I agree.
Yeah, this is what the qigong model generically calls “blocks”, which can be due to a multitude of issues in any of the subtle bodies, emotional, mental, qi and physical. You can address the energy directly, bottom-up as it were, or you can address it at the level it’s in - shadow work for mental state and emotions, healing for the physical etc.
Once the lesson is learned you know why you had a block and you have cleared it. These can be from past lives not just this one, but in clearing those you help your other incarnations deal with it better as well.
In the Robert Munro book Ultimate Journey, his UPG is that the entire gestalt of incarnations together make up the higher self, and will all move on together to the next phase of the spiritual journey. Each only exists once and they sort of wait for each other within spacetime but not physical, until all incarnations are done, because it’s not whole if it’s missing any of them.
This means an individual incarnation could be ready on it’s own, but can be held back if some are stuck - as ghosts say, or lounging in some manufactured heaven or hell or doing something else they want to complete first.
This model then could view “enlightenment” as having met representative of your gestalt that are ready and waiting, getting thier advice and maybe doing astral travel to help your others to get unstuck.
So in my mind, there’s two different ideas in here that both get called ascending:
- raising energy to gain siddhis
- Gaining the astral travel skills to gain access to the info of the higher self
So raising kundalini once, could be a threshold - once you’ve done it you can do it again and you’ve proved to yourself it’s real.
Or,
Awareness of yourself as more than one incarnation of a being that already exists in spirit… maybe via at least one past life recall, or the “knowledge of the holy guardian angel” or evoking your higher self (or a rep, more like)
Does he publish material at all or does he not want his name mentioned?
Generally I’m leery about letting other people 'splain to me what I should do, but here I agree, and I think this is a universal truth:
There is no other way.
Magick is just the physics of the physical and energetic levels of reality and how we interact with them. Modern physics is a tiny subset of hat’s possible, described withing very tight frameworks because we can’t do the maths otherwise. I have a physics degree, and they teach you very clearly - these calcs always and only wok with a given set of assumptions.
One of those assumptions, very importantly for magick users, or those with siddhis, is that the system is a) being observed and b) a “closed system” - meaning no manifestation from the Tao is allowed (or the maths is useless).
Physics around “zero point energy” (energy from the “ether” if you like) is coming out that is starting to realize this is why we have been so limited in our sciences, but it’s still an emerging field.
To put it another way, magick is a technology using energetic resonance, and accessing and transforming energy outside conventional spacetime. The instrument is the whole body including the spirit.