| There are esoteric techniques in existence that can | | | | When you are ready, absorb the energy from this orb |
| harness sources of power and strength in times of | | | | into your body. One way to do this is by raising your |
| need. These techniques are largely unexploited but | | | | hands to the level of your solar plexus and pressing |
| when used properly will provide the practitioner with | | | | the orb gradually against this area until you experience |
| raw potential energy that can be sensed but rarely | | | | a new level of vibrancy entering you. Allow this vitality |
| seen. We are all affected, without even realising it, by | | | | to fill your whole body, from the soles of your feet to |
| invisible forces that surround us and continually pass | | | | the crown of your head and a sense of well being will |
| through this Earth. In point of fact our sun emits light | | | | manifest itself. Learning to see the etheric will have its |
| across a series of different wavelengths in the | | | | own benefits as the exercise tends to promote |
| electromagnetic spectrum, some of which can be | | | | clearer vision. Most of all you will become aware of |
| seen by insects such as the bumble bee but not by | | | | the power that is at your disposal and that can be |
| the human eye. The following methods are but two | | | | summoned when you are feeling particularly run down |
| examples of the ways that one can tune in to these | | | | and need to re-energize. |
| forces. | | | | Method 2 |
| Method 1 | | | | There are instances when people experience psychic |
| In the first method you should use a darkened room, | | | | discomfort although they may not recognize the |
| preferably during the evening and with the curtains | | | | source of their disquiet. This may occur when they are |
| drawn. Stand with your feet comfortably apart so that | | | | on the verge of sleep or when they are alone at night. |
| you are well balanced with a low centre of gravity. | | | | Whatever the case the following exercise will serve to |
| Take a full rounded breath to fill your lungs and inflate | | | | protect the person from negative influences that are |
| your solar plexus completely and then exhale at your | | | | present in their surroundings. If, for example, you are |
| normal pace until you are relaxed. Hold your hands out | | | | lying awake in bed and your mind is in turmoil for any |
| at waist height and with the palms facing each other, | | | | reason, you can use the etheric energy to shield you |
| approximately 8 inches apart. You may need to close | | | | from uneasiness. Withdraw inside your mind and |
| your eyes in order to intuit the energy that is gathering | | | | visualise the bright blue energy of the etheric. Use it to |
| in the space between your palms. You will initially feel a | | | | draw a circle around your bed just as if you were a |
| slight resistance as if you are holding a magnet in each | | | | magician creating a protective pentacle but without the |
| hand with like poles towards each other. The magnets | | | | star. The clearer your visualisation and the brighter the |
| would naturally repel and this is one of the sensations | | | | colour that you attribute to the etheric circle, the more |
| that you will experience. As you stand in the darkness | | | | potent the effect that you can expect. While you are |
| let your eyes move to the approximate region of your | | | | surrounded by this circle you are also closed off from |
| hands. Do not stare directly at your hands but instead | | | | harmful vibrations. |
| glance in that general direction and you should begin to | | | | One charismatic individual that was known to employ |
| see a misty blue light which has been described, quite | | | | practices such as these was a man by the name of |
| accurately, as the colour of cigarette smoke when | | | | George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. The respected author |
| sunlight passes through it. This is often referred to as | | | | Colin Wilson wrote a fascinating book about him called |
| the 'etheric' and it is most probably the electrical | | | | 'The War Against Sleep' (published by The Aquarian |
| energy that gives us our spark of life. Focus on | | | | Press Limited). Although this book does not go into |
| increasing the etheric essence until you can discern a | | | | Gurdjieff's methods it does thoroughly discuss the |
| tangible glowing sphere in your palms. Run your hands | | | | mans life and work. For those of you who are |
| around it and feel the spherical mass that they are | | | | searching for a path to enlightenment this is excellent |
| circling. You can draw energy from outside yourself in | | | | reading. |
| order to achieve this condition. | | | | |