Chapter 07: Renunciation
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
Release Date: 04/13/2011
Chapter 17: Epilogue
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
Kundalini is a biological actuality. Because anyone, irrespective of religious affiliation, can practice it, Kundalini should be considered a biological process, albeit one not currently recognize by material science. The endocrine system existed long before scientists discovered. So too with various atomic structures, only recently discovered. Therefore, let's accept that there are still biological processes we don't know about, and Kundalini is one of them. The Epilogue describes the Golden Flower Meditation method. It's a big picture summation of my experience and the Kundalini activation...
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Chapter 16: Prologue
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
When I started recording this audiobook, I found myself in a quandary; I wanted listeners to be able to get right into the narrative, but there was the prologue, to my mind, at least, a useful bit of information that situates my Kundalini experience in a larger context. What to do with it? I decided to stick after the last chapter. In a printed version, it's easy for the reader to skip over, come back to, and generally peruse the contents of a book before deciding whether an introduction, a foreword, or a prologue is worth plowing through. Not so with an audiobook. The listener is stuck with...
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Chapter 15: Integration
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
After 35 years, Kundalini is on the brink of finally reengineering our hero's body. But just as it's about to happen he begins to have a problem with digestion and bowel, which causes the Kundalini to stall. He finally figures out that he needs to eat more raw foods. When he does, the raw foods diet clears his blockages and the Kundalini kicks into high gear. His reengineering is complete.
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Chapter 14: Relapse
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
As soon as Roper and Juanita arrive in Paris for a vacation, Martine and our hero whisk them away to their country house in Normandy. Roper helps with various construction projects. After they get back from vacation, our hero attends a stage (training program) on group dynamics and leadership. He sells out hi interest in the school and takes a job with a French computer company that tasks him with setting up a US branch.
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Chapter 13: India
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
Martine and our hero land in Srinagar, Kashmir, where he meets and discusses Kundalini with Gopi Krishna. A few days later they set out via bus over the Himalayas to Ladakh, a Tibetan province of India. It's a difficult three day trip.
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Chapter 12: Consolidation
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
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Chapter 11: Adjustment
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
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Chapter 10: Awakening
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
After a year's retreat in a remote region of Languedoc, our character decides to rejoin the world. He piles his worldly goods into a Renault Quatrelle and heads for Paris. Unable to find a hotel there, he stays with a friend in Bernay. She wants sex; he's not yet able. The Kundalini needs his Life Force Energy to repair his body and restore his health.
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Chapter 09: Surrender
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
Although he has never heard the word Kundalini, it's started to take over his Being, the inevitable effect of practicing The Backward-Flowing Method. It's a rough few weeks: fasting, sleeplessness, fatigue as the Kundalini climbs slowly toward the brain. When it gets bad, he becomes desperate, moving into Marc's house in village up the road. Marc and Celine take of him during the final explosion of the Kundalini into the crown chakra, and soon the healing effects of Kundalini take over.
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Chapter 08: Discovery
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time
He moves into the house in the south of France, diligently practicing Yoga and meditation everyday. He discovers and applies the Backward-Flowing Method, a secret technique from The Secret of the Golden Flower, then uses the I-Ching to decide if he should continue with the Backward-Flowing Method. He meets a neighbor, Marc Bonet who agrees to help him if things get difficult. Some neighbors say he's going to die. He tells Marc to pay no attention; he's actually stronger than ever.
info_outlineNow seriously into Golden Flower Meditation, he practices breathing exercises on long walks and meditates constantly. Little by little, his body begins to change as the meditation both stimulates and calms him. Understanding that he will make little progress in an urban environment like Paris, he seeks a place in the country to retire to. A friend recommends a small village in the south of France where he can continue his practice undisturbed.