Gymnastics of the Tibetan monks. (Peter Calder)

“This is a great sacrament, for however much the body of man may have been destroyed by time or disease, adversity or satiety, the eye of the Eye of Heaven will revive him, and restore youth, and health, and give him great strength of life.” So said the legend…

So, in the human body there are nineteen energy centers called “vortices”. Seven of them are primary (chakras), and twelve are secondary. These vortices are powerful field formations, invisible to the eye, but nevertheless quite real. The location of the minor vortices corresponds to the position of the joints of the limbs: six upper minor vortices correspond to the shoulder joints, elbow joints and wrist joints and hands; six lower minor vortices correspond to the hip joints, knees and ankle joints with feet (Fig. 1 – 1. 1).

When a person’s legs are not spread too wide apart, the knee vortices join to form one large vortex, which is close to the main vortex in terms of the amount of energy concentrated in it. And since an ordinary person is very seldom in situations requiring from him to perform intensive wide-amplitude leg swings, to perform “twines” and similar exercises, his knee vortices almost always represent one vortex, the spatial form of which changes all the time in accordance with body movements. That is why sometimes the knee vortex is referred to the number of the main vortices as an additional, eighth one, and they speak not about nineteen, but about eighteen vortices. The location of the centers of the seven main vortices is as follows: the lowest one is placed at the base of the trunk, the second – at the level of the uppermost point of the genitals, the third – just below the navel, the fourth – in the middle of the thorax, the fifth – at the level of the base of the neck, the sixth – in the middle of the head; as for the seventh vortex, it resembles a cone with an open base turned upwards and is located in the head above the sixth vortex (Fig. 1 – 1. 2). In a healthy body all vortices rotate with great speed, providing “prana” or “etheric force” to all systems of the human being. When the functioning of one or more of these vortices is impaired, the flow of prana is weakened or blocked … In general, the impaired circulation of prana is what we call “disease” and “old age”.

In a normal healthy person, the outer boundaries of the vortices extend quite far beyond the body. In especially powerful and developed in all respects individuals all vortices merge into one dense rotating field formation, in form resembling a giant energy egg (Fig. 1 – 1. 3).

An ordinary person also resembles an egg, but the field density in it is different – the core of vortices differs significantly from the periphery in energy density (Fig. 1 – 1. 4). But in an old, sick or weak individual almost all the energy of vortices is concentrated near their centers, the outer boundaries of vortices often do not go beyond the body (Fig. 1 – 1. 5). The fastest and most radical way to restore health and youth is to give the vortices their normal energetic characteristics.

There are five simple exercises for this purpose. To be more exact, there are six of them in total, but the sixth one is special. For the time being, let us dwell on five exercises, each of which has a beneficial effect, but the full effect is achievable only if all five are performed regularly. In essence, these are not just exercises, not without reason lamas call them “ritual actions”. These ritual actions constitute a simple system of etheric training, the name of which is “The Eye of Revival”.

The first ritual action is very simple. It is performed in order to give the rotation of vortices an additional moment of inertia. With the help of the first ritual action we as if accelerate the vortices, giving their rotation speed and stability.

The initial position for the first ritual action is standing straight with arms horizontally stretched out horizontally to the sides at shoulder level. After taking it, one should begin to rotate around its axis until the sensation of light dizziness arises. The direction of rotation is very important – from left to right. In other words, if you were standing in the center of a large dial lying on the floor, facing upwards, you should rotate clockwise (Fig. RD-1).

For the vast majority of adults, a half-dozen turns around their axis is enough to make them feel dizzy to begin with. For this reason, lamas recommend that beginners limit themselves to three turns. – In addition, to “push back the limit of dizziness, you can use a technique that is widely used in their practice dancers and athletes-figurists. Before you start turning, fix your gaze on some fixed point directly in front of you. Having started to rotate, do not take your gaze away from your chosen point as much as possible. When the point of fixation of your gaze leaves your field of vision due to the rotation of your head, quickly turn your head ahead of the rotation of your torso and as quickly as possible “capture” your landmark again. This method of work using the reference point allows you to push back the limit of dizziness quite noticeably.

Unlike dervishes (the practice of dancing dervishes or Sufi spinning, Sufis use this exercise to enter a trance, an altered state of consciousness and spin counterclockwise), lamas in their practice never spin until they are completely exhausted, spinning not several hundred times, but only ten or twelve times – exactly as much as is necessary in each case to stimulate the vortices. The maximum number of revolutions at one time in most cases does not exceed twenty-one.

It is necessary to add that modern esotericists believe that spinning allows not only to harmonize the internal energy, but also to increase the level of internal energy (prana). But it is necessary to do it in energetically active points of space, in places where positive energy comes out (energetically the surface of the planet is heterogeneous, there are both pathogenic zones – eons of negative energy and zones of positive energy). It is also necessary to mention one more practice – circling around its axis, counterclockwise, before going to bed, it is believed that a person thereby as if rewinds the past day.

Immediately after the first ritual action, – the second ritual action is performed, which fills the vortices with etheric force, increasing the speed of their rotation and giving it stability.

The initial position for the second ritual action is lying on the back. It is better to lie on a thick carpet or some other soft and warm enough bedding.

Having stretched out the arms along the body and having pressed the palms with tightly joined fingers to the floor, it is necessary to raise the head, firmly pressing the chin to the sternum. After that – lift straight legs vertically upward, trying not to take away the pelvis from the floor. If you can, lift your legs not just vertically up, but even further “on yourself” – until the pelvis begins to lift off the floor. The main thing is not to bend your legs at the knees. Then slowly lower your head and legs to the floor. Relax all the muscles and then repeat the action again.

 In this ritual action the coordination of movements with breathing is of great importance. At the very beginning it is necessary to exhale, having completely rid the lungs of air. When lifting the head and legs, one should take a smooth but very deep and full breath, and when lowering – the same exhalation. The deeper the breath, the higher the effectiveness of the practice.

The third ritual action should be performed immediately after the first two. The starting position for it is the kneeling position. The knees should be placed at a distance of the width of the pelvis one from the other, so that the thighs are strictly vertical. The hands with the palms of the hands lie on the back surface of the thigh muscles just under the buttocks.

Then it is necessary to tilt the head forward, pressing the chin to the sternum. Throwing the head back up, bulge the chest and bend the spine back, slightly resting your hands on the thighs, and then return to the starting position with the chin pressed against the sternum. After a little rest, if necessary, repeat all over again. (Fig. RD – 3).

Like the second ritual action, the third one requires strict coordination of movements with the rhythm of breathing. At the very beginning one should make the same deep and full exhalation as in the first one. Bending backwards, one should inhale, returning to the initial position – exhale. The depth of breathing is of great importance, because it is breathing that serves as a link between the movements of the physical body and the control of etheric force. Therefore to breathe at fulfillment of ritual actions “Eye of revival” it is necessary to breathe as much as possible more completely and deeply. The key to full and deep breathing is always the completeness of exhalation. If the exhalation is complete, the naturally following inhalation will inevitably be as complete.

In order not to distract attention from the internal processes occurring in the etheric body, lamas performed all ritual actions, except the first one, with closed eyes.

The fourth ritual action. To perform the fourth ritual action one should sit on the floor with straight legs stretched out in front of him with feet about shoulder width apart. Having straightened a spine, put palms with closed fingers on the floor on sides from buttocks. The fingers should be pointing forward. Lower your head forward, pressing your chin against your sternum. Then tilt your head as far back upwards as possible and then lift your torso forward to a horizontal position. In the final phase, the hips and torso should be in the same horizontal plane, and the shins and arms should be vertical, like the legs of a table. When you reach this position, you should strongly tense all the muscles of the body for a few seconds, and then – relax and return to the starting position with the chin pressed to the chest (Fig. RD – 4). Then – repeat all over again. And here the key aspect is breathing. First you need to exhale. Rising and tilting the head – perform a deep smooth inhalation. During tension – hold the breath, and lowering – fully exhale. During the rest between repetitions – keep the same rhythm of breathing.

The starting position for the Fifth Ritual Action is the bent-over lying posture. The body rests on the palms of the hands and pads of the toes. Knees and pelvis do not touch the floor. The hands are oriented strictly forward with fingers closed together. The distance between the palms is slightly wider than the shoulders. The distance between the feet is the same.

Start by tilting the head as far back upwards as possible. Then move to a position in which the body resembles a sharp angle with the top pointing upwards. At the same time, with the movement of the neck, press the head with the chin to the sternum. We try to keep legs straight, and straight arms and torso in one plane. Then the body will be as if folded in half in the hip joints. That’s it. After that we return to the initial position – the lying down bent – and start all over again (Fig. RD – 5).- After a week of practice this ritual action becomes the simplest of the five. When you have quite mastered it, try to bend your back back as much as possible when returning to the starting position, but not due to the ultimate break in the lumbar region, but due to the spreading of the shoulders and maximum flexion in the thoracic region. Do not forget, however, that neither the pelvis nor the knees should not touch the floor. In addition, introduce into the exercise a pause with maximum tension of all muscles of the body in both extreme positions – when flexing and when lifting to the “corner”.

The scheme of breathing in the fifth ritual action is somewhat unusual. Having started with a full exhalation in the bent-over lying position, you make a deep, as far as possible, inhalation while “folding” the body in half. You get some approximation of the so-called paradoxical breathing. Returning to the bent-over lying position, you make a full exhalation. Stopping at the extreme points to perform a tense pause, you hold your breath for a few seconds respectively after inhalation and after exhalation.

In a young healthy person the dynamic characteristics of all seven main vortices are the same and harmoniously correlate with those of the secondary vortices. In the thin body of an ordinary middle-aged person the main vortices rotate differently, the harmony between them is broken. Harmony between major and minor vortices is out of the question in this case. This, by the way, is the main cause of metabolic processes disturbance, leading to salt imbalance and various lesions of joints. Further discordance of dynamic characteristics of vortices and their loss of energy lead to development of serious pathologies and senile changes in the physical part of the human being’s organism.

 It is necessary to practice the ritual actions regularly, starting with three repetitions of each and gradually bringing them up to twenty-one times a day, adding two repetitions each week. It is acceptable to skip no more than once a week, but in no case more. Rearrange the ritual actions “Eye of rebirth” places, as well as to vary them in time is not allowed. The best time to practice it is at sunrise and sunset.

But between every two ritual actions a pause is necessary. It is necessary to stand up straight, put your hands on the waist and perform several smooth full breaths, carefully watching the sensations arising in the body, and focusing on the area of the body located inside the abdomen at the level of the navel Breathing in pauses between actions, try to relax as much as possible during the exhalation and feel how the “spoiled” prana along with subtle impurities and painful blocks leave the body, washed out by streams of “fresh” prana, which entered the body during the inhalation.

With unyielding intention and persistent practice, miracles can happen. For we are all truly marvelous beings who can rise to any challenge.

…Everything that creates the world in which we live has its origin in the inner essence of ourselves, and therefore our life is always a creation of our own hands. Only our choices determine how our circumstances turn out, only our desires and the decisions we make or don’t make shape the situations in which we find ourselves. Lamas believe that the personal will of the individual is truly omnipotent. Everything depends on the degree of “practical knowledge” a person possesses. And practical knowledge is not just information, but precise knowledge of how to consciously control personal will in its manifestations not only in this world, but also in other, more “subtle” worlds… – One day the world will wake up in amazement and see the results of the great work done by the adepts of secret teachings, including the Tibetan lamas, in cooperation with other, as yet unknown to mankind, forces. The time is approaching when a new epoch will dawn over the planet of people, the time of birth of a new humanity. A new man is coming, who will be in control of his will and who will learn by his conscious action to unlock the immeasurable potencies of the forces hidden in himself, overcoming pain and suffering to eradicate war and hardship from the practice of humanity on this planet. (I believe it is worth recalling that the book “The Eye of Rebirth” was written by P. Calder before the Second World War. – author’s note)