Quite a good article on the Bujinkan etc

Scepticism is a good thing, it’s a bit misplaced in this instance though

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The Five Tibetans – Some links

Most people end up here by searching for information on the 5 Tibetan Rites so I thought I’d post some links I’ve recently found to help you find some more information:

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http://www.mkprojects.com/fa_TibetanRites.htm

A New Look at The Five Rites

Five Tibetan Rejuvenation Energy Rites

Flash Mavi Animated 5 Tibetans Lesson

Lamasery Exercises

Samael Aun Weor

The Five Rites of Rejuvenation

The Five Tibetan Rites

The Sixth Rite

And of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites

‘There appeared a Dark Luminosity … ‘

From : Yatri, “UNKNOWN MAN: The Mysterious Birth of a New Species,” (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988)

Its genesis was one of those awakening visions which happen once in a lifetime when the miraculous landscape of reality is lit up by a sudden flash of lightning only to disappear again into the normal twilight world. But once the real universe has been tasted the old familiar one can never be quite the same.

It miraculously happened for me one spring morning in the bleak surroundings of a slum in the East end of London. Why it should have chosen such an incongruous setting is one of the mysterious jokes of existence. For the last fifteen years since that moment I have often found only helplessness in my attempts to explain how this real world appeared to me in that brief glimpse.

All that really can be said is that It just was. Time stopped, all and everything was intensified a thousand-fold and existence shone in full ecstatic wonder
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As I watched Londoners in the street going about their lives there appeared a Dark Luminosity within each being. Yet at the same moment there was a strange feeling that they were no more than sleepwalking robots utterly oblivious to that shining nature within themselves. The life force of each person was somehow entrapped within a dull dreaming shell which seemed to prevent any contact with the real and what could have been aflame with consciousness was gray and lifeless.

Only seconds before I had been exactly like that and the awful recognition came that while only a hair’s breadth divided the two states, I could also fall back into forgetfulness. What had gone wrong? What had happened to everyone?

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Meditation builds up the brain

Ten volunteers were tested before and after 40 minutes of either sleep, meditation, reading or light conversation, with all subjects trying all conditions. The 40-minute nap was known to improve performance (after an hour or so to recover from grogginess). But what astonished the researchers was that meditation was the only intervention that immediately led to superior performance, despite none of the volunteers being experienced at meditation.

“Every single subject showed improvement,” says O’Hara. The improvement was even more dramatic after a night without sleep. But, he admits: “Why it improves performance, we do not know.” The team is now studying experienced meditators, who spend several hours each day in practice.

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