Chapter 13 - Vital Body Creativity and the Meaning of Tantra Flashcards
Quantum healing
mind exerts causative effects on physical body that can lead to disease and likewise to healing
Vital body’s movements (prana or chi) through nadis/meridians are quantum movements - consciousness collapses possibilities of all three bodies - physical, vital, and mental - simultaneously into actual events
health
dynamic balance between ego and quantum-self modalities in physical, vital, and mental bodies
Martial arts
goal is to be a warrior who embodies access to and control of emotions and of movement of vital body
unite physical body/vital body identities of consciousness with one another and with brain-mind-based identity.
emotional events
consciousness simultaneously collapses physical changes and correlated vital changes
mythology
History of the self
When we don’t remember because of prevailing fads of thinking (such as materialism) myths remind us
Chakras
Regions of body where quantum collapse of physical takes place in correlation with collapse in vital body. Places for important mapping of vital body onto physical
Shadow archetype
Individually and collectively repressed mental and emotional material in the individual and collective unconscious
kundalini shakti
latent prana to be released with creative quantum leap of vital body from guidance of mind to direct guidance of intellect.
Metaphor for creativity of vital body in which vital-body ego identities at chakras are integrated. When it rises to crown, we achieve union of vital-physical ego identities with brain-mind arriving at integration
Bioenergetics
When we’re defensive we tense our muscles, and sometimes don’t relax again and retain body-memory. A memory can be said to be held in a muscle when muscle is fixated in certain position and can’t relax.
Bioenergetics of muscle has to do with free flow of calcium ions. When muscle is tensed during trauma, sarcomeres flooded with calcium ions. After trauma, some calcium may remain and maintain tension. Now a memory of trauma in particular muscle.
Muscles
array of long cells which contain many cell nuclei and many small fibers called myofibrils. Myofibrils contain repeated units called sarcomeres, which are arranged lengthwise along long cylindrical axis of muscle
Repressed memories
If state comes up in superposition of possibilities in thought and emotion, consciousness doesn’t collapse it, so muscle won’t be reactivated by normal body-mind-vital energy processes to get opportunity of functioning fully again
Shadow cleansing
Muscles with locked in memory can be felt during massage.
Right-handed path
path of light, based on transcending ego-conditioning. Inner creativity, centers on the mind
Left handed path, or tantra
Dark path, transcending sexuality - raise kundalini through chakras
Opening of chakras
creative breakthrough is possibility of creative control associate with emotions and realization that we’re not limited to identity with brain-mind ego
