U. New Management : Buddhi Magic

I’ve been putting off writing about Buddhi magic because it is something I don’t truly understand and I was hoping that Mystic would help me out - which he did in his own way… he simply told me to describe my training.
Yet, I feel a brief background of the Buddhi approach to existence would help.
Again this is as I understand it and it may be that I don’t understand it very well.

I have never discussed the origins of the Universe with the Buddhi but I do know that they see the Universe as being ‘alive’. Perhaps not ‘alive’ in our sense of alive but then again I’m not certain what that is either.

For the Buddhi suns, planets, comets etc. are not accidents of random chance but are expressions of 'wishes' (not a word they use but the best I can think of to fit).

The Universe, like all living things, is evolving and growing and it is striving to develop and perfect itself. It is thought that maybe the Universe wishes to awaken itself, to spread sentience and enlightenment, until it becomes God.

What we see as Evolution is simply a clockwork view of how things develop. It misses the point that things develop in the way they wish as well as the way that best aids their survival.
If evolution was simply about survival of the fittest then the world would be ruled by deadly, lightning fast, predators and man would never have evolved. Man evolved because he was intelligent but not because his intelligence made him the fittest to survive but because intelligence was necessary for the next step…

Now I’d better explain a bit more about ‘wishing’ because that seems to be the aspect that humans seem to find hardest to understand. I’ll explain it in terms of how we humans view evolution to simplify the explanation.

First you must try and understand how miraculous it is that there is any life at all if you believe in random chance.
From a scientific point of view we humans seem to believe that some billions of years ago there was a Big Bang when a huge amount of energy, from somewhere, or somewhen, exploded to create a new Universe by finding ways to form elementary particles and building from there.

Well, the Buddhi would not argue with the principle that energy could wish to find a material expression (matter) and that having found a way to do that would continue on wishing ever more complex forms.
Yet from a scientific point of view there is no real explanation of how life began just some mutters and murmurs about random chance and lightning strikes in primordial soup.

For the Buddhi it would simply be that ‘life as we know it’ was the next step in the evolution of the Universe once the necessary material complexity had been established - or simply that having established a level of order this order wished to be able to sustain itself by reproduction.
Having done that it could then begin wishing new, more complex organisms that could feed, move, perceive and eventually comprehend.

Now I’ve gone to all this trouble to explain the concept of ‘wishing’ because, in a way, it is the central pillar of Buddhi magic. It is something all things can do but it is something that very few can influence.
A bit like dreaming, everybody can dream but few people can actually control their dreams… hence the training.

All things are born in the darkness even if we don’t consider them born until they enter the light.
Dreams and desires combine to become wishes and like seeds in the earth, under the right conditions, they germinate and reach from the darkness into the light.
You can probably see this in the way ideas are born in the mind and, under the right condition, grow to become concepts which reach into the light to become manifest… yet even great concepts like say ‘Google’ must continue to develop with its roots or inevitably wither while something else grows and flourishes to take its place.
It is much harder to see physical things connected to their roots and certainly creatures like ourselves and, say, dogs, are no longer well connected and hence they sleep and connect through dreams.

All things remain connected to their dark roots and these roots develop just as do the things in the light. Like a tree depends on its roots so do all things - but unlike a tree the roots of most things are not physically obvious or tied to a specific location.

In humans the ‘shadow self’ is the interface between the ‘light self’ or the physical body and the ‘dark self’ or subconscious root and, in most humans, can only be ‘felt‘.
The ‘shadow self’ is rarely developed in modern man and tends to be almost two-dimensional, extending much more to the left and right and up and down than to the front and back.
This is hardly ever noticed because the conscious mind maps it onto the visual information provided by the eyes which, since we do not have eyes in the back of our heads, provides little to map things which are ‘felt’ behind. To complicate matters even further the left and right sides of the shadow self are rarely symmetrical probably due to the lack of calibration between the two halves of the brain.

‘Dolphin spinning’ was developed by Mystic and myself to help in the calibration of the two sides and works best if the water is close to body temperature and the eyes are closed or dark goggles are worn.
Mystic had neglected to mention that he had been selected by the Buddhi to help devise training methods for humans and I thought it was merely an interesting attempt to extend the possibilities of sensory deprivation. I pointed out to Mystic that the spinning caused sensation on the hands as they circled through the water and he simply said “Good.”
It wasn’t until later that he told me that he had wanted to see if ‘calibration’ would be automatic or would need conscious effort… in me it actually needed quite a lot of practice and mindfulness.

You can get some idea of the calibration effect by closing your eyes and holding your arms as you might have as a child pretending to be an aeroplane, kind of forming an ‘A’ shape with your head as the top, then turn your index fingers toward each other and very slowly bring them together until the fingertips touch, if you fail and your fingers touch anything else you must immediately go back to the A shape. It shouldn’t take you long to master this and you should find that you can soon touch your fingertips behind your back and then in front of you. This does go a small way to calibrating the two sides but it is nowhere near as efficient as similar techniques done while there is no fixed position for the brain to relate to.

The importance of lucid dreaming, shadow self calibration and the journey to the root of the senses are all tied in with the ability to ‘sense’ reality rather than to simply accept the model of it created in the mind. Obviously if you want to effect something in the ‘real world’ you can’t do it if you are mistaking the sensory copy of it in your mind for the thing itself.
Many of you will have seen this principle portrayed in films where a Master will point to the reflection of the moon in a pail of water and when the student stares at it the Master then quickly turns the students head to look at the moon itself and slaps him in an attempt to make him realise that it too is a reflection and with the shock of the slap to ‘feel’ and hopefully perceive the real moon.

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I’ve spent so much time trying to explain the simple concept of ‘wishing’ that I haven’t enough left to actually describe much of the training I received from the Buddhi…
I’ll try and add it soon!

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A very recent encounter with the ‘Unseen Enemy’, which I only survived
by the skin of my teeth, has made me realise that I should abandon the preamble and get to the point so I’ll come back to the basic Buddhi training later - if I get the chance. However hare is a brief summary :-

Suffice to say that Mystic has studied many Earth religions and spiritual systems and done a kind of pick and mix in an effort to devise the best training methods for the human brain.
Basically it seemed to be mainly based on Hatha and Raja Yoga, Taoism and Zen.

Certainly Za Zen was the chief form of meditation for beginners and coupled with dream therapy constituted the first six months or so. To be fair having already had some training by Mystic I skipped the basic training and so I can’t really say I know much of the detail.

For those of you who are not familiar with dream therapy it is essentially a system designed to help the dreamer realise their true potential and ready them for lucid dreaming.

The aim is to help dreamers to always be able to recognise when they are dreaming and to realise that they cannot be fatally harmed in a dream and to help them master their fears and lose their inhibitions.

Once the dreamer is sufficiently ‘clean’ they are instructed to meditate on the hand they favour for writing (usually the right) every night and to continue doing so until they fall asleep.
Usually, with a couple of weeks they experience their first lucid dream.
A lucid dream is one in which the dreamer is in control.

There is also fairly rigorous physical training and a special diet that, I’ve heard, is perhaps the hardest part of the initial training. Those who excel are often given special water training where their eyes are covered (sometime they are given ear plugs too) and they are taught to ‘spin’ and develop their awareness in large pools of sea water (or salt water).

Okay, I’ll mention the more advanced techniques later…