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Originally Posted by Czymra

I did want to keep answering to this thread but I've been caught up in my own little syphoning trip. Stress really is just another means of opening a person up to be syphoned isnt' it?

The constant barrage of chaotic forces we live in are the means of opening us up. It's not just fear, it's all the mundane things that drag us into the matrix pattern...stupid laws and taxes, the absurd economic systems we're living in, the programs of social, emotional and sexual behaviors that are broadcast into our lives. The message is always, "follow the rules, fit into the system, play the game and you'll be comfortable and life will be easy", but of course they're really saying, "Go back to sleep, don't push buttons or look deeper and you won't have that stress, Czymra". :>)

I find the mundane attacks to be the most sinister element...really, they're the very background pattern that we're playing the game on, and the most effective means of opening us up to be siphoned. It's the people who crack from it all who get the most attention, but they're not the main source of the harvest.

Originally Posted by Czymra

So, as outlined in length before in the conversations (exchange?) with oedilroed, there is a plethora of psychological games going on that represent such a corruption in the pattern of weaving. Such are victimhood, greed for power, stress, paranoia and many more.

...I wonder if syphoning or accumulating energy is always an act of a sexual fashion. I don't mean a 3D sexual encounter or so, but merely the fact that the type of energy that flows from wherever to whoever, is of a sexual nature. What is sexuality anyway on the higher planes? Just exchange? What is it about astral sex that it seems to be the most widely used too to keep people at bay from entering in a more profound state in the astra?

I couldn't figure out what was going on in your exchange with oedilroed (not that I'm not curious :>), but I do think you've nailed it when you mention the "psychological games that represent...corruption". We come into these lives already traumatized, and those games can either keep us at the frequency we came in at, or help us to transcend old patterns. I've had people freak on me when I've said that BDSM can be used as a healing process, because all they can see is that it's representative of perverse sexuality...but I'd wager that most of us have been involved in such perversions in our existence, both as givers and takers, and in those instances we played for keeps. Finding a way of safely bleeding those old patterns out of our systems, and leaving them behind, can't be any more wrong than suppressing them and having them manifest in bizarre and enigmatic patterns of behavior.

I should have entered this into my previous post...Alex Grey's comments on the "Demons and Dieties Drinking at the Milky Pool" painting:

I had a vision of the group soul of humanity as a perfectly circular pool of intense living light. All around the rim of the milky pool were a complex variety of sexual rites, a metaphor for all social interaction. Translucent Hindu deities swooped over the group taking the excessive energy of the shimmering pool and passing through the group as ecstasy and pain. I saw that the reason we were all brought together was to provide a psychic energy feast for the Gods and Goddesses. I saw my heart as the axis of karmic, earthly, and universal energies, transected by and uniting the polarities of male/female, birth/death, good/evil, and love/hate. To maintain a balance of forces we all fed both Deities and Demons.

There's a page on Jonothan Zap's site, titled Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites which might lend some insight to this conversation.

I'm curious as to what you mean by your suggestion that "[astral sex] seems to be the most widely used tool to keep people at bay from entering in a more profound state in the astra".

I'm not going to answer for Dakini, but I do want to say that it doesn't matter whether you're "intent on manifesting" or not, you're doing it, every moment. This is where the impeccability comes into play, so you don't have to be filled with thinking about it every second, it's just positive emanation. And you're already on the mystic path, it's just that it usually takes many years of experiencing it before we can comprehend that it is what it is.