Become a Human Divining Rod

Dowsing for Holy Water

At any time, a yogi can focus his attention on the abstract whole, the totality of existence outside himself. This is particularly useful in everyday life. And to help you connect to and commune with the abstract whole, to life in general, you can freely use the same “key technical aspects” that you do when you use the void as a doorway to the Other Side, the Dimension of Spirit.

A cool way to “frame” the Plugged-in Presence (or Divine Communion) practice is to turn your bodymind into a divining rod—but instead of “dowsing” for physical water, your aim is to “locate” Holy Water, the living Spirit ceaselessly springing from the underlying Divine Source.

Here is the basic practice (which you can freely experiment with and modify). First, effect what I call the “divining rod mudra,” or “hands/forehead focus.” This “mudra,” or “focus,” is simple. Simply, simultaneously, focus your feeling-attention on your hands and forehead. Once you feel consciously connected with your body, turn your full, whole-bodily attention to the whole, the abstract totality of existence outside yourself. Just as a divining rod seeks to penetrate the surface of the earth to locate water, your mission, as a human divining rod, is to penetrate the “surface” of manifest existence (the universal veil, or cosmic illusion, that Hindus term Maya) to “find” the “hidden,” or underlying, spiritual “Spring.” Attempt to remain directly and immediately present to the whole, and as soon as you notice yourself retracting from the asana (or psycho-physical “posture”) of at-one-ment, attempt to reassume it. When distracting thoughts arise, disrupting your connection, neither accept nor reject them, and they will dissolve of their own accord.

When your connection to the whole is intense and “locked-in,” relax all effort and utterly self-empty. If you’ve been initiated, this will allow the living Spirit, Holy Water, to pour into and through you. If you haven’t been initiated, this total letting go will release psycho-physical tension, transforming you into an open vessel, a holy chalice ready to be baptized by the Holy One (when He deems you ripe). Any time the practice of plugging in, or attempting to plug in, becomes oppressive or uncomfortable, unconditionally surrender, becoming as if dead. The practice of self-absence (ohms reduction) is the perfect complement to the practice of presence (voltage increase), because electrically speaking, voltage and ohms are two sides of the same “coin” (or spiritual circuit).

The practice is simply being directly present to existence as it arises in the moment. When you are present to, and through, the passing now, then you break through to the Other Side, the timeless Now, the Divine Presence, and channel its Power, or Shakti, the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the action, or dynamic expression, of Divine Presence, the Now. And as a yogi, your goal is to unite your consciousness (embodied siva) with this Divine Power, or Shakti.  In reality, yoga is nothing but Divine fucking, Siva sticking his penis of Consciousness into Shakti’s vagina of Spirit until the two merge as One. The term “Ghost” has a static connotation and is a synonym for the Tibetan term “Clear Light.” But the “Ghost,” which is living Energy, moves, or “dances,” so “Spirit” is a better term.

The term “zeitgeist,” which means “spirit of the time,” has become a popular buzzword; but Divine Yoga is not about the spirit of the time, the prevalent ethos and culture; it’s about uniting with the Spirit of Timelessness, the Holy Ghost (or Geist), who dwells outside of time (and space). And when you become a human divining rod, dowsing for Spirit, your goal, in sexual terms, is to have the Ghost “come down on you.”

 

The way it works is that the force, or pressure, of your Plugged-in Presence “pulls down” Power, Light-energy, the Holy Spirit (or Ghost), and you either utterly empty and receive it, or else attempt to merge with it. In other words, you either penetrate the Holy Ghost, Mother Shakti, or allow her to penetrate you. In either case, the goal, Divine interpenetration, is achieved.

 

Ordinary dowsing is about finding ordinary water below; spiritual dowsing is about “locating” and “pulling down” Holy Water from above. Holy Water, Blessing Power from on high, is the vine of Spirit; and when your soul, the vine of consciousness, yokes with Spirit, the resulting Divine Union enables you to awaken to, and as, the Divine Being, Who is conscious Spirit (or spiritual Consciousness). Hence, spiritual dowsing, or divining, is simply the practice of Divine Yoga, uniting your individual soul with universal Spirit, which unveils the Divine Being—Consciousness-Spirit (Siva-Shakti).

 

Anything and everything can be an object to consciousness, which is always and only the subject or seer. Spiritually speaking, the object of one’s consciousness is secondary; what’s primary is consciousness itself, its “position” relative to existence. When your consciousness is in the asana, or “posture,” of direct and unqualified relationship (or communion), then it is uncontracted and forceful. And this forceful pressure, or “push,” is what enables you, as embodied siva, to break on through to the “Other Side” and “pull down” Shakti, the great Object that transforms siva, embodied consciousness, into Siva, en-Light-ened Consciousness.

 

The body is a fine object for “divining.” And once your relational, or conscious, force “pushes” through it, penetrating to the “Other Side,” your divining becomes Divine, as the “vine” of your consciousness beholds the “vine” of Spirit, and the two unite as One, Siva-Shakti.