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Today’s episode is the inaugural episode of “The Silence of the Mind,” Episode # 1, and so I’ll just touch on one tool out of many that I’ll be suggesting to you as you journey with me. Today, we will talk about breathing as well as what Wilhelm Reich called Muscular or Character Armoring. Reich discovered the basic pulsation in the universe and that healthy organisms and organs have natural expansion and contraction. That life energy pulsates. When we are armored, our pulsation is interrupted and the movement restricted; the energy flow throughout our body is impeded. We may experience this as a lack of sensation, aliveness, a stiffness or tension. Some people manifest this as an intense dislike of being touched. Armor can develop into a painful sensation if places in our body have chronic gripping, chronic tenseness, or are under-charged. So, our physicality speaks as well as our voice. Our armoring reduces our creative capacity, our natural expression of our unique Self.
We will also briefly touch on the fact that you don’t disappear when you die. As a matter of fact, death is something you’ve done thousands of times. For you are immortal. Some people explore the fact of their immortality through mediums, séances, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) as I did, and Spiritualism and Spiritualist groups. In 2012, I spent a month in a Coma in a Mexican Hospital after being prescribed the wrong medication. I was hospitalized with Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, a condition that few people ever survive, and when they do it’s in a lifelong vegetative state. I am blessed that I recovered with no visible defect or mental or physical problem. However, what I experienced during that coma was spine-chilling, and I still remember about 80% of everything I saw and did during the coma. Don’t believe that all NDE experiences are full of light and love, and seeing Jesus or your relatives. I did see some people I knew, but by far the greater part of my time in the coma was fighting a shamanic war with an evil shaman who wanted me out of town. Was he death? Possibly. Was he another shaman, possibly. At times, it was extremely painful.
During the year I was hospitalized, I was living with a woman who was the biographer of the “Timothy Leary” of Mexico, Salvador Roquet, and he introduced her to many native shamans here in Mexico, and gave her immense doses of LSD, peyote, and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Finally, just before I came out of my coma, I sent the evil shaman packing, but it was the most difficult battle of my life. Maybe I will tell the story here on “The Silence of the Mind.” I know I spoke about it in the podcast “The Melt,” Episode 14 - Laurence Galian| Laurence's Brush with Death and Gnosticism 101.” I think I may also have spoken of this Near Death Experience (NDE) on Whitley Strieber’s and Miguel Conner's podcasts.
Over the weeks ahead, I will in every episode, offer you the opportunity to experience self-actualization, but through ways and means that are not always traditional. I am somewhat of a renegade, a heretic, an autodidact, and someone who uses what works and throws out the rest. I am offering to deliver the journey of a lifetime to you, beginning now!