.
 

Daily Dying – While resting quietly in the harmonised state, with each of the lower, middle and upper dantien energies stimulated and regulated, look back over the day, week or month and relive the emotionally difficult moments of your life .


Partially developed beings on the inner levels – Most teachings warn about opening yourself up to the inner levels through meditation without being closely connected to some developed teacher and their past teachers. This is because of the possibility of interference from partially developed beings on the inner levels
These may be humans who have partially developed themselves while on the Earth or beings previous to humans on the earth or less frequently, beings from a more distant place. They range from reasonably positive to quite negative - just as humans do. The more negative of this range play on people through that persons negative emotions.

Normal humans suffer from their influence and usually only a persons guide protects them. If you harbour negative emotions then the guide cannot prevent access through that negativity. If you insist on 'opening yourself up to the inner worlds' through quiet concentration, as some psychics deliberately practice, some foolish teachers teach and some innocent students follow, then the guide is powerless to protect you. It is better to first refine and strengthen yourself internally. Then at a later time the intelligence developed on each of those levels, will gradually, with its own timing, naturally spread beyond yourself into the inner worlds on that same level.

Looking for psychic powers, including the foreseeing of the future, attracts the attention of partially developed beings within the inner worlds. Some of these beings, having existed on the Earth for 10's of thousands of years within the Astral realms and with some connection into the Etheric, they have more experience there than even developed teachers. They can enhance any persons attempt to gain power on these levels and can predict with great accuracy the future course of events on the earth, passing that information on to whoever looks for it. To accept their help (usually unknowingly) is the beginning of a slippery slope under their influence, which begins with an early increase of power and ends with distortion and diminishing energy once well within their grasp. Students are often impressed by such abilities of a 'teacher' - who typically has not undergone long hard training to refine their inner nature with some past teacher who has themselves passed through the same process with their teacher.

With the development of Human#4 (past 3rd initiation) a person is more than equal to this interference, but may still suffer their influence. The main risk with a developed person is the temptation of power. Numerous are the examples of developed people who begin by believing they are the most developed person in the world, then progress to believing they are the world saviour. This is a sure sign of negative influence from the inner levels and will certainly block all inner progress in a Human#4 - worse.

After the 4th initiation (Human#5) a person's field of activity moves from the deepemotional (astral) to the deepmental (celestial), while there being is centred on the 4th energy level. Then that person is beyond the negative influence form these inner levels.

Meditation

Meditation is concentration of the mind – either through pondering on some deep aspect of outer life, through introspection of the inner workings of oneself within the 3 levels of the Deep Mind Sphere, or through a directed aspiration beyond the Deep Mind towards the True Self. Meditation may be practiced while fully involved in outer life, while lightly involved in outer life or while momentarily withdrawn from outer life. It begins when a proportion of the mind is turned back towards its source. Though meditation will later encompass the 3 aspects of the mind - consciousness, intention and intelligence - initially a division is created within consciousness so that while one part of the mind continues to act (producing thoughts, feelings or movements) an independent part of the mind is free to watch these manifestations.

It is crucial at this initial stage not to simply horizontally split of a part of the quietly watching superficial conscious, but to create a vertical split between the superficial-mind and something a little deeper. The truly natural way deeper is exactly the process of going to sleep - the superficial-mind reduces its activity, then an internal sense of the body grows, followed by immersion in the dream state culminating in disappearance into deep sleep. All true, balanced teachings, understanding this, initially concentrate the 'split' part of the mind back towards the deep body sensations to draw this part deeper - rather than allow it to look back out through the external senses creating the quiet watchful horizontal split which in itself cannot lead to anything deeper and if strengthened will lock a person in their head and block all further progress (being really, if practiced to an extreme, the first step towards psychological imbalance).

Ramanamaharshi: "Intellect (superficial mind) is of no use at all for seeing within, for turning towards the Self. For that it has to be killed or extinguished, or in other words it has to merge in the source from which it sprang."


Brain consciousness is directly connected to the activity of the neurons both in the head and spread throughout the body. These neurons divide functionally into 3 groups - sensory-neurons, motor-neurons and inter-neurons.

Sensory-neurons receive sensory information from both the 5 external senses (sight, hearing, smelling, taste and touch) and the 5 main internal senses (pain, muscle change, joint movement, pressure, and temperature). Motor-neurons initiate motor impulses to control muscle function, control the chemical balances and stimulate the endocrine system. Inter-neurons mutually stimulate each other in intelligent patterns. Only a small proportion of this final activity - mutual stimulation - produces conscious thought. To use various methods to stop conscious thought, typically with enhanced awareness of the information from the 5 external senses, produces a slightly unusual state. But in this simple brain state the main mass of neurons are still fully active, mostly on a subconscious level. Then to base all further progress on this 'slightly unusual' state is to trap your consciousness in the brain (which is just part of the body) and will not lead to the deep part of yourself nor to the inner worlds.

As the 2 most active outer senses are seeing and hearing, people trapped in the superficial-mind typically take on a fixed stare and talk with a carefully considered air while perhaps moving slowly and deliberately, all so as not to disturb their quiet awareness based in their external senses.

In that superficially quiet brain state with enhanced awareness of the outer senses, people unrealistically imagine that they then experience reality through pure awareness. In reality the mass of subconcious activity of the brain with all its unrealised conditioning dominates and distorts communication with their inner self. This quiet state cannot in itself carry the person beyond the reach of their own ego. Those teachers basing their methods in this quiet brain consciousness typically then stress the idea of 'being present' along with the idea that past and future do not exist, not realising that past, future and present are all simple brain perceptions. The deeper parts of a person do not operate in this time frame. Existence as a whole - including past, future and present - manifests simultaneously in the "ever present here and eternal now" in a way that is understood only according to the depth of Being used to perceive it.

Only deep training with someone who has themselves escaped the brain consciousness has any realistic hope of success. No system devised by thinking or found spontaneously from this quiet brain state will lead people to freedom. So, sadly throughout history, millions have meditated in each generation, while only a few have found the freedom of the True Self. Unfortunately for the deeply trained teachers, those others, who basing their systems on the few flashes of inspiration that do occasionally occur in the quiet brain state, mislead the mass of seekers, attracting them with systems that seem to require little effort.



Ramanamaharshi: "There are different kinds of silence. In the pursuit of inner silence one should not enter laya [temporary suspension of mental faculties]. If you remain in this [trance like] state no benefit will come to you. A complete absence of thoughts does not mean that one is experiencing the true silence of the Self. If there is a sense of freshness and clarity [of perception and understanding] in the silence, if one feels joyful and utterly peaceful, this is more likely to be approaching the real silence."

Deepmind

The Deep Mind exists within the Etheric, Astral and Celestial realms (Lower Energies = Jing, Qi and Shen or Deepbody, Deepemotional and Deepmental). Beings express themselves simultaneously within these 3 levels. Humans are based (essential existence) on the Deepmental level, develop consciousness within the Deepemotional level (initially sub-conscious) and are fully functioning on the physical level. Because the lower levels of the Etheric appear to the brain consciousness as physical and the upper levels of the Deepmental receive the influence of the Spirit, these 2 parts may be considered separately - then the division into the 5 aggregates appears.



The Deep Mind Sphere. The mind – utilising “mind” in its widest sense, including but not limited to its common meaning of the brain functioning – from its most superficial to its deepest and most subtle essence - which is the point of connection with the Spirit - is central to the understanding of life and the path of internal refinement. Consequently, a small error in its use will interfere significantly with the learning process. While our Spirit may be the ultimate, it is the mind that must travel the Way. Our Spirit, in the highest sense is already there, while our body, including our brain, is merely the tool of the mind. At death, nothing dies. The mind in its essential form simply abandons the body. Energy follows the mind and the body, de-energised, decays back into its constituent parts. The Spirit was neither in the body during life, nor has need to leave it at death. Neither was the mind within the body – more accurately, the body existed within the mind.

There is a recurring debate throughout history of whether the brain generates the mind or the mind generates the brain. Neither of these beliefs is simply correct. Both are true. The mind is a mixture of Deep Mind that proceeds the brain and superficial-mind which is generated by the brain when it is activated by the Deep Mind. The consciousness of untrained people is mostly from the superficial-mind (based on brain consciousness), with a small component from the etheric level, an even smaller component from the astral level and a tiny component from the heavenly (deepmental) level. these are intermingled so they feel like one. With training the deeper levels will strengthen and gradually be distinguishable.

The Deep Mind of an undeveloped person, in its projection into the three worlds of human existence, is weak in the sense of consciousness, will and intelligence. When out of the body, before or after death, it is relatively powerless. While in the body its power is magnified and possibilities for change appear. Through great effort to change in the physical world, gradually the power of the Mind is increased on the deeper levels. When the strength of the Deep Mind is sufficient, the cycle of return to the body is broken and the True Self is free within the 3 worlds of human existence.


Strengthen Deep Mind. The question becomes how to strengthen the deeper aspect and lessen the superficial aspect within the consciousness. The influences on the energy sphere (3 levels) of the Deep Mind are always a mixture of Deep Mind Intelligence and the body (including the endocrine system and brain). The way to the Deep Mind Intelligence and back is through the deepemotions. While sitting quietly, going deeper, some deep contact may be established after years of practice. But when moving about in life, the unrefined body systems, under the pressures of life, re-assert control of the energy sphere, interfering with the deeper contact.

Attempting to remain in a deeper state while handling the difficult situations of life is the most important method to gradually purify the deeper energy patterns, bringing them more under the control of the Deep Mind Intelligence and less under the body. Interpersonal relations are the most useful source of difficult situations. Attempting to remain deeply calm but fully involved, never blaming the other for your internal disturbance, never justifying the negative states that arise, change yourself while understanding others. Retreating from life, to quietness, external or internal, is a mistake.

Use “Daily Dying” to go back over those difficult interactions, while in a deeper state. Then your common unrefined reactions and their causes should become clearer to you.


The Soul. The Soul forms within the sphere of the Deep Mind. The state of the energy on each of the 3 levels along with the minds ability in its 3 aspects - consciousness, will and intelligence - on each of the 3 levels, is the ground condition in which the Soul may grow. The seed to the Soul is the Deep Mind Intelligence or the lowest aspect of the Spirit.

Practical aim is to connect Mind-energy-body. Distant intention is to connect Spirit-Mind-body. Meditation is of two types; Mind to energy [Qigong] and Spirit to Mind [Neigong]. Practically speaking, find Deep Mind and all above will be included in that. Train Deep Mind and its surrounding energy body. Deep Mind is Buddha Mind – look deeper in yourself for it.

Energy body is Soul, Deep Mind is intelligence of Soul. Interaction of Mind and energy field produce psychological states. Some states useful for increasing understanding, some go towards solidifying our subjective idea of ourselves [ego], and interfere with the steady progression towards the Deepmind. Difficult to see and dissolve these formations within the energy field. A teacher who is experienced in these things can apply pressure on the student to help them dissolve the blocks and move on again. If the student is too proud or insecure they will take this pressure in a personal way and react against it. After about 4 or 5 years expect some such trouble. Around this time their 'ego' begins to appear and they experience conflict between reality and their hopes or beliefs. If they hoped to be better than they are, they may blame you and leave for another teacher. If they believe they are better than they actually are, they may get upset when corrected, leave, and often start teaching as independent teachers. Not many escape these traps, but if the student’s wish to learn and go deeper is true, they will easily pass through them. Pushed by a well trained teacher and pulled by the Deep Mind, success is inevitable if people keep going.


Time. The Beyond operates out of time as we know it. This is barely understandable to the Deep Mind and unknowable to the superficial-mind. The idea of 'being in the present' does not even approximate it. The quietly observing brain state of 'being present' actually operates in the past, not the present. The mind, on each of its levels has 3 aspects - awareness, intention and intelligence (reflected in the 3 types of neurons - sensory-neurons, motor-neurons and inter-neurons). Awareness operates in the past, intention in the future and intelligence in the present. When we look at a star in the sky we are aware of how it looked perhaps many millions of years ago. When we look at the sun we are aware of how it looked about 10 minutes ago. When we listen to a person in the same room we are aware of what they spoke a fraction of a second before. Similarly, when we sense our own foot we are aware of its state as it was some time earlier. Whereas when an intention forms to move the foot, this intention is in the future relative to the resulting movement of the foot. It is the hidden intervening intelligence only which acts in the present. This intelligence or pure being is beyond the reach of awareness.

Balance

Training simultaneously within the outer physical world, through the 3 aspects of ourselves (physical, emotional and mental) will initiate balanced growth within the 3 levels of the Deep Mind - Etheric, Astral and Celestial (Deep Body, Deep Emotional, Deep Mental). Not understanding that, systems of development may over-emphasise one aspect at the expense of the others, producing unbalanced inner growth, some progress on the path, but leading the person into a side path from which it may be difficult to return to the true way (as the ego will resist going back to go forward).


Sri Yukteswar: "The interpenetration of a person's three bodies is expressed in many ways through their threefold nature. In the wakeful state on earth a human being is conscious more or less of their three vehicles. When they are sensuously intent on tasting, smelling, touching, listening, or seeing, they are working principally through their physical body. Visualizing or willing, they are working mainly through their astral body. The causal medium finds expression when a person is diving deeply in thought,introspection or meditation. In this sense an individual may be classified broadly as 'a material human,' 'an energetic human,' or 'an intellectual human.' A person identifies themselves about sixteen hours daily with their physical vehicle. Then they sleep; if they dream, they remain in their astral body, effortlessly creating any object even as do the astral beings. If a person's sleep be deep and dreamless, for several hours they are able to transfer their consciousness, or sense of I-ness, to the causal body."



Struggle, Acceptance and Separation.
Struggle (will, effort, aspiration) produces change in the sense of evolution.
Acceptance (tolerance, equanimity, submission) partially removes the desire to change from the effort to change. Separation (awareness, consciousness, non-attachment) partially removes the sense of self from the effort to change.

However separation by itself (quietly watching), is not correct training. You should first make an effort to achieve something, then while in that intense process maintain a deeper part of yourself uninvolved in the action. Part of that uninvolvment requires acceptance of the resistance to change (initertia of parts of ourselves and those around us) which will inevitably oppose and frustrate the initial intention. Again however, simply acceptance of all that happens around us with no effort to change, is not correct training.

For balanced work, follow the example of a baby. It makes a tremendous effort to reach out for food, not concerned by its repeated failures but learning each time until it achieves its aim. Then makes a tremendous effort to crawl, then to walk, then to talk. This effort, with awareness of the result and acceptance of the repeated failures builds intelligence on a deep level. Gradually this intelligence takes over and the baby moves on to the next most immediate possibility for advancement - in a potentially never ending process.


The True Self is beyond consciousness and time. A recurring mistake of modern self appointed teachers, not themselves deeply trained by a true teacher, is to overvalue the quiet state that arises when thoughts are stopped.
Whole systems are then devised from the subconscious thoughts, feelings and actions that arise in this state. This mistake is signaled when people talk mainly of 'awareness', of 'witnessing' and of the 'now' and of 'being present'. This sense of over-viewing separation is a relatively passive brain state, hiding within it the ego itself. The ego does not die and reappear when thought is stopped or resumed. Neither does the Deep Mind (Real Self) manifest or disappear with the cessation of thought or its resumption. Further, neither body stillness nor emotional inactivity nor the state of mental quietness, can cause the ego to fade and the Deep Mind to arise.
No old wise teacher I have ever met has seen the state of no thought, no movement or no emotion, as more than an elementary stage through which we must quickly pass. These are partial methods that have a place in a larger scheme of training, best directed by those who have themselves been transformed over many decades by this same deep process.

Ramana Maharshi: "You are realised even now, but you mistake your present consciousness for the Real Self."


Inner Growth. Abdullah and Gurdjieff talked of the growth of the Soul or Body Kesdjan. Body Kesdjan means vessel of the spirit and so does soul. Also the term magnetic centre, used by both teachers is a type of receiving place for the spirit. More specifically Abdullah called the 3 grades of vessel - magnetic centre, soul , body kesdjan. Then the next stage he called mental body. But Gurdjieff and Abdullah only described these things quite roughly, so inconsistancies appeared - such as Human#1, #2, #3 being on the same horizontal level but Human#4, #5, #6, #7 ascending vertically through the levels.

More accurately, the vessel of the Spirit is always over 3 energy levels. Initially (past the first initiation or Human#2) it is centred on the etheric level(magnetic centre). This stage does not provide 3 levels in which the Spirit can function - it rests in a passive state within the astral and celestial. This level of development can persist barely changing for many lifetimes - like a seed which is not yet planted in the ground.

Then when past the 2nd initiation the vessel of the Spirit centres on the astral (soul). Only now Spirit takes root in the three energy levels and begins to develop - active in etheric/physical, conscious/unconscious in astral, source of being in celestial. Spiritual balance - balance between the 3 levels through which the Spirit is expressing itself - can begin to appear.

When past 3rd initiation (Human#4) the vessel of the Spirit centres on the celestial or deepmental (body kesdjan) - at this stage the astral is the field of action, celestial is field of consciousness, 4th energy level is source of being (intelligence). At this stage the physical/etheric serves little purpose except as an agent through which to act in the world. Physical rebirth is not necessary but the Being may be reborn into the astral after a period of withdrawal to the celestial following physical death.

When past 4th initiation (Human#5) the vessel of the Spirit centres on the 4th energy level (mental body) - at this stage the celestial is the field of action, 4th energy level is field of consciousness, 5th energy level is source of being (intelligence). When in a body some tenuous connection to the 3 levels of the Deep Mind are retained but after death these are severed forever. This is true realisation, liberation or enlightenment.


Ramanamaharshi: "You are the Self even now, but you confuse your present consciousness with the Absolute Consciousness or True Self. This false identification is due to ignorance and ignorance disappears together with the ego. Killing the ego is the only thing to be done. Realisation already exists."

5 Elements

5 Elements

1. Clearly distinguish Deep Mind from superficial-mind.
Superficial-mind is that part of consciousness which is dominated by brain activity. Superficial-mind works mainly through the 5 external senses and is not useful for internal training beyond the first few years.

The basic method to go past it is to 'close down the mind as if going to sleep'.


2. Clearly distinguish 5 internal senses from 5 external senses.
The Deep Mind is woken and strengthened at its lowest or etheric level by concentrating on the 5 inner senses: joint-position, muscle-state, pain, pressure and temperature. They are the most natural and certain entry into the Deep Mind.

(5 outer senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch - perceive the outer world and are connected to superficial-mind. Concentrating on them may just make superficial-mind stronger).

Of the 5 inner senses, pain and joint sensors along with the muscle states of contracting and relaxing are the least important as they are also partially accessed by the superficial-mind.

Pressure and temperature sensors along with the muscle states of stretching and un-stretching mainly activate the deepest levels of the brain and the etheric levels of the Deep Mind.


3. Clearly distinguish 5 phases of the muscle cycle.
Of the 5 inner senses only muscle-state has corresponding motor nerves (pressure, joints, and temperature are regulated indirectly by changing muscle states).

Muscle cycle = 5 muscle phases: holding, contracting, relaxing, stretching and un-stretching.

Training conscious control of the muscle-cycles begins the development of 'Yi' (intention or will) within the Deep Mind. Seek to lengthen the stretching phase while increasing the pressure that comes from stretching. Use intention to direct the wave of elastic un-stretching.

(Professor Cheng emphasized Dingjin (sensing) - relax and listen for pressure. Master Huang emphasized Yi (intention) - listen to and regulate the muscle cycles. Most balanced is to do both, along with awareness of the heat field of the body.)


4. Clearly understand 5 aspects of the Deep Mind Sphere.
= Deep Mind Intelligence+Deep Essence(Celestial, Astral, Etheric)+Body
= Upper+Middle+Lower Dantiens (Heaven, Man, Earth)
= Large Dantien



Within the Deep Mind Sphere the individual person exists as their Deep Mind. Deep Mind Intelligence is point of contact with Spirit. Deep Essence exists within Lower-energies - Celestial, Astral & Etheric (Shen, Qi & Jing). Body, including the brain, neither existing before conception nor after death, may or may not be considered as part of the Deep Mind).


5. Train the Deep Mind beyond the body and Etheric level.
From long years (10 to 14 years) of listening to the internal sensations while practising Taiji, the Mind becomes stable on the Etheric level. Remember Master Huang said: "14 years to learn the basics; after that it is easy".

Next, after practising Taiji, while resting quietly with the muscle cycles inactive and the pressure mostly un-changing, concentrate on tingling (pain sensors), fullness (pressure sensors) and warmth (temperature sensors). This will quickly re-enter the Etheric energy level of the Deep Mind, based in the lower Dantien.

Go deeper and by concentrating on light, warmth and pure awareness, centre the Mind on the sphere of energy that surrounds the body. This will be a mixture of the lower-energies (etheric, astral and celestial). Don't imagine that this is more than the earliest contact with the shallowest part of the Deep Mind, or further progress will be blocked.

Train consciousness within this level by sinking gently deeper into this state while intensifying the sense of warmth, light and pure awareness.

Train intelligence within this level by seeking to understand the deep workings of yourself, of people you have contact with and of the inner and outer worlds. All things that assist your inner development can be seen as 'good' and all which goes against it as 'bad'. True understanding should cause deep gratitude to arise in response to all the good and acceptance in response to the bad.

Train intention within this level by sending the light to those you wish to help and by clearly resolving to replace major negative aspects of yourself with positive ones.

The influence of the Deep Mind Intelligence will grow as the effort to change your inner nature refines the lower energies. Abdullah said: "It takes at least 21 years (typically closer to 30) to crystallise the energies of the Deep Mind and enter the 4th energy level". This is the lesser enlightenment which the Buddha spoke of as being sufficient to escape the rounds of lives and deaths.

Then further development will be managed almost effortlessly, from the inside out, according to the person's degree of balance and the will of their own Spirit (fate). At this stage meditation is no longer necessary as the deep state will be present (more actively or more passively according to circumstances) at all times in normal life