mudra Sun Oct 24, 2021 3:20 am
INITIATIC RESEARCH
The true meaning of Initiation (from the Latin ‟initium”: beginning, start) is the release of energies which will allow the fulfillment and the expression of the faculties inherent to the individual.
Focusing on direct or indirect sources of light is at the origin of all forms of initiation and can be found in all traditions.
It is that focusing, and, consequently, the phosphene that gives access to the powers of the mind, nevertheless many people believe these powers belong to ‟an elite of initiates or chosen individuals” because they ignore the true nature of initiation.
These powers are actually very easy to obtain and to develop as long as a few simple guidelines are followed.
WHAT IS INITIATION?
At the age of eighteen, Francis LEFEBURE was initiated by Arthème Galip, following a laying on of hands which provoked phenomena of esoteric clairvoyance, astral projection or out of body experience and visions. The Zoroastrian Master also showed him certain exercises, in particular head sways, in order to maintain and to develop the capacities thus awakened. It is due to that powerful impetus that Doctor LEFEBURE discovered psychic phenomena which were going to transform his life and project him on a search which, as he was unaware of at that time, would last his entire life.
The process of laying on of hands, such as it was practiced in the past, provided no clue to what gave the initiator such a power, nor was it understood that the process could produce higher states of consciousnesses and spiritual phenomena in the candidate for initiation. The explanation of these capacities was always related to philosophical or religious interpretation, most of the time irrelevant.
At the time when Doctor LEFEBURE received that impetus, psychic phenomena were still regarded as mysterious and were reserved for certain initiates or certain select individuals. Nevertheless, at the age of forty-four, when he met the Indonesian mystic Pak Subuh, he had the certainty that these phenomena were actually caused by specific practices acting upon cerebral functions at a deep level, producing very particular states of consciousnesses. Like Galip, Subuh used swaying movements, but the rhythm was different.
The evening of his encounter with Subuh, while returning to his hotel, he had the idea of observing the effects of head movements on a phosphene obtained by using his bedside lamp. He realized that there was only one movement of the head which made the phosphene sway, because if he swayed his head too slowly, the phosphene remained fixed, and if he swayed his head too quickly, the phosphene disappeared.
It is thus by analyzing the effect of head sways on the brain, using phosphenes, in order to compare the exercises which Galip had given him to those practiced by Subuh, that Doctor LEFEBURE made his first great discovery and realized that phosphenes increase the cerebral potentialities of the individual.
The word initiation comes from Latin initium, which means beginning, start. The true meaning of initiation is thus the transmission of a powerful impetus through the release of cerebral energies, in particular through sways, which will make it possible to materialize and express the highest faculties of the individual.
This discovery of the effect of rhythmic thinking on cerebral capacities quite naturally places the initiatory techniques in the field of cerebral physiology. In the end, this confers to ‟Initiation” a much wider sense than the narrow cultural or intellectual sense it is habitually limited to: it is no longer a question of a gift or a capacity resulting from the moral quality of the individual. Doctor LEFEBURE thus highlighted the structuring action of the rhythm on the brain and thought functions. Initiation is thus not a gift of God, given as a reward to one person in particular, but rather a universal gift made to all mankind, each person being able to follow the laws of nature which the Greeks called ‟Physiology”.
The tradition of swaying is found in all cults and religions. It can be observed in the Jewish religion, the Islamic religion, the Sufi tradition and in the daily practices of the ‟sannyasin” of India (those who renounce), as well as in Asia: for example in the Shinto religion (Japan), in China, in Taoist practices, and also in Chinese popular traditions. In Egypt, in tombs dating from the time of Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV, 14th century B.C), archaeologists have discovered mural paintings representing dancers performing what would probably be ritual sways.
Parallel to the universal practice of swaying, there exists another point common to religious rites, initiations and all forms of mystical search: focusing on sources of light.
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