This is a continuation of the report on the lecture series delivered by Project X Director Gene Savoy, Jr. during the course of the trip to Greece in 2009. (see Part 1) and (see Part 2)  A series of six lectures was delivered during the course of the trip, three of which dealt with Asclepias and dream incubation techniques. Of these three, two dealt specifically with modern versions of the techniques of dream incubation and healing. A synopsis of the second technique lecture follows as it was delivered for a second time by Mr. Savoy during the September 2009 seminar sessions held at our Center in Reno Nevada, together with additional commentary. Specifics on the application of techniques have, of course, been omitted in the interest of space.

ASCLEPIAN DREAM INCUBATION: PRACTICE, PART 2

In this second part of the technique we will touch on the iatrogenic process by which the healing physician was able to cure a patient by the activation of the inner monads (the force centers or chakras), and we will also be discussing the absorption of cosmic Ether in preparing for sleep and for generating “fire” within the force centers. We will begin by painting a picture of the ancient healing temple at Epidaurus.

The Healing Temple at Epidaurus

The temple at Epidaurus was the prototype of Asclepian temples and utilized a place of incubation (abaton) which served for the most direct method of healing. There the patient was offered the opportunity to bring about the cure whose elements he bore within himself. The religious atmosphere aided the individual’s innermost depths of curing potential. In principle, the physician was excluded from the individual mystery of recovery and remained in the background, the patient seeking healing in a much more personal way.

First a bath served as the outward symbol of the prescribed inner state, which is cleanliness of body and spirit: Going into the fragrant temple, one must be pure and thinking holy thoughts. Secondly came the offering of honey cakes. Ablutions at the gateway water basin and altar were also required before proceeding to the main hall of the abaton for lustral cleansing, a preparation process that could last up to several days.

The abaton could house up to 120 beds. Men and women were separated by curtains. The room was open to the outside on the southern side, which provided an abundance of fresh air, and the area around the abaton was beautifully decorated with fountains and sculpture.

The priests, wearing holy garments, would take the supplicants into the temple and cause them to present themselves before the image of the god. Libations were poured, prayers offered, and impressive rites enacted. Hymns were sung to the music of a double flute. The sick were caused to lay their hand reverently and solemnly on the altar and then on the part of their own body (or the center) presumed to be affected.

When night came, the person in need of curing rested on his or her pallet and put a small gift on the altar. The Nakoroi came and lit the sacred lamps. The priests then entered and recited evening prayers entreating the divine to help. Later, the lights were extinguished and silence fell upon the sanctuary as suppliants awaited the appearance of the god.

The Iatrogenic Process

The iatromathematica were those who were learned in higher mathematics and higher physics. (Iatro is a word stemming from the Greek iatrikos, meaning “physician” or “healer.”) These healers or physicians cured not by surgery or what we know as medicine, but by use of the Word – the Logos.

The iatrogenic process brought into play was induced in the patient by a priest-physician’s words – by tones, by chants, and by special invocations. By means of this vibrational energy, the priest-physician was able to stir the monad (the chakra or the force center) within the individual and bring into play the universal Logos or the Word of God. Just as one can link oneself with the sun by means of the force centers, in the iatrogenic process there was a communion or a link between the inner force centers and the outer force centers, or monads, of the cosmos.

This process was used as a psychological cure; but more importantly, the patient was able to cure himself or herself by the activation or generation of these inner monads; and once activated, the monads, which were like miniature suns or radiant globes within a person, could be linked to the sun. Solar techniques began the process and ended it. The inner spheres were activated and attuned to the light of the sun.

The Use of Ether in Preparing for Sleep

By preparing oneself for sleep employing the Asclepian technique, the process of generation of the inner force centers is begun, which results in the breathing and absorption of life-giving Ether so that the inner person can be awakened.

As the physical body breathes air through the lungs to supply the physical organism with oxygen, the force centers also begin a process of breathing—not air, but Ether. Once the monads are activated, a pulsation begins—an exchange, or a communion, to use another word. Just as the sun is maintained and sustained and given life by its parent sun, the Spiritual Sun, and just as the sun is connected to stars and other stellar systems, the whole universe being connected and linked, so the solar monads are involved and linked in a process of energy absorption from higher sources.

We are able to make predictions based on the scientific principles known to us, based on certain natural laws and the application of various forces. The same applies to the monads. We have to experiment with the techniques, and we have to experience the results.

Now, the primordial person within us is for the most part unconscious to our waking consciousness. That is because the pre-existent being lives in another world and cannot connect, or link, itself with you as a physical human being unless you have the spiritual organs, or spiritual faculties, by which to experience it and the higher world in which it resides. We seek to make this part of ourselves emerge from its cave into the light and to connect with our waking consciousness. As Hippocrates taught, this divine, pre-existent persona within us is repressed, deeply buried within us. So the techniques that we are teaching in this seminar accompany the solar eye techniques that we apply during the day. And by that I mean, the techniques of the night supplement the techniques of the day.

One of the reasons that the soul is dormant is that our rational or logical mind has been denied the vital nourishment it needs to “think” on a higher level. Intelligible solar energy allows us to nourish our higher being on the level of the eight force centers. Once these centers are introduced to this stimuli, this added or ultra nourishment, they wake up and process the intelligible part of that energy. Consequently, you are now in contact with your spiritual inner life. Once these barriers are brought down, you walk into another world.

We all have barriers or blocks. Whether it is due to the fact that we have been exposed to limited or false teachings and concepts, or whether its because we have suffered pain or disappointment, the force centers are affected on the monadic level. They too have been punished, hurt, and bruised. Because of this, they are not able to open up and allow their spiritual nature to come forth. And this is the purpose point of psycho-spiritual healing, which we in Cosolargy call Christotherapy.

Once we activate the force centers, once we turn from looking at the sun superficially and go within ourselves, and once we activate these force centers by use of our will and our conscience, and give consent to the divine powers to enter into us, a new source of vital energy is generated from within. Once you take the energy from without and put it to work and generate energy within, you now have a flow, a pulsation, a breathing of what the Greeks called Ether. And so long as the force centers are linked to the sun, this energy continues.

Concentrating on the Force Centers

Earlier we described the pre-sleep technique of concentrating on the force centers. You can concentrate on each of the force centers, one at a time if you wish. You can choose one over a period of time. It will all depend on your physical makeup, your health, and your state of vigor. You can concentrate on a force center, imagining the corresponding color, to begin. You can think in terms of the corresponding nature of the force center—psychic or mental, for example.

And you have to understand that each of these force centers is the source of the emerging nerve plexi, emerging organs, glands, and so on. So once that center is activated, it has energy which it supplies to the plexi, to the organs, to the glands, and it helps regulate them and gives them this vital source of energy. Each center affects both the physiological and psychological nature of an individual. The force center is the root. Like a tree with branches, it grows. The human anatomy grew out of these force centers.

Keep your thoughts clear and simple and not too complicated. The main thing is to experience this for yourself and see the effects that can be produced. Once this center is activated—whichever one you are working on—you will be able to feel generated heat. Now, sometimes when you are performing these techniques at night, or taking in a lot of sun during the day, you have so much energy and so much heat that you will find it hard to sleep. So you need to find a balance.

Imagine a luminous being, perhaps the Divine Child that we speak about. The Divine Child was used by Asclepias; it was known to Hippocrates. The eternal Child is eternal and has come down through the ages and, of course, has now appeared again.

A COMMENTARY ON PRACTICE

The practice of Asclepian dream incubation involves the inner, spiritual person. For this reason, tensions arise between the inner being and the rational mind and being, tensions that turn into conflicts and represent blockages that tend to “close” the Four Major Force Centers of one’s spiritual being, which need to be “open” to allow angelic beings to manifest and which need to be “personalized” to prevent Dark Beings from entering.

This occurs when you reach a particular vibratory rate or state, which is the purpose of solar absorption. For example, we know about resonance. If you take a tuning fork and strike it, another tuning fork of the same type will respond to that sound. They will be resonant, working together. And this is similar to what you do with your force centers. So whatever vibratory rate corresponds to your force center will allow it to be open and to manifest certain energies and beings.

It should be understood that many life forms can appear out of the lower force centers. And just as life forms can appear or manifest out of one of those lower centers, spiritual beings can only manifest out of the Four Major Centers, which are the “parents” of the eight force centers. You may see through the “eyes” of one of your force centers. This fact can be explained by the fundamental teachings of our System of Spiritual Regeneration that humankind had a spiritual origin but has through time degenerated to a lower state of existence in the material world. The lower life forms, such as animals and the like, evolved out of the force centers—or it could be said that they are linked to them.

If we study the eight force centers, and then we connect the organs and the plexi that are in those areas, we can understand that any living creature—past, present, or future—can appear from out of these centers during the dream state or the visionary state. So you have to realize that through these force centers, whichever one you dwell on, primordial creatures can be conjured up from the distant past. You have to remember that these centers within you are receptacles for life forms millions of years old.

These are the things that you are going to be dealing with. You are going to experience—you are going to have a “television”—to the whole evolutionary episode of life through the centers. And you have to observe and you have to maintain control of your personal factors of life. You have to be wise. For example, just because you are watching television doesn’t mean that you are going to do everything that these programs tell you to do. It is the same thing.

You are going to be involved in a whole scenario of evolution. There are many life forms that exist within us, within our biological nature; and they are all living on the energy that we supply through food, water, and so on. Actually, they are all contributing to our existence. Without the organs, the glands, the blood cells, the nerve cells, and all the rest, we couldn’t exist. So we are really a microcosm of the macrocosm, of the whole universe. We are a colony of living things within us, but we think, “It’s me—I, the ego.” And then through the force centers we are confronted with all of these life forms going back millions of years. We are exposed to it all. And the same thing that happens on the biological level can happen on the psychic level and the spiritual level, so you have to explore yourself.

We really are introducing you to an exploration of inner space, your inner life. And as you move into some of the techniques that allow one to penetrate into the inner being, you will have more of a living idea of the reality of who you are, where you came from, and where you are going.