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Darin Hamel
01-05-2008, 06:14 PM
The cycles I have noticed or read about are 3 days, 28 days, 96 days, 10 months, 3 years and 9 years. I kind of see them as rungs on a ladder now. First master one stage and it is done and you work on the next one until it is done. It also possible that the shorter stages are easier to re-do and the longer the cycle gets the harder they get to re-do.

I am still a bit unclear on the 10 months stage, the 9 year stages and from what I can tell from reading the lives of many saints and mystics there might be a longer 18-21 year cycle.

Each stage also from what I can tell has both an active and passive stages. It’s like the shortest of stages the 72 hour one. You get the flash/bang (yang) of the sexual dream that you stop that takes effort, then there is the 72 hours of waiting (yin) and finally at the end you get another flash/bang with the tunnel experience (yang).

If your not familiar with the tunnel it is a multi level thing where it seems you are flying through a tunnel but after awhile you notice that what is happening is that energy is moving up your spine and you are just so focused on it that your attention becomes localized and you get this altered perception of flying high speed through a tunnel.

I also don’t think you can backslide. If you screw up something at the 3 years stage you don’t regress all the way back to the 100 days or earlier. You either pick up where you left off or you start the stage over at the next appropriate solar or lunar cycle. Alchemy was supposed to start in the spring-time in the sign of Aries but I don’t know if this has a parallel in Taoist Alchemy.

If you want to screw up the 72 hour cycle all you need to do is masturbate to ejaculation or even masturbate and use the cheater method of pressing on the perineum to stop emission. That will stop you from having the tunnel experience.

It is exactly 72 hours for some reason. If I took a nap at noon and had the sperm retention experience then the only time I would be due for the tunnel was at noon three days later. The tunnel would happen only in deep meditation or while sleeping but if I was sleeping and it happened it always woke me up. OBE were more flexible but the inner body experiences where always exactly 72 hours.

The 28 day lunar month cycle was another one I noticed in that if I did not use any sexual techniques to raise my Jing level then a few days before the new moon I would have the porn dream and then 72 hours later have the tunnel. This was most noticed from 1995-1998 when I stopped all artificial sexual stimulation techniques but still kept up with the sperm conservation. It became something like clockwork.

The 96 (100) day cycle manifested once in 1994 and the three year cycles have happened a couple times. First time was in 1997 when the little body came out of my forehead again but very weak and wispy exactly three years later from the original date in 1994 according to the lunar calendar. I used the Jewish one in case you’re interested. It’s happened on other minor things, which makes me think all these cycles repeat over and over like the 72 hour one but they just move up a level as we adjust and stop noticing them.

If all this is true then that flaming wheel was most likely the start of the last major Yin Cycle which puts the end of my alchemy in March of 2008 and in March. But I have been disappointed twice before so I don’t want to look forward to anything happening then (yeah, right).

What this means simply is instead of each stage following the last immediately like the day after the 100 days ends the 10 months begins you actually wait until the next solar cycle to start or the next year.

To make it even more simple my first idea was this:
1994=100 Days + 10 Months
1995-1997 = the 3 Years
1998-2006= the 9 Years

My new idea goes roughly like this;
1994= 100 Days
1995= 10 Months
1996-1998= 3 Years
1999-2008= 9 Years
(Do these numbers add up?)

Naomi
01-05-2008, 07:39 PM
lol...ok

When I was having one such 72 hour experience, as you might call it I was looking around my enviroment for clues on how to bring the experience to a higher level.

I was sitting in my tub, thinking "Alright what do I do, what do I do to succeed in keeping this egg alive?" I was convinced I had an egg of some sort in my hara (though on another level I also realized it was purely spiritual in nature) and suddenly Greg walks in on me slams a bottle of saline eyewash solution down on the counter (after apologizing for walking in on me) and I read it and it says:

SOLUTION: NO RUB

And I thought "oohhhh ok", so I didn't bother relieving my sexual frustration, which was intense, and I'm sure I was driving all of my friends crazy with my neuroticism...

So this makes a lot of sense. It did work...I got to summon a thunderstorm that night and laid around naked in the rain invoking ningishzidda...this triggered a whole other series of explosions...


and I did manage to hatch the egg....

I'm amazed that you manage to record all of these experiences so precisely - I was keeping a journal at one point but this is something I never do and only did so because one of the experiences triggered it. Then I locked myself out of my word file and didn't bother hacking it so there it is...I can't look up dates on any of it.

Maybe there is no rhyme or reason to it beyond a certain point.

I managed to invoke Mahakala and he was showing me the complete synthesis of time and space and how it works outside of the slow moving minds of humans, cycles were not explained to me...but I am in tune with the concept. I find this research very interesting.

Oh, one thing I noticed, is after being reformatted, my monthly cycle switched from the 15th of the month to the first of the month....this after approximately three months of not having a cycle....and it had nothing to do with pregnancy or overexercising.

And I noticed the three day cycle prominently.

Now what can this all mean? Can we use this for extended application of tantric practice? i don't know...I guess it would help "knowing what to expect" in this regard, we are pioneers because everything else is from disciplines with heavy lockdown or a more fluid approach....

and not everyone is suited to doing stuff on the fly.

Darin Hamel
01-05-2008, 08:40 PM
I kept a journal from 90 until 99 religiously and now its mostly onling recording of stuff that pretty easy to find since I am only on three forums and one of the three just crashed and I lost stuff but nothing too valuable.

When I meet people like you online I wish were could meet in person so I could plot your life on the Tree of Life and ask a million questions. I suppose in 20 more years of the internet most of this stuff will already be worked out. I just need to wait.

Your cycle changed? Fascinating...how was that in regards to moon phases?

Naomi
01-05-2008, 09:00 PM
the only other time I remember it changing was when I flew cross country in 1999 on New Year's day, I was reading the Bhagavad Gita and noticed my cycle changed from the 1st to the 15th...

Now I was boarded at a Krsna temple when I was really young. I was dedicated in Bhakti to Narasimha who is an avatar of Vishnu (like Krsna)

The first thing I noticed as a pattern in regards to last year is the thing started over easter weekend, I started getting visions of the Ishtar mythos and descent into the underworld...later I found out Easter weekend used to be the celebration of Ishtar. This may mean nothing, because every culture with seasonal changes in the world celebrates the equinoxes, solstices, and half points (such as halloween, groundhog day, etc)

And I was vaguely aware of being Mohini, do you know who that is?

I think we can all become conduits for this stuff but our bodies (including our brain at a cellular level) has to be formatted correctly for the being to be able to manifest.

Yes, i always want to meet practitioners in person, I really don't like the internet. It's the only way to meet people on the right level though, or so I have discovered. I really do make an effort to meet people locally but it's all turned out to be mostly a dud....people who are serious about this stuff are very hard to find. m1thr0s for instance keeps mentioning he can teach stuff in person that he can't teach in real life and that's extremely frustrating to me because I don't want to have to deal with this problem of travelling, it's really so complicated. but that's all I have to worry about, at least I have internet not like some other people who don't even have food.