Middle Pillar Ritual side effects
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I started practicing the MPR daily about 5 weeks ago. It is part of my daily routine that always ends in a simple mindfulness meditation. Starting about 2 weeks ago I now get a tingling sort of sensation in my middle forehead usually after finishing the MPR but now everytime I meditate I feel this sensation. I even start to feel it if I simply think about meditating. It sometimes feels like someone is holding a finger firmly planted there between and just above my eyes.
Does anyone else have similar experiences? Anyone have any idea what may be causing it? Muscle tension perhaps?
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Yes. Neuroplasticity feels a certain way.
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"Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!"
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Yes, I've had similar experiences with the ritual, though usually while formulating Kether just above my head, but sometimes less intensely afterward. It usually starts near the crown of my head and travels down my body. It also happens when at the beginning of the Qabalistic Cross I visualize a sphere of white light above my head and then draw it down. In the few instances of contact with my Holy Guardian Angel a similar feeling came up, accompanied by the sensation that the Angel had come down from above. This sensation is often enough to cause me to actually shiver and make my hair stand on end. In all three cases we have light descending from above, so that's what I've come to associate the sensation with. The more I do the ritual, though, the less intense the sensation becomes. I've though about this as my body adapting to the light. Once I'd gotten the hang of the MP (after the first dozen performances or so) it would put me into a rather heavy trance, but that effect has largely tailed off as well, which I also thinks indicates adaptation to the light.
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From the sound of it I suppose this is expected. Glad to hear it.
@Iamus said
"Yes, I've had similar experiences with the ritual, though usually while formulating Kether just above my head, but sometimes less intensely afterward. It usually starts near the crown of my head and travels down my body. It also happens when at the beginning of the Qabalistic Cross I visualize a sphere of white light above my head and then draw it down. In the few instances of contact with my Holy Guardian Angel a similar feeling came up, accompanied by the sensation that the Angel had come down from above. This sensation is often enough to cause me to actually shiver and make my hair stand on end. In all three cases we have light descending from above, so that's what I've come to associate the sensation with. The more I do the ritual, though, the less intense the sensation becomes. I've though about this as my body adapting to the light. Once I'd gotten the hang of the MP (after the first dozen performances or so) it would put me into a rather heavy trance, but that effect has largely tailed off as well, which I also thinks indicates adaptation to the light."
Ya'know, I can't always really tell you when I begin to notice it but sometimes it happens for sure at the beginning of a LBRP when bringing down the light and touching my head (in that exact spot) during the Qabalistic Cross.
Thanks guys!