YANTRA INTRO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERY MUCH OF OUR REACTION TO THE WORLD AROUND US; TO PEOPLE, SITUATIONS, AND MATERIAL OBJECTS IS DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES, BELIEFS, "SETS" AND A PART OF ONESELF THAT "COULD" BE CALLED "A SUB-CONSCIOUS PERSONALITY", THAT ALL EXIST AND ARE STORED BELOW OUR CONSCIOUS AWARENESS. THIS IS A KNOWN FACT ! THE S-C PERSONALITY IS THE PART OF YOURSELF THAT RESPONDS AND INTERACTS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD WHEN ONE HAS BEEN HYPNOTIZED. IT APPEARS TO HAVE GREAT CONTROL OVER MANY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PROCESSES IN THE "HUMAN SYSTEM". IT MAY ALSO BE THAT PART OF YOU WHICH CREATES, AND DIRECTS THOSE INTERNAL "PLAYS" WE CALL DREAMS, WHICH WE EXPERIENCE EVERY NIGHT. WHAT IS NOT A "KNOWN FACT" IN WESTERN CULTURE, IS THAT THIS PART OF YOU CAN AND MAY BE COMMUNICATED WITH DIRECTLY, WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WAKING STATE, BY THE USE OF COLORS AND GEOMETRIC PATTERNS, PROPERLY PUT TOGETHER AND EXPERIENCED UNDER THE APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY SITTING IN FRONT OF A DRAWING DESIGNED FOR THIS PURPOSE CALLED A YANTRA, FOCUSING YOUR TOTAL CONCENTRATION ON THE DESIGN AND FULLY QUIETING THE MIND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. YANTRA'S CAN RE-PROGRAM "MATERIAL" IN YOUR SUB-CONSCIOUS. THEY ALSO CAN BE DESIGNED TO PRODUCE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. SO FAR, IN MY EXPLORING, I HAVE FOUND LITTLE WRITTEN INFORMATION OR YANTRA'S. THERE IS HOWEVER A "SPIRITUAL GROUP", IN AMERICA CALLED ARICA WHICH USES YANTRA'S OFTEN IN THEIR "SPIRITUAL PRACTICES" AND FROM WHOM INFORMATION AS WELL AS YANTRA'S THEMSELVES MAT BE OBTAINED. THERE WILL BE AN INTRO FILE ON ARICA AND A CONTACT ADDRESS FOR CONTACTING THIS GROUP, AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE INTEREST IN THIS METHOD OF "GROWTH". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ there are 2 small yantras with instructions for their use here at the cave,as soon as time permit they will be "reproduced" in a larger form and will be available to users who are interested. DAS