FROM: THE ESSENE WAY /
BIOGENIC LIVING (I.B.S. publication):
BIOGENIC MEDITATION
... and
worship the benignant meditations
inspired
by Asha, the Cosmic Order. . .
and
I pray that propitious results may be seen
in
the Living Grass ...
-from the "Zend
Avesta"
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Biogenic
Meditation is the most important practice in biogenic living. For
humans, life is the most important power on Earth. The most
primeval and universal life-generating (biogenic) functions are the
mobilization of life-forces in a seed, the appearance of embryonal
germinates (sprouts), the birth and initial growth of a young baby
plant, the capture of solar energy by the green leaves of the young
plant, and its initial growth, which in the case of the simplest, but
most vital plant on earth, the grass, takes place in about the first two
or three weeks. During the initial, rapid biogenic growth, the
little grass-plants - we may call them baby greens - provided the
environmental preconditions of life (temperature, sunlight,
humidity, quality of air and soil) are favorable, will manufacture
large amounts of surplus energy, being in a biogenic condition and
period of their lives. Soon, this surplus life energy becomes smaller
and smaller, the speed of growth-rate slows down, and its life-forces
gradually diminish and finally settle on a subsistence level, just
enough for its biological needs (but having no surplus to spare) -
this period is its bioactive period. With time, the plant
gradually will have only a limited amount of vital energy, not quite
enough to maintain its optimal biological function, the symptoms of
which result in deficiency of chlorophyll, fading and dying leaves,
the discontinuation of growth - this period is the stagnating, or biostatic
period - we may call it old age. Finally, when its sources of
nutrients or energies from the environment fall below even the
biostatic level, according to the stored instructions of the DNA and
RNA, the master computer inherited from its original seeds, the sad
spectacle of biocide-death-occurs, and the biocidic remnants return to
the terrestrial metabolism, the great equalizer.
THE PURPOSE OF
BIOGENIC MEDITATION
The
purpose of the biogenic meditation (more correctly, the biogenic,
dynamic union with the primeval Ocean of Life) is to draw and absorb
in a tactile way, biogenic -life generating - life forces from the
available surplus of the baby plant, which is possible only while the
baby plant is in its biogenic phase (corresponding to the human
puberty). Later, after it reaches the age of three or four weeks, the
plant will not have any surplus life energy to spare.
The
most vital and robust plant on Earth is the grass, with tremendous
stamina to survive the most excessive cold and hot climates, covering
the largest plant-inhabited area of our planet, and the most popular
and easily accessible seed is the wheat (although many other whole
grain seeds can also do well). During the course of the Great
Experiment, which began in 1939 and lasted a third of a century, we
always used wheat (which we harvested every year from our special
wheat farms in Valle Redondo, only twenty minutes from the center of our Great Experiment, Rancho La Puerta).
HOW DO WE "MAKE"
A BIOGENIC BATTERY?
To
create and utilize the above-mentioned surplus biogenic energy, we
used a cup-size container, the most popular size, usually of the same
diameter and height, which we filled with fertile, wet organic soil
from our ecological health garden, planted on its top a dense carpet
of wheat grains (previously soaked for 24 hours, rinsed, and then
sprouted for 24 hours. (See the description of how to make a biogenic
battery in a previous chapter.). The wheat-grain carpet in the
container was sprinkled thoroughly (but not drowned), then covered
with a small piece of plastic, or a small plastic bag, to retain the
moisture until the little root-sprouts could find their way into the 50il.
Over the plastic we put a piece of paper to create darkness. After 12
hours we removed the covers and sprinkled the grains again gently
(always avoiding the two extremes of dryness and drowning) and then
replaced the them. In another 12 hours the covers were removed completely.
After a short, sprout-like embryonal period, and a start of baby-like
growth, giving enough water each day just to keep them moist,
photosynthesis, capturing the sunlight, rapidly developed. The tender
young leaves became green in 48 hours, and soon began their adolescent
period.
While the initial growth of the young grass is fast,
they are generating intensive biogenic energy and are capable
through tactile transmission of sharing it with us.
Seven days after planting, the cup-size biogenic battery is ready for us
to lay our hands on it, thereby drawing its biogenic energy to flow
through the whole body. This communion of regeneration will draw us
into a vegetative, primeval, vital communion with dynamic starbursts
of biogenic energies. And this non-intellectual, non-notioned union
has greater impact and regenerative power than any existing meditation
technique. We feel the constant flow of biogenic energy through the
whole body, and from time to time the regenerative flow through the
spine will gently shake us. As we lose contact with the mental
processes, we enter
the powerful organovegetative world of the very young, fast-growing
green leaves, radiating primeval biogenic energies.
When the young, biogenic plant reaches the seventh day,
the fast-growing, deep green robust grass is about six inches tall,
its roots completely filling the whole container in a tumescent, hard
condition. Your biogenic battery is now ready for use.
"When I
touch Grass, I touch Infinity"
(from
"The Essene Way-Biogenic Living")
May Infinity be
your Teacher too...
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BIOGENE MEDITATION: HOW
TO DO IT
To perform the biogenic meditation, place the plant on
a table, about one foot from the edge. Sit easily on a comfortable
chair, facing your biogenic battery. After a minute or two of
relaxation, grasp with both hands, between your fingers, as if in
prayer, the young biogenic grass plant, close your eyes, holding it
for about twenty minutes (elbows resting comfortably on the table),
feeling between your fingers the living, dewy freshness of the young
plant, and feeling the biogenic life-forces entering into your whole
body, through tactile contact with your biogenic battery. As it is
very important to be comfortable for these twenty minutes, it will be
a good idea to support your elbows on something soft (a quadrupled
soft towel, for example). Also, let your palms rest easily on the rim
of the container. If you want to think on a word at each breath, you
shall use only the word "Life," because it ix, and it
corresponds to the reality. You will feel the surplus biogenic,
life-generating forces from the vigorously-living young plant flowing
continuously into your whole body; soon after this flowing
sensation, you will feel a tingling sensation, especially through your
spinal cord, and finally, this powerful lifestream will shake your
whole body from time to time. After about 20 minutes, open your eyes,
remove your palms and fingers from the plant, rest for a few minutes,
and, refreshed, proceed with your daily activities. Repeat the whole
procedure once more in the evening, preferably sometime before dinner
(never after meals) and not just before retiring, as the powerful
biogenic energy absorbed may keep you awake for several hours.
This
biogenic meditation will free you twice a day from the tyranny of our
restless, tense, worrying cerebrospinal functions!
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