This work has been written with the aim of introducing the Techniques of Energy Enhancement to the world.

This New Course of Energy Enhancement is really only an Integration and a slight improvement on Ancient Techniques over 5000 years old with the best track record of success in producing a movement in the Evolution of those partaking of them.

Are only some of the Benefits accorded to those who work at Energy Enhancement Techniques.

I want to thank my Mother, My Father who gave me the best they were capable of giving me. I want to thank the intervention of my Soul, Zen Master Hogen and Swami Satchidananda for coming at the right time. I want to thank my Ascended Master for trusting me with this job of bringing the Advanced Techniques of Energy Enhancement to Earth.

But what makes me think I am doing anything....

The Brain is made up of what are called in India "chakras". Chakras contain various functions, which the total brain uses. Chakras are Parallel processors within the super-computer of the "normal" human brain which act independently yet in concert, in real-time, to perform the functions of a "normal" human being. The more these little "chakras" we can get working, the more our intelligence can expand - exponentially!

Normally each chakra can work in parallel with other chakras, yet independently. To help understand this, imagine three builders. One has the job of carrying bricks. One makes the cement. One lays the bricks and cement. All three work totally independently but at the same time (in parallel). Houses get built quickly when all three work together and continuously communicate to see how they are getting on. Houses get built slowly when only one builder works, when they start doing each other's jobs or the communication breaks down. Then surpluses build up and go to waste, the cement dries up without being used, or nothing arrives making the others idle.

The home computers we use have only one processor, or one chakra. They are a little slow and have no intelligence whatsoever. They work on the GIGO system - garbage in, garbage out! They can not discriminate as to what is important and what is not.

The Functions of the Chakras comprise control of the Body, the Emotions, the Intellect and the Spirit.

The Functions of the Chakras comprise the Unconscious, the Subconscious, the Conscious and the Trans-conscious components of the Total Mind.

Note that the intellect is only one small part of the whole, only one of the seven chakras yet we think that this comprises everything. We get confused when we are destroyed by our emotions because the emotions do not act intellectually. The intellect cannot control them without correct communication.

These Chakra components other than the intellect are each independent mechanisms which in most people hardly function at all and almost never together, due mostly to bad communication. Most human beings use only one chakra function at a time and rarely in parallel. The single function very rarely works to its ultimate potential. The various functions work together to different levels in different people.

The tower of Babel is the synonym in the Bible for a human being.

In a "normal" human being every part works and communicates together.

The brain, spine and connection with the Soul, the Antakarana, comprise the tower. Along the spine are the Seven Major Chakras or parallel processors. As I said, these chakras rarely communicate. They rarely work together. The parable goes that because God was afraid that the Tower of Babel would be built so high as to reach heaven, he purposefully created different languages amongst the various people building the tower. Because of the lack of communication the tower never got built to Heaven.

The lack of communication between the chakras, or the people building the Tower, symbolises their lack of integration. Because we are not integrated our psychic bodies will not reach up to heaven. We never managed to contact our Higher Selves. We are not Enlightened.

The Enlightened have built a Tower of communication "Twixt Heaven and Earth".

In the Ancient Sanskrit this Tower has been given the name "The Antakarana".

It is the psychic wiring, created in mental matter. A thoughtform created dually by the Soul and the aspirant to connect the Crown Chakra through to the Soul and then to the spiritual triad and then the Monad.

Your evolution is the height of your Antakarana.

The Astral plane is not flat. Although most people inhabit the psychic slums in the basement of the astral plane in their dreams, when they go to sleep.

It is the "Rainbow Bridge" whereby the Higher frequencies of the energy of the Soul are stepped down to that of the Earth, so that the Earth itself can raise its frequencies, can evolve. We have been created to help in this creative act.

These frequencies are stepped down Octave by Octave through each Chakra which are really Way Stations in the Energy System of the Soul. This is the "Music of the Spheres" of Pythagoras. Because The Enlightened Master Pythagoras was indeed talking of Chakras when talking about the Spheres or the Planets. Each Chakra as it evolves corresponds to one or more of the Planets. This is the secret of Astrology. This is the means whereby the Seven Sacred Suns and the Seven Sacred Constellations in this Sacred Universe affect us.

Each Chakra, when working correctly, acts like a Transformer in an Electrical system to halve the Energy Frequency of God. The frequency drops Chakra by Chakra, "Station by Station" as said David Bowie, on its way down to this planet because as Gurdjieff said "Normal Human Beings are transmitters of Cosmic Energy". And this is the function of Normal Human Beings. Those who are Enlightened. To transmit the Energy of The Soul. Whereby the higher energies of Truth, Prophesy, Intuition and Initiation are sent down towards this Planet.

Where the Higher Energy Frequencies of God create the Higher Energy Thoughtforms towards which the Median of the Masses are moved as they evolve and as the Earth Spirit Evolves.

Because the Energy Transmitted by the Enlightened is used to raise the frequency level of the Earth itself and all the people on it. To transmit the Light of Love down on to this planet of Love. To dissolve the Selfishness of the separated selves, those "Law of the Jungle" Egos who cannot communicate with The Higher Self. Who think of themselves as Separate. Who think themselves Apart. Who do not know that they too are A Part of the Universe of God Itself. Those who are not connected. Those who have not been touched by God. Those who are not "Made".

The Enlightened exist to bring light into darkness. To dissolve the darkness and this itself is the meaning of the Sanskrit word "Guru". A person who dissolves or Transmutes Goo is a GooRoo.

And this is done through the Light of the Soul. Brighter than Ten Thousand Suns it exists alone. Unchangeable. Like Fire it lights everything with which it comes into contact. And once you are lit, you too burn with the Fire of the Soul. Like Prometheus you bring down the Fire of God onto the Earth, for the Benefit of every living being.

Hari OM Tat Sat.

This is Sat Chid Anand.

In the past, normal people, - like Jesus Christ (Christian), Shakyamuni Buddha (The First Buddhist Master), Bodhidharma (The First Zen Master who synthesised the neurological technology of Buddhism and Taoism), Jallaluddin Rumi (A Sufi Master, one of the Mystics of Islam called the Persian Shakespeare. Sufism itself, synthesises Hinduism and Islam.), Mahavir (Jain Master), etc; - through training and a lot of hard work actually got the human mechanism to work as it should. They reached their potential as "normal" human beings and really impressed the rest of us, even after a thousand years.

As we know, most people function at a very low level only using perhaps 5% of their potential brain power. Most studies of human beings by behaviourists like Pavlov or psychologists like Freud actually point out the mechanical or robotic nature of most people. They never studied a "normal" human being. Most of us are "wolf-children", brought up in a very primitive and one-sided way.

So a study of the various elements of the brain, the chakras, with a proviso that the map is not reality, can be very helpful in elucidating the functions of a normal human being. An integration of all these functions is necessary so that they can act in parallel. Each function of the brain should work to its limit and is necessary to the super functioning of the whole. One function working alone is very little. Two functions squares the response of the system. With three functions working together the response is cubed!

To be said to have Control of something we must be able to stop it - Similarly with Chakras.

Tsu Hsia asked the Master

‘What sort of a man is Yen Hui?’

‘For kindness he is a better man than I am.’

‘What about Tsu Kung?’

‘For eloquence he is a better man than I am’

‘Tsu Lu?’

‘For courage he is a better man than I am’

‘Tsu Chang?’

‘For dignity he is a better man than I am’

Tsu Hsia rose from the mat and asked

‘Then why do these four serve you?’

‘Sit down, I will tell you.

Yen Hui can be kind but cannot check the impulse when it will do no good. Tsu Kung can be eloquent but cannot hold his tongue. Tsu Lu can be brave but cannot be cautious. Tsu Chang can be dignified but cannot unbend in company. Even if I have the virtues of all the four men together, I would be unwilling to exchange them for my own. My virtue is the Mastery of the functions. The ability to stop as well as to start each function. That is why they serve me without misgiving.’

Karl Popper, the famous philosopher of science, stated that in order for science to be able to prove a theory, one must be able to perform an experiment, which could potentially disprove that theory.

The Master in the story, like all Buddhas, demonstrates his integration of all the functions, real intelligence and not just one-sided functionality. The reason why he is a Master. The message is that the master is not attached to any one talent, any one function, and therefore can stop any function at will. He can stop his mind, his emotions, his spirit or any of the talents above. This is true mastery.

Intellect is not Intelligence

Also, it is important to note that our much-vaunted intellect, though important, is only a small part of the whole, the gestalt. The intellect is only one function of the greater whole. One Chakra amongst seven. It is of great importance to know the intellect is not intelligence. Intellect is of the mind; it depends on memory, it functions through borrowed knowledge.

All of our educational systems in the world are rooted in intellectual development; hence they all depend on memory. The examinations in our schools, colleges, universities, are not of intelligence. Memory is mechanical. A computer can have a better memory than a man of genius, but the computer has no intelligence.

Intellect is the faculty of knowledge. Intelligence is the faculty of knowing.

Knowledge is always dead; it is information. All of our educational institutions are doing with students exactly what we are doing with our chakra computers, just feeding them more and more information. No computer can answer a question for which it has not already been prepared. Intellect can only answer that which it already knows; it is stale, it is of yesterday.

Intelligence is responsibility, it is a response to a new situation, not out of your past memories but from your present awareness, this very moment. You don’t function as a computer, you don't search for the answer in your memory; rather you simply open your consciousness to the situation with your totality, the gestalt, and allow the spontaneous response, in real time.

Intelligence is response - ability; the ability to respond. The response is going to surprise even you, because it is so new - you are not repeating anything from the past.

There has been a perennial conflict between intelligence and intellect. The man of intellect thinks the he is intelligent because he knows so much. He has accumulated a great heritage of knowledge; he is burdened with all kinds of information, which he cannot get rid of. He does not have the possibility of being able at will to lay down his burden, to stop the fears of the past, the worries of the future, his life programming given to him by his reaction to his parents. Because he wants their attention. Because he wants their Love. Because he wants their Energy he programs himself as a child with selfish strategies to obtain all these things. In this way is created Selfishness and the thoughtform of "The Law of the Jungle" - Kill or be Killed. In this way is programmed selfishness. The whole of our lives can be destroyed by adherence to this thoughtform and the strategies we program ourselves to use in this selfishness. These hopeless, destructive strategies are depicted on three parallel levels by Eric Berne of "Transactional Analysis" fame who wrote "The Games People Play."

The man of real intelligence is innocent; he functions from moment to moment. His functioning has a freshness and beauty but to find intelligence one has to go beyond the intellect.

The intellect is just one function in one Chakra. It works better when it is integrated with the whole. With all Seven Chakras functioning perfectly together. The movement of the body as in the martial arts or in dancing. The emotions as in will power or love. Every improvement of each function. The ability to stop any function at will. Each step towards functional integration adds to our total intelligence. To our Wisdom.

In the ancient texts the mind is likened to a mad monkey which leaps here and there, totally out of control. Our painful memories which we cannot get rid of are the problem; our worries and cares; each negative and uncontrolled thought causes a part of our mental capacity to be blocked.

"And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night."

Matthew Arnold

In a computer, what happens when it has too many programs running at one time? - It slows the whole thing down tremendously. It eventually locks up.

It is the same thing with thoughts. The mind's capacity is used up by useless fears and negative thinking. It eventually locks up.

Pressing the "Mind Off" Button

The same thing happens in the human brain as in computers. If we cannot press the ‘OFF’ button. If we cannot consciously purge the useless programs which slow down the conscious and unconscious mind, then eventually the brain gets clogged up.

It stops in a nervous breakdown. Various types of mental breakdown are endemic in our modern high-pressure society. Most of us have seen some of the symptoms within ourselves at some time in our life. The statistics say that 30% of us will have at least one nervous breakdown in our lives.

The same Energy Enhancement techniques which act as a fast for the mind to expel the ancient long running useless programs and programming, also act to integrate all the functions within the brain giving an exponential increase in Brain Power and awareness. They are simple and of ancient origin.

The pyramid has a square base remenicent of the hindu and Tibetan symbol of the Base chakra. The hindu symbol for the base chakra has 4 petals. To the left are Tibetan symbols for the Base Chakra. It could also be a plan drawing, looking down from above, of the Pyramid.

However, a pyramid also has hight. Each corner travels up to one point which symbolises the Soul or the monad. And the thoughtform of hight shows the guided meditation for the Antakarana. The connection, the tower, the rainbow bridge. Crossing the abyss between the crown chakra and the Soul or the monad.

The symbol is used in Energy Enhancement Techniques sometimes in Level One when Necessary. And always in Level two.

The Pyramid is a very ancient and potent symbol used in many religions.

The Pyramid is also used as a visual psychic symbol whose potency is that of the OM or Christian Amen. The OM is the sacred word of the Hindus but is also a major teaching, guided meditation,  on enlightenment. It is composed of three syllables, AUM.

As taught to me by Swami Satchidananda, when chanted with visualisation it becomes Mantra Yoga whose aim is the energetic understanding of Enlightenment.

He jokes that this is a ladder, Jacobs Ladder, which can take us up to heaven. Unfortunately the literal minded are the ones who put these Ladders, the Bible or the Sacred OM on the Holy altar and chant "Oh Holy Ladder, Please take me up to Heaven." These techniques are not intellectual. They lead to a right apprehension of energy. They must be used correctly.

A, in a deep voice. Feeling the vibration deep in the base chakra, and visualising the position of the base chakra. This note is the fundamental. Never lose it whilst entering into the other notes.

U, move the energy, the vibration, the visualisation, into the heart.

M, to the nasal cavity, just behind the nose. To the forehead or Ajna Chakra. The top of the head or the crown chakra.

As your breath fails you send the energy up into the centre of the universe and down into the centre of the earth.

The pyramid has a four-sided, square base. The base chakra is always symbolised as having four petals or sides. As it rises higher, the pyramid comes to one point, symbolising the Crown Chakra. Thus, it is a visual representation of the OM.

For thousands of years, the visualisation of the pyramid with this understanding, has been done by advanced initiates of the race. Leaving the pyramid as a potent thoughtform to be used in meditation.

The Squaring of the Circle is an ancient Masonic phrase whose meaning, hidden, is seen, once one understands a little about meditation. It means that which is always square, at 90 degrees, to the earth, again symbolised by a circle. Why has 90 degrees always been called "The Right Angle?" Why does the word angle resemble Angel?

There is a energy in the centre of the Earth  which is always travelling outwards in every direction from the centre of the Earth. This Energy Is Kundalini Energy.

When it comes out of the surface of the Earth it is always at "Right Angles" to the surface. "Squaring the Circle" is a verbal representation of the Ankh symbol. Since most of the lore of the Masons was passed down from the symbolism of Egyptian times, is it strange that the symbol of the Ankh should be used?

However, until we meditate regularly, our spines are very rarely exactly at right angles to the earth. We have not squared the circle.

No amount of intellectual knowledge will compensate for not learning how to meditate and regularly, every day, practicing meditation. Getting our bodies and nervous systems used to the high voltage electricity, which emanates from God. The energy which attunes us to our soul and our soul path. That task we are meant to perform in this lifetime. That which gives meaning to our life. That path with heart which evolves and mutates every day as we become stronger and more capable. As our energy systems become more evolved and transparent to the higher and higher frequencies which flow through this multiverse.

Striving towards our evolution. Because it is possible to evolve, to get better, to learn to become better than that which we are. Away from the limited wolf children which we were born. To grow our acorns, which we were born, towards the oak trees, we are meant to become. Towards the rose trees, which the rose hips, can become. From the seed towards the perfume of the flower, which spreads outwards to attract the people who can receive that fragrance. Those of you who have noses to smell let them breathe in the perfume of Enlightened Beings. Those of you who have ears to hear, let them hear.

Not to be satisfied with all your talents, your jobs, your houses and your cars. But to strive ceaselessly for a higher meaning. A higher frequency. A higher energy. A higher capacity to do and to be.

There is a Zen story about the student climbing up a 100-foot pole. And no element of these teaching tales should be missed. Please notice the similarity of the 100-foot pole to the Ankh or the Sword in the Stone. The 100 foot pole is really the Antakarana - The psychic connection or tower, connecting your crown chakra with higher energies. After many arduous efforts he eventually gets to the top and looks down at the Master sitting in Meditation below. He asks what next? The Master replies, "Take one step higher!"

We can strive towards the ideal of the Bodhisattva, the enlightened being, unafraid of death, who remains behind on this planet to give the chance of enlightenment to the others who remain here. Those like the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, and all the thousands of unknown enlightened beings who regularly pass though this caravanserai, this temporary encampment, which we call life.

The legs represent the Base Chakra and should be flexible and strong. Our sitting position is only there to strengthen and cleanse the Base Chakra through the legs. When the Base chakra has no more blockages, then the legs will be able to sit, without any pain for hour after hour. This is the secret of Hatha Yoga. Each Asana or posture works on one or more of the chakras. As we are able to hold the postures without any pain, so we know that the chakras are losing their burden of negative energy.

This is the reason for a careful upgrading of the difficulty of Meditation positions.

First is the Chair Meditation Position. This provides very little stress for the legs and is usually easy to hold. However the venous return of blood up the legs from the feet to the hips is difficult. The blood may become turgid and not flow there so easily due to the pressure differences.

Note, sit on a small cushion at the edge of the front of the chair, so that you can get the spinal position correct. The knees should be slightly below the level of the hips to allow the spine to move forwards from the hips. The feet firmly grounded although to get the knees lower you may need to move the feet a little backwards.

Because there is so little stress on the legs it provides very little reduction in the negative energy held in the Base Chakra through this sitting position.

If we do not push ourselves just a little, then we will never get better.

Second is the Kneeling Position. Kneeling, a cushion is between our legs and we are sitting on it. If we sit on our heels then the blood may stop flowing in the legs. This posture is usually easier for most people but will not open the hips. thus it does not remove as much Negativity from the base Chakra as...

Third is the "Easy" Position as we teach in our Energy Enhancement Stage One Video and recommended for beginners if they cannot manage the Lotus posture. This posture will move you on faster than any other. This is the method of sitting taught to me by Zen Master Hogen - a traditional Zen Sitting position. Zen practise only Sitting Meditation, the meaning of Zazen. Thus the sitting position, over 600 years of Zen learning how to sit, is one of the best postures in the World.

In this posture the legs are carefully apart and not touching. One heal is into the perineum or the vulva. The trigger point for the base chakra.

A beginner usually has an enormous cushion because the bigger the cushion the less stress on the knees and also the knees being below the level of the hips allows the base of the spine to move forwards like a snake. The spine arches forwards a little allowing the belly to move forwards as you breathe. Forward from the coccyx moving the belly forwards, backwards over the heart and shoulders making the chest and heart centre open more, forwards at the neck bringing the chin down, backwards at the base of the skull pushing the back of the head up towards the center of the universe.

As we heal our base chakra, the cushion gets smaller and smaller. And we can sit longer and longer. As you practise day by day, so you will notice that you can sit longer without pain. As you sit, usually the pain in the legs gets more and more. This pain is negative energy being released by the sitting position. Like weight training, muscles are built by many repetitions and a little pain. A little pain is fine. It shows that we are working. However too much pain is damaging and is not recommended. It is fine to move the legs. When we do the pain goes away. Where does it go?

When we move our legs it is best to straighten the legs in front of us and keep them there without moving until all the negativity has flowed out of the feet and the blood has started to flow again. If we move them more we build up more of an oxygen debt if we have stopped the blood flow. As we strengthen the legs so the blood flows more strongly. It rarely stops. However if it does, then it is usually due to a long straight edge on the front of our cushion. Have a narrow cushion. Sometimes we sit on the corner of a large foam cushion. A Zen cushion is round in shape for this very reason. So that it does not cut into the leg muscles and stop the flow of blood.

Do not point your feet in the direction of anyone or you will give them all of your negative energy as it flows out of the feet. In India they say it is bad manners to point your feet towards the Guru. This is the reason why.

Then if you wish, fold your legs in front of you again and try to attain a state of meditation with no thoughts in the mind.

Fourth is the Half Lotus. One heel into the Perineum or vulva. The other on the opposite thigh. Usually we push ourselves with a more difficult posture at the beginning of our practise and then move back to an easier posture for the end of our meditation period.

Fifth is the Lotus Posture itself. The real Zen sitting position. As we progress to more flexibility in the legs we start putting the legs on the opposite thigh in the Lotus posture or Padmasana, again, on a cushion. This is the recommended way to sit after we have strengthened ourselves. My personal experience is that this posture automatically feeds energy up the spine and somehow straightens it out. It reduces the build up of energy in the lower chakras as it feeds the energy onto higher planes up the spine much better than all the other postures.

A Master only has a very thin cushion. Hogen recommended that if the legs started to hurt, then we should swap our feet from over the other leg, to under the other leg!

One day we were in seshein - a time when we try harder. A Zen retreat when we meditate for 6 hours per day. My friend, Granville, was rubbing horse linament into his legs. "Ah" said Master Hogen. "I see that your legs are in pain. Would you like to know how to stop this pain?" We all cried "Yes, please tell us Master Hogen. We really want to know."

"Well," said Hogen " The secret is, practise a little every day!"

Whenever I teach meditation, I always ask the people to get their spines exactly at right angles to the earth. I say, imagine that there is a stream of energy flowing out from the centre of the earth, at right angles to the surface of the earth reaching out towards the Centre of the Universe, the Universal Spirit or the One God who has 10,000 names.

Then, sitting straight, I say sway backwards and forward just two centimetres and feel when the energy flowing in your spine is in alignment with this energy at right angles to the earth. When your spine crosses this energy it is in alignment with this energy. Then you will feel something in your spine. A zap of electricity. Heat. A ping at the base of your spine. A flow of the energy from God.

And when you feel it, I say, stay there in this flow and you are already in meditation.

Then sway your spine from side to side and feel for the same energy. When you find it rest there again and feel the flow. Then your head. When your spine is in alignment with this energy. Then sway your head to get the neck and the back of the head into alignment with this energy. Just a centimetre. Pushing the back of the head up towards the sky. And then from side to side, just a centimetre Do you feel the flow?

Then you have squared the circle.

There is a story about the rain which always flows from heaven. It rains down upon the worthy and unworthy. Both. Some people are like pots. Some of them are broken and sick. Some of them are lying on their side. But only those pots who are upright, gather in the living waters from God.

The quality of mercy is not strained.

It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven.

Upon the Earth beneath.

It is twice blessed

First by he who gives

And then by he who receives. - William Shakespeare

Meditation is a great blessing, if you too can learn how to receive.

Grounding is the meaning behind the symbolism of the Sword in the Stone. This later symbol is an evolution of, is higher than, The Ankh, The Sword and the image of St Michael and symbolises the awakened energies running up and down the spine also symbolised by Mercury - the winged messenger of the Gods and the Staff of Aescepulus - symbol of healers and medical Doctors. Moreover, the sword also encompasses the cross also used in Christianity and the awakening of the Heart.

Further to this, now the Sword is plunged into the stone. The energies are grounded in the earth, symbolised by the circle, founded in the land. This symbol gives further information on how to overcome the lower self and awaken the Heart. This is a further meaning behind mastery and also majesty including the symbol of VITRIOL.

It means that once you are sitting in meditation and your spine is square to the Earth, then, the energies aroused can be directed through the heart, leading to the first initiation on the path of enlightenment, The Opening of the Heart. When we start to open the heart we become less selfish. We start to think of others instead of only ourselves.

This work is helped by the Second Level of Energy Enhancement which utilises this flow to get rid of, to dissolve, negative energies which exist between people. In all our relationships. The relationship we have with our parents. The relationship we have with our husband or wife. The relationship we have with our children, all the way down through our boss, our friends and the person we meet in the street.

This negative energy causes us to accept or reject all manner of people. It does not allow us to have a fresh relationship with a person, without any holdover from the past. Many people have difficulties with some of the relationships mentioned. These are the strong relationships. The hot fires which test our emotional IQ. Gurdjieff said that it is every human beings duty to love their parents. Until we can do this, he said, we are not truly human. We are not Healed.

And why does every Master of meditation say to his students that they must sit in meditation in these stupid, uncomfortable poses called the lotus posture or the "Easy" pose.

They say that eventually you must be like them, in a state of meditation 24 hours a day, whilst washing the dishes and doing your normal daily life. So why do they say that you must practise getting into a state of meditation in this silly sitting position? Why not meditate in the bath? Why not meditate whilst lying in bed? Why do we have to put ourselves through this uncomfortable trial?

Why, whenever you come to the Ashram of a Master, do they have no chairs? Chairs are not a new invention. They are pictured from 10,000 years ago on hieroglyphics in the Egyptian Pyramids. The Romans reclined on them.

Why, whenever you come to the Ashram of a Master, do they say sit. Sit in meditation. Sit listening to them as they talk to you for hour after hour. In India, they say that it is bad manners to show your feet to the Guru. In other words, "Sit!", "Do not move". Why?

The answer lies in the sitting bones of the hips. The source of the Base Chakra whose symbol in Hindu literature includes the Kundalini serpent coiled, sleeping, three and a half times around a Shiva Lingam. The Shiva Lingam corresponds to the Spine. The Kundalini serpent corresponds to a higher level of energy, which is needed to clean the negative energy or pain from all the rest of the Chakras. If you are selfishly sleeping, kundalini energy is only active in the lower three chakras. The fourth chakra, the heart is not yet active. The first Initiation of Alice Bailey, The Opening of the Heart, has not yet been taken. Kundalini Energy only becomes active when the base chakra becomes active by its being or its starting to be cleaned. And how do we start to clean it? By sitting!!

Sitting places the legs, knees and hips, all attached to the base Chakra, under a slight strain, which causes all the negative energy to become activated. Thus, we start training in the Grounding of Negative Energies just by sitting!

Hindu and Zen Masters always sit and expect all their students and guests to sit with them, sometimes for hours whilst they wait for the Master or whilst the Master talks. They do not allow you to show your feet to the master. They say that bad energy comes out of the feet and it would be very bad manners to show your feet to them. Thus, through compassion, they insist on activating all your negative energy in the base chakra, only when it becomes active can it be Grounded.

The Sufis say that bringing an unformed man into the presence of the wise, is like throwing a dead dog into a pool of rose water.

We feel the waves of negative energy emanating from the sitting student. The amount of Grounding a Master must do for His students beggars belief. We even connect with our students at distances of thousands of miles to do this. Ask, and it shall be given unto Ye. Masters sit and through them doing the job, the student gets the idea on the psychic plane and starts to do it for himself.

Energy Enhancement gives you this information right from the start. Energy Enhancement says that this is the task and gives you the techniques, stronger and stronger to allow you to complete your task.

Because this lack of enlightenment, this unhappiness, this lack of function is YOUR problem. You need to solve it through YOUR efforts. Masters are simply a resource to enable you to do your job. The energy is always there. Are you open enough to receive it?

Trying to get into a state of meditation starts to open a crack in the door so that the Light can shine in.

Energy Enhancement techniques start with sitting meditation but graduate on to more advanced guided visualisations of the Kundalini Kriyas and the five Elemental paths of the ki, Chi of  the Taoist Masters, including "The Earth Path". And those of Alchemy- The creation of the Philosophers Stone– from VITRIOL, "The right leading of the Released Kundalini Energy along the Path of the Soul!

This is the first Four Stages of Level One of Energy Enhancement taught right at the beginning.

Zen Masters sometimes sit, for 15 hours a day with their students. Normal Seshein or Retreat or literally "A time when we try Harder" makes students sit in Zazen Literally "Sitting Meditation", for 6-8 hours per day for a week.

I could sit for sessions of 30 minutes when I first started to sit. After one week with Zen Master Hogen, I could sit for one hour. I could feel him cleaning my base chakra every time I sat for years after our first meeting.

Can you feel my breeze blowing?

Even from 10,000 miles. (Haiku- Zen Master Hogen.)

Yes Master Hogen I can! And all thanks to you! For all your blessings upon me.

Well, when I asked this of Zen Master Hogen, he sat with a stern expression on his face and said "Ten Thousand Years"

If like the poet and mystic, William Blake you can "See heaven in a grain of sand and Eternity in an hour", which only occurs in advanced states of meditation called Samadhi, then you know that ten thousand years can happen at any time in an instant.

But for beginners we normally say make a bargain with yourself. Choose some easy length of time - 5, 10, or 20 minutes and sit for this length of time twice a day without fail. Repetition is the Mother of perfection. On a bad day sit for that length of time, on a good day when your meditation is going really well, sit for longer. You can change the amount of time you want to sit at any time.

When I visited Sri Sathya Sai Baba, he was giving Darshan twice a day. Each time we had to sit cross-legged in the boiling Indian sun for hours whilst waiting for him. I used to meditate at this time but many westerners became annoyed and left. They did just not understand his compassion. His methodology.

This cleaning and relaxation of the Base Chakra is the start of Enlightenment. Swami Sivananda said that if you could sit for 3 hours in the Lotus posture without moving, then it is possible you could be enlightened.

In the past, psychologists have only worked on one painful experience at a time by providing a meaningful theory by Freud or Jung and then examining the problem. Through understanding the problem, it is released and the client adjusted back into society in his proper place. He may still be neurotic because only one problem has been solved.

The same with ancient lives. We may travel back to, see and fix one life problem in one of our past lives, but what about the other thousands of life-times, each with their own traumas, deaths and problems.

Energy Enhancement Techniques teaches how to remove All of the traumas, deaths and problems as simple negative energy. You do not have to see the problems. They are simply grounded as Negative energy. Learn how to simply, "Ground the last dregs of your VITRIOL!"

There is an ancient Greek myth about Hercules, (a Son of God, Zeus), wanting to marry Persephone the Daughter of the King of the underworld. The Crown Chakra wanting to combine with the Base Chakra. Shiva combining with Shakti. A Human Being becoming Enlightened.

He needed to ask her father's permission. When he did, her father was pleased to marry his daughter to the son of Zeus, but first he must perform 12 tasks. The 12 labours of Hercules. The fifth task was to clean out the Kings stables - The Augean stables. Hercules said, "No Problem," but when he saw the stables, he realised what a mountainous task he had taken on. There were thousands of horses and they had been creating manure for hundreds of years. Just like we, ourselves, create and absorb pain and Karma over thousands of lifetimes.

At first, he tried to dig the manure, examining every turd. Just like the psychologists and past life therapists of today. But after one month he had got nowhere. He had only cleared a small hole in a mountain of shit.

After much thought, he then projected to change the course of the river Styx, the river we cross when we die, through the stables. When he did this, the stables were quickly cleaned as the river washed all the manure away.

Deep Rivers of Energy lie hidden deep within us. As we learn to access and then to use them. So, All our History. All our pain can be dissipated and washed away

In the same manner, our first Level of Energy Enhancement teaches basic methods whereby the mountains of manure within us can be removed, painlessly, without examining every turd. The whole mountain can gradually be moved and our History painting which has been painted brushful by brushful, day by day, can be returned to the clean white sheet we were when we were born. We are full of a lot of History not only from this life, but also from previous lives. Our Energy Enhancement can truly remove this Personal History so that all painful memories can be dissipated and our energies can then start to flow in their natural courses, once again.