A basic course for

Siddhas or Wizards
the art of programming ourselves
by Shekhar Borgaonkar

Modern Magical Paradigm

Ancient Vedic philosophers identified the largest Boundary of all as the Mahamaya: or Universal Trance. the Great Illusion The Mahamaya is the Reality that

we all live in, and it is also a trance woven out of many levels of belief systems and individual beliefs. A Siddha trancends some of these belief levels and thus acquires the power to create or dis-create reality (illusions!)
A maker of idols is never an idolater. ---- An Old Chinese Sayin

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that was used to create them.

---Albert Einstein

Process
To achieve anything worthwhile we need four qualities.


Free attention or processing power



liberation from power consuming daemons

Love Business models Domain knowledge and skills

Process
The Process consists of two parts:


Purification and Dis-creation

Its necessary to erase the slate before anything can be written on it



Creation

it is the coding of Maya by using the language of evolutionary and cultural symbols and executed by the Siddha's trained Will

Purification
The separation of our individual consciousness from the universal consciousness is the Original sin. This separation is rooted in a series of traumas that we all are subjected from conception, birth, early childhood, and puberty. Trauma fragments our wholeness and each fragment stops experiencing life freely. Rather it is bottled up in a belief structure which protects it from further hurt. During trauma, the person is in panic mode and thus responds to the situation with abnormal urgency. This it does by hard-wiring some of its computation by making some implicit assumptions or beliefs instead of more circumspect logic that we have learnt during the course of our evolution*.

While there is nothing wrong with this, the problem arises in normal life when an urgent response is not required. This the reason why certain people who have been highly traumatized never seem to grow up w.r.t. some situations. Traumatized people responds to situations unskillfully that is typically marked by aggressiveness, fear, depression, greed and selfishness. These attitudes generate a lot of social problems outside them but generate real chemical poisons within themselves destroying their health and well being. Purification essentially is healing our traumas.

Purification process


Taking care of the physical body Practice of psychic hygiene Practice of Work hygiene Receiving love to heal our emotional body Skilled introspection to unearth the hidden beliefs that bind us.

These practices are collectively found in Bhakti, Karma, Raja and Jnana Yoga

Physical processes


Eating wholesome food (avoid excesses) Regular exercise (asanas, surya-namaskar) Periodic cleansing routines (neti, dhouti...) Pranayama

It is very important to do these activities slowly with full awareness and feeling. For instance the process of eating is as important as the content of what we eat.

Psychic hygiene
Essentially the psychic hygiene consists of:
  

Honesty Simple life style Avoiding excessive sensory stimulation

  

Non-violence Moderation in speech Moderation in sex

Yama, Niyama... Patanjali Yoga sutras, Sila .... Buddha

Healing
deep traumas
One of the best guidelines for healing very deep unconscious conditioning was given by the Gautama Buddha


Kayanupasana equanimous and non-judgmental, observing gross body parts, posture and breath Vedananupasana observation of sensations Chittanupasana observing thoughts Dhammanupasana Observing the nature of things

Collectively these techniques are taught in Vipassana course by Goenka. The basic course is of 10 days duration during which one maintains strict silence and meditates for about 10 hours a day. The method is outlined in Buddha's Satipathana sutta.

Healing
healing emotional traumas Emotional trauma can manifests as fear, guilt, depression etc. The process of healing these traumas is to relive them consciously and experience the pain calmly using our adult consciousness.


Write your story and repeatedly go through it observing your emotions, noticing hidden beliefs, values, intentions...till all pain and emotional distress, anger, fear etc. go away. The process is preferably done with a partner. Authentic sharing in a group helps. Use Core Processes (Connirae Andreas, Wolfgang Bernard)

Work hygiene
avoiding Karmic debt Work is a very important part of life. Apart from survival work allows us to deeply express ourselves. Deep selfexpression can also be viewed as our mission in life. However due to various traumas we forget this fundamental role of work in our life and start working for things other than deep self expression. When this happens we start expecting rewards for our work. Unless we are very careful we will reach a pathological condition where rewards begin to consuming more of our attention than the work itself.

Exorcising daemons
In computers we use a term called daemons. These are programs which are perpetually installed in the computer and consume the processing power. They are like a virus which saps the computing power of a system. Likewise fear, guilt, karmic debt etc. daemons which sap our free attention. By practicing the purification exercises outlined earlier we are actually freeing up a lot of trapped attention. We feel the flow of new energy within ourselves. The wizard has to learn to contain (not dissipate) this energy and allow it to transform his deeper self. Some of the qualities that may manifest due to this purification are silence (calm), bliss, concentration, love, and faith. All these are energies of a higher kind.

Creation
Life is meaningless without love - a common experience

"And in the beginning there was nothing. And God said 'Let there be light.' And there was still nothing, but now you could SEE it!" -- Anonymous A Wizard who has sufficiently purified himself can also recreate Maya. The driving force for this is generally love and compassion and his attitude is one of play (Leela)

Creation
The process for your success is simple and it works like this: You familiarize yourself with your higher self and the plan your higher self has for you will gradually be made known to you on an "as needed" basis. Then you take actions based on your inner guidance, your intuition. Taking action inspired by your higher self will place you in amazing synchronicities as well as give you new insights that will forward your success.
----------- Deavon Di Prima

Process of Creation
For creating anything worthwhile we require


Vision
  

Love, inspiration - alignment with the Universe Imagination incubation, working out details Will sculpting the imagined into reality

Team of committed and competent people

 

Love Internal and external Business models

Attitudes and Practices that lead to excellence

Imagination
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

---Albert Einstein

Imagination
Imagination is an important skill of the Siddha. It is the skill of conjuring or constructing a desired scenario in the form of mythology (a story constructed with psychic symbols) that stirs deepest psyche of people. People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life but I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. Mythology is the song of the imagination, inspired by the energies of the body. -------- Joseph Campbell

Symbolic language
Human beings have broadly four brains:


Body brain (colors, primordial sounds, smells, ....things associated with survival <language in the womb) Reptilian brain (hissing, roars, lightning and thunder, water, caves predation,mating, phallic symbols < 1 year old language) Mammalian or Emotional (flowers, fashion,babies, burial/dead body, cross, more aesthetic, more feelings, rituals < 5 year old language) Neo Cortex (The language we speak)

Learning the Symbolic language

This requires us to begin by observing our body, breath, sensations and thoughts in a totally non-judgmental way (feel it + vipassana exercises) We have have to maintain a journal of our our visions, experiences and dreams. Expected results a rich canvas of our internal symbols and cultural and personal beliefs

WILL
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ----Mahatma Gandhi Its not that some people have willpower and some dont. Its that some people are ready to change and others are not. ----James Gordon The education of the will is the object of our existence. -----Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances. ------ Meister Eckhart