Eleusian Epiphanies #5 The Breathing Bridge (PranaGephira)

 Practice order of the EE Yogas - 

#1 - 33 Names of Goddess - 2018 (matutinal/hypnogogic/beta-testing)

#2 - Yoga of the Purified Senses - 2020 (preliminary sadhana / published) 

#3 - Demetæra - 2019  (sadhana/beta-testing, unpublished)

#4 - Krodharpana - 2022-23 (sadhana/corrupted and withdrawn) 

#5 - PranaGephira - 2024 (post-sadhana liminal practice - published) 

The Eleusian Epiphanies are a suite of yogic practices that have been formation for roughly 7 years — and will probably stay in beta for a few years more.  

The second and fifth are in circulation, and I will be workshopping them again soon. The others will continue fermenting until after a long closed retreat (2026).  

From inception, I have kept demonstrations of the EEpiphanies off of the Internet.  Next month I am making ONE exception to that rule.  On the afternoon of the Full Moon (Sept 7 - 2 p.m. CDT) I’ll be walking through the PranaGephira with a Signal group chat.  If you are getting this post, you’re invited, but you will need a Signal account.  

Current conditions indicate that the PG might be useful sooner than later. 

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The BreathingBridge (Eng) simply attends to the basic movements of breath: In.  \\//  Out.  However, Tibetans don’t call prayerflags ‘windhorses’ for nothin’ y’all.   Breath is also a windhorse, carrying all kinds of prajna (wisdom) throughout the body-mind.  This practice makes gentle suggestions about what you might put in those saddlebags.  

But soft, the PranaGephira (SktGk) is not so much a full sadhana as a kind of finial on whatever is your usual prayer/mantra/meditation/equipoise.  Best done in the mornings or when you start your day, as it is a 5 1/2 minute tune-up that carries on for 8-12 hours.  

As I have mentioned elsewhen, it can be modded into a Phowa practice, and we may get to that on the 7th. Let’s see.    

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“Why Bother?”

Welp, the first person who took on the 33 Names practice (in 2018), went into Samadhi 4 years later.  That may sound like a long time to a Westerner, but for our purposes, not so much.  Once ‘in’ you never fully come ‘out’ — but the unbearable luminosity of the state slipped off of her about 6 weeks later.   ¡Shabash! And . . . Whew!

Really, you want to put your toes in that water, hide your directions to the cove, then come back just before discarnation.  

And —mark my words— everyone’s directions are different.  You don’t have to *make* them different, they *are* different.    You and I could be using what appear to be exactly the same map and wind up on opposite sides of the archipelago.  Such is the exquisite & particular process of Liberation.  

GLOSSARY

“Sadhana” is a Sanskrit word that encompasses ‘spiritual practice,’ ‘focus,’ ‘imaginal creation.’ There is no equivalent in English, Spanish or French.  Eidos (Gr) is close, but doesn’t ping the ergonomics of Sadhana.  

“Published” means I occasionally open up an RL workshop, and curious bysitters come try it out with me.  

“Beta-testing” is deputizing my friends —all of whom are spiritual adults—  to mess around with a practice until it catalyzes Samadhi. 

“Samadhi” is step one - liberation from the afflictive emotions. Essential if you would actually address suffering on this planet. Step two — “Moksha” or Resultant Clear Light —  is above my paygrade, and another level of liberation.  The only thing I know is that it is initiated by Samadhi, which then turns into something else. Alchemistry ahead.    

“Phowa” means ‘transference of consciousness’ and is usually carried out by a religious authority.  Self-phowa has been the province of advanced yogi/nis, but this one is a ‘living well is dying well’ formula.  Easy-peasy.  

A word or two about this image:  A couple of years ago, as the earliest articulations of the PranaGephira came into my awareness, I saw a button of bluegreen light  in the center of my eidetic visual field. Last year  that very image appeared in an article in Earth.org.  It was the first “photograph” of a photon as hypothesized by physicists Ben Yuen and Angela Demetriadou.   

Please note the ethnicities of the researchers: Asiatic & Greek.  Where was I encouraged to search out the contours of the Eleusian Epiphanies?  In the mandorla that appears in the overlap between Eastern & Western perceptual fields.   

Cheers!