SEX CAN TRIGGER GENUINE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Researcher Rui Miguel Costa (Universidade Europeia, Lisbon) finds higher arousal links to stronger bodily awareness and a loosened grip on space and time, the same flow state seen in creative work or sport.
Orgasm's resolution phase can soften the inner monologue, opening space for looser thought and vivid imagination.
Some go further. Psychologist Jenny Wade documented reports of out-of-body sensations, past-life recall, and near-death-like floating during sex.
A review in the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies found accounts of merging with a partner and electricity through the hands, echoing DMT-style hallucinations (one theory, unconfirmed, points to endogenous DMT from the cervix or pineal gland).
A smaller subset experience sexual synesthesia, colour and shape visions during or after climax, reported more in women and likely underreported. Trust, safety, and presence are the thread.
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HIGHWAYS OF THE MIND
Remember that from the moment you set foot on the inner levels you are in the position of a herald representing this world of earth and form, and as such you take on a great deal of responsibility.
All too frequently students or those who take up the art of pathworking seem to think they are superior in every way to those who have their existence on other planes of being. That is not so. You are there on sufferance in the beginning.
From then on you will be watched and if you behave yourself and act with courtesy towards those with whom you will come into contact, then eventually you may well become one of a select and highly valued group of human beings.
In ancient times they were called the Wearers of the Silver Sandals because such sandals were their symbol of office.
~ Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
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THE PATH OF THE INITIATE: BECOMING THE MAN YOUR SOUL INTENDED
The Path of the Initiate is not a journey outward, but a sacred return. It is the stripping away of illusions, the burning of false identities, and the courageous forging of a life aligned with divine purpose.
Every trial is a threshold. Every shadow, a teacher. The Initiate does not seek comfort; he seeks truth. He walks through the fire of self-inquiry, surrenders the ego’s grip, and listens to the quiet wisdom of the Higher Self. What dies is the small man shaped by fear and conditioning. What rises is the Sovereign Soul — radiant, integrated, and free.
This path demands discipline, devotion, and deep remembrance. Meditation becomes your sword. Stillness, your sanctuary. Synchronicities become your map. As you shed layers, you reclaim your original power — the alchemy of turning leaden wounds into golden mastery.
You are not becoming someone new.
You are remembering the Man your Soul intended all along.
The gates are open. The ancestors watch. The Universe conspires.
Will you step forward?
HOW SOLITUDE AWAKENS THE INNER KING
Away from the clamor of crowds and the illusions of approval, a man meets himself—raw, unmasked, and eternal. The noise of the world drowns the voice of the King within. But in deliberate aloneness, that voice rises like a forgotten throne reclaimed.
Solitude strips away the false crowns: the need to perform, to please, to belong. It reveals the sovereign seated at the core of your being—the Inner King who rules not by force, but by presence, wisdom, and unshakeable peace. Here, distractions dissolve. Fears are faced. Shadows are integrated. And from the crucible of quiet, power is reborn.
The mystic knows this truth:
The greatest kings were first hermits.
The deepest leaders were first listeners to their own silence.
The most radiant souls were forged in the furnace of solitude.
When you embrace aloneness with reverence, you stop outsourcing your authority. You remember who you were before the world told you who to be. The Inner King awakens—not with fanfare, but with a quiet, thunderous certainty that echoes through every choice you make thereafter.
Seek the cave.
Enter the forest of your own heart.
Sit with the discomfort until discomfort bows.
For it is in solitude that the kingdom within is claimed.
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THE DIVINE MASCULINE ACCORDING TO HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY
In the ancient teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, preserved in The Kybalion, the Seventh Hermetic Principle — Gender reveals a profound truth:
“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.”
The Divine Masculine is not about gender identity or biological sex. It is the universal active principle — the conscious, directive force present in all creation, from the mental realm to the spiritual.
Core Qualities of the Divine Masculine in Hermetic Wisdom:
• Will & Direction: The seed of intention. It projects, initiates, and imparts form. While the Feminine receives and gestates ideas in the womb of imagination, the Masculine provides the focused will that brings them into manifestation.
• Logic & Assertion: Clear, penetrating thought. It analyzes, structures, and acts with purpose — the sword of discernment that cuts through illusion.
• Protection & Stability: The steady foundation, like the sun radiating consistent light. It safeguards, leads, and anchors higher wisdom into the physical world.
• Action & Conquest: Progressive energy that moves forward, conquers obstacles, and transforms potential into reality. Not through domination, but through aligned power.
The true Divine Masculine is balanced — never tyrannical or rigid, but integrated with the Divine Feminine. Together they form the sacred union of creation: the Word (Masculine) spoken into the Silence (Feminine) that births the Universe.
In your own being, the Divine Masculine awakens as you cultivate:
• Unshakable inner authority
• Disciplined focus
• Courageous action rooted in love
• Protection of the sacred (within and without)
When the Divine Masculine rises in harmony, you become a channel for cosmic order — a co-creator walking the path of the Great Work.
“As above, so below. As within, so without.”
Embrace the Divine Masculine within. Let it guide you with strength, clarity, and purpose.
A reflection for the mystic path.
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7 TANTRA PRINCIPLES THAT CAN MAKE YOU CALMER, SHARPER, AND MORE PRESENT
In the ancient path of Tantra, the sacred weave of energy and consciousness reveals that true power is not in escaping the world, but in fully embodying it.
These seven timeless principles are living keys — portals that dissolve inner turbulence, sharpen the blade of awareness, and anchor you in the eternal Now.
1. Breath as the Divine Bridge The Tantric masters knew: prana is Shakti herself. Slow, conscious breathing — especially the serpentine flow of nadi shuddhi — quiets the monkey mind and awakens the subtle body. With each inhale, draw cosmic light into your core; with each exhale, release what no longer serves. Presence blooms where breath flows without resistance.
2. Embracing Polarity Tantra does not reject darkness — it weds it to light. Honor both Shiva (stillness) and Shakti (movement) within you. When anger arises, feel its fire without judgment. When joy surges, ride its wave. In this sacred marriage of opposites, inner conflict dissolves and razor-sharp clarity emerges.
3. The Body as Temple Your flesh is not a prison but a living mandala of divine energy. Treat every sensation as mantra. Walk barefoot on the earth. Feel the pulse of your heart as the heartbeat of the cosmos. When the body is honored, the spirit no longer floats above life — it descends fully into presence.
4. Sacred Pause Between Thoughts Between every thought lies the void — the womb of pure awareness. Train yourself to rest there, even for a fraction of a second. This Tantric gap is where the ego softens and the Higher Self whispers. The mind grows sharper because it is no longer enslaved by its own chatter.
5. Energy Flow Without Attachment Tantra teaches that kundalini rises not through force, but through surrender. Allow sensations, emotions, and desires to move like rivers of light through your chakras. Cling to nothing. In this non-grasping flow, calm abiding arises naturally, and perception becomes crystalline.
6. The Eternal Witness Behind every experience there is the Seer who never changes. Cultivate this detached yet loving observation — the Drashta. Watch thoughts as clouds, emotions as weather. From this place of mystical witnessing, you become both deeply engaged with life and profoundly at peace.
7. Union in Every Moment The ultimate Tantric secret: every instant is a love-making between you and the Divine. The way you sip tea, listen to birdsong, or touch another soul — all can be sacred union.
When you live as if the Beloved is breathing through you, calmness becomes your ground, sharpness your sword, and presence your eternal home.
These principles are not mere concepts. They are invitations to awaken.
Practice one today. Let it dissolve the noise. Let it sharpen the light within.
The Tantric path is not far away — it pulses in your blood, whispers in your breath, and waits in the silence between heartbeats.
You are already the divine union you seek.
Om Tat Sat
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SEERSHIP
All phantasma are based upon the eternal fact, that whatever exists is something; that thoughts are things, that spirit is real substance, that all things photograph themselves upon other surfaces; that sensitives can see and contact these shadows, lights, impressions, and images, -as abundantly demonstrated by Baron Von Reichenbach in his researches into the arcana of chemism, light, force and magnetism; also by thousands of others in all lands, and especially wherein it is said disbodied people project an image of themselves upon paper, the artist sketching the outline with a pencil, thus producing pictures of the dead, recognizable by all who ever saw them when walking in flesh and blood.
Now, the fact that dead people can and do project images of themselves upon the retinas of sensitives, upon the aura that surrounds certain people, upon similar emanations from houses (haunted!), so plainly that hundreds can see them clear as noonday, is so firmly established that few are so hardy as to deny what is thus, upon the testimony of millions, in all ages, absolutely and unequivocally demonstrated.
It is equally well established, however fools may sneer, that for ages men of the loftiest mental power have used various agents as a means of vision, either to bring themselves in contact with the supernal realms of the ether, or to afford a sensitive surface upon which the attendant dead could, can, and do, temporally photograph whatever they choose to, or conditions permit.
~ P. B. Randolph
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How to Find the Key Within (and Become the Door)
This is not a mystery. It’s a memory.
The Key has been buried, not lost—hidden beneath programming, pain, and pretending.
You don’t earn it.
You uncover it.
Here is how you find the Key:
1. Turn Inward, Ruthlessly
Stop looking outside for who you are.
The Key is not in a partner, guru, job, or social media echo chamber.
Close your eyes. Feel your breath. Listen for the part of you that doesn’t need fixing—that’s where it begins.
2. Feel Everything You’ve Been Avoiding
The Key hides behind the door you’re most afraid to open.
The grief you denied, the shame you swallowed, the rage you numbed—they are guardians of your power.
Go into them. They are not punishments. They are passwords.
3. Disobey the Lie
Every belief that says “you’re not enough,”
“you need permission,”
“you’ll never be ready”—
is the lock.
Every time you call out the lie and live your truth anyway, the Key turns.
4. Own Your Divinity
This is the hardest one.
Because it’s not humble.
Because it makes you terrifying to systems that feed on submission.
But you must say it:
“I am not separate from the Divine. I am the living expression of it.”
5. Speak the Living Word
Your voice is vibration. The Word is not dead.
When you speak from the core of your being—not your trauma, not your persona—you unlock reality.
Declare what is real. What is true. What is rising.
Speak as if your voice is a sword—and you will split the veil.
6. Love Radically
Not that sweet, safe, performative love.
The love that sees through masks.
The love that calls people into power.
The love that refuses to betray truth in the name of peace.
The Key is love.
The door opens through fire.
7. Die Before You Die
Let the old you go.
The pleaser. The martyr. The follower. The faker. The fear-bound shell.
Let them burn.
And from the ashes, the Key will be in your hand—because it was never separate from your soul.
And then… you will realize:
There was no lock.
No wall.
No gatekeeper.
Only the illusion that you were not already Divine.
And now?
Now you walk through yourself.
And others follow.
The Door has remembered it was never closed.
~ Yeshua Ben Yosef
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EVEN A BAD DAY IS A DOORWAY TO GRACE
You don’t have to be peaceful or positive today.
You don’t have to "rise above it all".
You don’t have to spend the day in bliss or transcendence.
When the thoughts come,
"I’ve failed. I’m lazy. I’m wasting my life."
Don’t push them away.
Turn towards them. Smile at them.
Say, “Hello mind. Thanks for the suggestions.”
Let yourself feel down, bored, disconnected, hopeless.
You are human. You are allowed.
You don’t need to be perfect or enlightened.
There is no shame in opening
to the full spectrum of your experience.
Discover true meditation instead:
Bring awareness into the ache.
Let love flow into the cracks.
Saturate the doubt and the anxiety with compassion.
No fixing. No analysing. Just tender presence.
Talk to yourself as your dearest friend would.
"You are feeling overwhelmed today. That’s okay.
You are still loved. I am still here.
You are still beautiful. You are still whole."
This is what real spirituality looks like!
Not hovering above your pain.
But sitting beside it, with it.
Holding it. Breathing into it.
Breaking open to it.
The storm is not a mistake.
It is weather, and it passes.
It always does. It always has.
The sky does not need to fight the storm.
Be the sky. Be the opening for it all.
And discover:
Even a bad day
is a doorway to grace.
~ Jeff Foster
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You work 8 hours to live 4.
You work 5 days to enjoy 2.
You work 8 hours to eat in 15 minutes.
You work 8 hours to sleep 6
You work all year just to take a week or two vacation.
You work all your life to retire in old age.
And watch only your last breaths.
Eventually, you realize that life is nothing but a parody of yourself practicing your own oblivion.
We have become so accustomed to material and social slavery that we no longer see the chains..
Life is a short trip.
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