The Ankh, ancient symbol of Egyptian times, is updated in the symbol of the Sword in the Stone. The two obviously look alike. The Ankh has no shaft to the sword and shows just a circle symbolising the Earth with a tangent to the Earth with a perpendicular arising out of it. Whereas the Sword in the Stone shows a cross or sword whose tip is plunged in to the surface of the Stone where the Stone symbolises the Earth.

The Sword

The Sword Symbol has been used psychically for thousands of years. Not only in the ways above. The Sword of Manjushri is that which has purified many an aspirant. Zen Master Hogen threatened to cut off my head with a Sword! - I think he was referring to a way of stopping all my thoughts.

But also in Western Magic the Sword is used in psychic ways. These ways are one of the sources of the techniques used in Energy Enhancement Level Two.

Grounding is the meaning behind the symbolism of the Sword in the Stone. This later symbol is an evolution of, is higher than, The Ankh, The Sword and the image of St Michael and symbolises the awakened energies running up and down the spine also symbolised by Mercury - the winged messenger of the Gods and the Staff of Aescepulus - symbol of healers and medical Doctors. Moreover, the sword also encompasses the cross also used in Christianity and the awakening of the Heart.

Further to this, now the Sword is plunged into the stone. The energies are grounded in the earth, symbolised by the circle, founded in the land. This symbol gives further information on how to overcome the lower self and awaken the Heart as in Energy Enhancement Stage 5. This is a further meaning behind mastery and also majesty including the symbol of VITRIOL.

It means that for Stage 5, once you are sitting in meditation and your spine is square to the Earth, then, the energies aroused can be directed through the heart, leading to the first initiation on the path of enlightenment, The Opening of the Heart. When we start to open the heart we become less selfish. We start to think of others instead of only ourselves.

This is the first use of the awakened energies of Energy Enhancement. This is Samyama, the 9th Limb of the Eight Limbs of Yoga of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. 

We can use it as in The 3rd Book of Gurdjieff, "Life is Real, Only THEN when I AM!!"

To tell whether food is Good to Eat.

To digest bad Food.

To de power blockages to further clean out the BodyMind. 

This work goes on Further in the Second Level to further depower more strong blockages.

This work is also helped more by the Second Level of Energy Enhancement which utilises this flow to get rid of, to dissolve, negative energies which exist between people. In all our relationships. The relationship we have with our parents. The relationship we have with our husband or wife. The relationship we have with our children, all the way down through our boss, our friends and the person we meet in the street.

This negative energy causes us to accept or reject all manner of people. It does not allow us to have a fresh relationship with a person, without any holdover from the past. Many people have difficulties with some of the relationships mentioned. These are the strong relationships. The hot fires which test our emotional IQ. Gurdjieff said that it is every human beings duty to love their parents. Until we can do this, he said, we are not truly human. We are not Healed.

When we are children, we are dependent on the energies of our parents. We depend upon being fed energy from them into our lower chakras, because we have not yet developed the higher chakras sufficiently to develop a connection to the Universal Energy Source through the crown chakra which makes us independent of others. 

When we do not need the energy from our parents. When we do not need the energy from our partners. When we stop becoming a dependent vampire, dependent upon the energies of all other people around us, then we become independent of needing to steal energies from other people. 

When we develop our ability to open the crown chakra, we then become an independent channel of energies at every chakra vibrational energy level. We then become an independent energy source for everyone around us. This is one of the benefits of being Enlightened.

However, as a child we are dependent on others for our energies. We then notice that we are in competition for this energy with all of our sisters and brothers.

Also, Male Children are competing for energy of their mother with their father. Thus the Oedipus complex.

Female children are competing for the energy of their father with their mother. Thus the Electra complex.

We are also competing for attention and energy with everything external which takes our parents attention away from us. 

Children can become weaned of this need to steal energy from their parents between the ages of 5 and 7. However, in this society at our present level of evolution, this very rarely happens.

We remain connected to our parents for the rest of our lives.

We connect with all of our partners and friends in this way

Most relationships tend to become battlefields for this energy. 

The children and the parents compete for energy because they fear not having any. No energy means you could die. It is like the survival of the fittest. 

Thus the necessity of developing and using strategies to get the attention of others, our parents, for this energy. All children develop and use these strategies. These strategies are absolutely necessary to gain energy in a survival of the fittest kind of situation. The children learn their strategy for a limited amount of energy which their parents possess. 

The real problems come when we then use this strategy to gain attention and therefore energy, without knowing we do, automatically and robotically for the rest of our lives.

If we are lucky we can learn to limit the bad effects of this strategy by seeing how we ourselves fit into the patterns of the strategies. We need to see which strategies we are using robotically, because everyone is using these strategies in very destructive ways, quite normally and without realising what we are doing.

The problem of strategies is so deep that we get upset, emotionally, when we even get these strategies described to us. We get angry or depressed when the description of these strategies push our buttons because, unconsciously, at a very deep, ancient and childish level. Because we all developed these strategies when we were very young. 

At a very deep, ancient and childish level we really believe these strategies are Absolutely Necessary to our Survival.

I am here to say that these strategies are not necessary to our survival. I am here to say that the unconscious use of these strategies is Immensley destructive to  your life. Because we are all users of these strategies whether the use is mild or intense.

The psychic mechanisms or psychic computer programs which are the strategies, are almost like separate little personalities which use our body minds to get attention because they were programmed to do so at a very early, childish age.

Jesus Christ said "My name is Legion" Or, I have a thousand little personalities inside me which work automatically to get attention.

The Master Gurdjieff said that the person who says he will get up at 4 o' clock in the morning, is not the same person who throws the alarm clock our of the window! 

Again, these psychic programs shuttle in and out of the conscious mind or the computer RAM. 

I always ask my students, "Who's in Charge!!"

The answer is that usually, unconsciously, robotically, these strategies are in charge.

Like all Zen Masters my aim is to say WAKE UP!

To wake up the higher part of the hierarchy to take back control from the lower parts.

Human beings are a hierarchy of control systems, of parallel processors, called the chakras. Going down from Soul Connection to the Intellect, the Emotions to the Physical. 

The highest part of the hierarchy SHOULD be in charge. These strategies work at a lower level of the hierarchy. AT THE EMOTIONAL LEVEL.

I am here to describe these strategies in an intellectual fashion, trying to keep the emotions out of it, but I must warn you that many people will get really upset, reading the following descriptions. Because the first step in healing these strategies is to admit to their presence within us. The childish part of ourselves will have a big investment in denying the use of these strategies.

Strategies have been created, as a child, to get attention from all others around you.

They are tiny, unconsciously used, psychic computer programs which act like tiny tyrant-like personalities within us. Their only function is to get attention and drain the energy out of everyone around us. And if they are doing their job properly they are very pleased. They are happy doing their jobs well.

These tyrant-like personalities, strategies do not care about the effects of their use in our lives in other ways. They do not care about their destructive action upon our deep relationships. They do not care about the pain their use engenders in all around us.

In the end, these strategies do not care about us at all.

They do not care if we live or die, as long as they get the attention they crave. The attention they were created to get from everyone around us.

Each strategy pattern limits us and prevents our freedom. All the theories of introvert and extrovert; oral, rigid, masochistic, psychopathic, schizoid. The Space Jockeys, the Intellectuals the Pleasers the Blamers. All the character patterns of the signs of the Zodiac.

All these strategies, in the end, are all different types of Tyrants.

The first step in Learning how to HEAL all your childish selfish Thoughtforms is to see the mechanism within ourselves. 

However, only Energy Enhancement techniques have the possiblity of totally draining the energy out of these mechanisms. Of totally drawing these separated selves, hurt inner children, back into the central stem of the personality.

Note that all these strategies can be used unselfishly for a good purpose if we wish. But only if the use is for a good purpose and entirely consciously used

However, usually we all use them selfishly And these Strategies which we All use unconsciously to steal energies from others, can lead us into painful situations which can depress us and which can lead to destructive patterns in our lives. To our very DEATH itself:-

Little Johnny has his head down and is looking miserable. Mother says "What's up little Johnny?" BINGO!! The strategy has worked! When we remain quiet then our mothers often ask if there is a problem.We have caught the attention, the energy, the love of our mothers. 

These people are usually called introverts.

However they are psychic programs which worked once as a child to get the attention from everyone around them. Because of this people remain quiet and show no love at inappropriate times, simply because this strategy worked once.

Little Johnny is at work. He is using his favourite strategy and is very quiet at his desk. The boss comes in and says to his section leader, "I don't know what's up with that little Johnny", "He doesn't have any get up and go!", "Perhaps we should get rid of him?"

Little Johnny is married to his soul mate and their marriage is having a rough time. She craves love and attention but the more she wants, the more little Johnny sits in his chair, with his head down and ignores her. Why not? It worked with his mother!

But eventually, because little Johnny cannot change. Because the use of this aloof strategy is entirely unconscious. The marriage breaks down and neither of them knows why. "It just didn't work out", they say. "Lets try again", they say.

And the same play is acted out again and again unto the ninth generation. Disastrously!!

The Poor me Strategy.

Further than the aloof strategy the Poor Me gains energy by being sad or sick.  sometimes an Alcoholic or a Drug Addict. They are so sad that one feels guilty to be happy in their presence. Needless to say, this childish personality will do anything, hurt or even kill themselves to gain your attention and your Energy!

Sore Paw

We once had a dog. And when it was a puppy it hurt its paw and we all gave it a lot of attention.

For the rest of its life, whenever that puppy wanted attention it just lifted up its paw. It didn't matter that the paw was not hurt. That dog knew that when it was a puppy, that hurt paw had got it a load of attention. It worked then, why shouldn't it work now.

That little doggy had been programmed at an early age with a bad case of "Sore Paw".

It got so that whenever it raised its paw we all said, "Sore Paw!"

But we all knew that the paw was not hurt and eventually we gave up laughing at the little doggy and giving it even the minor attention of, "Sore Paw!" We just ignored it because we knew it just wanted attention.

This hurt the little doggy, and before we knew it, that little Doggy was always getting into fights with other Dogs  and getting hurt. 

It had various accidents and got hurt. 

One day a car ran over it and we had to amputate one of its legs.

One day it fell off a cliff and got concussion. After that it always had a serious dent in its head and got to shaking its head and trembling from time to time.

Eventually it got cancer and lingered for two years before finally shuttling off this mortal coil.

Drama

One of our friends is a psychologist and works in an asylum treating drug addicts.

As she described to me, one day she got to feeling bored with her life, and to "Make Something Happen", She married one of her clients from the asylum. An ex drug addict, a cook, and an Arab.

She and her three children, each of whom she had had with a different partner, went off to live in the Mountains. She invested in a beautiful house in the countryside, miles away from her mother and her sister and the city where she was born. 

She had a beautiful daughter with the guy, but the restaurant out in the country was not a success.

After a while, she got to feeling that the guy was not really for her and their relationship got a bit strained. She came back to her city to think about the future. She was discussing with me and her family her plans to leave the guy, sell the house and move back to the city. But you know, her family were used to her and she didn't get much sympathy. It was all quite normal really.

But when she got back to the mountains, she found that the guy had taken the daughter to his parents and they were contesting the guardianship of the child.

AND SO STARTED A MARVELLOUS DRAMA IN WHICH SHE GOT THE ATTENTION AND SYMPATHY OF EVERYONE FOR AGES AND AGES!!

The alcoholic

By asking questions or telling jokes only to gain approval, attention and therefore energy. The Fame Game destroys your fame diminishes. There are many ways to be a star. But ask yourself why they/you are doing it? If all they/you want is attention. If they/you have no selfless inner purpose. Then this is just another selfish strategy to gain your/their attention.

Further, The Star is tremendously competitive. The Star lives by the law of Gengis Khan – "It is not enough that I succeed, all others must fail"

The Star will work actively, competitively and jealously to destroy all other competitors.

The Star will enjoy using its own Power and Control over itself even if in the process, its body dies.

Perfection

Anorexia and bulimia

The perfect body - artificial enhancements

competition and the coimbatore

krishnananda

Shirley Maclaine

Further than the interrogator and the star, this person uses powerful hurtful means to get your energy. Verbal abuse, Physical abuse. Rape.

Wife Abuse, "Who is going to tell me that I can't beat my Wife" 15 years of abuse. And the wife still says, "I love him."

"I promise I will Never do it again."

back to the hut and meditate

sw sat mastery of anger

rumi and madness

Sado- Masochism

The top dog

Frank Sinatra

Everyone will use all of these strategies at some time in their lives. Usually people cycle between them. As one fails they try another, stronger one. And then will be sorry and swear that they will never use them again.

We are all Dependent Vampires, stealers of energy. The only way out is to connect to a higher level of energy which can never fail. To become Independent. Then we can comfortably destroy these negative thoughtforms in our lives. Energy Enhancement Level Two shows the way to do it.

We need to clearly see the action of any of these patterns in our lives. Patterns which are based upon fear. Patterns which are based upon selfishly getting attention. Before we can be free of them. We need to see the action of any of these patterns in our personal history.

The energy which is given through the second chakra is not then available to be transferred through to the Throat chakra. It can prevent personal creativity for a while. It can prevent energy going to the head. It can reduce our Intelligence Quotient for a while. However, people with strong sexual drives are learning how to control them. Their productivity depends on how well they do this.

The Aloof and the Interrogator feed off each other. The Aloof stay quiet and avert their eyes to gain attention and thus more energy. The Interrogator gets irritated at the aloofness and starts to ask questions in order to gain the attention and energy of the Aloof. They can really take their parts seriously and get angry and upset during the playing of these games. Their strategies to gain energy.

The Poor Me and the Intimidator or Violator feed off each other. They are more dangerous but extensions of the other pair. The Poor Me will create something to make you sorry for them and thus get your energy. They will make you feel sorry for being better off than them. The Alcoholic. The ill. The person crippled by previous hurts, emotional or physical can all be examples of this type. They all want your energy. The Intimidator creates the Poor me and one easily slips to the other. They threaten violence to get your attention. They violate and abuse to control, to get your energy.

Moreover, many people use the Star to impress their partners to start with, then in the family they become poor me’s or violators to get their energy.

Some men are always complaining about their wives and the meaninglessness of their lives. Even they do not know that they are using the Poor Me to attract attention.

What I’m trying to get over is that almost everyone is shuttling from one strategy to another without noticing it.

These games are taught in early life. Most people cannot see their own dramas and will carry on doing them without any conscious knowledge of them doing it. In the process they will teach their children the same tricks. Unless we can see our dramas for what they are. Just seeing how we play these games ourselves allows us to just stop them.

Many people are trying to show us our patterns and how we are limited by them. Each family is the training ground for how to get, to steal more energy.

The only release, in the end, is learn how to control our energy.

Energy Enhancement Techniques show how to do this. Then there is the possibility of no competition for energy, only fulfilment. 

Learn how to use the heart to De Power Strategies through the use of the heart and the brow chakra in Stage 5 of EE Level 1.

The effects of these strategies on society is vast. Most people shuttle from Star to attract a partner, to Poor Me, or if that does not work, to Violator to gain the attention (love) of their partners.

Most therapists bring intellectual attention to these strategies that you are using.

Although this can ameliorate their effects, it cannot stop the violator who swears that he will never beat up his wife again. Who says that he did not know what came over him.

And not only these gross effects. A person lost in these second chakra strategies will be totally controlled by them in little ways.

Energy Enhancement Level 2 teaches how to totally drain the negative energy out of these thoughtforms so that they can never bother us again.

Outside the family we learn to use these strategies of control. We create fear to obtain control. When we control a person we gain their energy. We use these strategies to gain power. When we get power over a person we gain their energy. This is the rule in low organisations and low societies. This is the rule, the competition for energy, in any item over which there is a shortage. Because of the fear of lack. Because if we do not have enough we will die. This is the fear. It causes the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. The miserly rich, who pile up more than they need, do it out of this childish competition and fear of lack.

Where there is no lack of the essentials for the poor. Where people are not forced into slave work which is against their essential nature through fear of not having sufficient to live on. There should be a true freedom of choice and not one coerced through fear of not having enough.

Energy Enhancement Techniques show how to do this. Then there is the possibility of no competition for energy, only fulfillment. There is no need for the strategies because there is no need to steal energy from others. And yet, unless we can depower and dissolve these Selfish energy strategies, habits. We will still go on using them!!

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