Sacred Body Rites: A Completion Stage Practice
That Combines Stillness Meditation, Stillness Touch, and Anointment with oils to reunite your body with Eros until you realize Body As Love.
Required Reading: Stillness Touch Union of Body & Love.
http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Ridley/e/B001JRZUTY
My newest book characterizes the Meditations, Stillness Touch, and the principles that are inherent to the practice of Sacred Body Rites. Chapters 6 & 7 provide an outline to complete your Grail Journey that prepares you to competently offer sacred touch.
Sacred Touch Is A Completion Stage Practice
Both Stillness Touch and Sacred Body Rites require that you first integrate your unconscious shadows that come from your Core Erotic Wounds. After completing your Grail Journey to integrate you shadows, you are qualified to train in and competently offer Sacred Body Rites; otherwise SBR is reduced to a set of physical ‘feel-good’ bodywork techniques.
If you are serious about evolving your consciousness, we are committed to assisting you with Completion Stage practices. However, that involves the descending spiritual current. We offer principles and practices that reunite your body with Eros, which is already one with the Love that creates all that is.
Love, when freed from our shadows, emanates a sacred pulse called Pure Breath of Love.
Armor
Armor that is stored in your flesh triggers unconscious psychological and physical recoils due to our hidden unconscious shadows that express fear, doubt, hatred, guilt, jealousy, greed, deficient emptiness, confusion of identity, loss, despair, shame, s sense of separation, etc. The unconscious recoils form our shadows control our Eros and create self-limiting behavior patterns of separation. Armor in the flesh also create the physical recoils in the ground substance, connective tissue, lymphatics, pelvis, genitals, belly, solar plexus, diaphragm, chest, throat, and jaw – all due to the ego’s terror of Divine Feminine Power. For example, recoil can manifest as convulsive contractions in your solar plexus that block Eros – Shakti – Love to prevent it from rising up your central channel to unite with your Heart’s Self-existing Radiance. If Eros reaches the heart radiance, the strategies of the ego can no longer unconsciously drive your behavior, and your will is free to express your unique purpose as your unique gift to the world. If you continue your Completion Stage Practice, your gifts evolve into transpersonal superpowers that are known as Siddhis.
Uniting your Heart’s Self-existing Radiance with your Eros gives birth to Pure Breath of Love that emanates from inside your cells. Then, the power of Love that made your body, heals your body, and makes you Whole becomes conscious. When Eros is free, it reunites with the Self-Existing Heart Radiance: in a woman, this event gives birth to Yoni-Heart, and for a man, Lingam Heart, both of which reconnects our Eros to the whole-making Divine Feminine force of Love that creates all that is.
What Are the Roots of Sacred Body Rites?
As outlined in the book Stillness Touch Union of Body & Love, Stillness Touch and Sacred Body Rites are based on a combination of several ancient and modern practices: Kashmir Shaivism, Tantric Buddhism, Mary Magdalene’s anointment transmission, Laying on of the Hands, Stillness Meditations, Stillness Touch, and the completion of your Grail Journey.
Body As Love
Body is a boundless, sensuous, organ of perception that expresses a subtle vibratory pulse of shimmering consciousness that is united with Love. In Kashmir Shaivism, this sacred pulse is called the Spanda. Born from an inner body union of the male and female principles called Shiva and Shakti, the Sacred Pulse of Spanda gives birth to Yoni-Heart and Lingam-Heart by which the female and male discover that the body expresses the Love that is stronger than death.
The birth of the sacred pulse in Yoni-Heart and Lingam-Heart imply the realization of Completion Stage, which is the quintessential union between Body, Consciousness, and Love. The body is in a continuous, unbroken, sensuous erotic union with Divine Feminine Love that creates all that is.
Female
Body is the Divine Feminine, and Stillness is the Sacred Masculine. In the Completion Stage, a female’s body is cellularly suffused with Shakti that expresses as her Yoni-Heart’s Sacred Pulse. This Sacred Pulse of Love emanates from all her body’s cells to infinity, and back to body. A female’s body in the Completion Stage emanates a limitless tonal web of sensuous consciousness, which is realized by attuning to arousal and letting it repose inside. Arousal is connected with what Tantric Buddhists call innate bliss. Our fundamental erotic connection with everything is realized when we enjoy the free-flow of Innate Bliss as the original state of our body. Innate Bliss transubstantiates body into Criatura due to the union of Consciousness and Love. In Tantric Buddhism this is called the Great Bliss, Mahamudra, or Maithuna.
We enjoy an expanded sense of the Body as a non-localized, non-limited, poly-sensuous, living organism that is united with the totality. This realization of Wholeness opens your body to its natural erotic union with all that is. Once Criatura is born, our self-limiting recoils that separate body from Love no longer exist. This total spectral realization of the body replaces the contracted ego-perception of separateness, which is not a reality of the body.
Love is an invisible flesh that becomes visible as your Body. By reposing inwardly in Stillness, while sensing innate bliss, you realize the union of Boundless Consciousness and Love – as the Body. Sacred Body Rites awaken Yoni-Heart as a portal for realizing Body As Love.How To Receive Sacred Body Rites
While receiving Sacred Body Rites, repose in your inner-body Stillness and allow arousal and desire to build inside your body. Attune to innate bliss that expresses an all-cell inner-body pulse of Eros throughout your entire body. Your main practice is to be with the sensuous qualities without changing anything. You can also practice inner-body breathing to free the erotic ebb-and-flow of Eros inside the body while you sense the Sacred Pulse that includes infinity, which encompasses the external world and the internal body space.
When you have integrated the shadows from your Core Erotic Wounds by taking your Grail Journey, your Yoni-Heart erotically expresses the Sacred Pulse throughout your body. Yoni-Heart’s infinite qualities include sensuous tones, flowing currents, zones of bodily armor, emotional tension, recoils, paradoxical intensities, thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, fears, old relational patterns, shock, spaciousness, fluidities, luminosities, various awakened states, tremors, vibration in the body, infinite inner Stillness, intimacy, Eros, desire, arousal, rapture, and Love, … whatever is here, because Love excludes nothing.
Sometimes you sense all these qualities at the same time
When you allow arousal and desire to build inside your body, without projecting them onto someone, Eros implodes within and emanates an all-cell, soft, subtle pulse that expresses innate bliss. Innate bliss frees attention from the shadows of the Soul – doubt, hatred, and terror that blocks potency is freed, and the recoils from the Divine Feminine power cease, and our self-limitations resolve.
In other words, once we integrate our shadows, Eros freely pulses in the body in tandem with the heart beat (SA Node). Freed attention unites with Love as a Sacred Pulse that emanates from your inner body space from all your cells. This continuous pulse of innate bliss expresses in your body’s cells as Pure Breath of Love. Again, in Kashmir Shaivism this is the Sacred Pulse of the Spanda, and in the Magdalene transmission it is the Holy Breath of Sophia; Tantric Buddhism calls it the Great Bliss, and in the Dynamic Stillness school we call it Pure Breath of Love.
Whatever the name, when you realize
the Sacred Pulse of the Spanda your Yoni-Heart and Lingam-Heart is born.
Yoni-Heart Emanates Universal Feminine Power
The birth of Yoni-Heart marks the realization of your original Divine Feminine Power that emanates from every cell of your whole body as a Sacred Pulse that blossoms as Love. You realize Yoni-Heart when you can cease snake behavior. Snake directs ego-driven will to objectify, project upon, do to, get from, control, manipulate, seduce, modify, name, or avoid . Instead, you can be with any intensity, intimacy, or paradox that arises. When Yoni-Heart is born, you no longer let terror, doubt, and hatred control your will, or drive your actions. You relax the recoil at solar plexus that block the pulse of Eros to prevent it from rising up the central channel to unite with your Heart’s Self-existing Radiance.
Instead, without any constraints, you surrender to innate bliss that expresses as the power of Divine Feminine Wisdom that emanates an erotic inner pulse with infinite variations. When you can relax the strategies of the separating and controlling ego, and you let the inner pulse of Eros freely express in your body, you realize true freedom from ego.
Freedom from Ego’s Tyranny
When spontaneous inner body breathing (Prana) takes root in your Yoni-Heart Eros can freely pulse in your inner body space. Innate bliss emanates a pulse of Eros that illuminates, caresses, and softens your body armor, frees your psychological self-limitations, melts the gelled grind substance and your body’s tensions, restrictions, unconscious bodily recoils at solar plexus … all of which pushes you away from Love, prevents it from cellularly suffusing your whole bodily being.
Through deep inner-body sensing with the whole of your being, ego’s unconscious terror, hatred, doubt, controlling and separating thoughts, feeling, and behaviors will softly melt into the vibrant silence to emanate the pulse of Love. This mysterious Sacred Pulse is the intersection between formless and form – Dynamic Stillness and Pure Breath of Love. This is Jung’s Pleroma, and it is the Wisdom of the Whole or Prajnaparamita in Buddhism. Once you can repose in Pure Breath of Love consistently, you are freed from ego’s control and Yoni-Heart is born.
Sacred Body Rites Anointment is an Initiation into the Completion Stage Realization that Body is Love
Annointment
While being anointed with oils, your practice is to allow your arousal and desire to build inside while you sensually abide in inner-body Stillness; taste all the nuances and subtle variations of the innate bliss that pulses as Love. It is difficult to be with and sense the intensity, intimacy, and paradox while in contact with Dynamic Stillness. This is because by being inwardly attentive, Stillness implodes in your inner body and creates a potent inner cellular space that expands your three primary bodily centers, and then it reunites them on all the levels of your being as one. In this mapless domain, we can feel lost, and it can create a confusion of identity: ‘Who am I?
This union of the head, heart, pelvis reveals all aspects of body, mind, emotion, and will that are under the tyranny of ego control. Even though it is difficult to face these psychological limitations, doing so strengthens your will. With renewed strength of will, you can relax, trust, and be with very uncomfortable memories, emotional intensity, powerful feelings, and the intimacy of your trembling inner body erotic pulse of Love – the Wisdom and Love of the Whole – without holding back due to terror, self-limiting behaviors, or by recoiling at solar plexus due to fear, control, doubt, hatred, and resistance to Love.
Eventually, the whole of your body, thoughts, mind, speech, emotion, and behavior become less constricted by ego control. You will no longer be influenced by activated somatic experiences, or bodily recoil at solar plexus that trap your awareness in old injuries, thoughts, limiting beliefs, painful memories, relationship patterns, emotions, paradoxical intensities, jealousy, and fear that recoil your attention from union with Love.
When you realize Yoni-Heart, Body pulses as Love.
Body is the unfolding flow of the Wisdom of the Whole.
Again, when the deep, pure presence of Love suffuses your flesh, it unites all thoughts, speech, emotions, actions, and consciousness. You discover Love’s spontaneous expression in the present, amid your enhanced capacity to surrender deeper into life’s continuous paradoxical multiplicity, unfolding just as it is – as the Love that creates all that is. It is within the above context that crafting a Sacred Body Rites Intensive becomes a powerful completion stage path for utterly embodying Love.
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