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INNER TRANSMUTATION
EXERCISES
The most favorable mental state for anybody who starts working on his transmutation with the delta signal is “long thought”, a definition given by Ouspensky, a great friend of Gurdjieff’s and the man who popularized his work. By long thought we mean that you must try to visualize time as if it were a fourth dimension of space.
Ethnologists were amazed when they discovered how easily the aborigines can learn long series of verses by heart during what they call "Dreamtime". They were astounded when they realized that when the aborigines are reciting verses, they sometimes describe places they have never been to in great detail - THESE DESCRIPTIONS MAY HAVE NO CONNECTION WITH THE CONTENT OF THE VERSES THEMSELVES.
It is clear that with the sound of the letters and the rhythm of the words and sentences they recall images, beyond their literal sense, which the mind of modern man cannot perceive. This depends on the fact that when you are used to "long thought", your mind will be tuned to a direct perception of energy: this phenomenon is at the same time cause and effect of the progressive development of the “body of energy”.
In most populations, the mental disposition to “long thought" faded away along with the disappearance of oral tradition. The last examples in western civilizations are probably the Greek myths and Homer's poems. Its memory survives in Freemasonry in the symbolism relative to the Temple: it is particularly evident in the contents of the 21st degree of the Scottish Rite (Noachian or Prussian Knight). Traces of "long thought" can also be found in the "art of memory" of the Hermetists, who can easily memorize the content of very long texts by making visual associations with architectural elements of imaginary buildings. In recent times, the most serious attempts to reinsert "long thought" in the praxis of contemporary schools were made by Ouspensky, Gurdjieff and Aleister Crowley. Also René Guénon, Sufi "Sheikh" and notable scholar of esotericism, knew about and used "long thought" a great deal in his works; nevertheless, he opposed its complete diffusion for religious motives.
In reality, the disposition for long thought is innate in man and it is not necessary to make great efforts in order to revive it; after taking the first steps in the right direction, its development occurs spontaneously. All we ask the person who starts working with the delta signal is to imagine the passing of time like a concentric spiral where every complete turn corresponds to 24 hours.
and continue until an hour before
you usually wake up.
You should subdivide the exercises into cycles of about two weeks. The cycle of exercises should be started with the new moon and end with the full moon; we advise you to anticipate the beginning and the end by two/three days before the new moon and full moon period. It is less advisable (but allowed) to postpone these dates. During the two weeks of full moon and waning moon, the exercises must be suspended.
It is not very important for the exercises to be repeated constantly every night: if you are tired, have a headache or do not feel like it, you can definitely suspend the exercises for one or more nights. This is valid also for the cycles: every two/three cycles, you can skip one. Instead, it is important to begin and end the exercises always at the same time. The only exception to this rule is when you wake up at night and the transducer or the signal prevents you from going back to sleep: in this case you may interrupt the reception of the signal - it is possible that the shifting of the joining point will occur, anyway. Nevertheless, you must not change the starting time of the exercise.
There is no other rule to observe, but you should always sleep in a well heated room. If you cannot stand heating in the bedroom, cover yourself up very well. We cannot give you an exact indication, because warmth and cold are very subjective; anyway, remember that if you feel cold during sleep, this will prevent the transmutation process.
The first evening you go to bed with the Delta Signal playing either in the background, or through head phones. You must be well aware that you are starting the most important journey of your life. This journey will lead you beyond the boundaries of time and space as you have known them so far and change the structure of your being forever.
Once you have come to the end of this journey, you will have problems trying to remember the person you used to be. You will be able to pass consciously from objective reality to other innumerable worlds, and this will radically change your attitude towards the adversities of life, which will seem insignificant. You will deal with difficulties in a much more effective way because you will have acquired the ability to perceive directly the energy inherent in people and things. "Your nature" will be radically changed as well: your blocks and inhibitions, which normally limit self-realization, will be disintegrated from the inside by the development of the “body of energy”. Your inner energy will be able to flow freely and strongly, and your problem will be to control it, to prevent it from constantly breaking the rules imposed by social conventions.
This metamorphosis comes about spontaneously and gradually. The greatest difficulty is to get it started; then, once the “body of energy” is "awakened", you will need to guide it during the difficult months (or years) of its development and strengthening.
The most exacting period of your work will be the central phase, when you are traveling to remote and unknown levels of reality nearly every night. Then, the unusual experiences will progressively diminish in quantity and intensity and your attention will again be drawn to the level of objective reality. At this point, though, your conscious ego will be firmly installed in the “body of energy” also when you are awake and its powers will always be with you.
For the time being, while you are waiting to fall asleep, visualize the concentric spiral of time with the two radiuses representing the beginning and the end of your exercises: this is an image you should remember every evening.
Two hours after you have fallen asleep, the delta signal will begin to take affect. Even if you do not perceive it consciously, its imperceptible vibration will begin to stimulate your brain. The next morning, when you wake up, you will feel a bit strange: an indefinable sense of well being, or better, of relief will permeate you, as if, after a very long period of starvation, you have managed to secure the right source of nourishment.
This positive experience will urge you to try again the next evening; and then again the next evening, and then the following one. Actually, at the beginning of the transmutation exercises, you will probably become addicted to the delta signal.
Some people have to wait for days, others weeks; a few will have to wait for years: it is impossible to predict how long it takes before the “body of energy” will start sending the first clear signs that it is waking up. Eventually it does happen and this is how: in a moment of drowsiness, the transmuter [the person who is involved in the process of transmutation] will perceive the delta signal in an unclear way and will give in to the sound. The perception of the sound will travel from the head to the rest of the body and, for a while, the transmuter will have the feeling that his whole body is vibrating and then being lifted. Suddenly, the sensation of the physical body will vanish and the “body of energy” will start floating gently in the dark, like a balloon.
At this point, it is important to keep calm. If the emotional shock due to the novelty of this experience is too violent, the joining point will suddenly go back to its usual position, while the transmuter will have the sensation of falling violently back into the physical body. The consequences will not be serious: a little palpitation and a little fear at the most. However, because of the shock, the transmuter could become incapable of repeating the transfer of his consciousness into the “body of energy” even for many years. If that should happen, we certainly suggest interrupting the exercise, at least for a little while.
If you continue to float with your body of energy "out of body even after the emotional shock. You should avoid (if you can) trying to figure out, for example, if your “body of energy” has or does not have the same form as your physical body - if it has legs, arms etc., these things are not useful for the transmutation itself.
The “body of energy” is mere energy that can be shaped by your imagination. If you want to touch your leg, it will be there; if you do not want to touch it, it will not.
Your attention should not be concentrated on such foolish things, but on an extremely more important phenomenon: on the fact that, by floating out of its material cover, the “body of energy” absorbs energy not only by means of sensations but also, and above all, through its surface. Try to shut your eyes, avoid your sensory stimuli as much as you can and you will start feeling a light tickling: it is the flow of energy that penetrates you from every direction. Concentrate on this sensation, try to stimulate it, keep on saying to yourself: "I want more energy! More energy"! Then you will feel the energy penetrate you violently from every direction. The “body of energy”, now thicker, more compact and solid, will gently fall and you will find yourself inside your own body again.
From now on, you will be able to repeat more or less frequently the following experiences: separation from the physical body, nourishment of the “body of energy” and return to the physical body. If you succeed in completing the experience carefully and without mistakes from the beginning, this means that you are a particularly gifted transmuter and your exercise will probably succeed in a very short time.
When you wake up you will be amazed by the sensation of sparkling energy you will feel together with the usual well being that normally follows any exposure to the delta signal. The basic principle of our method of inner transmutation is that any energy intake, obtained during sleep, will benefit you also when you are awake. From now on, by pushing the joining point further and further away, you will meet and incorporate forms of energy that your conscious ego has never known before. This explains how people devoted to transmutation evolve and expand their individual skills.
This first experience outside your physical body may be followed by others within a short time but you might have to wait for a while: in any case you can be satisfied because the beginning is the most difficult thing, as we have already said.
Your “body of energy”, once it has absorbed the energy during its first journey, has begun its consolidation process: if it had a "specific weight", we could say that it is getting bigger, and it will progressively increase until the end of the exercises.
At this point, we have reached our second experience of shifting and fixing the joining point: this time it will inevitably settle further away, because it is slowly learning what needs to be done.
Therefore, this time it is likely to succeed in reaching a level of reality far richer in energy than the last one. By going through our senses, this energy will be interpreted in rational terms and a "dream world" will take shape around us.
So there we are, floating in the dream, but in a very special sort of dream. Firstly, we are far more aware of what is happening to us than when we are dreaming: it is as if we were wide awake. Secondly, the shift cannot have brought us too far away from objective reality, even though further than the last time. We would need a surplus of energy for longer shifts, energy we do not have yet.
Consequently, the "dream world" in which we are floating can be defined as a world parallel to ours: it looks very much like our world, but it is not exactly the same. It has often happened that, on their second (or third) experience, transmuters started perceiving their own bedroom, as in an OOBE. Then they left the room and started looking around, at the streets of their town that were exactly the same as they are in objective reality. Then, a unique little incongruous detail, for instance a birdcage on a window-sill with a little bird inside …with a square head, revealed to them they were in a different world, even if not very different from the “real” world.
When these things happen, it is a bit unrealistic to advise you again (like we did for the first experience) not to focus on the surrounding world but to concentrate on yourself. These trips to parallel worlds are always so fascinating (and very often so vivaciously colored) that it is almost impossible not to look at the environment.
Here are some warnings, though:
1 – Just like in dreams, when you travel to parallel worlds you will make many encounters. You will run into lots of different characters with more or less human or real appearance. Always remember that it is YOU WHO GIVE THEM FORM, because you have carried the old perceptive habits of the physical body into your “body of energy”, habits that you have not yet been able to give up. In reality, these beings have no form; they are just energy fields that you perceive as form. Therefore, you had better try to absorb them in your “body of energy”, instead of speaking or interacting with them. You could do it by asking them to come into you, or by manifesting this wish telepathically. They will do it; they will come into you and you will feel a new and exciting sensation when their energy starts coming in, becomes part of your body and reinforces it further.
However, if you cannot resist the temptation to interact with them as if they were "real", please do not take them seriously. It is not important what they do to you or what they say to you. In every epoch, the capital mistake of many dreamers, even eminent dreamers, have made is to interpret their own dreams according to their semantic rather than their energetic content. At least try not to repeat this old mistake.
2 - In parallel worlds, the “body of energy”, separated from the physical body, will allow your emotions to flow freely. They will be a hundred times stronger than in “real life”. For example, if you have any desires that in “real life” are strongly repressed because of social inhibitions, in parallel worlds you will able to mold the reality around you according to the impulse they suggest. The same occurs in normal dreams, but in a much less realistic way. So, sexual intercourse with a marvelous creature from a parallel world can be a heavenly experience and you will build up a reserve of exquisite energy that will last for a whole year. However, a fight with a monster from a parallel world can be a very painful experience, especially if the monster enjoys scratching your “body of energy” with his sharp claws. Also in this case, the danger is not that your physical health will be harmed, but that you might experience psychic traumas that could negatively affect the process of transmutation.
3 - Never worry about being able to get back. Sooner or later, the joining point will return to the starting position, especially during these first experiences in which you do not have the right amount of energy to hold the joining point steady in a new position for a long time. Eventually, you will start feeling tired, sleepy and a moment later you will be back in your bed.
Once you are back from these experiences in parallel worlds, you will notice the considerable beneficial consequences in your daily life. Gradually, as the “body of energy” starts absorbing new energy, your individual personality will become stronger and more compact. Your perception of the energy in people, events and places will become stronger: you will be surprised when you notice you are changing your old habits, by avoiding certain places and people and looking for other ones. You will have no more hesitation on how to program your time. You will feel the pressure to say certain words or to make certain choices and it will all be for the best. The “body of energy” is starting to control your physical body, by rounding off the edges of your old personality and by eliminating its inconsistencies and contradictions.
If in the past you were slightly interested in operative magic, this is the moment to start performing it. After you have experienced the direct perception of energetic currents, you will learn how to manipulate them. Those rites and gestures you have read about in treatises about magic, which perhaps used to seem absurd and meaningless, will appear under a completely new light.
However frequently and easily you have been able to work with the delta signal, you will notice that when you enter parallel worlds your experiences will be more intense and from now on they will have a more regular rhythm. You will eventually find yourself in a parallel world even every night, which is a sign that your “body of energy” is working hard in transmutation.
You must not worry if in this phase the separation from the physical body should occur in different ways from the first times. Separation and floating may not occur at all; or, suddenly, while you are sound asleep, you might find yourself in the middle of a parallel world wide-awake, without knowing how this has happened. Again, a normal dream might suddenly become clear to you, losing all incongruity and taking every appearance of reality. This means that your “body of energy” has already learned how to take the initiative and has already absorbed enough energy to start acting without needing your conscious participation. Therefore, you do not have to try to repeat the old methods you used to detach yourself from your body: they may no longer occur.
With every new experience in parallel worlds, the joining point will progressively go to settle farther and farther away from the position of objective reality. Its shift can happen in two ways:
1- By degrees. This is the phenomenon that Castaneda defined "waking up from a dream into another". That is, you may begin the experience in a world that is quite similar to the real world, then fall asleep again and, instead of finding yourself back in your bed, you may travel from one level of reality to other even more abstract levels of reality.
2- Immediately. You may wake up directly in a state of existence that has nothing in common with our state. When this situation begins to occur with a certain frequency, you will know that you have left behind the "parallel worlds" and you have entered other levels of reality that are further away and have a lesser level of formal reality.
It is rather difficult to describe in rational terms what exactly "loss of formal reality” is. As we have already mentioned, the apparent coherence you may feel in the parallel worlds, where the “body of energy” has most of its experiences, is due to the habit (inherited from its existence in the physical body) of reordering the energy absorbed according to the codes of sensory perception. However, as the experience proceeds, its ability to directly perceive energy increases progressively. Once you have lost interest in the strange and picturesque encounters which can be made when wandering in parallel worlds, your attention will go back to the process of energetic absorption. Progressively you will learn to distinguish the quality and density of the various kinds of energy. As your personal tastes develop, you will start looking for specific energetic sources while discarding others.
As you proceed in this evolution, you will gradually stop using the characteristic senses of the physical body. You will perceive everything directly: you will no longer worry about hearing, seeing and touching. If you do not use your senses, you will be able to shift the joining point where you want to. In fact, when your senses were active, your unconscious used to set the joining point not far from the level of objective reality, so that your senses could perceive everything. However, if your senses are not active, no external factor will intervene to restrain the potential shifts of the joining point.
At this point, your “body of energy” is finally free: there are no more barriers to break.
Every night, or almost every night, without even consciously perceiving the delta signal, you will be thrown into worlds "beyond description". Without using your senses of seeing, hearing and touching, your being will be penetrated from every direction by streams of pure energy. Slow, quiet rivers of sparkling electricity will drain your body of energy, washing away all the impurities of your mean, petty and defeated "ego” that will be filled up with something new, pure, calm and omniscient.
It is useless here to describe what will happen to you every morning when you wake up, when you find yourself dealing with objective reality: we would not like to be accused of exaggerating. If you want to get an idea about it, try and read some good treatises of alchemy (those by Fulcanelli and Caseliet are good) and particularly the pages describing the effects of the "Philosophers' stone". Actually, right now your exercises with the delta signal correspond to that exact phase of the old alchemic itinerary.
It would be too beautiful if this period of your life could last forever. Unfortunately, it does not work that way: the body of energy can take weeks, months or years to complete its energetic renewal. However, when it is finished, there is no reason its conscious experiences happen every night.
Now you are perfectly aware that the level of objective reality is just one of millions and millions of different levels, and you have acquired this knowledge through direct experience, not just by reading about it. Yet, since most human beings keep their joining point steadily anchored at that level, a single person cannot defeat the force of attraction of billions of joining points.