Master Class 3 Study Guide

Master Class 3 explores Spiritual Bypass as a strategy that recoils the potency. It is a crucial navigation because recoils are taught as part of the curriculum of biodynamic cranial approach schools! 

Your navigations, that spring from studying this Master Class guide, have the potential to reveal unconscious ego and Superego recoils that bypass the potency. Bypass and recoil prevent the integration of your deepest Core Erotic Wound shadows, all of which results in the paralysis of your will.

This piece will recycle through the topics of Bypass and Recoil of Potency many times in different ways because:

1) I am speaking to the unconscious.

2) Bypass and recoils, being unconscious, are deeply hidden from our consciousness.

3) Grasping all the methods of  bypass is exhausting because the ego is too dense to take it in due to discomfort.

4) It is extremely difficult to accept, digest, and integrate our shadows that bypass potency.

5) The mechanisms of recoil and bypass are complicated and involves a study of depth psychology.

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As an in-depth self-investigation, while you read this study guide, repeatedly ask yourself:  

Do I Bypass or Recoil the Potency? 

If your honest answer is 'yes' then ask:

'What are the ways that I recoil and bypass the potency'?

Finally, repeatedly remind yourself that most of what we discuss in Master Class 3 is unconscious.

These three links below provide a deeper dive into various aspects of potency, bypass, and recoil:

Click here for an in-depth interview on Potency

Click Here for article written to Prague students

 Click Here for Recoils in the Chakra Fields

Why Avoid Potency And Shadow Integration?  

The ego and Superego are terrified of Divine Feminine power

To avoid contact with the potency, the ego and Superego use various strategies of recoil and bypass that keep us stuck in the ascending spiritual planes, which prevents the descent of our consciousness. This abortion of our Grail Journey guarantees that we do not enflesh Pure Breath of Love, the most powerful force on earth ...  and we will not enjoy a second birth.

Bypass and recoil, even if it is unconscious, deprives us from the second birth, which emerges after we enflesh love that is stronger than death.

Enfleshment of Pure Breath of Love occurs
only after our consciousness is liberated
from the ego and Superego's control

When the ego surrenders control
and yields to Dynamic Stillness as I AM
the Soul is free

When the ego yields to I AM, we realize infinite consciousness that descends and implodes into our cells ... if we choose it.

After the cellular implosion of consciousness
Pure Breath of Love emanates an all-cell pulse
powered by our Heart's SA Node

This is enfleshment

Once we enflesh the sacred tremor, sacred pulse of the Spanda, or Pure Breath of Love, Divine Feminine Wisdom escorts our consciousness on a descending Grail Journey that redeems all our shadows that have said 'no' to love, which arise from our Core Erotic Wounds. 

Recoil and bypass terminates our Grail Journey, blocks enfleshment, aborts our second birth, and deprives us of a union of body, consciousness, and love.

Enfleshment is the fruit of our Grail Journey

Christians celebrate enfleshment on August 15 as the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (See Stillness Chapter 9). 

At Assumption, mother Mary rose in her resurrected physical body to heaven, and the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke chronicled this event in an extremely beautiful poem (Rainer Maria Rilke. The Life of the Virgin Mary Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947). About 30 years later, Mary Magdalena also assumed. These enactments of the second birth were harbingers for humanities new path.

Tibetan Buddhists consider enfleshment to be a Completion Stage realization of the Rainbow Body, which is similar to the Taoist Immortal Body (See Stillness Touch Chapter 1 & read p 74).

Kashmir Shaivite adherents realize an utter embodiment of the Spanda, the Sacred Pulse, or the Sacred Tremor. 

Here are some of the fundamental ways that a practitioner's ego and Superego co-opt the Soul and recoil the potency and bypass enfleshment:

Enquiry Into The Tides
Stillness as Bypass
Absolutism
Co-dependence With A Teacher

Most practices of recoil taught in the Biodynamic Cranial Approach schools spring from the above strategies. See Stillness Touch Ch. 3 for detailed descriptions of the practitioner recoils CLICK FOR CHART.

Now, let's discuss additional bypass and recoils more in-depth than was covered in my book Stillness Touch.

Enquiry Into The Tides

Why is enquiry into the ascending biodynamic tides considered to be Spiritual Bypass?

• Enquiry keeps us stuck in the hypermasculine domain of consciousness.
• Enquiry is dualistic, it requires a subject 'me' who enquires into an object 'the tides.'
• Enquiring into biodynamic tides to seek meaning, traps consciousness in the ascending tidal domains, which bypasses our inner-body descent of Dynamic Stillness as I AM.
• Bypass prevents the evolutionary candle dipping process that liberates consciousness. Bypass stops descent, so I AM does not implode into our cells, which, again, blocks us from navigating our Grail Journey.
• Without navigating our Grail Journey, we abort our second birth into a love that is stronger than death.
• Enquiry is a dualistic activity that uses efference, objectification, visualization, and exalted meaning-making.

The purpose of the Grail Journey
is to integrate our shadows

 If we do not integrate shadows
due to our Core Wounds 
our shadows grow stronger 

Each efferent act cumulatively weakens our will, and we become so ungrounded that we cannot hold together our Soul forces. Then the Soul forces split apart and become autonomous, which unleashes the 3 shadows that Rudolf Steiner calls the Three Beasts - doubt, hatred, terror. When the Three Beasts emerge, they give birth to the Psychotic Core. We will dive into the Psychotic Core later.

Our challenge then, is to give up enquiry, and catch the ego and Superego in their strategic acts of recoil that prevent our presence from reposing down and within the cells of our body.

Absent bypass and recoils, our infinite self-existing radiance of the heart naturally unites with the sensuous Eros in our pelvis to emanate an all-cell Sacred Pulse of Love.

Chronic Use of Stillness as Bypass & Absolutism

If we remain stuck in bypass, it automatically triggers our Superego complex. If the Superego assumes superiority over Dynamic Stillness, the Absolute, this extreme degree of bypass is known as absolutism (See YouTube link at the end of this piece for two talks on this topic).

Absolutism emerges if we are chronically addicted to enquiry; we then misuse stillness as a shield to defend us from feeling the harsh uncomfortable realities of life.

Zen calls absolutism 'stuck in emptiness.'

Being stuck in emptiness, means the Superego complex has taken over our will and misuses it to command Dynamic Stillness to manifest tidal phenomenon! For example, here are a few examples of common unconscious commandments: 

'Manifest to me the fluid tide shamanic animals'
 
'Present to me the luminous tidal archetypal geometric tones'
 
'Here is how want you (God) to make my day' ... and on it goes.

The Superego commands Dynamic Stillness to manifest what we wish, we then enquire into them to avoid our Grail Journey.

Absolutism is a classic Superego strategy
that prevents the descent of consciousness 
to avoid the integration of our Core Wounds
(Stillness Touch Ch. 7)

If absolutism spoke, it would say “I AM the Self, the only reality, and anything else that is manifest in creation is an illusion.”

When the Superego misuses Dynamic Stillness as characterized above, a variety of recoils emerge to stop our Eros, life force, or Shakti from uniting with Shiva in our heart’s self-existing radiance.

The cumulative impact of our recoils is similar to an abortion: when Shakti cannot unite with Shiva nor reach our heart radiance, it prevents our second birth and our radiant consciousness does not unite with love.

When there is no second birth, we do not submerge into the Divine Feminine Love that resides in the pelvis, deep in our cellular flesh, which is the ‘seat' of repose for our enfleshed consciousness. 

Another example of Superego recoil is disdain for any practice that is uncomfortable. For example, instead of consciously descending into the body with our consciousness, we avoid the intensity of descent by efferently projecting our cool, detached, exalted presence from the head into the 'lowly body that is not real’ in the name of embodiment! 

The Superego also diminishes the importance of our heart’s self-existing radiance, denying that it is the Self and then it asserts "I am not my body"

Denial, diminishment, and disdain are aspects of hatred, which as a Heart Center recoil that prevents us from enjoying intimacy with our Eros and blocks the union with Shiva and the body with Pure Breath of Love's sacred pulse.

The Foundations Of Absolutism

An absolutist's fundamental misperception is

'enquiry leads to enlightenment'

The Cult of Enquiry

Spiritual cults use enquiry as the path to realize our true nature. Also the Biodynamic Cranial Approach school teaches enquiry into the tides. Enquiry conceals a hidden agenda: the expectation that something will arise by enquiring into it. Otherwise, why enquire, right?

A characteristic of the cult of enquiry is there are detailed descriptions of an endless array of phenomena ... the endless volumes of qualities of the spaces, depths, colors, tones, images, shapes, elemental beings, deities, states, ... these fantastical characterizations never end! Enquiry creates one quality that leads to the next, ad infinitum. The equivalent in the Biodynamic Cranial Approach is the enquiry into the tides that never end: as long as we enquire into a tide, another tide will manifest and replace it, we can become completely lost and eternally allured with the tides, which is a bypass. 

Another indicator that we are caught up in the cult of enquiry occurs is when all the phantasmagoria ceases and stillness arises, a person who is addicted to enquiry has nothing to entertain them and they dissociate, fall asleep, or loose consciousness. 

For example, a very 'advanced' teacher of an enquiry cult came to me for a session. She fell asleep immediately after I touched her, and she slept for an additional 30 minutes after the 1-hour session ended. She later told a colleague that my Stillness Touch session was 'underwhelming.'

Another example is from a well known BCST teacher and author who came for a session. The moment I started, she began to control every aspect of the session. She immediately told me upon touching her 'I need more space' ... 'I want this' ... 'I want that' ... I had never seen so many controlling strategies is so short a period of time during a session. Later, she wrote me and said 'I want you to know that your session had zero impact on me.' 

Besides living an anesthetized, dissociated state, an absolutist may also be a megalomaniac. They believe, for example, that contact with the Soul's nature spirits or the archetypal luminous deities are direct downloads to me from God/Goddess (Deity). This invites not only more enquiry and its subsequent dissociation, it also strengthens the megalomaniacal set-up between Deity and me. This dualistic set-up falsely exalts my consciousness.

Narcissistic exaltation is what kinks the evolution of my consciousness 

When a megalomaniac complex emerges, we really believe 'I AM God' or 'I AM Goddess.' 

The megalomaniac feels superior, and commands Dynamic Stillness to manifest ascending plane tidal phenomena (remember, all this is unconscious).

We get stuck hyper-enquiring into ascending tidal realm phenomena that we created! This keeps our consciousness ‘up and out,’ and the resulting dissociation disconnects us from our body and prevents us from contacting our whole-body Divine Feminine Pulse of Love.

When dissociated, we lose our connection with Shiva and the midline and thus we lack discernment, which leaves us vulnerable.

Teacher Co-Dependence

Unscrupulous biodynamic cranial approach teachers transmit enquiry, stillness as bypass, and absolutism to students to lure them into a codependent relationship with them. The secret hope is that the student will treat the cranial teacher as a guru.

Teacher codependence resembles a guru-disciple relationship: in exchange for adoration, the teacher, in an unspoken manner, will do "the work" for the student. They assert platitudes such as "I am always here for you in all ways." The student colludes, in turn, by providing all types of free services to the teacher under the guise of being assistants. 

If we fall for this classic guru-disciple set-up, we unconsciously think 'my guru will do all the work for me, all I have to do is adore them.'  

The guru-disciple dynamic is rampant in every biodynamic cranial approach group field that I have experienced.

Signs Of Co-Dependent Dynamics In A Group Field

When a student is co-dependent with a teacher, it weakens the student's will. A weak will leaves us too feeble to face or feel the uncomfortable intensity of our shadows that arise in the class group field, so we do not dare descend. We refuse to go 'down there' into the body. In a codependent group field, we are not permitted by the teacher to 'rock the boat'  - so we dare not bring up any of our shadow intensity, nor are we allowed to share it in the group field.

You might think that the guru-disciple dynamic rarely occurs, but it is an an implicit secret rule in biodynamic cranial approach group fields.

In my blog The Death of Biodynamics, I outline in excruciating detail some of the ways that students are deceived by the schools to believe anything the teacher tells them regardless of the facts DEATH

You will not be able see group field bypass
until you have ceased bypass
which removes the blinders 

In bypass, we refuse to engage our Grail journey so we remain stuck in a vicious repeating cycle of enquiry, stillness as bypass, absolutism, and co-dependence. 

Since it is such a sinister topic, let's dive deeper into teacher codependence.

As an aside, it was my observation of practitioners who were stuck in teacher codependence and chronic bypass that led to my eliminating the Mentor teaching format and the creation of the Master Classes in 2014.

Codependence With A Teacher, Terror Of Divine Feminine Power, & Hatred Of The Body

Back in the day, I hated my body. I believed spiritual teachers who said things like:

‘I am not my body.'

'All this in our life is unreal.'

'My body is like a donkey, or a bag of garbage, that I have to drag around until the only reality - the emptiness - takes me out of this cesspool of life.’

"This is my last train ride on this sewage system called the planet earth." 

Seriously, I believed those things.

My friend, author, and spiritual teacher Saniel Bonder heard a female guru passionately exclaim “I am not a woman!” when asked ‘what is it like to be a woman guru?’

Below, beloved Advaita master Ramana Maharshi confesses his hatred of the body, which breaks my heart to read.

"If true realization is attained, who wants this body? For a Realized Soul who enjoys limitless bliss through realization of the Self, why this burden of the body? A Realized Soul has really no love for his body. For one who is the embodiment of bliss, the body itself is a disease. He will await the time to be rid of the body. When he has the body, he has to clean its teeth, has to walk, bathe, and give food to the body, and has to do many other things besides. If a boil grows, it has to be washed and dressed; otherwise, it becomes septic and emits a bad smell. In the same way, if the body is not kept clean, it will get diseased.  A Realized Soul looks upon his body in the same way that a coolie regards his load. He will look forward to putting down the load at the destination.” (Letter 80, Letters From Sri Ramansramam)

Perhaps the misuse of stillness, enquiry, absolutism, and teacher codependency were necessary stages in the past to evolve our consciousness?

Yet today, in our modern times, if these ascending practices become a lifestyle they prevent the conscious descent into the body, which is a crucial choice if we desire cross the threshold from narcissism to freedom.

We need courage to die to love

A cranial teacher who subscribes to the cult of personality encourages codependent relationships with students and perpetrates hatred of the body.

Enquiry, Misuse of Stillness, Absolutism, Teacher Co-Dependance

Let's cycle again through the strategies of the Superego complex, so we can better understand how they operate in us.

First, it is important to note that in these post-truth Apocalyptic times, there are courageous Souls who long to evolve beyond the false 'non-dualistic' notion that only stillness is real.

In our modern times, we have worn out all need to enquire into the infinite manifestations of the ascending inner planes, as though such phenomena is God or Goddess. Courageous Souls discern this and see though it, and they are filled with a heart's longing to unite with their sensuous Pulse of Divine Feminine Love to let her evolve our spectral consciousness.

However, it takes profound courage and will power to 'take up our bed and walk.'

Walk means to engage our Grail Journey that no teacher can do for you.

The body emanates the Sacred Pulse of Love 

Bypass And The Hyperfeminine Complex 

Read Chapter 7 in Stillness Touch for a characterization of the hyperfeminine complex. Also, you may recall, from the book Stillness Chapter 2, that the hypermasculine disposition uses efference to collapse the heart field as our organ of perception, which wears down the strength of our will to the point of utter exhaustion.

When our will collapses, we fall into the grips of a hyperfeminine complex. 

This is a shadow version of the snake that arises out of our pelvic center Core Wounds (Stillness Touch p 126).

Recall that the snake is a decadent form of the Kundalini, which is the sacred pulse of love that resides in our pelvis.

After the closure of our heart field to Shiva or consciousness and the subsequent collapse of the strength of our will, the Superego takes over. When the snake is driven by the Superego complex, it is not a lightweight. Once the complex takes over our will, the Superego makes a devil’s deal with the Absolute (Dynamic Stillness). Superego takes advantage of and misuses the principle of love, which always says ‘yes.’

If the Superego takes advantage of love, it commands the Absolute, or Dynamic Stillness as follows:

‘If you love ‘me’ you will do whatever I ask’

This 'devil's deal' unleashes a dangerous complex that so distorts our reality that we believe that we are the Absolute God/Goddess.

Absolutism is a distortion
because we have not actually realized I AM

As mentioned, amid absolutism, the Superego assumes superiority over Dynamic Stillness and turns it into a false wish-fulfilling jewel by commanding it to provide an infinite array of fantastic ascending plane phenomenon to distract consciousness by keeping it busy enquiring.

Superego takes advantage of a principle of the Absolute, Dynamic Stillness, or the Clear Light.

Here's the principle: stillness is like a blank movie screen that displays whatever is efferently projected onto it!

As such, the Superego can lure us into a chronic habit. We enquire into everything that the Superego, projects. Which, in turn, creates an infinite array of elemental qualities, luminous geometric shapes, colors, tonal vibrations, insights, deities, etc. that we forever enquire into!

Here's what an absolutist believes:

‘fluid and luminous phenomena are direct communications from God/Goddess
to me'

This distracting movie of enquiry
can keep us busy for lifetimes

If we merge our identity with biodynamic tidal phenomena and we believe that our consciousness is exalted, it indicates that the Superego has trapped our awareness, holding it ‘up and out’ in the ascending planes.

The Superego keeps consciousness busy doing ‘the work’ by enquiring, ad nauseam into all the micro-details of our endless self-created inner-plane movie, as though navigating these ascending current phenomena leads to enlightenment.                          

Review

Enquiry Keeps Us Stuck On The Ascending Planes
Which Prevents Our Descent Into The Body
And Blocks Our Grail Journey

Chronic enquiry into inner plane tidal phenomena traps consciousness in an endless cycle of distraction.

As mentioned, enquiry is an efferent practice that includes objectification and dualism.

Enquiry needs an objectified 'me' who enquires into an objectified something as its subject, for example, inner ascending plane tidal phenomena.

Again, when enquiry is misused to evolve consciousness, the work never ends.

Enquiry creates an endless array of qualities that we need to enquire into in order 'to know.' I'll describe my experience of this later.

The misuse of enquiry is a Superego strategy that brilliantly distracts us from navigating the depths of our flesh and to avoid plumbing the embodied depths of the Great Black Mother who navigates our shadows.

The grandiose Superego declares "I Will Save You - If You Enquire and Know I AM."

This post-truth perspective distorts reality by using a brilliant bait and switch tactic that substitutes ‘Enquire and Know I AM’ for ‘Be Still And Know I AM.’ Can you sense the subtle difference?

It is true that only I can do ‘the work.’ Yet, the work is not by enquiry.

Rather, the work is be still and wait ... wait for nothing ... amid an effortless repose within your body’s flesh, while yielding your will to Divine Feminine Will, in 'don’t know.'

The utter surrender of our consciousness
is THE fulcrum to Freedom

And this is the exact point where a biodynamic cranial approach teacher can get kinked, so to speak. Once a teacher refuses to surrender, and they believe 'I AM God or Goddess' then whatever they 'do' as guru to the disciple is for the 'Good of the Whole.' 

Megalomaniac teachers perpetrate the various forms of abuse that we hear about, we have experienced, or we witness:

For example, adoring disciples become codependent with the teacher as though they are a guru. These codependent students give the guru-teacher seva, which are free services, such as administrative, organizational, professional, janitorial, and other kinds of labor in exchange for entry into the exclusive inner circle of the special ones. 

The final kink manifests as hatred of Pure Breath of Love.

This Beastly hatred manifests as disdain, derision, and denial of Pure Breath of Love, the Holy Grail, the substance of love.

For example, practitioners have reported to me that their biodynamic cranial approach teacher encourages them to deny that Pure Breath of Love exists. The teacher acts as guru and the disciples will tell other students that 'Charles made up post-biodynamics to look superior.'

I was so shocked to hear this that I asked a certified Stillness Touch practitioner 'how was such a denial possible?'

She said 'the only way a person can deny it, is because they have not experienced Pure Breath of Love themselves.'  

It's that simple, without choosing to 'die to love,' we will never encounter Pure Breath of Love as a non-tidal post-biodynamic enfoldment of consciousness that leads to enfleshment as the union of the body, consciousness, and love.

When I Believe I AM God  
That Is The Kink

Efference Creates Ascending Plane Phenomena

Having meditated daily for 50 years, I discovered a shocking truth about efference:

When I efferently project onto the screen of stillness, it creates an endless array of ascending realm phenomena on the inner planes. I can then enquire into to each of them to derive meanings.

I also discovered the reverse:

As soon as I repose inward, and cease efference, all the fantastical phenomenon that I created disappears into the black nothingness of stillness.

Again, as soon as my attention becomes efferent, the movie returns, as my projection, onto the screen of stillness.

Creating phenomena on the inner planes can lead to the misperception that 'I AM God' because we believe that these projections are real.

After the kink, I believe 'I am God.' Then, anything I do is God’s will. This is how the megalomaniac takes control of my will and 'behaves' me (See Stillness Touch Appendix 1, Zen).

The point of this conversation
is to discover if we use chronic enquiry
into ascending plane tidal phenomena
as a bypass to avoid potency
and to stop our descent into the body

What is purpose of the descent of consciousness into our cells?

Descent Lands Consciousness In The Cells Of Your Body’s Flesh

The ancient Vedic practice of Pratyahara involves turning our awareness inward by the process of evagination, while we repose into the body in non-doing and not-knowing. That means we do not project or command Dynamic Stillness to produce the 'God movie,' nor do we enquire into biodynamic tidal phenomena to gain meaning, or to know God.

In other words, we refrain from enquiry because it is a bypass. Instead, we repose inwardly and wait.

We wait ... for nothing ... just wait

Inner Repose - The Key Descending Practice

Inner repose means to evaginate our consciousness; we turn attention from outside to in toward our center of stillness in the midline, which lands our consciousness in the presence of stillness inside the body's core.

Amid this degree of inner repose, Dynamic Stillness descends and implodes within the body’s cells.

At cellular implosion consciousness shifts
from ascending 'up and out'  
to a descent 'down and in'

Implosion of Dynamic Stillness in the body's cells suffuses Pure Consciousness, I AM, into each cell of the body’s flesh, which reawakens Criatura.

Criatura is the original state of the body that emanates the Radiant Presence of Love

Criatura is the Edenic State of the human body that existed before the fall of human consciousness.

Criatura enfleshes Universal Consciousness and Pure Love within the cells of our body, which permanently frees consciousness from the ego prison by dissolving the irresistible power that drives the Superego's narcissistic complexes.

We cease being behaved by the Superego

Pure Breath of Love is known in Tibetan Buddhism as the Great Black Mother, or the Chinnamasta, who lovingly and fiercely escorts our consciousness on its journey within the body’s cells. Enfleshment arises if the ego lets go of control and yields to the abyss of the unknown. Our surrender into the unknown is what begins our endless Grail Journey to love. 

Remember, our Grail Journey illuminates all our bypass strategies and the unconscious psychosomatic recoils that block the realization of the sacred pulse of love.

Recoils protect us from the unbearable pain and terror of our Core Wound. But recoil also prevents us from uniting with love because we misperceive that love is the wound (Stillness Touch Chapter 3, 6, 7 & the Master Class 2 Workbook).

The Psychotic Core Of Human Evil

Avoiding our Core Erotic Wound by enquiry, misuse of stillness, absolutism, or teacher codependence can become a habit. Chronic efference activates a complex in the deepest core layer of our being called the Psychotic Core. Steiner calls it our Core Evil, which creates the Superego's version of the snake, which Steiner calls the Beast Click Here

“All human evil proceeds from what we call egotism. In the whole scope and range of ‘wrong,' from the smallest oversight to the most serious crime, whether the imperfection or evil originates more in the body or in the soul, egotism is the fundamental trait which underlies it all … and that the path which leads beyond evil here in the physical world is the one upon which we combat egotism.” Rudolf Steiner

We each unconsciously harbor a Psychotic Core that can lead to various degrees of functional and dysfunctional psychosis.

The Psychotic Core is implanted in our Soul as a seed at conception. The seed grows in the womb as a merging of our identity with our mother. Due to the merging with our mother, her unconscious traits penetrate our flesh and enter into the DNA of each cell during our embryological development. Our mother’s traits contain the energetic imprint patterns of her ancestral blood lines (The father’s energies transmit to the child’s flesh after birth).

After the child merges its identity with the parents, the unconscious patterns from both the mother and father combine to create a false self-image. This is the self that we think of as ‘me’ but this is a false identity that we absorbed from our parents' ancestral lines that are combined with the mass cultural unconscious that is known as 'the they.'

The presence of the false ‘me’ is reinforced by trauma from our Core Wounds, the chronic repetition of which activates the Psychotic Core. When the Psychotic Core takes over our will, it ‘behaves’ us.

In Apocalyptic biblical terms, the Psychotic Core 'snake' behavior patterns are driven by the Beast. From then on, the snake’s every act is self-serving and aimed to prevent the pulse of love from reaching our Heart Radiance. The term snake comes from the Sacred Serpent of Love, the Kundalini, that has become decadent (Chapter 6 & 7 Stillness Touch).

Once the Psychotic Core is activated in the core depths of our Being, it co-opts our Soul forces that then display the three fundamental aspects of the Beast: Doubt, Hatred, and Terror (See Steiner below). Once activated, the Beast will relentlessly thwart the Soul’s union with love in two major ways:

1) The snake incessantly recoils Eros to prevent it from rising up the midline through each chakras to land in our heart radiance. Click Here for Forms of Recoil

2) When snake recoils, it blocks the descent of Dynamic Stillness. which prevents I AM from imploding within the body’s cells.

This stops our consciousness from crossing over the threshold of the black abyss to enjoy freedom from narcissism (See Stillness Touch Chapter 7).

The Superego prevents our Eros from reaching the Heart Radiance, because landing in the heart will activate our Siddhis, which are the transpersonal powers by which we complete our Grail Journey to Love.

Once our Siddhis are activated
the Superego's jig is up

Wake Down Instead Of Wake Up

Sri Aurobindo was one of the first modern teachers to teach conscious descent (See Stillness Touch Chapter 6 p 99-102). Saniel Bonder introduced the principle that our Core Wound is the result of the union between our limited humanness and infinite Being. When our infinite consciousness wakes down into the body, as Bonder characterizes it, we discover the qualities of our Psychotic Core that express the beast. Bonder calls these beastly qualities the insane and broken zones in us, which reveal how our Soul was broken, split-off, and fragmented into pieces. Each fragmented part then engages in an inner war at each chakra field to prevent our conscious descent into the body to integrate our Core Wound(s).

Bonder's practice of Waking Down is a relaxation of consciousness down into the body so profoundly that we repose and can stew in all the intense, unconscious energies stored in the flesh. If we stew long enough, our shadows naturally transmute into gifts, that can then evolve and become Siddhis, our transpersonal powers that liberate consciousness Click For Chart

For more on Saniel Bonder Google 'Saniel Bonder' to purchase his books. If you would like to deeply explore the path of descent, read Gurdjieff, Aurobindo, Neil Cohen, Wilhelm Reich, Jung, Steiner, who all taught that the conscious descent into our shadow realms resurrects the body as consciousness that can then unite with love that creates all that is.

Summary

Let's go through one last cycle-through of the Superego complex that manifests the Psychotic Core.

The Superego is a megalomaniacal complex that co-opts our Soul forces of thinking, felt-sense, and will, and turns them into shadow expressions that Rudolf Steiner calls the three beasts. When the beast takes over our three primary Soul forces they express as

Doubt in the head is the shadow of thinking.
Hatred in the heart is the shadow of the felt-sense.
Terror in the pelvis is the shadow of the will.

Steiner's Esoteric Lessons graphically characterize the qualities of the three Beasts: Click Here

Hatred is the most hideous manifestation of the three Beasts, because it expresses the deepest level of cruelty of our Psychotic Core, which is Core Evil.

This apocalyptic hatred is a projection of self-hatred, bodily hatred, parental hatred, hatred of God, and hatred of the Divine Feminine.

Self-Hatred

When Beastly hatred turns on ourselves, it expresses self-hatred that targets the body and its essences - the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine.

As a reminder, all this is unconscious.

Here is a sample dialogue we might hear if hatred spoke:

'Since mom or dad inflicted upon me my Core Erotic Wounds, I hate them.'  

This hatred can deepen and become a hatred toward all parental figures, such as my teachers, mentors, bosses, etc.

Finally 'I hate the Absolute God and Goddess because they allowed the Core Wound to damage me.'

Since the Superego does not want the Soul to hear this, I repeat:

The Core Wound occurs when we are young tender children.

As an innocent child we falsely believe 'it is my fault that daddy or mommy hurt me because I was bad, wrong, broken, or I self-betrayed.’  

Victimhood

Our self-blame and self-betrayal not only develops into a deep unconscious bodily self-hatred, it also lands us in victimhood: we blame others for our self-caused misfortunes (See Stillness Touch Chapter 7, p. 127-128).

Once victimhood takes charge of our will, we are no longer responsible for our actions.

Instead, everyone and everything else is to blame for our misfortunes - mom, dad, parental figures, the boss, a mentor, teacher, or God and Goddess.

Victimhood drives the Psychotic Core so deep into the unconscious that it behaves us without our being aware of it.

When victimhood penetrates deep into our will
we cannot see how our behaviors deeply hurt us, others, the world, and the Whole

Victimhood is a misplaced loyalty, a distraction, that prevents the evolution of our consciousness.

If the victim spoke, it might say

‘Although my parents betrayed me, they did their best, so I forgive them - for they know not what they do. Since betrayal was my fault, I will save my parents.’

Can you see how this adds yet another layer to ‘the work?’

When this victim complex emerges, it means the Superego has succeeded in thwarting the evolution of my consciousness by directing my victim to perform the heroic acts to rescue my parents.

My ‘Mission Impossible’ becomes more important than attending to my essential practices that evolve my consciousness so I can fulfill my destiny. I am too busy saving my parents, my students, my touch recipients, etc., in the name of doing 'the work' that infinitely grows exponentially.

What a brilliant strategy to prevent the evolution of my consciousness.

I not only fail to save anyone, also my consciousness devolves because I am too exhausted from all my failed rescue operations to ensure my evolution.

Then, our victim complex can drop a notch deeper into narcissism ... which manifests as a need to save others because they are ‘less enlightened than I am.' You can sniff the exalted Superego, right?

Note: All this dialogue is unconscious; it is how we act. 

A devolved victim says ‘Everything I do goes wrong and it’s my fault, so to compensate for my deficiency I will rescue others who are in more need than I am.’

Again, this is how hatred consolidates into a narcissistic complex after the heart field collapses, which cuts off our strength of will.

With a collapsed will, we fixate on inessential work, such as rescuing others, instead of investing in self-evolution. Rescuing others creates a codependent relationship that also weakens their will!

In review, when the beast controls our will, we cannot repose or let love pulse freely in the body to guide us in life. When our will power is weak, it is unavailable, and love can easily be blocked by any recoil that comes along from the body, psyche, and the chakra fields. All this prevents Eros from reaching our heart radiance to block the body from emanating the Sacred Pulse of Love.

Again, we cannot see all these strategies.

Human Design calls these strategies of recoil a "life strategy of the not-self,' which is opposite to heeding guidance from the Self, or the Tao.

Your Inner Child's Radiant Presence

Once hatred takes over our will, the beast seeks to destroy our innocent Inner Child's Radiant Presence of Love.

The beast also targets the inner light and the tender love in others, and this is now the norm in our post-truth, apocalyptic times.

Apocalyptic Core Evil

Core evil hatred is not overtly seething or enraged. Rather, hatred of the beast is cool, calm, collected, cunning, detached, calculating, narcissistic, and has zero human warmth and totally lacks empathy. I am reminded of an army character in the movie Burnt By The Sun who was a killer at work, and at home he was loving and kind. 

What unleashes the Beast?

As mentioned, it is the Superego’s misperception 'if I do not kill the light of my inner child and destroy the light of God/Goddess I will suffer the terror of extinguishment.'

This misperception mirrors our Core Terror (See Stillness Touch Chapter 7, and Master Class 2 Grail Workbook)

Psychotic Core hatred is heartless, it lacks human warmth, which epitomizes the Apocalyptic hatred of the beast.

The Beast Is The Anti-Christ

Snake Hatred Targets Our Father and Mother Figures

Our devolved victimhood will attack mother and father figures. Our victim will spread lies in an effort to destroy the inner light of others because we cannot bear their radiance, all because we cannot be with the pain and terror our Core Erotic Wound.

That also means we cannot descend into our flesh or integrate our Psychotic Core, which controls our will to do beastly deeds.

Ironically, other folks with Core Wounds similar to mine will believe my lies, which creates a cult of personality, the pinnacle achievement in our post-truth times. Reality is what I say it is; truth is not based on what is.

The Apocalyptic Times of the Beast 

Hundreds of millions of Souls have died from COVID, other diseases, starvation, war, abuse of all types, imprisonment, murder, war, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes. All this, amid an explosive growth of fascist populist world leaders who lie and misuse post-truth social media propaganda to lure adoring followers into their cult of personality fold. Whatever their superhuman apocalyptic being commands of their followers, they obey.

Perhaps our apocalyptic times will inspire you to renew your dedication to descending Stillness Practices by which you can easily be with what is?

The Divine Mother Beckons You 
Begin Your Grail Journey NOW

Your homework is simple:

Let all aspects of our Apocalyptic times sink in. First, by acknowledging the presence of the beast. And then face the beast with your presence of stillness that united with love.

Let the harshness of today's reality stew in you just as it is, while you practice Pratyahara amid the fundamental disposition:

Whatever Arises
Let it be
Leave it as it is
Let go of control in an openhearted repose
Amid don’t know

Here is an Encounter With The Beast I had During A Stillness Touch Session

You can cultivate the strength of will to be with whatever arises in your recipient by being with shadows that arise during your Grail Journey.

Here is a practical example of the need for unwavering presence:

A man came to see me for lack of sleep because his legs twitched all night (restless leg syndrome). He was part of the Russian mafia in New Jersey, and he was visiting California because his son was dying of cancer.

As the session progressed and the man relaxed, his legs began to abruptly fly up and flop down onto the table repeatedly. Then, after 15 minutes of flopping, his legs became still.

Meanwhile, the felt-sense of the atmosphere in the room became dark and cold. There was also the sense of an empty void and a hissing noise. Suddenly, an apparition appeared: a hideous grey-eyed snake rose out of his face. Its piercing grey eyes, large fangs, and the hiss that came from its mouth was terrifying.

I was so frightened that I wanted to run away, but I had to remind myself that 'I am the practitioner and my duty is to be present to whatever arises.' So reluctantly, not knowing what to do I gave up the notion of bolting out of the room and I mustered all my courage to BE STILL.

Then, an impulse came to me to 'look the monster in its eyes.' As soon our eyes connected, the snake vanished like a puff of smoke and disappeared. The cold air in the room vanished, and the familiar radiant atmosphere returned.

When the man came back for a session a week later, his legs had stopped flying into the air and he was sleeping all night.

The intensity of that session demonstrates the need for the practitioner to cultivate a strong will, the courage of heart, and an unwavering presence, all of which is cultivated during your Grail Journey to Love. 

"You Want it Darker?" Leonard Cohen

Here is my YouTube Channel, click on "View Full Playlist" Absolutism, the Psychotic Core, and the Beast for 2 excellent videos on our topic:

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