Preparation

The Lion Path cassettes, however well designed, can work only on the quality of consciousness and awareness brought to their use.

Meditation, for want of a better word, is a state of consciousness beyond the normal flux of streaming associations, memories, imaginings, and sensations that pervades everyday awareness and takes up most people's time and lives, day and night, except for deep and dreamless sleep. That state, beyond the to-and-fro tides of the ordinary flux of consciousness, needs to be cultivated in waking life. The point of such meditation is not to think of nothing -- for that is still a thought - but to think nothing, which is easier said than learned. But the simplest way to do it is to feel, to fill the consciousness to overflowing with an essentially benign feeling like utter harmony or utter peace. It is such pure feeling that enables us not to think.

One of the best ways to learn how to cultivate that state is to practise a simple but very effective form of ancient breath control and direction whose old Sanskrit name is pranayama. This exercise was in fact the foundation of what is called Raja Yoga - the royal way of joining or yoking to the higher self.

The practise is simple: A slow in-breath for a full eight seconds (one second passes as one says inwardly one thousand one), filling the lungs first in their bottom-most regions and enabling this by expanding the solar plexus area; then in the middle region, and finally in their very topmost portions - feeling during the eight second you are doing this the vivifying energy entering you.

Next comes the all-important eight seconds hold (Sanskrit kumbhaka, a term of yoga also traditionally related to eight), when you are neither inhaling nor exhaling. During this interval you can feel the energy coursing throughout your entire being … doing its sublime transmutational work of which you have no obligation (and probably as yet no capacity) to understand. Finally, you perform a slow, measured - that is, unaccelerated - eight seconds of exhalation with a short (about a second) pause at its end. Then re-begin the cycle of inhalation-hold-exhalation once more and repeat it for at least three times. But as you improve in the practice, gradually increase the number of cycles until you can do ten of them without special effort or feeling strain.

After some practice you may well find that your state of consciousness will alter and leap upward like a living flame after only a short time and even before the first cycle is finished

The Lords of Shambala
(activation tape for the Cycle of Initiation and stimulator of the Pleromic powers)

One of the most secret traditions of Tibet is that of the hidden realm of Shambhala, governed by the Seven Chos-rGyals or Divine Kings. We obtained their names in Tibetan from the Cultural Centre of the Dalai Lama in exile in northern India, and found that the meanings of the names directly correspond to the pleromic powers. Some of the true names have been lost and appear only as vague corruptions such as "Mighty One", but the name for the Venus or Goddess-power as well as that for the Sun and Mars Pleromic Powers, have been unmistakably preserved, so enabling the reconstruction of their order.

In addition, the sequence of the Tibetan names of the Seven Kings of Shambhala follows the ancient weekday sequence that is the basis for the succession of Lion Path sessions. The statues of these seven master-regents still adorn a specially sacred room in the eastern wing of the third storey of the Potala, the former palace in Lhasa of the Dalai Lamas."

We all contain within ourselves a primal set of universal powers (symbolized by the names Saturn, Moon, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury) which, in our current molecular bodies, are present only in their undeveloped larval forms. The Lion Path promotes their development from this larval state into their fully mature or pleromic forms. from (The Lion Path: The Big Picture

The Lords of Shambhala cassette contains sets of metamorphic enhancing frequencies, each pleromic power being separately evoked by a series of musical frequencies that embody the development of the power from its initial larval stage, through all the intervening stages and final blossoming into its pleromic frequency. The cassette program begins with a short introductory sequence that helps prepare you for the pleromic frequencies, and then the musical sequence for each pleromic power is played in the order of Saturn, Moon, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury. When listening to the Lords of Shambhala tape to activate the sessions of the Cycle of Initiation, it should be played before the Moon achieves the aspect that is associated with the session in question. That is to say, listen to the tape before the time of the new Moon in Scorpio (true Samhain) or in Aquarius (true Imbolc), and before the time of the full Moon in Taurus (true Beltane) and Leo (true Lughnasadh).

As explained in, Access: The Lion Path for the 21st Century, each of these sessions stimulate the development of different pleromic powers, all of which are especially powerful on certain days of the week. During the about 3 month post-session interval of Samhain pleromic Moon and Mars are being activated; therefore it is useful to listen to the Lords of Shambhala tape on the days of the week corresponding to those powers: Mondays and Tuesdays. During Imbolc pleromic Saturn is being activated and it is helpful to listen to that tape on Saturdays. During the post-session interval of Beltane, pleromic Jupiter and Venus are being activated, so listening to the tape on Thursdays and Fridays is helpful. Likewise, as the post-session interval of Lughnasadh is the time for activating pleromic Sun, listen to the tape on Sundays.

The other and sustaining tape, the Pleromic Journey, can be listened to at any time of the week that you wish. The musical program on both cassettes lasts about 45 minutes. For best results play these tapes in a quiet room and choose a time when you will not be interrupted. That way the frequencies can be peacefully absorbed. As the tapes can evoke deeply peaceful and somewhat altered states of consciousness, you should rest for about half an hour after listening to either tape and before attempting to drive or to operate heavy machinery.